from various sources (including EFF and the UK Government website):
ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet legitimate commerce and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development.
ACTA is being negotiated by a select group of industrialized countries outside of existing international multilateral venues for creating new IP norms such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and (since TRIPs) the World Trade Organization. Both civil society and developing countries are intentionally being excluded from these negotiations. While the existing international fora provide (at least to some extent) room for a range of views to be heard and addressed no such checks and balances will influence the outcome of the ACTA negotiations.
The Fact Sheet published by the USTR together with the USTR's 2008 "Special 301" report make it clear that the goal is to create a new standard of intellectual property enforcement above the current internationally-agreed standards in the TRIPs Agreement and increased international cooperation including sharing of information between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies. The last 10 bilateral free trade agreements entered into by the United States have required trading partners to adopt intellectual property enforcement obligations that are above those in TRIPs. Even though developing countries are not party to the ACTA negotiations it is likely that accession to and implementation of ACTA by developing countries will be a condition imposed in future free trade agreements and the subject of evaluation in content industry submissions to the annual Section 301 process and USTR report.
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Considering the actual text of the document under discussion is STILL CLASSIFIED COMPARTMENTALISED, the only public leakage being a 2008 white paper, we the Joe Sixpacks must assume that those discussing it behind closed doors are up to something which is NOT CONDUCIVE TO THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. And until we see the exact document under discussion, in its current format, and are invited to those meetings, then we must assume that until we are shown to absolute 100% proof to the contrary, those involved in those discussions are those to whom enactment of such legislation are the sole beneficiaries to the total detriment of everybody else. I think we are PERFECTLY ENTITLED TO COMPLAIN. THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT SOPA BEING A GOOD THING DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY. THE MAJORITY ARE SPEAKING AND WE WILL BE HEARD: WE DO NOT WANT!
now from IPO:
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral treaty that seeks to improve the global enforcement of intellectual property rights through the creation of common enforcement standards and practices and more effective international cooperation.
Counterfeiting and piracy of intellectual property rights is recognised as a global issue. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that the international trade in goods infringing intellectual property rights accounts for more than $250 billion a year. In Europe alone, we are losing more than €8 billion annually through counterfeit goods entering the market. This impacts the competitiveness of our businesses depriving workers of jobs and can harm consumers through the distribution of dangerous products.
ACTA is about tackling these large-scale infringement activities, often pursued by criminal organisations and which frequently pose a threat to public health and safety. ACTA aims to establish shared international standards on how countries should act in these cases. Importantly, ACTA will not create new intellectual property rights, laws, or criminal offences in the UK or EU. It simply establishes efficient and broadly common rules for how intellectual property right-holders can enforce their
It's been around since the year Tet. NASA have been playing with the idea for years; they have even deployed it. In 1968 a certain TV show used it as a plot device. Said show reused the plot device in several subsequent episodes and at least one movie.
The problem with EIP is that it produces such a small amount of thrust (although large compared with the amount of propellant it uses, it's still less thrust than you get from a can of hairspray), a human in a capsule wouldn't even feel the pressure in the small of his back. Current deployments are designed to produce a small amount of thrust continuously for extended periods of time - such that over/months/ or/years/ rather than a dozen minutes, the capsule (probe, whatever) is accelerated to a significant portion of the speed of light. Hence, for unmanned deep space probes, it is perfect. For manned spaceflight, crews would go mad waiting for a perceptible change of speed or orbit in the (normally 3-day) trip to the Moon or the (normally eight month) trip to Mars. If they were patient enough to wait the several months, they'd eventually reap the benefit of a compact, low-thrust system - but you'd be faced with the problem of consumables such as oxygen, food and water bulking out the vehicle to keep them alive - you'd be back to square one and wondering why you didn't pack for a shorter journey and use chemical boosters which in the long run would have saved weight. Score point for unmanned EIP.
Forget actual copyright infringement claims for a moment, please, this isn't what it's about (ACTA or this rant).
It's about Government intervention in content. Suffocation of the relation of ideas from brain A to brain B-Z and beyond, because someone doesn't like the idea that their vision of a society they have total control over is still somehow so far off, that they have to strangle freedom of expression any way they think they can get away with.
