A place where Business Major girls can go to find CompSci geeks to do their Programming for Non-majors assignments for them...
To what end? You force people to take a course, yet you allow them a way to dodgo that course's requirements making people not learn what the course is about. Why force them to take the course, then?
There is no question at all that copyright infringement is a crime
As far as I understand it, it's (typically) a civil matter.
The lawsuit is brought by the wronged party (i.e. an RIAA member), as opposed to (the public acting through) the state. The plaintiff wins based on a preponderance of evidence, not "beyond all reasonable doubt". There may be more differences, IANAL.
I think the best term to use for what I think you meant is "illegal".
the downloader [is violating] the reproduction right by fixing the transitory data stream to a medium on his computer.
Allow me to conjecture wildly, and see where that takes me.
If someone streams music to me, it's illegal for me to use mplayer -dumpstream.
OTOH, I'm allowed to listen to the stream, which means I'm allowed to buffer the stream in memory.
Say the default mplayer.conf says "buffer EVERYTHING first, then play it back". I'm allowed to buffer the whole file for purposes of playing it back (you can't expect me to know the technical details of how my program works).
So if I buy a fuckton of RAM and a UPS unit, I could torrent everything to a RAM disk and play it from there: it's not the case that I fix the "stream" to a medium in a way that I don't do when I stream audio which I'm allowed to do.
From the {RI,MP}AA's point of view, there are two steps missing: "???" and "Lost profit!"
It would be interesting to see how this plays out in court. Maybe that's a way to be a law-abiding citizen while still getting Free Shit (tm)... otherwise, there's always Jamendo:D
(This is mostly stolen off of Ed Felten; I think from the famous talk he was at first threated to not give, but I'm not sure my memory isn't playing tricks on me).
The standard story goes as follows:
You have several players on the market, offering similar products with add-on products, such as: mp3 players and DRM'ed music services, OSes and support (or App Store apps), Cloud Computing and synergistic turn-key... stuff, a facebook account and access to other facebook users
To use an add-on product it has to be compatible with the main product
The biggest seller of the main product introduces deliberate incompatibilities to sell more of their own add-ons (or in other ways capitalize or their larger market share)
The small players want to move everybody to a standard, so they can negate the effect of the larger player's (or players') market share
Clearly if the large players form a monopoly or oligopoly, it's detrimental to the economy; see your favorite Econ 101 textbook for why they're bad in theory, or look at your ISP or telephony provider to see why they're bad in practice.
The interesting question is whether regulation of such markets is beneficial. In principle I'm in favor of government intervention if and only if there's a good case to be made that such intervention is a net benefit; preferably such a case would be supported both by economic theory and empiric evidence.
I don't know what either economic theory or past empiric evidence offers in terms of tests for whether government intervention is useful.
Also, this is my precious intarnets. I want the gubbermint to keep its greasy paws offa it, except to prevent debit card fraud so I can buy stuff on-line and not worry about losing my money. I especially don't trust the US government (based on what I hear on/.) to intervene in a competent way; I should probably read more newz.dk (~= "slashdot.dk") to see whether I should distrust my own gubbermint as much.
But, to all those who have to deal with this cloud thing: sorry there'll still be incompatibility. An insincere "Yay!" for individual rationality.
A crap estimate: there are about 300M native English speakers worldwide according to Wikipedia (sounds a bit low?). There are about 58M native English speakers in the UK.
I actually believe that people should have a right to make money from their work - even if this is often not the majority view on slashdot.
I dug a hole in the public grove on my own time. That was work. Where's my money?
I farmed peanuts, made you some peanut butter and delivered it to your door, not knowing you're allergic to nuts. That was work. Where's my money?
(non-hypothetical) I wrote "filling" (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/). That was work. Where's my money?
There's no such thing as a right to make money from your work.
There are laws concerning your rights regarding contracts, commerce, labor, wages, advertisement, copyrights, and a ton of others.
Play the game, within the rules, to the best of your abilities, for whatever purpose you set (including making money). The game owes you exactly what the rules say it does, no matter which of your moves you label as "work".
To me - it is fair enough to pay once - but to pay twice is greedy, ridiculous and unfair...
You can take a different look at that: the radio station paid half of the price, and the company paid the remaining half. The sum of that is the price at which PRS sells the "performance" to that particular context.
Say I get a research grant from two different places. Is the second place paying twice? I already got money to do research for... (just not enough).
I think your arguments are flawed. You opinions, on the other hand, I might agree with.
I haven't seen any reliable evidence for or against the claim that being a musician has to be a paid profession in order for people to voluntarily satisfy the societal demand for music (of a good quality, from a broad range of genres, etc.). Copyrights may still be necessary; they may not be.
