that is the the first thing that I thought as well, it could be argued that in title 1 sec 101 subsection 1of the anti-spam bill
(c), or assist in the origination of such a message through the provision or selection of electronic mail addresses to which the transmission of such message is initiated, if--
(A) the electronic mail address of the recipient was obtained, using an automated means, from an Internet website or proprietary online service operated by another person;
- and I haven't even skimmed any hacking and/or impersonation laws (as were introduced in california) that they could be breaking
y allowing users to play a music file on 5 different computers/iPods, they undercut the user's motivation to go to the torrents for DRM-free MP3s
or amazon... they have DRM free files too -
and personally, I don't see how it dissuades anyone from torrenting or purchasing elsewhere something that they want - I can purchase or download files from elsewhere and bring them into itunes without issue AND back them up in case of a crash or hardware failure.. but I can't do that if I buy it from apple. Just being able to listen on 5 different itunes installations doesn't help that.
A medical facility that allowed an x-ray machine to expose patients to an order of magnitude more radiation than it was supposed to for any length of time would have hell to pay
you are mistaken, I have a friend whose mother was recently exposed to excess radiation and caused sever burning as well as having to go on a treatment for exposure - they make you sign a release, unless you want to go through the expensive, long and painful process of a personally filed civil suit -most people just don't do anything about it
It's even a little further than what you are stating - I am sure that MS is bringing up the argument of "prior art" which is to say that the term "app" was used far before apple decided to claim it as a term for it's programs that run on ios, they could pretty keenly parallel it as to if apple would own the rights to "PC" since it put out "power PC's" or that it owns the letter "i" because it attaches it to it's products. The term "store" isn't unique so they can only rely on "app" which has been a common term for years before ios -
i doubt the platforms would be anywhere near as ubiquitous if they charged the full cost + profit for the consoles.
considering that nintendo and sony are both currently turning profits on hardware sales and that the ability for 3rd party manufacturers would be allowed to make competing OEM parts without having to sign exclusive contracts with the console manufacturers, I think that you would see something closer to the PC market which is very competitive, if you think about the physical components in the consoles and the specs - outside of the video card it isn't THAT powerful. When you pay for a console, what you are really paying for is the integration of the OS and the ability to play licensed games on it. I recently had to replace my ps3 and if you think about it $299 seems cheap, but even at that - hd is like $50 retail, processor is custom, 256 m of RAM, 256 of VRAM, wifi card, bluray player (no recorder)... outside of the cell processor it really isn't THAT expensive. If you could somehow get a version of the sony OS on a PC that could run the signed code you could build something that is way more powerful for not much more.
I just tried it on a usb drive and I am not finding any data, the article seems to indicate that shredding programs ignore some sort of extra flash space on it, I am curious to know if that is the case because a $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb | hexdump -C | head shows nothing but zeros.
do you have to take the drive apart to access retreivable data?
Who's to say that someone isn't being naughty and spoofing your address? Or perhaps someone has sniffed enough of your wireless AP traffic to divine the password and go to town downloading crap?
the sniffing is the one that I worry about - if you search for wireless networks in my apartment you get something like 50-60 addresses, I am sure that most of them are more secure than me as well because I haven't replaced my router for quite a while, so when it comes to herd theory I might in fact be falling behind - though sniffers are so good nowadays that i don't necessarily see the justification in spending the $.
I'm not old - let's get rid of medicare until I need it - I live in san francisco, so I say cut off funding to southern california because I don't care about them.... yep that works
don't the public keys make jailbreaking irrelevant? I though that the release of the keys allows homebrewers to sign their code so that it runs w/o jailbreaking... If I am wrong feel free to tell me.
That would depend, something like a DMCA takedown notice for a piece of copywritten material like a movie or an mp3 has been to court and though there is still no real solid presidence regarding those (since most cases settle) those cases are generally acknowledged as compliant with the DMCA, this on the other doesn't really have any presidence at all.
I certainly don't promote digidesign, I have never liked anything about pro tools (sorry to friends that work there) but that is because their product sucks and not their business model. Personally, I don't use live instruments so both pro tools and cubase are just extra layers of crap and more difficult to use UI's. Most of what I do tends to be in ableton these days.
As an unfunded mandate it would effectively be a stealth tax.
It isn't in any way a tax, The government isn't getting any of the money, it is a regulation. It could be considered a stealth tax if say, the government was getting this information somehow now and it changed policy requiring ISP's to pay for the service. The retention is a further expense and not a tax- taxes are not punishments and every dollar that you don't want to have to spend isn't a tax just because you want to call it that.
Personally I would never pay for anything from steinberg after I attended a clinic from them in the early 90's where they actually said - what is the difference between a professional and an amateur artist? - it is how much money they spend on their gear. We price the software high not because it costs that much to produce or is worth that much to consumers, but to discourage those that don't want to spend the money from using a professional product.
personally, that goes against every grain of what I believe in.
