The 1996 telcom regulations REQUIRED the local bells to open up. They violated the law by ignoring those regulations. Billy Toe-zan, disgrace to my home state, has made what they did legal and insured that they will not be punished for their glaring, anti-competitive behavior.
But it's not all doom and gloom. As the medicine goes down, people WILL react. Alternet networks will be built to avoid the suck of Micky$soft. Why? Because the new unregulated oligarchy of Baby Bells, M$ (Mickey$oft), etc will be intollerable, even when compared with the former Ma Bell that would not let you do so much as hook up a modem. I got cable but it's mostly good for sucking down banner ads. This is stupid, and people will realize it.
Set up your DIY wireless or light based backbones TODAY. The other mediums are quickly being closed and that's why this lament is true:... you might think that Silicon Valley would be organizing itself to fight back on the political front. But they're late to the game. And remarkably, they still haven't appealed to the public for support. There is no widespread public campaign to defeat Tauzin-Dingell. There is no widespread campaign to defeat the Hollings bill. And there are no grassroots efforts on the Web. The Internet army, which is enormous, hasn't been engaged or conscripted.
What do you expect to see, TV adverts on cable TV? What am I going to do, post bills up next to the local rock and roll concert advert? I suppose Sun/Apple/HP could run full page adverts in print magazines, kinda like the ONE BILLION dollars M$ spent promoting XP, but I'm not looking to comercial companies to protect my rights, are you?
And that brings up the cardinal point here: It's not about getting music or baseball games for zero cost, it's about freedom! I'm happy to pay the piper, as opposed to his publisher. I don't really care to listen to baseball, though I expect true freedom to have anyone able to broadcast a live stream from the stadium. What's most important to realize is that the aim of this legislation is to make someone else the owner of your computer. That is the only way to extract money from you in the end - to own the network from transmision to reception.
In the immediate aftermath of WWII the UK did not have the military force to liberate Poland or keep the sides apart in Palestine. So they agreed to a partition.
It is obvious that the UK did not have the military force to liberate Poland before the War either. Must be the kind of trechary and side shifting that Orwell refered to as the only means of teritorial aquisition available to the world's three predicted superstates.
You might want to call such evil people by the terms that they used for themselves, "National Socialists". Yes, I understand Socialism. I happen to not distinguish between Socialist who are racists and those who are not. Both use coersion to insure that resources are distributed along lines that they consider moral and just. The point of law should be to minimize coersion while still protecting citezens from each other's predation.
I also understand what liberalism means, despite the great misuse of a term that essentialy means "free". The Book of the Brotherhood sneers at this too:
The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like, and had even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent.
Equality before the law is something that all Socialist violate and confuse with equality of resources. It is easy for such a system to tip over towards autocracy.
Charity and public spirit do not require coersion. This is a basic fact of life that is demonstrated over and over again. Coersion and institutionalized charity, perversly, reduce men's sense of love for each other and their likelyhood of contributing volutiarily to useful projects.
Oh well, this is getting offtopic. It's not what has not happened as Orwell predicted that's disturbing, it's what has happened and what is possible.
Get a clue. The folks participating legitimately in the discussion made some jokes, even Jack Valenti grinned when he was called out on his old VCR comments by a rep from Philips. Even though there were some greedy shits in the group, they were the exception. The "aim of the group," which you're obviously uninformed on, having neither been near this event nor availed yourself of transcript (which may or may not yet be available), was to come to a balance between all the sides represented.
Who said evil men have no sense of humor?
There is no balance to be had. There is no difference between a computer and any other publishing machine. It is illegal to use a printing press to publish someone else's book or cash, but no one feels the need to gaurd each and every one of them. Why is it that someone is thinking of tacking a dongle onto my motherboard to "protect" music and other rapciously copyrighted garbage? Anything that acomplishes their goals makes someone else the owner of my machine, as they will have files I can not erase that will decide what I can and can not coppy. It's completely unAmerican.
Just because the meeting is going on in a big, spooky government office doesn't mean it was a conspiritorial gestapo session.
That's right, it's an in your face attack on computing freedom and the bill of rights.
Stop watching so many movies and get involved. These processes are open to the public and people with an under-represented viewpoint. You just gotta work for it.
I change one mind at a time. I compare the insanity of DRM, Carnivore, etc, to ordinary things we take for granted: Libraries, the US Post Office, what not that respect the constitution. Think about the stated goals and how they can be can be accomplishe without violating your rights. Think about why you have to be treated like a criminal. The choices offered are all unreasonable and I no more want to work with them than I want to watch movies. Freedom is what this country is supposed to stand for. The whole DRM conversation is a nightmare.
I have a clue, and it comes from RMS. It's a shame that you make him out to be a poor public speeker, and it may be so. There are fewer contradictions in his writing, however, than most men's. I suggest you read some more of it, after all that's where I got the printing press analogy. He refered to the old Soviet Union's practice of placing gaurds at all copy machines. DRM is worse than that, and should be seen that way. Having a real job makes it hard to go to Washington DC, so I too filled out the feedback form, and I post here, and I tell the people around me the dangers of DRM.
