My bank allows me to change my email address online, but not my street address, perhaps the solution then is mailing the user a letter saying "Here's the confirmation of the transactions you completed online last week"
I don't see how they can legislate how a consumer consumes. Next you'll see laws stating that I can only eat clams in clam chowder and that I'll be arrested for eating them on the half-shell because that's not how the clam harvesters intended for their clams to be eaten...
Imagine the reprecussions in the "adult novelty" industry.
False positives, everyone buying cigarettes, booze, or ammo gets carded. It's a law and it's easy to enforce. However not everyone buying a CD is trying to buy an "explicit" CD. Would you put up with the hassle of having to show ID to buy the "Mary Poppins" soundtrack? So then you have to develop a system for determing whether a certain CD requires ID, which isn't difficult, my grocer does this with beer as it is. When the item is wrong up, it flashs a message on the terminal that says "Check their ID" I don't see how it would be that much more difficult to do after all, just laziness on the part of the company I suppose.
Well being that they're the FBI, they can probably muscle IRCOPs or Admins in to installing snippets in to the daemons that monitor for certain keywords and let them know what channels the discussion is in, along with other relevant information about who the participants are. And seeing that almost all major networks have at least one hub in the US, they could probably do it legally. (Dunno how wiretapping laws would apply in a case like this.)
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Yep, funny isn't it. I believe the only difference is that the Quran (Koran, whatever.) is the word of god as told to the prophet Muhammed as opposed to the word of god as given to Moses.
I could be wrong, theologians feel free to correct me.
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And using trillian I can talk on AIM and MSN messenger, how does my analogy of water pumps fail? Dodge does not provide an OEM part for my Honda, Honda does not proide an OEM part for a dodge, if a third party (aftermarket) releases a product that's compatible with both, so what? The point I was making is that comparing this law to legislating that AIM be compatible with MSN Messenger is assinine and a sucky analogy.
Your analogy sucks, I can't buy a water pump for a 1973 dodge and put it in my 1999 Honda Accord. There's a technological difference and that's not the point of this law. This law basically says that it is illegal for Apple to use it's (semi)monopoly in one field, Music Store, to create a (semi)monopoly in another field, Music Players. If apple is going to sell music in france, it has to work with all other music players.
The equivalent would be if cd's sold at FYE only played on SONY cd players, and not Aiwa or Samsung.
But how successful will the French be in forcing an American company to reveal what is probably considered "protected trade secrets."
ie, what is sort of consequences could Apple face if they say "fuck you" and shoot France the bird? Not being allowed to do business in France? Couldn't a french citizen just order an iPod off of store.apple.com? I don't think this law will make any bit of difference simply because I don't see how the french can possibly hope to enforce it.
Thus, BT is a very good way of sharing bandwidth on a P2P basis where it is totally impractical and very difficult to trace the people in a swarm. See? BitTorrent is really, really good for TPB stuff and illegal things -- hence it took off and became a buzzword of sorts.
Perhaps you meant to say the entire swarm. It's not difficult at all to determine who is uploading to you or who you're uploading too, in fact Universal Studios just determined that someone using my IP address was illegally downloading movies and had Cox Communications shut down my broadband.
When I was 12 I went out and bought my own Zoom 28.8 modem from the local computer store, managed to convince the helpdesk weenies at (then) Erols Internet that I was in fact my father's agent and that we had forgotten the password to our account and needed it reset, set it all up on my 486 running windows 95 (I had just upgraded from 3.1) and I managed to reconfigure my parents PC so that the new password was saved in the properties for the dial-up connection.
