Then by that logic the kid should be able to say anything to anyone in school and receive no punishment. Heck, swear at the teachers, it's protected speech. As I remember my speech was a bit more limited than that.
It still restricted now the same as it was then.
Experiment: Go to your local school fine a teacher, if you had them when you were in school and don't like them, all the better. Begin swearing at the teacher, multiply languages make this even more entertaining. Keep this diatrabe up for over two minutes. Document results! More than likely you will be escorted off of the property. How is this any different than when you were in school?
Experiment 2:Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper that satiricly discusses the same local teacher. Manage to keep the paper from throwing away your letter and actually printing it. Document results! Five out of ten times you will receive a summons. How is this different from what this child did? Should we ban that issue of the newspaper from the school library.
I've got an idea we could have a big fire in the middle of town and require by law that every copy of that paper be brought and burned along with that damned Catcher in the Rye book!
Since when is it part of capitalizim to impart artifical scarcity? This is just as bad as the government pay farmers not to grow crops. Let them grow all they want when the supply gets to high and the price falls enough farms will be forced outta business and into other lines of work that an equilibrium will be established. Thats the the point of capitalizm balance and freedom. Artifical limits and quota's thats socailizm. Remember that the US says that everyone has the right to pursue happiness, not the right to be happy. There is an important difference between the two. Along the way you may fail. Read your history many many of americas greatest minds fail horribly many times before they made it big!
Will you please stop spewing this crap that without IP law there would be no innovation.
First off your pharmecutical example...your tellin me that if there was not money in it that no one would ever develop new treatments and cures? That is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard...it is obvious that you have never watched someone die. Cures and treatments will be developed for as long as there is compasion in the world.
No I'm not going to sit hear and tell you that if someone puts themselves on the line a develops something that they should not be allowed to make money off of it. No. The problem is the length of time that a copyright is granted. What is it, something like life of the creator + 95 years... thats outragous! It should be put back to the original seven years. Thats what drives innovation... Put out a product get seven years to recoup your investment then you damn well better have something new on the drawing board.
The next issue is the question of whether you really believe that if the RIAA and the major labels didn't get their $22 a cd, would all music hang stagnent and never move forward?
Music isn't about be bop and hip hop, its about feeling... relating...and there are millions of excellent musicans that are not signed that make music that I would gladly pay serious money to see in concert.
Personally it sounds as if this argument qualifies you for a job a Microsoft in there marketing department. That way in five years you can defend them as they issue win95 as the latest and greatest embedded platform. And try to force all the palm and Ipac clones that they have to license it off of them...
Current entry in the HHGTTG
RIAA & MPAA: Will be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Found in a copy of the HHGTTG that fell through a timewarp
RIAA & MPAA: The first ones up against the wall when the revolution came.
Oh I loved the explination of this. This is from my local newspaper, The Butler Eagle, in Butler PA. What they do is scan the finger print and enlarge or shrink it so that it is a standard size. Then they map a set of points to the print, discard the print and then compare the points to the database to find the match.
The explanation is that they discard the print so that it can't be used. Sounds good but the logic doesn't work. All I have to do is take a print from a crime and enlarge or shink it to a standard size, use the same algorithm to map a set of points to it and compare it to the database and find my match.
"Just because I'm paranoid does not mean that no one is following me!"
Oh High school.... I had a wonderful english teacher in 11 grade that dressed in 70's style suits and always look like it was the worst day of his life.
One memorable day he gave a self-graded 10 point quiz. The idea being that as he counted outloud you were to raise your had to show what score you had gotten on your quiz...
So the teacher begins slowly counting with us all raising our hands to show our scores... All us except for one student who did not raise his hand at all. Once the teacher reaches 10, does he stop and ask this student what his score was? No! He continues to count....For the next 42 Minutes!!!
He made it to somewhere in the four hundreds before the bell rang. The student had scored a zero and the teacher had started counting at one... Oh how I love to see hard earned tax money at work in such wonderful ways!!!
