I'm not a lawyer, french, a french lawyer, nor can I even speak french, but this law could mean a few different things:
All french citizens with web pages on french servers are required to id themselves
All french citizens with web pages on any web server are required to id themselves
Obviously the latter is a bit more restrictive. In any case, here's bablefish's translation:
The national assembly votes the identification a priori authors of Web sites under penalty of prison. Summary: The authors of Web sites must give their identity to their shelterer before any public communication under sorrow prison. In the absence of identification the shelterers are responsible for the contents and liable six months to prison. The national assembly voted yesterday March 22 a bearing amendment on the responsibility for the shelterers of Web sites. This vote intervenes after the vote of the senat on January 19 which prevoyait the obligation for the shelterers to communicate the identity of an author to any third interessé under penalty of six months of prison. All the Web sites for which the identity of the author is not known a priori are legally under the leading responsibility of the shelterer. To release me from this responsibility I should obtain the identity of each of the 48000 users of altern.org. Well on the ecommerce will be content, what could be better than a file customer which the law obliges you to constitute by leaving you any latitude to exploit it commercially. The objective of this law seems to be the installation of a phenomenon of self-censorship on the level of the shelterer who must proceed to ' diligences appropriées' following a setting of residence of a third. And on the level of the author who beyond the preliminary declaration under penalty of prison, does not have any insurance when with the marketing of his identity. This law goes against the European legislation, and to that of all the democratic countries. This vote is not definitif, a third and last reading must take place. But it will be a question of rounding the angles between the text of the senate and of the assembly thus one can fear still worse. Concerning the future of altern.org, as opposed to what I said yesterday before taking note of the exact text, I can continue to exert as long as I accept my new role of watchdog.
Supposedly the same exponential growth of the exponential growth (exponent**exponent) also applies to the power/cost of computing devices (although I don't have any data to support that). This is according to some MIT professor who wrote some book (of course I can't remember either -- if you're reading this and really interested, email me and I'll try and find the author/book).
Of course if it's true that either storage or CPU power is growing exponentially, and the groth is also growing exponentially, what happens when the groth is a straight vertical line? Infinate storage and CPU power? Do we hit a glass ceiling defined by such laws as the speed of light? Hummm...
Is there a Moore's law for harddrives space? Could we continue doubling space every 18 days! At that rate, by the end of the year, a harddrive could actually hold every bit of data ever produced!
If the RIAA had its way, we would all have digital meters hooked up to our ears at birth, so they could charge us every time we heard a song. And of course anyone tampering with the device would be subject to immediate prison.
They claim this will save 80%-90% hard drive space. I'm very skeptical of that, even if it is all they are claiming it is.
Skeptical? You know how many gigs of duplicate mp3s are on our company's main NT fileserver?/grin/
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Ah, good point.. What a world we live in.
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I couldn't agree more. In this day and age, proper social handshaking protocols are usually expected. I'd hope somebody would reply to my search tag with something like "Yeah, I know her. Give me your phone and such, and I'll forward it on to her." I'd actually be a little concerned if someone just gave me personal information on somebody without knowing me.
I used to work for a phone company's ISP department, and our usenet stats showed what everyone here could've already guessed... the top 135 groups that were accessed were "alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*".
IANAL (who is), but is fair use a right, or a priveledge? If it's a right, then is there a case against the MPAA and the use of CSS. I know there's multiple mentions of the "fair use doctrine" in the ruling, but like I said, I'm not a lawyer, and can't really understand it.
What do you think QT & GTK are missing to be a true replacement for Motif?
QT and GTK are missing a high price tag. I'm serious. There are plenty of people and companies out there that just don't trust something that's cheap or free. I ran into the 'you-get-what-you-pay-for' argument so many times when trying to introduce various opensourced technologies to places I've worked for.
Rep. Jean McGrath: "Oops, I left our a few regulations:"
Telephones are to be used for official reasons, and filters will be put into place that only allow phone calls to immediate family and school officials. Pager, beepers, and cell phones will be confiscated.
Postal Mail will also be limited to official use. All other mail will be opened, read, cataloged, then destroyed.
Socialization between students will only be allowed in authorized places, during authorized times, and only for official school business.
To prevent unhealthy diets, only approved food will be made available in cafeterias. Anyone caught smuggling food on to campus will be subject to displinary action
Weekend passes will be given to students to leave campus; however, students will only be allowed to visit campus approved establishments, where campus police will be stationed to make sure order is kept
Any person (student or not) who attempts to circumventing any of the above laws will be subject to a special statute that allows any disciplinary action deemed necessary by the school officials, not limited to fines, jail, forced labor camps, or death.
"...And get used to it, because once we get these laws passed, we're one step away from doing this to everyone in the country!"
Does anyone besides me think it's really strange when business news gets announced on weekends, especially sunday? Somehow I can't picture executives working on the weekend...
Ya callin me a liar?:) Check out the official area code list, by the NANPA (the people who actually assign the area codes). It's probably just a new AC.
Under Canadian law, any company is allowed to retransmit public television signals, as long as it is a live stream and the signal is not changed in any way. iCraveTV fulfills both of these conditions, transmitting commercials and programs without cutting or adding any new content.
To view the programming, you have to be a Canadian resident. Of course you can lie.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Canadian./grin/
I'm definately not an expert in how DVD works, but... I imagine that from time to time, the player can't read a bit (either from a smudge or a flake of dust or something). There must be some data error check (like a CRC or something) that tells the player to retry that area of the disk again. Of course when it tries to reread that area, it's been blown away already.
