European Copyright law has traditionally viewed copyright as an extension of natural law. In particular, rather than the utilitarian tradition of anglo-saxon copyright, continental systems have viewed it as an extension of the moral rights of authorship.
In that sense, it's more difficult to argue for principles such as fair use or mandatory licensing, attributes easily explained and rationalized within the anglo-saxon worldview.
Of course, international treaties are essentially hybridizing all of this law. From what I've seen, though, moral rights are more likely to be imported into our regime than fair use into "theirs." For instance, the Berne convention has a mandatory provision for a subset of author's moral rights, but only permissive grants of authority for national governments to establish fair use type rights, if they so choose.
Finding 2 things that give the same hash is not such a big deal. Having a search algo that lets you find that second thing (given the first) in substantially less computational time / complexity than previously thought possible is a huge deal. Given that MD5 can hash more than 2^32 objects, the first is inherent. It's that second trait, and recently discovered algo, that's the real kicker.
I feel that this is the main issue, actually. Most people coming in to University to study CS already have a huge amount of background. Can you imagine most people going into Archaeology who read heiroglyphics for the last 8 years?
My CS department seemed stuck. They couldn't afford to ignore the fact that the majority of their best students had a large amount of experience. They did, however, ignore those who came into their first computer class without (shocking!) knowing how to use a UNIX shell or make.
And here's the rub, I saw people come in all the time who were at least a little interested in CS. They came into classes a little interested just like they would go into a beginning English, PoliSci, &tc course. In CS, that just doesn't fly. You can't really compete, for a long time, against people in class who have been programming or otherwise doing things with computers for 6-8 years.
I don't think this explains all of the variation between male and female CS degrees, but I think it might explain quite a bit. At my school, many women who didn't like the CS concentration seemed to jump over to a concentration in Mathematics with Specialization in CS. And in math, there were plenty of women.
Actually, the whole point is that Bono actually said "f'ing" (as in eff-ing) instead of saying "fucking" in an attempt to get past the FCC's hissyfits over the word fuck.
Now, the FCC is saying that things like f'ing, s'ing, and calling someone a piece of s. will be actionable, if they are offensive.
As a computer science student graduating college and hoping to head to law school, I wonder if you have any particular advice about wha training, if any, will help to prepare me for "cyber-law". Many schools seem to have programs focusing on this aspect of the law, but I've often thought that the generalist approach to a field yielded better results.
Are there any experiences you'd advise a young prospective attorney interested in this field to seek out?
This misses the point though. Sure, SCO can send out emails to all of their customers and grant them the rights to use SCO-tainted linux code, assuming such code exists. When they do that though, and persecute others, they cease to be able to distribute other developers code contributed to the kernel.
If they claim linux infringes on their IP, and that they must grant licenses for use to be valid, then they'll have to license *other* developers code to distribute it at all.
Well, so far as I can tell, the complexity of the Gentoo system is well-bounded, with nice python scripts not all that much more complicated than your average shell script (Assuming you're able to program, of course.
And I can't really imagine what you're talking about with "You need to emerge rsync quite a few times during a new install to ensure you are using the latest version of portage." Granted, installation has quite a few steps (For the most customized, only) but I don't remember ever having to 'emerge rsync quite a few times' in any of my multiple gentoo installations.
As far as the complication of day to day use, I can specify standard mirrors for my gentoo system to use too. In fact, using mirrorselect, I can do it automatically to pick good mirrors for me. Then again, I don't even see how 'make install clean' is so much simpler than 'emerge foo'.
Frankly, I'd rather wrangle python scripts than shell scripts anyday. I find the idea that shell scripts eschew complexity kind of off. Gentoo has been able to grow technically so well, I think, in part of the advantages of a full and elegant language (Python) of implementation, rather than a hodgepodge of shell scripts.
Just my two cents as a Gentoo user saving up to be a Gentoo OSX user.
I'm fresh from reading about Evas and the upcoming E17 window manager, so I've thinking about how newer hardware changes the assumptions about how a GUI should behave. How has the emergence of new capabilities changed the way you think about the architecture design and the interface design? Do the new capabilities lead you into simply adding sugar or into truly adding capability to the interface?
There are projects like 3dwm and E17 for X Windows, but I suspect these are so new because having decent and common 3d hardware support in XFree86 is in itself new.
So what are your plans for AtheOS in this area?
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At the University of Chicago, we have a yearly event called ScavHunt, a huge competition that is part scavanger hunt for the obscure and ridiculous and part geeky Junk Yard Wars. Anyway, a couple of years ago an item on the list was a functional breeder reactor. Supposedly such an item was constructed and did function, using an Americium source and Thorium from a lantern mantle. I guess it was safer though, as I don't think the EPA or NRC was onsite for cleanup.
Oh, and Team Snell-Hitchcock won the competition again this year. We even made a SCSI controlled vibrator;)
You know, I seem to recall my father recording his favorite shows on a VCR whenever my mother wanted to watch something else.
