When a person buys Kazaa they are entering into a legally binding agreement
Except that 12 year olds can't enter into a legally binding agreement. (Moreover, Kazaa couldn't indemnify their users against infringing copyrights they don't own, regardless.)
Strictly legally speaking, though, I think the RIAA is in a pretty questionable position. If Apple sells me an iTune and I share it on my network, and then it turns out the ones who licensed the song to apple weren't authorized to do so, am I a copyright infringer? No, it's the parties that originally claimed the song was distributable in that manner. In Kazaa et al, your downloads usually came from someone else, and that someone else (or the person who provided it to *them*, ad infinitum) should be the liable party.
Still questioning this? Consider that a number of bands allow fan-taping of their live performances, and distribution of same. Until recently, for example, Dave Matthews Band was among them. If someone gave me an MP3, saying it was a fan tape, which I gave to others, and then it turned out to be from the CD "DMB Live at Red Rocks", should I be liable to the tune of $150,000 per copy I distributed?
Or how about going outside music altogether. Suppose a line of code SCO can legally claim as theirs is in Linux. Should everyone who makes Linux ISOs available be liable to that big money amount?
The only thing the RIAA has possibly on their side is that users "should have known better." But this doesn't apply to children, who have the virtue of sharing constantly pounded into their head.
While solar, wind and tidal power look very attractive, they suffer from the problem of being at the mercy of nature.
If you have sufficient energy production, you use some form of energy storage when you produce more than you need. It seems an easier problem than disposing of nuclear waste. And the National Guard doesn't get called out to defend windmills when there's a terrorist threat, like they do for nuclear power plants.
"Replying to concerns over the use of depleted uranium in the Balkans, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan emphasized the need for inter-agency cooperation and reliable scientific advice.
On 31 January 2001, the Secretary-General responded to requests he received from the governments of Italy, Iraq and Lebanon. Excerpts from his reply follow: 'I am very aware of the concern about the possible health and environmental impacts from the use of depleted uranium and I consider it of the utmost importance that the most reliable scientific advice is obtained concerning the issue.'"
As for WHO, while they said the risks were relatively low, they did not give a clean bill of health:
"Recommendations
* Following conflict, levels of DU contamination in food and drinking water might be detected in affected areas even after a few years. This should be monitored where it is considered there is a reasonable possibility of significant quantities of DU entering the ground water or food chain.
* Where justified and possible, clean-up operations in impact zones should be undertaken if there are substantial numbers of radioactive projectiles remaining and where qualified experts deem contamination levels to be unacceptable. If high concentrations of DU dust or metal fragments are present, then areas may need to be cordoned off until removal can be accomplished. Such impact sites are likely to contain a variety of hazardous materials, in particular unexploded ordnance. Due consideration needs to be given to all hazards, and the potential hazard from DU kept in perspective.
* Small children could receive greater exposure to DU when playing in or near DU impact sites. Their typical hand-to-mouth activity could lead to high DU ingestion from contaminated soil. Necessary preventative measures should be taken.
* Disposal of DU should follow appropriate national or international recommendations."
In the information age, it's intentional ignorance.
Unless the Democrats decide they don't like those appointments, which is why they've been delaying every single one of Bush's nominations to the federal courts.
And the Republicans would never do something like that if a Democrat was president, oh no.
You've drunk the Republican kool-aid, haven't you?
According to Wikipedia, Jupiter is 2.5x as massive as the other planets combined, so they probably wouldn't have much effect on pushing Jupiter towards being a star.
Extrasolar planets (planets discovered around stars other than our sun) have been found with masses estimated as much as 11 times that of Jupiter, so that would seem to indicate you need quite a few Jupiter-sized planets to create a star.
I would fond it interesting how the scientists can be sure that there objects have originated when our solar system was created.
I doubt they can truly have a 99.9% confidence level, but the orbital patten would probably be a strong indicator. A relatively circular orbit in the plane of the planets may be their indicator.
