The Taco bell promotion is a great publicity stunt. It's probably hit every news broadcast in the country.
All it will cost them is the price of the $10,000,000 insuance policy. The insurance will cover their costs (and maybe a little profit) if they have to feed us.
The qualifications of the people for determing porn. But, that may be the point of the article since there is no real qualifications.
The failure of the CyberPatrol list that they use for censoring. Ever try to call into AOL to report a wrongly blocked site?
About when the AOL people go overboard on censoring home pages. I don't expect them to be able to balance the issues of free speech, protected speech, libel, and pornography. That is different from the stalking threat which was cited.
In general telemarketers pay money to call you. Maybe not to you, but they pay the cost of call and the salary of the person making the call. SPAM on the other hand costs nothing to send.
There are no-call lists for telemarketers. There are restrictions on the times calls can be made.
The same with collection agencies. Collection agencies must be registered. Employees of those agencies who do not use their real name, must have a listed alias.
In both cases, the calls are traceable in some manner. Not the same with SPAM!
There are some problems with the bill, from what I gather from the article.
There should be penalties for list sellers. Otherwise, you have to notify each spammer.
There should be the contact information for the list sellers.
There should be penalties for SPAM service companies -- companies that do spamming for others.
I don't trust the remove information on any spam. Even those it's the old way of confirming email addresses, it is still used. The newer way is with web bugs in html email, src="xx.com/sucker.cgi=victim.address.
A company demanding identification of an anonymous poster, wishs to remain anonymous.
This is absolute bull. If they wished that this did not become publish, the information could have been relased an a protective order be issued -- making the name and information in the case known to the parties, but not to the public.
At first, I thought it was the another story of the courts taking a reaosnable position to online anonymity. I had to read Carl's article twice to make sure it said what it said -- "I want your private info, but I'm not telling you who is asking."
But, the bridge is not in a public place. It's on a private server, in a private place. Just because it can be seen from a public place does not make it a public place.
Given your bridge analogy, does that mean I can use your pool, because it can be seen from a public place? Can I park my car on a private parking lot without paying?
Having a window open or a door unlocked on your house is not a valid defense for a thief when they break into your house. Do you need to put signs on your window that says, "no thiefs allowed?"
I remember making a comment that criminal charges should be pressed against spammers.
Under the computer tresspass act, it is a criminal offense to use a computer that you are unauthorized to (hacking a mail relay, even if open). It might be a stretch to say that by sending SPAM to your POP3 server, that they had used your computer to retrieve and store SPAM without authorization.
About them being clueless, it's bull. They knew it was wrong, why else would they hack into a open mail relay; why would they hide their identify?
It's funny, they claim the SPAM is legal, but they hide their identity.
People think that the first amendment only applies to government actions.
It has been found that private actors (individuals and companies) using the courts become government actions.
It would be nice if they had posted the letters, but I would guess that they are using the dilution act. Given that, the claim must fail since it's not a commercial site. There is not even banner advertising.
If the person sees the charge, then the credit card company will reverse the charge back to the merchant -- unless the merchant can show a valid signature and card swipe.
The only times when the credit card company loses money, is:
when they give a good faith credit to the cardholder on a dispute,
Maybe tell them that they violated their license agreement and you are there to remove the software from their computer. After blood returns to their face explain that this situation is not far fetched....except that they can do it over the internet the weekend before the next election. No due process, no notice.
The issue would not be of what you did before you were employed, but only from the point of when you signed the contract.
The real issue, is not the rights, but how much are you willing to spend to enforce those rights.
You can wait for the employer to file suit, and then defend on the basis of prior disclosed work.
Talk with an IP lawyer now. Also, keep version control, or some sort of logs of when you did what.
You might want to license some of what you have done to them, if what you did would help your work. Put it in memos, "I did this X years ago on my own Y, do you me to go and find that code?"
Also, I used that attitude of theirs against MSI when the WC insurer claimed that my tendinitis was from my computing at home, not from my computing at work.
It happened to me. It happened to Carla Virga when she said that Terminex sucks, and it happened to Joanne Crossby Tibbets when she complained about Best Foods. It happened to Paul David when he said that a Barbie doll was ugly.
Even without the encryption and the DMCA, if someone who is not authorized to access a computer accesses that computer is guilty of computer tresspass.
Could it be that programmers are too lazy to program efficiently?
How much data needs to be sent between systems? Any thoughts on compressing the player data streams? Not using standard compression, but only sending data that needs to be updating.
With he DMCA, there is no fair use that allows one to break the copy protection.
Even if there was, the DMCA prevents you from distributing the code that allows you to make your own copy.
It does not matter if you are making a copy for a legal purpose!
