Your linked qoute does not say downloading is illegal at all. It only says that if you infrnge copyright accidentally (for example, you didn't realise that your downloaded tunes were in a "shared folder") the damages are less.
I agree that copyright is horribly broken. Terms are way too long (twenty years, as in days past, would be about right IMO) and the statute should clearly state that non-commercial use of any kine (even distribution) is not infringing.
I hope by "gay" you mean "happy and carefree". I referred only to the fact that a word was changed completely from its original meaning to somthing that has no resemblance whatever. The word "gay" was changed from "happy and carefree" to mean, ironically, a member of a group of people whom half of commit suicide, while "hacker" was similarly bastardized. The only difference is that "gay" was deliberately changed by a group with an agenda, while "hacker" was changed by witless ignorance.
As to gays themselves, what they do is none of my business. I wish all you guys would turn gay so I could have your women.
No, not "not using the word I just made up". Using "hacker" when they mean "criminal". You don't have to modify anything or write code to break into a computer system, there are already tools available.
A fellow named "Fydor" wrote a program named "nmap". You probably saw it running in that one Matrix movie. Fydor is a hacker. Someone using nmap to gain unauthorized acces to a computer system is just a criminal.
So basically it's a transformer with the coils seven feet apart? How much power has to be supplied to the transmitting coils to light the sixty watt bulb?
And it seems that for resonance to work, the bulb's recieving coil would have to be EXACTLY in the right spot, to at least a half wave of the power source.
Now, if they were talking about an LCD calculator that was powered by a coil that was inducted by the house current in the walls I might swallow that, but the kind of power they're talking about?
I'm sceptical. After all, Populat Science was talking about flying cars long before I was born, and I'm a geezer.
That's part of what pisses me off. I'm 56, long out of college, have a halfway decent job, turn on the radio and what do I hear?
I hear shit that's targeted to unemployed twelve year olds. And the RIAA complains about losing sales? How is someone with NO MONEY supposed to buy your crap?
Do they have any fucking idea how many LPs, cassettes, and CDs I've bought in the last 40 years since I got a paying job? And how shitty today's music is to my old-skool rock'n'roll ears? The only mainstream band from this century I like is Buckcherry, and I wonder how they ever got a record contract. All today's shit is Simon Cowell Production-like, minor key wimpy emo shit they call "rock", rap (hint: black people my age hate rap even more than I do), tuneless screaming hardcore, and the like.
Find another Zeppelin. Find another Hagar. Find another Pink Floyd. Find another Stones. Find another Chuck Berry. Find another Alice in Chains. Because we have money. Twelve year olds don't you damned cocaine-soaked idiots!
If by "I steal music" you mean "I use P2P to download songs" then you are entirely incorrect. Here is the difference between stealing music and copyriught infringement:
Stealing music You go into Best Buy and sneak a CD out of the store. Best Buy eats the cost of the CD you took. If you are caught, you will pay a small fine of a couple hundred bucks for your misdemeanor crime, or perhaps perform community service.
Copyright infringement You go to Best Buy and legally purchase a CD. You then rip the CD's tracks to MP3 and put them in your "share folder" and let Kazaa or Morpheus run. Downloading is not involved; the people who download the tracks you supply are not in the wrong. If you are caught there is no criminal penalty but you face civil penalties of up to a hundred thousand dollars per song.
But I think you're fooling yourself. You're not a thief. If you share music then you are a copyright infringer, or "pirate" in the unwashed vernacular.
Would you care to point to where in US copyright law (and we ARE talking about the Recording Industry Association of AMERICA here) where it says that downloading infringes copyright?
Would you show me in the US Constitution where is says that one can own a song? (hint- it doesn't).
What if you had a twelve pack of beer in the refrigerator in your back yard with a sign that said "take one", a hundred people came and each took a beer but when you came home you still had twelve beers? That's downloading.
That said, the summary is a steaming pile of corporate RIAA brainwashed shit. downloading is legal, uploading copyright works without permission is illegal. US Copyright law protects artists and publishers from other publishers, not from the unpublishing customer.
The MAFIAA is seeking a sea change in the paradigm, and are largely succeeding. And timothy and Doug Lederman are helping them, damn it!!! First this and now this, it seems that slashdot has been invaded.
Holy dipshit, batman, wirelesss power? Is this Tesla or PT Barnum? I'd REALLY feel foolish if I actually R this FA, is there some Rube Goldberg explanation of how, exactly, "wireless power" would work?
