Your home page points to a physics site, but you sound like a laywer!
Monopoly protection subsidised what the govenment did not outright buy for Bell. Sure, there were some requirements for that protection, now it's time for more as the old deal is dead. You sum up with:
But it seems to me to be a fundamentally unsound premise that a long ago repaid, mutually beneficial, regulated monopoly agreement between the government and a private industry (an agreement, by the way, that was ruled to be illegal, and forcibly broken by the federal courts) can be used today to prop up competitors who are not being asked to provide very much in return...
The competitors don't need proping, they need to be freed. You would have them prop up the old restrictive monopoly based on obsolete technology. I've been at the receiving end of BellSouth anti-competitive behavior so I don't have any sympathy or gratitude for them.
Technically, the Bells really should be able to lay down the law when it comes to who access their cables. I mean, it's their cables.
Nope, it's your cable. They built it on public easments with monopoly protection. Keeping others off those lines is about as bogus as keeping others from being able to run their own last mile network, but that seems to be the way it was and is. Now demands have been made that others can use those lines AT COST and offer services that the Bells were unwilling to offer.
I'm hoping that Powel plays this well. As someone else pointed out, he does not agree. This is just the kind of thing that will turn Powel into a houshold word, if he can pull it off.
If he can't, I expect the Bells to start pushing their high priced and highly restrictive service. Woot, I might get to chose between two really lame monoply servers who own the internet.
Screw them. Build your chunk of the wireless mesh today.
Pennsylvania's attorney general, Republican Mike Fisher, is leading the state's effort, which already has forced Internet providers to block subscribers from at least 423 Web sites around the world.
423 kiddie porn sites?! I hope the Attorney General has his office raided and his computers inspected for that, the man should be in jail. Anyone else would be in jail for that kind of collection.
This is arguably one of the worst pieces of news in a while. Once, we laughed at places like Saudi Arabia for trying to censor the internet. Now we are to have state mandated censorship as well.
Mr. Fisher, your efforts are not appreciated. You conclude that everyone in your state is into kiddie porn and that gives you a right to interfere with the press also known as the internet. It's offensive and unconstitional. Kiddie porn is vile and illegal already, but you are going to have to respect the rights of the rest of us while you catch people who can tell you where the best kiddie porn is. Your monitoring of my web surfing or email is a violation of the fourth amendment. Any restrictions you might place on my web surfing, however well intentioned, are violations of the first amendment. If you have reasonable suspisions backed with evidence you are ready to swear to in a public court of law, then you might be able to look in a particular place at a particular time. You might even be able to watch the web surfing of an individual for a limited time.
In the end, the only way to end the kiddie porn industry is to teach the world to have respect for their fellow man. Children would not be violated if people would not violate each other. Abuse of state power, presumption of guilt, and disrespect for your fellow citizens are all steps in the wrong direction. Aid to countries where this occurs would be a better use of your money.
"Never in our history have fewer been in a position to control more of the creative potential of our society than now," Lessig said. "We have to buy them off, so they don't break the Internet in the interim."
Because the first statement is true, the plan will fail. Every major record label, and there are only five in the world, is putting in Digital Rights Denial. If you want to sell a non-major record in your store, the majors cut you off. So, what choice do you have? You look left, DRM, you look right, DRM. Now that internet radio has been shut down, Napster is dead, and the FBI will soon visit you for running P2P, you won't hear of anything but crappy major music. Not even the mighty Google can lead you to reasonable music can it? No, these lables will only dull you to the rights you have lost, make your kids think that it's right and waste time and money in general. The lables are going to be used for propaganda purposes. I can just imagine one now, "Copy Controled to feed our starving artist's hungry babies - Sharing is Stealing!". Every artists out there is going to love it when their five cent cut per sold CD is reduced to two cents to cover the cost of applying the lables.
You can't buy these bastards off, you can only avoid them. Buy used recodings, support local acts and turn the radio off. Oh yeah, that's what people have already started doing.
