No, the law's just fine it just needs to be properly interpreted. DVDs do not contain copyprotection, end of story. CSS does not in any way shape or form deter people from copying.
What DVDs do contain is technology that prevents them from being run on devices that are not authorized to do so. That is _not_ copy protection unless the authorization is on a per device basis.
Removing CSS is not a violation of law anyways, because it isn't effective and one has the right to circumvent copyprotection under the DMCA.
That wasn't added for quite a while. I remember duplicating VHS tapes that way during the 80s, I don't recall ever having had problems with the quality beyond the natural degradation of the technology. And even that was pretty minor, just a little bit of fuzz, certainly less than on most channels at that time.
You're technically correct, but factually way off. Yes the USPS has a monopoly over mailboxes and the term "first class mail" but that's really not the kind of impediment to competition that you might think. It merely means that other companies focus on markets that are more lucrative.
The building that I work in gets shipments from at least a dozen different couriers and shipping companies. That doesn't strike me as a particularly effective monopoly.
That's largely what I do, I haven't quite hit that point yet. Damned ZFS RAIDy goodness. But, my upgrade cycles have been getting longer and I'm probably not going to replace this one for a couple years.
But at this point something like the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ is good enough for most people, probably not everybody, but it can easily handle the tasks that most people want while still having the oomph for things like HD.
And no I'm not just using that processor as an example because I have it. I have the BE.
But for most people that are doing typical desktopy things it's enough, it's not enough for modern games, but gaming was always an expensive hobby for that very reason.
That's a terrible analogy, carpenters are notorious perfectionists and a wall being off by 1/16" would be completely unacceptable to most architects of note. The design using these standardized bits and you'd not generally realize it.
If a new technology doesn't allow for the same degree of precision it's not likely to get much use. Plans are designed based upon the demands of engineering, not the shape of a tree. It's utter nonsense.
If you believe that the standardization works like that you've never worked with wood, you'd be surprised at what you can do if you've got the money and motivation, there's a ridiculous number of ways of getting around the problem you're describing using standardized pieces of wood.
Which is really beside the point, because that's not bloat anyways. Bloat would be adding unusable space to a house just because one couldn't be arsed to consider whether or not there's a better use of space.
Those sorts of recycling programs are already here, but they're not more efficient than just buying decent equipment to start. Disposal is on aspect, but a huge amount of damage comes from creating the hardware in the first place.
Sure we need computer technology, but disposable computers are a really bad idea.
ban.org has pretty much all the information you could want. I know here in WA the manufacturers are required to pay for the recycling of all consumer computers. That being said, the rules in place are still being assessed for efficacy.
Monster cables aren't necessarily to spec. They meet the spec but include extra things like gold plating which aren't necessarily helpful. Then charge a huge amount of money for the snob factor.
In general if you're installing cabling into the wall you should really think carefully before you go with anything less than the best. Sure you don't necessarily need cat6, but it's a lot cheaper to put it in initially than to have to replace it later on.
Not that that really means blindly wasting money, if the cables are made to the highest spec, that's enough, you don't need gold plating on cables unless the spec indicates so, or a site specific limitation demands it.
Heh, I just want them to stop this nonsense so I can go back and buy some CDs. With all the time this is stretching out there's a huge number of albums that I haven't been able to buy without breaking my boycott.
But, I'm sure they've just recharacterized that tiny drop in sales as "due to pirates" and used it as an excuse to waste even more money on piracy prevention and buying elected officials.
Should I point out that you're a Luddite now, or wait till the end of my post?
Books are a terrible format for information to come in, it's easy to lose ones place, bookmarks can fall out easily and one has to find a position which is comfortable, the size of the print and the spacing are usually not right for large portions of the population.
Computers can solve most of those problems quite easily with technology that we already have, and pretty much all of that has already been addressed by at least one ebook reader.
