In the courtroom: "The reason they're called 'patent trolls', your honor, is because just like the trolls in the old folktales, they're quick to scuttle back under their bridges when challenged."
Er, no, actually. Hacking is making changes to code, whether those changes are unauthorised or not. Getting into a locked system without any of the necessary passwords is cracking, and also may be authorised. That's what white hat hackers are hired for; to break into systems and fuck around with them, then tell each person who hired them what they did and how so the security of those systems can be improved.
NSA May Not Be Collecting Your Location Data From Telco Dragnet... Because It Gets It From Your GPS
Explains why they never came for me when I made a comment here I knew they wouldn't like. Not only is my GPS permanently switched off, but so is data roaming, making triangulation difficult (if not impossible).
Mirror Group Digital enjoyed a surge in daily browsers of nearly 20% last month, after [Poopert Out-of-Touch's newspaper] the Sun introduced its website paywall.
FTFY, Grauniad.
Way back when, people would use the toilet or brew a cuppa when the ads were on, but I don't see Fox et al. suing them, nor are they suing JVC for people's ability to record the show and fast forward through the ads when watching it back. The fact is, Fox et al. are suing DISH for basically automating something that American people have been doing since the sale of the first VHS VCR, and I can't help wondering if Matt Groening is making a Simpsons episode about it yet.
OldGeezer said: There were rumors that the advertisers knew we were scanning through [the adverts] so they arranged them to give subliminal messages in the few seconds it took to zip through each ad. I remember it was pointed out that many of them seemed to put each of a 3 or 4 word ad slogan in large letters for seconds at a time so it can still be read at high speed.
Really? Explains my propensity to run around stabbing people while munching LSD-laced popcorn.
I haven't run across an Ogg Vorbis file in years.
You have, but being on a PC (obviously), you don't know that the samples of songs on Wikipedia are all encoded in Ogg Vorbis. I know this because I use a smartphone, and thus am unable to play these snippets directly, having to download them instead.
Most discs include the option to download MP3 and lossless FLAC versions of the songs as well.
Or my version: purchase CD and rip it onto my PC, then import the resulting WAV files into Audacity to create MP3 or FLAC files. Same discs, same tracks, same file formats, zero bandwidth usage. While it's technically illegal here in the UK (though not for much longer, thank Hargreaves), all the record companies know the BPI have always turned a blind eye to it, thus conferring implied permission.
Have every student protest by going everywhere on campus, except that one tiny area, with gags covering their mouths. The college can't restrict them to the 'Free Speech Area' while doing this because it doesn't require speech of any kind!
Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson (who are happily married and have children through the magic of mpreg) would like to respectfully refer you to the response given in Arkell v. Pressdram. This response is given further weight by the fact that those making it live in the UK, where the term of copyright is never greater than life+70, no matter who the legal copyright owner is.
The judgement doesn't seem to reference ASCAP's stupid little game of "we won't tell you which tracks you're no longer allowed to use".
Would you kindly tell me what part of "if it's in your catalogue, then it's covered by the blanket license you issued" doesn't deal with that and smack ASCAP down?
And my posts are STILL being held for moderation... don't you get bored of censoring people Mike?
Actually, censorship would be if your posts were deleted altogether, not simply held to check they're not anything like the following: Cheap kobe Shoes I looked at the size and realized it was not going t
New Football Boots Their alertness, agility, and strength make them formidable guard dogs and used as service dogs, guide dogs for the blind, therapy dogs, police dogs in K9 units, and occasionally herding cattle or sheep. After all, censorship is suppression of speech, not waste disposal.
Any attempt to curb piracy through arrests and lawsuits and new copyright laws will create a harder-to-find underground of filesharing.
Or lead to greater confusion as in the case of someone I know who once got caught and had to pay a fine, and who now believes that if you pay for media you never infringe copyright, and you always infringe if you don't. I've tried to explain to her that my books from Project Gutenberg aren't infringing because they belong to me already, just as they belong to everybody, and my copy of 'Download This Song' by MC Lars is A-OK because I downloaded it for free with the artist's direct permission, but she still thinks I broke the law because she doesn't understand that copyright infringement only occurs where copying takes place without permission where it's required, whether or not the end user has made a payment for their copy.
Imagine if it was a black background with white letters.
That would be great, that's what I have AO3 set to. Or what about black on dusky light blue like my copy of Cool Reader?
Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis.
Seems like Dish may have a new market amongst satellite and cable viewers. After all, they've already paid their subscription fees, so they shouldn't have to watch the nine minute long ad breaks!
"At" was not intended to signify "testified", but only that the author was apparently in attendance.
Whether or not Giovanetti actually spoke or not is neither here nor there. The guy gave an 'overview', which would have been read out, so he still made remarks, even if they were indirect.
That's Mike offering up a solution to a problem he sees. He even wrote it in simple words so that you can try and fail to refute it with bad examples and ad-hominem attacks as usual.
FTFY.
it's the inevitable result of parents refusing vaccinations of their children, thus proving that fear of Autism causes more death and disease than Autism itself does.
BTW, do you think the same thing is said about OOTB as is said about vaccinations; "It's only a little prick"?
So now we just need a TDTD (Temporal Data Transfer Device)... Oh yeah I forgot, it's probably already patented by some troll who are just waiting for some real inventor to sue.
FTFY.
Where do you get your ideas? I'm a writer. It's my job. I don't have to go anywhere or do anything to "get" ideas. They are already in my head.
And the follow-up question: So you've never watched any films or TV, never listened to music, and have never read anything? If so, how do you write? After all, learning to read comes before learning to write, and learning to read involves actually reading things. While I may have reservations about the public school system per se, I find this somewhat extreme to say the least.
