Actually speaking of this, perhaps its time for someone to propose a law that assures users rights on the internet. Basically saying that these kinds of restrictions are not allowed. I am highly of the Opinion, that the service company provides me with a link to the net, and that is the end of the story. At that point, what I do with that connection is my business. The one that always makes me want to grab a gun is when they put in clauses about games servers, and web servers. Why should I have to go to some outside company, who is going to charge outragous fees, and restrict the kind of web content I put up when I can get an inexpensive connection from my local cable company(DSL from the phone company, although DSL at least in new england can't touch Cable modem data rates for the price), and build the server and site myself. I am sure they put this stuff in as an assureance that someone will not hog all the bandwidth, and slow up the network. If this is the case they really should have better equipment and higher data rates available before they push into the market.
10 digit dailing, doesn't bother, I hate remembering if someone is in or out of may area code or in my area code, but ZI still need to dial the area code because they too far away from my town...MA-is a great place to dial a phone, most confusing in this manner because we have concentric rings of area codes basically. There are easy ways to fix these issues, and make things make more sense:
1. 10 digits is Ok, let it be.
2. Long distance is anything outside your area code, local is anything in your area code.
3. Have a matching land area code, and wireless area code that is clear about local calls vs. long distance(see rule #2 above) so that for instance 508 is the land code for your area, while 518 is the Cell Phone pager code for your area.
4. Lines that are used for outgoing Data comm Only, Modems, Faxes, Alarm systems, etc do not have phone numbers.
5. Rolled over lines (for example your ISP has tons of lines all of which have a number assigned to it, but you only call one number for access, all those lines should be assigned the one number)
6. Solve the even bigger problem, give my Cell phone and my home Phone the same number, when some one calls me they both ring. Kinda like an Email address, I have 7 machines that all have the ability to grab my email when they are turned on and Outlook is started, but I have the convinence of getting that mail anywhere I want.(Only one of them is allowed to delete it from the email server though)
Haplo
"Common sense is not nearly so common as one would think from the name"
The entire sitation is insane, I run my domain off my Charter cable modem, because there is nothing else available where I live. Well I could have a T1 or the like, but the price of that is just insane. I have not noticed them blocking or restricting any ports(My mail server, news server, Web server, ftp server, Unreal server, etc work), but the speed they provide me is insanely slow. I recently moved here, where I came from I had mediaone(AT&T, whatever they are called today) on the exact same equipment(same model of 3com cable modem, the one that looks like a shark fin) I got 1.5Mb down and 300-500Kbs up, consistently. With charter most days I am lucky to get 250kbs in either direction, and until the day they came to install it I had no idea that they only say that they "can" reach 500kbs or so, and don't even say it WILL got that fast. I explained to them that 500kbs will barely enable to me to work from home(my company will soon allow me to work from howm via VPN) and that they really should look into improving the service or loose customers(Unfortunately in this area, Near Worcester, MA they have alot of us over the barrel, the verizon COs are to far away, most are in non-residential areas, to support DSL) I inquired of a friend on a local planning board about Mediaone providing needed competion, but was told that subject has already been brought up and dismissed before, once AT&T took over...
IN Short the situation sucks!
Needed, better Bandwidth, at a reasonable price, anyone out there listening, and want to help out a lost soul in the Auburn, ma Area
Well personally I have to say I am not the biggest fan of the fact that Domain records are public, but as the owner of an internet business who makes use of this information from time to time I think it has to stay.
The Whois resource is really the best way to at least begin tracking down those who attempt to attack my company, DoS, or just general hacking. This the information contained therein I can at least contact the ISP that got that attacker on the net and if they co-operate maybe get at them.