That's just stupid, and it's clear you meant it to be. I know about that incredibly fucktarded lawsuit, but you know good and damned well that if you search for "apple" in google and hit "i'm feeling lucky" you might get a hit on fruit apples, you might get a hit on the Apple record label, or you might get a hit on Apple computers, but you won't get a hit on "oranges" aven though apples and oranges are fruits.
None of the damned P2P clients is going to return that Chiffons song for "My Sweet Lord" unless someone renamed the file to "mysweetlord.mp3".
If you were going for "funny" you fail it. If you were trolling I bit, congratulations.
My point is that the USA owns no hotels, and the "American owned" Chinese hotels are most likely not really owned by an American, but are owned by corporations. If a single Ford stockholder is German, Ford is not American owned.
"American Owned" is usually untrue corporate propaganda designed to appeal to your sense of patriotism. From the comments here, in this case it seems to have worked well, as people are up in arms about "American Hotels".
When you upload, you are publishing. The RIAA is creating the urban legend, which is that downloading is illegal. Rather than ask for a citation saying it is legal, instead you should ask "what law makes downloading illegal?"
Yes. If your restaraunt is in the newspaper because someone died from salmonella poisoning and six more people are in the hospital, expect people to stay away in droves.
When someone in the press catches wind of your tryst with your secretary, expect to lose the next election. (Oops, this is slashdot; "loose" the next election - on an unsuspecting public)
Or you could just ask OJ Simpson how that film career is going.
BTW, as everyone with a grandma knows there IS such a thing as a free lunch and modey does indeed grow on trees (ask a lumberjack or an orchard owner).
The "old sayings" only hold up in a limited set of circumstances. The "free lunch", for example, only means that when a supplier offers lunch, watch your wallet carefully.
OK, if you're happy and carefree it no longer means you're gay unless you're homosexual, and hackers are now criminals who break into computers. Even the tech press is calling cyberglars* "hackers". Even slashdot, who should have striven to maintain the word that used to be a badge of honor back when nerds were being rediculed, uses "hacker" like the ignorant lusers do.
So what's the new word for someone who writes quick and dirty code that actualy runs, or changes a transistor radio into a guitar fuzzbox?
BTW, if you wrote TFA shame on you! the proper word is "script kiddie", cyberglar, cyber burglar, "computer criminal". Not "hacker" for God's sake. Just because Joe Sixpack thinks a "hacker" is a criminal and RAM is a brand of truck doesn't mean we should share in their ignorance.
"I used to be a gay hacker, now I'm only a happy nerd":(
I'm brain dead, too much work today. I'm getting lysdexic. I read the comments as
I am interested in getting my bro (15 yrs) an EEE PC to give him some exposure to coding (Python) whether he likes it or not. However, there will be little to no wife for him to he hopping on...
(lame humorless slashdot filter encountered. don't use so many caps. it's like shouting. really, tone it odwn in here mcgrew, this is a library not a goddamned bar)
I don't know what a TDI is and don't care enough to hunt that particular acronym down. This isn't "slashdot - news for greazy mechanics and jocks", after all.
At least it's a diesel. Er wait... I HATE diesels, nasty stinking noisy things. I'd rather have global warming than to get behind one of them!
If you've got the money for a bigassed boat that takes a hummer to tow, you should have the money for something cheaper to take long trips in, and you shouldn't drag the boat along to see Mom.
My dad lives in Poplar Bluff, almost Arkansas. It's been a while since I;'ve seen him. If I have to sacrifice trips to see my dad so that Bush and his oil buddies can get richer, why can't someone with the money "sacrifice" to combat global warming by cutting down as well?
As to the die-hards, you're not going to satisfy them. You just have to use your own judgement. The trouble is that many people have so little of it.
1. six digits is pretty new and 2. You must be new here to have not seen that joke before 3. He has no journal entries 4. Cowboy Neal 5. ???????? 6. Profit!
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Dude, you spoiled the joke ;)
Your linked qoute does not say downloading is illegal at all. It only says that if you infrnge copyright accidentally (for example, you didn't realise that your downloaded tunes were in a "shared folder") the damages are less.
I agree that copyright is horribly broken. Terms are way too long (twenty years, as in days past, would be about right IMO) and the statute should clearly state that non-commercial use of any kine (even distribution) is not infringing.
Oh, and that god-awful DMCA needs to be repealed.
