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Re:Beat the RIAA?You obviously have no idea as to how many people have music that's not signed by the RIIA. I have music from two friends on my website...
Theda has an incredible voice that she shows off in the tracks I have online (and more music available).
Phat Tank is more hip-hop in style. Enjoyable in a completely different style. There are other sites where you can go to find far more good music.
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Re:Mobil Speed Pass is RFIDIf "Big Brother" cared enough about you to track you, they would bring up your credit/debit card purchases and find everything about you that an RFID tag would tell them.
I recently wrote a short story about combining RFID and credit card info. Short, sweet and to the point.
RFID says what you have, credit cards say what you bought. The two together can have a certain Big-Brother synergy.
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Microsoft Software RoadmapA friend of mine (who shall remain anonymous) came across an an Microsoft Software Roadmap. Public for the first time ever -- Now we know where they want to go today!
Please don't pass it out too widely.
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Only Part of the StoryBy cutting the last of the old growth forests, companies profit and loggers will lose their jobs.
If they DONT cut down the trees, the Companies won't profit and the Loggers won't have a job to loose.A couple of points here: If you stop logging old-growth, there is still second growth available for logging. Unfortunately, second-growth trees are much smaller than first growth and thus much better suited to heavily mechanized harvesting.
Second point is that, in an area where old-growth logging is stopped, there are other jobs available.... Another way to put it is that if you cut the trees, you destroy OTHER jobs that depend on the forest.
As an example, I'll take the Clayoquot Sound area of BC... A highly contentious area in the past.
In that region there are two towns with very different pasts. Tofino and Ulclulet. The two towns are on either end of a ~30 mile stretch of beach, and each has it's own sound in which logging has occured. Back in the '70s, Both towns were heavily dependant on the logging industry, but they diverged when Tofino and the logging industry butted heads over the logging of Meares Island. Meares island was considered sacred by the local natives and also served as the town's water supply. When they learned that it was going to be logged, there was strong opposition to the plan.
After many attempts a compromise, etc. ((and I don't remember the long story here)) the logging industry decided to pick up their toys and go home. They stoped ALL logging on the tofino end and shut down the sawmmill throwing much of the town out of work. I'm guessing that they actually intended to make an example of the town but, if so, it didn't turn out quite the way it was intended.
Over the next decade, not having many logging jobs available, Tofino residents turned to eco-touristry and associated methods of making a living. Ulclulet, on the other hand stayed the 'tried and true' resource/logging path. By 1993, when I showed up, the two towns had gone firmly down their two different paths. The area around Ulclulet had been pretty thoroughly logged but Tofino's Clayoquot Sound was still relatively pristine. That's where the big fight started... The Ulclulet loggers wanted to log out Tofino's forests, but the tofino residents wanted none of that.
I was in both towns in 1993... You can find a lot of my notes from that time at on my old website. The towns were a study in contrasts.
The hills around Ulclulet were heavily logged.... Bald. Ugly. The town itself consisted of a couple of very utilitarian stores the local school (shared by Tofino and Ulclulet students) and a couple of provincial government offices. The town itself was minimalistic and bland.
Tofino, on the other hand, was a good bit more vibrant. Tourism had taken hold and was providing quite a bit of employment including whale-watching and eco-tours. The Tofino fishery was also a good bit more vibrant (salmon and other fish depend heavily on healthy forests). Most of the stores in the area were in tofino as were the bars.
Ulclulet had pretty much nothing but logging jobs, and those were dying. Tofino, on the other hand, also depended on the forests -- but in a non-destructive manner. If only by virtue of the fact that they're now so rare, old growth forests can provide some very healthy employment opportunities in the area of tourism.
In 1993, the logging industry tried to paint Tofino residents as greedy -- not wanting to 'share' their forest with the forestry industry. Tofino, having seen what happened to the Ulclulet logging community (decimated and the few loggers left were now hungry for the trees of Clayoquot) were even more firmly against the idea.
The Ulclulet loggers are mostly gone now. Logging still continues in Cla
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Re:Police Surveillance
I just finished a short story on this issue. A little bit off on a tangent, but not by too much.