Or to put it another way, perhaps we could just admit that books are not particularly well suited to their intended purpose and should really be relegated to the world of antiques and collectibles. Electronic literature just has too many upsides to be ignored. Probably the only downside to them is the lack of durability into the future, ill conceived things like DRM and poor backups could be really bad for long term culture.
The more interesting question is why the DoD has sensitive information hooked up to the net in any way. The only way of ensuring net based attacks are unsuccessful is by disconnecting from the net. Sure you still have to ensure that the people using the terminals are on the up and up, but that's a lot easier than keeping a large network full of sekrit goberment stuff secure.
I'm always amazed that this sort of information would be stored and used on internet connected computers, it just seems like asking for trouble. Historically the DoD has done a pretty incompetent job of securing its systems, which really makes one wonder how many of these advancements are now in the works in foreign states.
They're not on shaky ground at all. The ACLU always has a party affected when they file these sorts of suits. Just because you're fine with this sort of bigotry doesn't mean that this isn't a genuine violation of the first amendment.
This blanket block of websites affects all students at these schools whether or not the parents agree or are even informed. Worse is the fact that they aren't filtering out genuinely damaging sites which engage in gay bashing.
As for nut jobs, no, just because you don't agree doesn't make them nut jobs. Somebody has to stick up for the constitution when bigots want to pick and choose which portions to enforce in which context.
I think that would be unfortunate. Even at this early stage Moonlight works better than Flash on my computer. Probably because Adobe doesn't feel like providing any support for FreeBSD. At least with Mono and Moonlight I get something.
Then again, Flash just sucks, yes, long and hard, and I doubt anything can be done to make it less sucktastic.
That's what we sometimes call leaving money on the table. It's unfortunate that users are chased over to sites like the Pirate bay due to a lack of availability. Admittedly it's somewhat wise to be skeptical when that argument is made, but it is true, if people are locked out they're definitely not going to pay for the items.
Indeed, I'd suggest looking at the top 200 or better yet top 500. Indie groups have always been more of a word of mouth phenomena than anything else. If you're managing to get into the top several hundred against commercial labels chances are you're doing quite well.
And it's also worth keeping in mind that there's an unimaginable number of bands competing for spots.
How exactly is this informative? This isn't a matter of regulation, the states charge the same amount of tax no matter where you buy the items. That particular provision bans states from levying taxes on goods coming from out of state differently than those from within. And prevents states from charging different taxes on goods coming from different states.
And can you point to anywhere in the world where they're actually doing that to a substantial degree? I know there's a few plants in China that are doing trapping some for use in soft drinks, but nobody is doing in on the scale that's necessary to make it clean. And even then the savings are mainly the amount that would be released creating the gas.
Other forms of power plant are doing so, but I'm not aware of any large scale trials, let alone actual use, of this particular technology. And I'd go so far to say that as long as it's not in use and not even being trialled that it doesn't exist. I'd put it in the same category as fusion power, sure it may happen, but not in the next few decades. Which in terms of coal makes it basically worthless to pursue as even at that point it's not particularly desirable anyways.
There are a few problems there. Backups, storage, securing said copies, finding information in a timely fashion.
Admittedly, paper is a step up from floppies in ever way except space, but it's definitely not a great solution.
Best would be something where it's kept encrypted from computer to server, stored in two locations and where one would keep the originals encrypted when not at the keyboard.
Probably anything compliant with HIPAA would be sufficient.
Can you name another government agency so badly in need of attention as NASA? Face it NASA needs pretty much any pop culture exposure it can get. Now that having men and women in space is common, they need something to stick in the minds of the American people. Otherwise their budgetary concerns could get a lot worse.
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No, the law's just fine it just needs to be properly interpreted. DVDs do not contain copyprotection, end of story. CSS does not in any way shape or form deter people from copying.
What DVDs do contain is technology that prevents them from being run on devices that are not authorized to do so. That is _not_ copy protection unless the authorization is on a per device basis.
Removing CSS is not a violation of law anyways, because it isn't effective and one has the right to circumvent copyprotection under the DMCA.
