Here is something I thought of. One should never have classified and unclassified (or 2 different classification levels) data or processes on the same system. The risk of covert channels and leaks is way too high.
Every system should have one and only one classification level.
Here is the problem. Many, many more people understand what abortion is and most of the issues surrounding it compared to what circumvention, fair use, SSCA/CBDTPA are and the issues surrounding them.
Talk to most people about the latter, and you might as well be speaking a foreign language.
If your hands are hurting, SEE A DOCTOR ASAP! Before doing ANYTHING else!
Exercise IS a good idea in general, and probably quite helpful BEFORE RSI occurs (to prevent it), and likely even afterwards, but you need to be careful and ask a doctor.
You now even get set modifiers for each moderation reason. Setting Flamebait to +1 will undo the effect of any Flamebait moderations for you, setting it to +6 will make any flamebait always show up for you (since it will be a +5 post for you).
"Flamebait" is what is usually abused as a form of censorship - but you can override that.
Isn't the rental car restriction a private industry thing? Where they didn't want to pay exorbinant insurance rates because young drivers have so many accidents?
Is there any LAW that makes it ILLEGAL for people 18-24 to drive a rental car?
RAM copies being covered by copyright is silly but there are legal precedents (MAI vs Peak Computer is one) where that is the case.
It should be fair use, because making a copy is NECESSARY to even USE the product, and one is expected to be allowed to use a copyrighted work that one was bought. That's logical, but not in all cases what the courts have decided.
There are also legal precedents where fair use is overridden by the DMCA (the DeCSS case in the Southern District of New York)
Considering one can get caned or even executed for fairly trivial things over there - I bet there hasn't been much protest. There also appear to be cultural factors at work - most people there would rather just "follow the rules", sort of like where the USA is heading.:(
They allow patents on things for which prior art exists, even things for which prior PATENTS exist. IBM got a patent on LZW and then Unisys was granted their patent on it - the patent office either didn't check for a prior patent or didn't realize the 2 patents described the same thing. And Unisys wants us to pay THEM? IBM should be more pissed than they are.
Oh, yeah, they will deny a patent for a "perpetual motion device", unless you are clueful enough to call it something different, like an "overunity device". 1/2;)
Also, even if someone can afford to fight a lawsuit - the odds are stacked against them. A patent is presumed valid and the defendant must rebut that with a preponderance of the evidence, or lose. This is a reversal of the normal situation in civil law, which is where the plaintiff needs to have preponderance of the evidence. The plaintiff needs to have a preponderance of the evidence that the action alleged to be infrigement occurred - but the defendant has to prove the patent is invalid.
So if the court can't tell who is right on the latter issue, they'll presume the patent valid and you guilty.
Ask a lawyer for legal advice. (if you got tons of cash lying around to pay for one)
Then a hacker would find a way to fake the DRM code.
And then we'd have yet another lawsuit and/or criminal prosecution.
By the way, they won't need a third law. The SSSCA, now CBDTPA, is enough. They just have to get the gov't to update the certified security technologies so that unauthenticated content is not accepted by devices.
Even without this law, what if the marketplace eventually does put this DRM technology in everything? Circumventing it is still illegal (due to the DMCA), so we are still stuck.
This needs to be stopped, and the DMCA repealed.
Heck, we should push for a law that says if you use technological "protection" you get NO legal protection of your copyright. Why should gov't make sure you are "protected" twice?
Copyright is not supposed to be about maximizing profits or creating a new type of property ("intellectual property"). It is supposed to be a limited (in time AND scope) monopoly to stimulate production of works, which eventually are to become part of the public domain.
Congress has forgotten or ignored this. They are in violation of their oath of office.
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After the CBDTPA passes you'll probably get your wish.
Use of a non-Microsoft OS will be illegal - heck they'll probably find a way to make DMCA/SSSCA/CBDTPA violations to be considered "terrorist" acts.
Here is something I thought of. One should never have classified and unclassified (or 2 different classification levels) data or processes on the same system. The risk of covert channels and leaks is way too high.
Every system should have one and only one classification level.
That would never work. That would be like expecting Mohamad Atta's visa application to be approved after the September 11 attacks.
Too bad you probably need to know "milspeak" to understand it. ;)
Isn't Windows' C2 certification only valid if it is NOT connected to a network?
Here is the problem. Many, many more people understand what abortion is and most of the issues surrounding it compared to what circumvention, fair use, SSCA/CBDTPA are and the issues surrounding them.
Talk to most people about the latter, and you might as well be speaking a foreign language.
If your hands are hurting, SEE A DOCTOR ASAP! Before doing ANYTHING else!
Exercise IS a good idea in general, and probably quite helpful BEFORE RSI occurs (to prevent it), and likely even afterwards, but you need to be careful and ask a doctor.