(14 people have lost their ISP, and 3 have been arrested to date, I have no problem in general with hackers just don't hack me)...on the flip side I do hate the fact that anybody and their brother can access my domain records, and become a general pain in my head. Last year someone used my domain registration to track me down and begin attacking me for infringing on his company's trademark. This jerk used all sorts of intimidation, scare tatics, and general un-niceness to attempt to convince me that I should change my domain name, and at one point he threated to sue me and force me to turn the domain name over to him. Unfortunatel he had no right to at all, my domain name, and the company it is attached to have existed longer than his. If anyone is infringing on anyone else its him on me, in my way of seeing it. My compan maintains a fairl low profile in general, and we keep as much as possible about ourselves hidden, had this guy not had the Whois to work from he probabl never would have found me.
Haplo
What is the point after all of keeping a copy righ on something that is basically impossible to use because no one makes the hardware anymore. If a hardware platform is retired(no longer sold), or he company that made the hardware is gone, the software still being copy righted is kinda odd they really can't make any money on it if they can't sell copies to a widening user base.
There is asolutely no reason to import workers...there is not and never was a shortage, unless your counting the shortage of people willing to work s**t hours for s**t pay. Companies would have no issues getting(and keeping) the help they need if they would pay for it. MCSE, MCDBA, NCA, etc should = LARGE $$, but imported labor keeps that from happening.
You Know I would love for Mozart's or Bach's or somebody like that's great great great great Grandchild to show up and say hey that music is the property of my estate, all you people owe me like $10000000Billion for using my property for these years...that would show them!
Ah yes...but it used to be the other way around...not not all that long ago...my father who is 55, can even remember when it was the other way around....and thats the way it should have stayed.
Well ya see....I find recorded music boring actually...I would much rather see a live band...and to counter your arguement, there is no reason this could not be done live...and I am not saying anyone has to tour all the time...but I am sorry if your a musician thats your JOB, just like its my job to show up at my company every day and Plug away at code for 12 hours.
I could have told you this by observation. IT is the worst place to work if you have IT knowledge. I am personally completely burned out and as stressed as I can get, I leave work and get home many days in a dysfunctional haze...I literally can't even think, doing everything on autopiolt basically...I frequently have memory gaps where I don't even remember streches of Highway driving, or at work I can't even remember what I was doing 5 minutes earlier! The worst part is I have to be so regimented and in control at work to say sane, that its ruined my social life, I meet a great new girl and I get fustrated right away because, my mind immediately tries to classify everything as a project, after 10 years+ in IT my mind is having trouble doing anything in a relaxed manner because nothing is allowed to be relaxed...just go go go!
Don't even get me started on salary, unpopular opinion I know but all those extra Visas bad idea
I need my company to get lean and hungry so they recognize my worth, they don't pay me(or anyone else) nearly what we are worth for waht we do or the abuse we take doing it...
Why is it that industry guys can't latch onto the idea that no matter what they do someone will break it. Music is about the freeest form of expression there is and their is no way to stop it...stop trying give up, and tell your performers if they want to make money get on a Bus and tour, recordings are ads...the show is what your promoting and people will pay for, if your a musician your job is to come to my town and entertain me, your recordings are just the way of letting me know your out there and get me excited to see your show.
The DMCA is inconsistent with the legal defination of an Enhanced Service Provider...to paraphrase from a web site I visit( http://www.wickednews.net ) in their FAQ(Which is a quote from an O'reilly book I believe)...
ISP's are legally defined as Enhanced Service Providers, aka those companies which provide a transport service of some type, but take no interest(or responsiblity) in that which travels over the pipe...they therefore cannot be held legally responsible for what is being brought over the pipe, so long as they in no way sensor the material or take any contol of it. An Excellent example is AT&T, who cannot be responsible for two Bank robbers planning a heist over the phone. An example of a Company not fitting this description is AOL, they do sensor their content, and therefore do not fit this description. This works as well for Cable modem and DSL access, its just an internet pipe, and by legal defination the sevice company cannot be held responsible for your world domination plans on your web site. The rights of an enhanced service provider are guanteed legally by the Constitution of the USA, in this country, therefore the DMCA should be struck down as Unconstitustional, ANY LAWYERS want to make yourself famous and strike this puppy down for us.
