... that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Has anybody considered the possibility that KISS honestly doesn't know that it is infringing? They probably hired a lazy contractor that thought to themself "Why should I write this from scratch, when there is free code out there I can steal?" Hence, KISS may beleive they really own the code, while the contractor that did the infringing is long gone...
I expect to see a lot more of this happening, especially as more and more software development is shipped overseas to countries that don't have a long tradition of IP protection.
You can encrypt all the information you want between you and your friends, but if you wnat to be on a big and easily accessable network, the feds want in.
Which is exactly why the whole thing is silly. Do people really make unsolicited phone calls to discuss their criminal intentions with strangers, or do they usually only discuss these things with people they already know well, and thus are capable of distributing 1024-bit keys to before hand? Last time I checked, Al Queda wasn't using cold-calling to recruit new suicide bombers...
Wouldn't any real criminal run his VoIP through a VPN or some other encrypted tunnel, thus making difficult for the Feds to know that it is a VoIP session, let alone decrypt it and understand it? See, the problem with PCs is that they are general purpose devices that allow you to execute arbitrary algorithms -- or even add proprietary hardware to do hardware encryption. So, other than knowing what IP address a suspect is talking to, what good is the wiretap going to do them?
I don't know how it is in the USA, but here in the UK many street stalls are technically illegal anyway - you don't even have the legal right to stand still on the sidewalk, let alone set up a stall there. Great. Next time you see somebody standing still on the sidewalk, attempt to put them under "citizen's arrest" and then tell me how it works out!
You also want to check how public that street is. It's not uncommon (again, in the UK) for each store to own part of the street in front of it... I sincerely doubt if the RIAA or any of it's members own any part of any public street. This street vendor was in a parking lot, not in front of Columbia Music's headquarters! Hmm... I wonder if your chances of a visit from the RIAA goon squad would increase if you did set up selling CDs infront of Sony Music headquarters?
The difference is, the Macy's rent-a-cops only detain people INSIDE Macy's property. You come in my house, you play by my rules! These guys are harrassing people on a public street,
How is this any different than a bunch of/.ers donning "OSS" jackets, and raiding SCO's offices in Utah? After all, we highly suspect they've been pirating our code... I say we go for it!
Why is it when SCO implements a business model based on extremely questionable legal interpretation, they are accused of being "on crack"; whereas when MSFreePC implements an extremely questionable business model, they're really good guys? Wouldn't it be more consistent to conclude that the guys at SCO have been sharing their bad crack with the guys at MSFreePC?
The chips are the private property of the Casino... don't they have a right to do anything they please with them? Granted, they should post a notice on the doors saying "Warning, chips protected by RFID", but if having your chips tracked bothers you, simply don't gamble there. RFID itself is not the problem; using fraud or coercion to trick or force people into being tracked against their will would be a problem.
Why take a loss? Almost every unsigned bands sells their own CDs at concerts. Get some Latin band to name themselves "Musica de las 70's y 80's", cut their own CD, and find suspect-looking volunteers to sell them on street corners. Problem is, odds are probably 1000 to 1 against the RIAA's jack-booted thugs biting on one of your honeypots...
When I kept refering to the "Jack-booted thugs of the RIAA terrorizing innocent people," I was speaking figuratively. Who could have known they would take it literally and don real jack-boots? Sorry!
The same minority they exploit with all their other titles: geeks that don't have a life, and are therefore forced to spend $49.95 on software to try to spice up their otherwise boring, meaningless existence....
Problem with your theory is simple: the farther away they are, the farther back in time the point at which the light originated. So you'd expect "far out" galaxies to be more organized, since they've had less time for entropy to take effect.
"Smaller is better" is only true up to a point -- the point at which the display becomes unreadable. The mini appears to be pretty close to that point, but then I have bad eyes...
According to silicon.com:A private company must report its finances once it has more than 500 common shareholders - or stock-option holders - and $10m in assets, according to section XII(g) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. That means a private company must file forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) each quarter that disclose operating expenses, profits, partnerships, shareholders and many other details - a laborious process that can cost as much as $2m annually.
In other words, since the SEC is forcing them to behave like a publicly held company and publish quarterly reports, they might as well take the money and run -- much as we'd like them to remain privately held.
If UbiSoft can yank this domain away from the registered owner just because it was published in one of their games, then what's to stop them from publishing 10,000 URLs in their next game and claiming ownership of any of those that somebody tries to register? There is only one way to reserve a domain name: register it! Register it before anybody else does!
I'm not saying she should claim that she's being framed, but rather that she herself faked the pictures to get more money when she sold them. But I think she's already ruled that out by claiming the pictures are real; as soon as she does that, she might as well plead "guilty".
I could see this as a boon to the tourist who travels to places where English speakers are uncommon. You mean like those horribly backward places that consider "aluminium" to be a 3-syllable word, and think "getting pissed" has something to do with being angry?
No argument from me there. The CD ripping software that comes with the Nomad is useless; I use MusicMatch Jukebox instead. The driver to communicate with the MP3 player is incredibly slow, but appears to work.
...the products they do sell... they are VERY price competitive. iPod 20GB: $399.99 Creative Nomad Jukebox 60GB: 369.88 1/3 the memory but costs a lot more -- that's hardly what I'd call "price competive".