Right now circumvention of any DRM for video games and systems isn't permitted by the DMCA, though come the next cycle in three years it may be permitted if the library of congress deems the DRM to be intrusive, the exceptions have already been made with music and video DVD's that circumvention of protection on discs that contain DRM that is intrusive...
The questions included things like having neglected household chores to spend more time on video games, doing poorly on a school assignment or test as a result, or playing video games to escape from problems or bad feelings.
it is still pretty stupid to name you an addict with this criteria. According to this I guess I was a reading addict, or cartoon addict, or computer addict when I was a kid in addition to a video game addict.
embedding the exif data with serial numbers is kind of a good thing - for one if your camera is stolen or lost you would be able to hopefully search for the exif profile online to see if anyone used and posted it - sometimes things go too far, that is you should be able to kill any functions outside of metadata embeds (for legal reasons more than anything, as someone who works in the legal field, removing of metadata actually puts you more at risk than scrubbing it) like location and time sending or usage stats.
what's even worse is that it's being shopped to AT&T- being a public utility the idea of redirecting cost based on usage like that is akin to charging you based on the conversation that you are having - or which phone you use.
Why are you even making a "conservatism is bad" argument here? It's the left that has been the side more firmly in favor of vigorous copyright controls and enforcement,
It's both actually - the problem is that people that own the patents and copyrights have money and money funds campaigns. More entertainment sources fund the dems so they propose **AA legislation, more money from telecom and pharma goes to conservatives - hence the argument against net neutrality and pharma patents. In the end it really isn't an argument of which side is crooked, it is which way that they are crooked.
Is it that all he did was extract the signing key from the camera itself and insert it into exif data? If so, all you would need is any valid key and you could replace any metadata you wanted for anything you wanted with any number of utilities.
Like I said though- there are tons of people that drive in wyoming, idaho, and any other number of places where population is sparse. California actually has more groupings of dense populations than most places in the country, your statemend lends itself to saying that california is underpopulated whearas it is not.
Now compare the size of the entire bay area to the size of the entire San Joaquin and you'll see what I mean about large parts of California.
yes but:
san joaquin poulation: 672,388
san francisco poulation 808,976
bay area population 6,960,079
land mass isn't everything - I am sure that a lot of ppl drive a great deal in wyoming as well.
I live in san francisco and here public transportation is generally the main mode so far as commute times go, and in the bay area as a whole that is the case, hence the 1/4 of a million people on BART every morning
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might effectively count as breaking the law
that is the the first thing that I thought as well, it could be argued that in title 1 sec 101 subsection 1of the anti-spam bill
(c), or assist in the origination of such a message through the provision or selection of electronic mail addresses to which the transmission of such message is initiated, if-- (A) the electronic mail address of the recipient was obtained, using an automated means, from an Internet website or proprietary online service operated by another person;
- and I haven't even skimmed any hacking and/or impersonation laws (as were introduced in california) that they could be breaking
y allowing users to play a music file on 5 different computers/iPods, they undercut the user's motivation to go to the torrents for DRM-free MP3s
or amazon... they have DRM free files too -
and personally, I don't see how it dissuades anyone from torrenting or purchasing elsewhere something that they want - I can purchase or download files from elsewhere and bring them into itunes without issue AND back them up in case of a crash or hardware failure.. but I can't do that if I buy it from apple. Just being able to listen on 5 different itunes installations doesn't help that.
Sports is a gateway link to terrorism hyperlinks. Just say no to hyperlinking!
A medical facility that allowed an x-ray machine to expose patients to an order of magnitude more radiation than it was supposed to for any length of time would have hell to pay
you are mistaken, I have a friend whose mother was recently exposed to excess radiation and caused sever burning as well as having to go on a treatment for exposure - they make you sign a release, unless you want to go through the expensive, long and painful process of a personally filed civil suit -most people just don't do anything about it
It's even a little further than what you are stating - I am sure that MS is bringing up the argument of "prior art" which is to say that the term "app" was used far before apple decided to claim it as a term for it's programs that run on ios, they could pretty keenly parallel it as to if apple would own the rights to "PC" since it put out "power PC's" or that it owns the letter "i" because it attaches it to it's products. The term "store" isn't unique so they can only rely on "app" which has been a common term for years before ios -
i doubt the platforms would be anywhere near as ubiquitous if they charged the full cost + profit for the consoles.
considering that nintendo and sony are both currently turning profits on hardware sales and that the ability for 3rd party manufacturers would be allowed to make competing OEM parts without having to sign exclusive contracts with the console manufacturers, I think that you would see something closer to the PC market which is very competitive, if you think about the physical components in the consoles and the specs - outside of the video card it isn't THAT powerful. When you pay for a console, what you are really paying for is the integration of the OS and the ability to play licensed games on it. I recently had to replace my ps3 and if you think about it $299 seems cheap, but even at that - hd is like $50 retail, processor is custom, 256 m of RAM, 256 of VRAM, wifi card, bluray player (no recorder)... outside of the cell processor it really isn't THAT expensive. If you could somehow get a version of the sony OS on a PC that could run the signed code you could build something that is way more powerful for not much more.
