This case is about a fellow who made available 600 copyrighted works," Roberts said. "Is there any legitimate purpose for making available for copying 600 copyrighted works?"
Hey! I know of a guy who made available over a million copyrighted works! His name is Andrew Carnegie, and he started this lending service called "The New York Library"! Maybe the RIAA should go after him, as he's obviously a notorious pirate!
I don't feel half as sorry for Mr. John Doe as for the smartass who requested the vanity license plate "NONE", then received every parking ticket issued for which the plate number could not be found...
This brings up a frightening prospect for the future -- what's to stop Disney from keeping their artists in a state of suspended animation or such, so they can claim that they're legally "alive" and continue to collect royalties on their work for the next 1000 years? I think we need to redefine the "death + x years" laws before its too late!
Yes, but one could certainly argue that very few of the current residents of Australia are descended from homosexuals... the proof is left as an excercise for the reader.
I assume the cow was sentenced to "death by being slathered in barbeque soft and slowly turned over a fire"? Judges gotta eat too! And if you don't beleive some women are witches, you've never met my wife!
Why do some employers treat their workers with contempt, condescention, and suspicion?
Because they can! It's called a "controlling" personality (the same type of personality that makes them beat their spouses). Most IT workers have an "analytical" peronality (sometimes abreviated to just the first 4 letters) and therefore can't relate to this. Don't try; it doesn't make sense. Just smile and nod, then do whatever the heck you were going to do anyway.
Even the best designed software can be installed in an insecure manner. This would be like fining lock manufacturers because people choose to leave their doors unlocked. This is not to say that software suppliers should not have ANY liability; certainly if the software when used by a knowledgable and diligent individual in the prescribed manner is still insecure, the company should have some liability. However, impossing liabilities in excess of the cost of the software would threaten to put all free or open source software out of business, as well as most for-profit software vendors.
This scheme appears to be unenforcable. Once again, the assumption is made that the entire internet exists withing the legal boundaries of the US. A better scheme would be to warn computer owners of a dangerous condition, and then if it is not fixed in a reasonable amount of time (e.g. 48 hours) then simply blacklist them; e.g. "well-behaved" routers would simply reject any packets from them. Of course, then they would still be free to propagate worms on their local subnet, but other users of their subnet are probably in a much better position to thwack them over the head with a clue-by-four than the government of a foreign country...
What computer do you know of that can't be cracked if you've got physical access to it and lots of spare time? I feel "Trusted Computing" is a joke too, but just because the XBox can be reverse-engineered doesn't make it bad technology... quite to the contrary, it makes it good technology! (Disclaimer: I own a PlayStation 2 myself.)
And the fact that Disney is a founding member of the MPAA that went after DeCSS, is irrelevant? Let's get this straight: Disney as a corporation has deliberately chosen to persecute open source developers attempting to provide a free DVD player for Linux. They are not the good guys. While I greatly admire Dali's art, I think providing free advertising for Disney runs counter to the professed pro-open source stance of most slashdotters. But, people that point out hypocrisy are never popular. Oh well... back to the shiny pictures!
No, Eastern Oregon has a much higher unemployment rate, which brings up the state average. Portland's unemployment tends to run a few tenths of a percent lawyer (it can't be much lower, 'cause most of the population is in Portland). Like I said -- it just feels a lot higher when you're looking for a job!
Microsoft: gets rich by appropriating other people's intellectual property then jealously guarding it as their own, so it's evil!
Disney: MPAA member which got rich by appropriating other people's intellectual property then jealously guarding... Ooh! Ahh! Look at all the shiny pictures!
Oregon' overall employment rate was 8.1% in August. Portland is generally lower, but I'm too lazy to look up the exact figures. It just feels like 9.6% when you don't have a job...
Welcome to Clark County, WA... the 7th highest Oregon Income Tax paying county! Not bad, considering it's not in Oregon! But we'll take your money anyway... thanks!
Uh, it's the motor-generator attached to the engine which recharges the batteries. Yes, the brakes ARE standard; but where normally you'd use engine braking, instead it recharges the batteries (yes, the control circuits for the brakes are probably different, now that you mention it). The point was, "minor" collisions generally do only body damage, not engine and drive train damage, and the body is exactly the same as a regular Civic.
Well it could, but whereas you don't mind damaging your Bronco by running into trees (since it's a POS to begin with) most Subaru owners would probably rather not thrash their cars in the same fashion. Nevertheless, perhaps their is a reason why WRXs win rallys (which are off-road) whereas Bronco's never do?
Fact is, we as citizens subsidize the trucking infrastructure; we pay for the roads. We do not subsidize the railroads, and we do little to subsidize airports or ship ports. Is it any wonder that trucking is the cheapest way of transporting goods? Or to put it differently: if the public owned the railroad infrastructure as they do the road infrastructure, shipping by rail would be cheaper, as it is inherently more efficient. (Ask yourself why the semis like to pull 2 or 3 trailers instead of just 1 whenever they can get away with it. Wouldn't pulling 100 be even more efficient? That's what a train does!)
