Welcome to the DMCA, the same nonsense that blocks you from selling mod chips. Did you really expect to "circumvent" the locks that cable companies put in place and nothing was going to happen?
This is why we've been complaining about the DMCA since '98, and why Alan Cox won't set foot in this country. Heck, I'm suprised it's legal to hook up our own equipment to the cable networks at all. Did you get that PC from comcast? No?
And, as such, they don't get to run the software. Your argument is nonsensical. I guess I can start distributing unauthorized copies of Windows, because I never signed a distribution agreement with Microsoft?
Further, if they exchanged cash (or cash-equivalent, eg check, electronic payment, etc) for a physical item such as a disc, then they did in fact *buy* a copy of a program, and they are in fact owners of it.
No, they would be owners of a shiny plastic disc. Apple retains ownership of the software. Users of software do not become owners of the copyright held in the software.
....If I buy a crate of shiny plastic disks from MS that contain Windows, I may re-sell them to WHOEVER for whatever consideration I want. This is first sale doctrine. The EULA doesn't enter into that part, it only comes into force when I *use the software*.
And I can hear you arguing, "If you take those shiny plastic disks and install them on the computer and then sell the computer when the license forbids resale....", I have to point out that First sale will still apply if I give you the computer, with it installed and the shiny disc. Heck, look at the cases that have been found against Adobe when they try to stop people from selling the 2nd hand software on Ebay.
While I do agree with your logic, the status of the EULA in us law is "complicated". There are a bunch of conflicting cases, such as Step Saver vs Wyse, ProCD vs Zeidenberg, Microsoft vs Harmony Computer, etc.
Wikipedia's article on EULAs has a pretty good list of cases and descriptions of most of them. Personally, I'd like to see a case get up the Supreme court, where I would hope the logic from the Wyse case would prevail:
"When these form licenses were first developed for software, it was, in large part, to avoid the federal copyright law first sale doctrine" thus the intent of EULAs after 1990 were to preempt federal statutes using contract law and that they serve no purpose besides attempts to preempt consumer rights in other statutes.
However the concept of "a contract can't trump what the law says your rights are" sometimes seems to be a thing of the past.
If I take BSD licensed code and give you only binaries (but no source) or add restrictions to the license, such as [...] "You are only allowed to run this program on fridays"
That would be an excellent test to see how many people read the license: "You are only authorized to run this program on Fridays, licenses for other days of the week are available and must be negotiated with the author. Please note, that no license is available for thursday, because Thor demands it."
People tend to forget that gps has other applications outside of a car. Dedicated uses, such as air navigation, ship navigation, etc are unlikely to be replaced soon. And in those applications, Garmin pretty much is the standard (not to say there aren't others, but honestly, Garmin doesn't have much to worry about at this point).
I'd say the F/OSS market is the BEST expression of Libertarian though, especially the Limited BDSM style licenses. The GPL, well, that's another debate;)
Which would, indeed, be a vastly different debate.
Will this mean an end to casts? If this could be put in place and support the bone from the inside while you heal, why would we need external casts? Especially if it's injectable in some way.
... so encrypt the packets? utilize "phone to phone" until you get to a wifi connected phone and push it to the internet? I mean the idea that "everyone will be able to read your packets, ohnoes" was solved some time ago. Otherwise, there'd be nothing like VOIP or websites that take your credit card...etc.
Ultimately, they serve much of the same purpose as the heroic epics of ancient times; to get people excited about the idea of things that people other than them get to do, while at the same time showing them the sort of awful crap happens to those heroes.
Hearken, children, and I shall tell you the tale of John-117, a a man called demon by his enemies and a savior by his people.
Basically, to break it down, your chances of getting aids comes down to 3 factors (4 now with this in place):
a * b * c * d
Where
a = the chance that your partner is infected
b = the chance that you catch the disease during an encounter with an infected partner (having intercourse with an infected person doesn't guarantee infection)
c = the chance that your protection fails (only comes into play if you used protection - otherwise it's 100%)
d = the chance that your vaccine was ineffective (only comes into play if you actually got vaccinated - otherwise this is 100%)
Everything that is scientifically proven to reduce the final result, even if it doesn't go to 0% in the end, is a success in my opinion.