You do not want to make anything worse.
It would be illegal to buy imported non-copy-restricted goods too.
You now even get set modifiers for each moderation reason. Setting Flamebait to +1 will undo the effect of any Flamebait moderations for you, setting it to +6 will make any flamebait always show up for you (since it will be a +5 post for you).
"Flamebait" is what is usually abused as a form of censorship - but you can override that.
Linux doesn't have a BSOD because Microsoft has a patent on it.
How about have the Linux machine have an uptime of 498 days?
:(
Oh wait, that isn't possible, the jiffies roll over and the uptime goes to zero on day 497.
(It is even worse when you change HZ to 1000, then you only have 49.7 days - like old versions of Windows)
And it's also business when I go to another web site instead of yours because their site (like over 90% of sites out there) will work with my browser.
And tell all my friends to do likewise.
That can make that 1% go up pretty quickly, and do you really want to lose any customers?
One could argue DeCSS is tasteless and stupid.
Since that is what most of the movies that one could use it to watch are.
In addition, Microsoft has released a textbook on the design of reliable Operating Systems. ;)
Shouldn't that be "return 0"? and but I admit it is tricky to get Slashdot to cooperate with angle brackets.
They can just bury an agreement in the stack
of papers and legalise you sign when entering or registering at a university.
Every person has a brain??
How do you explain the Windows XP users then?
Isn't the rental car restriction a private industry thing? Where they didn't want to pay exorbinant insurance rates because young drivers have so many accidents?
Is there any LAW that makes it ILLEGAL for people 18-24 to drive a rental car?
RAM copies being covered by copyright is silly but there are legal precedents (MAI vs Peak Computer is one) where that is the case.
It should be fair use, because making a copy is NECESSARY to even USE the product, and one is expected to be allowed to use a copyrighted work that one was bought. That's logical, but not in all cases what the courts have decided.
There are also legal precedents where fair use is overridden by the DMCA (the DeCSS case in the Southern District of New York)
I had recently heard that the MPAA was lobbying WTO to reclassify movies as industrial, rather than cultural, products...
The acutally makes sense - since most modern movies don't qualify as having any cultural value whatsoever. ;)
Considering one can get caned or even executed for fairly trivial things over there - I bet there hasn't been much protest. There also appear to be cultural factors at work - most people there would rather just "follow the rules", sort of like where the USA is heading. :(
Since when does the patent office deny a patent?
;)
They allow patents on things for which prior art exists, even things for which prior PATENTS exist. IBM got a patent on LZW and then Unisys was granted their patent on it - the patent office either didn't check for a prior patent or didn't realize the 2 patents described the same thing.
And Unisys wants us to pay THEM? IBM should be more pissed than they are.
Oh, yeah, they will deny a patent for a "perpetual motion device", unless you are clueful enough to call it something different, like an "overunity device". 1/2
Here is a GNU page describing the GIF situation and mentioning the 2 LZW patents.
Also, even if someone can afford to fight a lawsuit - the odds are stacked against them. A patent is presumed valid and the defendant must rebut that with a preponderance of the evidence, or lose. This is a reversal of the normal situation in civil law, which is where the plaintiff needs to have preponderance of the evidence. The plaintiff needs to have a preponderance of the evidence that the action alleged to be infrigement occurred - but the defendant has to prove the patent is invalid.
So if the court can't tell who is right on the latter issue, they'll presume the patent valid and you guilty.
Ask a lawyer for legal advice. (if you got tons of cash lying around to pay for one)
Put them on Freenet, ASAP
Then a hacker would find a way to fake the DRM code.
And then we'd have yet another lawsuit and/or criminal prosecution.
By the way, they won't need a third law. The SSSCA, now CBDTPA, is enough. They just have to get the gov't to update the certified security technologies so that unauthenticated content is not accepted by devices.
Even without this law, what if the marketplace eventually does put this DRM technology in everything? Circumventing it is still illegal (due to the DMCA), so we are still stuck.
This needs to be stopped, and the DMCA repealed.
Heck, we should push for a law that says if you use technological "protection" you get NO legal protection of your copyright. Why should gov't make sure you are "protected" twice?
Copyright is not supposed to be about maximizing profits or creating a new type of property ("intellectual property"). It is supposed to be a limited (in time AND scope) monopoly to stimulate production of works, which eventually are to become part of the public domain.
Congress has forgotten or ignored this. They are in violation of their oath of office.
Yeah that did surprise me at first.
But even the companies of the BSA, such as Microsoft, get hurt if the technology sector of the economy collapses.
And if this passes - that will happen - and it will eventually take down the economy as a whole.
Perhaps the bill should be renamed to the "Technology Sector Collapse and New Great Depression Act".