Hey, I like that! And we could call the lusers "zeros!"
On3s and zer0s. You have my vote!
I hope by "gay" you mean "happy and carefree". I referred only to the fact that a word was changed completely from its original meaning to somthing that has no resemblance whatever. The word "gay" was changed from "happy and carefree" to mean, ironically, a member of a group of people whom half of commit suicide, while "hacker" was similarly bastardized. The only difference is that "gay" was deliberately changed by a group with an agenda, while "hacker" was changed by witless ignorance.
As to gays themselves, what they do is none of my business. I wish all you guys would turn gay so I could have your women.
Link to statute please?
No, not "not using the word I just made up". Using "hacker" when they mean "criminal". You don't have to modify anything or write code to break into a computer system, there are already tools available.
A fellow named "Fydor" wrote a program named "nmap". You probably saw it running in that one Matrix movie. Fydor is a hacker. Someone using nmap to gain unauthorized acces to a computer system is just a criminal.
So basically it's a transformer with the coils seven feet apart? How much power has to be supplied to the transmitting coils to light the sixty watt bulb?
And it seems that for resonance to work, the bulb's recieving coil would have to be EXACTLY in the right spot, to at least a half wave of the power source.
Now, if they were talking about an LCD calculator that was powered by a coil that was inducted by the house current in the walls I might swallow that, but the kind of power they're talking about?
I'm sceptical. After all, Populat Science was talking about flying cars long before I was born, and I'm a geezer.
You never know what you'll catch.
You are in violation of Epic Records' copyright of Cheap Trick's song Surrender. Their lawyers will be contacting you shortly.
That's part of what pisses me off. I'm 56, long out of college, have a halfway decent job, turn on the radio and what do I hear?
I hear shit that's targeted to unemployed twelve year olds. And the RIAA complains about losing sales? How is someone with NO MONEY supposed to buy your crap?
Do they have any fucking idea how many LPs, cassettes, and CDs I've bought in the last 40 years since I got a paying job? And how shitty today's music is to my old-skool rock'n'roll ears? The only mainstream band from this century I like is Buckcherry, and I wonder how they ever got a record contract. All today's shit is Simon Cowell Production-like, minor key wimpy emo shit they call "rock", rap (hint: black people my age hate rap even more than I do), tuneless screaming hardcore, and the like.
Find another Zeppelin. Find another Hagar. Find another Pink Floyd. Find another Stones. Find another Chuck Berry. Find another Alice in Chains. Because we have money. Twelve year olds don't you damned cocaine-soaked idiots!
I steal music
You shoplift?
If by "I steal music" you mean "I use P2P to download songs" then you are entirely incorrect. Here is the difference between stealing music and copyriught infringement:
Stealing music
You go into Best Buy and sneak a CD out of the store. Best Buy eats the cost of the CD you took. If you are caught, you will pay a small fine of a couple hundred bucks for your misdemeanor crime, or perhaps perform community service.
Copyright infringement
You go to Best Buy and legally purchase a CD. You then rip the CD's tracks to MP3 and put them in your "share folder" and let Kazaa or Morpheus run. Downloading is not involved; the people who download the tracks you supply are not in the wrong. If you are caught there is no criminal penalty but you face civil penalties of up to a hundred thousand dollars per song.
But I think you're fooling yourself. You're not a thief. If you share music then you are a copyright infringer, or "pirate" in the unwashed vernacular.
Would you care to point to where in US copyright law (and we ARE talking about the Recording Industry Association of AMERICA here) where it says that downloading infringes copyright?
Would you show me in the US Constitution where is says that one can own a song? (hint- it doesn't).
What if you had a twelve pack of beer in the refrigerator in your back yard with a sign that said "take one", a hundred people came and each took a beer but when you came home you still had twelve beers? That's downloading.
That said, the summary is a steaming pile of corporate RIAA brainwashed shit. downloading is legal, uploading copyright works without permission is illegal. US Copyright law protects artists and publishers from other publishers, not from the unpublishing customer.
The MAFIAA is seeking a sea change in the paradigm, and are largely succeeding. And timothy and Doug Lederman are helping them, damn it!!! First this and now this, it seems that slashdot has been invaded.
Holy dipshit, batman, wirelesss power? Is this Tesla or PT Barnum? I'd REALLY feel foolish if I actually R this FA, is there some Rube Goldberg explanation of how, exactly, "wireless power" would work?
