I'll enforce my right to recieve spam... by taking my money elsewhere
It costs roughly six figures USD to move your family to a geographical area where there exists a cable company or a phone company willing to offer you high-speed Internet with no restrictions on what content you may receive beyond the basic restrictions of federal and state law.
Every subscriber to a spam-friendly ISP is voting with their dollars - for spam.
What would you do in a hypothetical situation in which you live in an area where the monopoly provider of Internet access is a supporter of unsolicited bulk e-mail?
I have made a pretty penny thanks to patents and licensing agreements.
Please tell me you didn't patent something that was patently obvious when you filed the patent application *cough*Amazon one-click shopping patent*cough*.
Having cheap knock-offs of your designs or technology made by China or whoever is fine for consumers, but who put up the money to create the technology in the first place?
Does the inventor of a novel information technology product (not a drug) really need a 20 year monopoly to pay for the product's research and development?
Does the author of an operating system really need a life + 70 year monopoly to pay for the product's research and development?
Some monopolies do benefit society. But like all things, monopolies should exist in moderation, and this is why Dr. Lessig has gone to court to argue against monopoly term extensions.
To add to the problem, you can't really make an effective commercial email without mentioning your product and where to get it.
Unless the spammer makes an HTML e-mail and puts the entire ad spiel in a PNG image.
You can't sell me a mortgage without mentioning mortgages in some way
You can't discuss your mortgage with your banker without mentioning mortgages in some way.
You can't ask me to help get your mail out of Nigeria without mentioning Nigeria
Your middle-school daughter can't ask you for help on a geography report on Nigeria without mentioning Nigeria.
I agree that an e-mail classification system can reduce false positives by including headers in the formula. In fact, applying Bayesian classification to specific header lines emulates the already-known spam blocking techniques, possibly with weaker drawbacks. For instance, Bayes on From: and Reply-To: creates a personal whitelist. Bayes on Received: creates a personal RBL.
what happens when your filter is attuned to emails between you and your buddies, and suddenly a proposal comes in from an employer, or a partner, or a customer?
Bayesian filters don't have to classify a message only as "Spam" or "Not Spam". You can train them to recognize several categories such as "Work"/"Not Work", "Buddies"/"Not Buddies", etc.
If you release source code that appears to be derived from Microsoft source code
Then Microsoft can't touch you because you didn't have access to the original proprietary source code. Knowingly bringing false lawsuits can get Microsoft's retained attorneys disbarred.
Hence the concept of "clean room" implementations.
Like how Compaq cloned the IBM BIOS. "You say we copied your code? Go to hell, IBM; here's a map."
But Microsoft seems to hypothesize that because many GPL programs have little technical documentation other than the source code itself, the "dirty room" (with access to the source code) will be tempted to paraphrase less when passing information across the wall to the "clean room", weakening the wall between the "dirty room" and the "clean room".
Then you run into the George Harrison problem. Under US copyright law, access plus substantial similarity equals copying. If you have seen a piece of code, and you write a similar piece of code several years later, the courts may, depending on the specific Circuit's interpretation of "substantial similarity", consider the later piece of code to be a "derivative work" of the original code and thus subject to whatever license the author of the original code wishes to impose or deny. For this reason, no Microsoft employee is permitted to read code covered by the GNU General Public License.
And how does one GPL a program stored on a proprietary storage medium such as a ROM chip or cartridge? And how does one GPL a program for a platform whose kernel will load only binaries whose hash has been signed by a central authority?
If you want worldwide you should use.INT that is what it was set aside for.
The top-level domain for international organizations is.ORG. The.INT TLD is designed for international treaty organizations such as ISO, WTO, WIPO, etc.
it can be clearly argued that the primary intent of DeCSS etc. is to allow playback of DVDs on other platforms
Then why was DeCSS released for Windows before Linux? I find that 2600 lost the lawsuit mostly because Johansen put the cart (CSS descrambler) before the horse (Linux architecture to play DVD titles that aren't scrambled).
