It's funny that in occasion of this clueless survey, Matt Asay has taken yet another chance to show that he has been... peeing outside the recipient lately... His new blog piece is sort of the way to crown his recent series of bitter non-sense... I can't resist the need to link to Open Source is dead, long live Casino Open Source?...
I am not going to put your lawyer skills in doubt or anything, but something that seems to be missed is the fact that psystar actually does own the copies.
117 says: "it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to [...]"
psystar bought the copies, they are for sure breaking the EULA, but they do own the copies. They should get punished for whatever punishment there is for breaking the EULA. But whether they broke copyright law is another discussion, and specifically this matter copying to the RAM seems to be allowed by the 117, as psystar paid for the software.
The Supreme Court indicated in Eldred v. Ashcroft that it was comfortable with the view that Copyright governs even private copying like moving a programs bits from a CD to hard disk or from hard disk to RAM. This is a legally settled matter, and it's been settled quite wrong.
I mean seriously, copying from disk to RAM is copyright infrigement? I know there are precedents and all, but it doesn't make this interpretation of the law quite messed up.
Yay! Analogy time! I made the keyboard you are using right now, I invested my $$$ making it, and regardless of whether you paid it or not, I am going to forbid you from using it to type your pro apple opinion, if you do, I won't just get mad at you and promise not to sell you a keyboard again, but I will send you to hail for copyrite infrigement!11
Oh, and no half assed "openish" attempts a la MS. The whole entirety of it would have to be open, including the codecs and the tools to generate them. Nothing about proprietary extensions making the standard optionally-open. Also, as a standard for open government initiative, giberish like DRM must be completely out of the question.
I know Slashdot crowd loves to hate flash, but at least hate it for the right reasons: its lack of speed and real 3d hardware acceleration.
Those are very lame reasons. We are talking about open government initiative here, not about "standard for web games" initiative. Flash is:
Not portable: Many platforms lack proper support. Flash can't be legally redistributed, alternatives are poor. It is no open format in any way.
Bad for accessibility.
Not a web standard or anything close to it.
Nothing "just works" on all devices
Then make the format 100% free to get, 100% easy implement and to 100% redistributable without royalties. So that the device and platform makes actually can make it work instead of asking for Adobe's charity. Ever wonder how come XHTML more than just works on all devices?
Without those things, flash is terrible for this job in question which is as a tool to give access to all the citizens to government information.
I hope and kind of know that they will use this for non-cellphones like mp3 players and other gadgets. It is seriously stupid the amount of chargers that exist at home...
By using a software flag to distinguish between high scores submitted by pirates and those submitted by users who purchased the game
If they want their stats to be considered seriously, they should submit info about how the flag works. Somehow I think that it would be weird that 80% of people with high scores of a 2$us IPHONE app would be pirates.
I'd say, could it be... that maybe, the flagging is not working correctly? Or perhaps it is flagging just any jailbroken iphone and not necessarily those that are pirated?
I used to pirate tons of stuff , honestly, I live in a country in which 20 USD for something you won't eat in the next couple of weeks is severely overpriced... You wouldn't even find original software in here, but there are countless of 1USD offerings in the streets... I stopped after moving to GNU/Linux and how I noticed that pirating only benefits the proprietary software dudes... Anyway, I still pirate books, yes, books, from the internet. Why? Because I have no credit card, therefore I can't pay online, and because those books are completely impossible to find in here.
It is better to go with free alternatives than to go through the moral aspects of pirating. Most commercial software is extremely overrated anyway, this game might be an example. There are casual games for free out there...
When Lisa Jackson, a physician and senior investigator with the Group Health Research Center, in Seattle, began wondering aloud to colleagues If maybe something was amiss with the estimate of 50 percent mortality reduction for people who get flu vaccine, the response she got sounded more like doctrine than science.
Basically, it was done with me taking it seriously after reading this. Excuse the generalization. But this is so much following the manufactroversy pattern so much...
Let it be a guy claiming that vaccines are not effective, or someone proving 'alternative' medicine, or someone proving creationism. It always begins by this heroic , legendary whistleblower "scientist" that gets the inspiration to think in a non-mainstream way and the response they get to their BS is obviously lack of respect from science's side, yet they use it to prove that science is being "doctrinal" about it...
Honestly, if these health workers begin coming up with their fears about the vaccination having chips on it or being a conspiracy to kill us all, then they are definitely under-qualified for the job.
Holy Richard Dawkins... you sir are a disgrace to the geek label, please shut up before people get the impression we are all retards. There are 1000s of posts up there asking you for actual citations of all the wild claims you are making. And none answered. No, washing hands is not going to help as much as a vaccine.
Who the fuck keeps modding up this moron? I mean seriously, slashdot, this is just non-sense, the guy is spreading BS. Next thing he'll say is that the vaccines have microchips in them.
You sir, are not a healthy skeptic, to quote you from another post:
And if you've had one, keep away from me - you're more, not less, likely to have a compromised immune system in the long run if you get annual flu shots.
This is woo woo non-science , i.e. you are full of shit, please try better next time you want to pose as a healthy skeptic.
Actually, Stallman likes Mono. As a free software implementation of C#, that is. He sees Mono as a tool for letting old apps run in free software. What RMS opposes to (and many of us do) is about the usage of Mono to replace completely working, free software apps, and to add the burden of dependency to free software. And not just dependency, but dependency to some run time that is patented by MS - a company that does not hide their desire to destroy "Linux" using patents - many parts of which are NOT covered by any sort of "promise" from MS.
article by Stallman that criticizes Codeplex about its aims due to its origin at Microsoft.