That wasn't added for quite a while. I remember duplicating VHS tapes that way during the 80s, I don't recall ever having had problems with the quality beyond the natural degradation of the technology. And even that was pretty minor, just a little bit of fuzz, certainly less than on most channels at that time.
You're technically correct, but factually way off. Yes the USPS has a monopoly over mailboxes and the term "first class mail" but that's really not the kind of impediment to competition that you might think. It merely means that other companies focus on markets that are more lucrative.
The building that I work in gets shipments from at least a dozen different couriers and shipping companies. That doesn't strike me as a particularly effective monopoly.
I will remind you that it was a Republican congress that wrote and voted for the DMCA bill.
There were no "czars" in the Soviet Union, the last one was murdered at the start of the revolution.
That's largely what I do, I haven't quite hit that point yet. Damned ZFS RAIDy goodness. But, my upgrade cycles have been getting longer and I'm probably not going to replace this one for a couple years.
But at this point something like the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ is good enough for most people, probably not everybody, but it can easily handle the tasks that most people want while still having the oomph for things like HD.
And no I'm not just using that processor as an example because I have it. I have the BE.
But for most people that are doing typical desktopy things it's enough, it's not enough for modern games, but gaming was always an expensive hobby for that very reason.
That's a terrible analogy, carpenters are notorious perfectionists and a wall being off by 1/16" would be completely unacceptable to most architects of note. The design using these standardized bits and you'd not generally realize it.
If a new technology doesn't allow for the same degree of precision it's not likely to get much use. Plans are designed based upon the demands of engineering, not the shape of a tree. It's utter nonsense.
If you believe that the standardization works like that you've never worked with wood, you'd be surprised at what you can do if you've got the money and motivation, there's a ridiculous number of ways of getting around the problem you're describing using standardized pieces of wood.
Which is really beside the point, because that's not bloat anyways. Bloat would be adding unusable space to a house just because one couldn't be arsed to consider whether or not there's a better use of space.
Those sorts of recycling programs are already here, but they're not more efficient than just buying decent equipment to start. Disposal is on aspect, but a huge amount of damage comes from creating the hardware in the first place.
Sure we need computer technology, but disposable computers are a really bad idea.
ban.org has pretty much all the information you could want. I know here in WA the manufacturers are required to pay for the recycling of all consumer computers. That being said, the rules in place are still being assessed for efficacy.
Monster cables aren't necessarily to spec. They meet the spec but include extra things like gold plating which aren't necessarily helpful. Then charge a huge amount of money for the snob factor.
In general if you're installing cabling into the wall you should really think carefully before you go with anything less than the best. Sure you don't necessarily need cat6, but it's a lot cheaper to put it in initially than to have to replace it later on.
Not that that really means blindly wasting money, if the cables are made to the highest spec, that's enough, you don't need gold plating on cables unless the spec indicates so, or a site specific limitation demands it.
Heh, I just want them to stop this nonsense so I can go back and buy some CDs. With all the time this is stretching out there's a huge number of albums that I haven't been able to buy without breaking my boycott.
But, I'm sure they've just recharacterized that tiny drop in sales as "due to pirates" and used it as an excuse to waste even more money on piracy prevention and buying elected officials.
In practice it doesn't work that way, it's just way too expensive to keep it locked away especially when one is merging in bug fixes and improvements.
Sure people can do that with the BSD license, it's just terribly impractical.
But hey, you can even do it with the GPL, you just don't redistribute the binaries outside of the organization.
Umm, that's not a new word, that word's been around for quite some time, it just hasn't been used a lot in recent memory.
You can kill it and use it's process space to power a fourth program. Have you never killed it then run things via the taskmanager?
Hmm, so it's sort of like Fox news with fewer references to Nazis and communist fascists.
Should I point out that you're a Luddite now, or wait till the end of my post?
Books are a terrible format for information to come in, it's easy to lose ones place, bookmarks can fall out easily and one has to find a position which is comfortable, the size of the print and the spacing are usually not right for large portions of the population.
