Well, if I was Willie Sutton, I might reply "...because that's there the money is", but the truth in the matter is that I enjoy the challenge and mental activity in the same fashion that my friends enjoy the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle. It's a game with myself to see how well I can write a program to do foo, and it builds my skills and cognitive thinking abilities, from which I do earn a paycheck from.
If someone else can learn from my example, or find use of it, or even build a billion dollar industry from it, great!, just send me a nice thank you card on the way (if it's the billion dollar industry I'll settle for a Z8 from BMW, red please).
Mr. Goldstein of 2600 is a big supporter of Hackivism and being political, which is good, since it brings forth the issues which the majority of us sit around a whine about all the time (Sorry people, but I feel this is true).
I'm sure that you've worked with him from time to time, and have some good ideas about what needs to be done. So what needs to be done?
Also:
What are you doing with the political movers and shakers, in terms of the issues and education of technology? Whom do you feel are the most technically savvy politicians in the House and Senate?
And finally, what do you feel is the worst case possible in the realm of laws (DMCA not withstanding), and how close do you think we'll come to see it?
Basically it comes down to who gets paided what.
What I really find intresting is in the RIAA's faq (http://www.riaa.com/Licensing-Licen-3a.cfm) and read the section on "What are the conditions that a webcaster has to meet in order to qualify for the statutory license?".
I've said this in the last posting of the story, but it was at the bottom so I don't know how many people saw it:
We should have IBM, Micron, or who ever else uses these chips in their laptops to ask Trident to release the documentation that is needed to develop a driver for FreeX.
It's harder to ignore IBM than it is a single developer.
IBM or some other big company to talk some sense into them?
Yes this might be able to brush off some independant developers, but a multibillion dollar corporation is much harder to say no to.
The old addage - 'Common sense isn't very common' is ringing very true right now.
Could someone just drop a big fricking rock on us all and put us all out of our collective missery?
A law would not be needed - all the telco / ISP would have to do is amend the contract to be prohibitive to this activity.
Then they would add a receiver in their repair trucks / vans and as they cruise the neighborhoods on their daily business they would note the network being broadcasted. A simple check to see if it's theirs and *bang* you're banned.
Back in college I worked for this guy as a PC tech. He had this great idea of building a system which would link all the property to a database that would in turn allow you then to either click on the map and pull up all the records for the parcel of land or type in a name and see all the property that person owned.
Nifty idea back in it's time.
Anyway...
I know that there are companies that go to each court house and scan in all the documents posted in the last year and they sell the data to other companies that use the data to market products or back to cities as an effective storage / archive system. these same companies do the same thing for the states, too.
I think it should be a careful balance between my right to some privacy and the public right to know. Sooner or later all the records will be stored in a digital format. And sooner or later that information will find its way to the net.
Maybe limit the number of times a person can access the records per day? Or maybe give the database office hours (only accessible from 9 to 5)?
Maybe its time for us technically inclined to run for office and put into effect some good ideas?
No company like to hear that the 'Emperor Has No Clothes', which is what I named this syndrome.
I've had friend fired from high paying jobs for doing the same thing inside of the company that they were working for at the time. You just don't point these things out by yourself.
Yeah, it's fucked but that's how they think and work.
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Nope - the DC is Windows CE Compatible.
CE is on the GD-ROM and boots up after the bootstrap process occures.
Easy as
Sadly this story does not get the attention in the media that it really should. Yes there are a few blurs about 'Fair Use' here and there, but nothing that really that is open in the public forum. The only problem is that this is not some simple story, it's a rather hard and complex issue, one that the avg. American wouldn't know about or really give a fuck about. Public apathy will doom us in the end.
Frankly if Sony and Paramount, etc. want to encrypt their media offerings then the should be forced to give a copy of the decrypting key to the Lirbary of Congress to held in escrow. The day that the copyright ends, those keys become public domain. End of story. No endless extentions to the life of the copyright either.
I also feel that copyright should move to be more like patents, 20 years to explot, then 'The End', public domain.
Well then, I guess (and strongly recommend) that the Open Source group start up it's own patent bank. This bank of patents would be free to anyone who GPLs their code, but commercial products would be required to pay royalties to the GNU Foundation.
This is going to be the only way that free software will win.
wow...