By the way, my bicycle is a zero emissions vehicle No, it's fueled by "food" and produces "sewage" and methane gas, which contributes to greenhouse warming!
A hybrid Civic that gets into a minor city-street collision with a minivan or SUV is probably going to be so expensive to repair, that the insurance company will want to total it out. A Honda Civic Hybrid that gets into a "minor" collision is going to use the exact same parts to repair as a non-hybrid Civic!!! Meaning there is less chance of it getting totaled, because it cost more!!! The only non standard parts are the engine, batteries, and dashboard. The batteries are in the safest place in the car -- behind the rear seat. If your batteries and dashboard are destroyed, you've got bigger problems then replacing your car -- you're most likely dead. "Minor" collisions rarely require replacing engines; if you're in a collision that requires a new engine, your car is probably totalled regardless of whether or not it is a hybrid!
Your motorcyle also fits very nicely in the back of a truck should it not be chained to something and should anyone care to steal it. Or at least that's what happened to mine... also, when that clueless moron in the SUV cuts you off or swerves into the lane you're driving in, there is little you can do to retaliate without scattering yourself all over the pavement. But hey, thanks for looking out for the environment... better you than me!
You're forgetting that our friend across the pound helped us out in that one... to the point where Tony Blair is now much more popular in the US then he is at home. Nice to see they've finally forgiven us for that "Tea Party" and all that. Hope you Brits see some benefits at the Petrol pump too, even if you do insist on pronouncing English the way it's spelled, rather than the way the Yanks do... How much is England spending on Iraq, anyway?
But I'm not "using the roads just as much". It's widely known that damage to roads increases exponentially with the weight of the vehicle. Therefore, cars with good gas mileage are already overcharged; they should be assesed lower registration fees, not higher! 95% of wear and tear on roads is from trucks; why aren't they paying 95% of the gas taxes and registration fees? Oh, and the idiots in Salem have already proposed the completely unenforcible and unmanagable scheme of taxing based on mileage driven, but I don't beleive it will be passed into law. (Hint: when collection costs exceed any additional revenue generated, it's not a good tax for anybody but the cronies you give the collection contract to.)
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Hey! I know of a guy who made available over a million copyrighted works! His name is Andrew Carnegie, and he started this lending service called "The New York Library"! Maybe the RIAA should go after him, as he's obviously a notorious pirate!
I don't feel half as sorry for Mr. John Doe as for the smartass who requested the vanity license plate "NONE", then received every parking ticket issued for which the plate number could not be found...
This brings up a frightening prospect for the future -- what's to stop Disney from keeping their artists in a state of suspended animation or such, so they can claim that they're legally "alive" and continue to collect royalties on their work for the next 1000 years? I think we need to redefine the "death + x years" laws before its too late!
Yes, but one could certainly argue that very few of the current residents of Australia are descended from homosexuals... the proof is left as an excercise for the reader.
I assume the cow was sentenced to "death by being slathered in barbeque soft and slowly turned over a fire"? Judges gotta eat too! And if you don't beleive some women are witches, you've never met my wife!
Why did Australia get all the criminals and American get all the religious fanatics? Because Australia got first pick!
No, he wouldn't be a) the copyright would have already expired and b) he'd be too busy scratching at the lid of his coffin to go to court.
Because they can! It's called a "controlling" personality (the same type of personality that makes them beat their spouses). Most IT workers have an "analytical" peronality (sometimes abreviated to just the first 4 letters) and therefore can't relate to this. Don't try; it doesn't make sense. Just smile and nod, then do whatever the heck you were going to do anyway.
Even the best designed software can be installed in an insecure manner. This would be like fining lock manufacturers because people choose to leave their doors unlocked. This is not to say that software suppliers should not have ANY liability; certainly if the software when used by a knowledgable and diligent individual in the prescribed manner is still insecure, the company should have some liability. However, impossing liabilities in excess of the cost of the software would threaten to put all free or open source software out of business, as well as most for-profit software vendors.
This scheme appears to be unenforcable. Once again, the assumption is made that the entire internet exists withing the legal boundaries of the US. A better scheme would be to warn computer owners of a dangerous condition, and then if it is not fixed in a reasonable amount of time (e.g. 48 hours) then simply blacklist them; e.g. "well-behaved" routers would simply reject any packets from them. Of course, then they would still be free to propagate worms on their local subnet, but other users of their subnet are probably in a much better position to thwack them over the head with a clue-by-four than the government of a foreign country...
