What you consider "basic knowledge" about what constitutes a "service provider" and what the provisions of 17 USC 512 considers a "service provider" are not the same thing. YouTube is a "service provider" under 17 USC 512(c). You might want to look at pp. 9-10 of this document as well.
Then you should probably specify which ISP you are talking about, it's really confusing.
In that document I don't see anywhere it says that "service provider" == "ISP". A "service provider" on the world wide web is not the same as an Internet Service Provider (Which is sometimes referred to as an Internet Acces Provider). If they were and had to follow the same rules, then net neutrality in the U.S.A. would indeed be long dead.
You seem pretty knowledgeable, but I just wanted to make it crystal clear that you were not talking about an Internet Access Provider.
The question they should be asking is "Did DRM drive possible sales to piracy??"
But I agree, it was pretty unfun. I played Spore on my buddy's computer (legit copy), and I found it to boring. I thought you'd be living in a procedurally generated world, but the only things that were procedurally generated were the animations. There were still specific goals and hoops to jump through, not exactly the 'anything goes' world that was described over a year ago. I quit a little while after the cell stage.
I don't really buy this argument. There are quite a few torrent websites focused on distribution of not-infringing content, usually free software, freeware, and creative commons and/or public domain art and music.
The main thing is that Bittorrent sites like IsoHunt may typically be used for copyright infringing content. But it the site itself does not typically host any infringing content at all. That's the reason why they're allowed to exist in the first place.
Yeah, you're right, I should have specified that I was talking about audio discs.
However, in Canada downloading of copyrighted content is totally fine. It's the uploading that gets you into trouble. And unless you are only a leech (you asshole!), you automatically break that law by using Bittorrent for copyrighted content.
An Internet Service Provider is a person or company that provides access to the Internet and also services that connection (ie; makes it work). Youtube is a website, a part of the World Wide Web which is only part of the Internet. They are two totally different things.
And please do not mod me insightful or informative for this, this is basic knowledge.
yeah, after re-reading that, I think you're right. It was just phrased in a funny way. I thought he meant to imply that any method other than the commercial one was illegal, but that would be a pretty silly thing to say;-)
Yes, in Canada there is an extra levy on blank optical media. This levy is basically a "you-might-be-a-pirate" tax. So you can't be caught for copyright infringement if it's for personal use on discs you paid for.
It's more of a gray area than anything, right now in Canada. Bill C61 was going to explicitly legalize backing up(if you back up in a certain way), while also explicitly outlawing many other things (including many forms of backing up that might bypass so-called "digital locks").
"...and has developed not just one but several ways to illegally distribute content."
what?
It's not the method that's illegal in the case of P2P, it's the content, for certain values of content. There's nothing illegal about Bittorrent itself.
... when it comes to destroying the data just overwrite the header area a thousand times with random garbage. It will take only a second or two, and the whole drive will be useless to anyone.
but that's the point they're trying to make; that's a myth and it's not necessary.
We're talking tin-foil hat, big brother paranoid level security here though. Your mom's not going to find the porn you deleted on your hard drive that was written over with random garbage, or had the headers deleted. But a super cyber-ninja might (not will, but might) be able to find a particular private key that you left on that same hard drive. And overwriting with garbage is really overkill, zeroes are all that's necessary.
Everything that 'might' happen is a security risk. If you think I'm being an alarmist, then stop thinking about security. It's necessary to talk in such absolutes. Using a random garbage writer is, well, random. With random, there's almost no chance of it happening. On the other hand, using straight zeroes, it's not possible to recover data from a disk full of zeroes at all. No multiple obsessive compulsive garbage writing necessary. Simple, elegant, and true.
That's the point of this challenge; it's because they don't think it's possible and all the smart people already know it's not possible. This is just to dispel the myths. Data destruction can be trivially achieved with just dd and/dev/null.
I think more general theory is that it's your consciousness that is what your soul consists of, not memories. Besides, strictly speaking, the existence of memories in the brain does not rule out the existence of memories in the soul.
That's not a very creative solution at all. Even if there was an increased carbon tax, then carbon-reduction advice for individuals would still be in demand (even more so).
Did you really say that? Christianity is ENTIRELY based on the testimony recorded in early Christian texts and the teachings of early Church fathers...
Christianity is based on interpretations of ancient documents and teachings. If it were as simple as you make it sound, there wouldn't be so many different christian denominations. There has to be much discourse over what invalidates those texts, and how the gospel is still relevant in our modern world. Also, whether certain things were intended to be taken literally, or as parable/metaphors a la Brothers Grimm.
