First teh intarwebs was pipes. "I needs me some bigger pipes! Get me some T3 pipes in here!"
Then it was a series of tubes. Kind of like pipes but made of plastic and more flexible. "Get rid of that T3, Bob, we's gettin' TUBES! Call the cable tube ocmpany!"
Then it was a cloud, presumably after it went <a href=http://www.DamnItSomebodyFuckedUpUncyclopedia">up in smoke</a>.
B and c are reasonable, if I give my permission to search then I have freely given you the right to search. However, a doesn't apply as the door was shut.
you do not have the right to be free of the consequences of making a poor choice
Those consequences might be getting victimised, but if I am breaking no law I shouldn't have to worry about the police. But I do. And I'm a white man with a white goatee, a young black or Hispanic man would have it much worse.
But, I remind myself that I spent ten years of my life under the sea so jackasses like yourself can hold whatever silly beliefs they want.
And I spent four years of my life on an air force base to protect the Constitution that the legistature and police are trashing.
The thing is, shoplifting and copyright infringement are very different
BINGO! Like I said (and like I believe the comment between yours and mine said), copyright infringement isn't stealing, and the penalties are way out of whack; a small fine or community service for shoplifting (although repeat offenders will see the inside of a jail) for the criminal act of stealing, vs tens of thousands in civil costs for copyright infringement.
That would be the 1970s, but considering record company execs' reported drug of choice, I'd say it was the eighties they are stiuck in, especially considering that they're selling $25 CDs rather than $5 LPs.
I'm the one that's stuck in the stone age. Damn but I miss the seventies! I could get laid back then, and pot was going to be legal "any day now".
Mister Crowley, What went on in your head? Oh, Mister Crowley, Did you talk to the dead? Your life style to me seemed so tragic With the thrill of it all. You fooled all the people with magic, Yeah, you waited on satan's door.
Mr. Charming, Did you think you were pure? Mr. Alarming, in nocturnal rapport; Uncovering things that were sacred Manifest on this Earth, Conceived in the eye of a secret And they scattered the afterbirth
Mr. Crowley, Won't you ride my white horse? Mr. Crowley, It's symbolic, of course. Approaching a time that is classic I hear that maiden's call. Approaching a time that is drastic, Standing with their backs to the wall.
Was it polemically sent? l want to know what you meant. I want to know, I want to know what you meant. Yeah!!!
(Lyrics by Ozzie Ozbourne. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" is the self-styled "Beast of the Revelation" Alesteir Crowley's creed.)
No. Making copies of works that you are not the copyright holder of is illegal, unless you have a license to do so
YMMV. Different countries have different laws. I believe you are correct in the UK, while in the US "fair use" allows you to make copies for your own personal use. You can't distribute thos copies legally, but you can make them.
All I know about Canada is that I have to drive north to get there.
Oh come on, this troll was posted (and bittten) last year. As trolls go it isn't bad but gees, your troll was copyrighted last year when its original author trolled with it. You are in violation of copyright law, you filthy pirate!
Our lawyers will be coming for you and your grandmother and your handicapped son shortly. I believe we MIGHT be able to settle for $3,000 but if you force us to take you to court it's going to be a HUNDRED GRAND.
Thieves take without the owners' permission. Your "pirates" are uploading content they PAID for - exactly the opposiute of stealing. They're not breaking the law by taking, they're breaking the law by giving. In no way can copyright infringers be called "thieves".
A music thief is someone who steals CDs from Best Buy. A music thief is also someone who scams a recording artist he's signed a contract with out of all his royalties, like the music industry has done time and again.
Which label do you work for again, Mr. Cpward? Sony-BMG? If so, there's a special place in hell for you.
I agree, it would be utterly wonderful if the police were all-knowing about their cases, and could just say "we don't need to investigate this--clearly no problem
No, it would be nice if they would GET A WARRANT or arrest someone before searching, like they SHOULD do.
Did you complain?
Once my wife complained about police behavior, and I got pulled over every fucking day from then on until I got a different car. No thanks. Perhaps I should have filed suit since any complaint would have brought harrasment, but I'm not wont to sue without greivous insult.
Well, I can scarcely begin to understand how traumatic the search must have been for you to make such an impact.
