the courts have ruled that downloading (including viewing on a webpage) counts as making any image!
Do you have a reference for this? If it's only a court ruling, rather than what's written in the statute, surely there is a possibility of it being overturned? Common sense would seem to suggest that this is not to be what was intended by the lawmakers, however muddled/dunk they may have been.
I don't have any figures for this, but I believe the introduction of variable speed limits on the M25 around London increased overall traffic flow. It seems credible that a central monitoring system could be a better judge of what speed is likely to get you to your destination quicker that you are, sitting in your little box in one particular spot.
Lots of people (I call them "pacers") will make an effort to stay right beside you, sometimes for miles and miles and there's just no reason for it.
I suspect the reason for this behaviour is the existence of speed limits. These "pacers" are probably oblivious to the problem they're causing - they just want to go as fast as they're allowed, and alongside you doing the same speed seems just as good as behind you.
I agree with the part about it sticking with you. I read Jefty Is Five about 25 years ago, but remember it very clearly. I don't hear Ellison's voice in Pratchett, though; Pratchett has always seemed to me a less funny, less incisive version of Douglas Adams.
I think the "limited IP rights" crowd outnumbers the "no IP rights" crowd by about 20-1.
It would be interesting to test that theory. I would have thought that most IT-savvy people would come to the conclusion that - whether or not they think it would be nice to use copyright or something like it as a way to pay creative types - enforcement is no longer practical once a work is in the digital realm.
Here in the UK downloading music and movies is neither theft or copyright infringement - however uploading music and movies would be the latter
AFAIK this has never been put to a legal test in the UK. Even in the US it is far from clear that "making available" equates to copyright infringement, as the judge in the only trial to make a ruling on this has since admitted he made a mistake.
Not shows that haven't been released on DVD yet, you can't. If I could buy a DVD of the current series of Battlestar Galactica, well, I'd probably still download it, but it would be nice to have the option.
One girl I tutored used to use the File|Open dialog box in MS Word for ALL her file management.
I waited a long time for them to implement that obvious feature - for a long time you could see the files but only do with them what the specific dialog allowed. If I'm searching for a file and notice that another one is mis-filed or mis-named, I want to be able to fix it right there and then.
I am currently using Ubuntu Intrepid for most of my dev work, and find the lack of such basic stuff so frustrating I am actually thinking of going back to Windows.
If your children are playing games on sites that use something other than Flash or Shockwave, I'd be interested to hear the names of these peculiar plugins. To my kids, Firefox is the web. I haven't even had a request from them to install Silverlight.
I just wish the makers of bloatware like Word and Photoshop, which already include far more functionality than anyone needs, would take an entire iteration to optimize their code. How great it would be to hear that Photoshop CS5 has *no new features* but is 3x faster than CS4, or that Word 2010 has a fifth of the memory footprint of the already feature-complete 2007.
ActiveX applications have no more "connections" than any other Win32 app. (emphasis added)
It is because a script included on a random web page could suddenly run on your computer like any other app - deleting files, installing trojans, etc - and without your knowledge, t'boot, that ActiveX is rightly hated by anyone with an eye on security. AFAIK it can still do this, albeit that the user is asked first if they want to allow it - and we all know how cautious Windows users are when faced with a security warning.
The web browser should be a sandbox in which scripts can do what they're allowed to do - draw things on the screen, rearrange DOM elements, communicate with the server from whence they came - without touching your host system. Any ActiveX controls out there that need to do more than this deserve to get broken.
The slogan "keep music live" dates back to the early days of sequencers, and the stickers were branded Musician's Union, not PRS. The band I was in through most of the 90s used to have one on our... erm... sequencer flight case.
But surely jury nullification "applies" wherever you have a jury system. It's not like you need to have it written down anywhere. It's not something a jury needs to be "allowed" to do: if a jury refuses to convict, what can the judge do but acquit?
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And there was me thinking it was an attempt at humour.
Because we all know that not copying music puts $$$ in artists' pockets.
the courts have ruled that downloading (including viewing on a webpage) counts as making any image!
Do you have a reference for this? If it's only a court ruling, rather than what's written in the statute, surely there is a possibility of it being overturned? Common sense would seem to suggest that this is not to be what was intended by the lawmakers, however muddled/dunk they may have been.
