Right, because there's a drug use exception to the First Amendment. No, this is a pretty egregious example of how out of touch with reality our Supreme Court is. If they can make up one bullshit exemption to the First Amendment, they can exempt anything they want.
Open source produces the best command line oriented applications. There are several open source screen readers available. There's even a Braille terminal. What more do you want?
When has Google followed anyone anywhere? Google drove down the street recording everything it could hear. This is perfectly legal for an individual to do, and it should be equally legal for a corporation to do.
If we're still talking about the wifi interception, it is absolutely not an accurate assessment to compare it to stalking/harassment.
Are you trying to suggest that FM Radio would be covered by current wiretapping law? I mean, it's a "conversation" carried out over FCC regulated airwaves, right? No, clearly wired telephones, cellular telephones, Wifi communications, and radio are all significantly different, and are treated such by law.
Let's look at USC CHAPTER 119 "Wire and Electronic Communications Interception and Interception of Oral Communications". Section 2155 2(g) reads in part:
(g) It shall not be unlawful under this chapter or chapter 121 of this title for any personâ" (i) to intercept or access an electronic communication made through an electronic communication system that is configured so that such electronic communication is readily accessible to the general public;
So, have you encrypted your router? No? Then your electronic communication system is configured so that your electronic communications are readily accessible to the general public. Therefore, you get no protection under federal wiretap law. QED
Ignoring for the moment your use of that absurd euphamism ("share"),
If they get to use the absurd dysphemism "piracy", I see no reason why I shouldn't use the euphemism "sharing". I'd be happy to just call it "copying".
As bad as it is when someone rips off all of their own entertainment, this is about people being in the business of ripping it off in order to have a "product" to attract ad dollats
And? So ESPN loses a little profit. How does that legislative and law enforcement priority over the issues I raised? Is the imminent collapse of ESPN going to plunge the country into a depression? Does it endanger dearly held Constitutional rights?
Whether or not rehosting streams should be a crime is something reasonable people can disagree on. But even the most ardent copyright hawk should be able to see that it is small potatoes compared to the issues I raised. I don't see how anyone could argue otherwise, except for corruption.
So nobody can ever be sued or arrested because nobody else has been sued or arrested for what they did?
That's a fair point. Obviously we need some way to get started. Lets prioritize by wealth, which is roughly equivalent to power. If you can point to someone wealthier than you who is doing the same thing and hasn't been prosecuted you're off the hook.
bankrupt yourself attempting to pursue action against every nationwide party you believe might be engaging in the same activity
If you can't enforce the law against everyone, the law is unenforceable and should be null for that reason alone.
Nobody has gone to jail for crashing the world economy. Nobody has gone to jail for authorizing or committing acts of torture. Nobody has gone to jail for placing unconstitutional wiretaps.
Yet we have room in our prisons for people who share files. It is more clear than ever that the US justice system exists to protect the powerful against the less powerful. There is no justice system, there is an exploitation system.
Yes, thank you! Games are not novels or movies, and they shouldn't be expected to be art in the same way. A game may have crappy plot and characterization, but a Jackson Pollock doesn't have either, and it's still art. Games are a different form of art from either the visual arts or narrative forms. As art, games are closer to dance or architecture or woodworking than movies or novels.
Before there were microcomputers, before there were consoles, there were mainframes where people played Trek and Zork. Hell the PLATO system had a 1st person dungeon crawler before the Atari VCS was even conceived.
I doubt Stallman cares about every little detail about things he uses but isn't that interested in. When he is cooking his tv dinner, he just wants a microwave that works.
Why wouldn't you want to reprogram your microwave? You could have a defrost program that uses constant power at first, but cuts back as you reach the end of the program. Or you could hack in a thermometer, and cook until a desired temperature. You could put in a delay timer, so you could put a piece of squash in in the morning and it would be ready for dinner when you got home. Or you could jack up the power and make bigger plasma balls.
