Just like they were able to stop the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which required that they provide easy and central bugging for all phone service?
Their big complaint then was, of course, that changing all their networks would be expensive. All their lobbying got them was a $5 billion grant, which ultimately turned out to be a tiny fraction of their total costs.
Article VI is actually what keeps treaties from altering the Constitution.
Treaties (just like other "laws of the United States") are part of the "Law of the Land" and, therefore, subject to the restraints of the Constitution.
If it's bad to share a list of open relays, wouldn't sharing a procmail script be just as bad?
If I tell you how to automatically delete email with subjects like "MAKE MONEY FAST", how am I different from someone telling you that some ISP has an open relay? After all, if I publish a list of subjects that spammers are likely to use, am I not denying their right to send me email just as if I didn't accept email from their domain?
And BTW, I use spambouncer (a set of procmail recipes) to block spam. It's trapped 190 email messages since October 1. I think 3 have slipped past.
There's a story of a king who passed an edict forbidding the tide from rising. He sent his soldiers to the beach with orders to beat the ocean back if it didn't obey the edict. The King was trying to make a point that even he, the almighty King, could not alter the forces of nature by a simple decree.
Imagining a world where successful DRM laws exist is no different than imagining the world if the ocean had been held to the King's edict.
I could be wrong. I suppose if all hardware manufacturing was nationalized, borders were sealed, and prisons were cleared of drug users (to make room for copyright offenders), it may be possible to put digital media genie back in the bottle.
If it is possible to have successful DRM, I guess imagining the future would be like imagining the present if the printing press had been outlawed by the Monks who were put out of business by it.
Well duh. We'd all love to see that. We don't like these terms and we just want to make sure everone knows them before they buy a product.
The GPL exists to keep software free and encourage others to create more free software. It's the *whole* point, it's widely advertised, and it's no secret.
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Yes, Bin Laden was trained by the CIA to help fight the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
Reminds me of the story of the "space pen". At the dawn of the space age, astronauts needed the ability to write in zero gravity environments. The trouble is that the ball point pen needs gravity to work. NASA spent a million bucks (in the 1960s, when that was still a lot) developing the "space pen" which can write in space (or upside down back here on Earth).
Facing the same problem, the Soviets used pencils.
> What part of "subject to court order" don't you understand?
Tell it to Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI tapped his phones (*with* a court order) and discovered he was having an extramarrital affair. Since they couldn't arrest him for that, they sent him letters threatening to expose him and suggesting suicide would be a better alternative.
Today, the FBI's headquarters are named in honor of the man who was at the top of the FBI during those "investigations".
Now I'm supposed to believe that they should have access to every letter I type on a keyboard? Even the "independent" review of Carnivore revealed that the system had no real accountability and that a rouge agent could access everything captured without tracing the agent's access.
Like the "anonymous" 1-800 number they use on America's Most Wanted?
I sometimes get the feeling the only reason the cops allow "anonymous" tips is so that, after listening to an illegal phone tap, one cop can go outside, pick up a pay phone, call his partner and "anonymously" report a crime...
> seems that the commission has already sided in favor of software patents.
If you get that from the summary, try skipping to the last two pages. They point out that there are already 20,000 Euro-software patents, and that the commission needs to make us all aware of how wonderful they are.
And what should the EU do? Among other things, "Make a public announcement to the effect that it supports the current EPO practice regarding the granting of patents on computer-implemented inventions." In other words, despite the fact that 91% of the responses oppose them, the "majority" (!) supports them so go ahead.
But there's good news! They do have a proposal to limit patent abuse: "Major players should refrain from ruthlessly exploiting opportunistic patents such as hyperlinks." We can all stop worring now, because the pro-patent committee just laid down the law: don't abuse patents, or else they'll, um... ask you very nicely not to.
And what justification do they have for ignoring opponents? "...the radical nature of their proposals would require substantial negotiation if the Commission were minded to pursue a restrictive policy regarding software patents." In other words, they're already heading down the track, and they have no intention of turning around.
I assume from your answer that you imply that ethics would prohibit you from ever disclosing such information (regardless of the legality of said disclosure).
