This is not a boost for anyone doing anything illegal. It's solely that the upheld one of the defining principles of the state, the "presumption of innocence". And that they won't give out your data to some misfits which accuse you of coyright infringement.
If you do have a case, go see a judge which will order the ISP to give out the data, but you can't just bypass the law on the presumption that you're right, and therefore think you should be able to invade anyones privacy.
The thing that strikes me as odd is that this is reported -- it's how the legal system is supposed to work. Nothing to see here. Or has this already become a special case, with "non-working" being the normal state of the legal system nowadays?
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Yes, but please tell me why only the big pharma-companies are actually proponents of patents? Lots of small biotech-companies aren't exactly fans of patents.
I'm pretty sure, patents fail in bio/chemistry as well, only differently, because their scope tends to be much narrower than in other fields.
You're absolutely right. The first thing this invasion into your privacy brings is not "more security", no matter who does it. The first things this will bring is "more identity theft".
Guess what, identity theft is a smaller problem in Europe with its more stringent privacy laws, than in the USA.
"Scooter Libby is a traitor." -- well, so is your President Bush, you Vice-President Cheney and a whole bunch of people (Ashcroft, Rumsfield etc.) of your current governement. All of them committed high treason against the people and the constitution of the USA. So what?
Guess why the USA has such a tremendous problem with "identity theft"? A much bigger one than in Europe?
Something which facilitates this is the missing privacy directive. Companies are much more careless with YOUR data if they can't be held accountable. This, of course, makes it easier for criminals to get your data.
Well, it would be a good thing if thy hadn't watered it down already..
* The shakedown of numerous small businesses and large customers for "patent violations" based on legal instruments created by a mafia-style clique of lawyers.
Yeah, the founding fathers were surely the mafia lawyers from hell.
In contrast to those "patents-are-godgiven-rights"-zealots of today, they were very sceptic about the whole affair and had strongs reservations regarding it:
First off, I'm from switzerland too, and I cannot agree to this. Switzerland ranks second to last in regard of violent crimes world-wide (Japan ranks lowest). From time to time some nutcase goes haywire and starts shooting. So what? We've still got extremely little violent crime. You really think you could prevent that by banning guns?
Example from 1994: Population 7 Mio; violent deaths: 1596, total homicide 92; homicide involving firearms: 40; total suicide 1490; suicide involving firearms 392. Households with guns: 27.2% Apart from a high suicide-rate, this is VERY LOW. And even of those suicides, only one third involved firearms.
There is NO NEED for discussion of that topic; actually, I consider this as a deliberate diversion to keep public attention off the really important things (copyright, prohibition, surveillance/wiretapping, finances).
- don't make yourself hated by whole populations in the first place. Destroying whole planets just to show you can, is actually pretty bad PR. It's bad for your tax income too. Noone will rise in rebellion or send suicide bombers against you for just treating them right and creating employment.
Wow! What a good idea! This would have come in handy if they only knew it before invading Iraq.
I would need to install hundreds of applications, find and download them from somewhere on the internet, just to get the needed tools.
And the I would need to tweak just about everything in order to get my "sloppy focus", autoraise, and the cut&paste working. A hassle.
In contrast to that, I can take some linux out of the box, tell it to install a few packages I want, tweak a few settings in the control panel, and I'm good for work.
I'd rather cope with some strange install-routines for non-essential things like games (Morrowind too, but that's easy to install), than to have a constant mess with the things a operating system should have done right in the first place.
Absolutely. It should be called "Intellectual Monopoly"; because it definitly is not property. In ortder not to repeat myself: http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/?p=25
Why should cloned food be more dangerous than the original? It's of course not. It's exactly the same.
However, with genetically modified food the story is different. There you really don't know what you get. And you would think they considered to label this? Nah. Not in the USA.
They bundled it. Except on 64bit machines, where it still does not work correctly and still does not have a browser plugin; because the bug-report for this is only two years old.
I wouldn't count the Amish as anarchists, but anyway, anarchist societies DID exist, and they were all destroyed from the outside, from some other power like the roman empire or francos fascists.
Caveat: My ATI can only use 3D-acceleration on a maximum screen size of 2048x2048 -- I had to configure the two monitors to 1024x1024 each.. And of course the image was swampy...
Well, it doesn't. Sound engineers in movies mostly fucking suck, they're not producing the "right" effects, but those some former generations of movie-goers expect to be right.
clattering hoofs when riding on sand; metal-on-metal sound when drawing a sword out of a (wooden -- until the 18th century) sheath; "swish" sounds when someone picks up a blade; teletypes with the sound of typewriters; distant explosions with instant sound; mortars which always do "blop", no matter the size; diving airplanes which seem to have a siren attached, because they all sound like diving stukas; 4-stroke motorcycles with 2-stroke motrocycle sounds; cranes sound like geese and so on, and so on.
Is that 15th century thinking I hear? Are they going to blacklist every liberal country?
Having quite an understanding of the 15th century, I can assure you that it is not. Whereas they have quite strong ideas of monopolies and keeping intellectual property at hand by dissallowing the people who have it to leave the city, the 15th centuries bodies of gouvernement are notoriously splintered.