I couldn't find it online, but read his report on the Challenger disaster sometime, its in his book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. Its down right scary how NASA management makes its decisions. Management believed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a problem with the shuttle, Feynman showed it was more like 1 in 100 and that the only system on the shuttle that was reliable was the computer software and it was getting info from badly designed and likely to fail sensors. Because of the whole design process it lead to problems never being fixed, even when the solution my have been simple. Just replace the failed part with a new part that will fail again later.
I'll second this. I got a call from my credit card company about a $10 charge looking abnormal, while the $3000 for a new engine never raised a flag....
Answer:
Jabber... www.jabber.org full featured open source IM server and clients for most major platforms... Easy protocol ( XML ). It interfaces with all the major IM Services ( AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ ). I had it up and running in minutes. Also check out www.jabbercentral.com for the client side stuff.
What most folks don't understand is that a 10Mbps link is a THEORETICAL MAX! Your never going to see it even in a limited envirornment let alone on an internet connection. Any ethernet-like protocol is contention based which means devices share the same pipe and use the bandwidth thats there. Even in a Reservation based protocol like token ring the Max throughput is tuff to get to because of things like latence, network errors, and repeater, switch and router performance. The max you'll ever see is around 80% and thats would be when no other devices were using the network. On any sort of public network this is NEVER going to happen. You will always have broadcasts, ARPs, router messaging, DHCP, SNMP, and any number of other various packets flowing through the network. 420KBps from any site on the internet is great. I'm guessing your using a cable modem type of access... and although your provider can possibly increase availible network bandwidth by implementing a certain level of port blocking to restrict protocals like SMB and others from improperly configured machines, the more blocks they put on means the more filters that a packet compared against before being passed through to your computer or the network. This adds more latency. So you see its a balancing act.
Although the theroretical world is fun to play in, most of us are forced to work in the real world.
Those immortal words of MST3K about sum it up...Speakin of which I think I'd rather have watched it on MST3K.
This just reenforces my belief that almost all TV and movies are going down hill. The idea of character development was a total loss to those who made this movie. Thufer, a mentat, with red stained libs, don't need them, we'll just ignore that. In fact we'll ignore the whole mentat subplot and make Paul a laxed spoiled child. Not the born leader that Mr. Herbert gave us... Political jousting? Nan... we can do with out it, it just makes things complicated. We'll make it simple and brainless. Lets see should we even introduce the traitor before we use him...no... whats the point of forshadowing anything.
We'll use some small parts of the book but barely give them any context. That way no one can say we did not read the book. Other major things like the doctors imperial training we can leave out.
The best way I can sum up this movie is that its what would happen if you left the people who made Starship Troopers a copy of the book and a kindergarden class to read it to them!
My recommendation is to read the book, or go to www.booksontape.com and get the unabridged audio book. You'll enjoy it far more.
A kid in the UK, for example, would have a pretty hard time getting his hands on a firearm. It's kind of difficult to do when there are almost none in circulation.
Its also kind difficult to protect yourself from the SS StormTroopers when they come to take you or your family away for speaking out against the governement.If you don't think it can happen your fooling yourself. Find someone who lived in Germany or one of the surrounding countrys in the late 30's and 40's. The second amendment is not about cutting down on crime, its about protecting yourself from an overreaching government.
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand!
Unfortunatly this is what makes the EULA license "AKA shrinkwrap License" so dangerous. You don't have to see the license, the simple fact that you use the device/software/dvd means that you are agreeing to the license. This is why this is such a big deal. The CueCat is not that important as a device I've seen schematics to build a simple bar code scanner before. The point of all this is that our rights as consumers and citizens of this country are being stripped away by the Government and Mega-Corporations.
Read the Constitution sometime, learn what it means. Understand the context of the time it was written in. Pay close attention to the Bill of Rights and Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8.
Heres one of My Favorite Court Quotes:
"It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling de-vice,
every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously
occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufacturers.
Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than
to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their
business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the
form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the indus-try
of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the
arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions
of concealed liens and unknown liabilities to lawsuits and vexatious accountings for
profits made in good faith."
This quote apply today more than ever with "One Click" shopping and CueCats... But when was it made? 1882 by Justice Bradley!
You not only have the Right to protect you liberty's you have an Obligation!
CueCats were mailed out with Wired and Forbes Magizine.
They contain a license agreement.
The License agreement contains restrictions on the use of the CueCat Hardware. Heres the quote from the License:
you may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, rent, lease, loan, sublicense, distribute or create derivative works based upon the:CRQ software or:CueCat reader in whole or part
Wired / Forbes are not claiming that the device is not a free gift.
Anything you recieve in the mail that you did not order and is not mark as a free gift is not subject to any license or other demands of the sender or manufacturer. Its yours! it belongs to you! You can give it way, sell it, use it to stop a squeek in your car, assign it in your will, hook it up to you computer and figure out what comes out of it when you scan something!
When DC trys to enforce their license on the hardware they are in violation of a Federal Law.
Here is the US Code covering such things:
Sec. 3009. Mailing of unordered merchandise
(a) Except for (1) free samples clearly and conspicuously marked as such, and (2) merchandise mailed by a charitable organization soliciting contributions, the mailing of unordered merchandise or of communications prohibited by subsection (c) of this section constitutes an unfair method of competition and an unfair trade practice in violation of section 45(a)(1) of title 15.
(b) Any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, may be treated as a gift by the recipient, who shall have the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender. All such merchandise shall have attached to it a clear and conspicuous statement informing the recipient that he may treat the merchandise as a gift to him and has the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender.
(c) No mailer of any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, shall mail to any recipient of such merchandise a bill for such merchandise or any dunning communications.
So heres what that says:
Anything you recieve thats not marked as free belongs to you. You can use it in any of the ways covered in section B. Which basicly says you can do with it as you want.
It also states that is section C that the NO ONE can send you any demands for money or on what you must be allowed to do.
So with that in mind heres how this all works out:
First, the license is "anti-competitive" for these devices when mailed. This is against the law! Two, If and when DC mails out C&D Letters to those who has recieved this device in the mail, they have violated the law again!
This whole thing may not seem like a big deal, but YOU MUST PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS!!!! These little things are the important ones. The laws in this country are setup to allow us to improve on what we see. They are not setup to guaruntee any corporation income. This kinda thing interfeers with what made this country what it is today.
Almost forgot the AOL CD thing: The cd you recieve is yours you can use it anyway you want for instance there is a contest going on to see the most original thing you can do with the AOL CD's. The software on that CD is covered differently, to and extent because it is labled as FREE. But the cd still belongs to you.
Guns are inherently dangerous; mp3s are not. Don't confuse that with a moral issue.
I've owned guns and shot guns since I was 5 years old and never had an incedent where someone was harmed. I've owned and used a hammer since I was 5 years old and done more harm to my self with it than I care to mention. But then I've also killed more deer with a car than I've killed with a gun ( I only shoot competition ). So those are only my personal facts but it seems to me that mp3 are as safe as a gun to me. Neither has caused any harm when I was around. In fact both have caused me to spend money that I would not have otherwised spent.
Lets look at it another way. Farmer Fred is approched by BigFOOD "Super Market to the World" Corp. who says that they hear he has great fruit. So they tell him that they want to make a contract to buy his next 5 harvests. Only thing is that they will only pay him a set amount for each harvest, which is less than what he would make selling it at his stand. But then he's also guarranteed that price even if its a bad year( aka he'd make more that year than if he sold it on his own). Fred thinks this is great, he's got guarranteed income for the next five harvest and everyone is going to get to try his fruit, not just the folks who stop by his stand. And he's seen what happen to Rolling Stone Farms Flour when they signed not to mention Brittney Spears Dairy and its "Milk it does the body good!" campain. So Farmer Fred signs a letter of intent with the BigFOOD Corp. Now after this he tells all his friends about this big deal he's going to sign with BigFOOD. But his friends tell him that they are already trying lots of new produce from all over the world. Some they like and they order right from the farm and had it shipped to them. Farmer Fred says how is this possible ( you see Farmer Fred spends all his time in the field and doesn't have time for much else.) His friends expain that you download this new program of the internet and search for and fruit you want. Then when you find it you can make a copy of it with your super-duper-replication device. Not there are a few catches, you can usually only find the really popular fruit grown by anyone farm, but if you really like it you can always order a bushel right from the farmer who made the original. Also the quality isn't as good as the original but the average human taste bud can't tell the difference.