I just would like to know if it would be feasible to launch a probe to one of those objects, as to look of what materials it is composed.
It would take a long time (consider that we're talking about distances close to where Pioneer and Voyager are, and consider when they were launched), and the extremely low gravity would mean that such a probe would have to carry considerable fuel to slow itself down as it neared the object, and to make course corrections.
If you burn downloaded music that you haven't paid for it is still copyright infringement no matter if you burn the music to a music blank or a regular CD.
Not necessarily. In general it is the unauthorized distributor of copyrighted materials who is considered in violation. If Apple provided an iTunes tune that later it was found it was not authorized to do so, the legal repercussions would affect Apple or whoever wrongly claimed to be the authorized distributor, not anyone who purchased the music from Apple.
Well...tell us, then. Did you sympathize with the laid-off factory workers?
To an extent, but factory workers could retrain for other equivalent jobs, often on the job, in a relatively short amount of time. (We had record low unemployment after NAFTA, so clearly this happened.) In contrast, I have tens of thousands of dollars, and many years, invested in my computer education. I would be extremely hard-pressed to find an equally well-paying job if no computer jobs were available.
C/C++ programmer spend 90% of their time debugging the garbage that their programs have spewed all over the memory architecture.
Nonsense (and I say that as someone who has been a professional C/C++ programmer for 10 years), and even more nonsense for console games. For consoles, with their limited and fixed amount of memory, you don't do dynamic allocation. You allocate fixed arrays as large as are ever needed, and reuse for the same purpose.
You here the sound from below and back, immediately you know where they are.
Not only where, but you have a good indication of velocity and the type of craft -- thus the distinctive sound of TIE fighters, for example. The linked site poo-poohed the computer-generated sound theory, saying it should just tell you what the ship is, but I think the simulated sound is a more intuitive and communicative method than voice descriptions.
If a community can buy a single 386 and accompanying network setup for $100, then they can probably get a c64 quality computer for around $20
Seems doubtful to me. Already Pentium-class machines are being junked rather than sold, and there are probably far more of those than there ever were C-64s. The main cost getting machines to impoverished communities is transportation and logistics, as well as their need for power. The ideal machine for that purpose is probably a PDA.
Perhaps it's bad as a blanket statement, but let's face it, 99% of the time the person being sued came up with the (not particularly original) idea with no knowledge of the original group and their patent. If you come up with a great, innovative idea and I like it and see how to market it, then licensing a patent makes sense. But anyone who just adds "on the internet" to patent a well-known and understood solution is just a leech and should get no reward.
For starters, you shouldn't advertise yourself as a promoter of the use of explosives in order to undermine your government.
Go to the internet archives (already linked in this discussion) and show me where he did this. I looked fairly thoroughly, and saw nothing of this sort, just lots of bits about police brutality, etc.
Today's Internet is no longer a free-for-all. I remember things like The Anarchist's Handbook or Jolly Roger or the like that were filled with dangerous or inciteful content.
Now you have to buy it through Amazon or the like...
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My favorite BMI anecdote was that Michael Jordan's numbers put him as overweight -- and the chart's suggestion was "more exercise."
I'm sorry, but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux) should be floating the bill.
Maybe Red Hat thinks they'll win and get damages? The amount might not matter much to IBM, but might be a healthy sum for 100x smaller Red Hat. They could also get the IP rights SCO claims, which might be worth something to them.
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When a person buys Kazaa they are entering into a legally binding agreement
Except that 12 year olds can't enter into a legally binding agreement. (Moreover, Kazaa couldn't indemnify their users against infringing copyrights they don't own, regardless.)
Strictly legally speaking, though, I think the RIAA is in a pretty questionable position. If Apple sells me an iTune and I share it on my network, and then it turns out the ones who licensed the song to apple weren't authorized to do so, am I a copyright infringer? No, it's the parties that originally claimed the song was distributable in that manner. In Kazaa et al, your downloads usually came from someone else, and that someone else (or the person who provided it to *them*, ad infinitum) should be the liable party.
