True, but I suspect the way the right of ways are written that is in support of above ground functions (i.e. the Train). Of course, I have no idea how those contracts have been written, but I suspect the reason a suit is taking place is because the RRs have oversteped the bounds of what they were origionally allowed to do. Right of Ways are a huge pain in the ass to deal with which is why it makes sense for the Telcos to go to a RR. Only one "owner" to deal with, assuming that the RRs do, indeed, own the proper right of ways.
What would be nice to see are a few examples of the Right of Ways that are in question. Does anyone know if, due to the court cases, they've been posted anywhere?
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Qwest paid the railroad companies to lay down the fiber alongside the railways, meaning if the railroad companies agreed, the agreed because they had the rights to do so, meaning its their property, and whatever they want to do with it is fine.
Er, wrong. The reason that they're suing is that in these cases the RR did not actually own the land. They had leased the right of way from landowners. And the right of way only included surface right of way, not anything underground. Thus, the RRs were selling something they did not own or have the right to resell.
Then even still it's not the fiberco to hold accountable it's still the RR company(ies) fault.
Also not true. The telcos obviously didn't do their due diligence. Just because some con sells you the Golden Gate Bridge doesn't mean you own it.
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I know that there's no such thing as 100%, absolute privacy, and I recognize that privacy online does actually cost money. But I wonder how gung-ho folks like McNeely and his ilk (any captain of industry, esp. the IT industry) would be if someone was to collect and post all of Scott's personal information (legally collected from the web) in one location for all the world to see. Stuff like McNeely's SSN, address, income, wife's name, children, where those kids go to school, stuff he bought in the last year, etc. I what he'd be so gung ho about the loss of privacy then.
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This is typical Scientology "fair game" tactics used to intimidate critics. Twist and/or manufacture evidence, sue defendants into bankruptcy, etc. For anyone who reads Operation Clambake this is just par for the course. If you're a critic of Scientology you better have deep, deep pockets, good lawyers and a thick skin.
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Only morally and socially acceptable speech should be fully allowed to be spoken freely
...and there in lies the rub. Who decideds what's "morally and socially acceptable speech?" The great irony of your statement is that Hitler did exactly what you propose. He surpressed speech that didn't adhear to his vision of what was "moral and socially acceptable." This is EXACTLY the reason the first amendment is fought for tooth and nail here.
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I have always wondered about this provision. Legally, can it come back to bite someone in the butt. For example, say I have an encrypted file that the MPAA suspects is an RIAA member's copyrighted music. If they decrypt and find out it is, they have broken no law. If they decrypt and find its a recording that I made (and have own the copyright on) do I then have the right to sue for unlawful circumvention of my copy protection?
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1) Crime would greatly decrease. We can see this already in Britain with CCTV systems.
Most totalitarian states have low levels of "street crime." Places like Havana and Moscow were lauded for how safe they were to walk down at any time of the day or night. But basic freedom (which IMO includes a certain basic level of privacy) and totalitarianism do not mix. I'd rather be able to speak my mind and get mugged than the opposite any day.
Greater honesty in society. People would no longer be able to lie about their personal lives.
Who the hell cares what anyone does in thier personal lives (beyond gross illegality)? If my neighbor wants to portray himself as a bastion of wholesomeness to me yet dress up in a tutu and hook jumper cables up to his nipples behind closed doors more power to him.
Less hypocrisy. Nobody would expect our politicians, wives etc to be perfect. There would be better understanding of human nature.
Too funny. You obviously have NO idea about human nature. Look at most national politicians. Their lives are anything but public; their histories gone over with a fine tooth comb. Are you telling me because of that they're *LESS* hypicritical?
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To me that seems like a no (or at least hardly) win situation. If there is an easy install, be it Apache on XP or Apache on Linux, you can throw on the XBox then it becomes tempting to use XBoxen as servers. If enough people do this M$ loses $ since they'll get no follow on income from game licenses. If they raise the price of the hardware then they price themselves out of the game market.
The only way to not get thier bacon fried is either pray no-one notices what a nice little server the XBox would make (fat chance), somehow cripple the HW so it can't run as a server (internal timer that powers off every X hours or so) or provide a cheap server at a similar price point (a'la WinXP Blade install).
It'll be interesting to see how they deal with this.
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You're right. Apologies mis-stating it. What I meant to say was they broke some music packages (along with some CD-ROM burners). The Register had listed MusicMatch, WinAmp (I think) and Nero as some examples of software that were dead or flaky under XP. The article is here (although it seems to be a dead link right now... if you do a search for NTFS at the Reg it pops the headline for this article up... will see if I can find a cashed version on Google or something)
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The WSJ article also mentioned how WinXP happens to "break" existing encoders as well (IIRC it's the tweaks to NTFS that accomplished that) so there is *some* creedence to the "Microsoft is trying to squash MP3 with WinXP" angle.