I don't have any figures for this, but I believe the introduction of variable speed limits on the M25 around London increased overall traffic flow. It seems credible that a central monitoring system could be a better judge of what speed is likely to get you to your destination quicker that you are, sitting in your little box in one particular spot.
Lots of people (I call them "pacers") will make an effort to stay right beside you, sometimes for miles and miles and there's just no reason for it.
I suspect the reason for this behaviour is the existence of speed limits. These "pacers" are probably oblivious to the problem they're causing - they just want to go as fast as they're allowed, and alongside you doing the same speed seems just as good as behind you.
The Home Office view in TFA is that it's legal to view the images as long as you clear you cache afterwards...
I agree with the part about it sticking with you. I read Jefty Is Five about 25 years ago, but remember it very clearly. I don't hear Ellison's voice in Pratchett, though; Pratchett has always seemed to me a less funny, less incisive version of Douglas Adams.
I think the "limited IP rights" crowd outnumbers the "no IP rights" crowd by about 20-1.
It would be interesting to test that theory. I would have thought that most IT-savvy people would come to the conclusion that - whether or not they think it would be nice to use copyright or something like it as a way to pay creative types - enforcement is no longer practical once a work is in the digital realm.
File sharing is not illegal. The distributing of copy-righted material is.
Currently. Probably.
Here in the UK downloading music and movies is neither theft or copyright infringement - however uploading music and movies would be the latter
AFAIK this has never been put to a legal test in the UK. Even in the US it is far from clear that "making available" equates to copyright infringement, as the judge in the only trial to make a ruling on this has since admitted he made a mistake.
As someone currently researching ways to use virtual communities and geotagging to help build real communities, I salute your brilliant idea!
You could, you know, purchase them?
Not shows that haven't been released on DVD yet, you can't. If I could buy a DVD of the current series of Battlestar Galactica, well, I'd probably still download it, but it would be nice to have the option.
"dumbass"..? "way to go"..? You have already watched too much US TV.
dirty whores
Way to undermine an argument.
Indeed. Funny what some people will put up with.
One girl I tutored used to use the File|Open dialog box in MS Word for ALL her file management.
I waited a long time for them to implement that obvious feature - for a long time you could see the files but only do with them what the specific dialog allowed. If I'm searching for a file and notice that another one is mis-filed or mis-named, I want to be able to fix it right there and then.
I am currently using Ubuntu Intrepid for most of my dev work, and find the lack of such basic stuff so frustrating I am actually thinking of going back to Windows.
If your children are playing games on sites that use something other than Flash or Shockwave, I'd be interested to hear the names of these peculiar plugins. To my kids, Firefox is the web. I haven't even had a request from them to install Silverlight.
I just wish the makers of bloatware like Word and Photoshop, which already include far more functionality than anyone needs, would take an entire iteration to optimize their code. How great it would be to hear that Photoshop CS5 has *no new features* but is 3x faster than CS4, or that Word 2010 has a fifth of the memory footprint of the already feature-complete 2007.
ActiveX applications have no more "connections" than any other Win32 app. (emphasis added)
It is because a script included on a random web page could suddenly run on your computer like any other app - deleting files, installing trojans, etc - and without your knowledge, t'boot, that ActiveX is rightly hated by anyone with an eye on security. AFAIK it can still do this, albeit that the user is asked first if they want to allow it - and we all know how cautious Windows users are when faced with a security warning.
The web browser should be a sandbox in which scripts can do what they're allowed to do - draw things on the screen, rearrange DOM elements, communicate with the server from whence they came - without touching your host system. Any ActiveX controls out there that need to do more than this deserve to get broken.
Socialism - Statism = ?
The slogan "keep music live" dates back to the early days of sequencers, and the stickers were branded Musician's Union, not PRS. The band I was in through most of the 90s used to have one on our... erm... sequencer flight case.
Roger, is that you?
Very pertinent point.
But surely jury nullification "applies" wherever you have a jury system. It's not like you need to have it written down anywhere. It's not something a jury needs to be "allowed" to do: if a jury refuses to convict, what can the judge do but acquit?
Hm, is that why Opera is at last emulating FireBug with Dragonfly?
FF3 is actually quite a slender piglet without any extensions; it's just that they're so darned useful.
Run in it Windows, then.
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It does seem quite good, though; a massive advance on Safari 3. They've even removed the pointless inch-high slab of brushed steel from the top.