The RIAA will swoop down and litigate and threaten anyone who talks about breaking the copyprotection. That way, they keep everybody in line with the threat of a lawsuit.
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All it will cost them is the price of the $10,000,000 insuance policy. The insurance will cover their costs (and maybe a little profit) if they have to feed us.
In general telemarketers pay money to call you. Maybe not to you, but they pay the cost of call and the salary of the person making the call. SPAM on the other hand costs nothing to send.
There are no-call lists for telemarketers. There are restrictions on the times calls can be made.
The same with collection agencies. Collection agencies must be registered. Employees of those agencies who do not use their real name, must have a listed alias.
In both cases, the calls are traceable in some manner. Not the same with SPAM!
What these list sellers are doing is selling a list that states or implies that you enjoy or at least don't mind receiving SPAM.
- There should be penalties for list sellers. Otherwise, you have to notify each spammer.
- There should be the contact information for the list sellers.
- There should be penalties for SPAM service companies -- companies that do spamming for others.
I don't trust the remove information on any spam. Even those it's the old way of confirming email addresses, it is still used. The newer way is with web bugs in html email, src="xx.com/sucker.cgi=victim.address.This is absolute bull. If they wished that this did not become publish, the information could have been relased an a protective order be issued -- making the name and information in the case known to the parties, but not to the public.
At first, I thought it was the another story of the courts taking a reaosnable position to online anonymity. I had to read Carl's article twice to make sure it said what it said -- "I want your private info, but I'm not telling you who is asking."
Given your bridge analogy, does that mean I can use your pool, because it can be seen from a public place? Can I park my car on a private parking lot without paying?
Under the computer tresspass act, it is a criminal offense to use a computer that you are unauthorized to (hacking a mail relay, even if open). It might be a stretch to say that by sending SPAM to your POP3 server, that they had used your computer to retrieve and store SPAM without authorization.
About them being clueless, it's bull. They knew it was wrong, why else would they hack into a open mail relay; why would they hide their identify?
It's funny, they claim the SPAM is legal, but they hide their identity.
It has been found that private actors (individuals and companies) using the courts become government actions.
It would be nice if they had posted the letters, but I would guess that they are using the dilution act. Given that, the claim must fail since it's not a commercial site. There is not even banner advertising.
If the person sees the charge, then the credit card company will reverse the charge back to the merchant -- unless the merchant can show a valid signature and card swipe.
The only times when the credit card company loses money, is:
Maybe tell them that they violated their license agreement and you are there to remove the software from their computer. After blood returns to their face explain that this situation is not far fetched....except that they can do it over the internet the weekend before the next election. No due process, no notice.
The real issue, is not the rights, but how much are you willing to spend to enforce those rights.
You can wait for the employer to file suit, and then defend on the basis of prior disclosed work.
Talk with an IP lawyer now. Also, keep version control, or some sort of logs of when you did what.
You might want to license some of what you have done to them, if what you did would help your work. Put it in memos, "I did this X years ago on my own Y, do you me to go and find that code?"
Also, I used that attitude of theirs against MSI when the WC insurer claimed that my tendinitis was from my computing at home, not from my computing at work.
He talked about circumvention to infringe would be illegal, but it needs to be detailed.
We need reverse engineering or there would be no way to have fair use in many cases.
It happened to me. It happened to Carla Virga when she said that Terminex sucks, and it happened to Joanne Crossby Tibbets when she complained about Best Foods. It happened to Paul David when he said that a Barbie doll was ugly.
In a civil rights act/employment discrimination lawsuit, the judge will award fees based on hours that an attorney put in.
If an attorney has a contingency fee agreement, then that amount of money goes into the pot and then the attorney get 1/3 of the pot.
This of course depends on the particular fee agreement in place.
WordPerfect was in Utah for a long time. What about Novell?? Caldera???
How much data needs to be sent between systems? Any thoughts on compressing the player data streams? Not using standard compression, but only sending data that needs to be updating.
You can play turn based games over the internet.
You learn by reading good code, you learn by reading bad code. As long as you recognize bad code as bad, you learn what to avoid.
In many internships, you end up doing the grunt work, but as long as it's practice or related then it's not bad.
Maybe you should Jon Johansen, or the people who raided his house, about that.
Even if there was, the DMCA prevents you from distributing the code that allows you to make your own copy.
It does not matter if you are making a copy for a legal purpose!
The RIAA will swoop down and litigate and threaten anyone who talks about breaking the copyprotection. That way, they keep everybody in line with the threat of a lawsuit.
What about programs that make your line printer play Jingle Bells" or the theme from Mission Impossible?
Would it really be proper to handle IT duties of the school, where such duties would include access to other student's records?