It says more about you that you haven't thought of the possibilities of what you could do with the many various computers you have, if you could just replace their source code.
This is why loans really shouldn't be allowed to be resold. How can you boycott Bank of America when you have no choice as to whom your bank sells your loan to?
If you borrow money from Bank A, and they sell the loan to Bank B, that should not affect you at all. You had an agreement with Bank A, and only Bank A.
Ever since the crash, you've all these "experts" who have a tenuous grasp at best of fundamental finance or economics, and yet who are perfectly comfortable spewing forth rubbish on the topic.
And how exactly was that different from before the crash? Oh, right, your kooks are respectable....
I mean sure, this guy is a crank. There's no denying that. But Greenspan, Bernanke, Paulson & Geitner are no more grounded in reality than this guy.
No. 22/7 might have been useful back in the days before calculators, keeping everything in fractions until the very end of a calculation. These days everyone has a calculator handy to get pi calculated to whatever precision you need instantly. There's really no advantage to using 22/7.
There is a disadvantage to using 22/7 that's mainly pedagogical. Everyone is used to using decimal approximations of real numbers, we see them on scales, thermometers, and so on. It's intuitive to see 3.14 and understand that it's not exact. People are not so used to fractional approximations of real numbers. As such, people who have been taught 22/7 often think that it is exact. In fact, the teacher who taught me the 22/7 approximation believed that it was exact.
So I'd discourage use of 22/7. If a math teacher is having trouble with the concept, math students will have even more trouble with it. Approximating an irrational number with a ratio gives people incorrect ideas.
Why do you think they've been hitting terrorism so hard recently? Any movement that picks up a little steam in a direction they don't approve they can just tar with the terrorism brush.
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Why would you log onto PSN with a modded console?
Someone would just rip a good version and upload it.
Right, because there's a drug use exception to the First Amendment. No, this is a pretty egregious example of how out of touch with reality our Supreme Court is. If they can make up one bullshit exemption to the First Amendment, they can exempt anything they want.
Open source produces the best command line oriented applications. There are several open source screen readers available. There's even a Braille terminal. What more do you want?
When has Google followed anyone anywhere? Google drove down the street recording everything it could hear. This is perfectly legal for an individual to do, and it should be equally legal for a corporation to do.
If we're still talking about the wifi interception, it is absolutely not an accurate assessment to compare it to stalking/harassment.
Are you trying to suggest that FM Radio would be covered by current wiretapping law? I mean, it's a "conversation" carried out over FCC regulated airwaves, right? No, clearly wired telephones, cellular telephones, Wifi communications, and radio are all significantly different, and are treated such by law.
Let's look at USC CHAPTER 119 "Wire and Electronic Communications Interception and Interception of Oral Communications". Section 2155 2(g) reads in part:
So, have you encrypted your router? No? Then your electronic communication system is configured so that your electronic communications are readily accessible to the general public. Therefore, you get no protection under federal wiretap law. QED
P.S. Dur.
Exactly which wire did Google tap?
Ignoring for the moment your use of that absurd euphamism ("share"),
If they get to use the absurd dysphemism "piracy", I see no reason why I shouldn't use the euphemism "sharing". I'd be happy to just call it "copying".
As bad as it is when someone rips off all of their own entertainment, this is about people being in the business of ripping it off in order to have a "product" to attract ad dollats
And? So ESPN loses a little profit. How does that legislative and law enforcement priority over the issues I raised? Is the imminent collapse of ESPN going to plunge the country into a depression? Does it endanger dearly held Constitutional rights?
Whether or not rehosting streams should be a crime is something reasonable people can disagree on. But even the most ardent copyright hawk should be able to see that it is small potatoes compared to the issues I raised. I don't see how anyone could argue otherwise, except for corruption.
So nobody can ever be sued or arrested because nobody else has been sued or arrested for what they did?
