Furthermore, isn't the DMCA supposed to punish and prevent people from circumventing copyright protection? Are they arguing that the dumpster constitutes a copyright protection mechanism?
Another problem is that corporate officers and employees are shielded from civil action brought against a company because of the way corporations are set up. Thus the officers directing the company in a lawsuit against an individual in many ways have less to lose personally than an equally funded individual does in directing or defending a similar lawsuit.
So I wonder if the answer is for everyone to form some kind of small corporation, and do a minimal amount of business as such to keep the corp legit (i.e.: mow the lawn for your neighbors). Then conduct all your actions as the corporation so that if your corporation is sued, they can't get anything.
I'm not at all knowledgeable in corporate law, so I don't know if this would even work..
the users are more interested in purchasing things.
Agreed. Up until this year, i've owned about a dozen PCs, none of which I ever paid a dime for. Most were loaners from work, the rest trades or hand-me-downs from friends. Then a few months ago, after 10 years of obsessive computer use as a hobbie and full time job, I finally bought my first hardware: a Mac desktop and a laptop.
Personally my listening tastes are based on much more than what type, genre, or style of music. Most songs that make it onto my playlists are because a close friend recommends it, and that song will always (for better or worse) bring out memories of that person.
*That* would be imposibile to substitute with a learning machine.
I also think for a lot of people, they like a song because it's already familiar (they've subconsiously heard it in a store or a few dozen TV ads), and suddenly hit that point where they like that song and actively persue it. Unless the machine learning system were somehow able to track everything the person heard, It couldn't substite this either.
(1) A person shall not assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise an unlawful telecommunications access device or assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise a telecommunications device intending to use those devices or to allow the devices to be used to do any of the following or knowing or having reason to know that the devices are intended to be used to do any of the following:
Umm, doesn't this apply to the company manufacturing NAT and similar devices, rather than common citizens? If that's the case, Michigan would need to drag Linksys, Cisco, CompUSA, Circuit City, and about 10,000 other manufacturers and distributors into court.
I'm a musician. Sure my music hasn't been sold by major labels, but aren't I still entitled to some of the cash from this (as well as the Canadian and US recordable media levys)?
The only way this could ever possibly effect me is if they handed out RFID readers to women. I really don't want them knowing I buy my clothes at discount stores!
And life just gets more and more like TV: Now, I have to consider whether my family/friends/coworkers are "gettin' paid" before I take them up on that recommendation to see "Master Of Disguise II".
Maybe it's a good thing to question everyone's motives in everything they say to you, regardless them being an advertiser, a teacher, a government, a religeous leader, a web log. Asking "why are they telling me this."
~12 bucks for the music, and you have to provide the bandwith, physical media, and case. oh, and no liner notes.
Downloading 12 songs: that's 12 tracks of handpicked songs
Buying a CD with 12 songs: say, 3 really good songs, 4 so-so songs, and 5 really stinky crappy songs.
I think physical media will be around even if the apple or other digital model becomes popular enough. It will still be around for collectors, serious fans, and people that don't have a computer. The rest of us that just want some decent music without having to buy it by the album (and paying extra for songs we don't really want), digital is the way to go.
Hell, here's a forumla:
I make $60/hour (for arguments sake to make the math easy) Time it takes for me to find a song online that's downloadable: 5 minutes avg That works out to $5/song
I'd gladly pay $1/song *if* it came in plain old mp3 format that will work in my car mp3 player, my portable, my girlfriend's computer, etc.
could switch to our exim-based solution if we really feared to be hacked
Oh, yeah. I run a small ISP that does about 1.6 million messages / day. Other siblings of my department do 10 times that. If I tried implementing a safer stand-by system, I would be laughed right out of a job. Not to mention the safer backup systems for everything else -- web serving, news, authentication, online tools, etc..
That's it. I'm guitting the profession as soon as I can find something that pays just enough.