RMS is correct, please support him as he fights for your rights. Superficial problems like poor manners are entirely subjective. I don't believe you when you say that he was outright disruptive, as he would have been removed. Order is well maintained in US government hearings.
As for the Fair use crowd, have you ever considered that they are agent provocetures in their midst? Their whole point misses the mark: It's not about "fair use" of prolefeed, it's about freedom.
But dont act like complete boors, lest you taint the rest of us with the view that we are *ALL* socially inept nerd-boyz (a-la the "arch nemesisis" on Buffy) rather than savvy people who may not have the money or size to work within the system *yet* but will someday.
Despite timid al3x's embarasment, I'm happy that someone spoke up and represented freedom. You know that no one was really disruptive because they would have been removed by armed gaurds, duh. Laughs and other expresions of human emotions are appropriate. Remember that the aim of the group is to end individual ownership of general purpose computing devices. This is the only way to enforce "digital security", and its a fundamental violation of the first amendment and much of what the United States stands for. Enforcement of existing laws is all that is needed. Good work New Yorkers for fair use. Good work RMS! Keep it up.
Now, I'm going to get back to my job, knowing that reasonable people are expressing my oppinion where it needs to show. Yeah, back to work in the "power structure", a nuclear power plant.
Those of you who would represent the crowd as "hippies" who "think this is still the sixties and that they were at a rally", can fuck off. Silly smear tactics like that won't wash of the facts of Paladium, Carnivore, Passport, CSS "zones" and all that other evil shit aimed at making pay per play, no fair use, and complete editorial control of all digital media. The real ugglies are those who would make laws to force perverse technology that no one wants.
No one needs to record the text, except by tape, because all proceedings are a matter of public record.
Seems to me that this would benefit the RIAA, not hurt it.... I'll tell you this with certainty: making a good quality recording with real time streaming is almost impossible....Once again the RIAA has proven to the world how purely dumb they are.
No, the RIAA/NAT will simply continue to make the internet look bad. That's why they are currently polluting the sharing networks, no? In this case they are asking for special treatment, because they suck no less, so that they will be the only providers of "internet music". They will make the new media suck like the old and laugh all the way to the bank as each broken stream and each advert played on the internet competes for bandwith that "pirates" use to get around them. Bogus! Not dumb, oppresive. Not creative, but effective. Sounds like the schoolyard bully to me.
Given this, I don't understand the objections I'm seeing here.
Quick summary of RIAA/NAB position, "Give us a break, because we suck. Those other guys offerd you the ability to chose what you wanted and that hurt our sales, so we crushed them. Now let us further wreck the digital media by eliminating choice there too."
What I'm missing is choice in the music I'm exposed to. It's not on the radio, and it's hard to find legitimatly from the internet these days. MP3.com is owned and other services have been shut down or are being poluted with crap. I have to go out of my way to hear anything but 40 year old recorded crap here in Baton Rouge. Oh yeah, NPR, the voice of the community is helping out. Thanks, Big Brother, your laws have set me free to chose between you and utter shit.
Wow, you seem to have realized that Communism is centralized economy Socialism. As the goal of Socialism is sharing wealth by government intervention, it's hard to see how it's not just a few shades of intolerance away from Communism. "We know what's best for you to do with your resources", they both tell us. The only difference is the ammount of coercion they can apply.
It's easy to slap around the Republican party especially for hypocracy. All people are hypocrits to some extent. A collection of people will always reflect the views of more than one member and will be even more hypocritical. We should not be so smug when we use such cheap tricks.
For glaring hypocracy, cosider the good that was done by declaring war against a tyrant for his invasion of Polland. Surely the tyrant was driven out of Polland and power alltogether and innocent people all through Europe were freed from horrible oppresion and even death camps. Oh wait, Poland was given to another tyrant and the victims of the death camps now run their own in Palestine! All brought to you by English Socialism, the government in power durring and espcially after the destruction of Europe, aka World War II.
Oh well, at least Air Field One and the other world empires have been absorbed as Orwell predicted. You do know that Air Field One no longer makes it's own nuclear weapons but buys them from Washington, don't you?
We are well on the way to Orwell's future, but a few key conditions are missing. Let's quote the man himself and The Book itself,
It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions and counterrevolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories. But they had been foreshadowed by the various systems, generally called totalitarian, which had appeared earlier in the century, and the main outlines of the world which would emerge from the prevailing chaos had long been obvious. What kind of people would control this world had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bereaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monoploy industry and centralized government. As compared with their opposite numbers in past agees, thew were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and above all, more concious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition. This last difference was cardinal. By comparision with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient... With the development of television, and the technical advace which made it possible to recieve and transmit simutaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen... could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda.