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While statistics do not prove causality, within research they are helpful. I'm certainly not arguing whether a person should be allowed to look at porn, but to argue the point that it doesn't affect people in any way (more than something random), is also being blind to human nature.
And I was arguing otherwise where exactly? As I said above everything you "sense" has an effect on you, be it large or small.
Kind of along the same lines as what the media portrays on television - yeah, people might watch it, and people might like it, but being in a position of high visibility, you can also make the choice not to show it, and instead show something useful
Or, since they are companies with sharholders to whom they are obligated to make money for, they can show programming that attracts viewers so they can meet that obligation. Yes, I think that most TV is crap, but there's an easy solution to that. I don't watch crap TV. The few shows I do like I watch. TV stations are no more beholden to me than any other business. If they want my business then they'll cater to what I like. If I want 24 hours of wall to wall "usefull television" then I'd better start my own network. I have no more right to demand "useful" programming from a TV station/network than I have to demand that the deli next to my work starts making food that doesn't taste like cardboard, or make Cosmo publish pictures of only redheads. The flip side of that is no one should have the right to tell me to stop doing something that is not a threat to someone else's well-being or property, which includes things that one, a few, or many people don't like.
[insert arguments of how porn is useful]
How is music useful, or water fountains, or art? Usefullness is in the eye of the beholder.
I'm sure a religious zealot would argue that nothing but wall to wall, 24 hour religious programming would be "useful," show those heathens how to live a good life. Something so subjective shouldn't be a criteria for existance.
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First of all, statistics DO NOT prove casuality. Hence the water, bible, and porn analagy are all off base (which, I believe, is the point The Queen was trying to make).
Second, it can be argued that EVERY stimulus changes a person's perception of ANYTHING. The question is as long as I don't harm you or your property what right do you have to tell me what to "sense," be it porn, the bible, water, bad boy bands, televison, etc?
You may not *like* what I choose to do with my life, but (pardon my french) that's your fucking problem.
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Funny. I've seen pornographic videos, looked at a hustler or two, taken a gander at alt.binaries.erotica.*. I haven't killed/raped/maimed anyone. Hmm... maybe the major "fuel" for Bundy's bloodlust was because HE WAS A NUT CASE.
Nah, can't be. Personal responsibility is so "yesterday." Proof by anecdote, so it must be right. Let's just ignore that every study, from those under Nixon to those under Regan have shown NO connection between porn and violence.
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What would prevent people from creating their own media players that don't follow the CPRM standard, and play the data (video, audio, etc.) regardless of the media key.
The law, i.e. DMCA. Sure, they won't go after someone building something by themselves for their own use, but they will go after any Consumer Electronics firm who tires to come out with a mass produced, non compliant player (look what happened with the Rio and DAT).
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I thought "choice was good." I also believe that there is such a thing as "the right tool for the right job."
It would be suicide to simply say to a customer "Hey, I realize that you may have written some buisness apps (more than a few mission critical I'm sure) for those AIX and OS/390 boxen, but if you haven't heard we're all gung ho on Linux now. We've stopped supporting / maintaining / updating all of those other OS's because they're not '733T enough. Port all of your software to Linux, you 'lusers.'"
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... And there is hardly any violence in a totalitarian state (well, at the citizen level anyway). That is the price of freedom my friends. Live in a society where you have a lot of freedom and some people who will abuse it, or live in a country with no freedom to abuse. I choose the former.
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easiest consumer OS to use and is stable enough to do everyday work on.
I'll agree with the second half, but disagree with the first. It isn't the easiest consumer OS, its just easy enough. For the most part I agree though. M$ got 85% of where they are the good old fashioned way... providing something the market wanted at the correct price. It's the other 15% of the things they've done to protect that market it that sorta make me blanch.
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Slashdot Mirror
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s/Linux/Lisa McPherson Trust/
Maybe M$ is there to bone up on $cn's "fair game" methods of "doing business." Two organizations that deserve each other.
(but then again, maybe I'm just in a bad mood because I had to beat the crap out of M$SQL *and* watched Greg and Darhma this week... <shudder>).
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What would be nice to see are a few examples of the Right of Ways that are in question. Does anyone know if, due to the court cases, they've been posted anywhere?
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Er, wrong. The reason that they're suing is that in these cases the RR did not actually own the land. They had leased the right of way from landowners. And the right of way only included surface right of way, not anything underground. Thus, the RRs were selling something they did not own or have the right to resell.