So now Farmer fred begins to wonder if he should sign a deal with BigFOOD Corp. Why shouldn't he get one of these super-duper-replication device and sell his stuff directly to the consumer. He can use the super-duper-replication device to sell the only his best fruit and make up for what he can't grow during a bad year. But NO! BigFOOD finds out about his second thoughts and send in its army of Lawyers to remind Farmer Fred of his letter of intent. So now Farmer Fred can sell anything because of the letter of intent so he can either let his crops rot or sign a contact that BigFOOD wants him to sign ( which by they way is for less money than the one they told him about originally). Farmer Fred doesn't like this but he has no choice but to sign. After 5 harvest Farmer Fred figures he can take his best fruit and sell it on his own and make some real money cause everyone will know and love his fruit. But after 5 harvest Farmer Fred finds out that all the fruit he made was a "work for hire" and no longer belongs to him, he can't do anything with it till long after he's dead and the copyright on his fruit will mostlikely be extended so even his family will likely never see anything from it. Also Farmer Fred started doing Heroin and Crack which his BigFOOD manager said would help keep him going on the overly demanding fruit signing tour that BigFOOD made him go on. During the few times he get to be home he has taken to beating his wife because he's stressed and disconnected due to the drug addiction. He also has a number of charges pending against him due to several inccidents involving some underage fruit groupies.
BigFOOD distance itself from him and Farmer Fred drifts from the publics thoughts only to be seen on Farming Hits One's new series "Where are they farming now!". Where its reported that he is now devorced and recovering from addiction and teaching welding at a local community college.
Does this mean that they could sue me if my cache engine starts to index there site to help speed up browsing for my users. Or what if, heaven forbid, it accesses ebay and another auction site at the same time. If you publish it on a web server and allow the world to read it, then you should welcome someone who helps you sort it and your users to get to what they want faster... IT CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!
Ok lets see here, If I buy a telephone line then I have to buy a telephone from Bell Atlantic? No! I can build one. If radio signels are beamed in to my home, then do I have to buy a radio from Westinghouse? No! So if I buy a DVD disc why do I have to buy an DVD CSS licensed DVD player.
These battles have been fought before and when the free market is allowed to enter the consumer always wins. "Us gimme-it-all-now types" are why you have 5 cents a minute long distance and 500 local/long distance minutes on your cell phone. We're also the reason you'll get flat rate long distance in the very near future.
Now I know where this argument will get taken so I'll address it here. Cable TV. If I build a descrambler and watch all of a cable systems channels how is that different than decoding a DVD? The difference is that I payed for the DVD. Once I pay for the channel I get it descrambled by the cable company. But what if I still use my descrambler after I pay? The cable company has no course of action against me. I am now paying for the signel. At which point I can tape it on my VCR, encode it as an MPEG stream and write it to VCD or if I have the authoring equipment, burn it on to a DVD and play it back on my linux laptop while I'm on a plane to Norway.
America was founded on the principle that I have the right to risk it all. I might win, I might lose. How much I lose is based on how much I risk. But Corporate america wants it to be "I can risk it all and win, but if I don't I'll press charges".
Sorry I disagree that the scheduling is the easy part. A little Perl and LWP and some MySQL, you can look at tvguide.com or gist.com and get all you local programming. Use dialup to your ISP or install and ethernet card and uses you cable modem.
