As a web author, I've sent copyright infringement complaints to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, the FCC and the Department of Justice, complaining that the practice is felony copyright infringement for which Charter should be prosecuted.
Can someone tell me whether Charter is inserting any ads? If they are, I want to complain to the Attorney General and to my CongressCritters about felony copyright infringement.
Actually, it's true for anyone who works with documents or other text -- like my wife, who is an attorney. And lots of the wide-screens don't have enough depth that dual-portrait-landscape is really usable. And landscape is plain inadequate for serious document work on those.
Rumor has it that Google's programmers use dual 24-inch monitors--side by side, in portrait instead of landscape.
That gives you 120-line edit windows easily, with room
for multiple edit windows side-by-side.
Btw, at the office are you running Linux or Windows? If the former, you can add a "virtual display" line to your xorg.conf file that will give you a bigger screen area that you can pan around in with your mouse. UI do a lot of very high res environmental modeling, so I use a *huge* 3200x2400virtual display. That part of my xorg.conf looks like:
IANAL, but... Copyright *exists already* as soon as the activity is recorded. Registering the copyright is expensive (as others have noted), but substantially increases the penalties for infringement. Even without registration, though, the law supports injunctions to prevent further infringement and supports some level of damages (but not prison time for the infringer).
As I read it, the assemblage of what actions I take over the
Internet is an original work composed by me. Under the Berne
Copyright Convention, as implemented in the US Copyright Act
(USC Title 17), it is a work authored by, and automatically
copyrighted by me (post-Berne, registration is not necessary;
it just ups the penalties for violations).
Distributing that record or any derivative work
thereof (including summaries)
is a copyright violation. And I personally have standing
to sue.
Not what the WIPO had in mind, perhaps, but it's a tool they gave me...
What I don't understand is why the following sort of argument
shouldn't work:
The amalgamation of the set of links I follow and the set of queries I make is a literary work that I own, under the Berne copyright treaty. (Note that I'm not talking about the content found at the links but rather the set of links themselves).
Therefore it is my copyright work, and selling it to a third party is copyright infringement
to which both civil and criminal penalties should be applied.
No, we do know how to do it: it's just that it's an NP-complete problem, so complex that it is only feasible to apply for really tiny programs. The general solution would not be useful even if compilers had computers 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as fast as today's, to do the parallel-decomposition-and-compile on.
And frankly, it helps a lot to write code that is microprocessor-friendly to begin with:
Algorithms are important; that's where the biggest wins usually are.
Memory is much slower than the processors, and is organized hierarchically.
ALU's are superscalar and pipelined;
Current processors can have as many as 100 instructions simultaneously executing in different stages of execution, so avoid data dependencies that break the pipeline.
Parallel "gotchas" are at the bottom of this list...
If the node-code is bad enough, it can make any parallelism look good to the user. But writing good node-code is hard;-( As a reviewer, I have recommended rejection for a parallel-processing paper that claimed 80% parallel efficiency on 16 processors for the author's air-quality model.
But I knew of a well-coded equivalent model that outperformed
the paper's 16-processor model-result on a single processor --
and still got 75% efficiency on 16 processors (better than 10x the paper-author's timing).
The supreme lw of the land says "for a limited time".
Tell me:
When does that encryption expire? For that matter, is the term of copyright "limited" in human terms? (Name ten works whose copyright term has expired in your lifetime.)
It doesn't expire. The DMCA is unConstitutional on its face. The RIAA are trying to enforce an illegal law. Enforced by a corrupt judicial system.
Both the claim that *all* use requires permission, and the claim that *all* photographs and recordings (regardless of whether from their broadcasts) require their permission are claims contradictory to copyright law, and in fact according to the US Supreme Court are claims contrary to the Constitution. Under the circumstances (given their professional stnding) we my assume that they are deliberately and knowingly false claims, i.e., FRAUD.
The NFL's absolutist position on copyright (*no* use without permission) is contrary to both the copyright law itselfand in fact to the Constitution. In particular, "fair use" is a Constituional concept: in its original decision that established the doctrine of Fair Use, the Supreme Court said that Congress may not pass a copyright act so restrictive that it destroys freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Inasmuch as that is within the purview of the NFL's business, their statements about this are under law assumed to be deliberate and in full knowledge of that relevant law. Therefore, one must assume that the NFL's fraudulent claims of absolute control under the copyright act are a deliberate and knowing attempt to defraud the public. For that fraud, the NFL should be prosecuted.
IANAL, but the US Supreme Court says that the Constitution protects anonymous speech--the case is MacIntyre vs. Ohio State Election Commission. As an attorney, Niro damned well should know that fact. Given that, his conduct is utterly reprehensible.
You don't understand software development, do you?... You can't test every possible edge case
I am an environmental modeling software engineer with more than 20 years experience. Let me tell you: You damned well should engineer clean interfaces that can be properly tested. If Apple had done so, this kind of problem would not have occurred. What we are seeing with Apple here
(and with DRM in general) is hacking, not engineering.