For example, the amount Christians in the world that actually believe that Earth is only 600 years old are a tiny minority, and usually have nothing to do with the Holy See.
I've always thought that being able to compile your own kernel was a great advantage of Linux. Come back when your 'real OS' is 99% virus proof, and you can prove that there's absolutely no back doors.
Also, I'm not sure if you're actually serious, because you sound so juvenile that you might just be a fellow Linux nerd making fun of Windows fanboy-ism.
Perhaps our tendency towards violence is still just as strong, but is satisfied by action movies and media?
If somebody from the 50's saw what we had on T.V. in contrast to what they had, they'd probably be pretty shocked. Can you really say that we are less violent, since we're engaging in violence as observers? I could argue that it's making us even more violent.
There are no "czar" positions in Canada, even in slang terms.
I agree.
I always thought Czar was just re-appropriated to mean any newly created high-level authority. The Privacy Commissioner isn't exactly new. Although, after briefly skimming the 'czar' wikipedia article, I don't see reference to such use. I guess that's just how I remember it.
I think the point that the GP was trying to make was that what's happening in Iraq and Georgia are not "Wars" per se. They're military activities. War was never declared in either case. It's easy to call them war, because everyone else has already legitimized them as wars.
It makes sense, because a normal BIOS menu already needs to function like an OS to some degree.
You don't want to keep all of the operating system on the BIOS, though, because certain parts of the OS will still have to be written to. And it would require specific drivers, that could only be configured whenever you flash the BIOS. If keep those drivers or modules on a hard-drive, and you lose the main advantage of BIOS booting: loading those drivers straight away.
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What you consider "basic knowledge" about what constitutes a "service provider" and what the provisions of 17 USC 512 considers a "service provider" are not the same thing. YouTube is a "service provider" under 17 USC 512(c). You might want to look at pp. 9-10 of this document as well.
Then you should probably specify which ISP you are talking about, it's really confusing.
In that document I don't see anywhere it says that "service provider" == "ISP". A "service provider" on the world wide web is not the same as an Internet Service Provider (Which is sometimes referred to as an Internet Acces Provider). If they were and had to follow the same rules, then net neutrality in the U.S.A. would indeed be long dead.
You seem pretty knowledgeable, but I just wanted to make it crystal clear that you were not talking about an Internet Access Provider.
The question they should be asking is "Did DRM drive possible sales to piracy??"
But I agree, it was pretty unfun. I played Spore on my buddy's computer (legit copy), and I found it to boring. I thought you'd be living in a procedurally generated world, but the only things that were procedurally generated were the animations. There were still specific goals and hoops to jump through, not exactly the 'anything goes' world that was described over a year ago. I quit a little while after the cell stage.
Encryption is not a crime!!!
I don't really buy this argument. There are quite a few torrent websites focused on distribution of not-infringing content, usually free software, freeware, and creative commons and/or public domain art and music.
The main thing is that Bittorrent sites like IsoHunt may typically be used for copyright infringing content. But it the site itself does not typically host any infringing content at all. That's the reason why they're allowed to exist in the first place.
Yeah, you're right, I should have specified that I was talking about audio discs.
However, in Canada downloading of copyrighted content is totally fine. It's the uploading that gets you into trouble. And unless you are only a leech (you asshole!), you automatically break that law by using Bittorrent for copyrighted content.
An Internet Service Provider is a person or company that provides access to the Internet and also services that connection (ie; makes it work). Youtube is a website, a part of the World Wide Web which is only part of the Internet. They are two totally different things.
And please do not mod me insightful or informative for this, this is basic knowledge.
yeah, after re-reading that, I think you're right. It was just phrased in a funny way. I thought he meant to imply that any method other than the commercial one was illegal, but that would be a pretty silly thing to say ;-)
Yes, in Canada there is an extra levy on blank optical media. This levy is basically a "you-might-be-a-pirate" tax. So you can't be caught for copyright infringement if it's for personal use on discs you paid for.
It's more of a gray area than anything, right now in Canada. Bill C61 was going to explicitly legalize backing up(if you back up in a certain way), while also explicitly outlawing many other things (including many forms of backing up that might bypass so-called "digital locks").
"...and has developed not just one but several ways to illegally distribute content."
what?
It's not the method that's illegal in the case of P2P, it's the content, for certain values of content. There's nothing illegal about Bittorrent itself.