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Mirrors
OK: I got a few of the images. They're on my website. If you have missing images, or mirrors of your own, post in reply, or email to me, and I'll put pictures or pointers as appropriate on my page.
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Re:Duality...In the meantime, it turns out that the best link to download duality is the the divx copy which is hosted by downoad.divx.com (they seem to like it).
In the meantime I've set up a (temporary!) bittorrent for the duality divx video.. Get it while it's up.
People who already have the divx copy can (please) use it to seed the bittorrent feed (and keep my ISP from toasting me alive).
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Re:I KNOW that guy...No way. He wasn't "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance". Only people "of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance" can be bad guys.
It's a disguise you idiot!!!! This is what he really looks like!
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Re:They probably wouldn't present their best exampMaybe that's code that isn't essential to their case - just some code they think they can afford to let the Linux community remove.
Id you want to convince the world that you've got the Linux community by the short & curley's, the last thing you want to do is shoot yourself in the foot with something this stupid.
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Re:The Internet & free speechYou're talking about two different rights. One is the power to speak and the other the power to listen. Both need to be protected. But you seem to imply a third right, namely the power to coerce people into listening.
No. The right to the internet is, for example, the right for me to put up a website and the right for other people to access my web site (if they want to). The right to use something is different than the right to abuse it.
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Re:Sorry, I can't seem to find that story.
No. It works for me, but it's a hidden Kuro5hin article (only got 59 points, net). I guess that only I can see it. I also have a version on my own web site.
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Re:The root cause of this....Usually has to do with overzealous abuse people that are heavily overworked accidentally concluding that a forged return address is a guilty party.
Sometims they just get confused between the attacking and defending system.
I have a program which scans http connects for nimda style probes of my server (given that I don't have a 'live' website, or even a real dns address that points at my box, I know that 95%+ of connects are bogus to begin with, but I filter for obvious attacks anyways).
At the height of the NIMDA season, I was getting more than a dozen provable probes a day, and statistics would just catch up to me. Once in a while I would get letters to my roommate threatening him with cutting off his broadband connection unless he cleaned up the virus on his system..... Given the work that he's done to lock down his system and the fact that he depends on it for his business (he pays business broadband rates, even), he would freak.
He'd then pass the letter to me, I'd ask them for the log information indicating when the complaint occurred, and then look in my logs, and send them my (saved) copy of the original complaint. After the second or third complaint, I sent them a much sterner message asking that they completely clear my roommate's name and put an explicit note on his file explaining my program.
I got a call from a rather knowledgable member of their group who appologized profusely, and even took a copy of my program to play with. We agreed on some minor changes to my automatic email that made it even more obvious that my machine was the defender, and that was that
A couple of months later I got another email from my roommate -- forwarding yet another threatening letter from our cable company.
In response, I sent a rather bitter email and wrote a rather sarcastic how-to on reading my logfiles. Once again, their abuse uber-geek called me up and apologized. He told me that the latest email was because they had changed their abuse reporting system and hired a fresh set of newbies. Between then and when I moved out, I didn't get another complaint from them.
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Re:No new CDs
Don't stop buying CD's. Just start buying CDs from local artists and independents. Not only do you stop supporting the RIAA, but you start doing what they are trying to keep peope from doing -- realizing that there are lots of really good artists out there who don't have RIAA contracts -- and that you can make money as an artist without the big recording studios.
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Re:This probably won't flyMoreover, there is nothing in the FTC Act that says "deceptive trade practices" are permitted if done for a good reason, or against people we don't like.
The thing about participating in something illegal is a well-entrenched legal concept known as 'unclean hands'... Basically, it's that people involved in an illegal act tend not to have much right to go running to the court to complain about how the deal falls apart.
Now, in this case, the RIAA is making files available in response to the fact that people are sharing stuff that they think they deserve to be paid for.. Problem is that the law says that they're in the right.
In the case of spam the FTC is responding to people doing shit to get you to view their advertisment.. In the case of the RIAA, they're doing all sorts of stuff to discourage you from 'stealing our stuff'.