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Then by that logic the kid should be able to say anything to anyone in school and receive no punishment. Heck, swear at the teachers, it's protected speech. As I remember my speech was a bit more limited than that.
It still restricted now the same as it was then.
Experiment: Go to your local school fine a teacher, if you had them when you were in school and don't like them, all the better. Begin swearing at the teacher, multiply languages make this even more entertaining. Keep this diatrabe up for over two minutes. Document results! More than likely you will be escorted off of the property. How is this any different than when you were in school?
Experiment 2:Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper that satiricly discusses the same local teacher. Manage to keep the paper from throwing away your letter and actually printing it. Document results! Five out of ten times you will receive a summons. How is this different from what this child did? Should we ban that issue of the newspaper from the school library.
I've got an idea we could have a big fire in the middle of town and require by law that every copy of that paper be brought and burned along with that damned Catcher in the Rye book!
Since when is it part of capitalizim to impart artifical scarcity? This is just as bad as the government pay farmers not to grow crops. Let them grow all they want when the supply gets to high and the price falls enough farms will be forced outta business and into other lines of work that an equilibrium will be established. Thats the the point of capitalizm balance and freedom. Artifical limits and quota's thats socailizm. Remember that the US says that everyone has the right to pursue happiness, not the right to be happy. There is an important difference between the two. Along the way you may fail. Read your history many many of americas greatest minds fail horribly many times before they made it big!
Read the Kernel Traffic and find out!
Will you please stop spewing this crap that without IP law there would be no innovation.
First off your pharmecutical example...your tellin me that if there was not money in it that no one would ever develop new treatments and cures? That is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard...it is obvious that you have never watched someone die. Cures and treatments will be developed for as long as there is compasion in the world.
No I'm not going to sit hear and tell you that if someone puts themselves on the line a develops something that they should not be allowed to make money off of it. No. The problem is the length of time that a copyright is granted. What is it, something like life of the creator + 95 years... thats outragous! It should be put back to the original seven years. Thats what drives innovation... Put out a product get seven years to recoup your investment then you damn well better have something new on the drawing board.
The next issue is the question of whether you really believe that if the RIAA and the major labels didn't get their $22 a cd, would all music hang stagnent and never move forward?
Music isn't about be bop and hip hop, its about feeling... relating...and there are millions of excellent musicans that are not signed that make music that I would gladly pay serious money to see in concert.
Personally it sounds as if this argument qualifies you for a job a Microsoft in there marketing department. That way in five years you can defend them as they issue win95 as the latest and greatest embedded platform. And try to force all the palm and Ipac clones that they have to license it off of them...
Current entry in the HHGTTG
RIAA & MPAA: Will be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Found in a copy of the HHGTTG that fell through a timewarp
RIAA & MPAA: The first ones up against the wall when the revolution came.
Oh I loved the explination of this. This is from my local newspaper, The Butler Eagle, in Butler PA. What they do is scan the finger print and enlarge or shrink it so that it is a standard size. Then they map a set of points to the print, discard the print and then compare the points to the database to find the match.
The explanation is that they discard the print so that it can't be used. Sounds good but the logic doesn't work. All I have to do is take a print from a crime and enlarge or shink it to a standard size, use the same algorithm to map a set of points to it and compare it to the database and find my match.
"Just because I'm paranoid does not mean that no one is following me!"
Oh High school.... I had a wonderful english teacher in 11 grade that dressed in 70's style suits and always look like it was the worst day of his life.
One memorable day he gave a self-graded 10 point quiz. The idea being that as he counted outloud you were to raise your had to show what score you had gotten on your quiz...
So the teacher begins slowly counting with us all raising our hands to show our scores... All us except for one student who did not raise his hand at all. Once the teacher reaches 10, does he stop and ask this student what his score was? No! He continues to count....For the next 42 Minutes!!!
He made it to somewhere in the four hundreds before the bell rang. The student had scored a zero and the teacher had started counting at one... Oh how I love to see hard earned tax money at work in such wonderful ways!!!