The PRS are, judging from what little I know, assholes: they want to kill my intarnets, and they're making a musician's career harder instead of easier. (AFAICT)
I suspect Vista SP1 is probably more secure than linux too 'out of the box'... but again less safe in actual practice. Again simply due to the sheer relative volume of malware and the relative high value of windows exploits to linux ones.
Suppose I created the mythical 100% secure OS. It would have 0 (working) exploits and no malware. $OTHER_OS (windows, linux, os x, pick your poison) would have more than 0 exploits.
Is my OS secure because it has fewer exploits, or is the other way around: the OS has fewer exploits because it's more secure?
Isn't security by definition the degree to which the OS in question can't be exploited?
The accusation was that she had prescription-strength ibuprofen, which is not OTC medication.
There's just so many things going wrong here.
You should be perfectly well allowed to take legal drugs on school, whether OTC or prescription (assuming you have the prescription). I can see the case for banning alcohol since it makes students less able to be Good Students when consumed in the intended way, but other than that...
But failing a basic sanity check, I assume the school also bans medication for asthma and allergies. That'd be the "logical" (meaning consistent with displayed insanity) thing to do, right?
Did the school ask (1) "Do you have the pills?"; and (2) "Do you lack a prescription for prescription-required medication?" before strip-searching her? The article doesn't say anything about her having or not having a prescription, but the school probably didn't ask:
Ms. Redding said she was never asked if she had pills with her before she was searched. Mr. Wolf, her lawyer, said that was unsurprising.
I'm shocked and appalled. At my boarding school (back then) and my university (now), the personnel would give the students OTC pain-killers if we asked for them; that is, unless you asked ~daily, because they suspected you of developing an unhealthy addiction.
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Contrast sensitivity is pretty important. Ask anyone trying to play Doom 3...
Contrast sensitivity is futile. Put down your input devices. You will be head-shot.
I.e. if you want fast LISP code - you have to write it like you would write it in C/Java/C++/another_static_language.
Like Haskell/ML/Ocaml where I don't write the types myself?
Well, you could always look at my freaks list to get an inking.
I'd rather not get inked, but I might want to get a ballpark feel for how unpopular it is. And maybe get an 'l' ;-)
Try telling that to a non-technical designer though :(
"What, your browsers are all gone? Can't handle that right now, please put it in the ticket system..."
So when you go out on the town, you're really there to forge new alliances?
look for ones with spelling mistakes in the discriptions
Is this some new kind if iriny?
regardless of how intelligence you might be.
Or how grammatical correctness you are...
A place where Business Major girls can go to find CompSci geeks to do their Programming for Non-majors assignments for them...
To what end? You force people to take a course, yet you allow them a way to dodgo that course's requirements making people not learn what the course is about. Why force them to take the course, then?
Oh well, it's not like the world is rational...
2 different ways of doing things won't kill people.
Well, not exactly kill. But who can honestly say they haven't been damaged in some way by learning perl?
;-) %$#--_printf("kthxeatveal")$@!!!|
There is no question at all that copyright infringement is a crime
As far as I understand it, it's (typically) a civil matter.
The lawsuit is brought by the wronged party (i.e. an RIAA member), as opposed to (the public acting through) the state. The plaintiff wins based on a preponderance of evidence, not "beyond all reasonable doubt". There may be more differences, IANAL.
I think the best term to use for what I think you meant is "illegal".
I'll be sure to keep that in mind when I'm deciding whether to save my memoirs on rock or .doc.
Bear in mind the expense of purchasing a rock drive!
the downloader [is violating] the reproduction right by fixing the transitory data stream to a medium on his computer.
Allow me to conjecture wildly, and see where that takes me.
From the {RI,MP}AA's point of view, there are two steps missing: "???" and "Lost profit!"
It would be interesting to see how this plays out in court. Maybe that's a way to be a law-abiding citizen while still getting Free Shit (tm)... otherwise, there's always Jamendo :D
I think the speed improvements will be reached in stages, roughly equal to:
This is the standard story of the Standards War.
(This is mostly stolen off of Ed Felten; I think from the famous talk he was at first threated to not give, but I'm not sure my memory isn't playing tricks on me).
The standard story goes as follows:
Clearly if the large players form a monopoly or oligopoly, it's detrimental to the economy; see your favorite Econ 101 textbook for why they're bad in theory, or look at your ISP or telephony provider to see why they're bad in practice.
The interesting question is whether regulation of such markets is beneficial. In principle I'm in favor of government intervention if and only if there's a good case to be made that such intervention is a net benefit; preferably such a case would be supported both by economic theory and empiric evidence.
