But free speech is not restricted on the internet as a whole (it might be in some small areas however).
If you want to call China a small area, okay. But remember that China is a large, influential country that does not have freedom of speech. Chinese people are not allowed to criticize their government, have mandatory internet censorship (the details of which are unknown to me), etc. Also, I remember reading somewhere that the UK was the dominant country in the 1800s, the US was dominant in the 1900s, and China is expected to be dominant in the 2000s.
The internet has free speech now, but don't take it for granted.
I can't provide direct links (damn frames), but if you want to be able to read the web pages mentioned in this story in English, go to Babelfish, select "Japanese to English," plug in the URL from the story, and click Translate. Granted, the translation isn't much better than AYBABTU, but it's a start.
* They will release binaries that harm your system integrity, by either sending MS information about your systems, opening up specific ports, or some other similar mechanism.
Hate to break it to you, but they already do this.
I mean, what if www.riaa.com started offering downloadable SDMI (or similarly encrypted) music files tomorrow provided that you could only listen to the stream, not save it or time-shift it or anything
Just wait about 24 hours, and someone will have reverse-engineered the protocol used to connect to the server, allowing them to create a player that supports "Save stream to..."
I thought that falling objects could not fall faster than terminal velocity(230 something mph) unless acted on by another force, besides gravity. The article says that he will be falling at 800-900 mph. So, whats really going on? Is this right or am I retarded?
IAAS. As you fall, the air molecules that you collide with provide an upward force that counteracts gravity. More specifically, you provide a downward force on the air molecules, and because of Newton's action-reaction law of physics, the air molecules provide a like force back on you. Faster fall rate = more air molecules = more force. The forces balance out at terminal velocity. Since there are less air molecules Way Up There, you'll have to travel faster to get enough air molecules to counteract gravity - hence the reason TV is higher at higher altitudes. 800-900 mph up there, 120 mph closer to the planet.
An Eastern European hacker group has spent the last year systematically exploiting known bugs in IIS to steal customer and credit card info. Read about it at the SANS security site.
Also, this new method only requires slight changes to current NTSC broadcast stations and HDTV receivers, and will not make current analog sets obsolete
If they can't find all such services, the media companies can consolidate and buy ISPs until they can just shut down any server they don't like (in progress).
Uh, it's not Napster that's "using pig latin," it's cohort of Napster's users. While Napster could legitimately be faulted for a weak-ass filtering system
The exact same thing was said about Napster users and swapping copyrighted material. And look who's in hot water...
They really want to take away your rights to use music you purchased legally.
What I don't understand is this: they charge extra for common types of blank media (audio cassettes, 'music' CDRs,...), and they are still now saying that it is illegal to copy music onto said media.
RIAA members: If you don't want to let consumers copy anything onto this media, then why the fsck are you charging them extra for the media because they might copy some of your music onto it?
But if an RIAA rep wanted to go in, gather evidence, and present it to the feds, that would probably constitute sufficient probable cause.
If the RIAA (a private entity, no matter how financially intertwined it is with the government) enters my house or my equipment without my authorization, that's called burglary.
For those of you breathing fast and hard about user rights after the purchase, what would you think if your TV/VCR/Cellphone/Dishwasher would die if you moved it out of an "authorized usage area?" Got a great boom box bargan on your last visit to Hong Kong, but now it won't work in Cleveland? Yuk!
Sounds a lot like region coding on DVDs. Take your DVD outside zone X, and it won't work any more. Just imagine what an uproar there would be if TVs/VCRs/Cellphones/etc. did this as well.
Officially, the school district condemns censorship. As the district decrees, students' constitutional freedoms include the right to free expression and free inquiry.
They support free expression and free inquiry right? So how much do you want to bet that they use censorware, send students to the office for as little as the word "damn," ban books from the library, etc.? (My old HS did all of these).
The only way would be for the government to make it ilegal not to have a tracking implant.
I'm reminded of part of the movie Virtuosity, where they let the guy out of prison only for him to find out that he had a tracking implant. "A little known fact about the implants prison inmates now receive upon release is that they contain a pinhead capsule of neurotoxin. The satellites they use to track you can also trigger the release of this neurotoxin with microwaves. Upon release, the implant's host dies...within 30 seconds." They almost ended up using the neurotoxin on him, even though he was set up.
