So if I camp out in your backyard and you nicely ask me to leave or I'll get arrested for trespassing should that be considered wrong?
Same thing here.
A nice threat that someone should stop something (justifiably) illegal isn't a bad thing. Just like getting a warning from a cop about speeding, it sure beats a ticket. And if you knock it off you should be OK.
until a lot of urban middle class non drug addict non criminal healthy young people in the prime of their lives started dying from universally drug restistant tb
which is coming, btw;-(
Considering that drug resistant TB is LESS able to infect people in the first place than normal TB, and that normal TB only makes immunocompromised people sick, you scenario is unlikely.
It would take another mutation that would make it more infectious.
I heard people getting tickets for only 85 when they were going faster because their speedometer only went up to 85, ironically because of the same Federal law that set the old 55 mph national speed limit. Is that true?
That sounds like a big number, and is for most of us, but not for the Federal government. About 29 cents more in taxes off each paycheck (assuming 100 M taxpayers, and paychecks every 2 weeks).
There are much bigger fish to fry.
Also, there is only so much one can cut the energy use, and thus that cost down, and still get the business of the government done. And the improvements in efficiency will require hardware, software, and personnel which have their own costs. Eventually you will hit a point where there is no longer a return on investment to make it worthwhile.
13th Amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction...."
So it is not against the Constitution as a punishment for crime, unless it violates another provision (8th Amendment, etc).
It might as well be an amendment to the law. The DMCA makes violating such private quasi-laws a violation of US Federal civil and criminal (including felonies with up to 5 years for a first offense). Repeal the DMCA and stop delegating legislative power to businesses! If you make DRM, you can make such a quasi-law and have the real US law, gov't and its power (courts, police and jails)
enforce it for you.
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And if the mpeg2enc people try to sue and get noticed by the system, they'd get sued for patent infringement, so they won't sue.
So if I camp out in your backyard and you nicely ask me to leave or I'll get arrested for trespassing should that be considered wrong?
Same thing here.
A nice threat that someone should stop something (justifiably) illegal isn't a bad thing. Just like getting a warning from a cop about speeding, it sure beats a ticket. And if you knock it off you should be OK.
If I give an ice cream cone to my brother, I can't dictate to him how he eats it.
:)
But if you sell him a printer, you can dictate where he gets his replacement cartridges!
So we get rid of posted speed limits, and set a secret one, which if you exceed, you get an automatic 1 year suspension of your driver's license.
You'd like that?
(even if the secret one was a bit higher?)
Ever hear of a capacitor?
Considering the internet as we know it today was built off a US Military ARPANET... Designed to survive multiple nuclear strikes
Now it can get taken out by one backhoe.
Did they get that idea from Knight Rider? :)
until a lot of urban middle class non drug addict non criminal healthy young people in the prime of their lives started dying from universally drug restistant tb
;-(
which is coming, btw
Considering that drug resistant TB is LESS able to infect people in the first place than normal TB, and that normal TB only makes immunocompromised people sick, you scenario is unlikely.
It would take another mutation that would make it more infectious.
Hawaii perhaps? :)
I heard people getting tickets for only 85 when they were going faster because their speedometer only went up to 85, ironically because of the same Federal law that set the old 55 mph national speed limit. Is that true?
That might have been true before the September 11 Red Cross aid fiasco, but now, many people think of the Red Cross much less positively.
Here is another example of security gone, really bad.
o -using-a-biometric-car-lock/
http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/31/the-downside-t
$740 million? That's like 4.2 days of the Iraq war!t ion/president/2004-08-26-iraq-war-clock_x.htm
($177M/day for Iraq http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/na
That sounds like a big number, and is for most of us, but not for the Federal government. About 29 cents more in taxes off each paycheck (assuming 100 M taxpayers, and paychecks every 2 weeks).
There are much bigger fish to fry.
Also, there is only so much one can cut the energy use, and thus that cost down, and still get the business of the government done. And the improvements in efficiency will require hardware, software, and personnel which have their own costs. Eventually you will hit a point where there is no longer a return on investment to make it worthwhile.
Still wrong, notice the relative path for chown and no cd command being done?
If the user was smart, they could get out of trouble by pointing out it was a root owned file that they couldn't have created.
The sysadmin would be in the one in trouble.
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There are tons of naysayers who come out when any benefits of alcohol are mentioned.
13th Amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction...."
So it is not against the Constitution as a punishment for crime, unless it violates another provision (8th Amendment, etc).
It might as well be an amendment to the law. The DMCA makes violating such private quasi-laws a violation of US Federal civil and criminal (including felonies with up to 5 years for a first offense). Repeal the DMCA and stop delegating legislative power to businesses! If you make DRM, you can make such a quasi-law and have the real US law, gov't and its power (courts, police and jails)
enforce it for you.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "killer app", doesn't it?
I'm going to get a business method patent on "waiting for patents to expire".
We must restrict freedom to protect it.
No parole, not no probation.
Federal probation does exist.
It's part of the reason why there's so much celebretainment and crime coverage
Or in the case of the Paris Hilton coverage, both at once.
Who would of thought a misdemeanor and its punishment would become the #1 news story in the US?
From the sig: You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!
:)
You save almost 3 minutes by going 105 mph.
Seriously, if the only value we hold is IP that is locked in patents then what happens to our value when those patents do expire?
We will just stop them from expiring, like our perpetually extended copyrights.