Although I'm going to sound like a moronic newsgroupie, me too. For the past month or so, I've been getting on the order of 10-15 calls a day (According to my caller-ID), and exactly zero messages on my machine. All of the calls are listed as unavailable. It's gotten to the point where I don't answer the phone when it's listed as unavailable, because I'm wasting my time. Sure enough, when the answering maching picks up, no one leaves a message. Side note: I had my answering machine message really short (Something like "Leave a message").. It confused the telemarketers because they never got on the line in time to hear the message and I got a lot of messages saying "Uhhh, hello? Hello? Is anyone there? " :)
This has happened already (The probe contaminating something if it's sent out of the solar system)... Didn't you see the original Star Trek movie?! V-GER will come, and then the only thing that can save us is a spaceship captain that can't act!
And of course, the obligatory: Wow, when are they gonna run Linux?!?! Let's get a whole bunch of them up there and form a huge Beowolf cluster!!! How do they communicate? BlueTooth 2001!
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In other words, they were breaking US laws in the US. If the US law in question is one about broadcasting, then explain how it's broadcasting? Because a number of people can access it at one time? Now, explain to me how it's broadcasting if the person receiving said programming is logging in to a site, certifying that they are from the country in question. I would think (and I am by no means a lawyer, nor have I looked at iCrave's site) that there would be all sorts of disclaimers on iCrave's site saying that it's illegal to login to the service if you're not from Canada blah blah blah. Assuming that's the case, wouldn't it be more the people from the US who login to the site (against policy, and possibly the law) that should be gone after, rather than iCrave? I can see parallels being drawn between the ISP arena, where the ISP's have a "We're only providers, we can't monitor the traffic flowing" policy. Yes I know it's more about the various entertainment industries keeping their money, and less about the law but still. As another side commment, can anyone living along the US/Canada border pick up TV or Radio from the other side? Wouldn't that be illegal too? Probably yes, I would think, but it's just not worth it enough to the industries to prosecute. Ah well, gotta love corpartism.
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Here's a link with an idea as to how this bill got put through.. Yes, it's the Register, but it makes some amount of sense.
Don't you love how they didn't bother to put an A HREF around the 2600 link at the bottom of the article? :)
Conspiracy? Sure, why not?
Although I'm going to sound like a moronic newsgroupie, me too.
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For the past month or so, I've been getting on the order of 10-15 calls a day (According to my caller-ID), and exactly zero messages on my machine. All of the calls are listed as unavailable. It's gotten to the point where I don't answer the phone when it's listed as unavailable, because I'm wasting my time. Sure enough, when the answering maching picks up, no one leaves a message.
Side note: I had my answering machine message really short (Something like "Leave a message").. It confused the telemarketers because they never got on the line in time to hear the message and I got a lot of messages saying "Uhhh, hello? Hello? Is anyone there? "
Maybe Sega should sue Microsoft, for trademark infringement?
That is, I assume they trademarked the "It's thinking" line off of their Dreamcast commercials...
This has happened already (The probe contaminating something if it's sent out of the solar system)...
Didn't you see the original Star Trek movie?!
V-GER will come, and then the only thing that can save us is a spaceship captain that can't act!
And of course, the obligatory: Wow, when are they gonna run Linux?!?! Let's get a whole bunch of them up there and form a huge Beowolf cluster!!! How do they communicate? BlueTooth 2001!
In other words, they were breaking US laws in the US. If the US law in question is one about broadcasting, then explain how it's broadcasting? Because a number of people can access it at one time? Now, explain to me how it's broadcasting if the person receiving said programming is logging in to a site, certifying that they are from the country in question. I would think (and I am by no means a lawyer, nor have I looked at iCrave's site) that there would be all sorts of disclaimers on iCrave's site saying that it's illegal to login to the service if you're not from Canada blah blah blah. Assuming that's the case, wouldn't it be more the people from the US who login to the site (against policy, and possibly the law) that should be gone after, rather than iCrave? I can see parallels being drawn between the ISP arena, where the ISP's have a "We're only providers, we can't monitor the traffic flowing" policy. Yes I know it's more about the various entertainment industries keeping their money, and less about the law but still. As another side commment, can anyone living along the US/Canada border pick up TV or Radio from the other side? Wouldn't that be illegal too? Probably yes, I would think, but it's just not worth it enough to the industries to prosecute. Ah well, gotta love corpartism.