Particularly given that the sony root-kit was shown to have affected
many computers on the ".mil" domain, and considering just how hard
it is to eradicate, I don't see how this fails to violate the Federal
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- and in particular the Federal Interest
Computer provisions. See http://www.cpsr.org/prevsite/cpsr/privacy/crime/fraud.act.txt
It is a felony. From where I sit, it looks to me like
someone at Sony should be doing ten years in the slammer. Or perhaps
(since it is a "person") Sony itself should be given the Corporate Death Penalty.
One of the most insightful students of the American psyche is Alexis de Tocqueville. He observed the American penchant for volunteer cooperative
organizations, starting with volunteer fire departments and going from there.
He said this volunteerism is unique, not found anywhere else in the world (not even neighboring Canada, which he also studied).
Open source software is an extension of this uniquely American practice of using voluntary cooperative associations to do what is needed -- and now extended world-wide by the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm rather more trustful of http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080513-charter-enhances-internet-service-with-targeted-ads.html/ Ars Technica's coverage...
I suggest you do the same.
Can someone tell me whether Charter is inserting any ads? If they are, I want to complain to the Attorney General and to my CongressCritters about felony copyright infringement.
Should have been Mandriva PowerPack. That's what's on my various desks -- all 4 of them.
Actually, it's true for anyone who works with documents or other text -- like my wife, who is an attorney. And lots of the wide-screens don't have enough depth that dual-portrait-landscape is really usable. And landscape is plain inadequate for serious document work on those.
Amen! (to keep Slashdot happy ;-( )
And I don't recommend that large a virtual display for general-purpose use; things can get "lost" in the corners ;-(
IANAL, but... Copyright *exists already* as soon as the activity is recorded. Registering the copyright is expensive (as others have noted), but substantially increases the penalties for infringement. Even without registration, though, the law supports injunctions to prevent further infringement and supports some level of damages (but not prison time for the infringer).
As I read it, the assemblage of what actions I take over the Internet is an original work composed by me. Under the Berne Copyright Convention, as implemented in the US Copyright Act (USC Title 17), it is a work authored by, and automatically copyrighted by me (post-Berne, registration is not necessary; it just ups the penalties for violations).
Distributing that record or any derivative work thereof (including summaries) is a copyright violation. And I personally have standing to sue.
Not what the WIPO had in mind, perhaps, but it's a tool they gave me...
And frankly, it helps a lot to write code that is microprocessor-friendly to begin with:
If the node-code is bad enough, it can make any parallelism look good to the user. But writing good node-code is hard;-( As a reviewer, I have recommended rejection for a parallel-processing paper that claimed 80% parallel efficiency on 16 processors for the author's air-quality model. But I knew of a well-coded equivalent model that outperformed the paper's 16-processor model-result on a single processor -- and still got 75% efficiency on 16 processors (better than 10x the paper-author's timing).
fwiw.
"was broken != "expired".
It doesn't expire. The DMCA is unConstitutional on its face. The RIAA are trying to enforce an illegal law. Enforced by a corrupt judicial system.
fwiw
Both the claim that *all* use requires permission, and the claim that *all* photographs and recordings (regardless of whether from their broadcasts) require their permission are claims contradictory to copyright law, and in fact according to the US Supreme Court are claims contrary to the Constitution. Under the circumstances (given their professional stnding) we my assume that they are deliberately and knowingly false claims, i.e., FRAUD.
The NFL's absolutist position on copyright (*no* use without permission) is contrary to both the copyright law itselfand in fact to the Constitution. In particular, "fair use" is a Constituional concept: in its original decision that established the doctrine of Fair Use, the Supreme Court said that Congress may not pass a copyright act so restrictive that it destroys freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Inasmuch as that is within the purview of the NFL's business, their statements about this are under law assumed to be deliberate and in full knowledge of that relevant law. Therefore, one must assume that the NFL's fraudulent claims of absolute control under the copyright act are a deliberate and knowing attempt to defraud the public. For that fraud, the NFL should be prosecuted.
The Supreme Court would seem to agree with you -- MacIntyre vs Ohio: The right to anonymous speech is Constitutionally protected.
IANAL, but the US Supreme Court says that the Constitution protects anonymous speech--the case is MacIntyre vs. Ohio State Election Commission. As an attorney, Niro damned well should know that fact. Given that, his conduct is utterly reprehensible.
I am an environmental modeling software engineer with more than 20 years experience. Let me tell you: You damned well should engineer clean interfaces that can be properly tested. If Apple had done so, this kind of problem would not have occurred. What we are seeing with Apple here (and with DRM in general) is hacking, not engineering.
fwiw.
Easy to change /etc/fstab after you get there...
--fwiw
It is a felony. From where I sit, it looks to me like someone at Sony should be doing ten years in the slammer. Or perhaps (since it is a "person") Sony itself should be given the Corporate Death Penalty.
fwiw
One of the most insightful students of the American psyche is Alexis de Tocqueville. He observed the American penchant for volunteer cooperative organizations, starting with volunteer fire departments and going from there. He said this volunteerism is unique, not found anywhere else in the world (not even neighboring Canada, which he also studied).
Open source software is an extension of this uniquely American practice of using voluntary cooperative associations to do what is needed -- and now extended world-wide by the Internet.