Actually, I hate to admit it, but this isn't all that unreasonable. If it were up to me, there'd be no filters on library computers, but this isn't an unreasonable compromise -- though I'd like it more like 50-50.
Well, this is really cool, though I'm not sure I actually learned anything from the pictures. Except that it would be fun to have the use of a really good medical x-ray machine, along with a few household objects. But I already knew that. And you did, too, didn't you?
This may actually be good news. There's a building sentiment that DMCA is horrible and should be repealed or reworked. The worst thing we could get would be a workaround that would be good enough to save DMCA as it is, but without fixing the main problems.
Surely the French, who hate American hegemony in entertainment (but weaken their case somewhat by idolizing Jerry Lewis and "Starsky & Hutch") will be agitating to look into the collusive practices of the MPAA & RIAA next. Won't they?
There are more realistic alternatives to M$ than to the big labels and studios.
Whenever you read on of thse stories, the people involved don't sound all that bright. It's a far cry from James Bond, anyway -- more like Amway gone bad.
The backlash against the DMCA is coming because people are realizing what it's about. It was pushed through back when hardly anyone outside a small community knew or cared. Now, thanks to the net's growth, a lot more people know and care.
If we refuse to put up with it, it won't happen. If we lie back and wait for someone else to save us, we'll all wind up as indentured servants to the MPAA.
There are lots of unpleasant things that businesses could do that they don't do because people won't put up with them. It's important that this dynamic be put to work in the privacy area. If people won't put up with this, it won't happen.
I rather doubt that a Brit from 1720 would have found the Britain of 1820 incomphrehensible just because it had railroads. A Brit from 1720 would have found most of today's world comprehensible, actually. Change is change, but let's not get carried away.
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Check out this oped by Linda Seebach. It's nothing folks here don't know, but it's put together clearly and beautifully for popular consumption. I think it's a sign that the general public is catching on to the dangerous idiocy of the DMCA.
Hey -- if some teenager smuggles an app. onto a corporate computer, he's a nasty hacker who must be punished. When corporations try to smuggle their crap onto my computer, that's smart business. Huh?
In Animal House it was a joke. For the feds it's becoming a habit. This is an outrage -- but I don't think it will hold up in court. When you present evidence like this, you have to establish its reliability. And "Trust US' isn't good enough.
Exterminating your personal information is probably impossible. It's probably better to generate as dense a fog of contradictory and misleading information about yourself as possible.
This is a real issue. I'm amazed what I can find about people on the Web already. Correlating bits of innocent data can give you a surprisingly complete picture.
There's a big double standard here: the federal judiciary, whose financial records are required to be made public, has consistently refused to make them available on the Internet, or to release them to people who plan to do that. That's no surprise, but it's unfair. Sauce for the goose, and so on.
We need to get rid of these extralegal enforcement methods: if they want to punish you , they should have to go to court, not dragoon your ISP into being the executioner. This requires either (1) a court finding the DMCA unconstitutional (likely): or (2) legislative action (increasingly likely).
George Bush should wake up to the fact that everyone hates the MPAA & RIAA already (a recent NY Times profile of Hillary Rosen says that RIAA staffers don't wear RIAA t-shirts in public anymore because of the abuse they get) and that he can make a lot of political hay by beating up on them.
Sounds great. CD-Rs are just too small for backup, and nothing else is rugged enough. I'm using an external USB hard drive that I got dirt cheap now, but although it's fairly big (20G) it's slooooowwwwww.
Also, I can copy all my home videos over from VHS-C to DVD before the tape disintegrates. (No doubt in 20 years I'll be copying them to new media for the 5th time, probably to molecular-torsion memory or something).
Funny how all the cultural fears of technology come from books and movies like Frankenstein, Brave New World, Colossus, (remember that one?) and 2001. All of which are fiction, and written the way they are to make an interesting story (who would read a story about a man who created a "monster" that was happy, friendly, and harmless, or a computer that worked perfectly and caused no trouble?) Yet in popular discussion, people treat them as real, and embodying actual dangers with which we have real experience.
We need more Artificial Intelligence -- the natural kind is in too short a supply.
Extremely cool. But if they ramp it up to mass production, they'll probably ruin it. Kind of the way they do with those very cool show cars that become lame by the time they hit the market.
The Baby Bells have fought open competition from day one. I think DSL is a great technology, but who would have thought we'd be looking to cable TV companies for relief from monopoly?
There are a lot of people who want DSL but can't get it, or who have signed up with services like Telocity only to find their service mysteriously interrupted (and be told by Telocity that it's the Bells' fault). Some politician could capitalize on this, and probably will.
This shows the lack of judgment that has become endemic in federal law enforcement. The Cato Institute has been arguing for quite a while that the massive increases in federal law enforcement budgets over the past fifteeen years, with no matching increase in crime, would encourage the feds to prosecute things that they previously would have had the sense to ignore, just to make work. Seems to be happening.
Anybody notice there aren't any sigs appearing? My sig still shows in my settings, but it's not appearing on my old posts, and I notice nobody else has any either. Let's see if it appears on this post.
I've got a little Grundig receiver and it's been performing exceptionally well (it's always surprisingly good). I guess this is why.
Shortwave: the Internet of the previous generation.
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Actually, I hate to admit it, but this isn't all that unreasonable. If it were up to me, there'd be no filters on library computers, but this isn't an unreasonable compromise -- though I'd like it more like 50-50.