I think the first thing that should be done here is that the requirement of a SSN on any application for a credit card or phone number, etc should be out right banned. Second, these phone companies should run a two week advertisement announcing the thief of this data and that all people should check with their credit card companies and credit rating companies. The hacked companies should also report this to the credit reporting companies!
I also think the companies should be libel for a million dollars of damage per incident (person).
Finally a quick google search on legal uses of social security numbers turns up quite a few things worth reading:
SSN FAQ
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On what Age, Sex and Zip I report to them.
Anyone know what type of ads you'll hear if you put yourself down as a transgenre 70 year old from Northern Alaska?
Seriously here, the data is only as good as you tell them.
Okay, so you're most likely have heard a thing or two about MS's new EULA which prohibited the use of 'virual' software with the previewed toolkit. What concerns does IBM have about Open Source Licenses like GPL, Netscape's, etc and close sourced projects?
We'll just put together a class action lawsuite agaist the ISPs and advertivers, for the same reason why we'll sue MS if the smarttags are in place; the email is copyrighted and they're inserting their junk.
Well it give us Americans the perfect excuse to go out and exersize.
So what if everyone in China wore a pair of these shoes, climbed up on a chair and jumped down to the floor?
I guess someone should sue on the anti-fax junk mail laws and see what happens, or offer to fax all four hundred hot sexy barely legal teens porn spam to either one of these guys.
Well that's going to suck for James Bond...
Woman: James! the building going to explode!!!!
James Bond and the Woman jump into a sports car and take off. Cut to a speedlimit sign which reads 30KM.
Car: Beep, beep, beep. Warning you are going over the speed limit. Engaging autodrive(tm).
Car slows down to posted speed limit.
Building explodes in a pyrotechnic blast, killing everyone.
I really enjoyed the book. Some truely fun stories, like the bank robbers, or the time the Mad Sciencetis bought the min-sub to use in the local lake.
I guess I'll buy a copy and give it to my niece.
Oh.. didn't/. feature a house with a half million dollar subwoofer that some guy built into his foundation and was the size of a swimming pool?
That guy was Oracle founder and all around rich guy Ellison.
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The Tree of Librety must be watered with the blood of Patriots from time to time.
What exactly do we say?
Well, if I was Willie Sutton, I might reply "...because that's there the money is", but the truth in the matter is that I enjoy the challenge and mental activity in the same fashion that my friends enjoy the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle.
It's a game with myself to see how well I can write a program to do foo, and it builds my skills and cognitive thinking abilities, from which I do earn a paycheck from. If someone else can learn from my example, or find use of it, or even build a billion dollar industry from it, great!, just send me a nice thank you card on the way (if it's the billion dollar industry I'll settle for a Z8 from BMW, red please).
Mr. Goldstein of 2600 is a big supporter of Hackivism and being political, which is good, since it brings forth the issues which the majority of us sit around a whine about all the time (Sorry people, but I feel this is true).
I'm sure that you've worked with him from time to time, and have some good ideas about what needs to be done. So what needs to be done?
Also:
What are you doing with the political movers and shakers, in terms of the issues and education of technology? Whom do you feel are the most technically savvy politicians in the House and Senate?
And finally, what do you feel is the worst case possible in the realm of laws (DMCA not withstanding), and how close do you think we'll come to see it?
Basically it comes down to who gets paided what.
What I really find intresting is in the RIAA's faq (http://www.riaa.com/Licensing-Licen-3a.cfm) and read the section on "What are the conditions that a webcaster has to meet in order to qualify for the statutory license?".
Makes you wanna go start your own country.
I've said this in the last posting of the story, but it was at the bottom so I don't know how many people saw it:
We should have IBM, Micron, or who ever else uses these chips in their laptops to ask Trident to release the documentation that is needed to develop a driver for FreeX.
It's harder to ignore IBM than it is a single developer.
IBM or some other big company to talk some sense into them?
Yes this might be able to brush off some independant developers, but a multibillion dollar corporation is much harder to say no to.
The old addage - 'Common sense isn't very common' is ringing very true right now.
Could someone just drop a big fricking rock on us all and put us all out of our collective missery?
A law would not be needed - all the telco / ISP would have to do is amend the contract to be prohibitive to this activity.
Then they would add a receiver in their repair trucks / vans and as they cruise the neighborhoods on their daily business they would note the network being broadcasted. A simple check to see if it's theirs and *bang* you're banned.