Not traumatic at all. I'm saddened that your rights mean so little to you.
Agreed, since Microisoft's driver hosed the system. I didn't even know it was updating a driver; I'd left automatic update on. That was the last time I let it do an automatic update! Had a hell of a time figuring out what was wrong with the computer. First I thought I broke the modem (it fell off the table(, the ISP's tech confirmed that he could see the modem so I thought cable. Almost bought a new LAN card when I reinstalled XP because it had disabled Roxio CD software's drivers and wouldn't let me uninstall the program it had disabled the drivers on.
This means that life as we see it on Earth is probably typical of what you will find elsewhere should there be life at all.
But there is no "typical" life on earth. A jellyfish has no head, an octopus has a head and eight arms and nothing else that I can see, edible mushrooms share little in common with mildew, despite both being fungi, let alone a fruit fly, which looks nothing like a bat even though noth organisms fly. Life on earth is so incredibly diverse that I can't see how anyone woulkd think that life elsewhere wouldn't be even more diverse.
Look at turtles and snails and crabs and dogs. Not a whole lot in common with each other, excepot that they are all animals.
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Nobody knows nothin'. If they doe, they ain't sayin'.
But of course we're going to discuss it fully here at slashdot!
I read it in his "autohagiography but unfortunately it was three decades ago and my memory is short, and I was smoking Thai stick at the time.
Trust me, if you understood us, you would see why we find that so funny.
So please clarify for me, are you...?
a) space aliens
b)time aliens
c) schotzophrenic
If your personal / company PC got noticeably hacked on a regular basis even a joe regular user would do something about it.
Most peple don't even worry about it until it's almost bricked.
So, anything new here?
Apple invented it but Microsoft INNOVATED it!
desktop that exists in the cloud
First teh intarwebs was pipes. "I needs me some bigger pipes! Get me some T3 pipes in here!"
Then it was a series of tubes. Kind of like pipes but made of plastic and more flexible. "Get rid of that T3, Bob, we's gettin' TUBES! Call the cable tube ocmpany!"
Then it was a cloud, presumably after it went <a href=http://www.DamnItSomebodyFuckedUpUncyclopedia">up in smoke</a>.
OK, what do we get after clouds? Moonbeams?
-mcgrew
Sure they apologized
So did Kevin Mitnick, but he still went to prison. Why didn't anybody go to prison for XCP (alternate less serious link)?
Anybody know of a good media player, now that I can't use Winamp any more? One that's like XMMS would be my first choice.
Or better yet, get Winamp to not use Gracenote? If it's using Gracenote to get song titles, why won't it use FreeDB?
Wow it is. And he has mod points too!
Now mod this one troll as well.
B and c are reasonable, if I give my permission to search then I have freely given you the right to search. However, a doesn't apply as the door was shut.
As in, had they found something illegal, they could not enter it into evidence
This is Springfield, they'd find a way.
you do not have the right to be free of the consequences of making a poor choice
Those consequences might be getting victimised, but if I am breaking no law I shouldn't have to worry about the police. But I do. And I'm a white man with a white goatee, a young black or Hispanic man would have it much worse.
But, I remind myself that I spent ten years of my life under the sea so jackasses like yourself can hold whatever silly beliefs they want.
And I spent four years of my life on an air force base to protect the Constitution that the legistature and police are trashing.
The thing is, shoplifting and copyright infringement are very different
BINGO! Like I said (and like I believe the comment between yours and mine said), copyright infringement isn't stealing, and the penalties are way out of whack; a small fine or community service for shoplifting (although repeat offenders will see the inside of a jail) for the criminal act of stealing, vs tens of thousands in civil costs for copyright infringement.
That was the book! Thank you, I'll have to see if the library has a copy so I can read it again.
First of all, they may not have paid for the content. It's quite likely that they uploaded the content that they themselves downloaded.
Somebody bought a copy and uploaded it. If they downloaded it and then uploaded it then it's already there.
Second, while I dislike the comparison of copyright infringement to thievery, it is nonetheless illegal.
So is rape, but I don't think you would say that copyright infringement is rape.