This is the part that makes me question this study. Specifically, by the factors quoted above:
a) How many of the 16,000 were actually exposed (or know they were exposed)?
b) Even if exposed, it doesn't always mean you catch it during that exposure.
c) How many were using condoms? Any of them that used condoms every time and never had a condom break, they aren't useful for this study.
d) Is untested if your sample doesn't adjust for all of the above and those who simply have not had sex in the time of the study.
And, if you ask people to expose themselves to HIV by not using protection and/or actively seeking exposure, what are the ethical ramifications, especially with regards to those in the control?
You must be single. Back in the day I had to choose between my friends in the shower or my ability to keep getting laid. It wasn't a hard decision;)
...the mistake here is not having your girlfriend be one of the "friends in the shower". If you find one that's into "group activities" you won't have this issue.
The classic example is a station wagon:)
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes", variously credited to Dennis Ritchie, Andrew Tanenbaum and other sources. I can't tell who was first with it.
You leave out the fact that military service is a requirement in Israel, therefore "armed civilian" and "armed military/reservist" isn't much of a distinction.
You may wish to look at a sentence diagram of the 2nd amendment. The first part about a well regulated militia does not limit the right, which is clearly "of the people".
It was not so much about the military being disbanded or anything like that, it was a country that had just escaped one monarch, and did not want another, either from an external or internal source.
It isn't AIX from IBM that's burying Solaris, it's Linux.
At the fortune 100 companies I've worked with, AIX was legacy and stagnant, and being retired as quickly as possible. Solaris was losing servers to Linux starting with the web/application servers and moving into the Database space (replacing Oracle and DB2, in some cases with Mysql for smaller databases). Applications that could be run on virtualization were the next big thing to move to Linux. If they could replace large sun boxes (and expensive sun hardware/software service contracts) with a bunch of 1Us or Blades connected to a SAN, it was done.
At one financial institution it was even mandated that Linux be tested before any other Unix because of the cost savings.
If I tell your bank that you're a fraud artist, shall they freeze your account and in the process destroy your business? Should they have any duty whatsoever to determine where the money comes from? If banks were held liable for every illegal transaction they unwittingly contribute to, they'd have been out of business a long time ago.
Never worked for a bank, have you? ALL employees (even those of us who had no contact with customers or money) are required to take money laundering training.
The short version goes something like this (for US banks, Europe has similar requirements): If a transaction is over a certain amount, it gets reported. If you do a bunch of small transactions around the limit to even appear to avoid the reporting, you get reported. If a bank fails to report it, they're liable for fines and penalties. You, as the employee responsible to do the reporting will also be possibly liable for fines, and will be lucky if all that happens is you lose your job. So yes, they do try to hold banks liable for every illegal transaction they unwittingly contribute to.
Don't give them ideas. They will simply trademark the following sounds: 1) Stupid people burning in a campfire (including each level of burn up until they die) 2) Stupid people clapping stupid hands 3) the mating call of the stupid person.
Better then trackIR. TrackIR still needs an external reference to track the motion. If this thing can tell which direction you point your eye, you'd have a great hands-free interface.
However, personal interaction might get weird when people keep trying to figure out why you keep moving your eyes all over the place.
I like my 360. And for once, MS did get many things right. However, I do see some things they've done wrong. My personal list of annoyances:
1) The 360 "arcade" option. About the only reason to do this is either for a second 360 or when your original dies and the HD still works. I'd think even the "Madden is the only game worth playing" types would want more then the tiny memory card.
2) The amount of lock down on silver accounts is annoying. I should be able to create a full featured live account for my wife/offspring/pet turtle to let them play online under their own name/save files/achievements. The fact that I can only create (without paying for a second gold account) a "silver" account which can't even play most games online annoys me.
3) My original 360 scratched disks like crazy. I eventually voided the warranty and added little felt pads that fixed the issue, but it still is one of those "This was a bad design descision that should never have been allowed to make it to a end-consumer". (it also eventually RROD'd, but I'm not that annoyed about that, even with the scratch disk problem and the rrod, it lasted longer and had less hardware issues then some of the PCs I've owned)
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Welcome to the DMCA, the same nonsense that blocks you from selling mod chips. Did you really expect to "circumvent" the locks that cable companies put in place and nothing was going to happen?
