The question would then be how many states have had rather unscrupulous majorities in their governments to get a law passed that only matters if you do underhanded dealings with unsavory individuals who might sell you out?
Can we get a list of what states have laws similar to Massachusetts?
The application of a wiretapping law to such things is ridiculous. Wiretapping legistlation is to protect people who have no possibility to be aware that they would be viewed or recorded, such as people who are in the privacy of their homes or offices. If I call up a cop and talk to him and record what he says, then I am guilty of illegal wiretapping.
The same would apply if I had gone to a cop's house of office and performed the same activity. Again, they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and thus should not be expected to be observed or recorded.
Even undercover police, operating undercover, could have the same legislation used with a little stretching, as it is in the spirit of the law.
However, if a police office pulls over another car, they are making an obvious presence, alerting everyone in the area to their activity. In any situation where you make a decided and obvious presence of yourself, you are now acting in a public capacity. It is no different than a public offical giving a speech or a military convoy rolling into my town. Those are obvious actions, and in the case for someone being harrassed without reason, it can be an embarrassing situation.
Simply put, if the cops can pull me over in full view of everyone else, and they're testimony in court can decided immediately (often without other evidence) that I'm guily of obstructing justice or harrassing an office of the peace, then why can't I as a citizen, record my encounter with the police in that situation, whether they know it or not?
Are we going to start arresting every person who records police raids that happen across their street because they didn't alert the police to the event?
Most of the record groups in the US have no sway on me or the music I listen to. A lot of the music I buy now is either classic jazz (like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgeralnd) or classical. Sometimes I buy some dance music from Europe.
As for modern bands that I like? Well, I've bought The Corrs and David Gray after seeing them in concert. But that's it for quite some time.
I'm sorry, but Judge Patel doesn't have any more of a clue that what the RIAA says.
Anybody who knows about publicly accessible systems knows that these things are possible. Heck, people have been trading ISOs on Hotline for ages, in addition to mp3 files. There are plenty of search engines and plenty of websites available out there as well. I used to d/l mp3 files BEFORE napster.
The only way to prevent digital information from flowing and have absolute security is to remove networks. That's it. And given the number of artists who's popularity has grown with the number of fan sites and traded music, that doesn't make much sense to the RIAA if they REALLy think about it.
I have RSI like anything. Comes back every so often. Like any body part, if you strain something it stays for quite some time. Being a tech person, I tend to type a lot. To get rid of RSI permanently, I'd need 3 months' holiday. I can't fall behind like that, so....
I've been working from Switzerland, and they originally sent me to Google in German. But then I realised my redirect was because of my browser settings, being set for being in Switzerland with a Swiss German keyboard.
A soon as I changed my location settings, I was fine.
I'd love to see a really good argument for using ASP. I have yet to see one except that one can keep using Windows boxes to do development. Of course, that's not really good logic.
If Macromedia would start to support PHP in Dreamweaver Ultradev, I'm sure lots of design houses that are looking at dynamic programming would use PHP instead.
(Of course, I'd like to see XHTML support as well!)
At any rate, in my job as a project manager I have never approved an ASP solution, and I don't think I ever will.
For one, this will only help stop mass producer's of MP3's who can't figure out how to do stuff properly (like renaming).
What I would propose to beat the RIAA is to develop a plug-in for Napster that allows the client to search and share for scrambled names. The key would change every day, and be hosted on several servers outside the RIAA's extent of power.
Every time the system connected to Napster, it would connect to the servers, which would also update the list of mirrors.
I know this is a bit vague, but I hope somebody will figure out what I mean.
The problem I have with Java is those "dot in.com" people...
I mean, aside from creating horrible ads that I end up seeing every weekend on CNN International, they also haven't helped companies to develope great browser support for Java, and then, when Microsoft did have good support (plus their own tweaks), they went after them.
Now, I'm not supporting Microsoft on it, but I haven't seen a better implementation of Java support yet.
I'm not a programmer, but I've been questioning the whole system with e-books for a while.
I did work with Nokia before and they didn't want people to be able to save certain PDFs and things of their websites and though it enough to disable save in Acrobat Reader. Well, that worked, unless of course I happened to have the full Acrobat product.
Basically, if I can get it on my machine, I can save it somehow, unless I'm required to have a net connection to read it (by some code missing until I connect). That's highly inconvenient.
