all the comments are people saying that you can do this with cds, books, etc but you dont have an agreement like this so i dont think you can apply the same logic.
Contracts that restrict resale aren't allowed for mass-marketed goods like books you buy in a store. The Supreme Court said so a long time ago. It's always been assumed the same applies to CDs.
There is only one planet Earth. There are astronomically more planets than Earth. Therefore, we're probably on some other planet.
Problem is, the probability of the existence of a simulation is not the same as the probability of us inhabiting that simulation. Plus, the existence of massive comuting power does not imply that that power is used for a certain task.
MPAA, etc., will just use this as an excuse to do worse. They can say "We tried a reasonable, technical approach to protecting our property. It was so widely broken that we had to abandon it. Now we need to try something more extreme, with more government sanction."
Not that this is unique to the region coding controversy. They'll look for any excuse to do worse, and this is juse one more. We need stop (primarily) attacking individual programs like region protection, and focus on the roots of the problem, like government representatives who enjoy shitting on consumers' rights.
This is just mundane copyright violation. If the allegations are true, then AOL is breaking core, noncontroversial copyright law. Really pretty straightforward and irrelevant.
...until school systems get enough funding to buy modern equipment, which will DRM'ed out the wazoo. Fortunately most government bodies are more interesting in kissing up to corporate funds that funding education, so schools will be using outdated, fully functional stuff for a while.
This man has no real credibility left, outside his ultra-conservative cult. Fortunately for us, domain name resolutions are handled by an ultra-liberal cult. Yay!
Start forwarding all the spam you get to their fax machine, and see how long they continue to not have a problem with unsolicited faxes....
When a business sends out faxes hoping to trick somebody into buying some random piece of crap, that's protected expression. But if an individual does it as a form of protest, it will probably be called illegal harassment.
Isn't this really just more evidence that a P4 is inappropriate for laptops? Intel is making a good attempt at targeting a specific market (P4 is "primarily" a server chip), but their insistence on cramming every processor into a small box just for shits and giggles is silly.
Am I the only one thinking antimatter costs more energy to produce than you get out of it?
That's OK. The goal is fuel that is efficient for space travel, not for powering civilization in general. A spaceship can't usually produce much energy on its own (some solar / solar wind energy, not enough to sustain a mission), but we on firm ground can go pick up some coal to burn.
It's good to see schools diving into this technology rather than figuring out pressing educational problems or sticking to the "core functionality" of a classroom. Our children will be well-equipped to serve as marketing drones and politicians. Their quality of life will be greater than their parents', according to the trade magazines.
While some sites are still operating, the FCC is going to take this matter to court, which may decide exactly how much control a web site can take over the end browser using JavaScript and ActiveX.
Isn't the more pressing question exactly how much control the FCC can take over a private / corporate web site?
On a more serious note, what makes people think a fundamentalist Islamic group would hide pictures in porn? Wouldn't that require them to go against most of their fundamental beliefs and actually look at nakedness and fornication?
I suspect this is a relatively minor infraction comared to murder.
Why is Slashdot announcing yet-another-RTS, especially if the editor hasn't even "heard much about this game"? Does all Linux eye-candy that "might be worth a download" warrant a front-page story?
In 8 years in the Army I've been from Korea, to Saudi Arabia, Africa and Europe. Everywhere we went we were told by our chain of command to respect local laws and customs. I think we need to do that with the Interenet too.
I respect the lesson you learned in the Army, but those other cultures need to respect our laws and customs too when we aren't forcing them down their throats. If our customs dictate gigabytes of lesbian porn, so be it.
In aviation, it's relatively easy to avoid straying into a given legal jurisdiction. With shipping, a route can be planned ahead of time with known jurisdictions. It's not so simple for the 'net.
I live in Texas, and operate a website hosted in Florida. Easy enough, two jurisdictions to worry about, both in the same country. But my cable modem service provider is Time Warner; I have no idea where my insidious signals get bounced on their way to Florida.
