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The legal difference is that a CD doesn't have any copy protection. Therefore, since I'm not breaking any copy protection, I'm not in violation of the DMCA.
With a song downloaded from iTunes, there is DRM on it, so by circumventing the DRM, I'm in violation of the DMCA.
Not that I agree with it -- the DMCA is a peice of crap that was hurried through by lawmakers who didn't know what they were talking about. But tecnically, there ya go.
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Incorrect.
Songs from iTunes can be transferred to a music CD - and thereby stripping the DRM - with only the small limitation that the same exact playlist can only be recorded 7 times. That is hardly onerous.
If you wanted to re-encode that to play on a separate device - there is no problem with that either, other than the obvious quality loss. The DCMA is about *trafficking* in protected files, as stated in the regulation you posted.
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Thank you.
I wanted Bledsoe gone as much as anyone, but I'm not willing to make up history to justify it. Whatever the truth of King's claim, he's guilty of shoddy reasearch. Bills defended the west goal at the start, and Pitt scored most of their points going east - west (against the wind). There may be an excuse for King, as NFL Gamebook is also wrong in its account of which goal Pitt defended in the 2nd half.
Questions about which goal to defend in Buffalo is always a big decision for coaches, and I always had a beef with Gregg W in not recognizing the wind patterns and having Bills heading westward in 4Qs.
Maybe King had a nugget of truth in there somewhere, but his case would have been aided if he got the basic facts of the story straight.
how do you remember this stuff?
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"Hope Elizabeth May Hoffman born 17 Feb 05 at 8:34pm, weighing in at 8lbs, 2oz, and she is 21.5 in long. Both Mom and Baby are doing wonderfully. Hope started nursing less than an hour after birth. Angelique started having contractions at about 3am, and we were at the hospital by about 6 am. It was a long day, but Angelique and Hope both did great. Talk to you all soon and thanks for the thoughts and prayers."
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No, they are being read here by the administrators. Not "could". "Are".
And frankly, SDS is within his rights doing so, since it's his friggin' database. In fact, I'd wager he pretty much has to, just to keep his ass protected (even if PM's are "private", they're not so private that if someone's advocating criminal activity in them, SDS wouldn't get in trouble.) So he reads PM's...big deal.
But what he does with that information...well, that's a whole 'nother story. Say, if he uses it to break into other private systems, or screw people over out of pure egomaniacal spite...
Well, if you are keeping track of things you are wrong about - you can add this to the list.
I'll leave the inappropriate aspect of this thread aside and just address the innuendo.
1. Admins do not read PMs. Never have, never will.
2. There is no admin function to actually do this. The only way for the admins to make sense of the PM's is to log-in as the poster. This is impossible since all the passwords are one-way encrypted. (i.e. there is no "de-encrypter" available.) So, I cannot steal passwords.
3. Only 3 people have access to the raw dB - me, mcjeff (who helped me with some configuration files last fall), and our hosting company. NG does not have this access.
4. To access the PM's - I would have to do the following:
a. make a back-up of the dB and download the file.
b. decompress this (the dB that was at our last server expanded into a 500 MB text file).
c. Pour through 500,000 lines of MYSQL insert statements.
d. All posts and PM's have their subject line and message separated into separate tables, so you only have 1/2 the info per one line of code.
e. I would then have to memorize the dB scheme to know that column A was the recipient and column G was the sender.
f. in those columns are member numbers - not names. I would then have to lookup or memorize everyone's member number in an attempt to follow a message.
g. within that mysql insert statement - everything is contained on a single line, complete with raw html/bbc code. That would make for easy reading as I scroll to the right reading code from member 34 to member 4123.
h. to find out the date of sent messages - I would need to have handy a unix time converter as all dates are stored in that format.
I looked through the old dB ONCE - for AKC and his Foxboro Mike bet - and it was a huge waste of time. I spent an hour and half searching for that friggin' bet. If it wasn't AKC (or perhaps a handful of others) - I would have said no. In fact, I would never do it again and I have had requests to do so. It nearly made my eyes bleed.
That is just the mechanics of it.
The other half would be why I would want to do that in the 1st place. I barely read 5% of what is posted here and I barely have time to answer my OWN PM's. Anyone who has PM'd me in the past knows about my lack of response time. So, with a fairly new job, a house, a 4 year old and a 3 month old - if there someone in this thread that actually thinks I have the time and inclination to read through coded messages, w/o subject lines from some member number to another member number they are delusional.
So, you are correct in the fact that I COULD read PM's. However, due to the dB scheme and the inherent board functions - it makes completely impractical for anyone other than a UNIX guru or a single person to actually pull it off. I am neither.
If anyone has concerns about this then PM me.
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Dave,
do you still have that pic of you and TH and his freakishly small hands?
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1918: The Sox win the World Series
1919: The Stanley Cup was not awarded.
2004: The Sox win the World Series
2005: The Stanley Cup was not awarded.
Friggin' Boston....
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It certainly cuts the gap and it also means that the "Have" teams won't be able to load up their rosters late in the season because they likely won't have the room to trade 2 minor leaguers and a pick for one of the 15 best players on the planet.
It's not a perfect solution, but it's a hell of alot better than having the top 5 teams spend twice as much as the bottom 5.
can you imagine the day when ONE of our 1st line forwards could actually make the 4th line or God forbid - the 3rd line - on Detroit?