They also seemed to record stuff for me (when I was little) while they were watching... Its a shame TIVO didn't exist in the 80's. But, I wonder if my parents have patent on recording while watching?
What I found so horrifing about this situation was the response of the people responsible for the NYC catastrophe. It would seem that those in power were far more concerned with the politics of their job to even think about worrying about the children and subordinates that the test was slowly crushing. Perhaps the most brazen of this behavior was the administrators decision not to speak out about his concern because of the fear he had about his reputation.
If we are ever to have upstanding and capable students who know not only logical though but also ethical beliefs about participation in society it is precisely this sort of leadership that we can do without. I'm very sorry that the tragedy of these tests hurt so many children and some many competant superintendants, but was this really one of them?
The magic of a game is believing in it, so we'd better make it a convincing and stressful experience for them. Maybe some LSD before the sesssion to make them abit more impressionable ?
And why not have some random character flipping so the people in power could experience some of the reality of a columbian citizen or inner-city school teacher? I'm sure that would be enlightening for all concerned.
I'm not going to respond to the bulk of this article, but you could go down the street right now and buy a prepaid phone card, and they wouldn't have a clue who you are. Or you can get prepaid home phone service without an ID. So its possible to be a more or less anonymous member of the common carrier world. Of course, everything leaves cookie crumbs.
The thing I'm saying, if 1 million moms can get together to protest for gun control, can't we get our own march to the capital? Seems like we have a great organization place on slashdot, and gee...maybe some of you successful geeks would use some stock options to fund us....
It seems to me that the nature of these corporate entities seems to fall very well in line with the tradional Marxist line. Once again we see a very typical conflict between the means of production and labor. While means of production are far more equally distributed than they were in the early industrial age of Marx, the people who control the means do so far more powerfully and skillfully. Certainly, the theories of value that Marx supported have no bearing on today's world, but the confict now betweem the consumer who is simply a object of consumption and the buisness man simply out to make a profit seems eerily described. Also, while Marxist theory is often attacked because it holds economics to be the driving force in history, this seems to be more the case than ever. Why did the Pinkerton's get into the pre-teen spy business? It wasn't for a moral, social, or political motivation. It was simply economics. How often does this happen now? When Ben and Jerry's sells out to a conglomerate we have a very depressing situation. This is off my own topic, but had everyone seen the RoboCop movies? Forget the cheap looking special effects and acting, and look at the society that they show. OCP is the coming plague. It buys the city, dehumanizes Murphy and places shareholding on par with democracy...It is well worth a look for a much earlier version of what Katz has drescribed.
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European Copyright law has traditionally viewed copyright as an extension of natural law. In particular, rather than the utilitarian tradition of anglo-saxon copyright, continental systems have viewed it as an extension of the moral rights of authorship.
In that sense, it's more difficult to argue for principles such as fair use or mandatory licensing, attributes easily explained and rationalized within the anglo-saxon worldview.
Of course, international treaties are essentially hybridizing all of this law. From what I've seen, though, moral rights are more likely to be imported into our regime than fair use into "theirs." For instance, the Berne convention has a mandatory provision for a subset of author's moral rights, but only permissive grants of authority for national governments to establish fair use type rights, if they so choose.
Finding 2 things that give the same hash is not such a big deal. Having a search algo that lets you find that second thing (given the first) in substantially less computational time / complexity than previously thought possible is a huge deal. Given that MD5 can hash more than 2^32 objects, the first is inherent. It's that second trait, and recently discovered algo, that's the real kicker.
I feel that this is the main issue, actually. Most people coming in to University to study CS already have a huge amount of background. Can you imagine most people going into Archaeology who read heiroglyphics for the last 8 years?
My CS department seemed stuck. They couldn't afford to ignore the fact that the majority of their best students had a large amount of experience. They did, however, ignore those who came into their first computer class without (shocking!) knowing how to use a UNIX shell or make.
And here's the rub, I saw people come in all the time who were at least a little interested in CS. They came into classes a little interested just like they would go into a beginning English, PoliSci, &tc course. In CS, that just doesn't fly. You can't really compete, for a long time, against people in class who have been programming or otherwise doing things with computers for 6-8 years.
I don't think this explains all of the variation between male and female CS degrees, but I think it might explain quite a bit. At my school, many women who didn't like the CS concentration seemed to jump over to a concentration in Mathematics with Specialization in CS. And in math, there were plenty of women.
Actually, the whole point is that Bono actually said "f'ing" (as in eff-ing) instead of saying "fucking" in an attempt to get past the FCC's hissyfits over the word fuck.
Now, the FCC is saying that things like f'ing, s'ing, and calling someone a piece of s. will be actionable, if they are offensive.
As a computer science student graduating college and hoping to head to law school, I wonder if you have any particular advice about wha training, if any, will help to prepare me for "cyber-law". Many schools seem to have programs focusing on this aspect of the law, but I've often thought that the generalist approach to a field yielded better results.
