I read the censorware site and found it interesting that it listed CyberPatrol as blocking both misc.health.injuries.rsi.misc and misc.health.injuries.rsi.moderated. For those who have not read my website about Mattel would know that they have paid over $140k in a RSI related lawsuit.
Yes, I have posted some of the informatinon on the lawsuit to the RSI newsgroups.
There is a difference between net access and taking out a book. You don't have to return net access.
Libraries do not require one to be a resident to take a book off the shelf and read it.
At the Boston Public libary anyone in Massachussetts can get a library card (that might be different now since it's been a while since I have been there). In Austin, they charge for a libary card if you are not a resident of the taxing district.
I was at the LA downtown Libary (by 5th Street). To sign up for an internet computer, they required me to present a drivers license. This was to make sure the name I put on the signup sheet was mine.I was not asking for a system w/o a filter so age was not a factor.
It's not just the cost of having a lawyer (or barister). There are costs in preparing papers, filing fees, copying documents, tracking down witnesses.
Now, the other side (or at least in my case) demand documents, some of which they have no right too, going back years and years. Forcing you to travel to depositions, digging through your entire life, making totally false acusations as a defense.
Court cases can be quite stressful. There had been many nights, due to Mattel's ridiculous countersuit, that I had problems sleeping. In preparing for the summary judgment motion, I and my lawyer pulled some all nighters. Prior to flying up for hearings and/or depositions, I would have to forgo sleep in preparation for the trip.
During the OJ or Woodward case, You could not watch one telivision show (excepting kids' cartoons) without hear some analysis, opinion, or commentary on the case. During the Woodward case, the TV stations always showed opinion shots from pubs.
In my case with Mattel their filing a countersuit for libel backfired. It not only opened them up for new complaints of retailation (prohibited by the acts the first suit was filed under) which includes the potential for large punitive damages. Mattel's countersuit brought more publicity to the case then the original lawsuit. Mattel is using the countersuit to try to silence me, but the countersuit actually generated more media coverage.
A countersuit, can also force the original plantiff to stay with their position and not settle. As in MP3/RIAA case by MP3 showing that their product is not for stealing music, it goes a long way into proving their countersuit. If RIAA wins their suit against MP3 it also defeats the counterclaim since truth is a defense to libel.
Libel and slander does not require the a court to rule on something before it is commented on.
Opinion is not libel.
For something to be opinion, it does not have to say, "This is opinion." Having such a disclaimer, does help. This was decided in King v. The Boston Globe. (Mas SJC).
To prove libel on a public figure, you have to show:
The statements were false
That the statments The statements were false
acting with actual malice, in the sense of knowledge that the communication was false
having reckless disregard of its truth or falsity
It looks like libel may be able to be shown in this case.
But one is not be required to litigate something be fully litigated to say that they violated the law, otherwise Clinton would have a filed suit against Paula jones and many others for saying that he had sexually harassed her, prior to a trial decision.
Using a touch screen will slow down your typing, but it will give your wrists a break, since you have to use different muscles to touch the screen. The only problem is you lose the fine resolution of a mouse.
I found that using the IBM trackpoint helps. It may reduce the pain a little, which may not be a good thing as lets you work longer. The best thing for an RSI is rest and treatment.
Another reason for text based navigation, loading images take too much time for us speed addicts when stuck on a 28.8k modem.
If you are blind (visually challenged) text browsers make sense. Then you can have a text to speech converter. Using graphics navigation is tough for text to speech.
When running on a modem, I usually turn off graphics for speed.
Considering the cases on DeCSS, Amazon, www.barbiebenson.com, pokey.org, if we make a new browser compatible with the others, won't we get sued for something?
I don't mean the data, but the format of the data.
Say, that use Word for writing your documents. You want to write an application do search and index word processor documents. Your application will index them and be able to retrieve them. But you can't because you are not allowed to access the word documents in their format. It's M$'s format. You are not allowed to access documents that are in their formats without using their products. What about writing a word processor yourself, but some sends you a document in word format, you have to buy Word so you can export it.
When you buy a DVD you want to be able to play it. DeCSS would allow that. You have a right to play it, since you bought it. The MPAA claim that DeCSS allows you to copy their product. To duplicate it, you don't need to decode it.
Free speech is at stake. Software interoperability id st stake. Microsoft is kicking themselves for not thinking of doing this first.
People who told me that I should not bitch about my case. That I should just shut up and keep quiet. But my point is that a large company should not be allowed to shut up individuals for saying what they don't like.
If things continue like this, M$ will prevent other companies from working with Word and Excel file formats.
They got their results, they pick someone, then send in the storm troopers. The MPAA got their headlines to scare others. The MPAA don't care about facts
The judge stated since the code could run on Windows, and just not Linux, it is not for interoperability.
Maybe, the judge should have been told writing clean portable code is a good thing, not a bad thing. Or maybe, the judge has taken to the Microsoft view of portability to other platforms is bad.
I guess everyone who is passionate about a cause is a crackpot. So am I about my battel with Mattel. So were the Wright Brothers. Two Steves were called crazy for starting a computer company out their garage.
There are many people who consider anyone who fights the system to by crackpots.
There will be no use for software reviews, if you can't make any critical comments about software. So, kill the magazines, all we could read are press releases.