This is the beginning of the end. It's not hard to imagine an "Office of System Software Security Review" or some other government group of 'experts' that mandates all software go through their security analysis. I'm sorry. I have enough trouble explaining my code and system architecture to corporate 'security experts' (the types that don't understand TLS/SSL or SSH, and insist that we use tcp_wrappers enabled tftp since it doesn't use plain-text passwords going over the network!).
So the big question is, what do I do with my life now? Maybe open a Subway sandwich shop. Any other suggestions?
Here's an idea that I'd really love to see implemented. Imagine if somebody were to come up with a grammar that worked on top of an open instant messaging protocol (jabber?) that encapsulated features useful for developers within an IDE?
No doubt there's an "IM-My-Coworkers.el" thingie out there for emacs that does exactly this (and probably washes your car, emails your boss for a raise, and does your taxes while you're at it).
In my 15 years of professional software engineering, I might've read one or two computer books, while the other few hundred were used strictly for reference.
Since safari, I haven't bought a single paper-book. As a matter of fact, I gave most of my books away to my staff. Safari is the first link on my browser's toolbar, and have almost 20 books in my bookshelf, all for reference. There's the added bonus that the books are searchable, which dead tree technology lacks.
Another advantage is you have access to you books anywhere. I program at the office, at home, on the road, and even from coffee shops sometimes. Shlepping books to and from is not an option.
My only complaint is the site is a bit slow, but understandable considering the complexity of the site. With any luck this will improve someday.
Slashdot Mirror
Furthermore, isn't the DMCA supposed to punish and prevent people from circumventing copyright protection? Are they arguing that the dumpster constitutes a copyright protection mechanism?
Another problem is that corporate officers and employees are shielded from civil action brought against a company because of the way corporations are set up. Thus the officers directing the company in a lawsuit against an individual in many ways have less to lose personally than an equally funded individual does in directing or defending a similar lawsuit.
So I wonder if the answer is for everyone to form some kind of small corporation, and do a minimal amount of business as such to keep the corp legit (i.e.: mow the lawn for your neighbors). Then conduct all your actions as the corporation so that if your corporation is sued, they can't get anything.
I'm not at all knowledgeable in corporate law, so I don't know if this would even work..
the users are more interested in purchasing things.
Agreed. Up until this year, i've owned about a dozen PCs, none of which I ever paid a dime for. Most were loaners from work, the rest trades or hand-me-downs from friends. Then a few months ago, after 10 years of obsessive computer use as a hobbie and full time job, I finally bought my first hardware: a Mac desktop and a laptop.
This would be the "Dismay" stage.
Don't you mean "Disney" stage?
What about Indie Artists? How can I get my music up there?
Personally my listening tastes are based on much more than what type, genre, or style of music. Most songs that make it onto my playlists are because a close friend recommends it, and that song will always (for better or worse) bring out memories of that person.
*That* would be imposibile to substitute with a learning machine.
I also think for a lot of people, they like a song because it's already familiar (they've subconsiously heard it in a store or a few dozen TV ads), and suddenly hit that point where they like that song and actively persue it. Unless the machine learning system were somehow able to track everything the person heard, It couldn't substite this either.
Ok, so you pop an Xemacs frame up on my x server. What prevents me from doing 'esc-! cat ~/.ssh/*', or something more nefarious?
I wish I had a nickle every time someone said "emacs can do that."
I wonder how an evil bit would affect the pigeon.
1. Steal underpants ...
2.
3. Profit
4. Get busted under the PATRIOT act.
Good thing. Those underpants gnomes were ruining democracy.
possess
holy shit, I did miss that.
...despite the highly inflammatory and misleading article.
:)
Highly inflamitory and Misleading? On Slashdot? That's heresy!
Hey, at least they learn from mass media news outlets: scare the crap out of people to keep their attention.
(1) A person shall not assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise an unlawful telecommunications access device or assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise a telecommunications device intending to use those devices or to allow the devices to be used to do any of the following or knowing or having reason to know that the devices are intended to be used to do any of the following:
Umm, doesn't this apply to the company manufacturing NAT and similar devices, rather than common citizens? If that's the case, Michigan would need to drag Linksys, Cisco, CompUSA, Circuit City, and about 10,000 other manufacturers and distributors into court.
