You misunderstand the market for this device. It is basically a wheelchair targeted at old people that can't walk very well, but still would rather be in a standing position (because, let's face it, most of the world is set up for people of average height). Young people are not going to buy them because they are too slow and too expensive. However, the same people that consider riding a golf cart around a golf course to be good exercise just might buy or rent them...
1) Business phones cannot be registered in the database. That's why businesses have receptionists; their main job is to tell telemarketers "f**k you!" in a pleasant, professional voice.
2) You can't easily register somebody else's phone number in the database. Using the web page requires you to give an email address, which is then sent a confirmation message which you must reply to. I suspect the FTC would begin to get a little suspicious if every phone number in the US was registered using the same email address -- or even if more than a dozen numbers were.
3) I have an unlisted phone number, so I never get telemarketing calls anyway. I added my number to the database for one reason: to send a clear message to the telemarketers that making unsolicited phone calls is NOT a viable business model. It relies on finding people stupid enough to work on commission calling people up and being abused by them. 99% of the callers are making far less than minimum wage for their time; they have a huge turnover rate.
Now I have no clue how many of these muggers' jobs may or may not be lost if mugging is illegal, but the fact is, voting to make mugging legal is voting to protect those jobs. I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have muggers taking your money every so often. Its putting food and someone's table (and drugs in someones bloodstream), and is better than being on welfare. My brother in law worked as a mugger for a time. In that impoverished area of the country good paying jobs are hard to come by.
So yes, I think congresscritters voting to legalize mugging represent their areas well. They want to protect some jobs that some people have, regardless of the slight inconvenience of a few. If you don't like it, don't leave your home and have your telephone disconnected!
1) Sorry, but that's the way the quote went. 2) Why do flies lay their eggs in it? Hint: Because when the larvae hatch out, they need something to eat!
In other news, a Nigerian Sharia Court of Appeal has decided that Amina Lawal does not need to be stoned to death for having a baby out of wedlock -- but only because the was already pregnant when the law was instituted! Nevertheless, my faith in humanity is almost restored. Now if SCO would just go away...
No, you're an American. The majority of Americans are also British ex-patriots, if you trace their family tree back far enough...
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Then buy HP Linux servers. HP has idemnified their customers, so you can't go "bancrupt" because of using their Linux. And by the way, how much is SCO paying you to post on/.?
The only thing Kazaa needs to worry about is not being shut down because of all the illegal activity and continue pushing it's case that it's got excellent legal uses as well. Exactly what crimes has Kazaa committed? If they can be shut down for "facilitating" the distribution of copyrighted material, then can't blank CD manufacturers, CD burner manufacturers, etc. also be sued? And by the way, who's one of the biggest CD burner manufacturers? That's right, Sony... I'd love to see the RIAA go after them!
Because in fact using somebody's network without permission is regarded as criminal tresspass! Kazaa should be filing supoena's to the RIAA to get the identities of the people who trespassed on their network (at the behest of the RIAA) so they can file criminal charges against them... and by the way, doesn't hiring somebody to break the law constitute racketeering? Does RICO apply here?
Problem is, they didn't click on the Kazaa EULA; they used a reverse-engineered version of Kazaa. Nevertheless, it appears the DMCA may apply here. Companies attempting to protect their copyrights should not be allowed to violate the copyrights of others.
Why not just route streams through several hosts, so the IP address you are connected to is not the one actually hosting the music, only a router which would be protected under law as a common carrier. Or just run your P2P network on top of mixmaster or something simular.
If it doesn't meet the Red Book/Blue Book standards, it is not a CD, and Phillips should sue them if the use the Compact Disc Audio logo anywhere on the product. Also, CD retailers should refuse to carry them, as they WILL be returned much more often as purchasers discover they simply don't work with their hardware. We can also help out by buying, opening, then immediately returning one every time we get a chance! What are the chances of these working properly with Sony's car MP3 players?
How 'bout giving me the $700/month/developer for office space and letting me work from home? (Yes, I know, true Extreme Programming requires 2 people in the same place. But although I already follow most of the tenets of XP, and I do strongly beleive in peer review, I'm not convinced that having somebody look over my shoulder while I'm typing increases productivity. Quite the opposite, it slows me down and increases my error rate, as I can only focus on one thing at a time - either the code or the other person in the cubicle.)
So, you're taking the RIAA's advice from this article, then? "Really the best defense here is to simply stop distributing music files or quit sharing them online and then you won't have to worry about being a target for litigation."
In other words, it's ok to distribute music files, as long as you don't do it online?
So, who's reimbursing this victim of Sony Music, BMG, Virgin, Interscope, Atlantic, Warner Brothers, and Arista's (let's call them by name, not allow them to hide behind the "RIAA" shield) misguided attack the $1000 or so it took to hire a lawyer to file a response?
Doesn't the fact that HP offered to indemnify it's customers, without increasing the cost of it's products, indicate that HP doesn't beleive there are any issues? If HP honestly beleived there was even a snowball's chance in hell that it would ever have to reimburse a customer, it would be putting money away for that eventuallity.
Now let's look at SCO's claims: 1) "If IBM really feels there are no issues with Linux IP, they would offer to indemnify their customers." 2) "The fact that HP has offered to indemnify their customers proves their must be issues with Linux IP!" Uh, you can't have it BOTH ways Darl... which is it?
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You misunderstand the market for this device. It is basically a wheelchair targeted at old people that can't walk very well, but still would rather be in a standing position (because, let's face it, most of the world is set up for people of average height). Young people are not going to buy them because they are too slow and too expensive. However, the same people that consider riding a golf cart around a golf course to be good exercise just might buy or rent them...
