Not to mention the "under penalty of perjury" phrase they have to use which means that they are the rightful copyright owners. I think that would be the best way to countersue.
Wait.. you used LEGOs to do this? I think you need to put the 50mb movies on your cable/DSL server and then submit it as a story to Slashdot. That would be in the true Slashdot spirit.
This was addressed in a few Slashdot articles awhile ago. Check out the Mozilla Roadmap. They explain how things will be modularized. This means Firebird will be used instead.
After reading this article, you can see that the schools will comply with the RIAA. The schools' problem is that they don't believe the subpoenas were correctly filed. They claim that they also had too little time to notify the students, which is required by some other federal laws.
So don't get your hopes up just yet. On the plus side, the RIAA said that they don't want to refile. So this may get interesting.
As a sidenote, I was also told that my school doesn't give a damn about the claim and they'll cooperate with anyone who asks questions. I think it's a lack of backbone and laziness.
One of the main problems with the Ogg Vorbis firmware is that it spins up the HD (for the 20gb version) too much and it doesn't use the cache properly. This, of course, will be fixed [and released] very soon.
When OV support goes go public, I'll be re-ripping all of my CDs.
Obviously, there are diferent degrees of burning. Let's put it into some perspective.
If you're walking down a grocery aisle and you see a sign that says "Slippery When Wet." Then you slip on the floor and break your tailbone because they glossed it over with some kind of oil.
It may be cheaper for them to make the floor shiny by using oil rather than some kind of cleaning product. That doesn't mean that they don't have any liability for people getting hurt.
I was arguing that this case is different and that it wasn't won because of any "stupidity." The misinformation I was pointing to was when you pinned the blame for having all warning stickers on this one woman.
McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald's had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee - that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.
McFact No. 3: The woman involved in this infamous case suffered very serious injuries - third degree burns on her groin, thighs and buttocks that required skin grafts and a seven-day hospital stay.
McFact No. 4: The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn't have brought the lawsuit against McDonald's had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.
McFact No. 6: After careful deliberation, the jury found McDonald's was liable because the facts were overwhelmingly against the company. When it came to the punitive damages, the jury found that McDonald's had engaged in willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, and rendered a punitive damage award of 2.7 million dollars. (The equivalent of just two days of coffee sales, McDonalds Corporation generates revenues in excess of 1.3 million dollars daily from the sale of its coffee, selling 1 billion cups each year.)
McFact No. 7: On appeal, a judge lowered the award to $480,000, a fact not widely publicized in the media.
Be careful. Some of these places even let you TAKE THEM HOME WITH YOU. They even let you do it with books too! And movies! And CDs! My god, they should be shut down immediately!
How about making sidebars slide out from the edge of the browser window (like on the left or right side) when your mouse goes over to the border. (Like windows' autohide for taskbars)
Or using Mozilla's prefetch but limit it to certain domains (e.g.: slashdot.org)
There was once third party software that did this. No one cared much for it. If someone pre-fetched a bunch of pages on my website I'd kill them. Better yet, when they did a web search it'd pre-fetch everything on the page? Yuck. Not to mention it'd be pre-fetching goatse.cx links off of/.
2. Inline image zooming
Speaking for myself, I wouldn't use this often if at all. I'd be interested in knowing how it could be useful on a regular basis.
3. Right-click dictionary lookups
Doesn't Mozilla have this? If not, I know Mozilla Firebird does. It uses dictionary.com IIRC.
4. Automated (possibly encrypted) proxy chains
Erm.. paranoid? This seems like something you may want to setup outside of the browser if you're really into proxy chaining.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention the "under penalty of perjury" phrase they have to use which means that they are the rightful copyright owners. I think that would be the best way to countersue.
They should've showed this one
Wait.. you used LEGOs to do this? I think you need to put the 50mb movies on your cable/DSL server and then submit it as a story to Slashdot. That would be in the true Slashdot spirit.
It's currently at 17,085 signatures. Can Slashdot get it to at least 20,000?
Yeah I didn't see any @Gnutella. *phew*
Obviously, it's because that damn DMCA made it a thoughtcrime to even consider backing up a music CD.
This was addressed in a few Slashdot articles awhile ago. Check out the Mozilla Roadmap. They explain how things will be modularized. This means Firebird will be used instead.