Then even still it's not the fiberco to hold accountable it's still the RR company(ies) fault.
Also not true. The telcos obviously didn't do their due diligence. Just because some con sells you the Golden Gate Bridge doesn't mean you own it.
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2. Give your initiative a "cute" acronym: Hands Off Our Kids (HOOK)
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1) Crime would greatly decrease. We can see this already in Britain with CCTV systems.
Most totalitarian states have low levels of "street crime." Places like Havana and Moscow were lauded for how safe they were to walk down at any time of the day or night. But basic freedom (which IMO includes a certain basic level of privacy) and totalitarianism do not mix. I'd rather be able to speak my mind and get mugged than the opposite any day.
Greater honesty in society. People would no longer be able to lie about their personal lives.
Who the hell cares what anyone does in thier personal lives (beyond gross illegality)? If my neighbor wants to portray himself as a bastion of wholesomeness to me yet dress up in a tutu and hook jumper cables up to his nipples behind closed doors more power to him.
Less hypocrisy. Nobody would expect our politicians, wives etc to be perfect. There would be better understanding of human nature.
Too funny. You obviously have NO idea about human nature. Look at most national politicians. Their lives are anything but public; their histories gone over with a fine tooth comb. Are you telling me because of that they're *LESS* hypicritical?
Many Eyes Make All Crimes Shallow
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Doh... grammatically challenged today.
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The only way to not get thier bacon fried is either pray no-one notices what a nice little server the XBox would make (fat chance), somehow cripple the HW so it can't run as a server (internal timer that powers off every X hours or so) or provide a cheap server at a similar price point (a'la WinXP Blade install).
It'll be interesting to see how they deal with this.
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The WSJ article also mentioned how WinXP happens to "break" existing encoders as well (IIRC it's the tweaks to NTFS that accomplished that) so there is *some* creedence to the "Microsoft is trying to squash MP3 with WinXP" angle.
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And I was arguing otherwise where exactly? As I said above everything you "sense" has an effect on you, be it large or small.
Kind of along the same lines as what the media portrays on television - yeah, people might watch it, and people might like it, but being in a position of high visibility, you can also make the choice not to show it, and instead show something useful
Or, since they are companies with sharholders to whom they are obligated to make money for, they can show programming that attracts viewers so they can meet that obligation. Yes, I think that most TV is crap, but there's an easy solution to that. I don't watch crap TV. The few shows I do like I watch. TV stations are no more beholden to me than any other business. If they want my business then they'll cater to what I like. If I want 24 hours of wall to wall "usefull television" then I'd better start my own network. I have no more right to demand "useful" programming from a TV station/network than I have to demand that the deli next to my work starts making food that doesn't taste like cardboard, or make Cosmo publish pictures of only redheads. The flip side of that is no one should have the right to tell me to stop doing something that is not a threat to someone else's well-being or property, which includes things that one, a few, or many people don't like.
[insert arguments of how porn is useful]
How is music useful, or water fountains, or art? Usefullness is in the eye of the beholder. I'm sure a religious zealot would argue that nothing but wall to wall, 24 hour religious programming would be "useful," show those heathens how to live a good life. Something so subjective shouldn't be a criteria for existance.
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Second, it can be argued that EVERY stimulus changes a person's perception of ANYTHING. The question is as long as I don't harm you or your property what right do you have to tell me what to "sense," be it porn, the bible, water, bad boy bands, televison, etc?
You may not *like* what I choose to do with my life, but (pardon my french) that's your fucking problem.
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Nah, can't be. Personal responsibility is so "yesterday." Proof by anecdote, so it must be right. Let's just ignore that every study, from those under Nixon to those under Regan have shown NO connection between porn and violence.
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The law, i.e. DMCA. Sure, they won't go after someone building something by themselves for their own use, but they will go after any Consumer Electronics firm who tires to come out with a mass produced, non compliant player (look what happened with the Rio and DAT).
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It would be suicide to simply say to a customer "Hey, I realize that you may have written some buisness apps (more than a few mission critical I'm sure) for those AIX and OS/390 boxen, but if you haven't heard we're all gung ho on Linux now. We've stopped supporting / maintaining / updating all of those other OS's because they're not '733T enough. Port all of your software to Linux, you 'lusers.'"
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All of it, apparently.
Who peed in your Wheaties this morning?
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I'll agree with the second half, but disagree with the first. It isn't the easiest consumer OS, its just easy enough. For the most part I agree though. M$ got 85% of where they are the good old fashioned way... providing something the market wanted at the correct price. It's the other 15% of the things they've done to protect that market it that sorta make me blanch. The Bastard
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