I think perhaps you're either a little over a month late or almost a week late.
Wow, costs must have really come down. What did you solar/wind setup cost? How much electricity does it supply in kilowatt hours per month?
That's just stupid, and it's clear you meant it to be. I know about that incredibly fucktarded lawsuit, but you know good and damned well that if you search for "apple" in google and hit "i'm feeling lucky" you might get a hit on fruit apples, you might get a hit on the Apple record label, or you might get a hit on Apple computers, but you won't get a hit on "oranges" aven though apples and oranges are fruits.
None of the damned P2P clients is going to return that Chiffons song for "My Sweet Lord" unless someone renamed the file to "mysweetlord.mp3".
If you were going for "funny" you fail it. If you were trolling I bit, congratulations.
My point is that the USA owns no hotels, and the "American owned" Chinese hotels are most likely not really owned by an American, but are owned by corporations. If a single Ford stockholder is German, Ford is not American owned.
"American Owned" is usually untrue corporate propaganda designed to appeal to your sense of patriotism. From the comments here, in this case it seems to have worked well, as people are up in arms about "American Hotels".
In Soviet Russia, everything not compulsory is prohibited. In America, anything not prohibited is allowed.
Copyright in the US was originally To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. It protects the author against publishers.
When you upload, you are publishing. The RIAA is creating the urban legend, which is that downloading is illegal. Rather than ask for a citation saying it is legal, instead you should ask "what law makes downloading illegal?"
is there any such thing as bad publicity?
Yes. If your restaraunt is in the newspaper because someone died from salmonella poisoning and six more people are in the hospital, expect people to stay away in droves.
When someone in the press catches wind of your tryst with your secretary, expect to lose the next election. (Oops, this is slashdot; "loose" the next election - on an unsuspecting public)
Or you could just ask OJ Simpson how that film career is going.
BTW, as everyone with a grandma knows there IS such a thing as a free lunch and modey does indeed grow on trees (ask a lumberjack or an orchard owner).
The "old sayings" only hold up in a limited set of circumstances. The "free lunch", for example, only means that when a supplier offers lunch, watch your wallet carefully.
OK, if you're happy and carefree it no longer means you're gay unless you're homosexual, and hackers are now criminals who break into computers. Even the tech press is calling cyberglars* "hackers". Even slashdot, who should have striven to maintain the word that used to be a badge of honor back when nerds were being rediculed, uses "hacker" like the ignorant lusers do.
:(
So what's the new word for someone who writes quick and dirty code that actualy runs, or changes a transistor radio into a guitar fuzzbox?
BTW, if you wrote TFA shame on you! the proper word is "script kiddie", cyberglar, cyber burglar, "computer criminal". Not "hacker" for God's sake. Just because Joe Sixpack thinks a "hacker" is a criminal and RAM is a brand of truck doesn't mean we should share in their ignorance.
"I used to be a gay hacker, now I'm only a happy nerd"
-mcgrew
*Yes, I just coined that word. So sue me.
I, for one, welcome... OW! OW! STOPPIT!
(lame humorless slashdot filter encountered. don't use so many caps. it's like shouting. really, tone it odwn in here mcgrew, this is a library not a goddamned bar)
The new machines are also being called ultra-low-cost PCs, mininotebooks, or even mobile Internet gadgets
Cool, I always wanted my own MIG!
I don't know what a TDI is and don't care enough to hunt that particular acronym down. This isn't "slashdot - news for greazy mechanics and jocks", after all.
At least it's a diesel. Er wait... I HATE diesels, nasty stinking noisy things. I'd rather have global warming than to get behind one of them!
No, he's the alien*. She's a cartoon. This is Springfield, you know.
-mcgrew
*the link is to the journal from last December titled "Alien Invader".
If you've got the money for a bigassed boat that takes a hummer to tow, you should have the money for something cheaper to take long trips in, and you shouldn't drag the boat along to see Mom.
My dad lives in Poplar Bluff, almost Arkansas. It's been a while since I;'ve seen him. If I have to sacrifice trips to see my dad so that Bush and his oil buddies can get richer, why can't someone with the money "sacrifice" to combat global warming by cutting down as well?
As to the die-hards, you're not going to satisfy them. You just have to use your own judgement. The trouble is that many people have so little of it.
1. six digits is pretty new and
2. You must be new here to have not seen that joke before
3. He has no journal entries
4. Cowboy Neal
5. ????????
6. Profit!