Let's say it's 1942 and Adolf Eichman's transcript of the Wannsee Conference is accidentally faxed to you. Since you took an ethics course, I will assume that you would not be in favor of the Final Solution. Do your ethics continue to compel you into silence?
I thought you couldn't patent something for the sake of keeping anyone from using the invention. If they don't commercially exploit their invention, others are still free to license their technology...
Some links are scripts. The whole idea behind robots.txt is that some links may never end or won't give fixed results. It's good advice for you to follow as it will keep your spider from spending all day following links and it will keep your search engine from indexing content that will be different the next time it is visited.
> ANYONE CAN READ IT
Actually, if I found your spider ignoring my robots.txt, I'd block you and you'd never see my site again.
> they never intended to follow through on their original legal threats against Felten, then?
Perhpas they're being "honest". Maybe they just planned to do what Adobe did and sick the FBI on him. Technically, they're initial letter just warned him that he might violate the DMCA. I wonder if they cc:ed their warning to the FBI?
Could be that "Waco types" refers to Tim McVeigh, and I think he could be labeled a terrorist. OTOH, I never knew that McVeigh had been one of the leaders of the Radical Librarian movement, either...
I guess that must be the *real* reason he was put to death.
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Just like they were able to stop the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which required that they provide easy and central bugging for all phone service?
Their big complaint then was, of course, that changing all their networks would be expensive. All their lobbying got them was a $5 billion grant, which ultimately turned out to be a tiny fraction of their total costs.
Article VI is actually what keeps treaties from altering the Constitution.
Treaties (just like other "laws of the United States") are part of the "Law of the Land" and, therefore, subject to the restraints of the Constitution.
That would pretty much be the end of sites like anonymizer.com or any of those silly filters that convert web pages to swedish-chef.
Google's cache would be sued out of existance, as would AOL's caching-proxy. Squid would be in violation of the DMCA.
Libraries would stop offering internet access.
All those annoying articles that are split into 5 pages to force you to view more ads would be split into even more pages.
Computers would be cracked to set up illicit proxies. Employers would ban all web surfing.
"Public Domain" means it is not protected by copyright, and therefore there would be NO license whatsoever.
VMware does not support DirectX.
If it's bad to share a list of open relays, wouldn't sharing a procmail script be just as bad?
If I tell you how to automatically delete email with subjects like "MAKE MONEY FAST", how am I different from someone telling you that some ISP has an open relay? After all, if I publish a list of subjects that spammers are likely to use, am I not denying their right to send me email just as if I didn't accept email from their domain?
And BTW, I use spambouncer (a set of procmail recipes) to block spam. It's trapped 190 email messages since October 1. I think 3 have slipped past.
And just how am I supposed to know I've patched a hole if I don't know how it gets exploited?
There's a story of a king who passed an edict forbidding the tide from rising. He sent his soldiers to the beach with orders to beat the ocean back if it didn't obey the edict. The King was trying to make a point that even he, the almighty King, could not alter the forces of nature by a simple decree.
Imagining a world where successful DRM laws exist is no different than imagining the world if the ocean had been held to the King's edict.
I could be wrong. I suppose if all hardware manufacturing was nationalized, borders were sealed, and prisons were cleared of drug users (to make room for copyright offenders), it may be possible to put digital media genie back in the bottle.
If it is possible to have successful DRM, I guess imagining the future would be like imagining the present if the printing press had been outlawed by the Monks who were put out of business by it.
> DON'T USE IT AND RETURN THE PRODUCT.
Well duh. We'd all love to see that. We don't like these terms and we just want to make sure everone knows them before they buy a product.
The GPL exists to keep software free and encourage others to create more free software. It's the *whole* point, it's widely advertised, and it's no secret.
Here's a Frontline interview with Bin Laden (from May 1998).
> Note that your average drive-up ATM has braille.
So you're suggesting no blind person would ever get in a taxi and ask the cab driver to take him to an ATM?