If you try to sue them on this, you're going to get laughed out of court -- assuming that they don't counter-sue you for $50,000.The real answer to this is stop downloading RIAA artists! There are a lot of really good artists out there that aren't being carried by these geeks. They deserve (and could heartily use) your support. I've even got files from two different groups of friends online on my own web pages: Theda -- a friend of mine with a beautiful voice (I'd call it a mix of Enya and the Eurythmics). and Phat Tank a rather interesting funk-style group put together by some friends of mine.
Spread it around... Find friends who do good music and get permission to put their music on the net. Let people the world have access to real music.
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Re:This probably won't flyMoreover, there is nothing in the FTC Act that says "deceptive trade practices" are permitted if done for a good reason, or against people we don't like.
The thing about participating in something illegal is a well-entrenched legal concept known as 'unclean hands'... Basically, it's that people involved in an illegal act tend not to have much right to go running to the court to complain about how the deal falls apart.
Now, in this case, the RIAA is making files available in response to the fact that people are sharing stuff that they think they deserve to be paid for.. Problem is that the law says that they're in the right.
In the case of spam the FTC is responding to people doing shit to get you to view their advertisment.. In the case of the RIAA, they're doing all sorts of stuff to discourage you from 'stealing our stuff'.
If you try to sue them on this, you're going to get laughed out of court -- assuming that they don't counter-sue you for $50,000.The real answer to this is stop downloading RIAA artists! There are a lot of really good artists out there that aren't being carried by these geeks. They deserve (and could heartily use) your support. I've even got files from two different groups of friends online on my own web pages: Theda -- a friend of mine with a beautiful voice (I'd call it a mix of Enya and the Eurythmics). and Phat Tank a rather interesting funk-style group put together by some friends of mine.
Spread it around... Find friends who do good music and get permission to put their music on the net. Let people the world have access to real music.
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Boycott Dow??Dow is a Corporation. As such, they don't really respond to moral issues -- only financial issues that fall out of moral upsets. Saying "oh, Dow are nasty people" won't do much to get their attention. Cutting Dow purchases by 10%, on the other hand, would.
If you want to get Dow's attention, tell people to stop buying their produ cts, and tell them why. At the end of Dow's 2001 financial report, they have a partial list of Dow and associated company trademarks.
I peeled out that data, paired it with the company name, and then sorted the result.. If you want to boycott Dow products, these names would probably be a good start.
I'll also place a copy of this list on my website ( http://www.bcgreen.com/dow/trademarks.html) where I can update it as necessary. (147 references so far).
damn lameness filters force reformatting.Affinity
Amplify
Attane
Betadamp
Betaguard
Betaseal
Calibre
Cellosize
Covelle
D.E.H.
D.E.R.
Derakane
Dithane
Dowex
Dowflake
Dowper
Drytech
Elite
Envision
Ethocel
FirstRate
Fortress
Garlon
Glyphomax
Grandstand
Hamposyl
Insite
Insta-stik
Intacta
Intrepid
Isoplast
Lamdex
Liquidow
Lorsban
Maxicheck
Meteor
Mimic
Mycogen
Opticite
PAX System
Peladow
PhytoGen
Polyphobe
Primacor
Pulse
Questra
Responsible Care
Safe- Tainer
Saranex
Shac
SiLK
Spider
Stinger
Strongarm
Styron
Syltherm
Syntegra
Telone
The Enhancer
Tone
Tracer Naturalyte
Trenchcoat
Trycite
Tuflin
UCAR
UCON
Unigard
Unipurge
Versene
Voracor
Voralux
Voranol
Vydyne
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Re:Wait a second... 3D Porn?The first picture (transparent.jpeg) was in walleyed format -- which I find very hard to do (my mother, an optometrist, claimed that it was next to impossible without mechanical assistance). I've reformatted it to crosseyed format. (cross your eyes until parts of the two images match, then refocus). Works MUCH better (IMHO).