... when it comes to destroying the data just overwrite the header area a thousand times with random garbage. It will take only a second or two, and the whole drive will be useless to anyone.
but that's the point they're trying to make; that's a myth and it's not necessary.
We're talking tin-foil hat, big brother paranoid level security here though. Your mom's not going to find the porn you deleted on your hard drive that was written over with random garbage, or had the headers deleted. But a super cyber-ninja might (not will, but might) be able to find a particular private key that you left on that same hard drive. And overwriting with garbage is really overkill, zeroes are all that's necessary.
Everything that 'might' happen is a security risk. If you think I'm being an alarmist, then stop thinking about security. It's necessary to talk in such absolutes. Using a random garbage writer is, well, random. With random, there's almost no chance of it happening. On the other hand, using straight zeroes, it's not possible to recover data from a disk full of zeroes at all. No multiple obsessive compulsive garbage writing necessary. Simple, elegant, and true.
That's the point of this challenge; it's because they don't think it's possible and all the smart people already know it's not possible. This is just to dispel the myths. Data destruction can be trivially achieved with just dd and /dev/null.
I think more general theory is that it's your consciousness that is what your soul consists of, not memories. Besides, strictly speaking, the existence of memories in the brain does not rule out the existence of memories in the soul.
ok, i'll post first. whatever.
Well somebody has to.
That's not a very creative solution at all. Even if there was an increased carbon tax, then carbon-reduction advice for individuals would still be in demand (even more so).
Did you really say that? Christianity is ENTIRELY based on the testimony recorded in early Christian texts and the teachings of early Church fathers...
Christianity is based on interpretations of ancient documents and teachings. If it were as simple as you make it sound, there wouldn't be so many different christian denominations. There has to be much discourse over what invalidates those texts, and how the gospel is still relevant in our modern world. Also, whether certain things were intended to be taken literally, or as parable/metaphors a la Brothers Grimm.
For example, the amount Christians in the world that actually believe that Earth is only 600 years old are a tiny minority, and usually have nothing to do with the Holy See.
Damn borg chicks.
I've always thought that being able to compile your own kernel was a great advantage of Linux. Come back when your 'real OS' is 99% virus proof, and you can prove that there's absolutely no back doors.
Also, I'm not sure if you're actually serious, because you sound so juvenile that you might just be a fellow Linux nerd making fun of Windows fanboy-ism.
Does the Gammima.AG worm run Crysis?
Self-installing games? I wish!
Many years ago, English was once thought to be the universal hacking language. Of course, not just focused around malicious hacking...
Perhaps our tendency towards violence is still just as strong, but is satisfied by action movies and media?
If somebody from the 50's saw what we had on T.V. in contrast to what they had, they'd probably be pretty shocked. Can you really say that we are less violent, since we're engaging in violence as observers? I could argue that it's making us even more violent.
They're going to think we were cuckoo!
Even without religion involved, they are going to think we're cuckoo.
There are no "czar" positions in Canada, even in slang terms.
I agree.
I always thought Czar was just re-appropriated to mean any newly created high-level authority. The Privacy Commissioner isn't exactly new. Although, after briefly skimming the 'czar' wikipedia article, I don't see reference to such use. I guess that's just how I remember it.
But still, it does sound quite silly.
I think the point that the GP was trying to make was that what's happening in Iraq and Georgia are not "Wars" per se. They're military activities. War was never declared in either case. It's easy to call them war, because everyone else has already legitimized them as wars.
Since kids listen to music anyways. We can just take 20% of the education budget and give it to the four biggest recording companies.
While it's a horrible idea, at least maybe it'll make parents pay more attention to what their kids do listen to.
No civilized society, he adds, can endure 'purely voluntary payment for art, knowledge, and culture.
That line caught my eye as well.
I mean the whole blanket licensing thing sounds good in theory, but how would they make sure artists participate? And what defines artists?
Maybe it's just paranoia, but I get suspicious whenever I hear about what a civilized society ought to do.
Wow, imagine.. maybe someday we could put an entire operating system into the BIOS...
This has already been kind of done: coreboot(LinuxBIOS), with a Kdrive(TinyX) X server.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ
It makes sense, because a normal BIOS menu already needs to function like an OS to some degree.
You don't want to keep all of the operating system on the BIOS, though, because certain parts of the OS will still have to be written to. And it would require specific drivers, that could only be configured whenever you flash the BIOS. If keep those drivers or modules on a hard-drive, and you lose the main advantage of BIOS booting: loading those drivers straight away.