You ain't seen nothing yet... Wait 'till these guys team up with the X10 people, there'll be more ads for flying cameras than you know what to do with!
So let me get this right... Intel wants to make it so if your computer passes information that you don't like, you not only have the right to block it (that I don't have an immediate problem with), but you also have the right to sue whoever sent it? I can see some interesting side effects of this:
If [Insert 3rd party service provider of your choice] could then sue (Not just block or censor, this is an important distinction) someone if that person is using said service to traffic in [Insert information which the 3rd party dislikes], since it qualifies as "trespass to chattels."
How about a specific example...
Microsoft could then sue someone if that person is using Hotmail to send or receive emails relating to open source.
Disclaimer: IANAL, and I hope I missed something... This scares me.
Dear Sir, Said equipment is subject to seizure under 19 USC 1595a(c)(2)(c) by US Customs. Please report you the nearest US Customs office immediatley. Thank you.
Robert C. Bonner Commissioner, United States Customs Service
"...a giant asteroid about 10 kilometres wide, travelling at 90,000 km/hour slammed into the Earth at the southern margin of North America. This was a case of global devastation rather than North American catastrophe. The asteroid devastated pretty much everything."
Either they forgot to give an appropriate chronological frame of reference, or I need to get out more...
We should have a file typing system that incorporates the creating company/software package into it
This is just one step away from, and would lead directly to, a proliferation of proprietary file formats. I prefer to be able to open a text file on any computer, with any program I want, rather than only being able to open a 'notepad' text file in notepad, and not editpad, vi, emacs, or whichever I happen to prefer...
This post has been moderated as funny. I can understand that, and when I first read this I laughed; however I'd like to point out that there are some people who think following this is actually a good idea. To those people, I'd just like to ask one thing:
Is this your idea of polite political discourse?
This does not seem reasonable. In their statement the IMC makes a good point that turning over the entire log(s) would expose more IP addresses than just the lawbreaker's. This could be seen as intimidating people from visiting their site just to read it.
It would seem we need something akin to the (Video Privacy Protection Act for internet traffic.
Unfortunatley in this case that would do no good. Following the link you provided, look under B-2-C (Sorry if that isn't the proper format for a reference) where it states:
(2) A video tape service provider may disclose personally identifiable information concerning any consumer -
(A) to the consumer;
(B) to any person with the informed, written consent of the
consumer given at the time the disclosure is sought;
(C) to a law enforcement agency pursuant to a warrant issued
under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, an equivalent
State warrant, a grand jury subpoena, or a court order;
B-3 does say the following, but it seems that it provides little extra protection:
(3) Court orders authorizing disclosure under subparagraph (C) shall issue only with prior notice to the consumer and only if the law enforcement agency shows that there is probable cause to believe that the records or other information sought are relevant to a legitimate law enforcement inquiry. In the case of a State government authority, such a court order shall not issue if prohibited by the law of such State. A court issuing an order pursuant to this section, on a motion made promptly by the video tape service provider, may quash or modify such order if the information or records requested are unreasonably voluminous in nature or if compliance with such order otherwise would cause an unreasonable burden on such provider.
It doesn't seem like a similar law for internet traffic would do much good, (At least in this case) unless all this information is "unreasonably voluminous in nature" or providing it is an "unreasonable burden" on the site.
Sounds like deleting logs is the way to go...
5. The following types of games are prohibited: first-person shooters, side-scrollers, any action game with "special attacks." Also prohibited are: simulations of 20th-century or current military vehicles, simulations of sports which are routinely broadcast live on television, real-time strategy games focussing solely on warfare and weapons production, lock-and-key adventure games, numbers-heavy role-playing games, and any card game found in Hoyle's Rules of Card Games.
Allowed: Virtual Badminton, Sim-Fungus, 52 Card Pickup, and "Pokemon Snap".
Consider the following statement: (Remember that the entire Dogma 2001 concept is the spawn of a similar film industry movement)
6. All cinematics, cut-scenes, and other non-interactive movies are forbidden. If a game requires any introductory or transitional material, it must be provided by scrolling text.
Justification: The secret desire of game designers to be film directors is deleterious to their games and to the industry generally. This desire must be stamped out.
Am I the only person who thinks this is somewhat hypocritical, or at least ironic?