There is no constitutional right to copyright. The constitution merely gives congress the ability to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". Personally, I'm not sure that the life of the author plus 70 years is a limited time.
Kind of a silly question, but how can an author retain the exclusive rights to his/her work 70 years after dying?
Caveat: I don't think it's right to enforce copyright laws AND impose a blank-media tax. That's screwing consumers, left, right, and center. You should only be screwed once:-)
This also shows hypocrisy on the part of the record companies. It's okay for them to take an arbitrary amount of money (read: steal) from us, but it's not okay for us to "steal" from them by downloading pirated MP3s? Please, one or the other, but not both.
Yes, someone will say that stupid laws get passed because corporation X bought senator Y. Think about this: corporations don't vote--people do. If the public actually gave a shit, they would take a peek at campaign finance records (which are generally publically available) and figure out who was on the take. The problem is voter apathy
This is true to some extent, but you're forgetting that this government is run by money. Corporations have tons of it, and individuals don't. Hence the reason certain laws are slanted towards corporate protection as opposed to individual protection. [I especially liked it when Clinton pardoned that billionaire financier...he bought that pardon, plain and simple. But not everybody has billions of dollars to throw around.]
and now the university informs students' parents of on-campus alcohol or disciplinary violations
This is illegal. Federal law prohibits the university from sharing just about any kind of record with the parents (except e.g. PLUS loan records, where the parent is the borrower) without the student's consent. IIRC, the applicable law is the FERPA - Family Educational Records Privacy Act or something close to that.
The company said the system could be produced commercially within two years, and each unit should cost no more than $50 initially, with the price likely to drop later
Will there be a RIAA/MPAA tax on it? 10.8 terabytes is a *lot* of space.
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There's no way microbes could survive in space - how would they live? They'd need air and food
Anaerobic microbes wouldn't.
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Last time I checked, if you didn't sign a contract, you can't be held liable for its contents. And non-competes are contracts.
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Dan Gillmor got an email from Yossi Vardi of AOL
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Don't you mean AOL-Time Warner? Sad, but true. Soon, it'll be AOL-Time Warner-Creative-CBS-ABC-Microsoft-IBM-Compaq-Dell
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But free speech is not restricted on the internet as a whole (it might be in some small areas however).
If you want to call China a small area, okay. But remember that China is a large, influential country that does not have freedom of speech. Chinese people are not allowed to criticize their government, have mandatory internet censorship (the details of which are unknown to me), etc. Also, I remember reading somewhere that the UK was the dominant country in the 1800s, the US was dominant in the 1900s, and China is expected to be dominant in the 2000s.
The internet has free speech now, but don't take it for granted.
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I can't provide direct links (damn frames), but if you want to be able to read the web pages mentioned in this story in English, go to Babelfish, select "Japanese to English," plug in the URL from the story, and click Translate. Granted, the translation isn't much better than AYBABTU, but it's a start.
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Naturally, tbe D.A. reports that the two spammers arrested "appeared convinced that what they were doing wasn't illegal."
And when Bubba gets to them in jail, he'll also be convinced that what he is doing to them isn't "illegal." *snicker*
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* They will release binaries that harm your system integrity, by either sending MS information about your systems, opening up specific ports, or some other similar mechanism.
Hate to break it to you, but they already do this.
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I mean, what if www.riaa.com started offering downloadable SDMI (or similarly encrypted) music files tomorrow provided that you could only listen to the stream, not save it or time-shift it or anything
Just wait about 24 hours, and someone will have reverse-engineered the protocol used to connect to the server, allowing them to create a player that supports "Save stream to..."
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I thought that falling objects could not fall faster than terminal velocity(230 something mph) unless acted on by another force, besides gravity. The article says that he will be falling at 800-900 mph. So, whats really going on? Is this right or am I retarded?
IAAS. As you fall, the air molecules that you collide with provide an upward force that counteracts gravity. More specifically, you provide a downward force on the air molecules, and because of Newton's action-reaction law of physics, the air molecules provide a like force back on you. Faster fall rate = more air molecules = more force. The forces balance out at terminal velocity. Since there are less air molecules Way Up There, you'll have to travel faster to get enough air molecules to counteract gravity - hence the reason TV is higher at higher altitudes. 800-900 mph up there, 120 mph closer to the planet.
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An Eastern European hacker group has spent the last year systematically exploiting known bugs in IIS to steal customer and credit card info. Read about it at the SANS security site.