Monopoly industry: Multinational clothing, fuel, automobile, electronic, food production and retail. Is there anything of substance tha people use that is not produced by four or five companies in the world? Mosanto, big oil, Intel, Motorola, even Nokia, Ford (realy sucks). Media consolidation is even more frightening. Consider that there are only five music publishers in the world and that all others are prevented from vending in "their" stores. Your local paper gets most of it's prolefeed from the AP, and it's being destroyed by the larger papers. The internet will soon be owned by a few select and unregulated companies and you will not be a part of it. The more prevalent the new media becomes it seems the less open it is becoming as:
There is terrible growing itollerance. Witness Micro$oft's prediction that all computers will run their software and no one else's in the near future. Witness the rest of the world acting in a similar fashion and comming to think of eliminating competition as a normal business practice. Beware of those who play zero sum games, they are the ones who manufacture artificial scarcities now and desire them in the future as a means to crush others. How else can you gaurd your relative position, exept to make what you have scarce and highly desired. The whole concept of public service and making new things to solve old problems and expand everone's resources is endangered by these silly neo-Darwinian business school people. Have you seen what cruelty passes as humor these days? It's not as bad as bombing a boat load of women and children, but it's getting there.
We have yet to have our next big waves of war, but you can see it comming and the results are likely to be as Owell predicted. The traditional powers not listed in the future are landed aristocracy, philanthopists, clergy. Their power is already dissapearing, replaced by the central governments the itollerant are producing.
The technology to monitor citezens is in place and will be used by those who come to power after the wars. Europe will be obliterated, as will much of the US north east, California, and all other hubs of central government. The new power will be decentralized by nuclear necessity, hence a collective oligarchy. They will claim ownership of your Socialist Movement (hence the name Orwel uses, English Socialism, INGSOC) and grind to dust all of it's points but the necessity of itself to be in power. The war will become perpetual and the powers that be will bomb their own populations to keep them working at a feverish and obedient pace. The majority of goods produced by this society will be wasted, the point being to command not to enrich, elevate or ennoble. All print publications will cease under austerity measures, and you will be left with no means of comparison. In time, after the compete destruction of education and language, you will not even be able to understand anything is wrong.
Oldthinkers unbellyfeel ENGSOC. It's so true and you don't even have to be from the UK to see it. All you have to do is read and understand a few select works of Orwell. Down and Out in Paris and London, an early work, shows Orwell's underlying belief in humanity's common attributes. Hommage to Catalonia shows early dissalusionment with that nature. There he describes the utter corruption of Communists, Socialists, Fascists and Anarchists alike. Burmeese Days shows Orwell's fear of Empire and his insight into the way people exploit "others" while making themselves misserable to persue abstract, empty and unsatisfying goals. 1984 and Animal Farm are a tour de force, cementing all that he had learned into very compact and entertaining storries. Orwell started out a Socialist, but he died a libertairian hating all but the most liberal forms of government.
Have fun at your next party, and stay infected with liberalism. I suggest a weekly read of the US Bill of Rights, a yearly read of Orwell, a judicious study of Greek and Latin literature (all translated to your language!), even their French and English Enlightenment echos are useful and interesting, a lifetime of New Testament reading, and above all less abuse of your fellow man. We are all in this together. For humor, try non-sequetors, puns and other harmless fun.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a bannanna.
Get it?
Good, there are no clowns in 1984. As long as I see them and they are not all cruel, there is hope.
Once, not long ago, the post was delivered three times a day with no crap. That's how things HAD to be before telephone and faxes. You can't run a business without effective communications.
How sad the US post has become. My wife has to dig through piles of junk to get the few bills we must mail. Fliers of all descriptions, Magverts, garbage small and large, even a page from the post office listing all the junk mail. Is it any wonder that real mail is trown away at home, get's delivered to the wrong house by the postman, or just plain lost in all the crap? It's inconvienent and disgusting. We all pay for those piles of junk, even if the company buying the useless adverts goes out of business - your insurance premiums will cover parts of it, higher retail prices cover other parts and your postal stamps will subsidise the rest. It's not a fear of anthrax that makes me wash my hands after getting the mail, it's all that nasty ink that comes off onto my hands. Contamination by touch is the lowest of the post office's indignities.
So I use the mail less, so prices of stamps go up, so the post office sells more junk mail, so I use the mail less.... See a patern?
When did the post office get into junk mail anyway?
Run your own chat service built on accepted and open protocalls, hopefully with free software. Use, IP6, Xchat, or similar, kick the stupid propriatory habit and invite your friends to play. There's no concievable way to deny service to everyone everywhere. Of course the sensible thing won't happen if comercial interests continue to turn the web into another form of TV with 80% of all traffic heading to 4 websites. Everyone assert yourself, please.
Slow is what I expect from w2k anyway, and I'm happy to get this no cost version. My poor computer at work is so loaded down with NAV, M$ spyware, and buggy M$ junk that everything takes forever to do. Sigh, one day the great rip off of my company will end.