The first place I hit after setting all this up behind my parents's backs? IRC. If you think chat boards are a bad place for a preteen/teenager, my god IRC must be the worst possible place. A few years later after a run in with the local police of the podunk town I lived in (I sold a disk containing some images from IRC to a senior at the local HS) I swore it all off, and looking back I'm glad I did. I'm 22 now and much wiser to the REAL dangers out there for children. The thing people that have never had to supervise kids don't realise is that children will KNOWINGLY and WILLFULLY seek these things out. It's a curiosity over something that is made to be very taboo for young children, and in my opinion is a natural backlash of the puritan roots of and protestant influences still affecting America. As long as sex is something you try to keep from your children, it's going to be something they seek out with out any heed to their own well-being. There's no good solution, some children get hurt by bad people in the world. It's a fact of life, there will always be someone who's a victim. The best thing that we as a society can do is to educate our children about the existence of bad people, and then prosecute and dish out justice to those people that hurt children and help their victims to recover (I'm sure that I don't have to point out that sexual assault of young people causes severe psychological damage.)
Personally I feel this law suit is absolutely pointless, and securing mySpace against this sort of thing is a red herring of crime prevention. Unless things have changed drastically since the last time I checked most sexual assaults against young children are commited by family members or those close to the child's family. Complete strangers abducting, raping and murdering children only makes big headlines because it's so sensational. The FUD machines (news media) generate this kind of crap because it sells newspapers or TV ad's. I guess the point would be keep an eye out on what your kids do online, but keep a closer eye on anyone that has immediate access to your child because they are the more likely predadtor than Jimmy14827 on mySpace.
Conversely being friends with someone who limits themself to being a "geek" is not worth befriending. Most people don't like 1-dimensional personalities, let alone stereotyped 1-dimensional personalities.
And surely you can find something better to do with your time than post snide remarks. Oh wait, this is Slashdot, I'm sorry just forget I said anything. Would you like some hot cocoa, I'm sure your mom would love to see you, it's been how many weeks since you left the basement^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdungeon master's lair.
Sadly I think you're correct. The fact that Fred Phelps is still alive leads me to believe that Americans will tolerate anything as long as it's an old white guy doing it.
So what you're proposing is that the credit card companies and the government stop using SSN's as a form of national ID? Your ideas intrigue me, please sign me up for your newsletter.
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How does a p2p protocol partner with a movie company?
My bank allows me to change my email address online, but not my street address, perhaps the solution then is mailing the user a letter saying "Here's the confirmation of the transactions you completed online last week"
I don't see how they can legislate how a consumer consumes. Next you'll see laws stating that I can only eat clams in clam chowder and that I'll be arrested for eating them on the half-shell because that's not how the clam harvesters intended for their clams to be eaten...
Imagine the reprecussions in the "adult novelty" industry.
Jonestown Punch?
False positives, everyone buying cigarettes, booze, or ammo gets carded. It's a law and it's easy to enforce. However not everyone buying a CD is trying to buy an "explicit" CD. Would you put up with the hassle of having to show ID to buy the "Mary Poppins" soundtrack? So then you have to develop a system for determing whether a certain CD requires ID, which isn't difficult, my grocer does this with beer as it is. When the item is wrong up, it flashs a message on the terminal that says "Check their ID" I don't see how it would be that much more difficult to do after all, just laziness on the part of the company I suppose.
Well being that they're the FBI, they can probably muscle IRCOPs or Admins in to installing snippets in to the daemons that monitor for certain keywords and let them know what channels the discussion is in, along with other relevant information about who the participants are. And seeing that almost all major networks have at least one hub in the US, they could probably do it legally. (Dunno how wiretapping laws would apply in a case like this.)
Do they come by trucks?
Does the United Kingdom even have a constitution?
Yep, funny isn't it. I believe the only difference is that the Quran (Koran, whatever.) is the word of god as told to the prophet Muhammed as opposed to the word of god as given to Moses.
I could be wrong, theologians feel free to correct me.
GP was talking about the Arabs, not the Jews.
Like Halliburton did in Iraq?
It'd be nice, perhaps then the political scientist with a Ph.D. could do more good than Cousin Billy Bob from Arkansas.
And using trillian I can talk on AIM and MSN messenger, how does my analogy of water pumps fail? Dodge does not provide an OEM part for my Honda, Honda does not proide an OEM part for a dodge, if a third party (aftermarket) releases a product that's compatible with both, so what? The point I was making is that comparing this law to legislating that AIM be compatible with MSN Messenger is assinine and a sucky analogy.