For the sake of clarity, you might want to phrase that 'publicly-funded school system'. Public school in the UK is very different to public school in the US, after all.
On the post: Patent Troll Lodsys Dismisses Suit Against Kaspersky Labs Rather Than Go To Trial
A new definition for the term 'IP trolls'?
On the post: LA School Gives iPads To Students; Students Hack Protection; School Freaks Out And Halts iPad Program
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On the post: NSA May Not Be Collecting Your Location Data From Telco Dragnet... Because It Gets It From Your GPS
Ah, I understand
Explains why they never came for me when I made a comment here I knew they wouldn't like. Not only is my GPS permanently switched off, but so is data roaming, making triangulation difficult (if not impossible).
On the post: Surprise: Paywalls Cause Massive Falls In Number Of Visitors - And Boost Competitors
Re: Yep
On the post: Surprise: Paywalls Cause Massive Falls In Number Of Visitors - And Boost Competitors
FTFY, Grauniad.
On the post: Another Day, Another Loss For Broadcasters In Quixotic Campaign To Kill Innovation
Ad skipping is old
OldGeezer said: There were rumors that the advertisers knew we were scanning through [the adverts] so they arranged them to give subliminal messages in the few seconds it took to zip through each ad. I remember it was pointed out that many of them seemed to put each of a 3 or 4 word ad slogan in large letters for seconds at a time so it can still be read at high speed.
Really? Explains my propensity to run around stabbing people while munching LSD-laced popcorn.
On the post: Universal Music's Latest Bet On The Future: People Will Buy Music On Plastic Discs, Right?
Re: Re: Re: This is largely voodoo
You have, but being on a PC (obviously), you don't know that the samples of songs on Wikipedia are all encoded in Ogg Vorbis. I know this because I use a smartphone, and thus am unable to play these snippets directly, having to download them instead.
On the post: Universal Music's Latest Bet On The Future: People Will Buy Music On Plastic Discs, Right?
So what's actually new?
Or my version: purchase CD and rip it onto my PC, then import the resulting WAV files into Audacity to create MP3 or FLAC files. Same discs, same tracks, same file formats, zero bandwidth usage. While it's technically illegal here in the UK (though not for much longer, thank Hargreaves), all the record companies know the BPI have always turned a blind eye to it, thus conferring implied permission.
On the post: California College Tells Student He Can't Hand Out Copies Of The Constitution On Constitution Day
Turn it around
On the post: Conan Doyle Estate Is Horrified That The Public Domain Might Create 'Multiple Personalities' Of Sherlock Holmes
@ The Conan Doyle Estate
On the post: Court Says ASCAP Can't Selectively Remove Songs From The Blanket License It Gives Pandora
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Would you kindly tell me what part of "if it's in your catalogue, then it's covered by the blanket license you issued" doesn't deal with that and smack ASCAP down?
On the post: How Ruling On WiFi Snooping Means Security Researchers May Face Criminal Liability
Re: translation
Actually, censorship would be if your posts were deleted altogether, not simply held to check they're not anything like the following: Cheap kobe Shoes I looked at the size and realized it was not going t
New Football Boots Their alertness, agility, and strength make them formidable guard dogs and used as service dogs, guide dogs for the blind, therapy dogs, police dogs in K9 units, and occasionally herding cattle or sheep. After all, censorship is suppression of speech, not waste disposal.
On the post: Does The 'Three Strikes' Approach Work, In Any Sense? Here's The Evidence
Re: Re: Merely a matter of tuning, then.
Or lead to greater confusion as in the case of someone I know who once got caught and had to pay a fine, and who now believes that if you pay for media you never infringe copyright, and you always infringe if you don't. I've tried to explain to her that my books from Project Gutenberg aren't infringing because they belong to me already, just as they belong to everybody, and my copy of 'Download This Song' by MC Lars is A-OK because I downloaded it for free with the artist's direct permission, but she still thinks I broke the law because she doesn't understand that copyright infringement only occurs where copying takes place without permission where it's required, whether or not the end user has made a payment for their copy.
On the post: How Ruling On WiFi Snooping Means Security Researchers May Face Criminal Liability
Re: Re:
That would be great, that's what I have AO3 set to. Or what about black on dusky light blue like my copy of Cool Reader?
On the post: Another Court Won't Block Dish's AutoHopper; TV Networks Plan To Shoot Selves In Foot In Response
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Seems like Dish may have a new market amongst satellite and cable viewers. After all, they've already paid their subscription fees, so they shouldn't have to watch the nine minute long ad breaks!
On the post: Why Yes, Copyright Can Be Used To Censor, And 'Fair Use Creep' Is Also Called 'Free Speech'
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Whether or not Giovanetti actually spoke or not is neither here nor there. The guy gave an 'overview', which would have been read out, so he still made remarks, even if they were indirect.
On the post: Court Says Cisco Has No Right To Sue To Invalidate A Patent That Is Being Used Against Its Customers
Re:
FTFY.
On the post: Megachurch's Anti-Vaccine Stance Results In God's Measles-y Wrath
This is not God's sense of irony...
BTW, do you think the same thing is said about OOTB as is said about vaccinations; "It's only a little prick"?
On the post: Bestselling Author Of Children's Books Accuses Public Libraries Of Stealing His Paychecks
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FTFY.
On the post: Bestselling Author Of Children's Books Accuses Public Libraries Of Stealing His Paychecks
Re: This man is clearly delusional
And the follow-up question: So you've never watched any films or TV, never listened to music, and have never read anything? If so, how do you write? After all, learning to read comes before learning to write, and learning to read involves actually reading things.
While I may have reservations about the public school system per se, I find this somewhat extreme to say the least.
For the sake of clarity, you might want to phrase that 'publicly-funded school system'. Public school in the UK is very different to public school in the US, after all.
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