I couldn't find it online, but read his report on the Challenger disaster sometime, its in his book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. Its down right scary how NASA management makes its decisions. Management believed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a problem with the shuttle, Feynman showed it was more like 1 in 100 and that the only system on the shuttle that was reliable was the computer software and it was getting info from badly designed and likely to fail sensors. Because of the whole design process it lead to problems never being fixed, even when the solution my have been simple. Just replace the failed part with a new part that will fail again later.
I'll second this. I got a call from my credit card company about a $10 charge looking abnormal, while the $3000 for a new engine never raised a flag....
Peace through superiour firepower!
Answer: Jabber... www.jabber.org full featured open source IM server and clients for most major platforms... Easy protocol ( XML ). It interfaces with all the major IM Services ( AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ ). I had it up and running in minutes. Also check out www.jabbercentral.com for the client side stuff.
What most folks don't understand is that a 10Mbps link is a THEORETICAL MAX! Your never going to see it even in a limited envirornment let alone on an internet connection. Any ethernet-like protocol is contention based which means devices share the same pipe and use the bandwidth thats there. Even in a Reservation based protocol like token ring the Max throughput is tuff to get to because of things like latence, network errors, and repeater, switch and router performance. The max you'll ever see is around 80% and thats would be when no other devices were using the network. On any sort of public network this is NEVER going to happen. You will always have broadcasts, ARPs, router messaging, DHCP, SNMP, and any number of other various packets flowing through the network. 420KBps from any site on the internet is great. I'm guessing your using a cable modem type of access... and although your provider can possibly increase availible network bandwidth by implementing a certain level of port blocking to restrict protocals like SMB and others from improperly configured machines, the more blocks they put on means the more filters that a packet compared against before being passed through to your computer or the network. This adds more latency. So you see its a balancing act.
Although the theroretical world is fun to play in, most of us are forced to work in the real world.
Those immortal words of MST3K about sum it up...Speakin of which I think I'd rather have watched it on MST3K.
This just reenforces my belief that almost all TV and movies are going down hill. The idea of character development was a total loss to those who made this movie. Thufer, a mentat, with red stained libs, don't need them, we'll just ignore that. In fact we'll ignore the whole mentat subplot and make Paul a laxed spoiled child. Not the born leader that Mr. Herbert gave us... Political jousting? Nan... we can do with out it, it just makes things complicated. We'll make it simple and brainless. Lets see should we even introduce the traitor before we use him...no... whats the point of forshadowing anything.
We'll use some small parts of the book but barely give them any context. That way no one can say we did not read the book. Other major things like the doctors imperial training we can leave out.
The best way I can sum up this movie is that its what would happen if you left the people who made Starship Troopers a copy of the book and a kindergarden class to read it to them!
My recommendation is to read the book, or go to www.booksontape.com and get the unabridged audio book. You'll enjoy it far more.
A kid in the UK, for example, would have a pretty hard time getting his hands on a firearm. It's kind of difficult to do when there are almost none in circulation.
Its also kind difficult to protect yourself from the SS StormTroopers when they come to take you or your family away for speaking out against the governement.If you don't think it can happen your fooling yourself. Find someone who lived in Germany or one of the surrounding countrys in the late 30's and 40's. The second amendment is not about cutting down on crime, its about protecting yourself from an overreaching government.
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand!
If you insult Buffy again I may be forced to violence! :-)
Unfortunatly this is what makes the EULA license "AKA shrinkwrap License" so dangerous. You don't have to see the license, the simple fact that you use the device/software/dvd means that you are agreeing to the license. This is why this is such a big deal. The CueCat is not that important as a device I've seen schematics to build a simple bar code scanner before. The point of all this is that our rights as consumers and citizens of this country are being stripped away by the Government and Mega-Corporations.
Read the Constitution sometime, learn what it means. Understand the context of the time it was written in. Pay close attention to the Bill of Rights and Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8. Heres one of My Favorite Court Quotes:
"It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling de-vice, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufacturers. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the indus-try of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions of concealed liens and unknown liabilities to lawsuits and vexatious accountings for profits made in good faith."