Isn't Redmond in a different time zone than Wisconsin? Maybe they thought it the deadline was midnight PDT.
1) Business phones cannot be registered in the database. That's why businesses have receptionists; their main job is to tell telemarketers "f**k you!" in a pleasant, professional voice.
2) You can't easily register somebody else's phone number in the database. Using the web page requires you to give an email address, which is then sent a confirmation message which you must reply to. I suspect the FTC would begin to get a little suspicious if every phone number in the US was registered using the same email address -- or even if more than a dozen numbers were.
3) I have an unlisted phone number, so I never get telemarketing calls anyway. I added my number to the database for one reason: to send a clear message to the telemarketers that making unsolicited phone calls is NOT a viable business model. It relies on finding people stupid enough to work on commission calling people up and being abused by them. 99% of the callers are making far less than minimum wage for their time; they have a huge turnover rate.
Now I have no clue how many of these muggers' jobs may or may not be lost if mugging is illegal, but the fact is, voting to make mugging legal is voting to protect those jobs. I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have muggers taking your money every so often. Its putting food and someone's table (and drugs in someones bloodstream), and is better than being on welfare. My brother in law worked as a mugger for a time. In that impoverished area of the country good paying jobs are hard to come by.
So yes, I think congresscritters voting to legalize mugging represent their areas well. They want to protect some jobs that some people have, regardless of the slight inconvenience of a few. If you don't like it, don't leave your home and have your telephone disconnected!
1) Sorry, but that's the way the quote went.
2) Why do flies lay their eggs in it? Hint: Because when the larvae hatch out, they need something to eat!
Doesn't this remind anyone of the old quote: "Eat Shit! 20 billion flies can't be wrong!"
In other news, a Nigerian Sharia Court of Appeal has decided that Amina Lawal does not need to be stoned to death for having a baby out of wedlock -- but only because the was already pregnant when the law was instituted! Nevertheless, my faith in humanity is almost restored. Now if SCO would just go away...
Why don't we ask /. editors to change the "Anonymous Coward" username to "SCO/Microsoft plant" instead? It would be a lot more accurate...
Perhaps we should examine the SCO Executive's desk drawers instead... that must be where they're keeping their crack pipes!
No, you're an American. The majority of Americans are also British ex-patriots, if you trace their family tree back far enough...
Then buy HP Linux servers. HP has idemnified their customers, so you can't go "bancrupt" because of using their Linux. And by the way, how much is SCO paying you to post on /.?
The only thing Kazaa needs to worry about is not being shut down because of all the illegal activity and continue pushing it's case that it's got excellent legal uses as well.
Exactly what crimes has Kazaa committed? If they can be shut down for "facilitating" the distribution of copyrighted material, then can't blank CD manufacturers, CD burner manufacturers, etc. also be sued? And by the way, who's one of the biggest CD burner manufacturers? That's right, Sony... I'd love to see the RIAA go after them!
Because in fact using somebody's network without permission is regarded as criminal tresspass! Kazaa should be filing supoena's to the RIAA to get the identities of the people who trespassed on their network (at the behest of the RIAA) so they can file criminal charges against them... and by the way, doesn't hiring somebody to break the law constitute racketeering? Does RICO apply here?
Yes, all except for those notarized confessions they've collected as part of their "amnesty" program...
Problem is, they didn't click on the Kazaa EULA; they used a reverse-engineered version of Kazaa. Nevertheless, it appears the DMCA may apply here. Companies attempting to protect their copyrights should not be allowed to violate the copyrights of others.
Why not just route streams through several hosts, so the IP address you are connected to is not the one actually hosting the music, only a router which would be protected under law as a common carrier. Or just run your P2P network on top of mixmaster or something simular.
Kazaa will be offering an amnesty to the RIAA provided they send in a notorized confession and promise never to monitor the Kazaa network again!
I beleive the Compact Disc logo is a trademark, not a patent.
If it doesn't meet the Red Book/Blue Book standards, it is not a CD, and Phillips should sue them if the use the Compact Disc Audio logo anywhere on the product. Also, CD retailers should refuse to carry them, as they WILL be returned much more often as purchasers discover they simply don't work with their hardware. We can also help out by buying, opening, then immediately returning one every time we get a chance! What are the chances of these working properly with Sony's car MP3 players?
How 'bout giving me the $700/month/developer for office space and letting me work from home? (Yes, I know, true Extreme Programming requires 2 people in the same place. But although I already follow most of the tenets of XP, and I do strongly beleive in peer review, I'm not convinced that having somebody look over my shoulder while I'm typing increases productivity. Quite the opposite, it slows me down and increases my error rate, as I can only focus on one thing at a time - either the code or the other person in the cubicle.)
So, you're taking the RIAA's advice from this article, then?
"Really the best defense here is to simply stop distributing music files or quit sharing them online and then you won't have to worry about being a target for litigation."
In other words, it's ok to distribute music files, as long as you don't do it online?
So, who's reimbursing this victim of Sony Music, BMG, Virgin, Interscope, Atlantic, Warner Brothers, and Arista's (let's call them by name, not allow them to hide behind the "RIAA" shield) misguided attack the $1000 or so it took to hire a lawyer to file a response?
Now let's look at SCO's claims:
1) "If IBM really feels there are no issues with Linux IP, they would offer to indemnify their customers."
2) "The fact that HP has offered to indemnify their customers proves their must be issues with Linux IP!"
Uh, you can't have it BOTH ways Darl... which is it?
They can teach him that long greasy hair in a ponytail is not a fashion statement.
Somebody tell that to Steven Seagal!!!
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