This will help bring that day closer. If this will work through putty, I'll finally be able to "show" people I work what I'm talking about as I sigh at the M$ stupidity of the day. How nice it will be to be able to use, on occasion, my computers at home through a graphical interface. I don't expect lightening response over a gimped up cable modem, but funciton is function.
Will this work the other way? If I get sshd on Win32, will I be able to get at my work from home? I'm neither willing nor able to install the junky windows based clients for remote computer use that the company provides. It's not that I want to do piles of work at home, especially with the horrid tools I have to use. Being able to get at company data from home can mean I stay home when the unexpected happens at my plant. It also means a faster and more reliable response. You would think the company wants that kind of thing, but they have a hard enough time making it so that you can get at your data while you are actually there.
Hey, where are all the bandwith trolls when you need them?
You don't really think that this is going to work do you? People will simply be annoyed and have to share more. Someone is going to have to pay for the increased bandwith usage and it's not Universal Music. So, Universal is stealing from cable opperators. It's like spam, but they don't even hope to make money off it.
You have not even thought that people might be trying to share files that were intended to be shared and are NOT owned by Unviersal Music. But that's like the big 5 music publishers, "No one but us can record music, right? Drool, Drool."
twitter, who has never bothered to download silly mass produced comercial music, is annoyed that Universal Music is going to waste his time. Universal, you suck.
What a silly thing to say, but it's the kind of thing that a weenie that uses Windows by choice might think. "Linux on the desktop" whatever that is, won't be destroyed by any kind of comercial software. Indeed, I expect some comercial concern to step up and make a fine business out of free software. It may be a Linux distro, BSD, or even the HURD, but it will be free and have a heavy contribution from GNU. Closed comercial software, regardless of short lived hardware advantages, simply can not keep up with the inovation and flexibility of free software, and the company that owns it will always do something stupid in the end to furfill their "duty to the shareholders." If Debian playing movies on an Amiga is not enough to convince you of free software's invincibility, you must be a troll.
do we really want people to pull, for example, images or frames from our sites and display them as their own content. As the previous NPR discussion [slashdot.org]illustated, there are times when this will unfairly transfer hosting costs
Well yes we do want that. If your site sucks so bad that others can put your information together in a way that other find easier and better, you have a fundamental problem that can't be legislated away. There is no constitutional right to suck. Ther is a constitutional right to free speech. These laws are only of interest to those who wish to suck, Ticket Master, RIAA and the five music publishing companies, Local Monopoly Newspapers, the four TV broadcasters and others who put billboards on every surface imaginable. They can all rot.
ust a thought but how about a couple of new Meta Tags:
At the Dalas Daily News, a silly synchophant says, "That's a good idea boss, I'll do it right away to prove the concept."
Three weeks later, the boss is pleased his new browser won't go from BarkingDogs.org to the Dalas Daily News, but rather upset that it also won't go from the front page of the Dalas Daily News either.
Your tag is the equivalent of "don't ever read me unless the user is able to type my name without any instruction", or simply "I'm hidden, go away".
I coppied the same text as the most glaring example of what that numb nut is doing:
Second, the Danish Newspaper Publisher's Association weren't concerned about search engines like Google or just a few deep links. Newsbooster did a systematic index and furthermore sold services for update-information whenever your predefined search words matched any news article.
Obviously, this says don't worry about search engines, this only affects activity such as _definition_of_search_engine_. Duh. Search engines make systematic indexes of other sites and matches user keywords to direct that index. Seach engines profit from this organizing activity by selling advertisements. Pure troll.
The whole rest of his goofey post simply restates the bogus arguments dead tree publishers are using to further enlarge the power of their copyrights. The whole idea of "you should not profit from my effort without paying me" is without merrit. Deep links are simply direct references. The web shatters many copyright concepts because it is new and different. Copyright law's governing assumption is that publishing is expensive and must be protected by an temporary exclusive franchise in order to increase the public domain. The web fundamentaly lowers those costs, forever, and copyright must be rethought. Publisher claim that they will go out of business and the public domain will dissapear unless the public domain is destroyed. Good reasoning, eh?
There is zero possiblity that Dalas will be without an internet newspaper under any conditions of copyright law. Indeed, the freer publications are to use each other's content, the more news sites you will have. They will have to compete on grounds of merit rather than who has the most money and biggest press and other things that have nothing to do with what's going on in Dalas.
But to be on the safe side, the company's lawyer advises that "while we encourage links to the Dallas Morning News site, we must request that they all go to the homepage of the site, and not directly to any interior content. If needed, you can provide with your link info on how to find the specific article of interest once they are on the homepage. We trust that this clarifies our position."
The fire supply does not have to catch fire to make one, and that's the point of the submission. Take the spare hard drive wires on a running computer and rub them in some steel whool. The whool will burn, as may your dust bunnies, noise abaitment foam or any other combustibles in your case, like dust bunnies. If you create the right conditions of insulated heat generation, oxygen and combustible materials, you will have a fire every time. If your load of combustible materials is large enough, the fire will spread and you will burn your house down.