Well, fuck you, I'll say what I like, because MY freedom to express myself in forums available to me trumps your claim of entitlement to my hard-earned whether or not I choose to buy the shite you peddle and try to pass off as art, and it certainly trumps your deluded perceptions of entitlement to freedom from being offended or your plans for total control of every minor aspect of my life being undermined. I will resist you because I am a Human Being with a Soul, with a sense of self responsibility and self governance; I do not need or want your unnecessary intrusion into my life, and ACTA represents something I DO NOT WANT NOR WILL I CONSENT TO.
heh... sometimes I wish I had one, those pesky rabbits can run across the track a quarter mile away, and I think to myself, I wish I had a railgun or something, that thing's dinner for a week - and six hundred yards away!
Actually, that's completely wrong. The UK has the highest number of gun incidents... and the highest death-by-gun numbers, in Europe. Not to mention the tightest gun laws. They don't make the news because State controlled media would have you believe that gun restrictions work to reduce gun crime (I know, I know, have I heard myself, but face facts: as long as those who make bad laws are in charge, those bad laws stay in place and criminalise people like ME who would otherwise be a perfectly law-abiding citizen).
Go figure.
Oh waitasec... I own guns. Several of them, in fact. Legally. I shoot vermin with them - that's rats to canada geese and a lot of stuff in between. Never shot a human, not in seven years of gun ownership. Never even drew in anger.
Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. If you want to rail, rail against our armed forces sweeping across the Arab world stealing their oil. Leave me to help keep the price of a loaf of bread below £5.
Roy Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.:)
Has to be watched again. I'm always just utterly gobsmacked when he lets the dove go, then dies on the roof.
I have seen the images, and no I wouldn't consider a TSA scan of Jessica Alba to be wankworthy material. The scanners as they are can detect pretty much any foreign object apart from anything stuffed up the rectum, for the simple reason that human eyes see outlines before they see details. False positives are usually caused by human eyes, there's no magic metal detector in these scanners. As to your entirely specious claim that I pretended that homosexuals don't exist: what?? When/where did I make such a claim? I know I didn't, please keep your delusions to yourself.
is there an echo in here? As long as there are alternatives, practicality or lack thereof notwithstanding and completely ignoring protestations and specious claims that it isn't possible to charter a flight from a private airfield, then the Government's attempts to build its own porn stash can be defeated.
You'dathunk that the GPS system would have been assigned a different frequency (satphones were there first)? Or maybe I'm being dim? OK, there's the issue of bleed, but there's such a thing as DCS/CTCSS squelch (my pocket transceiver has both!!) which ignores anything that's not specifically modulated with the DCS offset and accompanied by a background tone at a specific audio frequency.
As to some GPS receivers having poor PLL tuning: tough. Rather than moan about them being knocked out by (hopefully well designed duplex equipment) packet transceivers, they should force the GPS manufacturers to a: design better receivers that reject bleed signals rather than accept any and all on a 50MHz spread, and b: issue recall and offer replacements at their own cost of all faulty equipment: FCC's own rules state that certified equipment must not cause interference and it must accept any interference. It works both ways, IT DOES NOT PROVIDE AN EXCUSE FOR SHITTY DESIGN.
For those who view low resolution body profile scanning as an invasion of personal space (I know I do and it's nothing to do with paranoia, it's just me wanting to maintain my personal space. If someone wants to take a blurry image of me home to masturbate over, that's their issue not mine): stop flying. There are other ways to get around.
For those who have a problem with staff members of the opposite gender viewing their scan images: demand that someone of the same gender processes you through (or simply refuse to be scanned, as is your right; however you may not be able to fly if nobody is available to pat you down because they're too busy drooling over the size 0 who just went through...)
Lastly, I would suggest that gate guards be prohibited from carrying their mobile phones on the floor. Period. There are company phone switchboards they can be reached through should the need arise; leave your mobiles at home and you'll find that you closed an avenue for getting sued, right there!
...they got my WAN IP wrong (the page showed me the IP of my proxy), they got my OS info wrong (I spoof the identifier just because I can), and they got my browser info wrong (ditto).
If they can't get basic information like that right, what the hell hope do they think they have in prosecuting (not me, my proxy service!)?
Skype voice chats and file transfers are end-to-end encrypted using onetime keys, making them extremely difficult to break. I trust it enough that when I teleconference I insist that Skype is used; landlines and mobile voice, fax and email are avoided.
So sorry, was I a bit late to this party? This is another reason pro-copy[entitlement] legislation must never pass in Western jurisdiction: it would open the floodgates for ever more penetrative eavesdropping, to the point where peer to peer encryption is outlawed (since the content of such streams cannot be intercepted in any meaningful way without the key). Bye bye, Skype.
Preaching to the converted, my digital friend. I've had the blunt end of unnecessary Government intervention and it nearly cost me my life and the lives of every member of my family. We still suffer to this day - all of us.
yes, the sig has been rather apt lately... it's a line from "Nineteen Eighty Four".
