A: Hel-----lo, its its me, Alice. B: Huh? A: Its me me AlAlice *hiss*. B: I can't ear you ------ ery ell! A: Well, least at my c-call free is is is. B: all me on on a land land line, pease!
and you can't depend on it for 911 if your power is out, and even if it isn't, they can't find you, and packet duplication, reordering, lossage, etc will just make it work badly.
Also, when I call a friend with that VoIP monstrosity, sometimes the call gets null routed to an operator because their is not a needed switch translation, sometimes it fails to forward to his cell when he is out and goes to voice mail (but if I call his cell he answers it in one ring), and sometimes I'd be talking to him and hear the VoIP voice mail on the line at the same time.
The Feds listening into to VoIP is the LEAST of your problems.
Right, so the act of circumvention probably won't be illegal.
But any tools (including code) developed to do so, will be.
So they can't circumvent unless they can do it without making any circumvention tool (even internally, even if it is going to be destroyed, even if it only exists in RAM, etc) in the process.
The DMCA makes it de facto illegal to circumvent because even when it is legal to do so, the tools are illegal.
An intentional bug (or "anti-loophole") in the law that makes it much stricter than it seems.
So Real may end up getting sued under the DMCA for misusing Apple's DRM so that Real can DRM their own stuff, which would in turn make it illegal for people to get at Real's content due to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.
DRM is only as useful as it is because of the DMCA, and the DMCA is now getting in the way of a DRM implementation.
Google is popular because, quite simply, it works, and works well.
The company appears to be a benevolent giant, full of geeks and geek friendly.
And they are a very important player on the Internet.
I probably average 2 dozen Google queries a day or so - it is an extremely useful website which makes the Internet as a whole a lot more useful.
Also, the story of Google is the story of some very smart people becoming rich because of their knowlege and innovation (real innovation), not because of inheritence, popularity, social standing, etc.
It is a geek success story of the first order.
So it is only natural there are a lot of Google stories here.
As covered in other posts, there were plenty of other ways to make the point almost as forcefully - hey, how about using the CEO's information (or hey, the President's),
The vast majority of S&W's profits are from legal uses, in fact almost all guns used in crimes were stolen and sold on the street, so S&W doesn't make money off that, the same way the rolling stones don't make money when you buy a used CD.
M$ could use the DRM key to also encrypt a (copyrighted) picture of Bill Gates.
Now breaking the DRM allows you to get to the copyrighted content - which could be a DMCA violation, in spite of the Lexmark ruling (since the device/DRM protects something copyrightable, not just a serial #)
In all seriousness, RMS really is an atheist. Sad but true. It is easier to stand convincingly for freedom if you believe it is a God given right. If you believe it is given by society - than whose to say an unfree society is any worse?
Ctrl-h ctrl-p in Emacs (I believe that is the right keys) brings up a Manifesto where he mentions it in passing.
Grammar check won't catch that either - Microsoft Word had no issue with it.
"never have to right anything" is not what was meant, but could be correct in a different context, since "right" is a verb, meaning to fix or make upright.
I do not own an American car, I guess I'm hardly one to comment on their quality.
American cars are good, plus buying them doesn't hurt American workers. Whereas buying foreign helps create layoffs.
I have seen this type of argument a lot lately, especially on this site where we would expect the level of argument to be a little higher than somewhere like FreeRepublic or Indymedia.
Well at least you included both the far right and the far left.:)
Also work in the childhood type 2 diabetes epidemic, the obesity epidemic, child molestors moving into one's neighborhood, drugs invading one's neighborhood (especially meth and meth labs), illegal immigration, hackers, rising gas prices, aggressive drivers, world overpopulation, cell phone cancers, cell phone induced car crashes, rude cell phone users, bad cell phone service, ridiculous cell phone rates and buggy software.
Have I forgotten anything on the scare and annoyance hit-parade?
Slashdot Mirror
Google should set the Page Rank of every web page under the control of any publisher who refuses to allow their works into Google Print to zero.
After all, if they hurt Google, Google is under no obligation to make it so their site appears before page 800 in the search results.
A: Hel-----lo, its its me, Alice.
B: Huh?
A: Its me me AlAlice *hiss*.
B: I can't ear you ------ ery ell!
A: Well, least at my c-call free is is is.
B: all me on on a land land line, pease!
and you can't depend on it for 911 if your power is out, and even if it isn't, they can't find you, and packet duplication, reordering, lossage, etc will just make it work badly.
Also, when I call a friend with that VoIP monstrosity, sometimes the call gets null routed to an operator because their is not a needed switch translation, sometimes it fails to forward to his cell when he is out and goes to voice mail (but if I call his cell he answers it in one ring), and sometimes I'd be talking to him and hear the VoIP voice mail on the line at the same time.