What about books like "Windows for dummies?" You are saying windows is too hard to use. We'd have to cut out half of the slashdot comments.:)
There is one side that say employers can't find skilled workers, so they have to import them.
There are employee groups that claim that the employers hire aliens since it is cheaper. That an employer will advertise for someone with impossible qualifications and show they don't have the exact skill to justify. Maybe 5 years of Java experience on an AS/400. But refuse to consider someone with 5 years of Java on AIX.
Then the aliens who are trapped in a job, if they leave the job, they will have to leave the country, no matter how bad the job becomes.
I had a divorced friend who did not have a green card, but could not leave the country because the court ordered her to stay in Santa Clara county with her daughter. INS could/would not do anything
The system is a mess. The quotas should not be increased, but should be fixed right!
Censoring can have the oppsite effect, sometimes
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With the DeCSS and the Mattel case it is true. With he Mattel case, there was only one article that went into detail on this case or the website. Mattel's ridiculous countersuit has generated 2 online articles, another newspaper article, and a TV news story.
In China though, the government can censor. When I was in China, TV broadcasts from Hong Kong (before the handover) were censored, and some reports were blocked. The University internet went though a filter in Bejing.
Censorship does not work in a "free" country. Some companies in the USA want to forget that.
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Yes, I have posted some of the informatinon on the lawsuit to the RSI newsgroups.
Libraries do not require one to be a resident to take a book off the shelf and read it.
At the Boston Public libary anyone in Massachussetts can get a library card (that might be different now since it's been a while since I have been there). In Austin, they charge for a libary card if you are not a resident of the taxing district.
I have not seen a Local Only Public Libary.
Why would a libary do this, except for tracking?
DOS.
Now, the other side (or at least in my case) demand documents, some of which they have no right too, going back years and years. Forcing you to travel to depositions, digging through your entire life, making totally false acusations as a defense.
Court cases can be quite stressful. There had been many nights, due to Mattel's ridiculous countersuit, that I had problems sleeping. In preparing for the summary judgment motion, I and my lawyer pulled some all nighters. Prior to flying up for hearings and/or depositions, I would have to forgo sleep in preparation for the trip.
A countersuit, can also force the original plantiff to stay with their position and not settle. As in MP3/RIAA case by MP3 showing that their product is not for stealing music, it goes a long way into proving their countersuit. If RIAA wins their suit against MP3 it also defeats the counterclaim since truth is a defense to libel.
So, then is there a point in litigation that the information is not permitted to be publicized?
Opinion is not libel.
For something to be opinion, it does not have to say, "This is opinion." Having such a disclaimer, does help. This was decided in King v. The Boston Globe. (Mas SJC).
To prove libel on a public figure, you have to show:
It looks like libel may be able to be shown in this case.
But one is not be required to litigate something be fully litigated to say that they violated the law, otherwise Clinton would have a filed suit against Paula jones and many others for saying that he had sexually harassed her, prior to a trial decision.
Any suit can be filed. This is proved by Mattel's countersuit of me.
This one does seem somewhat reasonable. At least it's not a huge company trying to litigating a smaller one into poverty.
Using a touch screen will slow down your typing, but it will give your wrists a break, since you have to use different muscles to touch the screen. The only problem is you lose the fine resolution of a mouse.
I found that using the IBM trackpoint helps. It may reduce the pain a little, which may not be a good thing as lets you work longer. The best thing for an RSI is rest and treatment.
Another reason for text based navigation, loading images take too much time for us speed addicts when stuck on a 28.8k modem.
So, will your boss clone you if your are running behind on a project?hmmm..... two palces at once.
When running on a modem, I usually turn off graphics for speed.
I am writing code!
Say, that use Word for writing your documents. You want to write an application do search and index word processor documents. Your application will index them and be able to retrieve them. But you can't because you are not allowed to access the word documents in their format. It's M$'s format. You are not allowed to access documents that are in their formats without using their products. What about writing a word processor yourself, but some sends you a document in word format, you have to buy Word so you can export it.
When you buy a DVD you want to be able to play it. DeCSS would allow that. You have a right to play it, since you bought it. The MPAA claim that DeCSS allows you to copy their product. To duplicate it, you don't need to decode it.
People who told me that I should not bitch about my case. That I should just shut up and keep quiet. But my point is that a large company should not be allowed to shut up individuals for saying what they don't like.
If things continue like this, M$ will prevent other companies from working with Word and Excel file formats.
Maybe, the judge should have been told writing clean portable code is a good thing, not a bad thing. Or maybe, the judge has taken to the Microsoft view of portability to other platforms is bad.
Being passionate about a cause, includes making others aware of it. This is especially important in a free speech issue.
There are many people who consider anyone who fights the system to by crackpots.
What about books like "Windows for dummies?" You are saying windows is too hard to use. We'd have to cut out half of the slashdot comments. :)
I had a divorced friend who did not have a green card, but could not leave the country because the court ordered her to stay in Santa Clara county with her daughter. INS could/would not do anything
The system is a mess. The quotas should not be increased, but should be fixed right!
In China though, the government can censor. When I was in China, TV broadcasts from Hong Kong (before the handover) were censored, and some reports were blocked. The University internet went though a filter in Bejing.
Censorship does not work in a "free" country. Some companies in the USA want to forget that.