What's illegal in one city will be lawful in the next, and in one further it won't only be legal, but the governement of the city will even run an enterprise on it. And nobody is complaining in Cologne where the whores are disallowed near the cathedral and need to wear a red cap, that the city of Strasbourg the city council runs its own brothel and the whores have seats (whereas most people stand) in the church on sunday.
Windows: Double-click install.exe OS X: Drag program icon to 'Applications' Linux: In terminal, type in (without quotes!) "sudo apt-get install beagle python-beagle", followed by your root password
You missed where you should get the program for Windows and Mac.
Go to http://www.someapp.com/ click "download", click "I agree to the EULA", glick "save as", remember where you have saved the application, then double-click install.exe.
Of course, China might want to install its own big-brother database for reasons of central control and other fascist means. But I won't go into that.
Because the one thing that database won't do is help against fraudsters. Actually, it will help them. Contrary to ones belief, fraud goes up as more data about people is collected.
You'll notice that the credit-card fraud-rate is lower in europe, where we have relatively strong data-protection laws, than in the USA where personal data is protected less.
And any database which is generated will have its abuse (by users entering false data, by legitimate users using it for illegal means, by people illegally accessing it), the more it encompassess the more bodies will need access to it, the more it will be abused, and the first thing you will notice is a definitive increase in fraud.
So contrary to the common assumption that these databases will help to combat crime, they will foster crime.
I agree somewhat to your article, but I've got two points to make:
- Don't fucking call COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT "stealing" or "PIRACY". Yearly hundreds of ships and people go missing because of fucking real-world-piracy, the version with boats and submachine guns. It's fucking tasteless in regard of the victims, the dead, the wounded, the raped to call some petty-crime like "copyright infringement" also "piracy".
- Second: DRM not only hurts me as a "consumer" or whatever. It also buries our cultural treasures in crypto. We're about to loose the history of the late 20th and the 21th century to DRM. And this is a very chilly prospect; think the rwriting of History in George Orwells 1984.
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This is not a boost for anyone doing anything illegal. It's solely that the upheld one of the defining principles of the state, the "presumption of innocence". And that they won't give out your data to some misfits which accuse you of coyright infringement.
If you do have a case, go see a judge which will order the ISP to give out the data, but you can't just bypass the law on the presumption that you're right, and therefore think you should be able to invade anyones privacy.
The thing that strikes me as odd is that this is reported -- it's how the legal system is supposed to work. Nothing to see here. Or has this already become a special case, with "non-working" being the normal state of the legal system nowadays?
Yes, but please tell me why only the big pharma-companies are actually proponents of patents? Lots of small biotech-companies aren't exactly fans of patents.
I'm pretty sure, patents fail in bio/chemistry as well, only differently, because their scope tends to be much narrower than in other fields.
You're absolutely right. The first thing this invasion into your privacy brings is not "more security", no matter who does it. The first things this will bring is "more identity theft".
Guess what, identity theft is a smaller problem in Europe with its more stringent privacy laws, than in the USA.
"Scooter Libby is a traitor." -- well, so is your President Bush, you Vice-President Cheney and a whole bunch of people (Ashcroft, Rumsfield etc.) of your current governement. All of them committed high treason against the people and the constitution of the USA. So what?
Guess why the USA has such a tremendous problem with "identity theft"? A much bigger one than in Europe?
Something which facilitates this is the missing privacy directive. Companies are much more careless with YOUR data if they can't be held accountable. This, of course, makes it easier for criminals to get your data.
Well, it would be a good thing if thy hadn't watered it down already..
* The shakedown of numerous small businesses and large customers for "patent violations" based on legal instruments created by a mafia-style clique of lawyers.
/ 200Rprojs/jefferson_invent/patent.html
Yeah, the founding fathers were surely the mafia lawyers from hell.
In contrast to those "patents-are-godgiven-rights"-zealots of today, they were very sceptic about the whole affair and had strongs reservations regarding it:
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~meg3c/classes/tcc313
If they had been able to see the future and what happend with patents, they would have outlawed patents in the constitution.
First off, I'm from switzerland too, and I cannot agree to this. Switzerland ranks second to last in regard of violent crimes world-wide (Japan ranks lowest). From time to time some nutcase goes haywire and starts shooting. So what? We've still got extremely little violent crime. You really think you could prevent that by banning guns?
Example from 1994: Population 7 Mio; violent deaths: 1596, total homicide 92; homicide involving firearms: 40; total suicide 1490; suicide involving firearms 392.
Households with guns: 27.2% Apart from a high suicide-rate, this is VERY LOW. And even of those suicides, only one third involved firearms.
There is NO NEED for discussion of that topic; actually, I consider this as a deliberate diversion to keep public attention off the really important things (copyright, prohibition, surveillance/wiretapping, finances).
Well, I would consider this illegal spying on citizens as "high treason". And a lot of other stuff he did as well.
- don't make yourself hated by whole populations in the first place. Destroying whole planets just to show you can, is actually pretty bad PR. It's bad for your tax income too. Noone will rise in rebellion or send suicide bombers against you for just treating them right and creating employment.