I always consider my social life. I'm in a relationship with a really great girl, and there's no way I'm going to allow someone to decide I can't spend time with her.
So, now I'm looking at starting my own company so that I can set the rules a bit. As a manager, I've always encouraged people to be focused on their home lives, with friends and family. I think it results in better work from the people involved.
No matter what, I always try to make sure to never punish anyone with extra work just for being efficient, unless I'm looking to pay them more.
Ok. How about it? Let's get a good network going for those of us politically-minded!
We've got until November of 2002 to get the word out and make people aware. We're sick of ignorant politicians and dumb bureacrats. So let's do this!
Of course, for those of you ignore the news until it comes up like this, well, it's time to start learning about the world and what's in it. But can you imagine what an effect this would have if we even got 100 of us running for office united across the country?
I have no need of Microsoft's site, but MSN Messenger and Hotmail are vital.
So how did I solve this? Well, I did a WHOIS and grabbed the nameservers for those services and stuck them in my DNS server entries. So, now I always have them, unless their DNS servers are down as well.
Where I used to work, we had this problem of our DNS servers dying, so I used this to get my Yahoo! services up as long as the IPs are pingable.
Personally, if I were Yahoo!, I would have done things a bit differently.
Rumour around the watering hole was that Yahoo! was being fined $16,000 a day. Well, if that were the case, I would have (resources permitting) cut a check for $17,520,000 and sent it to the French government and said "See us in 3 years."
Oh well. Clearly not enough chutzpah going around these days.
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RFC765 is from 1980. That's the one that 959 makes obsolete, and it's a good standard for FTP, so that makes FTP prior art by five years.
Wouldn't the concept of FTP, being designed in an RFC from 1980 be prior art?
Granted, this may not help for the sale of items over the Internet, but that DOES mean that they couldn't claim EVERY software download.
Interesting point.
The question would then be how many states have had rather unscrupulous majorities in their governments to get a law passed that only matters if you do underhanded dealings with unsavory individuals who might sell you out?
Can we get a list of what states have laws similar to Massachusetts?
The application of a wiretapping law to such things is ridiculous. Wiretapping legistlation is to protect people who have no possibility to be aware that they would be viewed or recorded, such as people who are in the privacy of their homes or offices. If I call up a cop and talk to him and record what he says, then I am guilty of illegal wiretapping.
The same would apply if I had gone to a cop's house of office and performed the same activity. Again, they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and thus should not be expected to be observed or recorded.
Even undercover police, operating undercover, could have the same legislation used with a little stretching, as it is in the spirit of the law.
However, if a police office pulls over another car, they are making an obvious presence, alerting everyone in the area to their activity. In any situation where you make a decided and obvious presence of yourself, you are now acting in a public capacity. It is no different than a public offical giving a speech or a military convoy rolling into my town. Those are obvious actions, and in the case for someone being harrassed without reason, it can be an embarrassing situation.
Simply put, if the cops can pull me over in full view of everyone else, and they're testimony in court can decided immediately (often without other evidence) that I'm guily of obstructing justice or harrassing an office of the peace, then why can't I as a citizen, record my encounter with the police in that situation, whether they know it or not?
Are we going to start arresting every person who records police raids that happen across their street because they didn't alert the police to the event?
Most of the record groups in the US have no sway on me or the music I listen to. A lot of the music I buy now is either classic jazz (like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgeralnd) or classical. Sometimes I buy some dance music from Europe.
As for modern bands that I like? Well, I've bought The Corrs and David Gray after seeing them in concert. But that's it for quite some time.
I'm sorry, but Judge Patel doesn't have any more of a clue that what the RIAA says.
Anybody who knows about publicly accessible systems knows that these things are possible. Heck, people have been trading ISOs on Hotline for ages, in addition to mp3 files. There are plenty of search engines and plenty of websites available out there as well. I used to d/l mp3 files BEFORE napster.
The only way to prevent digital information from flowing and have absolute security is to remove networks. That's it. And given the number of artists who's popularity has grown with the number of fan sites and traded music, that doesn't make much sense to the RIAA if they REALLy think about it.
I have RSI like anything. Comes back every so often. Like any body part, if you strain something it stays for quite some time. Being a tech person, I tend to type a lot. To get rid of RSI permanently, I'd need 3 months' holiday. I can't fall behind like that, so....