The internet has been broken already too. That's why "so few" people have so much control and I can't serve out of my house over the public network that being used by the local cable company. After all, if everyone could sever, word of mouth and Google would work for everyone including the artists who mostly would earn more money than they do now.
They admitted that 9 months of bug fixing was unusual and not likely to occur again. They don't like bug fixing and will do what they can to avoid it. It's urewarding, phththth-fit, that's one of the reasons they get a pay check, but bad attitude all around. If releasing something that works well is unrewarding to them, we now know why it does not work well. We also know what to make of the month long group hug M$ had a big PR fest about.
If they want personal satisfaction they should work for a company that does not claim to own all their ideas and use their time to write free software. Lots of fun and excitment there and you don't even have to drive to work.
According to BigJimSlade, the bug meeting attitude is, "if you're not here for the meeting and there's a problem in your feature, your feature is not going to be in the next release"....their compensation stems partially from getting those features in, that could be quite a blow for the team."
Now we know why M$ can't tell the difference between a bug and a feature.
So they rebuild Windows from scratch every day? Somebody send them a copy of make, please.
They have to eat their own dog food every day. It's compiled on some M$ encumbered x86 every night from scratch, regardless of changes made to the code. Other evidence of ritual self abuse at M$ include:
Use of M$ desktops.
Use of M$ servers
Talking to Steve Balmer
Driving to work
Buying M$ and holding shares for 15 years without dividend payment
#By compiling this program you agree to the following terms:
#1. Compilation is forbiden.
Well, it's true you know, even for those under the "shared source" program. Look, but don't touch. Who knows if what they share is anything other than a bill?
Yeah, the big corporations are all out to get you personally, but if it weren't for the big corporations big investment bucks, you wouldn't get any of your favorite toys...because the little shops don't have the money...and the medium shops are run by people as greedy as the big corporations and don't have the spare cash after over-paying their upper-management.
This person says you are full of shit.
SBC wouldn't invest in expansive broadband deployment in the state." Because with standing regulations they then have to turn around and resell the lines to their competitors for less than it costs them (SBC) to install and maintain them.
You believe that? It looks like the above mentioned co-operative could afford the costs. The local Bell must have some costs that the others don't, like angry, overpaid executives.
The quick translation to this is, "We will do everything in our power to thwart you unless you do things exactly as we want." You know what the difference between that and extortion is? Neither do I.
this sounds like a step in the right direction. Fair use and all that.
No, it's a step towards legitimizing the DMCA which should be repealed. Copyright law is so strong already that the Supreme Court's favorable opinion called it "unwise". DMCA outlaws technology instead of enforcing copyright. "Circumvention", making use of things you own, and reverse engineering, simply understanding how things work, should not be crimes. Do not support half measures so that you can be comfortable in your slavery and your children will think you are a criminal for being curious. Laws that make specific exceptions to the gross and unconstituional language of the DMCA are not good for anyone.
Wholesale redistribution, aka publication, of other people's content is wrong. It deprives artists and publishers of fair returns for their efforts. This is what copyright is all about.
Using your own media and recieving radio waves that pass through your house is not wrong. Sharing the media you enjoy with a few friends and playing for yourself when you feel like it is not republication and nothing is wrong with it. Decrypting radio waves passing through your house is not a republication. Outlawing your ability to do these things and share that information with your friends is what the DMCA is all about.
The article doesn't discuss how a single mutation would have spread through the population. In prehistoric times what advantage would there be in a gene that makes you carve useless bone trinkets?
The spread would have been rapid. Ape chicks love bone trinkets, regardless of how dull they are. The whole economy is built on this principle - only those things pleasing to women have value. Gold, diamonds, bone trinkets and sea shells have few practical applications yet men die for them. Think about it.
... we could expect to see surviving tribes in remote areas still lacking the creativity gene.
Have you listened to upper management recently? Remote, yes, lacking creativity, yes and they have their own schools and language.
Assides from the non sequetor, which applies regardless, did you read the article? If you had read it and the intro above, you would have noticed that the amino-acids not found on earth also are mostly "left-handed" which is not how they form in a lab.
