Until thyey pass a Digital Millenium Public Networking Act which makes running or using an unofficial root server a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and being permanently banned from producing content or software to be used or deployed on any public network.
I just thought of that off the top of my head, and I'm not even a politician or a lawyer. Imagine what they could come up with.
They can seize as soon as an action is pending, but they can only destroy or sell ("other reasonable disposition") after a conviction.
Of course, they can accidently smash your computer to bits during the investigation. ("Oops, we dropped it from 50 feet - how'd that happen"). And not be liable (even if you have the right to sue - do you have the money - do you think you'll win - and if you sue they could always decide they ARE going to press felony charges against you after all - kiss your legal rights goodbye - kiss your right to work legally in many IT jobs goodbye - kiss many, many, jobs better than burger flipper goodbye).
What you miss is that they are preventing others from making money too.
Very good argument. We need to use this on the politicians when someone complains that without a fascist law, their (outdated or otherwise sorry) business model won't work and they won't be able to make any money. We can then say, YOUR LAW will make it hard for other people with a different business model from making money.
We need to make them aware that the law not only "protects" profits (and capitalism doesn't guarantee you can make money or even that you will likely make money - a system which tries to do that is mercantalism) but that it also hurts profits of competitors and the economy as a whole.
We need them to see that a restrictive law has VERY real financial costs.
The DMCA automatically adds a legal restriction to each and every technical restriction. That is the key point we need to keep in mind. We have to fight every technical restriction politically (i.e. using non-technical means) because of the automatic legal restriction that goes along with it. We need to move from saying "Circumvent it" to "Fight it by any means necessary" (except for circumventiom) to stay legal.
E.g. 1 bit encryption doesn't provide much technical security, but it will give you lots of legal protection under the DMCA.
They'll start with 0000. Yes, there are phone numbers with 0000 in them out there. Quite a few here in Las Vegas. I personally think 0000 should be reserved for the switch itself, and think xxx-0000 phone numbers are ugly.
You can get a list of prefixes from NANPA and just dial all possible numbers in all those prefixes.
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You'd have to be doing over 140 miles per hour! to be able to do that.
:)
Not too likely you'll even be doing half that even on a good day, with New York traffic being what it is.
www.spamhole.net is blocked by SurfControl. I just found that out this morning (the day this story posted) when I tried to go there.
Stuff like that makes me wonder how quickly one could get blacklisted for actually using the software.
I'd settle for being able to have the linux kernel developers say the same.
Until thyey pass a Digital Millenium Public Networking Act which makes running or using an unofficial root server a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and being permanently banned from producing content or software to be used or deployed on any public network.
I just thought of that off the top of my head, and I'm not even a politician or a lawyer. Imagine what they could come up with.
They have figured it out.
Microsoft software runs the court systems and the EULA prohibits the software from being used in any way that is detrimental to Microsoft.
Ok, I'm only kidding, but one day, the above may be true...
Yeah right, Mr. Gates.
Nothing from Microsoft would be compact enough to fit in a kilobyte! :)
Goddam get these boys a beer. Open source commandos all the way. This warms my heart no end.
I aprove!
Looks like you've had too many ;)
Ever here of CIH? That virus wiped out BIOSes. No special technology required - modern hardware more often than not can be damaged by software.
Killer poke is back!
And after all that, the FBI would destroy or sell, or use for themselves your computer anyway...
Cars whose tires go flat when you speed.
Firestone? Oh wait, they didn't go flat, they exploded.
Copyright law allows the government to seize and destroy or sell property used in an infringement.
The section of law is 17 USC 503
They can seize as soon as an action is pending, but they can only destroy or sell ("other reasonable disposition") after a conviction.
Of course, they can accidently smash your computer to bits during the investigation. ("Oops, we dropped it from 50 feet - how'd that happen"). And not be liable (even if you have the right to sue - do you have the money - do you think you'll win - and if you sue they could always decide they ARE going to press felony charges against you after all - kiss your legal rights goodbye - kiss your right to work legally in many IT jobs goodbye - kiss many, many, jobs better than burger flipper goodbye).
Anyone know the story about why all those TCP variants are named after Nevada cities? It's interesting, and I find it cool (I live in Nevada ;).
Unfortunately many do.
It's called ephedrine (it speed up your whole body - it is like speed, but legal). And it kills.
Umm, in a word, HELL NO!.
OK, that was two words.
Electronic devices (such as op amps) can short circuit.
But wait, I hear you say, nobody is anywhere near replacing programmers with software - but you think you are going to replace cardiologists?)
Yeah, first we'd have to program a computer to be arrogant and have a God complex...
Too bad it still sucks as a compression algorithm.
They'll just use the DMCA (or an "upgrade" to that law) to make ad avoidance and technologies which facilitate it illegal.
Linus lives in the US.
Heh. News flash, the genders aren't equal. One of them can bear children, the other can't.
We are working on a fix for that.
Guaranteed minimum speed?
You can't even get a guaranteed minimum uptime...
What you miss is that they are preventing others from making money too.
Very good argument. We need to use this on the politicians when someone complains that without a fascist law, their (outdated or otherwise sorry) business model won't work and they won't be able to make any money. We can then say, YOUR LAW will make it hard for other people with a different business model from making money.
We need to make them aware that the law not only "protects" profits (and capitalism doesn't guarantee you can make money or even that you will likely make money - a system which tries to do that is mercantalism) but that it also hurts profits of competitors and the economy as a whole.
We need them to see that a restrictive law has VERY real financial costs.
Exactly.
The DMCA automatically adds a legal restriction to each and every technical restriction. That is the key point we need to keep in mind. We have to fight every technical restriction politically (i.e. using non-technical means) because of the automatic legal restriction that goes along with it. We need to move from saying "Circumvent it" to "Fight it by any means necessary" (except for circumventiom) to stay legal.
E.g. 1 bit encryption doesn't provide much technical security, but it will give you lots of legal protection under the DMCA.
They'll start with 0000. Yes, there are phone numbers with 0000 in them out there. Quite a few here in Las Vegas. I personally think 0000 should be reserved for the switch itself, and think xxx-0000 phone numbers are ugly.
You can get a list of prefixes from NANPA and just dial all possible numbers in all those prefixes.
It's evil, but very easy to do.
Strange comment considering the economy.
Gov't is where you want to me. The pay in the private sector is not that great, and the job security is non-existent.
What you said used to be true.