What computer do you know of that can't be cracked if you've got physical access to it and lots of spare time? I feel "Trusted Computing" is a joke too, but just because the XBox can be reverse-engineered doesn't make it bad technology... quite to the contrary, it makes it good technology! (Disclaimer: I own a PlayStation 2 myself.)
And the fact that Disney is a founding member of the MPAA that went after DeCSS, is irrelevant? Let's get this straight: Disney as a corporation has deliberately chosen to persecute open source developers attempting to provide a free DVD player for Linux. They are not the good guys. While I greatly admire Dali's art, I think providing free advertising for Disney runs counter to the professed pro-open source stance of most slashdotters. But, people that point out hypocrisy are never popular. Oh well... back to the shiny pictures!
No, Eastern Oregon has a much higher unemployment rate, which brings up the state average. Portland's unemployment tends to run a few tenths of a percent lawyer (it can't be much lower, 'cause most of the population is in Portland). Like I said -- it just feels a lot higher when you're looking for a job!
Was I the only one who read the headline and thought "Cool, Disney has done a cartoon about the Dali Lama!"
Disney: MPAA member which got rich by appropriating other people's intellectual property then jealously guarding... Ooh! Ahh! Look at all the shiny pictures!
Oregon' overall employment rate was 8.1% in August. Portland is generally lower, but I'm too lazy to look up the exact figures. It just feels like 9.6% when you don't have a job...
Welcome to Clark County, WA... the 7th highest Oregon Income Tax paying county! Not bad, considering it's not in Oregon! But we'll take your money anyway... thanks!
Uh, it's the motor-generator attached to the engine which recharges the batteries. Yes, the brakes ARE standard; but where normally you'd use engine braking, instead it recharges the batteries (yes, the control circuits for the brakes are probably different, now that you mention it). The point was, "minor" collisions generally do only body damage, not engine and drive train damage, and the body is exactly the same as a regular Civic.
Well it could, but whereas you don't mind damaging your Bronco by running into trees (since it's a POS to begin with) most Subaru owners would probably rather not thrash their cars in the same fashion. Nevertheless, perhaps their is a reason why WRXs win rallys (which are off-road) whereas Bronco's never do?
Fact is, we as citizens subsidize the trucking infrastructure; we pay for the roads. We do not subsidize the railroads, and we do little to subsidize airports or ship ports. Is it any wonder that trucking is the cheapest way of transporting goods? Or to put it differently: if the public owned the railroad infrastructure as they do the road infrastructure, shipping by rail would be cheaper, as it is inherently more efficient. (Ask yourself why the semis like to pull 2 or 3 trailers instead of just 1 whenever they can get away with it. Wouldn't pulling 100 be even more efficient? That's what a train does!)
By the way, my bicycle is a zero emissions vehicle
No, it's fueled by "food" and produces "sewage" and methane gas, which contributes to greenhouse warming!
A hybrid Civic that gets into a minor city-street collision with a minivan or SUV is probably going to be so expensive to repair, that the insurance company will want to total it out.
A Honda Civic Hybrid that gets into a "minor" collision is going to use the exact same parts to repair as a non-hybrid Civic!!! Meaning there is less chance of it getting totaled, because it cost more!!! The only non standard parts are the engine, batteries, and dashboard. The batteries are in the safest place in the car -- behind the rear seat. If your batteries and dashboard are destroyed, you've got bigger problems then replacing your car -- you're most likely dead. "Minor" collisions rarely require replacing engines; if you're in a collision that requires a new engine, your car is probably totalled regardless of whether or not it is a hybrid!
Your motorcyle also fits very nicely in the back of a truck should it not be chained to something and should anyone care to steal it. Or at least that's what happened to mine... also, when that clueless moron in the SUV cuts you off or swerves into the lane you're driving in, there is little you can do to retaliate without scattering yourself all over the pavement. But hey, thanks for looking out for the environment... better you than me!
You're forgetting that our friend across the pound helped us out in that one... to the point where Tony Blair is now much more popular in the US then he is at home. Nice to see they've finally forgiven us for that "Tea Party" and all that. Hope you Brits see some benefits at the Petrol pump too, even if you do insist on pronouncing English the way it's spelled, rather than the way the Yanks do... How much is England spending on Iraq, anyway?
But I'm not "using the roads just as much". It's widely known that damage to roads increases exponentially with the weight of the vehicle. Therefore, cars with good gas mileage are already overcharged; they should be assesed lower registration fees, not higher! 95% of wear and tear on roads is from trucks; why aren't they paying 95% of the gas taxes and registration fees? Oh, and the idiots in Salem have already proposed the completely unenforcible and unmanagable scheme of taxing based on mileage driven, but I don't beleive it will be passed into law. (Hint: when collection costs exceed any additional revenue generated, it's not a good tax for anybody but the cronies you give the collection contract to.)