Think I'll keep it. Morbid though it is, parent thread reflects very accurately the insidious nature of "democracy" the world over. It's not democracy in the classical sense, where the majority rules - it's neodemocracy, where money talks (and if you don't have money you have nothing), the minority rules and the (I hate to use such an already tired cliché) 99% are bonded in servitude from the day they are born to the day they die.
To illustrate the insidious nature of neodemocracy, consider that such meetings are not that rare: more and more activities of local and national Government are carried out in complete secrecy. Also, consider that law courts are increasingly held behind closed doors and legally (though not lawfully) reinforced with superinjunctions. In the UK you no longer have an absolute right to trial by jury - in fact, the trial judge can dismiss the jury and preside over the proceeding on his own *if he so chooses* - he does not even have to give a public justification for such a decision. Our Glorious Government have not, however, abolished the Right To Silence, although they have changed the arrest caution to reflect the fact that if you remain silent you can be found guilty by inference. This is not only completely unlawful, it is unconstitutional and flies in the face of eight hundred years of constitutional guarantee*. Strike that, it takes a pan and sends its nose through the back of its head.
*Fuck the Diamond Jubilee, has everyone forgot that Magna Carta was signed seven hundred ninety seven years ago? On 15 June, as I do every year, I will take the day to myself to reflect on the unbelievable cruelty the Government has inflicted on the people it is meant to serve over the previous twelve months.
Central to the Democratic process is that Government should be the least interventionist it can be, with all its activities open to public scrutiny - it keeps them from misbehaving, keeps them from behaviour not conducive to the PUBLIC INTEREST. When they hold meetings behind closed doors, you BET YOUR ARSE THEY'RE CONSPIRING TO BREAK THE LAW!
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from various sources (including EFF and the UK Government website):
ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet legitimate commerce and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development.
ACTA is being negotiated by a select group of industrialized countries outside of existing international multilateral venues for creating new IP norms such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and (since TRIPs) the World Trade Organization. Both civil society and developing countries are intentionally being excluded from these negotiations. While the existing international fora provide (at least to some extent) room for a range of views to be heard and addressed no such checks and balances will influence the outcome of the ACTA negotiations.
The Fact Sheet published by the USTR together with the USTR's 2008 "Special 301" report make it clear that the goal is to create a new standard of intellectual property enforcement above the current internationally-agreed standards in the TRIPs Agreement and increased international cooperation including sharing of information between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies. The last 10 bilateral free trade agreements entered into by the United States have required trading partners to adopt intellectual property enforcement obligations that are above those in TRIPs. Even though developing countries are not party to the ACTA negotiations it is likely that accession to and implementation of ACTA by developing countries will be a condition imposed in future free trade agreements and the subject of evaluation in content industry submissions to the annual Section 301 process and USTR report.
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Considering the actual text of the document under discussion is STILL CLASSIFIED COMPARTMENTALISED, the only public leakage being a 2008 white paper, we the Joe Sixpacks must assume that those discussing it behind closed doors are up to something which is NOT CONDUCIVE TO THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. And until we see the exact document under discussion, in its current format, and are invited to those meetings, then we must assume that until we are shown to absolute 100% proof to the contrary, those involved in those discussions are those to whom enactment of such legislation are the sole beneficiaries to the total detriment of everybody else. I think we are PERFECTLY ENTITLED TO COMPLAIN. THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT SOPA BEING A GOOD THING DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY. THE MAJORITY ARE SPEAKING AND WE WILL BE HEARD: WE DO NOT WANT!
now from IPO:
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral treaty that seeks to improve the global enforcement of intellectual property rights through the creation of common enforcement standards and practices and more effective international cooperation.
Counterfeiting and piracy of intellectual property rights is recognised as a global issue. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that the international trade in goods infringing intellectual property rights accounts for more than $250 billion a year. In Europe alone, we are losing more than €8 billion annually through counterfeit goods entering the market. This impacts the competitiveness of our businesses depriving workers of jobs and can harm consumers through the distribution of dangerous products.
ACTA is about tackling these large-scale infringement activities, often pursued by criminal organisations and which frequently pose a threat to public health and safety. ACTA aims to establish shared international standards on how countries should act in these cases. Importantly, ACTA will not create new intellectual property rights, laws, or criminal offences in the UK or EU. It simply establishes efficient and broadly common rules for how intellectual property right-holders can enforce their
It's been around since the year Tet. NASA have been playing with the idea for years; they have even deployed it. In 1968 a certain TV show used it as a plot device. Said show reused the plot device in several subsequent episodes and at least one movie.