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Has anybody considered the possibility that KISS honestly doesn't know that it is infringing? They probably hired a lazy contractor that thought to themself "Why should I write this from scratch, when there is free code out there I can steal?" Hence, KISS may beleive they really own the code, while the contractor that did the infringing is long gone...
I expect to see a lot more of this happening, especially as more and more software development is shipped overseas to countries that don't have a long tradition of IP protection.
So you're saying this "mud" may actually just be Martian rat urine?
Hey, when you put 'net interfaces in every coffee maker and coke machine, you need a LOT of addresses!
...how exactly does one determine whether or not a mouse has dementia? "Let's see now, where was that cheese again..."
Which is exactly why the whole thing is silly. Do people really make unsolicited phone calls to discuss their criminal intentions with strangers, or do they usually only discuss these things with people they already know well, and thus are capable of distributing 1024-bit keys to before hand? Last time I checked, Al Queda wasn't using cold-calling to recruit new suicide bombers...
Wouldn't any real criminal run his VoIP through a VPN or some other encrypted tunnel, thus making difficult for the Feds to know that it is a VoIP session, let alone decrypt it and understand it? See, the problem with PCs is that they are general purpose devices that allow you to execute arbitrary algorithms -- or even add proprietary hardware to do hardware encryption. So, other than knowing what IP address a suspect is talking to, what good is the wiretap going to do them?
Offhand, I'd title it "Statistical anomaly," since the ratio of male to female geeks is 1:1. How often does that happen?
You also want to check how public that street is. It's not uncommon (again, in the UK) for each store to own part of the street in front of it... I sincerely doubt if the RIAA or any of it's members own any part of any public street. This street vendor was in a parking lot, not in front of Columbia Music's headquarters! Hmm... I wonder if your chances of a visit from the RIAA goon squad would increase if you did set up selling CDs infront of Sony Music headquarters?
The difference is, the Macy's rent-a-cops only detain people INSIDE Macy's property. You come in my house, you play by my rules! These guys are harrassing people on a public street,
How is this any different than a bunch of /.ers donning "OSS" jackets, and raiding SCO's offices in Utah? After all, we highly suspect they've been pirating our code... I say we go for it!
Why is it when SCO implements a business model based on extremely questionable legal interpretation, they are accused of being "on crack"; whereas when MSFreePC implements an extremely questionable business model, they're really good guys? Wouldn't it be more consistent to conclude that the guys at SCO have been sharing their bad crack with the guys at MSFreePC?
The chips are the private property of the Casino... don't they have a right to do anything they please with them? Granted, they should post a notice on the doors saying "Warning, chips protected by RFID", but if having your chips tracked bothers you, simply don't gamble there. RFID itself is not the problem; using fraud or coercion to trick or force people into being tracked against their will would be a problem.
Why take a loss? Almost every unsigned bands sells their own CDs at concerts. Get some Latin band to name themselves "Musica de las 70's y 80's", cut their own CD, and find suspect-looking volunteers to sell them on street corners. Problem is, odds are probably 1000 to 1 against the RIAA's jack-booted thugs biting on one of your honeypots...
When I kept refering to the "Jack-booted thugs of the RIAA terrorizing innocent people," I was speaking figuratively. Who could have known they would take it literally and don real jack-boots? Sorry!
The same minority they exploit with all their other titles: geeks that don't have a life, and are therefore forced to spend $49.95 on software to try to spice up their otherwise boring, meaningless existence....
Problem with your theory is simple: the farther away they are, the farther back in time the point at which the light originated. So you'd expect "far out" galaxies to be more organized, since they've had less time for entropy to take effect.
I think it's more likely that the universe wraps around, and we're actually looking at ourselves, only 300 million years ago...
"Smaller is better" is only true up to a point -- the point at which the display becomes unreadable. The mini appears to be pretty close to that point, but then I have bad eyes...
In other words, since the SEC is forcing them to behave like a publicly held company and publish quarterly reports, they might as well take the money and run -- much as we'd like them to remain privately held.
If UbiSoft can yank this domain away from the registered owner just because it was published in one of their games, then what's to stop them from publishing 10,000 URLs in their next game and claiming ownership of any of those that somebody tries to register? There is only one way to reserve a domain name: register it! Register it before anybody else does!
I'm not saying she should claim that she's being framed, but rather that she herself faked the pictures to get more money when she sold them. But I think she's already ruled that out by claiming the pictures are real; as soon as she does that, she might as well plead "guilty".
Can't she just claim the photos were faked with photoshop or chromakeying, etc.?
I could see this as a boon to the tourist who travels to places where English speakers are uncommon. You mean like those horribly backward places that consider "aluminium" to be a 3-syllable word, and think "getting pissed" has something to do with being angry?
No argument from me there. The CD ripping software that comes with the Nomad is useless; I use MusicMatch Jukebox instead. The driver to communicate with the MP3 player is incredibly slow, but appears to work.
...the products they do sell... they are VERY price competitive.
iPod 20GB: $399.99
Creative Nomad Jukebox 60GB: 369.88
1/3 the memory but costs a lot more -- that's hardly what I'd call "price competive".