Interestingly, working in a molecular moddeling lab is where I learned to do walleyed (and got crosseyed down to a science). I have a stereo image that I created of pepsinogen (a pre-activated version of pepsin) that I created back then. (no -- I don't remember which colors correspond to which atoms).
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Re:Wait a second... 3D Porn?The first picture (transparent.jpeg) was in walleyed format -- which I find very hard to do (my mother, an optometrist, claimed that it was next to impossible without mechanical assistance). I've reformatted it to crosseyed format. (cross your eyes until parts of the two images match, then refocus). Works MUCH better (IMHO).
Interestingly, working in a molecular moddeling lab is where I learned to do walleyed (and got crosseyed down to a science). I have a stereo image that I created of pepsinogen (a pre-activated version of pepsin) that I created back then. (no -- I don't remember which colors correspond to which atoms).
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Re:Thank you!The nastiest part of prel is the regular expressions.
If you've got access to a unix/linux system, man perlre will give you a reasonable introduction to perl regular expressions.
You might also want to download the perl reference manual.. It's designed to be printed double sided, then folded and stapled like a pocketbook. I find it a very usable summary of perl overall. I use it on a regular basis. (or just grab the pdf file and print it
In terms of books, I'd suggest the O'Reilly books (no shock there)
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Re:Thank you!The nastiest part of prel is the regular expressions.
If you've got access to a unix/linux system, man perlre will give you a reasonable introduction to perl regular expressions.
You might also want to download the perl reference manual.. It's designed to be printed double sided, then folded and stapled like a pocketbook. I find it a very usable summary of perl overall. I use it on a regular basis. (or just grab the pdf file and print it
In terms of books, I'd suggest the O'Reilly books (no shock there)
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Re:Some corrections and arguments.If you don't mind installing perl, I've got one that does 1 and 2. It needs to be fed emails in standard unix mailbox format. it's called peelhead. I put it in the nimhunt directory It also needs to be configured with the dns names/ip addresses of hosts which handle your email for you.
If you're willing to marry the two pieces (shouldn't be that hard), you could...
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Re:Some corrections and arguments.Look at the number of systems in those lists. There is simply no feasible way to track down and notify everyone that gets listed.
Not so true. I have a script that I use to automagically find someone to notice. It first looks for a reverse DNS for the site. If that fails, then it does a traceroute and uses the last reverse DNS in that chain.
Then it reduces the DNS address it got to something 'reasonable' and uses that for a message through abuse.net.
It seems to work reasonably well... Unless you're faking (or refusing to set) your reverse DNS and your ISP is doing the same thing, chances are that somebody will get the notification who can at least pass it on to the proper person.
With over 1500 auto-generated reports, the program seemed to have a reasonably high success rate. It was part of a program that I called nimhunt (I used it to track and report nimda-type virus attacks). I've also modified it for auto-reporting other attacks as well.
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Some spam tracking toolsSome time ago I put together some spam tracking tools: One is whoois it takes a URl peels off the http: and
The other is peelhead. Peelhead goes through a mail spool file and finds the IP of the machine which transmitted email to your MX host. You need to prime it with the hostnames/IPs of your box and macnines which accept email for you (e.g. your ISP and their secondary MX hosts) I found it useful for doing bulk statistics on the sources of spam. One common use would be:
peelhead Junk_Mail | sort | uniq -c
or:peelhead Junk_Mail | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20
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Some spam tracking toolsSome time ago I put together some spam tracking tools: One is whoois it takes a URl peels off the http: and
The other is peelhead. Peelhead goes through a mail spool file and finds the IP of the machine which transmitted email to your MX host. You need to prime it with the hostnames/IPs of your box and macnines which accept email for you (e.g. your ISP and their secondary MX hosts) I found it useful for doing bulk statistics on the sources of spam. One common use would be:
peelhead Junk_Mail | sort | uniq -c
or:peelhead Junk_Mail | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20
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Re:Halloween crazinessSome years ago, I saw someone who did a "Terminator" costume for a Science fiction convention (BanffCon 1). It was an excelently done outfit with the ripped up face and hanging out eyeball. As he was soing his act on the stage, a little kid (about 6 or so) ran up to him and yelled "shoot something".
