Whether or not downloading music is wrong, it is one thing to steal copyrighted works for personal use and another to steal and republish them for commercial use without attribution.
Oh please. Betting on the losing format would hurt them much more than any perceived inferiority ever could, and they would know that. If they hadn't thought HD-DVD would be more likely to win, they wouldn't have picked it. They just guessed wrong - like all the people who bought a HD-DVD player.
In most cases, write access implies read access. If they can delete it, I would not be surprised if they can also see these details.
This is complete idiocy and if ebay does not immediately stop this and explain the extent to which their database has been compromised by secret cults, I will cancel my ebay membership. Seriously WTF?
Considering that the Internet's very definition is (in theory) a "network that is resistant to point attacks by virtue of being decentralized", sure, let's move back to the central server architecture. That is progress.
Also, this is wonderful because it means we only need to protect a single computer from being monitored by the various US agencies. Oh wait...
Aside from the privacy and civil rights concerns, this is seriously unacceptable to just about any company with trade secrets. What is the point of the most paranoid security policies on company notebooks for internationally traveling employees, if they can't cross the border without their sensitive data getting searched?
Industrial espionage, including by the US, is a very real concern.
It's an election year, and the US is making belligerent motions in Iran's general direction. It wouldn't be news if it happened to another country that the US isn't "almost-not-quite-yet-at-war-with".
It's Obama, silly. Obama has dark skin, and all dark-skinned people are muslims! Did you not know that? Plus, his name sounds like Osama, and Osama is a muslim. QED.
(Disclaimer: The above is sarcasm. Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ, which is, very surprisingly, Christian.)
To complete the +5 Informative karma-whoring: Mike Gravel is a Unitarian Universalist and Hillary Clinton a United Methodist. Great Uniters, all three of them.:P
2. I have minimal knowledge of biology, but as far as I know there are blood types that are different but unilaterally compatible. Specifically, blood transfusions are possible from a donor that lacks a certain antigen to a recipient who possesses it, but not vice versa. For example, if she was AB positive, she may have been eligible for an O negative transplant.
"OEM parts" - do you think electronic equipment will eventually come with a virtual "immune system" that destroys competitors' hardware when you attempt to implant it into a computer?
On one hand, the network itself is a great idea. On the other, what central place would it report to? The Wiki concept is great precisely because the momentum of masses of people prevents (or is supposed to prevent) abuse.
But if this involves making cell-phones connect directly to Homeland Security... no thank you.
Argh. I knew I should have checked the facts before making assumptions. The Canadian DMCA *would* have been ridiculously bad, but it didn't get passed.
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What do Disclosure Non-Agreements have to do with this?
Internet censors YOU!
Whether or not downloading music is wrong, it is one thing to steal copyrighted works for personal use and another to steal and republish them for commercial use without attribution.
Oh please. Betting on the losing format would hurt them much more than any perceived inferiority ever could, and they would know that. If they hadn't thought HD-DVD would be more likely to win, they wouldn't have picked it. They just guessed wrong - like all the people who bought a HD-DVD player.
A preservative fulfills its stated purpose, assuming it is not defective. That's the prime difference right there.
In most cases, write access implies read access. If they can delete it, I would not be surprised if they can also see these details.
This is complete idiocy and if ebay does not immediately stop this and explain the extent to which their database has been compromised by secret cults, I will cancel my ebay membership. Seriously WTF?
So all private information remains safely trapped inside it? That's good, right?
( =P )
We also have software to write software (see [[Compiler]]). Now that is just lazy and decadent.
Considering that the Internet's very definition is (in theory) a "network that is resistant to point attacks by virtue of being decentralized", sure, let's move back to the central server architecture. That is progress.
Also, this is wonderful because it means we only need to protect a single computer from being monitored by the various US agencies. Oh wait...
Aside from the privacy and civil rights concerns, this is seriously unacceptable to just about any company with trade secrets. What is the point of the most paranoid security policies on company notebooks for internationally traveling employees, if they can't cross the border without their sensitive data getting searched?
Industrial espionage, including by the US, is a very real concern.
It's an election year, and the US is making belligerent motions in Iran's general direction. It wouldn't be news if it happened to another country that the US isn't "almost-not-quite-yet-at-war-with".
It's Obama, silly. Obama has dark skin, and all dark-skinned people are muslims! Did you not know that? Plus, his name sounds like Osama, and Osama is a muslim. QED.
:P
(Disclaimer: The above is sarcasm. Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ, which is, very surprisingly, Christian.)
To complete the +5 Informative karma-whoring: Mike Gravel is a Unitarian Universalist and Hillary Clinton a United Methodist. Great Uniters, all three of them.
I would like to see any country block Google for any reasonable length of time. Interesting to watch...
Cage match sounds nice, but a simultaneous public stoning sounds better.
2. I have minimal knowledge of biology, but as far as I know there are blood types that are different but unilaterally compatible. Specifically, blood transfusions are possible from a donor that lacks a certain antigen to a recipient who possesses it, but not vice versa. For example, if she was AB positive, she may have been eligible for an O negative transplant.
"OEM parts" - do you think electronic equipment will eventually come with a virtual "immune system" that destroys competitors' hardware when you attempt to implant it into a computer?
Oh wait... vertical integration...
"Prepare to be assimilated."
A DNAclipse plugin?
Why hasn't such an obvious and simple genetic disadvantage bred out after having been (seemingly) selected against for thousands of generations?
(Or perhaps it's a recent mutation. But how likely is that?)
I'm torn on this issue.
On one hand, the network itself is a great idea. On the other, what central place would it report to? The Wiki concept is great precisely because the momentum of masses of people prevents (or is supposed to prevent) abuse.
But if this involves making cell-phones connect directly to Homeland Security... no thank you.
It's better that they use documents than secret prison detainees for that, I suppose.
Well damn. I didn't scroll down fast enough. I hope I won't end up sued!
(And I didn't even try to find out if I was authorized to reply!)
Argh. I knew I should have checked the facts before making assumptions. The Canadian DMCA *would* have been ridiculously bad, but it didn't get passed.
(I'm not Canadian. It just fits the joke so much better, on multiple levels - with the recently passed Canadian DMCA and all...)
So you need to have internet access AND you need to go to the store in person? Ridiculous.