If you tape a Pay-Per-View movie... If you pay to get a basic cable channel such as Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network
I'll give you those in the "cable" sense. But what about Fox, NBC, CBS, and Dis^H^H^H ABC? Would you consider redistribution of a work aired on broadcast television, including commercials, to constitute "fair use"?
I am pretty sure the GNU Emacs Manual on my bookshelf (mine is Sixth Edition, Version 18 March 1987) costs money. Yep, the order form in the back says I can order it for $10. And the GNU Emacs source on 1600bpi industry standard magnetic tape in tar format for $150. But that's from the June 1988 price list.
The FSF now sells a distribution of all the GNU source code for $345 to organizations or $85 to individuals. The Emacs manual, 15th edition for Emacs 21, costs $45.
Sure, the price increase is quite a bit more than inflation, but as Emacs gets bigger, the documentation also must grow to cover the new features. And not only do you get the full source for all GNU programs from a trusted source (Free Software Foundation Inc.) through a trusted channel (a well-known shipping company), making the distribution extremely hard to spoof, but you also help support the development of the free GNU/* operating system.
If you pay to receive programming, and you make a videotape of it, and you give that videotape to someone who doesn't pay to receive the same programming, you're violating copyright and are breaking the law.
Define "pay to receive programming". If I receive an unscrambled broadcast television transmission, then I have paid to receive the work by watching the commercials and buying the detergent. When I give the videotape to a third party, and he watches the commercials, he has paid as well. Thus, the fourth fair use factor weighs in my favor, as Procter & Gamble has received our money, and the network has received P&G's money, and the copyright owner has received the network's money.
Contributory infringement, admittedly, already existed, but there is a redline test involving "primary purpose or effect". The DMCA doesn't require any such test to be applied if "circumvention" has occured
Actually, the DMCA does require such a test to be applied, in 17 USC 1201(b), for devices designed or marketed to break "a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title". The right to exclude others from making unauthorized fair use of a copyrighted work is not such a right. Thus, section 1201(b) merely codifies the guidelines developed in e.g. Sony v. Universal.
I think that T-Mobile even has "proprietized" that with some kind of "American" GSM.
Different companies have exclusive licenses for different blocks of radio frequencies in different countries. As far as I know, the frequency is the primary difference between GSM in the USA and GSM in Europe.
It means your device doubles as a Game Boy Advance.
In my book, if a device can run no games produced by Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo Co. Ltd., then it certainly doesn't count as a "Game Boy Advance".
go right ahead and buy one of those models that are just that. The cellphone manufacturers still make those too.
I'm worried that they'll stop making traditional phones because various sovereign governments of the United States, Europe, and East Asia see the value in placing a camera in the hands of every citizen.
You poor guy, that sucks. Here in Ottawa you can get...
Not everybody on the Internet is in North America, <catchphrase>you insensitive clod!</catchphrase> Try pricing links from the USA to New Zealand or to Africa or to Europe once.
Tell us the name of the "ISP" you run so that we can be sure never to give you any service.
In some towns, either the cable monopoly or the telephone monopoly has been slow to upgrade its lines for high-speed access, and the other company institutes a 3 GB cap. So if you don't patronize a high-speed web access provider that caps your account at 3 GB, then be happy with your dial-up.
Are you so sure? Many Nintendo 64 emulators effectively "pull a WINE" on N64 programs through a process called "high-level emulation" (HLE). In essence, the emulator recognizes common code fragments and implements them in native code. It's like dynamic recompilation with an "opening book". The compatibility isn't as great as straight emulation, but it does run select titles, which use the most common graphics engines, with a higher FPS.
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Once one of the free music bands out there makes a serious hit song I can guarantee they'll get themselves a nice RIAA approved
You probably don't have a TLD in your 20-year-old trademark
In fact, the courts prefer trademarks that don't contain the TLD.
(e.g. that company in Redmond is not named "Microsoft Dot Com")
You're right. It's named "Nintendo of America Inc."
