Amazon allows authors to distribute books through them with no DRM. It's at the author/publisher discretion, but at least they offer it. (Unlike a couple other epublishers.)
That said I 'bought' probably 150 books in various DRM'd formats over the last 8 or 8 years. They can all be easy broken. Most of them seem to be encrypted RTF or simple HTML so no formatting has been lost even though I'm reading them across 4 generations of devices.
And meanwhile in Rural America Verison is unable to provide anything better than.2 MB/s at any price. (Currently $60 a month, but they have simply said "That's the fastest you can ever expect to get.)
Since she's obviously trying to profit from the copyrighted work of others, the best thing to do would not be to flood her with traffic, but to flood her with DMCA takedown notices.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe anyone can legally file one on behalf of the copyright holder as long as the claim is legitimate.
Tracking someone on foot and through public transit is much more difficult. (If you pay cash. But even if you don't it would require a warrant to get the transit agency to release your travel data.)
Not an airport, but I see it right now at a downtown San Francisco Starbucks. I probably see it around 50% of the time that I'm in a downtown coffee shop.
I couldn't agree with this more. I'll add to it and say a big part of the reason that admin GUI's stink is that they're designed by admins and not interface designers. Making a good interface is hard work that even specialists can't reliably do. Give the task to admin programmers who think that 'interface design' is just calling APIs and you get something that obviously is garbage.
If this becomes standard government policy that means I can rob or kill any Australian citizen I want, as long as they're not in the government or military.
So if I read this right... 1) I upload any random photo off my camera to Flickr, set the rights to Copyright (c) 2010 Zadaz. All Right Reserved. 2) Send DMCA takedown notices to anyone I want claiming they used my photo without permission despite having no proof.
As I read it this is not an abuse of DMCA since I'm the rightsholder, despite being full of shit. Is this a correct interpretation?
Except of course everyone knows that employees of a company get perks. (And pretty much anyone in any company knows not to piss off the board of directors.)
Let's see... What contract, intellectual property and consumer rights lawyers are served by Suddenlink...
Not to pick on anyone who's innocent, but that would be a good way to see some action.
I wonder if some of these press releases are to just distract from the existing product. "Damn, we're so forward thinking that we obviously don't have any problems with our current product! Look, in the future it will be a clear sphere with no buttons and can wipe your ass!"
It's the text version of putting bikini models in your ads.
And most people don't really care. They see this and they go "Intel, hunh? Neat. Next." They don't know that Intel has a very small stake in the mobile phone market, nor do they think about it enough to see the obvious flaws.
However if they can make phones that have more emotional intelligence than I have then I'd buy it. But seeing that my phone doesn't even have very good spell check I'm not holding my breath.
I disagree that a minigame for the DSi doesn't have the production value to take on 'every little thing'.
I've worked on a number of smaller games, mostly educational and most on a smaller budget than a DSi game. Every single one of them had to not only allow for right/left handed play, but also account for colorblindness and deafness. This isn't limited to educational games but is pretty standard design practices across all professional game design.
After doing a few games with those interface concepts in mind it becomes second nature and doesn't impact the development at all. This is just and example of sloppy design.
Privacy never extended beyond the walls of your house. When my dad was on the PTA back in the 50's two teachers were fired because one (a man) was seen to leave his car parked overnight at the woman teacher's house. Yeah, it wasn't right, but it also sure as hell wasn't private.
Everyone really needs to take ownership of their publicity. You can't ignore it or you'll be in the same queue with the guy complaining about that first Google hit on his name that's a drunk & disorderly arrest back in '86.
There are going to be photos of your property on the internet no mater what you do. That leaves you with one option: Provide the most flattering, accurate high resolution images possible. Be the ultimate resource of you that there is. Otherwise other people (like this douchey German guy) will do it for you.
My local Minimum wage is $9.79 an hour. The small Midwestern town I grew up in it's only 75% of that. Certainly if I have any work done by people in the Midwest I'm encouraging abusive workplaces and taking advantage of those poor stupid disadvantaged Midwesterners.
Or, you know, not.
I live in a global marketplace, and surprisingly there are many many places in the world where $1.00 an hour is good wage for a literate worker, well above the local standard for minimum wages and workplace safety.
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Okay, but what the hell does this have to do with the question? Or are you just trying to trade your nerd card for a hipster card?
Figures, a company tries to have some standards and /.ers go crazy against it.
Sounds like a great way to launder money from compromised accounts.
Amazon allows authors to distribute books through them with no DRM. It's at the author/publisher discretion, but at least they offer it. (Unlike a couple other epublishers.)
That said I 'bought' probably 150 books in various DRM'd formats over the last 8 or 8 years. They can all be easy broken. Most of them seem to be encrypted RTF or simple HTML so no formatting has been lost even though I'm reading them across 4 generations of devices.
Exactly. Market share isn't everything. If it was Symbian wouldn't have reigned so long since it's quite a bit of a turd.
I'm also curious how the Apple haters resolve this with todays earlier story of Google hiring Android devs to pad the app store.
