But then again they are just salaried government employees, so why do they care?
Fixed that for you.
But actually, the District Attorney is an elected official.
Does a District Attorney act as general counsel? I thought DAs dealt with criminal prosecutions, not civil matters.
You couldn't GET 32 MB of RAM even on a high end system back in 1995. I know.
Sure you could. My first WinTel computer was purchased in '90 or '91. It came with 4 MB installed (4 x 1-meg 30-pin SIMM), and 4 empty slots. A proprietary daughterboard could have added another 8 slots. They could all be populated with 4-meg SIMMs, for a total of 64 MB. Of course the cost would have been arould $10,000. And it was a typical Future Shop model, nothing exceptional.
And the UI of my XP-based media center box is still the same as it was when it was installed. What's your point?
That auto manufacturers don't push out updates to their install base every Tuesday. Sure, different vehicles have different designs. That don't change after they've been built. Software on phones, computers, set-top boxes, etc changes frequently, and often change the interface.
Automotive control interfaces change all of the time.
Really? The "control interface" of my '81 Ford is the same as the day it was purchased.
In the scenario envisioned here, the government would recognize claims and register titles, and claimants could then begin to grant, sell, and trade property deeds.
Whose government?
They're forgetting Jeffery Hunter and Bruce Greenwood. They were also captains of the enterprise, albeit for one episode. Some will say they don't count , but being an captain is worthy of recognition.
Also Commodore Robert April. Granted, he was a cartoon, but we shouldn't be racist about it.
I'm not sure why you omitted that. You might not have kept up on the criminal code. See Bill C-2, 2004.
Laws don't apply retroactively. In the article it states the charges were laid in 2003.
Has there ever been a major OS that simply went away, period?"
Michigan Terminal System
It was a mainframe system used by several universities, including the one I went to. According to http://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/timeline.html the last site shutdown June 1999.
I think that congress is within its rights to set specific damages to things that are hard to place a value on. The OP says that damages should be 99 cents per song. How many people did that person share the song with? Does an average user share the song 1000 times?
That should result in 1000 people owning 99 cents each, not one person owing 990 dollars.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