I see a few steps I can take to improve my shelf o'computers. I'm going to move my printers to another table, remove excess wires and monitors, and other non esential materials. The insides of my boxes are clean. Smoke detectors and insurance can't hold a candle to prevention.
The mention of M$ Word put me on alert, as have previous stories here which have demostrated that XML will simply be a container for propriatory data formats like M$ Word. Closer examination, however, reveals a much more horrible arangement.
XML is dependent on unicode, as the US Government site's reference states. Follow the W3C to unicode ,
Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646.
Unicode is owned by Unicode Incorporated and all of it's documents and standarts are issued under a restrictive license with a unilaeral change clause:
Modification by Unicode Unicode shall have the right to modify this Agreement at any time by posting it to this site. The user may not assign any part of this Agreement without Unicodes prior written consent.
Dare I compare this evil arangement to ASCII and other predecesors? To have IBM, M$, Sun and other OWN the very format your data takes and to be able to change it and break previous implimentations at whim, and YOU may not? Who wants to be a plump nickle that any thing vaugly resembling unicode in the future will be called a "derivative" and it's distribution halted? Is this not a collusion of comercial software vendors to control information at it's most basic representation? Does anyone else here see this as the ultimate extention of copyright? Evil, Evil, Evil.
I'd rather see the US government continue to publish in the American Standard for Information Interchange. This extensible standard is no standard at all.
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But it's not all doom and gloom. As the medicine goes down, people WILL react. Alternet networks will be built to avoid the suck of Micky$soft. Why? Because the new unregulated oligarchy of Baby Bells, M$ (Mickey$oft), etc will be intollerable, even when compared with the former Ma Bell that would not let you do so much as hook up a modem. I got cable but it's mostly good for sucking down banner ads. This is stupid, and people will realize it.
Set up your DIY wireless or light based backbones TODAY. The other mediums are quickly being closed and that's why this lament is true: ... you might think that Silicon Valley would be organizing itself to fight back on the political front. But they're late to the game. And remarkably, they still haven't appealed to the public for support. There is no widespread public campaign to defeat Tauzin-Dingell. There is no widespread campaign to defeat the Hollings bill. And there are no grassroots efforts on the Web. The Internet army, which is enormous, hasn't been engaged or conscripted.
What do you expect to see, TV adverts on cable TV? What am I going to do, post bills up next to the local rock and roll concert advert? I suppose Sun/Apple/HP could run full page adverts in print magazines, kinda like the ONE BILLION dollars M$ spent promoting XP, but I'm not looking to comercial companies to protect my rights, are you?
And that brings up the cardinal point here: It's not about getting music or baseball games for zero cost, it's about freedom! I'm happy to pay the piper, as opposed to his publisher. I don't really care to listen to baseball, though I expect true freedom to have anyone able to broadcast a live stream from the stadium. What's most important to realize is that the aim of this legislation is to make someone else the owner of your computer. That is the only way to extract money from you in the end - to own the network from transmision to reception.
It is obvious that the UK did not have the military force to liberate Poland before the War either. Must be the kind of trechary and side shifting that Orwell refered to as the only means of teritorial aquisition available to the world's three predicted superstates.
I also understand what liberalism means, despite the great misuse of a term that essentialy means "free". The Book of the Brotherhood sneers at this too:
The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like, and had even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent.
Equality before the law is something that all Socialist violate and confuse with equality of resources. It is easy for such a system to tip over towards autocracy.
Charity and public spirit do not require coersion. This is a basic fact of life that is demonstrated over and over again. Coersion and institutionalized charity, perversly, reduce men's sense of love for each other and their likelyhood of contributing volutiarily to useful projects.
Oh well, this is getting offtopic. It's not what has not happened as Orwell predicted that's disturbing, it's what has happened and what is possible.
Who said evil men have no sense of humor?
There is no balance to be had. There is no difference between a computer and any other publishing machine. It is illegal to use a printing press to publish someone else's book or cash, but no one feels the need to gaurd each and every one of them. Why is it that someone is thinking of tacking a dongle onto my motherboard to "protect" music and other rapciously copyrighted garbage? Anything that acomplishes their goals makes someone else the owner of my machine, as they will have files I can not erase that will decide what I can and can not coppy. It's completely unAmerican.
Just because the meeting is going on in a big, spooky government office doesn't mean it was a conspiritorial gestapo session.
That's right, it's an in your face attack on computing freedom and the bill of rights.
Stop watching so many movies and get involved. These processes are open to the public and people with an under-represented viewpoint. You just gotta work for it.