I don't know what either economic theory or past empiric evidence offers in terms of tests for whether government intervention is useful.
Also, this is my precious intarnets. I want the gubbermint to keep its greasy paws offa it, except to prevent debit card fraud so I can buy stuff on-line and not worry about losing my money. I especially don't trust the US government (based on what I hear on /.) to intervene in a competent way; I should probably read more newz.dk (~= "slashdot.dk") to see whether I should distrust my own gubbermint as much.
But, to all those who have to deal with this cloud thing: sorry there'll still be incompatibility. An insincere "Yay!" for individual rationality.
I prefer a fujitsu 8725, a modern cheap ass-keyboard
xkcd'd that for you.
Well, if that isn't a pipe dream, then what is?
echo what | sleep 1s
I, for one, prefer sizes that cannot be quantified by mathematical expressions.
Then it might interest you to recall that the real numbers are uncountable and in the same breath learn that the definable numbers are countable.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_number
The short version: there are in fact numbers which can't be quantified by any mathematical expression.
A crap estimate: there are about 300M native English speakers worldwide according to Wikipedia (sounds a bit low?). There are about 58M native English speakers in the UK.
Why do you only count the native speakers?
I actually believe that people should have a right to make money from their work - even if this is often not the majority view on slashdot.
I dug a hole in the public grove on my own time. That was work. Where's my money?
I farmed peanuts, made you some peanut butter and delivered it to your door, not knowing you're allergic to nuts. That was work. Where's my money?
(non-hypothetical) I wrote "filling" (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/). That was work. Where's my money?
There's no such thing as a right to make money from your work.
There are laws concerning your rights regarding contracts, commerce, labor, wages, advertisement, copyrights, and a ton of others.
Play the game, within the rules, to the best of your abilities, for whatever purpose you set (including making money). The game owes you exactly what the rules say it does, no matter which of your moves you label as "work".
To me - it is fair enough to pay once - but to pay twice is greedy, ridiculous and unfair...
You can take a different look at that: the radio station paid half of the price, and the company paid the remaining half. The sum of that is the price at which PRS sells the "performance" to that particular context.
Say I get a research grant from two different places. Is the second place paying twice? I already got money to do research for... (just not enough).
I think your arguments are flawed. You opinions, on the other hand, I might agree with.
I haven't seen any reliable evidence for or against the claim that being a musician has to be a paid profession in order for people to voluntarily satisfy the societal demand for music (of a good quality, from a broad range of genres, etc.). Copyrights may still be necessary; they may not be.
The PRS are, judging from what little I know, assholes: they want to kill my intarnets, and they're making a musician's career harder instead of easier. (AFAICT)
I've found [...] bugs [...] wrote e-mails [...] Never got a reply.
I see a problem ;)
You could look up and down, you could jump, swim, examine objects [...]
Yeah, but... In Wolfenstein you kill NAZIs!
Only a truly stubborn fool gets Rule 11 sanctioned most of the time.
Rule 34, on the other hand...
I suspect Vista SP1 is probably more secure than linux too 'out of the box'... but again less safe in actual practice. Again simply due to the sheer relative volume of malware and the relative high value of windows exploits to linux ones.
Suppose I created the mythical 100% secure OS. It would have 0 (working) exploits and no malware. $OTHER_OS (windows, linux, os x, pick your poison) would have more than 0 exploits.
Is my OS secure because it has fewer exploits, or is the other way around: the OS has fewer exploits because it's more secure?
Isn't security by definition the degree to which the OS in question can't be exploited?
I happen to be working on "A system for euphemising poor coding practices using the latest buzzwords".
Please get a business method patent on it and enforce it vigorously and aggressively!
The accusation was that she had prescription-strength ibuprofen, which is not OTC medication.
There's just so many things going wrong here.
You should be perfectly well allowed to take legal drugs on school, whether OTC or prescription (assuming you have the prescription). I can see the case for banning alcohol since it makes students less able to be Good Students when consumed in the intended way, but other than that...
But failing a basic sanity check, I assume the school also bans medication for asthma and allergies. That'd be the "logical" (meaning consistent with displayed insanity) thing to do, right?
Did the school ask (1) "Do you have the pills?"; and (2) "Do you lack a prescription for prescription-required medication?" before strip-searching her? The article doesn't say anything about her having or not having a prescription, but the school probably didn't ask:
Ms. Redding said she was never asked if she had pills with her before she was searched. Mr. Wolf, her lawyer, said that was unsurprising.
I'm shocked and appalled. At my boarding school (back then) and my university (now), the personnel would give the students OTC pain-killers if we asked for them; that is, unless you asked ~daily, because they suspected you of developing an unhealthy addiction.
That's a policy I can support.