Wow! What a good idea! This would have come in handy if they only knew it before invading Iraq.
Well, my lat-medieval plate armour does this too (yep, tested it). Its a bit heavy and inflexible compared to the modern variants, tough.
I second that.
I can't use windows on a desktop.
I would need to install hundreds of applications, find and download them from somewhere on the internet, just to get the needed tools.
And the I would need to tweak just about everything in order to get my "sloppy focus", autoraise, and the cut&paste working. A hassle.
In contrast to that, I can take some linux out of the box, tell it to install a few packages I want, tweak a few settings in the control panel, and I'm good for work.
I'd rather cope with some strange install-routines for non-essential things like games (Morrowind too, but that's easy to install), than to have a constant mess with the things a operating system should have done right in the first place.
mod game down, "-1 overrated".
Plus it does not run on $(OPENSOURCEOS)
Absolutely. It should be called "Intellectual Monopoly"; because it definitly is not property. In ortder not to repeat myself: http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/?p=25
Why should cloned food be more dangerous than the original? It's of course not. It's exactly the same.
However, with genetically modified food the story is different. There you really don't know what you get. And you would think they considered to label this? Nah. Not in the USA.
They bundled it. Except on 64bit machines, where it still does not work correctly and still does not have a browser plugin; because the bug-report for this is only two years old.
I wouldn't count the Amish as anarchists, but anyway, anarchist societies DID exist, and they were all destroyed from the outside, from some other power like the roman empire or francos fascists.
Actually, you can. http://www.datenfreihafen.org/~stefan/tmp/xorg.con f is a config which will allow you to run beryl on dual head, with the ATI radeon-driver.
Caveat: My ATI can only use 3D-acceleration on a maximum screen size of 2048x2048 -- I had to configure the two monitors to 1024x1024 each.. And of course the image was swampy...
D&D ain't RISC.
;))
The RuneQuest-Family (RuneQuest, Elfquest, Cthulhu, Ringworld) ist RISC.
D&D exactly looks like CISC -- Not so much commands initially, but hundreds of MMX- and SSE-Extensions
And the patent system which enabled Monsanto to do it.
"If it sounds good, it is good."
Well, it doesn't. Sound engineers in movies mostly fucking suck, they're not producing the "right" effects, but those some former generations of movie-goers expect to be right.
clattering hoofs when riding on sand; metal-on-metal sound when drawing a sword out of a (wooden -- until the 18th century) sheath; "swish" sounds when someone picks up a blade; teletypes with the sound of typewriters; distant explosions with instant sound; mortars which always do "blop", no matter the size; diving airplanes which seem to have a siren attached, because they all sound like diving stukas; 4-stroke motorcycles with 2-stroke motrocycle sounds; cranes sound like geese and so on, and so on.
Is that 15th century thinking I hear? Are they going to blacklist every liberal country?
Having quite an understanding of the 15th century, I can assure you that it is not. Whereas they have quite strong ideas of monopolies and keeping intellectual property at hand by dissallowing the people who have it to leave the city, the 15th centuries bodies of gouvernement are notoriously splintered.
What's illegal in one city will be lawful in the next, and in one further it won't only be legal, but the governement of the city will even run an enterprise on it. And nobody is complaining in Cologne where the whores are disallowed near the cathedral and need to wear a red cap, that the city of Strasbourg the city council runs its own brothel and the whores have seats (whereas most people stand) in the church on sunday.
Windows: Double-click install.exe
OS X: Drag program icon to 'Applications'
Linux: In terminal, type in (without quotes!) "sudo apt-get install beagle python-beagle", followed by your root password
You missed where you should get the program for Windows and Mac.
Go to http://www.someapp.com/ click "download", click "I agree to the EULA", glick "save as", remember where you have saved the application, then double-click install.exe.
Of course, China might want to install its own big-brother database for reasons of central control and other fascist means. But I won't go into that.
Because the one thing that database won't do is help against fraudsters. Actually, it will help them. Contrary to ones belief, fraud goes up as more data about people is collected.
You'll notice that the credit-card fraud-rate is lower in europe, where we have relatively strong data-protection laws, than in the USA where personal data is protected less.
And any database which is generated will have its abuse (by users entering false data, by legitimate users using it for illegal means, by people illegally accessing it), the more it encompassess the more bodies will need access to it, the more it will be abused, and the first thing you will notice is a definitive increase in fraud.
So contrary to the common assumption that these databases will help to combat crime, they will foster crime.
I agree somewhat to your article, but I've got two points to make:
- Don't fucking call COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT "stealing" or "PIRACY". Yearly hundreds of ships and people go missing because of fucking real-world-piracy, the version with boats and submachine guns. It's fucking tasteless in regard of the victims, the dead, the wounded, the raped to call some petty-crime like "copyright infringement" also "piracy".
- Second: DRM not only hurts me as a "consumer" or whatever. It also buries our cultural treasures in crypto. We're about to loose the history of the late 20th and the 21th century to DRM. And this is a very chilly prospect; think the rwriting of History in George Orwells 1984.
America isn't a police state and the innocent have little to fear from their governemt
Well, you're a bit behind. This might have been true in 1984, but we're in 2007 now...