I just tried it on a usb drive and I am not finding any data, the article seems to indicate that shredding programs ignore some sort of extra flash space on it, I am curious to know if that is the case because a $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb | hexdump -C | head shows nothing but zeros.
do you have to take the drive apart to access retreivable data?
that's what I was wondering myself
Who's to say that someone isn't being naughty and spoofing your address? Or perhaps someone has sniffed enough of your wireless AP traffic to divine the password and go to town downloading crap?
the sniffing is the one that I worry about - if you search for wireless networks in my apartment you get something like 50-60 addresses, I am sure that most of them are more secure than me as well because I haven't replaced my router for quite a while, so when it comes to herd theory I might in fact be falling behind - though sniffers are so good nowadays that i don't necessarily see the justification in spending the $.
spend other people's money on stuff you want.
I'm not old - let's get rid of medicare until I need it - I live in san francisco, so I say cut off funding to southern california because I don't care about them.... yep that works
why couldn't I be on this case.
don't the public keys make jailbreaking irrelevant? I though that the release of the keys allows homebrewers to sign their code so that it runs w/o jailbreaking ... If I am wrong feel free to tell me.
That would depend, something like a DMCA takedown notice for a piece of copywritten material like a movie or an mp3 has been to court and though there is still no real solid presidence regarding those (since most cases settle) those cases are generally acknowledged as compliant with the DMCA, this on the other doesn't really have any presidence at all.
I certainly don't promote digidesign, I have never liked anything about pro tools (sorry to friends that work there) but that is because their product sucks and not their business model. Personally, I don't use live instruments so both pro tools and cubase are just extra layers of crap and more difficult to use UI's. Most of what I do tends to be in ableton these days.
As an unfunded mandate it would effectively be a stealth tax.
It isn't in any way a tax, The government isn't getting any of the money, it is a regulation. It could be considered a stealth tax if say, the government was getting this information somehow now and it changed policy requiring ISP's to pay for the service. The retention is a further expense and not a tax- taxes are not punishments and every dollar that you don't want to have to spend isn't a tax just because you want to call it that.
Personally I would never pay for anything from steinberg after I attended a clinic from them in the early 90's where they actually said - what is the difference between a professional and an amateur artist? - it is how much money they spend on their gear. We price the software high not because it costs that much to produce or is worth that much to consumers, but to discourage those that don't want to spend the money from using a professional product.
personally, that goes against every grain of what I believe in.
Right now circumvention of any DRM for video games and systems isn't permitted by the DMCA, though come the next cycle in three years it may be permitted if the library of congress deems the DRM to be intrusive, the exceptions have already been made with music and video DVD's that circumvention of protection on discs that contain DRM that is intrusive...
The questions included things like having neglected household chores to spend more time on video games, doing poorly on a school assignment or test as a result, or playing video games to escape from problems or bad feelings.
it is still pretty stupid to name you an addict with this criteria. According to this I guess I was a reading addict, or cartoon addict, or computer addict when I was a kid in addition to a video game addict.
embedding the exif data with serial numbers is kind of a good thing - for one if your camera is stolen or lost you would be able to hopefully search for the exif profile online to see if anyone used and posted it - sometimes things go too far, that is you should be able to kill any functions outside of metadata embeds (for legal reasons more than anything, as someone who works in the legal field, removing of metadata actually puts you more at risk than scrubbing it) like location and time sending or usage stats.
what's even worse is that it's being shopped to AT&T- being a public utility the idea of redirecting cost based on usage like that is akin to charging you based on the conversation that you are having - or which phone you use.
Why are you even making a "conservatism is bad" argument here? It's the left that has been the side more firmly in favor of vigorous copyright controls and enforcement,
It's both actually - the problem is that people that own the patents and copyrights have money and money funds campaigns. More entertainment sources fund the dems so they propose **AA legislation, more money from telecom and pharma goes to conservatives - hence the argument against net neutrality and pharma patents. In the end it really isn't an argument of which side is crooked, it is which way that they are crooked.
Is it that all he did was extract the signing key from the camera itself and insert it into exif data? If so, all you would need is any valid key and you could replace any metadata you wanted for anything you wanted with any number of utilities.
Like I said though- there are tons of people that drive in wyoming, idaho, and any other number of places where population is sparse. California actually has more groupings of dense populations than most places in the country, your statemend lends itself to saying that california is underpopulated whearas it is not.
Now compare the size of the entire bay area to the size of the entire San Joaquin and you'll see what I mean about large parts of California.
yes but:
san joaquin poulation: 672,388
san francisco poulation 808,976
bay area population 6,960,079
land mass isn't everything - I am sure that a lot of ppl drive a great deal in wyoming as well.
Not very feasible in large parts of California.
I live in san francisco and here public transportation is generally the main mode so far as commute times go, and in the bay area as a whole that is the case, hence the 1/4 of a million people on BART every morning