The Feds listening into to VoIP is the LEAST of your problems.
I can't imagine any criminal wanting to use it.
Right, so the act of circumvention probably won't be illegal.
But any tools (including code) developed to do so, will be.
So they can't circumvent unless they can do it without making any circumvention tool (even internally, even if it is going to be destroyed, even if it only exists in RAM, etc) in the process.
The DMCA makes it de facto illegal to circumvent because even when it is legal to do so, the tools are illegal.
An intentional bug (or "anti-loophole") in the law that makes it much stricter than it seems.
So Real may end up getting sued under the DMCA for misusing Apple's DRM so that Real can DRM their own stuff, which would in turn make it illegal for people to get at Real's content due to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.
DRM is only as useful as it is because of the DMCA, and the DMCA is now getting in the way of a DRM implementation.
How ironic, and how just.
Slashdot has Google Page Rank 9. :)
I think only Google itself has 10.
Google is popular because, quite simply, it works, and works well.
The company appears to be a benevolent giant, full of geeks and geek friendly.
And they are a very important player on the Internet.
I probably average 2 dozen Google queries a day or so - it is an extremely useful website which makes the Internet as a whole a lot more useful.
Also, the story of Google is the story of some very smart people becoming rich because of their knowlege and innovation (real innovation), not because of inheritence, popularity, social standing, etc.
It is a geek success story of the first order.
So it is only natural there are a lot of Google stories here.
How soon before someone uses the DMCA to try to stop it?
but given that by a large portion of the population, CNet is considered a major, legitimate news source,
What??
As covered in other posts, there were plenty of other ways to make the point almost as forcefully - hey, how about using the CEO's information (or hey, the President's),
:)
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC
The vast majority of S&W's profits are from legal uses, in fact almost all guns used in crimes were stolen and sold on the street, so S&W doesn't make money off that, the same way the rolling stones don't make money when you buy a used CD.
Or if you download it off BitTorrent.
Very good job.
It has that very "Googlish" PR feel to it.
110 degrees?
Won't that make any computers or even motors that drive the belts overheat?
Then M$ will pay to have a DMCA 2 passed, and say copyright infringers are terrorists which will get a lot of legislators to go along with it.
M$ could use the DRM key to also encrypt a (copyrighted) picture of Bill Gates.
Now breaking the DRM allows you to get to the copyrighted content - which could be a DMCA violation, in spite of the Lexmark ruling (since the device/DRM protects something copyrightable, not just a serial #)
That's the Nokia cell phone security code!
Now that you mentioned wikipedia on Slashdot, expect the article to be trashed by trolls for a little while.
Their servers might be able to withstand a slashdotting, but their pages get corrupted by trolls (often enough).
You can't win.
In all seriousness, RMS really is an atheist. Sad but true. It is easier to stand convincingly for freedom if you believe it is a God given right. If you believe it is given by society - than whose to say an unfree society is any worse?
Ctrl-h ctrl-p in Emacs (I believe that is the right keys) brings up a Manifesto where he mentions it in passing.
Do you also think Wal*Mart is evil?
State Farm?
IBM?
Microsoft? (just kidding, I'm not seriously asking about that one)
Use Wells Fargo, their bill pay service auto-prints checks and mails them to companies that don't have online pay.
Works quite well.
Plus if a payee claims they didn't get the payment, you have proof.
Someone claimed to not have gotten paid, I had Wells Fargo investigate, and they somehow managed to find the check!
Spell check won't catch that.
Grammar check won't catch that either - Microsoft Word had no issue with it.
"never have to right anything" is not what was meant, but could be correct in a different context, since "right" is a verb, meaning to fix or make upright.
Only an AI or a human would catch that one.
You've never ate rat poison, though I wish you would have.
That was uncalled for! Let's at least try to be civil.
I do not own an American car, I guess I'm hardly one to comment on their quality.
:)
American cars are good, plus buying them doesn't hurt American workers. Whereas buying foreign helps create layoffs.
I have seen this type of argument a lot lately, especially on this site where we would expect the level of argument to be a little higher than somewhere like FreeRepublic or Indymedia.
Well at least you included both the far right and the far left.
Also work in the childhood type 2 diabetes epidemic, the obesity epidemic, child molestors moving into one's neighborhood, drugs invading one's neighborhood (especially meth and meth labs), illegal immigration, hackers, rising gas prices, aggressive drivers, world overpopulation, cell phone cancers, cell phone induced car crashes, rude cell phone users, bad cell phone service, ridiculous cell phone rates and buggy software.
Have I forgotten anything on the scare and annoyance hit-parade?
Are u drunk?
Post your IP address.
In Korea, LPs are for old people! :)