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According to the stats for today I have posted 74 times, but when I count up my posts, they total 45. Is today some sort of bonus day at TSW? For every 2 actual posts you make, you get credit for 3?
actually, you say more in 2 posts than most people say in 3...
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Have you noticed how clean shaven Kate's underarms are. I mean you would think that there would be a little stubble showing even if she has a razor, given her dark hair. But it looks like it's shaved and powdered with coverup. I guess I'm jaded from watching the girls on Survivor, but it takes away from the reality of being lost on an island.
the one thing that bugs me on the realism front is the apparent lack of communication between everyone. It looks like everyone is behaving after a month like they did after a day. I would imagine they would all be a lot closer - afterall they could all die together and there is something/someone out there on the island and they just keep ,doing the same 'ol same 'ol.
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My crazy-assed mother would make "observations" about pregnant women and how they carried their babies. If the baby was supposedly a girl - she would comment that the woman was carrying the baby in her ass....
I'm not actually sure how one moves their uterus to their ass, but mom was convinced of this little theory....
As for tonight's episode - did Kate only pack her smoking hot clothes for this trip?
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just buy some of those RoboSapiens that were hot for Christmas this year and let 'em loose...!
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Bledsoe didn't want to backup Brady, whom he mentored and was a (player who shouldn't have won a) SB MVP (but did). Why would he want to backup a guy he mentored but hasn't proven anything? Another way to take it is that he doens't see much in Losman yet, i.e. he's not even close to Bledsoe. And if you think Bledsoe sucks, you should be scared shitless by that thought.
yeah, this from a guy who would rather have a 4 second alarm clock go off in practice, than walk away with an ounce of dignity. His judgement is spot on...
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I hope you're right. I was really taken aback when I heard him say that. He did say "I don't think I"d be happy being a backup to anyone, particularly JP" Whatever the motivations are for it, he could have used less misinterpretable words. People will argue tomAYto or tomAHto about it for a week. At the very least, it was a careless comment.
Sure, but he's speaking off the cuff, so mangling words is not unheard of.
The guy doesn't think of himself as a backup and certainly not one to a guy who has thrown 5 NFL passes... I don't see what the big deal is.
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please....
IMHO, I think the best explanation is that he wasn't going to be a backup for someone who is just starting to cut his teeth in the league as opposed to being behind Manning or someone similar.
In other words, "I wouldn't even consider backing up Peyton Manning, let alone JP Losman."...
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Yes, Garcia often got himself into trouble because of what he said to the media. It was always someone else’s fault. If he threw three interceptions it was because his receivers sucked and the OC didn’t know how to call the plays. If he fumbled it was because the O-Line didn’t know how to block. He never took any responsibility. Fans in Cleveland hated him for it.
Must be a CFL thing...
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it's not a topic worthy of discussion. people are not escorted out because they hold a certain opinion, which your post implied.
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I'm really arguing with myself here (which is very ICE-esq, I suppose), but I have to wonder: why cut Drew? why even tell him he's being demoted? why not go into camp with an "open" competition, making Drew think he has a chance to win the job, then name Losman the starter right before the season starts? then, at least, you have an experienced backup QB. Drew's under contract, IMO it's not worth cutting him just to do him a favor... the team should come first. Perhaps there is something else going on, I don't know - it just doesn't make sense to me. The guy signed a contract. You get almost no cap relief by releasing him - might as well force him to be a backup, it's not like he's known for creating QB controversies. Also, now JP is gonna think the job is his and he doesn't have to win it.
Hmm....
there is his $1M roster bonus on March 1st.
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Try that in major markets. Why the hell do you think the Sabres can't compete with the Redwings, Avalanche, etc.
Colorado: Glass: $225 plus surcharge. Rows 2-5 $154 plus surcharge. After that (all with surcharge), $128, $108, $99, $70, $60, $50, $42, $25.
The league average for a family of four to attend a regular season game was over $250 (includes: two adult average-price tickets, two child average-price tickets, two small draft beers, four small soft drinks, four regular-size hot dogs, parking for one car, two game programs and two of the least expensive adult-size adjustable caps.) for 2003.
That's WAY too much money and it has lost them an entire generation of young fans.
The Sabres are among the cheapest tickets in the NHL. The Devils, Avalanche, and Red Wings are the highest. Hmmm...
although not the point of your post - it's a tad bogus when they include "2 programs" and "2 souvenirs" in the final cost of a family night out. Who gets 2 programs? I can see the souvenirs if you go once a year, but if you attend a few games I doubt you pick up hats, etc... every time you go. Even then they should have 4 sodas and forget the beer.
with that said - the price is ridiculously high to see 1/84th of the season.
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I just got an outrageous quote for a walk in front of the house. I always assumed $5-$8/sq. ft. for materials and $10-$20/sq. ft. installation cost.
What prices are people paying in your area for brick pavers?
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absolutely...
I always find it convienient when local govts claim they need to raise taxes to make up for budget shortfalls, but when there is a surplus they raise taxes for those needed new programs.
Here in Howard County, MD - they justified a 50% local income tax increase because the Feds gave us a tax cut, so we shouldn't really see any difference...
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notice that they talk about 100% perfect copies....
In iTunes - I can choose to rip my protected songs into an unprotected format. That is allowed as per the agreement between Apple and the music companies. The DRM is stripped through the legal means of burning an audio CD.
I do not believe there is a restriction in re-ripping that CD, since the sound quality would be poor. Of course, if you re-ripped it and thene mass distributed it - then you would still be liable.