I'm a musician. Sure my music hasn't been sold by major labels, but aren't I still entitled to some of the cash from this (as well as the Canadian and US recordable media levys)?
The only way this could ever possibly effect me is if they handed out RFID readers to women. I really don't want them knowing I buy my clothes at discount stores!
Now that too has gone and XML is the big thing? Whatever next?
wireless.
And life just gets more and more like TV: Now, I have to consider whether my family/friends/coworkers are "gettin' paid" before I take them up on that recommendation to see "Master Of Disguise II".
Maybe it's a good thing to question everyone's motives in everything they say to you, regardless them being an advertiser, a teacher, a government, a religeous leader, a web log. Asking "why are they telling me this."
Why am I telling you this?
Rockefeller, Ford, Getty. I've even got one of Howard Hughes :)
Downloading 12 songs: that's 12 tracks of handpicked songs
Buying a CD with 12 songs: say, 3 really good songs, 4 so-so songs, and 5 really stinky crappy songs.
I think physical media will be around even if the apple or other digital model becomes popular enough. It will still be around for collectors, serious fans, and people that don't have a computer. The rest of us that just want some decent music without having to buy it by the album (and paying extra for songs we don't really want), digital is the way to go.
Hell, here's a forumla:
I make $60/hour (for arguments sake to make the math easy)
Time it takes for me to find a song online that's downloadable: 5 minutes avg
That works out to $5/song
I'd gladly pay $1/song *if* it came in plain old mp3 format that will work in my car mp3 player, my portable, my girlfriend's computer, etc.
Billionaire Industrialist (*Very late 1800s retro, too!)
How did you know I had a naked poster of Andrew Carneggie on my bedroom wall?
could switch to our exim-based solution if we really feared to be hacked
Oh, yeah. I run a small ISP that does about 1.6 million messages / day. Other siblings of my department do 10 times that. If I tried implementing a safer stand-by system, I would be laughed right out of a job. Not to mention the safer backup systems for everything else -- web serving, news, authentication, online tools, etc..
That's it. I'm guitting the profession as soon as I can find something that pays just enough.
This is the beginning of the end. It's not hard to imagine an "Office of System Software Security Review" or some other government group of 'experts' that mandates all software go through their security analysis. I'm sorry. I have enough trouble explaining my code and system architecture to corporate 'security experts' (the types that don't understand TLS/SSL or SSH, and insist that we use tcp_wrappers enabled tftp since it doesn't use plain-text passwords going over the network!).
So the big question is, what do I do with my life now? Maybe open a Subway sandwich shop. Any other suggestions?
Here's an idea that I'd really love to see implemented. Imagine if somebody were to come up with a grammar that worked on top of an open instant messaging protocol (jabber?) that encapsulated features useful for developers within an IDE?
No doubt there's an "IM-My-Coworkers.el" thingie out there for emacs that does exactly this (and probably washes your car, emails your boss for a raise, and does your taxes while you're at it).
Let me clue you in: Carrying a load of books into the local starbucks isn't going to make you look any nerdier than you already do.
No, but carrying in a sexy Mac laptop attracts all kind of hot artsy girls.
In my 15 years of professional software engineering, I might've read one or two computer books, while the other few hundred were used strictly for reference.
Since safari, I haven't bought a single paper-book. As a matter of fact, I gave most of my books away to my staff. Safari is the first link on my browser's toolbar, and have almost 20 books in my bookshelf, all for reference. There's the added bonus that the books are searchable, which dead tree technology lacks.
Another advantage is you have access to you books anywhere. I program at the office, at home, on the road, and even from coffee shops sometimes. Shlepping books to and from is not an option.
My only complaint is the site is a bit slow, but understandable considering the complexity of the site. With any luck this will improve someday.
Unless I missed it, nobody pointed out the irony of the DoJ protecting the very company it has been 'going after' for years.