I've had to patch the cable 5 times because the dog got it.... The worst part is, if anything goes wrong with any of their computers, it's MY FAULT.
Stranger things have happened? Do you include a free bong with that installation or do they have to roll their own?
Hint, burry the cable in a 6" deep slit just wide enough to fit it where it crosses the yard and use enough water pipe where it comes up the wall to shield it from dog attack. That's what the cable guy did, only he called the water pipe a "conduit".
anything that might actually provide a bit of relief is welcome.
Why not increase your gasoline tax from $2.50/gallon to $10/gallon? That should fix the traffic "problem", which is other people doing the same thing you are because there are not better alterntives available for either of you.
Damn all those other upitty people! Serfs should be more tied to the land and not allowed to work anywhere they can't get on foot. You and others are willing to waste your time in that traffic to earn a living, the government might as well take the fruit of your labor every way it can.
Let me tell you how it's going to be. One for you 19 for me...
increase the tube's capacity (make it run more often, drill more tunnels,...)... [response]Pretty hard to do
Can't fix the tube. Charging people 5 pounds just won't work. I know, we have to kill the people we don't like. That's it, yeah, bring on the next ice age.
At peak times it's about a train every 60-90 seconds on most lines, better signalling systems could reduce that to about 30 - hey presto, doubled capacity.
Can you even get a train out of the station in 30 seconds? What a crock.
Paris does well with 5 to 30 minuste between trains. The metro rocks and the Paris train system goes everwhere.
If people HAVE to drive cars in midtown London, the tube sucks. There is no reason for things to be that way.
The real inequality is user vrs ISP. I don't care if anyone reads what I put up. I DO care that I can't put anything up on my own machines thanks to a lame "no servers" clause in my contract. I'll be happy when I can share what I enjoy and the 200 or so people who might be interested can come see and share what they have. The rest is silly.
In Israel the (single) power company used this technology for years for its own data communication.
Yeah, but Israel is kinda small isn't it? How many substations do you have? I was under the impression that you could just about use helioscopes there without too many repeater stations.
The Baby Bells and the cable monopolies will tie this up in court for years, all the while jacking up their prices to feed their war chests, and Joe User will sit there and shuck out the bucks, completely oblivious to what's going on. The electric companies say, "Ma Bell was my bitch! These little ones are nothing." You think they are going to let a silly cable company stand between them and $20 to $40 a month from everyone? Fat chance, they will be happy to lease out their lines to the dumbest bidder.
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Monopoly protection subsidised what the govenment did not outright buy for Bell. Sure, there were some requirements for that protection, now it's time for more as the old deal is dead. You sum up with:
But it seems to me to be a fundamentally unsound premise that a long ago repaid, mutually beneficial, regulated monopoly agreement between the government and a private industry (an agreement, by the way, that was ruled to be illegal, and forcibly broken by the federal courts) can be used today to prop up competitors who are not being asked to provide very much in return...
The competitors don't need proping, they need to be freed. You would have them prop up the old restrictive monopoly based on obsolete technology. I've been at the receiving end of BellSouth anti-competitive behavior so I don't have any sympathy or gratitude for them.
Nope, it's your cable. They built it on public easments with monopoly protection. Keeping others off those lines is about as bogus as keeping others from being able to run their own last mile network, but that seems to be the way it was and is. Now demands have been made that others can use those lines AT COST and offer services that the Bells were unwilling to offer.
I'm hoping that Powel plays this well. As someone else pointed out, he does not agree. This is just the kind of thing that will turn Powel into a houshold word, if he can pull it off.
If he can't, I expect the Bells to start pushing their high priced and highly restrictive service. Woot, I might get to chose between two really lame monoply servers who own the internet.
Screw them. Build your chunk of the wireless mesh today.
Loads of M$ stories keep the fanboys and trolls busy while the rest of us can talk about news that matters.
Focus was too. Did you follow the clueless response link?
Pennsylvania's attorney general, Republican Mike Fisher, is leading the state's effort, which already has forced Internet providers to block subscribers from at least 423 Web sites around the world.