I've flown five times through the new scanners.
I just realized last night that I had forgotten a large Leatherman tool in my small carryon bag It's full of knives, edges, gouges, etc.
So security got 5 good looks at the wrinkles on my scrotum, but 5 times missed the big metal wad of knives in my small carryon.
Boy, I sure feel safe and not violated. Next time I go through security I'm refusing the scan and wearing a kilt.
Things that are running fine don't make the news.
In general, if you want to find things that are good and not horriblescarryrazyonfiredyouregonnadie, pay less attention to the news.
And meanwhile in Rural America Verison is unable to provide anything better than .2 MB/s at any price. (Currently $60 a month, but they have simply said "That's the fastest you can ever expect to get.)
Won't work. I fly out of San Francisco.
Vector for malware in 3... 2...
Since she's obviously trying to profit from the copyrighted work of others, the best thing to do would not be to flood her with traffic, but to flood her with DMCA takedown notices.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe anyone can legally file one on behalf of the copyright holder as long as the claim is legitimate.
Does SSL count? Because that is certinaly encryption. So pretty much any computer with a web browser is out.
What about a computer with wifi? WEP and WPA are encryption.
Enforcing a no-encryption rule is like forcing someone to remove all the locks from everything they own.
Yet another reason not to have a car.
Tracking someone on foot and through public transit is much more difficult. (If you pay cash. But even if you don't it would require a warrant to get the transit agency to release your travel data.)
Good thing it also stops the camera in my mobile phone from taking photos of it.
It doesn't? Ah. Glad to know it's effective then.
Not an airport, but I see it right now at a downtown San Francisco Starbucks. I probably see it around 50% of the time that I'm in a downtown coffee shop.
Does it really matter? Do you think that they're so different?
I couldn't agree with this more. I'll add to it and say a big part of the reason that admin GUI's stink is that they're designed by admins and not interface designers. Making a good interface is hard work that even specialists can't reliably do. Give the task to admin programmers who think that 'interface design' is just calling APIs and you get something that obviously is garbage.
If this becomes standard government policy that means I can rob or kill any Australian citizen I want, as long as they're not in the government or military.
So if I read this right...
1) I upload any random photo off my camera to Flickr, set the rights to Copyright (c) 2010 Zadaz. All Right Reserved.
2) Send DMCA takedown notices to anyone I want claiming they used my photo without permission despite having no proof.
As I read it this is not an abuse of DMCA since I'm the rightsholder, despite being full of shit. Is this a correct interpretation?
Except of course everyone knows that employees of a company get perks. (And pretty much anyone in any company knows not to piss off the board of directors.)
Let's see... What contract, intellectual property and consumer rights lawyers are served by Suddenlink...
Not to pick on anyone who's innocent, but that would be a good way to see some action.
Southern sky from what part of the planet?
Frikking Northernhepisphereocentrics.
I wonder if some of these press releases are to just distract from the existing product. "Damn, we're so forward thinking that we obviously don't have any problems with our current product! Look, in the future it will be a clear sphere with no buttons and can wipe your ass!"
It's the text version of putting bikini models in your ads.
And most people don't really care. They see this and they go "Intel, hunh? Neat. Next." They don't know that Intel has a very small stake in the mobile phone market, nor do they think about it enough to see the obvious flaws.
However if they can make phones that have more emotional intelligence than I have then I'd buy it. But seeing that my phone doesn't even have very good spell check I'm not holding my breath.
I disagree that a minigame for the DSi doesn't have the production value to take on 'every little thing'.
I've worked on a number of smaller games, mostly educational and most on a smaller budget than a DSi game. Every single one of them had to not only allow for right/left handed play, but also account for colorblindness and deafness. This isn't limited to educational games but is pretty standard design practices across all professional game design.
After doing a few games with those interface concepts in mind it becomes second nature and doesn't impact the development at all. This is just and example of sloppy design.
Privacy never extended beyond the walls of your house. When my dad was on the PTA back in the 50's two teachers were fired because one (a man) was seen to leave his car parked overnight at the woman teacher's house. Yeah, it wasn't right, but it also sure as hell wasn't private.
Everyone really needs to take ownership of their publicity. You can't ignore it or you'll be in the same queue with the guy complaining about that first Google hit on his name that's a drunk & disorderly arrest back in '86.
There are going to be photos of your property on the internet no mater what you do. That leaves you with one option: Provide the most flattering, accurate high resolution images possible. Be the ultimate resource of you that there is. Otherwise other people (like this douchey German guy) will do it for you.
Who is this "We"?
My local Minimum wage is $9.79 an hour. The small Midwestern town I grew up in it's only 75% of that. Certainly if I have any work done by people in the Midwest I'm encouraging abusive workplaces and taking advantage of those poor stupid disadvantaged Midwesterners.
Or, you know, not.
I live in a global marketplace, and surprisingly there are many many places in the world where $1.00 an hour is good wage for a literate worker, well above the local standard for minimum wages and workplace safety.