Your analogy sucks, I can't buy a water pump for a 1973 dodge and put it in my 1999 Honda Accord. There's a technological difference and that's not the point of this law. This law basically says that it is illegal for Apple to use it's (semi)monopoly in one field, Music Store, to create a (semi)monopoly in another field, Music Players. If apple is going to sell music in france, it has to work with all other music players.
The equivalent would be if cd's sold at FYE only played on SONY cd players, and not Aiwa or Samsung.
But how successful will the French be in forcing an American company to reveal what is probably considered "protected trade secrets."
ie, what is sort of consequences could Apple face if they say "fuck you" and shoot France the bird? Not being allowed to do business in France? Couldn't a french citizen just order an iPod off of store.apple.com? I don't think this law will make any bit of difference simply because I don't see how the french can possibly hope to enforce it.
Perhaps you meant to say the entire swarm. It's not difficult at all to determine who is uploading to you or who you're uploading too, in fact Universal Studios just determined that someone using my IP address was illegally downloading movies and had Cox Communications shut down my broadband.
To quote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "I think...I'm getting..the fear."
Nonsense man.
I have one at home, it's called a "Modded XboX" I picked it up for about $150.
When I was 12 I went out and bought my own Zoom 28.8 modem from the local computer store, managed to convince the helpdesk weenies at (then) Erols Internet that I was in fact my father's agent and that we had forgotten the password to our account and needed it reset, set it all up on my 486 running windows 95 (I had just upgraded from 3.1) and I managed to reconfigure my parents PC so that the new password was saved in the properties for the dial-up connection.
The first place I hit after setting all this up behind my parents's backs? IRC. If you think chat boards are a bad place for a preteen/teenager, my god IRC must be the worst possible place. A few years later after a run in with the local police of the podunk town I lived in (I sold a disk containing some images from IRC to a senior at the local HS) I swore it all off, and looking back I'm glad I did. I'm 22 now and much wiser to the REAL dangers out there for children. The thing people that have never had to supervise kids don't realise is that children will KNOWINGLY and WILLFULLY seek these things out. It's a curiosity over something that is made to be very taboo for young children, and in my opinion is a natural backlash of the puritan roots of and protestant influences still affecting America. As long as sex is something you try to keep from your children, it's going to be something they seek out with out any heed to their own well-being. There's no good solution, some children get hurt by bad people in the world. It's a fact of life, there will always be someone who's a victim. The best thing that we as a society can do is to educate our children about the existence of bad people, and then prosecute and dish out justice to those people that hurt children and help their victims to recover (I'm sure that I don't have to point out that sexual assault of young people causes severe psychological damage.)
Personally I feel this law suit is absolutely pointless, and securing mySpace against this sort of thing is a red herring of crime prevention. Unless things have changed drastically since the last time I checked most sexual assaults against young children are commited by family members or those close to the child's family. Complete strangers abducting, raping and murdering children only makes big headlines because it's so sensational. The FUD machines (news media) generate this kind of crap because it sells newspapers or TV ad's. I guess the point would be keep an eye out on what your kids do online, but keep a closer eye on anyone that has immediate access to your child because they are the more likely predadtor than Jimmy14827 on mySpace.
Conversely being friends with someone who limits themself to being a "geek" is not worth befriending. Most people don't like 1-dimensional personalities, let alone stereotyped 1-dimensional personalities.
God damn, I know I smoke too much but now the drugs are talking to me. And they're confused, I'm most definately asian.
And surely you can find something better to do with your time than post snide remarks. Oh wait, this is Slashdot, I'm sorry just forget I said anything. Would you like some hot cocoa, I'm sure your mom would love to see you, it's been how many weeks since you left the basement^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdungeon master's lair.
Shhhh, we, the citizens, are making good money building this stuff. Don't spoil it for those of us that earn our living by the products of war.
Sadly I think you're correct. The fact that Fred Phelps is still alive leads me to believe that Americans will tolerate anything as long as it's an old white guy doing it.
So what you're proposing is that the credit card companies and the government stop using SSN's as a form of national ID? Your ideas intrigue me, please sign me up for your newsletter.