Are there any experiences you'd advise a young prospective attorney interested in this field to seek out?
This misses the point though. Sure, SCO can send out emails to all of their customers and grant them the rights to use SCO-tainted linux code, assuming such code exists. When they do that though, and persecute others, they cease to be able to distribute other developers code contributed to the kernel.
If they claim linux infringes on their IP, and that they must grant licenses for use to be valid, then they'll have to license *other* developers code to distribute it at all.
Well, so far as I can tell, the complexity of the Gentoo system is well-bounded, with nice python scripts not all that much more complicated than your average shell script (Assuming you're able to program, of course.
And I can't really imagine what you're talking about with "You need to emerge rsync quite a few times during a new install to ensure you are using the latest version of portage." Granted, installation has quite a few steps (For the most customized, only) but I don't remember ever having to 'emerge rsync quite a few times' in any of my multiple gentoo installations.
As far as the complication of day to day use, I can specify standard mirrors for my gentoo system to use too. In fact, using mirrorselect, I can do it automatically to pick good mirrors for me. Then again, I don't even see how 'make install clean' is so much simpler than 'emerge foo'.
Frankly, I'd rather wrangle python scripts than shell scripts anyday. I find the idea that shell scripts eschew complexity kind of off. Gentoo has been able to grow technically so well, I think, in part of the advantages of a full and elegant language (Python) of implementation, rather than a hodgepodge of shell scripts.
Just my two cents as a Gentoo user saving up to be a Gentoo OSX user.
There are projects like 3dwm and E17 for X Windows, but I suspect these are so new because having decent and common 3d hardware support in XFree86 is in itself new.
So what are your plans for AtheOS in this area?
At the University of Chicago, we have a yearly event called ScavHunt, a huge competition that is part scavanger hunt for the obscure and ridiculous and part geeky Junk Yard Wars. Anyway, a couple of years ago an item on the list was a functional breeder reactor. Supposedly such an item was constructed and did function, using an Americium source and Thorium from a lantern mantle. I guess it was safer though, as I don't think the EPA or NRC was onsite for cleanup.
Oh, and Team Snell-Hitchcock won the competition again this year. We even made a SCSI controlled vibrator ;)
You know, I seem to recall my father recording his favorite shows on a VCR whenever my mother wanted to watch something else.
They also seemed to record stuff for me (when I was little) while they were watching... Its a shame TIVO didn't exist in the 80's. But, I wonder if my parents have patent on recording while watching?
What I found so horrifing about this situation was the response of the people responsible for the NYC catastrophe. It would seem that those in power were far more concerned with the politics of their job to even think about worrying about the children and subordinates that the test was slowly crushing. Perhaps the most brazen of this behavior was the administrators decision not to speak out about his concern because of the fear he had about his reputation.
If we are ever to have upstanding and capable students who know not only logical though but also ethical beliefs about participation in society it is precisely this sort of leadership that we can do without. I'm very sorry that the tragedy of these tests hurt so many children and some many competant superintendants, but was this really one of them?
The magic of a game is believing in it, so we'd better make it a convincing and stressful experience for them. Maybe some LSD before the sesssion to make them abit more impressionable ?
And why not have some random character flipping so the people in power could experience some of the reality of a columbian citizen or inner-city school teacher? I'm sure that would be enlightening for all concerned.
I'm not going to respond to the bulk of this article, but you could go down the street right now and buy a prepaid phone card, and they wouldn't have a clue who you are. Or you can get prepaid home phone service without an ID. So its possible to be a more or less anonymous member of the common carrier world. Of course, everything leaves cookie crumbs.
I understand what they're saying.
The thing I'm saying, if 1 million moms can get together to protest for gun control, can't we get our own march to the capital? Seems like we have a great organization place on slashdot, and gee...maybe some of you successful geeks would use some stock options to fund us....
Just an idea...
It seems to me that the nature of these corporate entities seems to fall very well in line with the tradional Marxist line. Once again we see a very typical conflict between the means of production and labor. While means of production are far more equally distributed than they were in the early industrial age of Marx, the people who control the means do so far more powerfully and skillfully. Certainly, the theories of value that Marx supported have no bearing on today's world, but the confict now betweem the consumer who is simply a object of consumption and the buisness man simply out to make a profit seems eerily described. Also, while Marxist theory is often attacked because it holds economics to be the driving force in history, this seems to be more the case than ever. Why did the Pinkerton's get into the pre-teen spy business? It wasn't for a moral, social, or political motivation. It was simply economics. How often does this happen now? When Ben and Jerry's sells out to a conglomerate we have a very depressing situation. This is off my own topic, but had everyone seen the RoboCop movies? Forget the cheap looking special effects and acting, and look at the society that they show. OCP is the coming plague. It buys the city, dehumanizes Murphy and places shareholding on par with democracy...It is well worth a look for a much earlier version of what Katz has drescribed.