Wow, that was a really thoughtful reply. I am not sure that I grasp your treatment of unethical vs. immoral, I'll have to think about it. Regarding civil disobedience, look at the Boston Tea Party. The colonists were not against tea, they were against unfair taxation and since they had no voice in government they were trying to change things in the only way they could.
The folks at downhillbattle.org would strongly disagree with you about how much control the media moguls exert over distribution.
I agree completely. The big media have launched a major propaganda war. We should fight back with all we've got, i.e. boycott, download, show them as the corrupt bastards they are. Groups like EFF are doing a good job fighting them in court, but the organizers of GreyTuesday mobilizing the grass roots. Spread the word.
If I put hard work into making music, you have no right to profit off that work by remixing that music without seeking permission first.
Copyright was meant to provide an incentive to artists, not an unlimited monopoly to corporations.
"...That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
- THOMAS JEFFERSON
"
"...NONE of these people read the book,... I own the book and have read it- or as much as I could."
Well, I guess that makes you quite the authority. Stephen Jay Gould read the entire book, understood it, and exposed its faulty reasoning in detail.
The Bell Curve was crappy science. The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition of the IQ industry, should be required reading. Gould's brilliant, funny, engaging prose dissects the motivations behind those who would judge intelligence, and hence worth, by cranial size, convolutions, or score on extremely narrow tests [from Amazon review].
The moon belongs to everyone The best things in life are free, The stars belong to everyone They gleam there for you and me. The flowers in Spring, The robins that sing, The sunbeams that shine They're yours, They're mine! And love can come to everyone, The best things in life are free.
Congratulations! Life will now be a breeze because from now on it is all down hill.
Here are a few tips that you may find useful:
As you ascend to greater wisdom and higher perspective, you will tend to attach less importance the tedious and repetitive tasks such as house cleaning and personal hygene. While this demonstrates a certain maturity, you should not be surprised when your friends (those who are not dead yet) start avoiding you.
With increasing frequency you will find yourself lost in conversations which you a)cannot hear and b) wouldn't understand anyway. When this happens you can salvage the situation by steering the conversation back to a topic that you feel comfortable with. For example, suppose you are with a group of young people and someone says something like, "... those slurry fazbots are asfdfhsking and grrrtweep the memstix!". You chime in with, "I remember when we used to back up data with floppy disks. Those were the good old days. Of course applications were smaller back then. We weren't spoiled like todays kids are (no offense). No, we made every byte count. Why I remember when I could fit an entire program onto a single floppy...". Believe me, you will be the life of the party.
Speaking of parties, I, um, that is. Well, it will come back to me. See you later, thanks for calling.
This is as much a propaganda
war as it is a legal battle.
What do you think of my idea for a flier?
Pirates or Heroes?
Media giants are portraying as "pirates" those who copy and exchange
copyrighted materials. History may well portray them differently.
In 1773, the British government granted special tax status to
the East India Company, at the expense of colonial merchants.
The revolt that followed, the Boston Tea Party, was condemmed
by the British government, but today those responsible are widely
regarded as heroes.
Lobbied by the media giants, the U.S. Congress has extended Copyright
beyond what is constitutional. The pro-big-business Supreme Court has
upheld the extension.
Here are the words of Supreme Court Justice Breyer, dissenting:
The U.S. Constitution's Copyright Clause grants Congress
the power to "promote the Progress of Science... by se-
curing for LIMITED TIMES TO AUTHORS... the exclusive Right
to their respective Writings.."
The statute before us, the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term
Extension Act, extends the term of most existing copyrights
to 95 years and that of many new copyrights to 70 years after
the author's death. The economic effect of this 20-year extension,
the longest blanket extension since the Nation's founding, is
to make the copyright term not limited, but virtually perpetual.
Its primary legal effect is to grant the extended term not to
authors, but to their heirs, estates, or corporate successors.
And most importantly, its practical effect is not to
promote, but to inhibit, the progress of Science, by
which word the Framers meant learning or knowledge...
Media is being created that cannot be copied, even for the purpose of backup.
DVD's purchased in one country cannot be played in another.
"Defective" CDs are being sold that will not play on a computer CD player.
Your idea is a good one. There are a number of ways that it could be implemented. It would not require micropayments if the payments were not "cashed" when the email is non-spam.
One implementation is documented here .
There have been several academic articles also.
Re:Spam will be eliminated by online payments
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ubiquitous... and everyone will be using them
Hmm, I guess that's redundant. Where is the grammar cop?
Spam will be eliminated by online payments
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Eventually online payment systems will be ubiquitous and easy to use and everyone will be using them. When that happens spam will be dead. Email clients will be configurable to require "postage" with any incoming email. The recipient will push a button to "cash the check" if he or she determines that the incoming email is spam.
Has anyone been able to use ange-ftp with sftp or some other openssh ftp program?
I tried setting ange-ftp-ftp-program-name to sftp
but sftp does not recognize the -i option.
Has anyone considered a new model for patents
whereby the length of the patent would be proportional to the amount of research time/money
expended? And/or inversely proportional to the hobbling effect of said patent on society? Saying, in effect, 'you can make a profit but you cannot get filthy rich and you cannot impose an undue burden on society'?
