If you have copyrighted media on your computer, in a publically available share, that is pretty much distribution.
Hmm. So by that logic, anybody broadcasting unsecured wi-fi into your laptop's airspace is distributing internet access. Unfortunately, the law disagrees with that assessment. There have been multiple cases now of people being arrested for accessing such "distributed" resources.
Just out of curiosity: if I leave my car unlocked on a publicly accessible street, do you feel I am "distributing" the contents?
Does anybody sell a personal-size ElectroMagnetic Pulse generator? I'm thinking I want to buy one soon. I'm getting really tired of the increasing surveillance that not only governments, but businesses, seem to think is okay for them to do. Makes me want to do some serious property damage to said surveillance devices.
Well, what if you wanted to have thousands of bookmarks, and be able to easily look through them based on tagging
Much as I hate to be like one of my detractors, and make a statistic up based purely on what I feel is right, I'd have to say that I think significantly less than 1% of the browser market wants that.
Of course, the rest of what you say makes a very powerful argument in favor of a new browser version, although I don't know how much good rich media support will do us so long as YouTube and the like are flash-based, which they will continue to be until IE catches up to Firefox. I was focusing on (what I see to be) the wasteful re-inventing of bookmarks, and not thinking about preparing for the future of the web.
Central bookmark storage sounds like a great idea, but I'd rather not store my bookmarks on a server I don't control. For one thing, I don't want other people to know what I have bookmarked.
I understand completely. That's what kept me away from del.icio.us for a long time. Then a friend of mine showed me a setting you can activate that enables a "do not share" checkbox. I have no idea why it's not enabled by default, but now I can (reasonably) safely keep all my bookmarks there, and not have people see where I bank at, or what pr0n fetishes I have.;-)
I imagine that on that day (which I doubt will ever come), I will use Google to "view cached", or the Wayback Machine, or some such online archival service, to retrieve all my bookmarks and then look for a new universal bookmark repository.
As a user of multiple computers (work, home, friend's house), I use del.icio.us and the Firefox plug-in for it, and all my bookmarks are stored in a database that I can access from any computer. That's superior to this new "improvement". I think browser developers are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, looking in vain for "the next big thing". I'd rather see work done on useful plug-ins. That work well with existing browsers, than see a new browser that has some improvements of debatable worth that break the old way of doing things entirely.
The problem is, most Linux desktop users use it to develop or manage it as a server. They won't pay for a game. They will not pay for anything at all, most of the time.
You, sir, are living in a cave. Not only to I pay for games, I also pay an additional $5/month for Cedega so that I can actually *play* those games. Linux gamers are more than willing to pony up the cash if game developers will pony up the code.
Teachers, like many others, must maintain separation between their personal and professional lives.
Uh... A MySpace page is definitely personal, and not professional. I don't think that this poor lady has any problem whatsoever making a distinction between personal and professional. I think it's the school, the initiator of the complaint, and apparently you who have problems with maintaining that separation. It's already hard enough to get good teachers, without asking them also to give up their humanity for the sake of the job. What any teacher does on his or her personal time, whether or not they talk about it or post pictures on their personal website, is their own damn business.
Ignorance of a law is never a valid excuse for breaking it.
Right. That's why they make far too many laws for one person (much less every person) to know them all and understand them. If you start digging into the law, you quickly realize that nearly everybody over the age of 21 is a criminal. It's virtually impossible to live without breaking at least one law. Especially when you are kept ignorant of what those laws are.
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NDAs are starting to become that way. 'You can never talk about what you do here' effectivly kills a career.
I know, I have several years on my resume I can't talk abuot except in the most vague ways.
What a sweet idea! If I'm ever unemployed, I'll sign an NDA with somebody (anybody) stating that I can't talk about who I worked for or what I did during the time in question. It might not look fantastic on a resume, but I'm sure it looks better than the gaping hole of unemployment.
Uh, no. Not worthy of a patent. Maybe at the dawn of programming it was, but there's the concepts of "prior art" and "obvious" that should have easily precluded its being patented in 2007. The fact that this patent passed is scary, and a good indicator that we need to scrap the whole system before some idiot patents "breathing" or "eating" or "using the toilet".
"to the extent permitted by such technology" is the key phrase in my opinion... but I am not a judge. Since no DRM scheme actually works (if I can play it and hear it, I can copy it), the "extent" is actually null. I somehow doubt the courts will agree with this assessment, though.
And how will the courts define "where possible"? I want to open an internet radio station. I have legally purchased songs (about 500 CDs worth, plus some tracks from emusic and some CC stuff), and I'm running Linux. I know of no such DRM-addition tool for Linux, so do I get to stream oggs out to the world? I tend to think the answer to this is no as well.
Y2K *could* make the list because the media drastically over-hyped it. It was never going to be anywhere near as bad as they made it out to be, even if no programmer ever fixed a single subroutine.
Y2K *shouldn't* make the list, because it wasn't a flop: It kept lots of IT folks gainfully employed for quite some time.
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Just out of curiosity: if I leave my car unlocked on a publicly accessible street, do you feel I am "distributing" the contents?
Read a fucking dictionary.
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1. a seat, esp. for one person
People engage in "altruistic" practices because they LIKE doing so. Therefore it is not actually altruistic; it's done for one's self.
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Does anybody sell a personal-size ElectroMagnetic Pulse generator? I'm thinking I want to buy one soon. I'm getting really tired of the increasing surveillance that not only governments, but businesses, seem to think is okay for them to do. Makes me want to do some serious property damage to said surveillance devices.
They say that 76.34% of statistics are completely made up. I strongly suspect that was one of them.
I imagine that on that day (which I doubt will ever come), I will use Google to "view cached", or the Wayback Machine, or some such online archival service, to retrieve all my bookmarks and then look for a new universal bookmark repository.
As a user of multiple computers (work, home, friend's house), I use del.icio.us and the Firefox plug-in for it, and all my bookmarks are stored in a database that I can access from any computer. That's superior to this new "improvement". I think browser developers are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, looking in vain for "the next big thing". I'd rather see work done on useful plug-ins. That work well with existing browsers, than see a new browser that has some improvements of debatable worth that break the old way of doing things entirely.
Now I have to stop posting replies on Slashdot, or the script kiddies might hack my site.
Where's the tracker for that torrent?
This article is now in violation of the DMCA.
Uh, no. Not worthy of a patent. Maybe at the dawn of programming it was, but there's the concepts of "prior art" and "obvious" that should have easily precluded its being patented in 2007. The fact that this patent passed is scary, and a good indicator that we need to scrap the whole system before some idiot patents "breathing" or "eating" or "using the toilet".
...unless their bunk is right under/above/next-to yours.
I want to go sailing. Bring me a sheep on a stick!
Not the incident, the ridiculous over-reaction during the aftermath.
"to the extent permitted by such technology" is the key phrase in my opinion... but I am not a judge. Since no DRM scheme actually works (if I can play it and hear it, I can copy it), the "extent" is actually null. I somehow doubt the courts will agree with this assessment, though. And how will the courts define "where possible"? I want to open an internet radio station. I have legally purchased songs (about 500 CDs worth, plus some tracks from emusic and some CC stuff), and I'm running Linux. I know of no such DRM-addition tool for Linux, so do I get to stream oggs out to the world? I tend to think the answer to this is no as well.
Y2K *could* make the list because the media drastically over-hyped it. It was never going to be anywhere near as bad as they made it out to be, even if no programmer ever fixed a single subroutine.
Y2K *shouldn't* make the list, because it wasn't a flop: It kept lots of IT folks gainfully employed for quite some time.