Computers can solve most of those problems quite easily with technology that we already have, and pretty much all of that has already been addressed by at least one ebook reader.
Or to put it another way, perhaps we could just admit that books are not particularly well suited to their intended purpose and should really be relegated to the world of antiques and collectibles. Electronic literature just has too many upsides to be ignored. Probably the only downside to them is the lack of durability into the future, ill conceived things like DRM and poor backups could be really bad for long term culture.
The more interesting question is why the DoD has sensitive information hooked up to the net in any way. The only way of ensuring net based attacks are unsuccessful is by disconnecting from the net. Sure you still have to ensure that the people using the terminals are on the up and up, but that's a lot easier than keeping a large network full of sekrit goberment stuff secure.
I'm always amazed that this sort of information would be stored and used on internet connected computers, it just seems like asking for trouble. Historically the DoD has done a pretty incompetent job of securing its systems, which really makes one wonder how many of these advancements are now in the works in foreign states.
Hmm, I'm so tempted to post "I am a ghoti" a thousand times, but perhaps I shouldn't.
Not sure why we need spelling lessons here.
They're not on shaky ground at all. The ACLU always has a party affected when they file these sorts of suits. Just because you're fine with this sort of bigotry doesn't mean that this isn't a genuine violation of the first amendment.
This blanket block of websites affects all students at these schools whether or not the parents agree or are even informed. Worse is the fact that they aren't filtering out genuinely damaging sites which engage in gay bashing.
As for nut jobs, no, just because you don't agree doesn't make them nut jobs. Somebody has to stick up for the constitution when bigots want to pick and choose which portions to enforce in which context.
I think that would be unfortunate. Even at this early stage Moonlight works better than Flash on my computer. Probably because Adobe doesn't feel like providing any support for FreeBSD. At least with Mono and Moonlight I get something.
Then again, Flash just sucks, yes, long and hard, and I doubt anything can be done to make it less sucktastic.
That's what we sometimes call leaving money on the table. It's unfortunate that users are chased over to sites like the Pirate bay due to a lack of availability. Admittedly it's somewhat wise to be skeptical when that argument is made, but it is true, if people are locked out they're definitely not going to pay for the items.
Indeed, I'd suggest looking at the top 200 or better yet top 500. Indie groups have always been more of a word of mouth phenomena than anything else. If you're managing to get into the top several hundred against commercial labels chances are you're doing quite well.
And it's also worth keeping in mind that there's an unimaginable number of bands competing for spots.
How exactly is this informative? This isn't a matter of regulation, the states charge the same amount of tax no matter where you buy the items. That particular provision bans states from levying taxes on goods coming from out of state differently than those from within. And prevents states from charging different taxes on goods coming from different states.
And can you point to anywhere in the world where they're actually doing that to a substantial degree? I know there's a few plants in China that are doing trapping some for use in soft drinks, but nobody is doing in on the scale that's necessary to make it clean. And even then the savings are mainly the amount that would be released creating the gas.
Other forms of power plant are doing so, but I'm not aware of any large scale trials, let alone actual use, of this particular technology. And I'd go so far to say that as long as it's not in use and not even being trialled that it doesn't exist. I'd put it in the same category as fusion power, sure it may happen, but not in the next few decades. Which in terms of coal makes it basically worthless to pursue as even at that point it's not particularly desirable anyways.
There are a few problems there. Backups, storage, securing said copies, finding information in a timely fashion.
Admittedly, paper is a step up from floppies in ever way except space, but it's definitely not a great solution.
Best would be something where it's kept encrypted from computer to server, stored in two locations and where one would keep the originals encrypted when not at the keyboard.
Probably anything compliant with HIPAA would be sufficient.
Can you name another government agency so badly in need of attention as NASA? Face it NASA needs pretty much any pop culture exposure it can get. Now that having men and women in space is common, they need something to stick in the minds of the American people. Otherwise their budgetary concerns could get a lot worse.