Re: Ah, back to the future!
I remember the Osborne with great affection. The screen was way too tiny, but I liked having all the ports available on the front, where they were accessible, instead of round the back where the...
View ArticleFundamental copyright principles
The gaming industry argues that allowing these modifications would “undermine the fundamental copyright principles on which our copyright laws are based,”Oh really. Last time I looked, copyright was an...
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Works for me, I was about to ask where to find it also. Funny, I wasn't in the slightest bit interested in it until Sony said I wasn't allowed to see it.
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Right, it's about trade and business (and taxes, of course). The US is no paragon in that area. The problem is that Europe doesn't have the kind of business environment in which a company like Google...
View ArticleRe: No legal leg to stand on for EULA prohibition
I agree. The idea that decompiling and reverse engineering has anything to do with copyright should have been knocked on the head forty years ago.
View ArticleRe: Great story, but...
Yer right guv. Move along, nothing to see here. Everything's on the square with the Metropolitan Police. They treat every case "Sine Favore" these days. Learned their lesson, they did, with that...
View ArticleRe: How to ensure a conviction is one easy step...
Actually, it's "Guilty until you accept the plea bargain".
View ArticleRe: Re: Dumb publication publishes dumb article
Hence it's colloquial name, the TORYGRAPH.
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Backward, have it you. Guild, authors's, you are?It was Congress that altered copyright law to extend it to things as trivial as your wife's grocery list. Congress removed the necessity to file for it....
View ArticleRe: here in the US
More than 20 years ago a small cable company in Florida - in Sanford, I recall - offered its subscribers a la carte, along with an extremely innovative video on demand service that you could pause and...
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Actually he probably does understand it, as a direct result of this experience and the settlement between Microsoft and the US Government. I recall the FBI used to fulminate about how Skype's...
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In a piece of trivia completely unrelated to the current controversy, Elton John and his spouse were almost the first couple to take advantage of the UK same-sex marriage law. Tony Blair attended the...
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If a firmware update bricks a device, you can blame it partly on incompetent programmers, but in reality the blame falls on incompetent management for rushing something out without proper testing.Such...
View Article"given legal dispensation"
Whether the vans work or not, the troubling part is the authority they've been given. It comes from the Investigatory Powers Act, or as informed people call it the "snooper's charter", an allegedly...
View ArticleA-B Test Required
"...they could use off-the-shelf radio-, sound- and light-emitting tools to deceive Tesla’s autopilot sensors, in some cases causing the car’s computers to perceive an object where none existed, and in...
View ArticleRe: Who has the money
The advantage of a 7 year out of date laptop is you don't have to have Windows 10.
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Find where the Kindle app is installed and rename "render-test.exe" to "render-test.xxx". Then it will work.
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In Europe the law is they have to show the tax-included price. But that's to hide the incredibly high tax rate from the consumer.
View ArticleRe: They should have highlighted Hugo Boss' past
Maybe that's the problem- "Boss Black" reminds them that if the war could have been won by smart uniforms, we'd all be speaking German today.
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