I change one mind at a time. I compare the insanity of DRM, Carnivore, etc, to ordinary things we take for granted: Libraries, the US Post Office, what not that respect the constitution. Think about the stated goals and how they can be can be accomplishe without violating your rights. Think about why you have to be treated like a criminal. The choices offered are all unreasonable and I no more want to work with them than I want to watch movies. Freedom is what this country is supposed to stand for. The whole DRM conversation is a nightmare.
I have a clue, and it comes from RMS. It's a shame that you make him out to be a poor public speeker, and it may be so. There are fewer contradictions in his writing, however, than most men's. I suggest you read some more of it, after all that's where I got the printing press analogy. He refered to the old Soviet Union's practice of placing gaurds at all copy machines. DRM is worse than that, and should be seen that way. Having a real job makes it hard to go to Washington DC, so I too filled out the feedback form, and I post here, and I tell the people around me the dangers of DRM.
RMS is correct, please support him as he fights for your rights. Superficial problems like poor manners are entirely subjective. I don't believe you when you say that he was outright disruptive, as he would have been removed. Order is well maintained in US government hearings.
As for the Fair use crowd, have you ever considered that they are agent provocetures in their midst? Their whole point misses the mark: It's not about "fair use" of prolefeed, it's about freedom.
Despite timid al3x's embarasment, I'm happy that someone spoke up and represented freedom. You know that no one was really disruptive because they would have been removed by armed gaurds, duh. Laughs and other expresions of human emotions are appropriate. Remember that the aim of the group is to end individual ownership of general purpose computing devices. This is the only way to enforce "digital security", and its a fundamental violation of the first amendment and much of what the United States stands for. Enforcement of existing laws is all that is needed. Good work New Yorkers for fair use. Good work RMS! Keep it up.
Now, I'm going to get back to my job, knowing that reasonable people are expressing my oppinion where it needs to show. Yeah, back to work in the "power structure", a nuclear power plant.
Those of you who would represent the crowd as "hippies" who "think this is still the sixties and that they were at a rally", can fuck off. Silly smear tactics like that won't wash of the facts of Paladium, Carnivore, Passport, CSS "zones" and all that other evil shit aimed at making pay per play, no fair use, and complete editorial control of all digital media. The real ugglies are those who would make laws to force perverse technology that no one wants.
No one needs to record the text, except by tape, because all proceedings are a matter of public record.
Fognet sounds appropriate, given the length of that patent, it's unclear origins and it's absurdity.
No, the RIAA/NAT will simply continue to make the internet look bad. That's why they are currently polluting the sharing networks, no? In this case they are asking for special treatment, because they suck no less, so that they will be the only providers of "internet music". They will make the new media suck like the old and laugh all the way to the bank as each broken stream and each advert played on the internet competes for bandwith that "pirates" use to get around them. Bogus! Not dumb, oppresive. Not creative, but effective. Sounds like the schoolyard bully to me.
Quick summary of RIAA/NAB position, "Give us a break, because we suck. Those other guys offerd you the ability to chose what you wanted and that hurt our sales, so we crushed them. Now let us further wreck the digital media by eliminating choice there too."
What I'm missing is choice in the music I'm exposed to. It's not on the radio, and it's hard to find legitimatly from the internet these days. MP3.com is owned and other services have been shut down or are being poluted with crap. I have to go out of my way to hear anything but 40 year old recorded crap here in Baton Rouge. Oh yeah, NPR, the voice of the community is helping out. Thanks, Big Brother, your laws have set me free to chose between you and utter shit.
It's easy to slap around the Republican party especially for hypocracy. All people are hypocrits to some extent. A collection of people will always reflect the views of more than one member and will be even more hypocritical. We should not be so smug when we use such cheap tricks.
For glaring hypocracy, cosider the good that was done by declaring war against a tyrant for his invasion of Polland. Surely the tyrant was driven out of Polland and power alltogether and innocent people all through Europe were freed from horrible oppresion and even death camps. Oh wait, Poland was given to another tyrant and the victims of the death camps now run their own in Palestine! All brought to you by English Socialism, the government in power durring and espcially after the destruction of Europe, aka World War II.
Oh well, at least Air Field One and the other world empires have been absorbed as Orwell predicted. You do know that Air Field One no longer makes it's own nuclear weapons but buys them from Washington, don't you?
see here. I'm not going to write it more than once.
It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions and counterrevolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories. But they had been foreshadowed by the various systems, generally called totalitarian, which had appeared earlier in the century, and the main outlines of the world which would emerge from the prevailing chaos had long been obvious. What kind of people would control this world had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bereaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monoploy industry and centralized government. As compared with their opposite numbers in past agees, thew were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and above all, more concious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition. This last difference was cardinal. By comparision with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient ... With the development of television, and the technical advace which made it possible to recieve and transmit simutaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen ... could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda.