Reminds me of the story of the "space pen". At the dawn of the space age, astronauts needed the ability to write in zero gravity environments. The trouble is that the ball point pen needs gravity to work. NASA spent a million bucks (in the 1960s, when that was still a lot) developing the "space pen" which can write in space (or upside down back here on Earth).
Facing the same problem, the Soviets used pencils.
> I do not beleive you can force a foreign national to pay, or imprison them, UNLESS they come to your COUNTRY.
Tell that to Noriega...
[not that I think Australia is likely to drop paratroopers into Jersey to cart this guy away]
> What part of "subject to court order" don't you understand?
Tell it to Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI tapped his phones (*with* a court order) and discovered he was having an extramarrital affair. Since they couldn't arrest him for that, they sent him letters threatening to expose him and suggesting suicide would be a better alternative.
Today, the FBI's headquarters are named in honor of the man who was at the top of the FBI during those "investigations".
Now I'm supposed to believe that they should have access to every letter I type on a keyboard? Even the "independent" review of Carnivore revealed that the system had no real accountability and that a rouge agent could access everything captured without tracing the agent's access.
> You'd think he'd leave that off just to weed out the morons.
No, he explicitly said he was OK with journalists calling...
Allegedly!?!
Like the "anonymous" 1-800 number they use on America's Most Wanted?
I sometimes get the feeling the only reason the cops allow "anonymous" tips is so that, after listening to an illegal phone tap, one cop can go outside, pick up a pay phone, call his partner and "anonymously" report a crime...
> seems that the commission has already sided in favor of software patents.
If you get that from the summary, try skipping to the last two pages. They point out that there are already 20,000 Euro-software patents, and that the commission needs to make us all aware of how wonderful they are.
And what should the EU do? Among other things, "Make a public announcement to the effect that it supports the current EPO practice regarding the granting of patents on computer-implemented inventions." In other words, despite the fact that 91% of the responses oppose them, the "majority" (!) supports them so go ahead.
But there's good news! They do have a proposal to limit patent abuse: "Major players should refrain from ruthlessly exploiting opportunistic patents such as hyperlinks." We can all stop worring now, because the pro-patent committee just laid down the law: don't abuse patents, or else they'll, um... ask you very nicely not to.
And what justification do they have for ignoring opponents? "...the radical nature of their proposals would require substantial negotiation if the Commission were minded to pursue a restrictive policy regarding software patents." In other words, they're already heading down the track, and they have no intention of turning around.
I assume from your answer that you imply that ethics would prohibit you from ever disclosing such information (regardless of the legality of said disclosure).
Let's say it's 1942 and Adolf Eichman's transcript of the Wannsee Conference is accidentally faxed to you. Since you took an ethics course, I will assume that you would not be in favor of the Final Solution. Do your ethics continue to compel you into silence?
I thought you couldn't patent something for the sake of keeping anyone from using the invention. If they don't commercially exploit their invention, others are still free to license their technology...
Some links are scripts. The whole idea behind robots.txt is that some links may never end or won't give fixed results. It's good advice for you to follow as it will keep your spider from spending all day following links and it will keep your search engine from indexing content that will be different the next time it is visited.
> ANYONE CAN READ IT
Actually, if I found your spider ignoring my robots.txt, I'd block you and you'd never see my site again.
> they never intended to follow through on their original legal threats against Felten, then?
Perhpas they're being "honest". Maybe they just planned to do what Adobe did and sick the FBI on him. Technically, they're initial letter just warned him that he might violate the DMCA. I wonder if they cc:ed their warning to the FBI?
Great Britain ought to send in the r.af!
Hearing impaired could set up a site for the de.af.
alt.fan.warlord could keep an archive at bu.af
(Big Ugly ASCII Font).
alt.folklore.urban regulars could find testimonials at fo.af (Friend Of A Friend).
Could be that "Waco types" refers to Tim McVeigh, and I think he could be labeled a terrorist. OTOH, I never knew that McVeigh had been one of the leaders of the Radical Librarian movement, either...
I guess that must be the *real* reason he was put to death.
The name "Juan Epstein" is property of James Komack (producer of "Welcome Back Kotter") et al.
You must stop using the name immediately and, BTW, you owe me $4,000 for pointing this out.