I'll enforce my right to recieve spam ... by taking my money elsewhere
It costs roughly six figures USD to move your family to a geographical area where there exists a cable company or a phone company willing to offer you high-speed Internet with no restrictions on what content you may receive beyond the basic restrictions of federal and state law.
Every subscriber to a spam-friendly ISP is voting with their dollars - for spam.
What would you do in a hypothetical situation in which you live in an area where the monopoly provider of Internet access is a supporter of unsolicited bulk e-mail?
I have made a pretty penny thanks to patents and licensing agreements.
Please tell me you didn't patent something that was patently obvious when you filed the patent application *cough*Amazon one-click shopping patent*cough*.
Having cheap knock-offs of your designs or technology made by China or whoever is fine for consumers, but who put up the money to create the technology in the first place?
Does the inventor of a novel information technology product (not a drug) really need a 20 year monopoly to pay for the product's research and development?
Does the author of an operating system really need a life + 70 year monopoly to pay for the product's research and development?
Some monopolies do benefit society. But like all things, monopolies should exist in moderation, and this is why Dr. Lessig has gone to court to argue against monopoly term extensions.
To add to the problem, you can't really make an effective commercial email without mentioning your product and where to get it.
Unless the spammer makes an HTML e-mail and puts the entire ad spiel in a PNG image.
You can't sell me a mortgage without mentioning mortgages in some way
You can't discuss your mortgage with your banker without mentioning mortgages in some way.
You can't ask me to help get your mail out of Nigeria without mentioning Nigeria
Your middle-school daughter can't ask you for help on a geography report on Nigeria without mentioning Nigeria.
I agree that an e-mail classification system can reduce false positives by including headers in the formula. In fact, applying Bayesian classification to specific header lines emulates the already-known spam blocking techniques, possibly with weaker drawbacks. For instance, Bayes on From: and Reply-To: creates a personal whitelist. Bayes on Received: creates a personal RBL.
what happens when your filter is attuned to emails between you and your buddies, and suddenly a proposal comes in from an employer, or a partner, or a customer?
Bayesian filters don't have to classify a message only as "Spam" or "Not Spam". You can train them to recognize several categories such as "Work"/"Not Work", "Buddies"/"Not Buddies", etc.
If you release source code that appears to be derived from Microsoft source code
Then Microsoft can't touch you because you didn't have access to the original proprietary source code. Knowingly bringing false lawsuits can get Microsoft's retained attorneys disbarred.
Hence the concept of "clean room" implementations.
Like how Compaq cloned the IBM BIOS. "You say we copied your code? Go to hell, IBM; here's a map."
But Microsoft seems to hypothesize that because many GPL programs have little technical documentation other than the source code itself, the "dirty room" (with access to the source code) will be tempted to paraphrase less when passing information across the wall to the "clean room", weakening the wall between the "dirty room" and the "clean room".
"Don't like, don't use."
Then you run into the George Harrison problem. Under US copyright law, access plus substantial similarity equals copying. If you have seen a piece of code, and you write a similar piece of code several years later, the courts may, depending on the specific Circuit's interpretation of "substantial similarity", consider the later piece of code to be a "derivative work" of the original code and thus subject to whatever license the author of the original code wishes to impose or deny. For this reason, no Microsoft employee is permitted to read code covered by the GNU General Public License.
And how does one GPL a program stored on a proprietary storage medium such as a ROM chip or cartridge? And how does one GPL a program for a platform whose kernel will load only binaries whose hash has been signed by a central authority?
COM refers to .com.us domains.
www.netscape.com.us could not be found. Please check the name and try again.
vs.
Netscape Network
If you want worldwide you should use .INT that is what it was set aside for.
The top-level domain for international organizations is .ORG. The .INT TLD is designed for international treaty organizations such as ISO, WTO, WIPO, etc.
Don't let the name "guild" for a union turn you off. Movie actors belong to the Screen Actors Guild.
english? Hmm. Never programmed that language...sounds like some kind of hokey scripting language...is it like Perl?