Monopoly industry: Multinational clothing, fuel, automobile, electronic, food production and retail. Is there anything of substance tha people use that is not produced by four or five companies in the world? Mosanto, big oil, Intel, Motorola, even Nokia, Ford (realy sucks). Media consolidation is even more frightening. Consider that there are only five music publishers in the world and that all others are prevented from vending in "their" stores. Your local paper gets most of it's prolefeed from the AP, and it's being destroyed by the larger papers. The internet will soon be owned by a few select and unregulated companies and you will not be a part of it. The more prevalent the new media becomes it seems the less open it is becoming as:
There is terrible growing itollerance. Witness Micro$oft's prediction that all computers will run their software and no one else's in the near future. Witness the rest of the world acting in a similar fashion and comming to think of eliminating competition as a normal business practice. Beware of those who play zero sum games, they are the ones who manufacture artificial scarcities now and desire them in the future as a means to crush others. How else can you gaurd your relative position, exept to make what you have scarce and highly desired. The whole concept of public service and making new things to solve old problems and expand everone's resources is endangered by these silly neo-Darwinian business school people. Have you seen what cruelty passes as humor these days? It's not as bad as bombing a boat load of women and children, but it's getting there.
We have yet to have our next big waves of war, but you can see it comming and the results are likely to be as Owell predicted. The traditional powers not listed in the future are landed aristocracy, philanthopists, clergy. Their power is already dissapearing, replaced by the central governments the itollerant are producing.
The technology to monitor citezens is in place and will be used by those who come to power after the wars. Europe will be obliterated, as will much of the US north east, California, and all other hubs of central government. The new power will be decentralized by nuclear necessity, hence a collective oligarchy. They will claim ownership of your Socialist Movement (hence the name Orwel uses, English Socialism, INGSOC) and grind to dust all of it's points but the necessity of itself to be in power. The war will become perpetual and the powers that be will bomb their own populations to keep them working at a feverish and obedient pace. The majority of goods produced by this society will be wasted, the point being to command not to enrich, elevate or ennoble. All print publications will cease under austerity measures, and you will be left with no means of comparison. In time, after the compete destruction of education and language, you will not even be able to understand anything is wrong.
Oldthinkers unbellyfeel ENGSOC. It's so true and you don't even have to be from the UK to see it. All you have to do is read and understand a few select works of Orwell. Down and Out in Paris and London, an early work, shows Orwell's underlying belief in humanity's common attributes. Hommage to Catalonia shows early dissalusionment with that nature. There he describes the utter corruption of Communists, Socialists, Fascists and Anarchists alike. Burmeese Days shows Orwell's fear of Empire and his insight into the way people exploit "others" while making themselves misserable to persue abstract, empty and unsatisfying goals. 1984 and Animal Farm are a tour de force, cementing all that he had learned into very compact and entertaining storries. Orwell started out a Socialist, but he died a libertairian hating all but the most liberal forms of government.
Have fun at your next party, and stay infected with liberalism. I suggest a weekly read of the US Bill of Rights, a yearly read of Orwell, a judicious study of Greek and Latin literature (all translated to your language!), even their French and English Enlightenment echos are useful and interesting, a lifetime of New Testament reading, and above all less abuse of your fellow man. We are all in this together. For humor, try non-sequetors, puns and other harmless fun.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a bannanna.
Get it?
Good, there are no clowns in 1984. As long as I see them and they are not all cruel, there is hope.
Draconian refers to events in ancient Greece.
How sad the US post has become. My wife has to dig through piles of junk to get the few bills we must mail. Fliers of all descriptions, Magverts, garbage small and large, even a page from the post office listing all the junk mail. Is it any wonder that real mail is trown away at home, get's delivered to the wrong house by the postman, or just plain lost in all the crap? It's inconvienent and disgusting. We all pay for those piles of junk, even if the company buying the useless adverts goes out of business - your insurance premiums will cover parts of it, higher retail prices cover other parts and your postal stamps will subsidise the rest. It's not a fear of anthrax that makes me wash my hands after getting the mail, it's all that nasty ink that comes off onto my hands. Contamination by touch is the lowest of the post office's indignities.
So I use the mail less, so prices of stamps go up, so the post office sells more junk mail, so I use the mail less .... See a patern?
When did the post office get into junk mail anyway?
Run your own chat service built on accepted and open protocalls, hopefully with free software. Use, IP6, Xchat, or similar, kick the stupid propriatory habit and invite your friends to play. There's no concievable way to deny service to everyone everywhere. Of course the sensible thing won't happen if comercial interests continue to turn the web into another form of TV with 80% of all traffic heading to 4 websites. Everyone assert yourself, please.
This will help bring that day closer. If this will work through putty, I'll finally be able to "show" people I work what I'm talking about as I sigh at the M$ stupidity of the day. How nice it will be to be able to use, on occasion, my computers at home through a graphical interface. I don't expect lightening response over a gimped up cable modem, but funciton is function.