The terminator turned mechanically to stare at the kid. The kid suddenly realized that he was the most obvious target. The look on his face went from excitement to fear and he quietly backed into the arms of his parents (who could barely keep from laughing).
And while I'm at it: Remember Calvin and Hobbes?
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It's not a linear path (rant)This kind of mathematical stupidity (mistaking a curve snippet for a straight line) Is the kind of stuff that gets us in deep doodoo. This is much like the problem of people who expect that global warming will just mean slightly warmer winters... It won't. It'll mean deserts in places that used to be breadbaskets and vice versa.
Whatever hits the fan, will not be distributed evenly
As global warming changes the jetstreams and oceanic flows, Europe could end as cold as Northern Canada (which is at the same lattitude); Kansas could end up looking like Arizona and the Sahara could do any of a number of things. The results might be pretty for some people, but I don't think that most of us are going to like the results.
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Re:On the other hand...the global CO2 concentration rise doesn't follow anywhere near such a linear trend.
Just because a linear regression was done, doesn't mean that the points are following a linear path.
I got this curve fit using a simple two point bezier (with the center points at either end). pretty clearly a nice curve.
The varience from the straight line is clearly not just random error, but I'm not quite sure if there's enough data points to properly investigate the nature of the curve. (it's been sooooo long since I've done that sort of analysis) That may be why they did a simple linear regression. -
Re:How are they going to get you?That IS rediculous. Can you imagine explaining to your fellow cons why you're in the clink?
Remember Clayoquot Sound?
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Re:Here we go again...Why not? I'm colored people, too... (just not green, blue and yellow).
OK: I guess you could call me green, but it doesn't show up in pictures.
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Re:Here we go again...Why not? I'm colored people, too... (just not green, blue and yellow).
OK: I guess you could call me green, but it doesn't show up in pictures.
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Re:bwahahahaha..Yep. Buffy definitely has plots. Plot arcs, even. The fate of Willow becomming a possible Vengence daemon spanned just over a whole season. Usually, in any given episode, there are actually two parallel plots -- One dramatic, and one comedic. (e.g. in one episode where Spike, being non-human, is the only one to realize that two characters (one good and one evil) are actually alter-egos of each other.)
When I originally heard about buffy, I decided to pass on it. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, I considered it 'bubble-gum'. I figured that, as a TV series, it would be pretty vacuous. When I finally got around to watching it, I found that it was hilarious. It is now one of only two TV series that I watch regularly (the other being Enterprise*).
In any case, I wrote up a defence of Buffy some time ago (which was printed in a local SF mag).
I also have Slashdot Journal entry about how Buffy's biggest problem in running for Emmys is that they're going for the drama prizes when they should competing in the comedy category.*(for those of you just waiting for me to comit blasphemy, I've come to like the theme to Enterprise, and have gone to the trouble of transcribing and memorizing it... If you pay attention, it's basically a musical version of the 'where no-one has gone before' monologue.
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Re:Seems "minority report" is not far from realityIIRC, Britain requires that two psychiatrists, in addition to the person who recommends the sectioning (usually the patient's psychiatrist), sign off on this, and as I understand it, usually they'll interview the individual before making their recommendation.
And if you really want to incarcerate someone, how hard would it be to get two doctors to sign off on him? Say: Two doctors who are known for prescribing extra narcotics to their patients turning a blind eye to multiple other prescriptions -- or a pediophile child psychologist?
-----A number of years ago, there was a Lawyer in Vancouver by the name of Jack Cram. He was most famous for taking on the government for conspiracies (and winning in court).
One day he took on a case that was to undo him: It was a young lawyer (Renata Andreas-Auger) who claimed that she was being harrassed by the Law Society of BC (who control the lawyers).
It seemed like a reasonably straight-forward case to Cram, but after taking on her case, it seemed that the Law Society -- and even some of the judges of the Supreme court of BC (The SCBC handles primary trials for civil cases and serious criminal offences with appeals going to the court of appeal).