423 kiddie porn sites?! I hope the Attorney General has his office raided and his computers inspected for that, the man should be in jail. Anyone else would be in jail for that kind of collection.
This is arguably one of the worst pieces of news in a while. Once, we laughed at places like Saudi Arabia for trying to censor the internet. Now we are to have state mandated censorship as well.
Mr. Fisher, your efforts are not appreciated. You conclude that everyone in your state is into kiddie porn and that gives you a right to interfere with the press also known as the internet. It's offensive and unconstitional. Kiddie porn is vile and illegal already, but you are going to have to respect the rights of the rest of us while you catch people who can tell you where the best kiddie porn is. Your monitoring of my web surfing or email is a violation of the fourth amendment. Any restrictions you might place on my web surfing, however well intentioned, are violations of the first amendment. If you have reasonable suspisions backed with evidence you are ready to swear to in a public court of law, then you might be able to look in a particular place at a particular time. You might even be able to watch the web surfing of an individual for a limited time.
In the end, the only way to end the kiddie porn industry is to teach the world to have respect for their fellow man. Children would not be violated if people would not violate each other. Abuse of state power, presumption of guilt, and disrespect for your fellow citizens are all steps in the wrong direction. Aid to countries where this occurs would be a better use of your money.
"Never in our history have fewer been in a position to control more of the creative potential of our society than now," Lessig said. "We have to buy them off, so they don't break the Internet in the interim."
Because the first statement is true, the plan will fail. Every major record label, and there are only five in the world, is putting in Digital Rights Denial. If you want to sell a non-major record in your store, the majors cut you off. So, what choice do you have? You look left, DRM, you look right, DRM. Now that internet radio has been shut down, Napster is dead, and the FBI will soon visit you for running P2P, you won't hear of anything but crappy major music. Not even the mighty Google can lead you to reasonable music can it? No, these lables will only dull you to the rights you have lost, make your kids think that it's right and waste time and money in general. The lables are going to be used for propaganda purposes. I can just imagine one now, "Copy Controled to feed our starving artist's hungry babies - Sharing is Stealing!". Every artists out there is going to love it when their five cent cut per sold CD is reduced to two cents to cover the cost of applying the lables.
You can't buy these bastards off, you can only avoid them. Buy used recodings, support local acts and turn the radio off. Oh yeah, that's what people have already started doing.
The internet has been broken already too. That's why "so few" people have so much control and I can't serve out of my house over the public network that being used by the local cable company. After all, if everyone could sever, word of mouth and Google would work for everyone including the artists who mostly would earn more money than they do now.
They admitted that 9 months of bug fixing was unusual and not likely to occur again. They don't like bug fixing and will do what they can to avoid it. It's urewarding, phththth-fit, that's one of the reasons they get a pay check, but bad attitude all around. If releasing something that works well is unrewarding to them, we now know why it does not work well. We also know what to make of the month long group hug M$ had a big PR fest about.
If they want personal satisfaction they should work for a company that does not claim to own all their ideas and use their time to write free software. Lots of fun and excitment there and you don't even have to drive to work.
Now we know why M$ can't tell the difference between a bug and a feature.
They have to eat their own dog food every day. It's compiled on some M$ encumbered x86 every night from scratch, regardless of changes made to the code. Other evidence of ritual self abuse at M$ include:
#!/bin/bash
Line two:
#By compiling this program you agree to the following terms:
#1. Compilation is forbiden.
Well, it's true you know, even for those under the "shared source" program. Look, but don't touch. Who knows if what they share is anything other than a bill?
and that's not laptop, it's a lunch boxe. Who would bring their laptop to a cafeteria anyway?
It's a penguin in a room full of programers, do you really think the mighty penguin in the corner means anything to any of them other than Linux?
"This person says you are full of shit" should point to :
this person, who says co-operative telco works better than Bell He's not the only poster saying that either.
This person says you are full of shit.
SBC wouldn't invest in expansive broadband deployment in the state."
