Well really since we got Sega, RIAA, and DC all sending letters to people with certain content on their websites I think this calls for a new program. This will take from the Big Buisness a list of words or links to specific files. The program takes those words and does searches over at Google. Gets the results and grabs those webpages. If should any of those should contain the 'Content' then the program would do a lookup of the webaddress in the whois database and compile a list of contact information. Once this is done the file is automatically emailed to a specific email address (The lawyers?) and from there C&D letters are then mailed to the websites. This would of course be gpl'd so we can extend the product til l we have C&D 2000 which formats the letters prints them out (with postage) and are mailed out by the lawyers secretary. So whose with me on this one?
What i'm trying to tell you US Currency is NOT backed by gold. Or anything for that matter. That is why there is inflation if everyone raises their prices on certain good the value of money falls. I can't remember the exact word but it means our money is a 'Faith' money.
What do you maen "real". Digital Money will just be made so it's difficult to forge. It won't be backed by anything else . Just like now it's 'hard' to print fake money and you can also goto jail for years if found guilty. But if you do print a perfect forgerie then it's money and noone would be the wiser. Our money system is based on the idea it's worth something. Also on the intrest rates at which banks borrow from the federal reserve. So really digital money will be the same, we will have safeguard measures so it's hard to fake and severe punishments if caught. Look at Check Cards those really are digital money...
Employee: "Sorry I was late to work today boss. I wrote this new Linux program in my free time and it was posted on slashdot, the resulting traffic to my house slashdotted my house" Boss: "Oh it's no problem, I had a party last week and our toilet was slashdotted"
Nice knee jerk post. The discussion really hasn't leaned torwards what you state. It's mostly been on the nature and language of this law, which does not take in account monetary damages. It's sorta like you said, but you walk into my house and take something like my remote control and leave, causing me roughly 20$ in damages. Then the state prosecutes you for a felony charges you a 10,000$ fine and throws you in jail for 10 years.
Are you saying it should be a felony with a 10,000$ fine with minimum sentance of 20 years in prison if you are found to know/link/distrbute Decss point being. Law Enforcement will NEVER prevent this 'problem'. Taking an idividual and making an example of them because they happened to get caught and it's hard to catch others is not a basis for extreme punishment. Plus i don't think extreme RARE punishments are an effective deterant for hard to catch crimes. People break windows cause it's hard to prove who did it if noone was around to see you. So even if they did up the penalty for breaking windows people would be like "it's too easy to do this, and too hard to catch so it will never happen to me". Why do you think theres so much pirating of software. I do believe the penalties are pretty tough but WHO is going to catch you.
To me this seems like cruel and unusual punishment.
I mean lets say you steal a candy bar at a store. They're not gonna throw you in jail for 10 years and charge you 10,000$ in fines, because of a 60|cent candy bar. Thats just cruel. So lets say you only do like 100$ worth of damage in some cracking incident. Then because of that you gotta start putting that on your job aplications and such. OUCH! Punishment should fit the crime.
I think the obvious thing is. He doesn't think this is an invention. I would recommend just not signing it over tell them it's not an invention. Therefore he wouldn't need to sign it. He would just have to sign something saying he did not view this 'whatever' is not an invention.
You know when phone rates drop with the big long distance carriers people don't really save money. The reason being, they talk LONGER. They end up spending the same about the same amount of money. So if you apply that same logic. The TIME COST of downloading something becomes less so they will spend the same amount of time downloading but it will just be more things.
1. Lots and LOTS and LOTS LOTS of people trade pirated music on napsters service. 2. So many in fact and so rampant that when the judge granted an injunction against napster telling them to stop the trade of RIAAs copyrighted material they had to shut down the service becuase of the copyrighting. 3. Napster doesn't want to lose the amount of users this is why they are opposing this in court because they would lose 80% of their users if you couldnt' get the latest nsync or metallic. So they could start throwing ads in the client and reach some 30 million people with Ads.
Theres the inherent problem. This is like having a pizza parolor that can let 30 MIllion mobsters luander money meet and buy a pizza while they're there (hmmm maybe thats where 'Papa' Johns came from so fast). Napster doesn't want to lose their 'little mobsters' cause those people trading music are some 69 million eyes (some people only have 1 eye give or take 100 thousand) and alot of ad revune.