This is why we've been complaining about the DMCA since '98, and why Alan Cox won't set foot in this country. Heck, I'm suprised it's legal to hook up our own equipment to the cable networks at all. Did you get that PC from comcast? No?
And, as such, they don't get to run the software. Your argument is nonsensical. I guess I can start distributing unauthorized copies of Windows, because I never signed a distribution agreement with Microsoft?
Further, if they exchanged cash (or cash-equivalent, eg check, electronic payment, etc) for a physical item such as a disc, then they did in fact *buy* a copy of a program, and they are in fact owners of it.
No, they would be owners of a shiny plastic disc. Apple retains ownership of the software. Users of software do not become owners of the copyright held in the software.
....If I buy a crate of shiny plastic disks from MS that contain Windows, I may re-sell them to WHOEVER for whatever consideration I want. This is first sale doctrine. The EULA doesn't enter into that part, it only comes into force when I *use the software*.
And I can hear you arguing, "If you take those shiny plastic disks and install them on the computer and then sell the computer when the license forbids resale....", I have to point out that First sale will still apply if I give you the computer, with it installed and the shiny disc. Heck, look at the cases that have been found against Adobe when they try to stop people from selling the 2nd hand software on Ebay.
Wikipedia's article on EULAs has a pretty good list of cases and descriptions of most of them. Personally, I'd like to see a case get up the Supreme court, where I would hope the logic from the Wyse case would prevail:
"When these form licenses were first developed for software, it was, in large part, to avoid the federal copyright law first sale doctrine" thus the intent of EULAs after 1990 were to preempt federal statutes using contract law and that they serve no purpose besides attempts to preempt consumer rights in other statutes.
However the concept of "a contract can't trump what the law says your rights are" sometimes seems to be a thing of the past.
If I take BSD licensed code and give you only binaries (but no source) or add restrictions to the license, such as [...] "You are only allowed to run this program on fridays"
That would be an excellent test to see how many people read the license: "You are only authorized to run this program on Fridays, licenses for other days of the week are available and must be negotiated with the author. Please note, that no license is available for thursday, because Thor demands it."
People tend to forget that gps has other applications outside of a car. Dedicated uses, such as air navigation, ship navigation, etc are unlikely to be replaced soon. And in those applications, Garmin pretty much is the standard (not to say there aren't others, but honestly, Garmin doesn't have much to worry about at this point).
Of course, they're not as concerned about due process and civil rights, as they are about making it more difficult to track down criminals online
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, even when they aid me.
No, he's saying the cloud is a a pie.
I'd say the F/OSS market is the BEST expression of Libertarian though, especially the Limited BDSM style licenses. The GPL, well, that's another debate ;)
Which would, indeed, be a vastly different debate.
Will this mean an end to casts? If this could be put in place and support the bone from the inside while you heal, why would we need external casts? Especially if it's injectable in some way.
... so encrypt the packets? utilize "phone to phone" until you get to a wifi connected phone and push it to the internet? I mean the idea that "everyone will be able to read your packets, ohnoes" was solved some time ago.
Otherwise, there'd be nothing like VOIP or websites that take your credit card...etc.
Ultimately, they serve much of the same purpose as the heroic epics of ancient times; to get people excited about the idea of things that people other than them get to do, while at the same time showing them the sort of awful crap happens to those heroes.
Hearken, children, and I shall tell you the tale of John-117, a a man called demon by his enemies and a savior by his people.
Basically, to break it down, your chances of getting aids comes down to 3 factors (4 now with this in place):
a * b * c * d
Where a = the chance that your partner is infected b = the chance that you catch the disease during an encounter with an infected partner (having intercourse with an infected person doesn't guarantee infection) c = the chance that your protection fails (only comes into play if you used protection - otherwise it's 100%) d = the chance that your vaccine was ineffective (only comes into play if you actually got vaccinated - otherwise this is 100%)
Everything that is scientifically proven to reduce the final result, even if it doesn't go to 0% in the end, is a success in my opinion.
This is the part that makes me question this study.