This quote apply today more than ever with "One Click" shopping and CueCats... But when was it made? 1882 by Justice Bradley!
You not only have the Right to protect you liberty's you have an Obligation!
CueCats were mailed out with Wired and Forbes Magizine.
They contain a license agreement.
The License agreement contains restrictions on the use of the CueCat Hardware. Heres the quote from the License:
:CRQ software or :CueCat reader in whole or part
you may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, rent, lease, loan, sublicense, distribute or create derivative works based upon the
Wired / Forbes are not claiming that the device is not a free gift.
Anything you recieve in the mail that you did not order and is not mark as a free gift is not subject to any license or other demands of the sender or manufacturer. Its yours! it belongs to you! You can give it way, sell it, use it to stop a squeek in your car, assign it in your will, hook it up to you computer and figure out what comes out of it when you scan something!
When DC trys to enforce their license on the hardware they are in violation of a Federal Law.
Here is the US Code covering such things:
Sec. 3009. Mailing of unordered merchandise
(a) Except for (1) free samples clearly and conspicuously marked as such, and (2) merchandise mailed by a charitable organization soliciting contributions, the mailing of unordered merchandise or of communications prohibited by subsection (c) of this section constitutes an unfair method of competition and an unfair trade practice in violation of section 45(a)(1) of title 15.
(b) Any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, may be treated as a gift by the recipient, who shall have the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender. All such merchandise shall have attached to it a clear and conspicuous statement informing the recipient that he may treat the merchandise as a gift to him and has the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender.
(c) No mailer of any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, shall mail to any recipient of such merchandise a bill for such merchandise or any dunning communications.
So heres what that says:
Anything you recieve thats not marked as free belongs to you. You can use it in any of the ways covered in section B. Which basicly says you can do with it as you want.
It also states that is section C that the NO ONE can send you any demands for money or on what you must be allowed to do.
So with that in mind heres how this all works out:
First, the license is "anti-competitive" for these devices when mailed. This is against the law!
Two, If and when DC mails out C&D Letters to those who has recieved this device in the mail, they have violated the law again!
This whole thing may not seem like a big deal, but YOU MUST PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS!!!! These little things are the important ones. The laws in this country are setup to allow us to improve on what we see. They are not setup to guaruntee any corporation income. This kinda thing interfeers with what made this country what it is today.
Almost forgot the AOL CD thing:
The cd you recieve is yours you can use it anyway you want for instance there is a contest going on to see the most original thing you can do with the AOL CD's. The software on that CD is covered differently, to and extent because it is labled as FREE. But the cd still belongs to you.
Guns are inherently dangerous; mp3s are not. Don't confuse that with a moral issue.
I've owned guns and shot guns since I was 5 years old and never had an incedent where someone was harmed. I've owned and used a hammer since I was 5 years old and done more harm to my self with it than I care to mention. But then I've also killed more deer with a car than I've killed with a gun ( I only shoot competition ). So those are only my personal facts but it seems to me that mp3 are as safe as a gun to me. Neither has caused any harm when I was around. In fact both have caused me to spend money that I would not have otherwised spent.