The problem with EIP is that it produces such a small amount of thrust (although large compared with the amount of propellant it uses, it's still less thrust than you get from a can of hairspray), a human in a capsule wouldn't even feel the pressure in the small of his back. Current deployments are designed to produce a small amount of thrust continuously for extended periods of time - such that over /months/ or /years/ rather than a dozen minutes, the capsule (probe, whatever) is accelerated to a significant portion of the speed of light. Hence, for unmanned deep space probes, it is perfect. For manned spaceflight, crews would go mad waiting for a perceptible change of speed or orbit in the (normally 3-day) trip to the Moon or the (normally eight month) trip to Mars. If they were patient enough to wait the several months, they'd eventually reap the benefit of a compact, low-thrust system - but you'd be faced with the problem of consumables such as oxygen, food and water bulking out the vehicle to keep them alive - you'd be back to square one and wondering why you didn't pack for a shorter journey and use chemical boosters which in the long run would have saved weight. Score point for unmanned EIP.
Seconded. Mod parent up.
...think about it, a week-long loop of a Dixieland Jazz ringtone version of The Girl From Ipanema?
...not least because of the implications of it.
Forget actual copyright infringement claims for a moment, please, this isn't what it's about (ACTA or this rant).
It's about Government intervention in content. Suffocation of the relation of ideas from brain A to brain B-Z and beyond, because someone doesn't like the idea that their vision of a society they have total control over is still somehow so far off, that they have to strangle freedom of expression any way they think they can get away with.
Well, fuck you, I'll say what I like, because MY freedom to express myself in forums available to me trumps your claim of entitlement to my hard-earned whether or not I choose to buy the shite you peddle and try to pass off as art, and it certainly trumps your deluded perceptions of entitlement to freedom from being offended or your plans for total control of every minor aspect of my life being undermined. I will resist you because I am a Human Being with a Soul, with a sense of self responsibility and self governance; I do not need or want your unnecessary intrusion into my life, and ACTA represents something I DO NOT WANT NOR WILL I CONSENT TO.
Sincerely,
A CONTENT CREATOR.
heh... sometimes I wish I had one, those pesky rabbits can run across the track a quarter mile away, and I think to myself, I wish I had a railgun or something, that thing's dinner for a week - and six hundred yards away!
Actually, that's completely wrong. The UK has the highest number of gun incidents... and the highest death-by-gun numbers, in Europe. Not to mention the tightest gun laws. They don't make the news because State controlled media would have you believe that gun restrictions work to reduce gun crime (I know, I know, have I heard myself, but face facts: as long as those who make bad laws are in charge, those bad laws stay in place and criminalise people like ME who would otherwise be a perfectly law-abiding citizen).
Go figure.
Oh waitasec... I own guns. Several of them, in fact. Legally. I shoot vermin with them - that's rats to canada geese and a lot of stuff in between. Never shot a human, not in seven years of gun ownership. Never even drew in anger.
Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. If you want to rail, rail against our armed forces sweeping across the Arab world stealing their oil. Leave me to help keep the price of a loaf of bread below £5.
it's falling all the time...
No, this is;
Roy Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. :)
Has to be watched again. I'm always just utterly gobsmacked when he lets the dove go, then dies on the roof.
The day I can't take myself for a piss will be the day I pull the plug on myself.
With the parting words, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
Technobabble overload! Technobabble overload! Nerd explosion imminent!
Mod Futurama reference up!
I have seen the images, and no I wouldn't consider a TSA scan of Jessica Alba to be wankworthy material. The scanners as they are can detect pretty much any foreign object apart from anything stuffed up the rectum, for the simple reason that human eyes see outlines before they see details. False positives are usually caused by human eyes, there's no magic metal detector in these scanners. As to your entirely specious claim that I pretended that homosexuals don't exist: what?? When/where did I make such a claim? I know I didn't, please keep your delusions to yourself.
is there an echo in here? As long as there are alternatives, practicality or lack thereof notwithstanding and completely ignoring protestations and specious claims that it isn't possible to charter a flight from a private airfield, then the Government's attempts to build its own porn stash can be defeated.
DC-LA: I-40 E all the way. 40 hours.
Montreal-Miami: I-87 S/I-287 S/US-206 S/I-95 S/Reagan Turnpike. 28 hours.
Cost and time efficiency depends entirely on what you're driving.
HTH.