Back in college I worked for this guy as a PC tech. He had this great idea of building a system which would link all the property to a database that would in turn allow you then to either click on the map and pull up all the records for the parcel of land or type in a name and see all the property that person owned.
Nifty idea back in it's time.
Anyway...
I know that there are companies that go to each court house and scan in all the documents posted in the last year and they sell the data to other companies that use the data to market products or back to cities as an effective storage / archive system. these same companies do the same thing for the states, too.
I think it should be a careful balance between my right to some privacy and the public right to know. Sooner or later all the records will be stored in a digital format. And sooner or later that information will find its way to the net.
Maybe limit the number of times a person can access the records per day? Or maybe give the database office hours (only accessible from 9 to 5)?
Maybe its time for us technically inclined to run for office and put into effect some good ideas?
I've had friend fired from high paying jobs for doing the same thing inside of the company that they were working for at the time. You just don't point these things out by yourself.
Yeah, it's fucked but that's how they think and work.
Nope - the DC is Windows CE Compatible. CE is on the GD-ROM and boots up after the bootstrap process occures.
Easy as
Sadly this story does not get the attention in the media that it really should. Yes there are a few blurs about 'Fair Use' here and there, but nothing that really that is open in the public forum. The only problem is that this is not some simple story, it's a rather hard and complex issue, one that the avg. American wouldn't know about or really give a fuck about. Public apathy will doom us in the end.
Frankly if Sony and Paramount, etc. want to encrypt their media offerings then the should be forced to give a copy of the decrypting key to the Lirbary of Congress to held in escrow. The day that the copyright ends, those keys become public domain. End of story. No endless extentions to the life of the copyright either.
I also feel that copyright should move to be more like patents, 20 years to explot, then 'The End', public domain.
Well then, I guess (and strongly recommend) that the Open Source group start up it's own patent bank. This bank of patents would be free to anyone who GPLs their code, but commercial products would be required to pay royalties to the GNU Foundation.
This is going to be the only way that free software will win.
wow...
I think the first thing that should be done here is that the requirement of a SSN on any application for a credit card or phone number, etc should be out right banned.
Second, these phone companies should run a two week advertisement announcing the thief of this data and that all people should check with their credit card companies and credit rating companies. The hacked companies should also report this to the credit reporting companies!
I also think the companies should be libel for a million dollars of damage per incident (person).
Finally a quick google search on legal uses of social security numbers turns up quite a few things worth reading: SSN FAQ
So that explains why I was in the theater!
On what Age, Sex and Zip I report to them. Anyone know what type of ads you'll hear if you put yourself down as a transgenre 70 year old from Northern Alaska?
Seriously here, the data is only as good as you tell them.
Okay, so you're most likely have heard a thing or two about MS's new EULA which prohibited the use of 'virual' software with the previewed toolkit.
What concerns does IBM have about Open Source Licenses like GPL, Netscape's, etc and close sourced projects?
We'll just put together a class action lawsuite agaist the ISPs and advertivers, for the same reason why we'll sue MS if the smarttags are in place; the email is copyrighted and they're inserting their junk.
Well it give us Americans the perfect excuse to go out and exersize. So what if everyone in China wore a pair of these shoes, climbed up on a chair and jumped down to the floor?
I guess someone should sue on the anti-fax junk mail laws and see what happens, or offer to fax all four hundred hot sexy barely legal teens porn spam to either one of these guys.
Well that's going to suck for James Bond...
Woman: James! the building going to explode!!!!
James Bond and the Woman jump into a sports car and take off. Cut to a speedlimit sign which reads 30KM.
Car: Beep, beep, beep. Warning you are going over the speed limit. Engaging autodrive(tm).
Car slows down to posted speed limit.
Building explodes in a pyrotechnic blast, killing everyone.
Go read the review, it was a case of misreprensetation.
I really enjoyed the book. Some truely fun stories, like the bank robbers, or the time the Mad Sciencetis bought the min-sub to use in the local lake.
I guess I'll buy a copy and give it to my niece.
She's Native American - and has quite the voice over resume. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Vine/4993/ It looks as if she's been doing this stuff forever...
Oh.. didn't /. feature a house with a half million dollar subwoofer that some guy built into his foundation and was the size of a swimming pool?
That guy was Oracle founder and all around rich guy Ellison.