But the GP read about those things. That's the point. GP was pointing out that such knowledge is neutral, and mostly beneficial, because most people have beneficent motives. Whereas this guy (Asim) appears to have kept notes about his own nefarious motives.
Look at the industry of taking school portraits. A photographer goes into the school, sets everything up, and in an assembly-line manner, runs kids through one after the other, taking the same basic head-shot photos of each one. Then, not only are parents expected to pay a fairly steep price for a copy of these photos in various sizes, but they're told the images are copyrighted (property of the photographer), so any reprints must be obtained through the photography business! All the photographer did was capture an image a kid's face -- a face that has unique characteristics making it worthy of photographing in the first place only because it's a result of the unique interactions of the DNA of the child's PARENTS. So logic would tell you that once paying for the SERVICE of having the initial photos taken, the right to duplicate the prints now possessed should belong to the parents!
Take a ton of photos of your kid with standard "school photo" backgrounds the morning of photo day then sue the photographer for copyright infringement based on this new precedent.
* More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up.
/. employees have an infinite number of mod points that they can used to mod down obvious trolls or spam (usually anon cowards).
Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
* Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards.
Both of these points follow from ordinary moderators not reading below the threshold of 2. Nothing to see here. Move along.
There are scores of people who will not buy a new game unless they can resell it. There are also scores of people who will only buy used games. Both of these groups will not buy a new gaming console if they can not take part in the used game market.
Knox, Sewart's 35-year-old partner, is applying for his conviction to be overturned on the basis of alleged jury misconduct. He was jailed for six years after being found guilty of paying a police officer to disclose information on drug dealers.
The justification for not including standard safety features is that they will never crash because, when every vehicle on the road is one of these, they will talk to each other and know where all the others are.
As someone else pointed out, deer, falling rocks, and icebergs tend not to be where expected. "We don't need more lifeboats, she's unsinkable!"
Not the TSA itself, but the methods they employ are spreading into interstate weigh stations, and sporting events. I would bet schools and national parks might be the next round of stupid to use TSA scanners and enhanced pat downs, once people get used to it in other venues.
The only difference is that right now, nobody has a concept of "drinkingrights" but we do have a concept of "copyrights."
A better collection of words might be "water collection and distribution rights" rather than "drinking rights" since "copyright" is the exclusive right of the copyright holder to copy and distribute their music/movie/book. In some western states, water catchment is illegal except for certain allowed groups (water companies being one), so you have to get your water from the water company; you can't just drink boiled rainwater. Of course, something I read for the first time here on/.: apparently there *are* such a thing as "drinking rights" where a dehydrated person must be given water free of charge.
Hold it right there. You are law abiding until you are convicted, not merely arrested.
Nope. You're law-abiding until you decide to do something against the law. "law-abiding" isn't a legal term, and has nothing to do with conviction, presumption of innocence, etc. It holds as much weight in court as describing someone to be "Lawful Good".
Ah yes, I see it in konqueror or in FF if I allow wikimedia.org to run JS. I guess the folks that I set up noscript for will have to be manually informed.
The problem is that both google and wikipedia are still working normally (for most people). Wikipedia is only locked, no blackout, no banner. Considering that most people hit wikipedia by using google/bing, not en.wikipedia.org's main page, and that most people use google/bing via a browser search field (or the URL bar) instead of visiting www.google.com first, the small black google logo is the only indication that something's wrong, but they change their logo every day almost, so a lot of people will ignore it.
I could understand the mass media using the word "hackers" here but/. should know better. These guys are just bank robbers and we dont differentiate between bank robbers who use handguns vs those with knives vs those who claim to have a bomb strapped to them.
Sure we do: "masked gunmen held up", "'pizza bomber' bank robber", "mad bomber bank robbery", and bank robbers who use knives are called stupid unless they have a whole gang.
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Just did graham up and stick him in a bird cage. You could have a whole scene in a pet shop.
But the GP read about those things. That's the point. GP was pointing out that such knowledge is neutral, and mostly beneficial, because most people have beneficent motives. Whereas this guy (Asim) appears to have kept notes about his own nefarious motives.
Look at the industry of taking school portraits. A photographer goes into the school, sets everything up, and in an assembly-line manner, runs kids through one after the other, taking the same basic head-shot photos of each one. Then, not only are parents expected to pay a fairly steep price for a copy of these photos in various sizes, but they're told the images are copyrighted (property of the photographer), so any reprints must be obtained through the photography business! All the photographer did was capture an image a kid's face -- a face that has unique characteristics making it worthy of photographing in the first place only because it's a result of the unique interactions of the DNA of the child's PARENTS. So logic would tell you that once paying for the SERVICE of having the initial photos taken, the right to duplicate the prints now possessed should belong to the parents!