Anyway theres the problem. The judge will never force napster to shut down. They will force them to prevent their users form trading music the owner of the copyright doesn't want traded. If napster shutsdown because they can't facilitate preventing illegal acts on their service then thats their own fault
I dunno if this has already been said but do we want the os to control access to mics and video cameras for ui purposes especially with microsofts entrenchment in the computer os market. we have companys like realplayer etc that HAVE been known to send back information without our notification do we really need some company hijacking feeds from my computer? I know this sounds overly parnoid but hey food for thought. -Brian Peace
Ask the venture capitalist? ohh so thats where all the Internet startup money is going... military coups!! hmm i need to get more info on this... Are there any military coups going public soon? -Brian Peace mmmm sarcasim
Speaking of security. I have had significant problems with my university lately. Cameron University in Lawton, Ok (www.cameron.edu). Ever since these DDos attacks have been all over the news, The admins here have gone completely crazy. First I lost my hostsname (kirk.cameron.edu) because there was 'consentful/unconsentful' traffic coming to my computer and i was running a web server. So I hookedup with kirk.dyndns.org. Then they turned off all incoming/outgoing traffic to my ip address. I notified them after changing IP's, and they're reason being is so I would contact them. I had been running a 'server' without the net admins consent and they wanted to notify me. I requested a meetting with the network admin citing that I was not in violation of any AUPs namely cameron.edu's AUP and onenet.net (our provider) AUP. I have since been given the run around and have since had all incoming traffic cut off, ie you can't telnet in or hit my webserver. All of this in the name of security. I have also not been able to secure a meeting with the net admin. I know see them going completely crazy over 'security' now although I know i run my server much better than there own (ie. daemon9.cameron.edu) which ahd the php3 status page sitting up all day yesterday. This hysteria reminds me of what happened after Columnbine schools have since rushed to provide better 'security' and in alot of instances have gone over board like that school who required students to wear id badges with their SSN encoded on the front. I know see this happening here at my school with 'computer' security. Sigh! -Brian Peace
Heres the consituents opinion line for both the Virgina House of Delegates and Virgina senate. (800) 889-0229 Please all virginia voters please call and voice your opinion, Before the senate gets a chance to vote on this. One thing to note is AOL headquarters is Dulles, VA right over there near ashburn. So instead of letting the big companies like AOL and they're lobbiers deciding this for us pleae let your legislator know.
I do belive since the big crash during the depression when this very thing happened (people taking so much money out of the banks causing panic) they have created laws so if people start taking too much money out they will just close the banks, and the banks for seeing this will have more cash than usual on hand. Or maybe we'll get another bank holiday. There WILL be special measures taken by the goverment for things like this... I hope -Brian
I am a 19 years old and I live in Northern Virgina. I am working for a Temp agency and have had a variety of jobs through them. Currently I am working for a large Gas company. When I first got here they had us hand checking problem accounts, when they found out I knew alot of about databases and use to do alot of web/database stuff they had me learn access and finish a tracking system for these ~30,000 problem accounts. It assigns work to the employees and has various status. Bottom line is I'm making 10.50$ an hour and feel i should be making more. How much more is the question. I am only going to be working here for 2 more months (I am going back to school in Lawton, OK [IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY GOOD JOBS OUT IN OK LET ME KNOW PLEASE!]) I do alot of work with access, designing tables, queries, reports. I built an excel spreadsheet with MS Query and we run all reports from there. so PLEASE tell me what roughly i should be making if anything more! And maybe if you all know of anything good out in Oklahoma. -Brian
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Sounds like slashdot and their default password bug -Brian Peace
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Boss: "Oh it's no problem, I had a party last week and our toilet was slashdotted"
oh the future!
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This is exactly what a Civil Case is for, recovering damages. That includes your time and your fustrations etc..
Nice knee jerk post. The discussion really hasn't leaned torwards what you state. It's mostly been on the nature and language of this law, which does not take in account monetary damages. It's sorta like you said, but you walk into my house and take something like my remote control and leave, causing me roughly 20$ in damages. Then the state prosecutes you for a felony charges you a 10,000$ fine and throws you in jail for 10 years.
Are you saying it should be a felony with a 10,000$ fine with minimum sentance of 20 years in prison if you are found to know/link/distrbute Decss point being. Law Enforcement will NEVER prevent this 'problem'. Taking an idividual and making an example of them because they happened to get caught and it's hard to catch others is not a basis for extreme punishment. Plus i don't think extreme RARE punishments are an effective deterant for hard to catch crimes. People break windows cause it's hard to prove who did it if noone was around to see you. So even if they did up the penalty for breaking windows people would be like "it's too easy to do this, and too hard to catch so it will never happen to me". Why do you think theres so much pirating of software. I do believe the penalties are pretty tough but WHO is going to catch you.
-Brian Peace
To me this seems like cruel and unusual punishment.
I mean lets say you steal a candy bar at a store. They're not gonna throw you in jail for 10 years and charge you 10,000$ in fines, because of a 60|cent candy bar. Thats just cruel. So lets say you only do like 100$ worth of damage in some cracking incident. Then because of that you gotta start putting that on your job aplications and such. OUCH! Punishment should fit the crime.