And, of course, there's the people who visit the site. I get hits from every continent, and it's been shown that it's not possible to accurately block an entire large geographic block. If some country out there decides to be as arrogant as the US, I'll be obliged to obey the laws of some country I didn't even intend to contact.
The Economist's story is good, but the conclusion should be restated for brevity: we're hosed.
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If you read the entire TOS instead of just one paragraph, you'll see that "Verisign Services" in this context is not DNS -- it's Site Finder.
Contracts that restrict resale aren't allowed for mass-marketed goods like books you buy in a store. The Supreme Court said so a long time ago. It's always been assumed the same applies to CDs.
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There is only one planet Earth. There are astronomically more planets than Earth. Therefore, we're probably on some other planet.
Problem is, the probability of the existence of a simulation is not the same as the probability of us inhabiting that simulation. Plus, the existence of massive comuting power does not imply that that power is used for a certain task.
Between the M505 and the old Game Boy Advance flubs, they should know how important it is to have a back-lit screen.
Copyright infringements and DMCA violations are not felonies.
Not that this is unique to the region coding controversy. They'll look for any excuse to do worse, and this is juse one more. We need stop (primarily) attacking individual programs like region protection, and focus on the roots of the problem, like government representatives who enjoy shitting on consumers' rights.
Well, how about "mundane mix of copyright and contract law"?
This is just mundane copyright violation. If the allegations are true, then AOL is breaking core, noncontroversial copyright law. Really pretty straightforward and irrelevant.
When will we stop acting surprised, and start acting to prevent this crap?
...until school systems get enough funding to buy modern equipment, which will DRM'ed out the wazoo. Fortunately most government bodies are more interesting in kissing up to corporate funds that funding education, so schools will be using outdated, fully functional stuff for a while.
This man has no real credibility left, outside his ultra-conservative cult. Fortunately for us, domain name resolutions are handled by an ultra-liberal cult. Yay!
When a business sends out faxes hoping to trick somebody into buying some random piece of crap, that's protected expression. But if an individual does it as a form of protest, it will probably be called illegal harassment.
Isn't this really just more evidence that a P4 is inappropriate for laptops? Intel is making a good attempt at targeting a specific market (P4 is "primarily" a server chip), but their insistence on cramming every processor into a small box just for shits and giggles is silly.
That's OK. The goal is fuel that is efficient for space travel, not for powering civilization in general. A spaceship can't usually produce much energy on its own (some solar / solar wind energy, not enough to sustain a mission), but we on firm ground can go pick up some coal to burn.
Point the webcam at the oscilloscope. If you need greater precision, hit "full screen".
Whereas your false sense of humility has endowed you with godlike powers.
It's good to see schools diving into this technology rather than figuring out pressing educational problems or sticking to the "core functionality" of a classroom. Our children will be well-equipped to serve as marketing drones and politicians. Their quality of life will be greater than their parents', according to the trade magazines.
I hope they don't sue me.
Isn't the more pressing question exactly how much control the FCC can take over a private / corporate web site?
I suspect this is a relatively minor infraction comared to murder.
It's a for-profit corporation. If they ever take actions which are not obvious grabs for profit, you're just not looking carefully enough.
Why is Slashdot announcing yet-another-RTS, especially if the editor hasn't even "heard much about this game"? Does all Linux eye-candy that "might be worth a download" warrant a front-page story?
I respect the lesson you learned in the Army, but those other cultures need to respect our laws and customs too when we aren't forcing them down their throats. If our customs dictate gigabytes of lesbian porn, so be it.
I live in Texas, and operate a website hosted in Florida. Easy enough, two jurisdictions to worry about, both in the same country. But my cable modem service provider is Time Warner; I have no idea where my insidious signals get bounced on their way to Florida.
And, of course, there's the people who visit the site. I get hits from every continent, and it's been shown that it's not possible to accurately block an entire large geographic block. If some country out there decides to be as arrogant as the US, I'll be obliged to obey the laws of some country I didn't even intend to contact.
The Economist's story is good, but the conclusion should be restated for brevity: we're hosed.