This may not be critical during actual playback -- (again, total speculation) the DVD player may just skip over errors while the viewer copes with the decoding glitch. But what if this happens while it reads the menu code?
And another thing. If I pop in a DVD and navigate through the usual 'special section' (deleted scenes, cast/crew commentary whatever), I can only do that once. But when I go back to the main menu, I image the DVD player will attempt to reread it from the disk (boom).
Actually, IIRC, it was actually a woman who was doing this.
That's sort-of like the scam that occurred in a mall (in Connecticut I believe), where some guys rolled in a fake ATM machine. You would swipe your card, enter your pin, and it would say "Sorry, out of order. Please try somewhere else." Talk about a need for server authentication!
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- All french citizens with web pages on french servers are required to id themselves
- All french citizens with web pages on any web server are required to id themselves
Obviously the latter is a bit more restrictive. In any case, here's bablefish's translation:They can finally figure out who Anonymous Coward is...
Supposedly the same exponential growth of the exponential growth (exponent**exponent) also applies to the power/cost of computing devices (although I don't have any data to support that). This is according to some MIT professor who wrote some book (of course I can't remember either -- if you're reading this and really interested, email me and I'll try and find the author/book).
Of course if it's true that either storage or CPU power is growing exponentially, and the groth is also growing exponentially, what happens when the groth is a straight vertical line? Infinate storage and CPU power? Do we hit a glass ceiling defined by such laws as the speed of light? Hummm...
Is there a Moore's law for harddrives space? Could we continue doubling space every 18 days! At that rate, by the end of the year, a harddrive could actually hold every bit of data ever produced!
Ah, good point.. What a world we live in.
I couldn't agree more. In this day and age, proper social handshaking protocols are usually expected. I'd hope somebody would reply to my search tag with something like "Yeah, I know her. Give me your phone and such, and I'll forward it on to her." I'd actually be a little concerned if someone just gave me personal information on somebody without knowing me.
There's a much better desktop and OS than this Eazel/Nautilus thing, one that my mother could definately use. Screenshot
I used to work for a phone company's ISP department, and our usenet stats showed what everyone here could've already guessed... the top 135 groups that were accessed were "alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*".
IANAL (who is), but is fair use a right, or a priveledge? If it's a right, then is there a case against the MPAA and the use of CSS. I know there's multiple mentions of the "fair use doctrine" in the ruling, but like I said, I'm not a lawyer, and can't really understand it.
what does prosecuting him do for these people?
It sets an example (as in "See, this will happen to you if you do something wrong"). It's very similar to the Kevin Mitnivk story.
- Telephones are to be used for official reasons, and filters will be put into place that only allow phone calls to immediate family and school officials. Pager, beepers, and cell phones will be confiscated.
- Postal Mail will also be limited to official use. All other mail will be opened, read, cataloged, then destroyed.
- Socialization between students will only be allowed in authorized places, during authorized times, and only for official school business.
- To prevent unhealthy diets, only approved food will be made available in cafeterias. Anyone caught smuggling food on to campus will be subject to displinary action
- Weekend passes will be given to students to leave campus; however, students will only be allowed to visit campus approved establishments, where campus police will be stationed to make sure order is kept
- Any person (student or not) who attempts to circumventing any of the above laws will be subject to a special statute that allows any disciplinary action deemed necessary by the school officials, not limited to fines, jail, forced labor camps, or death.
"...And get used to it, because once we get these laws passed, we're one step away from doing this to everyone in the country!"Does anyone besides me think it's really strange when business news gets announced on weekends, especially sunday? Somehow I can't picture executives working on the weekend...
I though Toronto was in Ontario. Oh, what do I know -- none of us Americans were ever taught anything about geography. :)
Ya callin me a liar? :) Check out the official area code list, by the NANPA (the people who actually assign the area codes). It's probably just a new AC.
Billions of dollars of Internet infrastructure, and I'm using it to watch Oprah in a 1-by-1 inch window on my screen.
Under Canadian law, any company is allowed to retransmit public television signals, as long as it is a live stream and the signal is not changed in any way. iCraveTV fulfills both of these conditions, transmitting commercials and programs without cutting or adding any new content.
To view the programming, you have to be a Canadian resident. Of course you can lie.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Canadian.
"Can't we all just get along!"
You need a Canadian area code to watch the streams. You can use 647, which Toronto, Ontario.
:)
Wouldn't it be funny if I got slapped with a restraining order (ala the DVD CCA fiasco) for the above text!
I'm definately not an expert in how DVD works, but... I imagine that from time to time, the player can't read a bit (either from a smudge or a flake of dust or something). There must be some data error check (like a CRC or something) that tells the player to retry that area of the disk again. Of course when it tries to reread that area, it's been blown away already.
This may not be critical during actual playback -- (again, total speculation) the DVD player may just skip over errors while the viewer copes with the decoding glitch. But what if this happens while it reads the menu code?
And another thing. If I pop in a DVD and navigate through the usual 'special section' (deleted scenes, cast/crew commentary whatever), I can only do that once. But when I go back to the main menu, I image the DVD player will attempt to reread it from the disk (boom).
Actually, IIRC, it was actually a woman who was doing this.
That's sort-of like the scam that occurred in a mall (in Connecticut I believe), where some guys rolled in a fake ATM machine. You would swipe your card, enter your pin, and it would say "Sorry, out of order. Please try somewhere else." Talk about a need for server authentication!