Let's see if I can paraphrase Godel correctly: Any formal language which is powerful enough to describe basic arithmetic, is also powerful enough to describe theorems which cannot be proven or disproven within the constraints of that language.
So any higher math will necessarily require a meta-language, e.g. English, in order to prove its theorems.
What is a proof? According to the famous mathematician Errett Bishop it is any completely convincing argument.
Slashdot Mirror
The folks at downhillbattle.org would strongly disagree with you about how much control the media moguls exert over distribution.
I agree completely. The big media have launched a major propaganda war. We should fight back with all we've got, i.e. boycott, download, show them as the corrupt bastards they are. Groups like EFF are doing a good job fighting them in court, but the organizers of GreyTuesday mobilizing the grass roots. Spread the word.
Copyright was meant to provide an incentive to artists, not an unlimited monopoly to corporations.
For more good quotes go to Center for the Public Domain"...NONE of these people read the book, ... I own the book and have read it- or as much as I could."
Well, I guess that makes you quite the authority. Stephen Jay Gould read the entire book, understood it, and exposed its faulty reasoning in detail.
The Bell Curve was crappy science.
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition of the IQ industry, should be required reading. Gould's brilliant, funny, engaging prose dissects the motivations behind those who would judge intelligence, and hence worth, by cranial size, convolutions, or score on extremely narrow tests [from Amazon review].
The moon belongs to everyone
The best things in life are free,
The stars belong to everyone
They gleam there for you and me.
The flowers in Spring,
The robins that sing,
The sunbeams that shine
They're yours,
They're mine!
And love can come to everyone,
The best things in life are free.
Congratulations! Life will now be a breeze because from now on it is
...". Believe me, you will be the life of the
all down hill.
Here are a few tips that you may find useful:
As you ascend to greater wisdom and higher perspective,
you will tend to attach less importance the tedious and repetitive
tasks such as house cleaning and personal hygene. While this
demonstrates a certain maturity, you should not be surprised
when your friends (those who are not dead yet) start avoiding
you.
With increasing frequency you will find yourself lost in
conversations which you a)cannot hear and b) wouldn't
understand anyway. When this happens you can salvage the
situation by steering the conversation back to a topic that
you feel comfortable with. For example, suppose you are
with a group of young people and someone says something like,
"... those slurry fazbots are asfdfhsking and grrrtweep the memstix!".
You chime in with, "I remember when we used to back up data
with floppy disks. Those were the good old days. Of course
applications were smaller back then. We weren't spoiled like
todays kids are (no offense). No, we made every byte count.
Why I remember when I could fit an entire program onto a
single floppy
party.
Speaking of parties, I, um, that is. Well, it will come
back to me. See you later, thanks for calling.
For a truly breathtaking vision of the future
read Vernor Vinge.
A Fire upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
Marooned in Realtime
This article is very relevant to this discussion: http://www.eff.org/IP//against_ip.article
Pirates or Heroes?
Media giants are portraying as "pirates" those who copy and exchange copyrighted materials. History may well portray them differently. In 1773, the British government granted special tax status to the East India Company, at the expense of colonial merchants. The revolt that followed, the Boston Tea Party, was condemmed by the British government, but today those responsible are widely regarded as heroes.
Lobbied by the media giants, the U.S. Congress has extended Copyright beyond what is constitutional. The pro-big-business Supreme Court has upheld the extension. Here are the words of Supreme Court Justice Breyer, dissenting:
Media is being created that cannot be copied, even for the purpose of backup. DVD's purchased in one country cannot be played in another. "Defective" CDs are being sold that will not play on a computer CD player.
No, leave it to the email clients to delete unstamped mail.
See for example hashcash and camram
Well said.
Your idea is a good one. There are a number of ways that it could be implemented. It would not require micropayments if the payments were not "cashed" when the email is non-spam. One implementation is documented here . There have been several academic articles also.
ubiquitous ... and everyone will be using them
Hmm, I guess that's redundant. Where is the grammar cop?
Eventually online payment systems will be ubiquitous and easy to use and everyone will be using them. When that happens spam will be dead. Email clients will be configurable to require "postage" with any incoming email. The recipient will push a button to "cash the check" if he or she determines that the incoming email is spam.
Moderating this post as Flamebait or Trolling constitutes and act of Flamebaiting!
-1 grammar
Actually, the government only taxes the profit on the money you invest.
Has anyone been able to use ange-ftp with sftp or some other openssh ftp program? I tried setting ange-ftp-ftp-program-name to sftp but sftp does not recognize the -i option.
Well let's see ... books can be stolen, cars kill people, but of course those are just minor (ha ha) differences.
For an introduction to the steamy side of India's cultural heritage.
Has anyone considered a new model for patents whereby the length of the patent would be proportional to the amount of research time/money expended? And/or inversely proportional to the hobbling effect of said patent on society? Saying, in effect, 'you can make a profit but you cannot get filthy rich and you cannot impose an undue burden on society'?
That is very naive. This exploit is difficult to detect, and a real cyber-thief would not advertise his or her activities.
PS: this is not a flame.
So any higher math will necessarily require a meta-language, e.g. English, in order to prove its theorems.
What is a proof? According to the famous mathematician Errett Bishop it is any completely convincing argument.
but it does not mention micropayments. See my other comment.