I think the obvious thing is. He doesn't think this is an invention. I would recommend just not signing it over tell them it's not an invention. Therefore he wouldn't need to sign it. He would just have to sign something saying he did not view this 'whatever' is not an invention.
-Brian Peace
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not really the argument is thus:
1. Lots and LOTS and LOTS LOTS of people trade pirated music on napsters service.
2. So many in fact and so rampant that when the judge granted an injunction against napster telling them to stop the trade of RIAAs copyrighted material they had to shut down the service becuase of the copyrighting.
3. Napster doesn't want to lose the amount of users this is why they are opposing this in court because they would lose 80% of their users if you couldnt' get the latest nsync or metallic. So they could start throwing ads in the client and reach some 30 million people with Ads.
Theres the inherent problem. This is like having a pizza parolor that can let 30 MIllion mobsters luander money meet and buy a pizza while they're there (hmmm maybe thats where 'Papa' Johns came from so fast). Napster doesn't want to lose their 'little mobsters' cause those people trading music are some 69 million eyes (some people only have 1 eye give or take 100 thousand) and alot of ad revune.
Anyway theres the problem. The judge will never force napster to shut down. They will force them to prevent their users form trading music the owner of the copyright doesn't want traded. If napster shutsdown because they can't facilitate preventing illegal acts on their service then thats their own fault
-Brian Peace
I dunno if this has already been said but do we want the os to control access to mics and video cameras for ui purposes especially with microsofts entrenchment in the computer os market. we have companys like realplayer etc that HAVE been known to send back information without our notification do we really need some company hijacking feeds from my computer?
I know this sounds overly parnoid but hey food for thought.
-Brian Peace
Ask the venture capitalist? ohh so thats where all the Internet startup money is going... military coups!! hmm i need to get more info on this... Are there any military coups going public soon? -Brian Peace mmmm sarcasim
Speaking of security. I have had significant problems with my university lately. Cameron University in Lawton, Ok (www.cameron.edu). Ever since these DDos attacks have been all over the news, The admins here have gone completely crazy. First I lost my hostsname (kirk.cameron.edu) because there was 'consentful/unconsentful' traffic coming to my computer and i was running a web server. So I hookedup with kirk.dyndns.org. Then they turned off all incoming/outgoing traffic to my ip address. I notified them after changing IP's, and they're reason being is so I would contact them. I had been running a 'server' without the net admins consent and they wanted to notify me. I requested a meetting with the network admin citing that I was not in violation of any AUPs namely cameron.edu's AUP and onenet.net (our provider) AUP. I have since been given the run around and have since had all incoming traffic cut off, ie you can't telnet in or hit my webserver. All of this in the name of security. I have also not been able to secure a meeting with the net admin. I know see them going completely crazy over 'security' now although I know i run my server much better than there own (ie. daemon9.cameron.edu) which ahd the php3 status page sitting up all day yesterday. This hysteria reminds me of what happened after Columnbine schools have since rushed to provide better 'security' and in alot of instances have gone over board like that school who required students to wear id badges with their SSN encoded on the front. I know see this happening here at my school with 'computer' security. Sigh! -Brian Peace
Heres the consituents opinion line for both the Virgina House of Delegates and Virgina senate.
(800) 889-0229
Please all virginia voters please call and voice your opinion, Before the senate gets a chance to vote on this. One thing to note is AOL headquarters is Dulles, VA right over there near ashburn. So instead of letting the big companies like AOL and they're lobbiers deciding this for us pleae let your legislator know.
-Brian Peace
I do belive since the big crash during the depression when this very thing happened (people taking so much money out of the banks causing panic) they have created laws so if people start taking too much money out they will just close the banks, and the banks for seeing this will have more cash than usual on hand. Or maybe we'll get another bank holiday. There WILL be special measures taken by the goverment for things like this... I hope -Brian
I am a 19 years old and I live in Northern Virgina. I am working for a Temp agency and have had a variety of jobs through them. Currently I am working for a large Gas company. When I first got here they had us hand checking problem accounts, when they found out I knew alot of about databases and use to do alot of web/database stuff they had me learn access and finish a tracking system for these ~30,000 problem accounts. It assigns work to the employees and has various status. Bottom line is I'm making 10.50$ an hour and feel i should be making more. How much more is the question. I am only going to be working here for 2 more months (I am going back to school in Lawton, OK [IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY GOOD JOBS OUT IN OK LET ME KNOW PLEASE!]) I do alot of work with access, designing tables, queries, reports. I built an excel spreadsheet with MS Query and we run all reports from there. so PLEASE tell me what roughly i should be making if anything more! And maybe if you all know of anything good out in Oklahoma. -Brian