And below for a summary from wired less than year ago:
U.S. lawmakers approved the creation of a cabinet-level position of copyright czar as part of sweeping intellectual property enforcement legislation that sailed through the Senate on Friday.
However, a controversial measure granting the Justice Department the authority to sue copyright infringers on behalf of Hollywood and the music industry was removed after the White House lobbied against assuming those new powers.
The legislation's passage underscores the importance lawmakers place on protecting intellectual property. The entertainment industry says it loses billions of sales a year to piracy.
The legislation, unanimously approved on a consent vote, came as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are scrambling to hammer out a $700 billion Wall Street bailout.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he expected the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act "will aid federal efforts to protect American producers and American jobs."
The measure (.pdf) creates an executive-level "Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator" -- a copyright czar requiring Senate confirmation.
The executive and its office would be charged with creating a nationwide plan to combat piracy and "report directly to the president and Congress regarding domestic international intellectual property enforcement programs."
The nation's drug czar, a position created by Congress in 1982 to wage the War on Drugs, also requires Senate confirmation.
The new copyright czar will oversee government anti-piracy crackdowns and, among other things, train other countries about IP enforcement. The legislation also creates an FBI piracy unit and allows for the forfeiture of equipment used in large pirating operations.
The intellectual property measure approved Friday was strongly backed by Hollywood, the recording industry, unions, manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
"This is a win for both parties and, more importantly, for America's innovators, workers whose jobs rely on intellectual property, and consumers who depend on safe and effective products," said Tom Donohue, the chamber's president and CEO.
Digital rights groups, including Public Knowledge, opposed the measure.
Gigi Sohn, the group's president, said the bill goes too far but she was nonetheless pleased that the Justice Department won't be suing copyright infringers on behalf of the entertainment industry.
"We are pleased that the Senate bill as passed does not include the egregious provision allowing the Justice Department to file civil suits against alleged copyright violators on behalf of copyright holders," she said.
The White House, in successfully pressuring for a rewrite to the legislation, said the original proposal requiring the attorney general to sue copyright infringers "could result in Department of Justice prosecutors serving as pro bono lawyers for private copyright holders regardless of their resources. In effect, taxpayer-supported department lawyers would pursue lawsuits for copyright holders, with monetary recovery going to industry."
The House of Representatives is expected to take up the measure as early as Saturday. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/senate-passes-b.html
I have had 2 fail on me within the last year. The first was a Corsair Survivor http://www.corsair.com/products/survivor/default.aspx Was a
pretty rough and tumble device but I guess it couldn't stand pottery dust. Within 4-5 months Windows nor Mac would recognize the drive. I kept a backup of it and called Corsair. They were very cool about it and asked that I return it. I sent it back and received a replacement for the drive within a few business days of them receiving it. I want to say that it was sent back to me via UPS Second Day. The drive itself wasn't handled to roughly so I have my doubts that it wasn't just a hardware problem from the start.
Second one that is on its' way to failing is an Imation Clip Drive http://www.imation.com/en/Imation-Products/USB-Flash-Drives--Accessories/Clip-Flash-Drive/. It is intermitantly failing to transfer files. I ran a version of Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ and am also starting to see the Imation have a few problems. I'll probably not get the clip flash again because dust and dirt gets into the rubber boot and falls into the USB sheeth.
I work in an environment that can get pretty dirty, http://www.hlchina.com/ But what should I expect from a pottery.
On the positive side, i've had about 3-4 SD cards that I transfered over from my Palm Zire that are now being used in the wife's camera and they refuse to die.
I ran the ubuntu-eee on my 900 for some time. Straight out of the box did not work for wireless or the sound. There was a patch called Nice-EEE or something along those lines that did a fairly good job of cleaning up the drivers and making everything work,but it was spotty. After a shutdown I would occasionally have to rerun the patch and after every update as well. I eventually switched over to eeeBuntu and it has worked flawlessly since.
I really fail to see what Toyota is hoping to accomplish here. I work for a company in a marketing position and I personally am overjoyed when someone loves the product so much that they take the time to show their love and admiration by branding themselves or their site with pictures or statements about their contentment. The term detriment to the brand has probably been thrown around here, but after looking briefly at the photos on the site, I feel that it paints Toyota's product in a positive light and should be endorsed rather than oppressed. I really hope that this was a mistake that was not supervised by Toyota, but rather a mistake on the part of the legal representation of Toyota. In short, the photos are not a detriment to the brand, the site doesn't appear to charge for the photos, and gives their bandwidth and space free of charge to many different car manufacturers. I'd backpedal on this one very very quickly, and issue an apology for a misunderstanding.
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And below for a summary from wired less than year ago:
I have had 2 fail on me within the last year. The first was a Corsair Survivor http://www.corsair.com/products/survivor/default.aspx Was a pretty rough and tumble device but I guess it couldn't stand pottery dust. Within 4-5 months Windows nor Mac would recognize the drive. I kept a backup of it and called Corsair. They were very cool about it and asked that I return it. I sent it back and received a replacement for the drive within a few business days of them receiving it. I want to say that it was sent back to me via UPS Second Day. The drive itself wasn't handled to roughly so I have my doubts that it wasn't just a hardware problem from the start. Second one that is on its' way to failing is an Imation Clip Drive http://www.imation.com/en/Imation-Products/USB-Flash-Drives--Accessories/Clip-Flash-Drive/. It is intermitantly failing to transfer files. I ran a version of Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ and am also starting to see the Imation have a few problems. I'll probably not get the clip flash again because dust and dirt gets into the rubber boot and falls into the USB sheeth.
I work in an environment that can get pretty dirty, http://www.hlchina.com/ But what should I expect from a pottery. On the positive side, i've had about 3-4 SD cards that I transfered over from my Palm Zire that are now being used in the wife's camera and they refuse to die.
I ran the ubuntu-eee on my 900 for some time. Straight out of the box did not work for wireless or the sound. There was a patch called Nice-EEE or something along those lines that did a fairly good job of cleaning up the drivers and making everything work,but it was spotty. After a shutdown I would occasionally have to rerun the patch and after every update as well. I eventually switched over to eeeBuntu and it has worked flawlessly since.
Was able to grab it via ubuntu running on an eee..
I really fail to see what Toyota is hoping to accomplish here. I work for a company in a marketing position and I personally am overjoyed when someone loves the product so much that they take the time to show their love and admiration by branding themselves or their site with pictures or statements about their contentment. The term detriment to the brand has probably been thrown around here, but after looking briefly at the photos on the site, I feel that it paints Toyota's product in a positive light and should be endorsed rather than oppressed. I really hope that this was a mistake that was not supervised by Toyota, but rather a mistake on the part of the legal representation of Toyota. In short, the photos are not a detriment to the brand, the site doesn't appear to charge for the photos, and gives their bandwidth and space free of charge to many different car manufacturers. I'd backpedal on this one very very quickly, and issue an apology for a misunderstanding.
Was this guy living with a pack of dogs and using his fan guard as a lint filter? That before picture is bad...