They are stuck in the stone ages
That would be the 1970s, but considering record company execs' reported drug of choice, I'd say it was the eighties they are stiuck in, especially considering that they're selling $25 CDs rather than $5 LPs.
I'm the one that's stuck in the stone age. Damn but I miss the seventies! I could get laid back then, and pot was going to be legal "any day now".
Mister Crowley, What went on in your head? Oh, Mister Crowley, Did you talk to the dead?
Your life style to me seemed so tragic With the thrill of it all. You fooled all the people with magic, Yeah, you waited on satan's door.
Mr. Charming, Did you think you were pure? Mr. Alarming, in nocturnal rapport; Uncovering things that were sacred Manifest on this Earth, Conceived in the eye of a secret And they scattered the afterbirth
Mr. Crowley, Won't you ride my white horse? Mr. Crowley, It's symbolic, of course. Approaching a time that is classic I hear that maiden's call. Approaching a time that is drastic, Standing with their backs to the wall.
Was it polemically sent? l want to know what you meant. I want to know, I want to know what you meant. Yeah!!!
(Lyrics by Ozzie Ozbourne. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" is the self-styled "Beast of the Revelation" Alesteir Crowley's creed.)
No. Making copies of works that you are not the copyright holder of is illegal, unless you have a license to do so
YMMV. Different countries have different laws. I believe you are correct in the UK, while in the US "fair use" allows you to make copies for your own personal use. You can't distribute thos copies legally, but you can make them.
All I know about Canada is that I have to drive north to get there.
Oh come on, this troll was posted (and bittten) last year. As trolls go it isn't bad but gees, your troll was copyrighted last year when its original author trolled with it. You are in violation of copyright law, you filthy pirate!
Our lawyers will be coming for you and your grandmother and your handicapped son shortly. I believe we MIGHT be able to settle for $3,000 but if you force us to take you to court it's going to be a HUNDRED GRAND.
Thieves take without the owners' permission. Your "pirates" are uploading content they PAID for - exactly the opposiute of stealing. They're not breaking the law by taking, they're breaking the law by giving. In no way can copyright infringers be called "thieves".
A music thief is someone who steals CDs from Best Buy. A music thief is also someone who scams a recording artist he's signed a contract with out of all his royalties, like the music industry has done time and again.
Which label do you work for again, Mr. Cpward? Sony-BMG? If so, there's a special place in hell for you.
What if my computer was a honeypot as part of a honeynet?
So, YAL? Then please explain to my poor fucktarded brain why they should have a legal right to hack into my computer without permission?
I agree, it would be utterly wonderful if the police were all-knowing about their cases, and could just say "we don't need to investigate this--clearly no problem
No, it would be nice if they would GET A WARRANT or arrest someone before searching, like they SHOULD do.
Did you complain?
Once my wife complained about police behavior, and I got pulled over every fucking day from then on until I got a different car. No thanks. Perhaps I should have filed suit since any complaint would have brought harrasment, but I'm not wont to sue without greivous insult.
Well, I can scarcely begin to understand how traumatic the search must have been for you to make such an impact.
Not traumatic at all. I'm saddened that your rights mean so little to you.
Agreed, since Microisoft's driver hosed the system. I didn't even know it was updating a driver; I'd left automatic update on. That was the last time I let it do an automatic update! Had a hell of a time figuring out what was wrong with the computer. First I thought I broke the modem (it fell off the table(, the ISP's tech confirmed that he could see the modem so I thought cable. Almost bought a new LAN card when I reinstalled XP because it had disabled Roxio CD software's drivers and wouldn't let me uninstall the program it had disabled the drivers on.
This means that life as we see it on Earth is probably typical of what you will find elsewhere should there be life at all.
But there is no "typical" life on earth. A jellyfish has no head, an octopus has a head and eight arms and nothing else that I can see, edible mushrooms share little in common with mildew, despite both being fungi, let alone a fruit fly, which looks nothing like a bat even though noth organisms fly. Life on earth is so incredibly diverse that I can't see how anyone woulkd think that life elsewhere wouldn't be even more diverse.
Look at turtles and snails and crabs and dogs. Not a whole lot in common with each other, excepot that they are all animals.
Rolf Schmidt-Holtz? Is that you?