The English programming language, used with the Pick operating system, is more like SQL.
it can be clearly argued that the primary intent of DeCSS etc. is to allow playback of DVDs on other platforms
Then why was DeCSS released for Windows before Linux? I find that 2600 lost the lawsuit mostly because Johansen put the cart (CSS descrambler) before the horse (Linux architecture to play DVD titles that aren't scrambled).
If you tape a Pay-Per-View movie ... If you pay to get a basic cable channel such as Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network
I'll give you those in the "cable" sense. But what about Fox, NBC, CBS, and Dis^H^H^H ABC? Would you consider redistribution of a work aired on broadcast television, including commercials, to constitute "fair use"?
I am pretty sure the GNU Emacs Manual on my bookshelf (mine is Sixth Edition, Version 18 March 1987) costs money. Yep, the order form in the back says I can order it for $10. And the GNU Emacs source on 1600bpi industry standard magnetic tape in tar format for $150. But that's from the June 1988 price list.
The FSF now sells a distribution of all the GNU source code for $345 to organizations or $85 to individuals. The Emacs manual, 15th edition for Emacs 21, costs $45.
Sure, the price increase is quite a bit more than inflation, but as Emacs gets bigger, the documentation also must grow to cover the new features. And not only do you get the full source for all GNU programs from a trusted source (Free Software Foundation Inc.) through a trusted channel (a well-known shipping company), making the distribution extremely hard to spoof, but you also help support the development of the free GNU/* operating system.
If you pay to receive programming, and you make a videotape of it, and you give that videotape to someone who doesn't pay to receive the same programming, you're violating copyright and are breaking the law.
Define "pay to receive programming". If I receive an unscrambled broadcast television transmission, then I have paid to receive the work by watching the commercials and buying the detergent. When I give the videotape to a third party, and he watches the commercials, he has paid as well. Thus, the fourth fair use factor weighs in my favor, as Procter & Gamble has received our money, and the network has received P&G's money, and the copyright owner has received the network's money.
Contributory infringement, admittedly, already existed, but there is a redline test involving "primary purpose or effect". The DMCA doesn't require any such test to be applied if "circumvention" has occured
Actually, the DMCA does require such a test to be applied, in 17 USC 1201(b), for devices designed or marketed to break "a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title". The right to exclude others from making unauthorized fair use of a copyrighted work is not such a right. Thus, section 1201(b) merely codifies the guidelines developed in e.g. Sony v. Universal.
On the other hand, I'm not so sure about 1201(a).
So what's Commodore, anyway? What do they make?
The Commodores were a funk band.
I think that T-Mobile even has "proprietized" that with some kind of "American" GSM.
Different companies have exclusive licenses for different blocks of radio frequencies in different countries. As far as I know, the frequency is the primary difference between GSM in the USA and GSM in Europe.
It means your device doubles as a Game Boy Advance.
In my book, if a device can run no games produced by Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo Co. Ltd., then it certainly doesn't count as a "Game Boy Advance".
go right ahead and buy one of those models that are just that. The cellphone manufacturers still make those too.
I'm worried that they'll stop making traditional phones because various sovereign governments of the United States, Europe, and East Asia see the value in placing a camera in the hands of every citizen.
You poor guy, that sucks. Here in Ottawa you can get...
Not everybody on the Internet is in North America, <catchphrase>you insensitive clod!</catchphrase> Try pricing links from the USA to New Zealand or to Africa or to Europe once.
Tell us the name of the "ISP" you run so that we can be sure never to give you any service.
In some towns, either the cable monopoly or the telephone monopoly has been slow to upgrade its lines for high-speed access, and the other company institutes a 3 GB cap. So if you don't patronize a high-speed web access provider that caps your account at 3 GB, then be happy with your dial-up.
No, you can't pull a WINE on it
Are you so sure? Many Nintendo 64 emulators effectively "pull a WINE" on N64 programs through a process called "high-level emulation" (HLE). In essence, the emulator recognizes common code fragments and implements them in native code. It's like dynamic recompilation with an "opening book". The compatibility isn't as great as straight emulation, but it does run select titles, which use the most common graphics engines, with a higher FPS.