Well, this is really cool, though I'm not sure I actually learned anything from the pictures. Except that it would be fun to have the use of a really good medical x-ray machine, along with a few household objects. But I already knew that. And you did, too, didn't you?
This may actually be good news. There's a building sentiment that DMCA is horrible and should be repealed or reworked. The worst thing we could get would be a workaround that would be good enough to save DMCA as it is, but without fixing the main problems.
Surely the French, who hate American hegemony in entertainment (but weaken their case somewhat by idolizing Jerry Lewis and "Starsky & Hutch") will be agitating to look into the collusive practices of the MPAA & RIAA next. Won't they?
There are more realistic alternatives to M$ than to the big labels and studios.
Whenever you read on of thse stories, the people involved don't sound all that bright. It's a far cry from James Bond, anyway -- more like Amway gone bad.
I have one of those -- it's running Windows ME.
The backlash against the DMCA is coming because people are realizing what it's about. It was pushed through back when hardly anyone outside a small community knew or cared. Now, thanks to the net's growth, a lot more people know and care.
If we refuse to put up with it, it won't happen. If we lie back and wait for someone else to save us, we'll all wind up as indentured servants to the MPAA.
There are lots of unpleasant things that businesses could do that they don't do because people won't put up with them. It's important that this dynamic be put to work in the privacy area. If people won't put up with this, it won't happen.
Eternal vigilance, and all that.
I rather doubt that a Brit from 1720 would have found the Britain of 1820 incomphrehensible just because it had railroads. A Brit from 1720 would have found most of today's world comprehensible, actually. Change is change, but let's not get carried away.
Coming up with a dozen shows good enough to be worth taping a whole season's worth!
Why is it that as TV viewing technology gets better, TV seems to be getting worse?
Check out this oped by Linda Seebach. It's nothing folks here don't know, but it's put together clearly and beautifully for popular consumption. I think it's a sign that the general public is catching on to the dangerous idiocy of the DMCA.
I'm very disappointed in Borders. This makes me wonder about their commitment to the privacy of their customer data, too.
Hey -- if some teenager smuggles an app. onto a corporate computer, he's a nasty hacker who must be punished. When corporations try to smuggle their crap onto my computer, that's smart business. Huh?
In Animal House it was a joke. For the feds it's becoming a habit. This is an outrage -- but I don't think it will hold up in court. When you present evidence like this, you have to establish its reliability. And "Trust US' isn't good enough.
Exterminating your personal information is probably impossible. It's probably better to generate as dense a fog of contradictory and misleading information about yourself as possible.
This is a real issue. I'm amazed what I can find about people on the Web already. Correlating bits of innocent data can give you a surprisingly complete picture.
There's a big double standard here: the federal judiciary, whose financial records are required to be made public, has consistently refused to make them available on the Internet, or to release them to people who plan to do that. That's no surprise, but it's unfair. Sauce for the goose, and so on.
We need to get rid of these extralegal enforcement methods: if they want to punish you , they should have to go to court, not dragoon your ISP into being the executioner. This requires either (1) a court finding the DMCA unconstitutional (likely): or (2) legislative action (increasingly likely).
George Bush should wake up to the fact that everyone hates the MPAA & RIAA already (a recent NY Times profile of Hillary Rosen says that RIAA staffers don't wear RIAA t-shirts in public anymore because of the abuse they get) and that he can make a lot of political hay by beating up on them.
Sounds great. CD-Rs are just too small for backup, and nothing else is rugged enough. I'm using an external USB hard drive that I got dirt cheap now, but although it's fairly big (20G) it's slooooowwwwww.
Also, I can copy all my home videos over from VHS-C to DVD before the tape disintegrates. (No doubt in 20 years I'll be copying them to new media for the 5th time, probably to molecular-torsion memory or something).
Than never to have published at all. Sigh. Oh, well -- save copies, they'll be worth a fortune some day.
Funny how all the cultural fears of technology come from books and movies like Frankenstein, Brave New World, Colossus, (remember that one?) and 2001. All of which are fiction, and written the way they are to make an interesting story (who would read a story about a man who created a "monster" that was happy, friendly, and harmless, or a computer that worked perfectly and caused no trouble?) Yet in popular discussion, people treat them as real, and embodying actual dangers with which we have real experience.
We need more Artificial Intelligence -- the natural kind is in too short a supply.
Extremely cool. But if they ramp it up to mass production, they'll probably ruin it. Kind of the way they do with those very cool show cars that become lame by the time they hit the market.
The Baby Bells have fought open competition from day one. I think DSL is a great technology, but who would have thought we'd be looking to cable TV companies for relief from monopoly?
There are a lot of people who want DSL but can't get it, or who have signed up with services like Telocity only to find their service mysteriously interrupted (and be told by Telocity that it's the Bells' fault). Some politician could capitalize on this, and probably will.
This shows the lack of judgment that has become endemic in federal law enforcement. The Cato Institute has been arguing for quite a while that the massive increases in federal law enforcement budgets over the past fifteeen years, with no matching increase in crime, would encourage the feds to prosecute things that they previously would have had the sense to ignore, just to make work. Seems to be happening.
Anybody notice there aren't any sigs appearing? My sig still shows in my settings, but it's not appearing on my old posts, and I notice nobody else has any either. Let's see if it appears on this post.
I've got a little Grundig receiver and it's been performing exceptionally well (it's always surprisingly good). I guess this is why. Shortwave: the Internet of the previous generation.