Still questioning this? Consider that a number of bands allow fan-taping of their live performances, and distribution of same. Until recently, for example, Dave Matthews Band was among them. If someone gave me an MP3, saying it was a fan tape, which I gave to others, and then it turned out to be from the CD "DMB Live at Red Rocks", should I be liable to the tune of $150,000 per copy I distributed?
Or how about going outside music altogether. Suppose a line of code SCO can legally claim as theirs is in Linux. Should everyone who makes Linux ISOs available be liable to that big money amount?
The only thing the RIAA has possibly on their side is that users "should have known better." But this doesn't apply to children, who have the virtue of sharing constantly pounded into their head.
While solar, wind and tidal power look very attractive, they suffer from the problem of being at the mercy of nature.
If you have sufficient energy production, you use some form of energy storage when you produce more than you need. It seems an easier problem than disposing of nuclear waste. And the National Guard doesn't get called out to defend windmills when there's a terrorist threat, like they do for nuclear power plants.
The UN, and WHO have given DU ammo a clean bill of health.
No, they haven't. This statement is provably a lie.
See here:
"Replying to concerns over the use of depleted uranium in the Balkans, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan emphasized the need for inter-agency cooperation and reliable scientific advice.
On 31 January 2001, the Secretary-General responded to requests he received from the governments of Italy, Iraq and Lebanon. Excerpts from his reply follow:
'I am very aware of the concern about the possible health and environmental impacts from the use of depleted uranium and I consider it of the utmost importance that the most reliable scientific advice is obtained concerning the issue.'"
As for WHO, while they said the risks were relatively low, they did not give a clean bill of health:
"Recommendations
* Following conflict, levels of DU contamination in food and drinking water might be detected in affected areas even after a few years. This should be monitored where it is considered there is a reasonable possibility of significant quantities of DU entering the ground water or food chain.
* Where justified and possible, clean-up operations in impact zones should be undertaken if there are substantial numbers of radioactive projectiles remaining and where qualified experts deem contamination levels to be unacceptable. If high concentrations of DU dust or metal fragments are present, then areas may need to be cordoned off until removal can be accomplished. Such impact sites are likely to contain a variety of hazardous materials, in particular unexploded ordnance. Due consideration needs to be given to all hazards, and the potential hazard from DU kept in perspective.
* Small children could receive greater exposure to DU when playing in or near DU impact sites. Their typical hand-to-mouth activity could lead to high DU ingestion from contaminated soil. Necessary preventative measures should be taken.
* Disposal of DU should follow appropriate national or international recommendations."
In the information age, it's intentional ignorance.
Pot, meet kettle.
Unless the Democrats decide they don't like those appointments, which is why they've been delaying every single one of Bush's nominations to the federal courts.
And the Republicans would never do something like that if a Democrat was president, oh no.
You've drunk the Republican kool-aid, haven't you?
According to Wikipedia, Jupiter is 2.5x as massive as the other planets combined, so they probably wouldn't have much effect on pushing Jupiter towards being a star.
Extrasolar planets (planets discovered around stars other than our sun) have been found with masses estimated as much as 11 times that of Jupiter, so that would seem to indicate you need quite a few Jupiter-sized planets to create a star.
I would fond it interesting how the scientists can be sure that there objects have originated when our solar system was created.
I doubt they can truly have a 99.9% confidence level, but the orbital patten would probably be a strong indicator. A relatively circular orbit in the plane of the planets may be their indicator.
I just would like to know if it would be feasible to launch a probe to one of those objects, as to look of what materials it is composed.
It would take a long time (consider that we're talking about distances close to where Pioneer and Voyager are, and consider when they were launched), and the extremely low gravity would mean that such a probe would have to carry considerable fuel to slow itself down as it neared the object, and to make course corrections.
If you burn downloaded music that you haven't paid for it is still copyright infringement no matter if you burn the music to a music blank or a regular CD.