Take a ton of photos of your kid with standard "school photo" backgrounds the morning of photo day then sue the photographer for copyright infringement based on this new precedent.
* More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up.
/. employees have an infinite number of mod points that they can used to mod down obvious trolls or spam (usually anon cowards).
Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
* Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards.
Both of these points follow from ordinary moderators not reading below the threshold of 2. Nothing to see here. Move along.
There are scores of people who will not buy a new game unless they can resell it. There are also scores of people who will only buy used games. Both of these groups will not buy a new gaming console if they can not take part in the used game market.
sudo and selinux/apparmor. done.
I'm giving up. I downloaded Firefox 3.6 from Mozilla's website last night. I'm going to make it my default browser.
You know they're forcibly upgrading FF3.6.x to FF12 in April, right?
In England, a juror was jailed last year for communicating with an acquitted defendant on Facebook: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/16/facebook-juror-jailed-for-eight-months
one question:
Knox, Sewart's 35-year-old partner, is applying for his conviction to be overturned on the basis of alleged jury misconduct. He was jailed for six years after being found guilty of paying a police officer to disclose information on drug dealers.
It's illegal to buy information in Britain?
The justification for not including standard safety features is that they will never crash because, when every vehicle on the road is one of these, they will talk to each other and know where all the others are.
As someone else pointed out, deer, falling rocks, and icebergs tend not to be where expected. "We don't need more lifeboats, she's unsinkable!"
What's so special about that? Every non-psychic knows that too!
Can I have your UID? I promise I won't read anything into it if you give me the password.
...so we'll need to cup your junk at railway stations now. -TSA
W[ho]TF is RICO and why use him to indict ALL THOSE INVOLVED?
Because he's Suavé
They are not, to my knowledge, running vehicle checkpoints though. http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/10/myth-buster-tsa-not-setting-up.html
Not the TSA itself, but the methods they employ are spreading into interstate weigh stations, and sporting events. I would bet schools and national parks might be the next round of stupid to use TSA scanners and enhanced pat downs, once people get used to it in other venues.
no-one chose to pay the MPAA for their services.
Sony did.
The only difference is that right now, nobody has a concept of "drinkingrights" but we do have a concept of "copyrights."
A better collection of words might be "water collection and distribution rights" rather than "drinking rights" since "copyright" is the exclusive right of the copyright holder to copy and distribute their music/movie/book. In some western states, water catchment is illegal except for certain allowed groups (water companies being one), so you have to get your water from the water company; you can't just drink boiled rainwater. Of course, something I read for the first time here on /.: apparently there *are* such a thing as "drinking rights" where a dehydrated person must be given water free of charge.
Hold it right there. You are law abiding until you are convicted, not merely arrested.
Nope. You're law-abiding until you decide to do something against the law. "law-abiding" isn't a legal term, and has nothing to do with conviction, presumption of innocence, etc. It holds as much weight in court as describing someone to be "Lawful Good".
...and years to notify everyone you've ever given that email address to about your new address.
Spiderman doesn't wear a CAPE!
Not true. Spiderman 2099 (canon) wears a web-capelet, and Spiderman Unlimited has a web cape. http://dma9fall07b.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/spiderman_unlimited.png
Hey maaaan, all those guru meditations are intended to bring about peace and harmony.
Ah yes, I see it in konqueror or in FF if I allow wikimedia.org to run JS. I guess the folks that I set up noscript for will have to be manually informed.
How come the article fails to mention that 2 lrge sites (Wikipedia & Reddit) are both inaccessible today in protest against these laws?
Because Wikipedia isn't down. Search for something and you'll find it, without even seeing any banner or mention of SOPA/PIPA. And who visits Reddit?
The problem is that both google and wikipedia are still working normally (for most people). Wikipedia is only locked, no blackout, no banner. Considering that most people hit wikipedia by using google/bing, not en.wikipedia.org's main page, and that most people use google/bing via a browser search field (or the URL bar) instead of visiting www.google.com first, the small black google logo is the only indication that something's wrong, but they change their logo every day almost, so a lot of people will ignore it.
I could understand the mass media using the word "hackers" here but /. should know better. These guys are just bank robbers and we dont differentiate between bank robbers who use handguns vs those with knives vs those who claim to have a bomb strapped to them.
Sure we do: "masked gunmen held up", "'pizza bomber' bank robber", "mad bomber bank robbery", and bank robbers who use knives are called stupid unless they have a whole gang.