After suffering for a while at the hands of the Law Society and the Courts, Cram finally ended up in a legal fight with the court system itself (oops). In the middle of the trial (and a whole boatload of other shenanigans), He was suddenly declared, by two doctors, to be a mental health threat. They whisked him off to a mental hostpital where he was held for evaluation and 'treatment' for a week.
The "committal" was authorized by two doctors who had just happened (what a coincidence!) to be sitting in the courtroom and had declared on the certificates that they had examined Cram! Now it's committal by remote control!
-- from A tale of Two LawyersThe doctors at the mental facility where he was held eventually gave him a clean bill of health, but he spent a good period of time heavily drugged, etc.
Even though he was declared mentally fit, he came out of the hospital essentially a broken man. He handed his case over to another lawyer, meekly accepted a suspension of his bar priveledges, and has since (from what I've heard) refused to talk about the cases.
I interviewed him on video, in the middle of the trial (just before he was comitted). He explained to me his case, the case of Renata Andreas-Auger and the case/comspiracy that was beneath the whole mess.
The case -- Delgamuukw was famous in it's own right. It was a landmark Native rights case. The trial Judge incensed the Canadien people by declaring that the native people of BC were, among other things "Savages whose lives were brutish and short". It eventually made it's way to the Supreme Court of Canada, where rights of the natives to unceeded lands were given at least some acknowledgement before ordering the case back to be retried under a new judge.
Renata had been an articling student doing research for the Delgamuukq legal team, and had found a basic block of constitutional law that would (should) have cemented the case for the natives. She felt that the lawyers had ignored her research, and effectively thrown the case.
When she finally convinced Jack to look at the Delgamuukw case (some time after he'd started to take flack for her persecution case), Jack concluded that -- yes the lawyers had sabotaged their case at law, and had proceded instead with a very weak argument -- But that shouldn't have been a big shock, because their biggest clients were essentially the people who would have been most hurt by a successful prosecution.
The affected parties? The Government and the resource industries. The conspiracy, according to Cram, was a consipircy of silence over native rights. Constitutional documents acknowledge native claim to the lands of North America until, and unless they sign those lands over in a public treaty. For over 95% of BC that's never been done and, for decades, it was actually illegal for natives to hire a lawyer over land claims.
According to Cram, the native claims are real, and laws on Fiduciary duty would call for penalties against the Canadien & BC governments in the range of 3 times the current value of any resources taken out of BC in the last century. Read: bankrupt the country.
Besides Cram and Auger, I've seen Two other lawyers willing to take on native claims using those constitutional laws. One had his license to practice revoked. The other was 'warned off' with a veiled threat that he took quite seriously.
No black copters, No trenchcoats. Just a bunch of paper and people in $1,200 suits. And it scares me to the bone.
(damn. I thought I had some stuff about the Cram case on my website.... Oh well.)
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Re:Enlarge your penis - GUARANTEED!This actually raises the point of the interaction between spam and service via email.
I can actually understand it in this case, where there wasn't an obvious alternative to email service -- and it actually makes sense in the context of the BC rules of court (which I've read) which allows a judge to OK non-standard methods of service, in a specific case where traditional methods have been proven non-fruitful.
This decision does not appear to approve email service as a general method. It does, however, mean that if you're playing electronic hide-and-seek with someone who is trying to sue you, you may get 'tagged' by email.
Where I worry about it as a general solution is where someone serves me by email with something that looks like spam (or where spammers catch on to email service, and start to use 'service' envelopes to force people to read their stuff (on pain of default judgement if it was a real notice)).
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Re:The full text of the decisionBtw: the internet is only mentioned in one place in the whole 48K text..
FYI: 48K is relatively small for an SCC decision. In this case, I think it is both concise and broad. It makes it clear that, even though the restriction on advertising is only a side-effect of an otherwise well-meaning law, it's effects on effective free speech are unacceptable.
I think that, among other things, it serves notice that a DMCA-type law would not be accepted in Canada (unless the government were to invoke the dreaded notwithstanding clause).