Will this work the other way? If I get sshd on Win32, will I be able to get at my work from home? I'm neither willing nor able to install the junky windows based clients for remote computer use that the company provides. It's not that I want to do piles of work at home, especially with the horrid tools I have to use. Being able to get at company data from home can mean I stay home when the unexpected happens at my plant. It also means a faster and more reliable response. You would think the company wants that kind of thing, but they have a hard enough time making it so that you can get at your data while you are actually there.
"gotta fly."
You don't really think that this is going to work do you? People will simply be annoyed and have to share more. Someone is going to have to pay for the increased bandwith usage and it's not Universal Music. So, Universal is stealing from cable opperators. It's like spam, but they don't even hope to make money off it.
You have not even thought that people might be trying to share files that were intended to be shared and are NOT owned by Unviersal Music. But that's like the big 5 music publishers, "No one but us can record music, right? Drool, Drool."
twitter, who has never bothered to download silly mass produced comercial music, is annoyed that Universal Music is going to waste his time. Universal, you suck.
Woops, you are a troll. Visit Mr. Silver saying:
Linux is a waste of time
you can't run with an ipod"
spam is the fault of people who respond to it
Gator does not interfere with websites
Linux on the desktop is dead Do we have a theme here? Every fifth post, Mr. Silver says something silly about Linux being hard to use, dead blah blah, some Windows thing is what you should use. Stick it, Mr Silver.
It's hard to spell when you are falling out of your chair laughing.
Well yes we do want that. If your site sucks so bad that others can put your information together in a way that other find easier and better, you have a fundamental problem that can't be legislated away. There is no constitutional right to suck. Ther is a constitutional right to free speech. These laws are only of interest to those who wish to suck, Ticket Master, RIAA and the five music publishing companies, Local Monopoly Newspapers, the four TV broadcasters and others who put billboards on every surface imaginable. They can all rot.
At the Dalas Daily News, a silly synchophant says, "That's a good idea boss, I'll do it right away to prove the concept."
Three weeks later, the boss is pleased his new browser won't go from BarkingDogs.org to the Dalas Daily News, but rather upset that it also won't go from the front page of the Dalas Daily News either.Your tag is the equivalent of "don't ever read me unless the user is able to type my name without any instruction", or simply "I'm hidden, go away".
Thanks for a fine troll.
Second, the Danish Newspaper Publisher's Association weren't concerned about search engines like Google or just a few deep links. Newsbooster did a systematic index and furthermore sold services for update-information whenever your predefined search words matched any news article.
Obviously, this says don't worry about search engines, this only affects activity such as _definition_of_search_engine_. Duh. Search engines make systematic indexes of other sites and matches user keywords to direct that index. Seach engines profit from this organizing activity by selling advertisements. Pure troll.
The whole rest of his goofey post simply restates the bogus arguments dead tree publishers are using to further enlarge the power of their copyrights. The whole idea of "you should not profit from my effort without paying me" is without merrit. Deep links are simply direct references. The web shatters many copyright concepts because it is new and different. Copyright law's governing assumption is that publishing is expensive and must be protected by an temporary exclusive franchise in order to increase the public domain. The web fundamentaly lowers those costs, forever, and copyright must be rethought. Publisher claim that they will go out of business and the public domain will dissapear unless the public domain is destroyed. Good reasoning, eh?
There is zero possiblity that Dalas will be without an internet newspaper under any conditions of copyright law. Indeed, the freer publications are to use each other's content, the more news sites you will have. They will have to compete on grounds of merit rather than who has the most money and biggest press and other things that have nothing to do with what's going on in Dalas.
But to be on the safe side, the company's lawyer advises that "while we encourage links to the Dallas Morning News site, we must request that they all go to the homepage of the site, and not directly to any interior content. If needed, you can provide with your link info on how to find the specific article of interest once they are on the homepage. We trust that this clarifies our position."
Belo is clearly run by morons.
I see a few steps I can take to improve my shelf o'computers. I'm going to move my printers to another table, remove excess wires and monitors, and other non esential materials. The insides of my boxes are clean. Smoke detectors and insurance can't hold a candle to prevention.
XML is dependent on unicode, as the US Government site's reference states. Follow the W3C to unicode ,
Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646.
Unicode is owned by Unicode Incorporated and all of it's documents and standarts are issued under a restrictive license with a unilaeral change clause:
Modification by Unicode Unicode shall have the right to modify this Agreement at any time by posting it to this site. The user may not assign any part of this Agreement without Unicodes prior written consent.
Dare I compare this evil arangement to ASCII and other predecesors? To have IBM, M$, Sun and other OWN the very format your data takes and to be able to change it and break previous implimentations at whim, and YOU may not? Who wants to be a plump nickle that any thing vaugly resembling unicode in the future will be called a "derivative" and it's distribution halted? Is this not a collusion of comercial software vendors to control information at it's most basic representation? Does anyone else here see this as the ultimate extention of copyright? Evil, Evil, Evil.
I'd rather see the US government continue to publish in the American Standard for Information Interchange. This extensible standard is no standard at all.
3D and porn, why? Most porn lacks depth.