Not necessarily. In general it is the unauthorized distributor of copyrighted materials who is considered in violation. If Apple provided an iTunes tune that later it was found it was not authorized to do so, the legal repercussions would affect Apple or whoever wrongly claimed to be the authorized distributor, not anyone who purchased the music from Apple.
Why does every new company or product have to invent a new word?
It does make googling them easier.
Well...tell us, then. Did you sympathize with the laid-off factory workers?
To an extent, but factory workers could retrain for other equivalent jobs, often on the job, in a relatively short amount of time. (We had record low unemployment after NAFTA, so clearly this happened.) In contrast, I have tens of thousands of dollars, and many years, invested in my computer education. I would be extremely hard-pressed to find an equally well-paying job if no computer jobs were available.
They claim it's not a sale.
I claim I'm only loaning the money I gave them, and want it back.
C/C++ programmer spend 90% of their time debugging the garbage that their programs have spewed all over the memory architecture.
Nonsense (and I say that as someone who has been a professional C/C++ programmer for 10 years), and even more nonsense for console games. For consoles, with their limited and fixed amount of memory, you don't do dynamic allocation. You allocate fixed arrays as large as are ever needed, and reuse for the same purpose.
4. Waste time on Slashdot only when you *don't* have four tasks on the go.
Thank goodness I only have three!
You here the sound from below and back, immediately you know where they are.
Not only where, but you have a good indication of velocity and the type of craft -- thus the distinctive sound of TIE fighters, for example. The linked site poo-poohed the computer-generated sound theory, saying it should just tell you what the ship is, but I think the simulated sound is a more intuitive and communicative method than voice descriptions.
That's the difference between having private maintenance contracts per issue rather than an SLA.
Huh? How would the Symbionese Liberation Army help with power line maintenance?
Boggled...
Where are they going to live? Montana! Have you seen how much space they have in that state?
Well, yes, but we're talking about habitable areas.
If you've got evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, please, share with the rest of the class.
The whole "material witness" system is prosecutorial misconduct in any reasonable legal system!
What channel are they watching?
Watch Howard Stern on E! some time.
If a community can buy a single 386 and accompanying network setup for $100, then they can probably get a c64 quality computer for around $20
Seems doubtful to me. Already Pentium-class machines are being junked rather than sold, and there are probably far more of those than there ever were C-64s. The main cost getting machines to impoverished communities is transportation and logistics, as well as their need for power. The ideal machine for that purpose is probably a PDA.
But hey, whatever floats your boat, y'know?
Perhaps it's bad as a blanket statement, but let's face it, 99% of the time the person being sued came up with the (not particularly original) idea with no knowledge of the original group and their patent. If you come up with a great, innovative idea and I like it and see how to market it, then licensing a patent makes sense. But anyone who just adds "on the internet" to patent a well-known and understood solution is just a leech and should get no reward.
For starters, you shouldn't advertise yourself as a promoter of the use of explosives in order to undermine your government.
Go to the internet archives (already linked in this discussion) and show me where he did this. I looked fairly thoroughly, and saw nothing of this sort, just lots of bits about police brutality, etc.
Today's Internet is no longer a free-for-all. I remember things like The Anarchist's Handbook or Jolly Roger or the like that were filled with dangerous or inciteful content.
Now you have to buy it through Amazon or the like...
My favorite BMI anecdote was that Michael Jordan's numbers put him as overweight -- and the chart's suggestion was "more exercise."
I'm sorry, but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux) should be floating the bill.
Maybe Red Hat thinks they'll win and get damages? The amount might not matter much to IBM, but might be a healthy sum for 100x smaller Red Hat. They could also get the IP rights SCO claims, which might be worth something to them.
whatever you do, don't click on the parent post's so-called "ASS-tronomy pic of the day." It is just a goatse.cx redirect!
Huh? It's just a picture of the rings around Uran -- oh, never mind.
Seven, actually. Power Windows, Hold Your Fire, Presto, Roll the Bones, Counterparts, Test For Echo, and Vapor Trails.