On another note, I can see iD sofware reading this, and an announcement similar to this resulting:
In accordance with the Dogma 2001 theory of Game Development, the following now apply to our latest game in development, Doom III:
- In accordance with rule 8 (No Good/Evil) The Doom marine will be revealed to have several deep character flaws, and we will reveal the CyberDemon's lighter side.
- Rule 2 dictates that 3D acceleration will not be allowed. Upon hearing this John Carmack commented "Thank god! I was afraid I'd never have a chance to use that old Wolfenstein3D engine again! That OpenGL stuff wasn't going to port well anyway."
Sadly, upon hearing rule 7 ("There shall be no blood, explosions, or injury or death animations.") all of iD's art and creativity employees quit simultaneously.
...CD players which can store MP3's, not just play MP3's off of CDR's? Something with flash RAM for the MP3's, like a normal MP3 player, but that can also play CD's... Lots of people would probably buy something like that if it wasn't too overpriced. -Mockery
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You ain't seen nothing yet... Wait 'till these guys team up with the X10 people, there'll be more ads for flying cameras than you know what to do with!
Their base unit could be how long their server survived /.
So let me get this right... Intel wants to make it so if your computer passes information that you don't like, you not only have the right to block it (that I don't have an immediate problem with), but you also have the right to sue whoever sent it?
I can see some interesting side effects of this:
If [Insert 3rd party service provider of your choice] could then sue (Not just block or censor, this is an important distinction) someone if that person is using said service to traffic in [Insert information which the 3rd party dislikes], since it qualifies as "trespass to chattels."
How about a specific example...
Microsoft could then sue someone if that person is using Hotmail to send or receive emails relating to open source.
Disclaimer:
IANAL, and I hope I missed something... This scares me.
Uh oh, I can see it now...
Change this story's classification from 'Privacy' to 'Ask Slashdot'...
Polygraphs (so-called "lie detectors") have a failure rate of around 60%.
False means true and true means false, now your polygraph is 20% more accurate!
Is there any doubt in your mind that it's more than a coincidence that DMA and DMCA are different by only one letter?
...@Homelessness?
I know the joke's been made, but come on, it would have been so easy do add it to the title!
Either they forgot to give an appropriate chronological frame of reference, or I need to get out more...
Well, I'd assume that the term 'computer' is a bit of an overstatement, and that these individual "biomolecules" are more like individual transistors.
1000 might be a bit much, but I'd like to see you pull off a MOV or CMP with only one transistor, or even a single logic gate...
We should have a file typing system that incorporates the creating company/software package into it
This is just one step away from, and would lead directly to, a proliferation of proprietary file formats. I prefer to be able to open a text file on any computer, with any program I want, rather than only being able to open a 'notepad' text file in notepad, and not editpad, vi, emacs, or whichever I happen to prefer...
This post has been moderated as funny. I can understand that, and when I first read this I laughed; however I'd like to point out that there are some people who think following this is actually a good idea. To those people, I'd just like to ask one thing:
Is this your idea of polite political discourse?
...for fifteen minutes until the laptop battery dies.
For those not in-the-know, this list is (I assume) derived from the Evil Overlord List (An excellent page...)
...from the resistance-is-futile department.
It would seem we need something akin to the (Video Privacy Protection Act for internet traffic.
Unfortunatley in this case that would do no good. Following the link you provided, look under B-2-C (Sorry if that isn't the proper format for a reference) where it states:
B-3 does say the following, but it seems that it provides little extra protection:
It doesn't seem like a similar law for internet traffic would do much good, (At least in this case) unless all this information is "unreasonably voluminous in nature" or providing it is an "unreasonable burden" on the site.
Sounds like deleting logs is the way to go...
Allowed: Virtual Badminton, Sim-Fungus, 52 Card Pickup, and "Pokemon Snap".
Consider the following statement: (Remember that the entire Dogma 2001 concept is the spawn of a similar film industry movement) Am I the only person who thinks this is somewhat hypocritical, or at least ironic?
On another note, I can see iD sofware reading this, and an announcement similar to this resulting:
...CD players which can store MP3's, not just play MP3's off of CDR's? Something with flash RAM for the MP3's, like a normal MP3 player, but that can also play CD's... Lots of people would probably buy something like that if it wasn't too overpriced.
-Mockery