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Re:Linuxgruven bumper stickers
well, how about replacing it with this one
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Re:OUCH! (mirror site, no shouting)
I have a second copy of the article without the caps. Also on my personal machine. Surprising how much easier it is to read like that.
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Re:OUCH! (mirror site)A different kind of ouch. It appears that the site has been administratively slashdotted.
I have a mirror taken from another mirror. Someone please mod up the article that announced the original mirror.
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Re:When they get finished...The missed insertion was because of (tada!) a couple of bugs. Apparently, when they went to do the first orbital insertion burn, a transient impulse from engine startup caused a safety routine to trip (the safe level was set too low). Bugs in the shutdown code caused the craft to use the wrong thruster set (too strong) for attitude correction. The result was that the craft ended up over-correcting. By the time the spacecraft recovered from the mess, the Gyros had overloaded, the craft had gone into bigtime low-battery mode (and lost most of it's stored telemetry from the outage), and dumped 27-30KG of fuel trying to get back into a safe attitude. (overloaded gyros are blamed for much of the excessive fuel use)
From the parts of the report that I read, they're not quite sure how it got into some of the states it did, nor -- given what they've reconstructed -- are they able to figure out how it recovered from some of the problems the bug induced.
In any case, the loss of 28KG of fuel represented almost 1/3 of the fuel being carried at that point, and left them with almost zero reserve for the mission. This may be part of the reason why they decided on a soft-crash... They really don't have the reserve fuel to do much in orbit after the planed mission end-date.
The lost fuel is probably also part of the reason why they don't have enough fuel to make it all the way back into orbit (much less back to earth).
The complete report on the burn anomaly, as they call it, is available at http://near-mirror.boulder.swri.edu/anom/. ig'x 1MB. I've mirrored the report PDF on my home box. (I found the mirror site a bit overloaded).
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Re:for that matter...GRR: an hour reading reading Marx's Communist Manifesto (available, more generally, through The Guttenberg project) to do up a reply and it gets shot down by the lameness filter.
You can find my reply at: my ISP's customer web site, or (my home machine. (exactly as I was going to submit it)
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Re:...and HTMLAnd here's a working link to an HTML version. Dunno what happened to the original HTML version. Looks like a possible typo in the domain name (or the machine may have gone down). If that breaks, then you can try pulling it off my personal box.
This html translation was generated (blindly) by StarOffice.
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Re:Canadians hate American attitudesSome docters go from Canada to the States. Others go the other way round because, although they might not make as much money, it's a much more humane system. You're not always turning people down because they don't have the money to pay you. For some doctors this, alone, is enough to bring them over to Canada.
I've had a number of friends who've gone down to the States to work (better pay there), but they tend to be happy to return to Canada. Money's not the only thing that makes for a good life -- Just ask whats-his-name from Nirvana who make a couple million dollars and then blew his brains out.
Oh, yeah, that's right... We've got Sarah McLauclin too.
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Murphy saidAn old "murphy's laws" listing (circa 1979) included the phrase:
Investment in security will continue until the cost of the security exceeds the cost of the breach -- or until somebody insists on getting some serious work done
I just put a self-signed key on my site mostly for the hell of it. It allows people to view the highly political contents of the site with complete paranoia. Is it worthwhile for me to find someone to pay for a 'secure' version of the certificate? no. Are people going to accept the self-signed certificate? I don't care.
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Murphy saidAn old "murphy's laws" listing (circa 1979) included the phrase:
Investment in security will continue until the cost of the security exceeds the cost of the breach -- or until somebody insists on getting some serious work done
I just put a self-signed key on my site mostly for the hell of it. It allows people to view the highly political contents of the site with complete paranoia. Is it worthwhile for me to find someone to pay for a 'secure' version of the certificate? no. Are people going to accept the self-signed certificate? I don't care.
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Re:Yuck!
personally, I'd be inclined to use something like lightgreen on palegreen1
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Re:Canadian ElectionTry http://www.green.ca/english (OK: so it's not impartial).
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