Oh well, maybe someday I'll get done with typing.
I use Claranews. It's a good server with an annual fee.
You get what you pay for.
Given the reliability level of MS servers, and the overall lack of security, I'd rather shove my mundane tasks to them, not vice-versa.
True enough... Posted my opinion below, but again, when I worked for an ISP, this was what it was all about.
We were also looking at ways of even filtering out other ads on other sites and replacing them with our own ads for our users.
They're really checking the ISP?
I've been working from Switzerland, and they originally sent me to Google in German. But then I realised my redirect was because of my browser settings, being set for being in Switzerland with a Swiss German keyboard.
A soon as I changed my location settings, I was fine.
I used to work for an ISP and we had ideas about things like this.
If you have all that information coming in to the web server, then you can server ads based on their configuration and location.
The more they use it, the more sites end up in their history or cookies, and the more you know about what they like.
Basically it's great for generating revenue. Sucks for the privacy level, but isn't illegal if done right.
I'd love to see a really good argument for using ASP. I have yet to see one except that one can keep using Windows boxes to do development. Of course, that's not really good logic.
If Macromedia would start to support PHP in Dreamweaver Ultradev, I'm sure lots of design houses that are looking at dynamic programming would use PHP instead.
(Of course, I'd like to see XHTML support as well!)
At any rate, in my job as a project manager I have never approved an ASP solution, and I don't think I ever will.
My idea has been done, at least sort of, with Catnap. Huzzah!
For one, this will only help stop mass producer's of MP3's who can't figure out how to do stuff properly (like renaming).
What I would propose to beat the RIAA is to develop a plug-in for Napster that allows the client to search and share for scrambled names. The key would change every day, and be hosted on several servers outside the RIAA's extent of power.
Every time the system connected to Napster, it would connect to the servers, which would also update the list of mirrors.
I know this is a bit vague, but I hope somebody will figure out what I mean.
The problem I have with Java is those "dot in .com" people...
I mean, aside from creating horrible ads that I end up seeing every weekend on CNN International, they also haven't helped companies to develope great browser support for Java, and then, when Microsoft did have good support (plus their own tweaks), they went after them.
Now, I'm not supporting Microsoft on it, but I haven't seen a better implementation of Java support yet.
I'm not a programmer, but I've been questioning the whole system with e-books for a while.
I did work with Nokia before and they didn't want people to be able to save certain PDFs and things of their websites and though it enough to disable save in Acrobat Reader. Well, that worked, unless of course I happened to have the full Acrobat product.
Basically, if I can get it on my machine, I can save it somehow, unless I'm required to have a net connection to read it (by some code missing until I connect). That's highly inconvenient.
I always consider my social life. I'm in a relationship with a really great girl, and there's no way I'm going to allow someone to decide I can't spend time with her.
So, now I'm looking at starting my own company so that I can set the rules a bit. As a manager, I've always encouraged people to be focused on their home lives, with friends and family. I think it results in better work from the people involved.
No matter what, I always try to make sure to never punish anyone with extra work just for being efficient, unless I'm looking to pay them more.
We've got until November of 2002 to get the word out and make people aware. We're sick of ignorant politicians and dumb bureacrats. So let's do this!
Of course, for those of you ignore the news until it comes up like this, well, it's time to start learning about the world and what's in it. But can you imagine what an effect this would have if we even got 100 of us running for office united across the country?
Because something will go wrong and delay two more weeks.
Or this for the newsgroup.
So how did I solve this? Well, I did a WHOIS and grabbed the nameservers for those services and stuck them in my DNS server entries. So, now I always have them, unless their DNS servers are down as well.
Where I used to work, we had this problem of our DNS servers dying, so I used this to get my Yahoo! services up as long as the IPs are pingable.
I'm just picturing the joys of wireless coming up through my floor and the extra bandwidth available after they close for the night.
Paying $17.5 million to the French would have effectively told them to piss off.
It would also up Yahoo!'s visibility as a promoter of Internet freedoms. The controversy would be great for them. Oh well.
Rumour around the watering hole was that Yahoo! was being fined $16,000 a day. Well, if that were the case, I would have (resources permitting) cut a check for $17,520,000 and sent it to the French government and said "See us in 3 years."
Oh well. Clearly not enough chutzpah going around these days.