After reading this article, you can see that the schools will comply with the RIAA. The schools' problem is that they don't believe the subpoenas were correctly filed. They claim that they also had too little time to notify the students, which is required by some other federal laws.
So don't get your hopes up just yet. On the plus side, the RIAA said that they don't want to refile. So this may get interesting.
Stop prooving that he can't spell.
Or try an electric one?
As a sidenote, I was also told that my school doesn't give a damn about the claim and they'll cooperate with anyone who asks questions. I think it's a lack of backbone and laziness.
The same Verizon that fought in court to not reveal the name of the P2P file trader to the RIAA and who successfully sued the text messaging spammer.
So this comment gets +5, anti-RIAA. Right?
[Bias Disclaimer: I love my Neuros]
One of the main problems with the Ogg Vorbis firmware is that it spins up the HD (for the 20gb version) too much and it doesn't use the cache properly. This, of course, will be fixed [and released] very soon.
When OV support goes go public, I'll be re-ripping all of my CDs.
Hopefully they'll follow the US cable/dsl stragey and cap their upstream at 128kbps (or better yet 56kbps).
No, just a standard Slashdot user not RTFA.
Q: Do you like anal sex from other kernel developers?
A: No! I am straight, I prefer getting shitted over by my wife ala tubgirl!
Hah. Very nice.
"When the Government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the Government there is tyranny" - Thomas Jefferson
I found that here
Hmm I also found this:
Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
I wonder why..
Ahh, but what if they hacked the soft wall itself rather than the plane? With some creativity I'm sure they could divert planes into buildings.
Obviously, there are diferent degrees of burning. Let's put it into some perspective.
If you're walking down a grocery aisle and you see a sign that says "Slippery When Wet." Then you slip on the floor and break your tailbone because they glossed it over with some kind of oil.
It may be cheaper for them to make the floor shiny by using oil rather than some kind of cleaning product. That doesn't mean that they don't have any liability for people getting hurt.
I was arguing that this case is different and that it wasn't won because of any "stupidity." The misinformation I was pointing to was when you pinned the blame for having all warning stickers on this one woman.
(Taken from http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm)
McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald's had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee - that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.
McFact No. 3: The woman involved in this infamous case suffered very serious injuries - third degree burns on her groin, thighs and buttocks that required skin grafts and a seven-day hospital stay.
McFact No. 4: The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn't have brought the lawsuit against McDonald's had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.
McFact No. 6: After careful deliberation, the jury found McDonald's was liable because the facts were overwhelmingly against the company. When it came to the punitive damages, the jury found that McDonald's had engaged in willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, and rendered a punitive damage award of 2.7 million dollars. (The equivalent of just two days of coffee sales, McDonalds Corporation generates revenues in excess of 1.3 million dollars daily from the sale of its coffee, selling 1 billion cups each year.)
McFact No. 7: On appeal, a judge lowered the award to $480,000, a fact not widely publicized in the media.
Be careful. Some of these places even let you TAKE THEM HOME WITH YOU. They even let you do it with books too! And movies! And CDs! My god, they should be shut down immediately!
Obviously, libraries are evil.
How about making sidebars slide out from the edge of the browser window (like on the left or right side) when your mouse goes over to the border. (Like windows' autohide for taskbars)
Or using Mozilla's prefetch but limit it to certain domains (e.g.: slashdot.org)
1. Pre-caching links on current page(s)
/.
There was once third party software that did this. No one cared much for it. If someone pre-fetched a bunch of pages on my website I'd kill them. Better yet, when they did a web search it'd pre-fetch everything on the page? Yuck. Not to mention it'd be pre-fetching goatse.cx links off of
2. Inline image zooming
Speaking for myself, I wouldn't use this often if at all. I'd be interested in knowing how it could be useful on a regular basis.
3. Right-click dictionary lookups
Doesn't Mozilla have this? If not, I know Mozilla Firebird does. It uses dictionary.com IIRC.
4. Automated (possibly encrypted) proxy chains
Erm.. paranoid? This seems like something you may want to setup outside of the browser if you're really into proxy chaining.
5. Less feature bloat
Mozilla Firebird rocks.