Sans Security...heh, what an appropriate title
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Also, this new method only requires slight changes to current NTSC broadcast stations and HDTV receivers, and will not make current analog sets obsolete
Hence the reason the MPAA doesn't like it.
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If they can't find all such services, the media companies can consolidate and buy ISPs until they can just shut down any server they don't like (in progress).
Can you say AOL-Time Warner?
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Uh, it's not Napster that's "using pig latin," it's cohort of Napster's users. While Napster could legitimately be faulted for a weak-ass filtering system
The exact same thing was said about Napster users and swapping copyrighted material. And look who's in hot water...
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This place has Linux drivers for 3Dfx cards from the Banshee/Rush to the V5. Yes, it even has Voodoo2 drivers.
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They really want to take away your rights to use music you purchased legally.
...), and they are still now saying that it is illegal to copy music onto said media.
What I don't understand is this: they charge extra for common types of blank media (audio cassettes, 'music' CDRs,
RIAA members: If you don't want to let consumers copy anything onto this media, then why the fsck are you charging them extra for the media because they might copy some of your music onto it?
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Has he ever responded to his interview?
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But if an RIAA rep wanted to go in, gather evidence, and present it to the feds, that would probably constitute sufficient probable cause.
If the RIAA (a private entity, no matter how financially intertwined it is with the government) enters my house or my equipment without my authorization, that's called burglary.
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For those of you breathing fast and hard about user rights after the purchase, what would you think if your TV/VCR/Cellphone/Dishwasher would die if you moved it out of an "authorized usage area?" Got a great boom box bargan on your last visit to Hong Kong, but now it won't work in Cleveland? Yuk!
Sounds a lot like region coding on DVDs. Take your DVD outside zone X, and it won't work any more. Just imagine what an uproar there would be if TVs/VCRs/Cellphones/etc. did this as well.
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Officially, the school district condemns censorship. As the district decrees, students' constitutional freedoms include the right to free expression and free inquiry.
They support free expression and free inquiry right? So how much do you want to bet that they use censorware, send students to the office for as little as the word "damn," ban books from the library, etc.? (My old HS did all of these).
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The only way would be for the government to make it ilegal not to have a tracking implant.
I'm reminded of part of the movie Virtuosity, where they let the guy out of prison only for him to find out that he had a tracking implant. "A little known fact about the implants prison inmates now receive upon release is that they contain a pinhead capsule of neurotoxin. The satellites they use to track you can also trigger the release of this neurotoxin with microwaves. Upon release, the implant's host dies...within 30 seconds." They almost ended up using the neurotoxin on him, even though he was set up.
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There is no constitutional right to copyright. The constitution merely gives congress the ability to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". Personally, I'm not sure that the life of the author plus 70 years is a limited time.
Kind of a silly question, but how can an author retain the exclusive rights to his/her work 70 years after dying?
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Caveat: I don't think it's right to enforce copyright laws AND impose a blank-media tax. That's screwing consumers, left, right, and center. You should only be screwed once :-)
This also shows hypocrisy on the part of the record companies. It's okay for them to take an arbitrary amount of money (read: steal) from us, but it's not okay for us to "steal" from them by downloading pirated MP3s? Please, one or the other, but not both.
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Yes, someone will say that stupid laws get passed because corporation X bought senator Y. Think about this: corporations don't vote--people do. If the public actually gave a shit, they would take a peek at campaign finance records (which are generally publically available) and figure out who was on the take. The problem is voter apathy
This is true to some extent, but you're forgetting that this government is run by money. Corporations have tons of it, and individuals don't. Hence the reason certain laws are slanted towards corporate protection as opposed to individual protection. [I especially liked it when Clinton pardoned that billionaire financier...he bought that pardon, plain and simple. But not everybody has billions of dollars to throw around.]
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and now the university informs students' parents of on-campus alcohol or disciplinary violations
This is illegal. Federal law prohibits the university from sharing just about any kind of record with the parents (except e.g. PLUS loan records, where the parent is the borrower) without the student's consent. IIRC, the applicable law is the FERPA - Family Educational Records Privacy Act or something close to that.
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The company said the system could be produced commercially within two years, and each unit should cost no more than $50 initially, with the price likely to drop later
Will there be a RIAA/MPAA tax on it? 10.8 terabytes is a *lot* of space.
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