I read Stallman's article about the codeplex 'foundation' and the criticism is not due just to its origin at Microsoft. The criticism in RMS' article is based solely on statements made about the foundation's intents. In fact, it almost looks like that the origin at Microsoft is merely the reason Miguel Icaza is defending this so passionately...
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Well, she's still been more influential than just about half of this list anyway...
It's funny that in occasion of this clueless survey, Matt Asay has taken yet another chance to show that he has been ... peeing outside the recipient lately... His new blog piece is sort of the way to crown his recent series of bitter non-sense... I can't resist the need to link to Open Source is dead, long live Casino Open Source?...
psystar bought the copies, they are for sure breaking the EULA, but they do own the copies. They should get punished for whatever punishment there is for breaking the EULA. But whether they broke copyright law is another discussion, and specifically this matter copying to the RAM seems to be allowed by the 117, as psystar paid for the software.
I mean seriously, copying from disk to RAM is copyright infrigement? I know there are precedents and all, but it doesn't make this interpretation of the law quite messed up.
bleh, who mods these idiots up? I mean, seriously...
Yay! Analogy time! I made the keyboard you are using right now, I invested my $$$ making it, and regardless of whether you paid it or not, I am going to forbid you from using it to type your pro apple opinion, if you do, I won't just get mad at you and promise not to sell you a keyboard again, but I will send you to hail for copyrite infrigement!11
Oh, and no half assed "openish" attempts a la MS. The whole entirety of it would have to be open, including the codecs and the tools to generate them. Nothing about proprietary extensions making the standard optionally-open. Also, as a standard for open government initiative, giberish like DRM must be completely out of the question.
Those are very lame reasons. We are talking about open government initiative here, not about "standard for web games" initiative. Flash is:
Not portable: Many platforms lack proper support. Flash can't be legally redistributed, alternatives are poor. It is no open format in any way.
Bad for accessibility.
Not a web standard or anything close to it.
Then make the format 100% free to get, 100% easy implement and to 100% redistributable without royalties. So that the device and platform makes actually can make it work instead of asking for Adobe's charity. Ever wonder how come XHTML more than just works on all devices? Without those things, flash is terrible for this job in question which is as a tool to give access to all the citizens to government information.
So, let comcast break net neutrality, it is not like it is the only ISP...
The pirates will get the torrent a week before it is played in theaters yay!
I hope and kind of know that they will use this for non-cellphones like mp3 players and other gadgets. It is seriously stupid the amount of chargers that exist at home...
LoL actually, this explains it completely. 500/600 = 83.333 It fits completely well in their graphs...
If they want their stats to be considered seriously, they should submit info about how the flag works. Somehow I think that it would be weird that 80% of people with high scores of a 2$us IPHONE app would be pirates.
I'd say, could it be... that maybe, the flagging is not working correctly? Or perhaps it is flagging just any jailbroken iphone and not necessarily those that are pirated?
I used to pirate tons of stuff , honestly, I live in a country in which 20 USD for something you won't eat in the next couple of weeks is severely overpriced... You wouldn't even find original software in here, but there are countless of 1USD offerings in the streets... I stopped after moving to GNU/Linux and how I noticed that pirating only benefits the proprietary software dudes... Anyway, I still pirate books, yes, books, from the internet. Why? Because I have no credit card, therefore I can't pay online, and because those books are completely impossible to find in here.
It is better to go with free alternatives than to go through the moral aspects of pirating. Most commercial software is extremely overrated anyway, this game might be an example. There are casual games for free out there...
How about 'natural selection' ?
Basically, it was done with me taking it seriously after reading this. Excuse the generalization. But this is so much following the manufactroversy pattern so much... Let it be a guy claiming that vaccines are not effective, or someone proving 'alternative' medicine, or someone proving creationism. It always begins by this heroic , legendary whistleblower "scientist" that gets the inspiration to think in a non-mainstream way and the response they get to their BS is obviously lack of respect from science's side, yet they use it to prove that science is being "doctrinal" about it...
I happened to have read about that article you linked to the other day: Placebo is not what you think it is
Did you somehow happen to be running your Linux on a PC?
Honestly, if these health workers begin coming up with their fears about the vaccination having chips on it or being a conspiracy to kill us all, then they are definitely under-qualified for the job.
Holy Richard Dawkins... you sir are a disgrace to the geek label, please shut up before people get the impression we are all retards. There are 1000s of posts up there asking you for actual citations of all the wild claims you are making. And none answered. No, washing hands is not going to help as much as a vaccine.
Who the fuck keeps modding up this moron? I mean seriously, slashdot, this is just non-sense, the guy is spreading BS. Next thing he'll say is that the vaccines have microchips in them.
You sir, are not a healthy skeptic, to quote you from another post:
This is woo woo non-science , i.e. you are full of shit, please try better next time you want to pose as a healthy skeptic.
Actually, Stallman likes Mono. As a free software implementation of C#, that is. He sees Mono as a tool for letting old apps run in free software. What RMS opposes to (and many of us do) is about the usage of Mono to replace completely working, free software apps, and to add the burden of dependency to free software. And not just dependency, but dependency to some run time that is patented by MS - a company that does not hide their desire to destroy "Linux" using patents - many parts of which are NOT covered by any sort of "promise" from MS.
I read Stallman's article about the codeplex 'foundation' and the criticism is not due just to its origin at Microsoft. The criticism in RMS' article is based solely on statements made about the foundation's intents. In fact, it almost looks like that the origin at Microsoft is merely the reason Miguel Icaza is defending this so passionately...
"Microsoft attempts to block pirates from security essentials software"
geeks?