I'll have a look... though I'm not sure how a system that operates below the noise floor is expected to work (am I being dim again?).
You'dathunk that the GPS system would have been assigned a different frequency (satphones were there first)? Or maybe I'm being dim? OK, there's the issue of bleed, but there's such a thing as DCS/CTCSS squelch (my pocket transceiver has both!!) which ignores anything that's not specifically modulated with the DCS offset and accompanied by a background tone at a specific audio frequency.
As to some GPS receivers having poor PLL tuning: tough. Rather than moan about them being knocked out by (hopefully well designed duplex equipment) packet transceivers, they should force the GPS manufacturers to a: design better receivers that reject bleed signals rather than accept any and all on a 50MHz spread, and b: issue recall and offer replacements at their own cost of all faulty equipment: FCC's own rules state that certified equipment must not cause interference and it must accept any interference. It works both ways, IT DOES NOT PROVIDE AN EXCUSE FOR SHITTY DESIGN.
For those who view low resolution body profile scanning as an invasion of personal space (I know I do and it's nothing to do with paranoia, it's just me wanting to maintain my personal space. If someone wants to take a blurry image of me home to masturbate over, that's their issue not mine): stop flying. There are other ways to get around.
For those who have a problem with staff members of the opposite gender viewing their scan images: demand that someone of the same gender processes you through (or simply refuse to be scanned, as is your right; however you may not be able to fly if nobody is available to pat you down because they're too busy drooling over the size 0 who just went through...)
Lastly, I would suggest that gate guards be prohibited from carrying their mobile phones on the floor. Period. There are company phone switchboards they can be reached through should the need arise; leave your mobiles at home and you'll find that you closed an avenue for getting sued, right there!
...they got my WAN IP wrong (the page showed me the IP of my proxy), they got my OS info wrong (I spoof the identifier just because I can), and they got my browser info wrong (ditto).
If they can't get basic information like that right, what the hell hope do they think they have in prosecuting (not me, my proxy service!)?
Skype voice chats and file transfers are end-to-end encrypted using onetime keys, making them extremely difficult to break. I trust it enough that when I teleconference I insist that Skype is used; landlines and mobile voice, fax and email are avoided.
So sorry, was I a bit late to this party? This is another reason pro-copy[entitlement] legislation must never pass in Western jurisdiction: it would open the floodgates for ever more penetrative eavesdropping, to the point where peer to peer encryption is outlawed (since the content of such streams cannot be intercepted in any meaningful way without the key). Bye bye, Skype.
Preaching to the converted, my digital friend. I've had the blunt end of unnecessary Government intervention and it nearly cost me my life and the lives of every member of my family. We still suffer to this day - all of us.
yes, the sig has been rather apt lately... it's a line from "Nineteen Eighty Four".
Think I'll keep it. Morbid though it is, parent thread reflects very accurately the insidious nature of "democracy" the world over. It's not democracy in the classical sense, where the majority rules - it's neodemocracy, where money talks (and if you don't have money you have nothing), the minority rules and the (I hate to use such an already tired cliché) 99% are bonded in servitude from the day they are born to the day they die.
To illustrate the insidious nature of neodemocracy, consider that such meetings are not that rare: more and more activities of local and national Government are carried out in complete secrecy. Also, consider that law courts are increasingly held behind closed doors and legally (though not lawfully) reinforced with superinjunctions. In the UK you no longer have an absolute right to trial by jury - in fact, the trial judge can dismiss the jury and preside over the proceeding on his own *if he so chooses* - he does not even have to give a public justification for such a decision. Our Glorious Government have not, however, abolished the Right To Silence, although they have changed the arrest caution to reflect the fact that if you remain silent you can be found guilty by inference. This is not only completely unlawful, it is unconstitutional and flies in the face of eight hundred years of constitutional guarantee*. Strike that, it takes a pan and sends its nose through the back of its head.
*Fuck the Diamond Jubilee, has everyone forgot that Magna Carta was signed seven hundred ninety seven years ago? On 15 June, as I do every year, I will take the day to myself to reflect on the unbelievable cruelty the Government has inflicted on the people it is meant to serve over the previous twelve months.
Central to the Democratic process is that Government should be the least interventionist it can be, with all its activities open to public scrutiny - it keeps them from misbehaving, keeps them from behaviour not conducive to the PUBLIC INTEREST. When they hold meetings behind closed doors, you BET YOUR ARSE THEY'RE CONSPIRING TO BREAK THE LAW!
who the hell modded this offtopic!? It's not only hilarious but also very much on topic!