Because with standing regulations they then have to turn around and resell the lines to their competitors for less than it costs them (SBC) to install and maintain them.
You believe that? It looks like the above mentioned co-operative could afford the costs. The local Bell must have some costs that the others don't, like angry, overpaid executives.
The quick translation to this is, "We will do everything in our power to thwart you unless you do things exactly as we want." You know what the difference between that and extortion is? Neither do I.
No, it's a step towards legitimizing the DMCA which should be repealed. Copyright law is so strong already that the Supreme Court's favorable opinion called it "unwise". DMCA outlaws technology instead of enforcing copyright. "Circumvention", making use of things you own, and reverse engineering, simply understanding how things work, should not be crimes. Do not support half measures so that you can be comfortable in your slavery and your children will think you are a criminal for being curious. Laws that make specific exceptions to the gross and unconstituional language of the DMCA are not good for anyone.
Wholesale redistribution, aka publication, of other people's content is wrong. It deprives artists and publishers of fair returns for their efforts. This is what copyright is all about.
Using your own media and recieving radio waves that pass through your house is not wrong. Sharing the media you enjoy with a few friends and playing for yourself when you feel like it is not republication and nothing is wrong with it. Decrypting radio waves passing through your house is not a republication. Outlawing your ability to do these things and share that information with your friends is what the DMCA is all about.
The spread would have been rapid. Ape chicks love bone trinkets, regardless of how dull they are. The whole economy is built on this principle - only those things pleasing to women have value. Gold, diamonds, bone trinkets and sea shells have few practical applications yet men die for them. Think about it.
Have you listened to upper management recently? Remote, yes, lacking creativity, yes and they have their own schools and language.
The superiority of the mouse version of FOXP2 is proven.
Assides from the non sequetor, which applies regardless, did you read the article? If you had read it and the intro above, you would have noticed that the amino-acids not found on earth also are mostly "left-handed" which is not how they form in a lab.
That would require a 2" trench just big enough to fit the dog. Surely it would be eaier to burry the cable?
Stranger things have happened? Do you include a free bong with that installation or do they have to roll their own?
Hint, burry the cable in a 6" deep slit just wide enough to fit it where it crosses the yard and use enough water pipe where it comes up the wall to shield it from dog attack. That's what the cable guy did, only he called the water pipe a "conduit".
Why not increase your gasoline tax from $2.50/gallon to $10/gallon? That should fix the traffic "problem", which is other people doing the same thing you are because there are not better alterntives available for either of you.
Damn all those other upitty people! Serfs should be more tied to the land and not allowed to work anywhere they can't get on foot. You and others are willing to waste your time in that traffic to earn a living, the government might as well take the fruit of your labor every way it can.
Let me tell you how it's going to be. One for you 19 for me ...
Can't fix the tube. Charging people 5 pounds just won't work. I know, we have to kill the people we don't like. That's it, yeah, bring on the next ice age.
Hey you, get away from me. What? -
Can you even get a train out of the station in 30 seconds? What a crock.
Paris does well with 5 to 30 minuste between trains. The metro rocks and the Paris train system goes everwhere.
If people HAVE to drive cars in midtown London, the tube sucks. There is no reason for things to be that way.
The real inequality is user vrs ISP. I don't care if anyone reads what I put up. I DO care that I can't put anything up on my own machines thanks to a lame "no servers" clause in my contract. I'll be happy when I can share what I enjoy and the 200 or so people who might be interested can come see and share what they have. The rest is silly.
Yeah, but Israel is kinda small isn't it? How many substations do you have? I was under the impression that you could just about use helioscopes there without too many repeater stations.
Oh well, crank it up if you can.
The Baby Bells and the cable monopolies will tie this up in court for years, all the while jacking up their prices to feed their war chests, and Joe User will sit there and shuck out the bucks, completely oblivious to what's going on.
The electric companies say, "Ma Bell was my bitch! These little ones are nothing." You think they are going to let a silly cable company stand between them and $20 to $40 a month from everyone? Fat chance, they will be happy to lease out their lines to the dumbest bidder.