Specifically, by the factors quoted above:
a) How many of the 16,000 were actually exposed (or know they were exposed)?
b) Even if exposed, it doesn't always mean you catch it during that exposure.
c) How many were using condoms? Any of them that used condoms every time and never had a condom break, they aren't useful for this study.
d) Is untested if your sample doesn't adjust for all of the above and those who simply have not had sex in the time of the study.
And, if you ask people to expose themselves to HIV by not using protection and/or actively seeking exposure, what are the ethical ramifications, especially with regards to those in the control?
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You must be single. Back in the day I had to choose between my friends in the shower or my ability to keep getting laid. It wasn't a hard decision ;)
...the mistake here is not having your girlfriend be one of the "friends in the shower". If you find one that's into "group activities" you won't have this issue.
No no no.. you UNLIVE! and get regular transfusions via fangs!
The classic example is a station wagon :)
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes", variously credited to Dennis Ritchie, Andrew Tanenbaum and other sources. I can't tell who was first with it.
You leave out the fact that military service is a requirement in Israel, therefore "armed civilian" and "armed military/reservist" isn't much of a distinction.
You may wish to look at a sentence diagram of the 2nd amendment. The first part about a well regulated militia does not limit the right, which is clearly "of the people".
See here for clearer picture.
It was not so much about the military being disbanded or anything like that, it was a country that had just escaped one monarch, and did not want another, either from an external or internal source.
... So.. "how to hire a cracker"? Good luck with the inevitable discrimination suit :)
At the fortune 100 companies I've worked with, AIX was legacy and stagnant, and being retired as quickly as possible. Solaris was losing servers to Linux starting with the web/application servers and moving into the Database space (replacing Oracle and DB2, in some cases with Mysql for smaller databases). Applications that could be run on virtualization were the next big thing to move to Linux. If they could replace large sun boxes (and expensive sun hardware/software service contracts) with a bunch of 1Us or Blades connected to a SAN, it was done.
At one financial institution it was even mandated that Linux be tested before any other Unix because of the cost savings.
Ah, and here you've found the analogy. They were apparently told "hey, these guys you host are doing something illegal" and ignored it.
If I tell your bank that you're a fraud artist, shall they freeze your account and in the process destroy your business? Should they have any duty whatsoever to determine where the money comes from? If banks were held liable for every illegal transaction they unwittingly contribute to, they'd have been out of business a long time ago.
Never worked for a bank, have you? ALL employees (even those of us who had no contact with customers or money) are required to take money laundering training.
The short version goes something like this (for US banks, Europe has similar requirements): If a transaction is over a certain amount, it gets reported. If you do a bunch of small transactions around the limit to even appear to avoid the reporting, you get reported. If a bank fails to report it, they're liable for fines and penalties. You, as the employee responsible to do the reporting will also be possibly liable for fines, and will be lucky if all that happens is you lose your job. So yes, they do try to hold banks liable for every illegal transaction they unwittingly contribute to.
Don't give them ideas. They will simply trademark the following sounds: 1) Stupid people burning in a campfire (including each level of burn up until they die) 2) Stupid people clapping stupid hands 3) the mating call of the stupid person.
Better then trackIR. TrackIR still needs an external reference to track the motion. If this thing can tell which direction you point your eye, you'd have a great hands-free interface.
However, personal interaction might get weird when people keep trying to figure out why you keep moving your eyes all over the place.
I like my 360. And for once, MS did get many things right. However, I do see some things they've done wrong. My personal list of annoyances:
1) The 360 "arcade" option. About the only reason to do this is either for a second 360 or when your original dies and the HD still works. I'd think even the "Madden is the only game worth playing" types would want more then the tiny memory card.
2) The amount of lock down on silver accounts is annoying. I should be able to create a full featured live account for my wife/offspring/pet turtle to let them play online under their own name/save files/achievements. The fact that I can only create (without paying for a second gold account) a "silver" account which can't even play most games online annoys me.
3) My original 360 scratched disks like crazy. I eventually voided the warranty and added little felt pads that fixed the issue, but it still is one of those "This was a bad design descision that should never have been allowed to make it to a end-consumer". (it also eventually RROD'd, but I'm not that annoyed about that, even with the scratch disk problem and the rrod, it lasted longer and had less hardware issues then some of the PCs I've owned)