That's a fair point. Obviously we need some way to get started. Lets prioritize by wealth, which is roughly equivalent to power. If you can point to someone wealthier than you who is doing the same thing and hasn't been prosecuted you're off the hook.
bankrupt yourself attempting to pursue action against every nationwide party you believe might be engaging in the same activity
If you can't enforce the law against everyone, the law is unenforceable and should be null for that reason alone.
It should be. Equal protection under the law and all that. Selective enforcement of laws is a major vector for corruption.
I think they're targeting people who rehost streams of sporting events. There was already a guy arrested for just such a site.
Madoff had nothing to do with the financial crisis.
Nobody has gone to jail for crashing the world economy.
Nobody has gone to jail for authorizing or committing acts of torture.
Nobody has gone to jail for placing unconstitutional wiretaps.
Yet we have room in our prisons for people who share files. It is more clear than ever that the US justice system exists to protect the powerful against the less powerful. There is no justice system, there is an exploitation system.
Yes, thank you! Games are not novels or movies, and they shouldn't be expected to be art in the same way. A game may have crappy plot and characterization, but a Jackson Pollock doesn't have either, and it's still art. Games are a different form of art from either the visual arts or narrative forms. As art, games are closer to dance or architecture or woodworking than movies or novels.
That's appropriate. Canned and bottled beer has always helped me get satisfying head.
Before there were microcomputers, before there were consoles, there were mainframes where people played Trek and Zork. Hell the PLATO system had a 1st person dungeon crawler before the Atari VCS was even conceived.
Prices of old NES, SNES, and Genesis games have been rising.
I doubt Stallman cares about every little detail about things he uses but isn't that interested in. When he is cooking his tv dinner, he just wants a microwave that works.
Why wouldn't you want to reprogram your microwave? You could have a defrost program that uses constant power at first, but cuts back as you reach the end of the program. Or you could hack in a thermometer, and cook until a desired temperature. You could put in a delay timer, so you could put a piece of squash in in the morning and it would be ready for dinner when you got home. Or you could jack up the power and make bigger plasma balls.
It says more about you that you haven't thought of the possibilities of what you could do with the many various computers you have, if you could just replace their source code.
These are two characteristics America is not known for.
This is why loans really shouldn't be allowed to be resold. How can you boycott Bank of America when you have no choice as to whom your bank sells your loan to?
If you borrow money from Bank A, and they sell the loan to Bank B, that should not affect you at all. You had an agreement with Bank A, and only Bank A.
Ever since the crash, you've all these "experts" who have a tenuous grasp at best of fundamental finance or economics, and yet who are perfectly comfortable spewing forth rubbish on the topic.
And how exactly was that different from before the crash? Oh, right, your kooks are respectable....
I mean sure, this guy is a crank. There's no denying that. But Greenspan, Bernanke, Paulson & Geitner are no more grounded in reality than this guy.
I can deal with the noise. Can't deal with the corruption.
No. 22/7 might have been useful back in the days before calculators, keeping everything in fractions until the very end of a calculation. These days everyone has a calculator handy to get pi calculated to whatever precision you need instantly. There's really no advantage to using 22/7.
There is a disadvantage to using 22/7 that's mainly pedagogical. Everyone is used to using decimal approximations of real numbers, we see them on scales, thermometers, and so on. It's intuitive to see 3.14 and understand that it's not exact. People are not so used to fractional approximations of real numbers. As such, people who have been taught 22/7 often think that it is exact. In fact, the teacher who taught me the 22/7 approximation believed that it was exact.
So I'd discourage use of 22/7. If a math teacher is having trouble with the concept, math students will have even more trouble with it. Approximating an irrational number with a ratio gives people incorrect ideas.
Why do you think they've been hitting terrorism so hard recently? Any movement that picks up a little steam in a direction they don't approve they can just tar with the terrorism brush.
That's what they taught us in school, yes. But these days you don't even have to be charged with a crime to be detained indefinitely.