Lets look at it another way. Farmer Fred is approched by BigFOOD "Super Market to the World" Corp. who says that they hear he has great fruit. So they tell him that they want to make a contract to buy his next 5 harvests. Only thing is that they will only pay him a set amount for each harvest, which is less than what he would make selling it at his stand. But then he's also guarranteed that price even if its a bad year( aka he'd make more that year than if he sold it on his own). Fred thinks this is great, he's got guarranteed income for the next five harvest and everyone is going to get to try his fruit, not just the folks who stop by his stand. And he's seen what happen to Rolling Stone Farms Flour when they signed not to mention Brittney Spears Dairy and its "Milk it does the body good!" campain. So Farmer Fred signs a letter of intent with the BigFOOD Corp. Now after this he tells all his friends about this big deal he's going to sign with BigFOOD. But his friends tell him that they are already trying lots of new produce from all over the world. Some they like and they order right from the farm and had it shipped to them. Farmer Fred says how is this possible ( you see Farmer Fred spends all his time in the field and doesn't have time for much else.) His friends expain that you download this new program of the internet and search for and fruit you want. Then when you find it you can make a copy of it with your super-duper-replication device. Not there are a few catches, you can usually only find the really popular fruit grown by anyone farm, but if you really like it you can always order a bushel right from the farmer who made the original. Also the quality isn't as good as the original but the average human taste bud can't tell the difference. So now Farmer fred begins to wonder if he should sign a deal with BigFOOD Corp. Why shouldn't he get one of these super-duper-replication device and sell his stuff directly to the consumer. He can use the super-duper-replication device to sell the only his best fruit and make up for what he can't grow during a bad year. But NO! BigFOOD finds out about his second thoughts and send in its army of Lawyers to remind Farmer Fred of his letter of intent. So now Farmer Fred can sell anything because of the letter of intent so he can either let his crops rot or sign a contact that BigFOOD wants him to sign ( which by they way is for less money than the one they told him about originally). Farmer Fred doesn't like this but he has no choice but to sign. After 5 harvest Farmer Fred figures he can take his best fruit and sell it on his own and make some real money cause everyone will know and love his fruit. But after 5 harvest Farmer Fred finds out that all the fruit he made was a "work for hire" and no longer belongs to him, he can't do anything with it till long after he's dead and the copyright on his fruit will mostlikely be extended so even his family will likely never see anything from it. Also Farmer Fred started doing Heroin and Crack which his BigFOOD manager said would help keep him going on the overly demanding fruit signing tour that BigFOOD made him go on. During the few times he get to be home he has taken to beating his wife because he's stressed and disconnected due to the drug addiction. He also has a number of charges pending against him due to several inccidents involving some underage fruit groupies. BigFOOD distance itself from him and Farmer Fred drifts from the publics thoughts only to be seen on Farming Hits One's new series "Where are they farming now!". Where its reported that he is now devorced and recovering from addiction and teaching welding at a local community college.
Does this mean that they could sue me if my cache engine starts to index there site to help speed up browsing for my users. Or what if, heaven forbid, it accesses ebay and another auction site at the same time. If you publish it on a web server and allow the world to read it, then you should welcome someone who helps you sort it and your users to get to what they want faster... IT CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!
Ok lets see here, If I buy a telephone line then I have to buy a telephone from Bell Atlantic? No! I can build one. If radio signels are beamed in to my home, then do I have to buy a radio from Westinghouse? No! So if I buy a DVD disc why do I have to buy an DVD CSS licensed DVD player.
These battles have been fought before and when the free market is allowed to enter the consumer always wins. "Us gimme-it-all-now types" are why you have 5 cents a minute long distance and 500 local/long distance minutes on your cell phone. We're also the reason you'll get flat rate long distance in the very near future.
Now I know where this argument will get taken so I'll address it here. Cable TV. If I build a descrambler and watch all of a cable systems channels how is that different than decoding a DVD? The difference is that I payed for the DVD. Once I pay for the channel I get it descrambled by the cable company. But what if I still use my descrambler after I pay? The cable company has no course of action against me. I am now paying for the signel. At which point I can tape it on my VCR, encode it as an MPEG stream and write it to VCD or if I have the authoring equipment, burn it on to a DVD and play it back on my linux laptop while I'm on a plane to Norway.
America was founded on the principle that I have the right to risk it all. I might win, I might lose. How much I lose is based on how much I risk. But Corporate america wants it to be "I can risk it all and win, but if I don't I'll press charges".
The Second most powerful computer in the universe already figured out the answer: 42 !!!
Sorry I disagree that the scheduling is the easy part. A little Perl and LWP and some MySQL, you can look at tvguide.com or gist.com and get all you local programming. Use dialup to your ISP or install and ethernet card and uses you cable modem.