Can't anyone tell that the system that is currently in place just isn't working out... The Registration system needs fixing and it needs fixing fast. 1. I agree needed are more TLD's, but they need to be logical ones. Sex sites on.sex, Map sites on.map, ISP's on.net or.isp, only real companies as.com's etc. 2. There need to be rules and the registration services need to enforce them. aka if your not a company you don't get a.com 3. First come first served, end of story. If you register xxxx.yyy its yours unless there is a superior claim. ie mcdonalds.com should belong to the company, but if you register mcdonalds.fam because thats your family name no one cna take it away. 4. Trademarks mean nothing on the internet, and should not be enforcable. see above. 5. A new central authority, the current ones don't work. 6. Registration services cannot own domain names, or horde domain names that they do not use as part of their business. 7. Domain names are the property of the person who registers them, the fee is simply for the up keep of the central domain records, so your DNS server can be found. 8.Owners have the right to move to a different service if they so desire at anytime. 9. Anyone can provide registration services, just like networksolutions, register.com whatever. 10. Domain names cannot be suspended or taken away, unless you can provide a superior claim, TRADEMARKS do not count. You must simply have existed longer doing what you are doing on the internet...first come first served again. 11. You have the right to a single top level domain. If you have xxxx.yyy you cannot own xxxx.zzz as well unless it is providing entirely different content and services. This is common sense stuff, that personally i had always thought was just standard practice until I really started paying attention to internet politics.
Music is a commodity, give it UP its FREE, Turn on the damn Radio. If I really want a copy of a song that bad and I don't want to pay for it. I will throw on my favorite station run my recorder, and get a damn copy. If I want it on my PC I will record it to my machine, turn it into a.wav or.mp3...if my friend likes it I will mail it to him. Napsten, et al are just tools for doing it...it can't stopped. If these bands really want to make $$$ do it the old fashion way. TOUR! get on a damn bus and drive you ass to my town and play a gig, I will come hand you $30-100 for the privilage...thats the the way the music industry should be making money. it sickens me when my father tells me about all the bands he used to go see as a kid, for cheap $$$, because thats how they made $$$ they packed them into the parks, dance halls, etc night after night to watch the play. CD's etc, are promotional material for the band as far as I am concerned, I would much rather have the live expirence then listen to the Canned crap day after after day. Metallica, are the worst offenders right now, they have not been on a serious tour since practicaly the beginning of the 90's. Whats this summer a total of 14 dates, and at huge stadiums where I will barely even be able to see them. Get back to reality, come back and play 4000 person halls everynight, thats MUSIC.
Excellent point...Peta.org is really where they belonged in the first place...I might feel that they had a case if the guy had bought the.com and they were at.org.
This is one that is near and dear to my heart. As we move forward into this new digital age, we have to start looking at the issues that will begin to develop. Begin a huge Fan of Issac Asimove I have to think that his ideas and concepts of the future of Robots are probably some of the best around. He already saw some of the forth coming issues involved. In his works he created what are probably the best common sense laws of how it should all work that are possible. The laws of Robotics. 1) A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence so long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. Still as we move forward other issues will begin to come into play. As these contructs of man evolve so to speak, as the technology becomes greater will we not eventually have to reach a point that we must consider them more than a machine. Will we reach a point where they stop being tools and there by become a slave race? That Idea gets explored again and agian in works of fiction. There are two stand out ST:THG episodes that explore just those ideas. I am not the sort of fan that remembers titles so you will have to forgive me. In the first a scientist desires to strip data to his wires to find out more about him whereby be might make more Datas. Data fears this(in a way anyway, as he does not yet have emotions at this point) and is going to leave starfleet because he does not desire this, he fears he will lose the spark of life so to speak that makes him, himself. A ruling is made that Data is equipment, property to do with as Starfleet pleases("data is a toaster"). Picard and Riker are forced to argue opposite sides in a court case to descide what Data "Is". The thing that stands out the most for me in that episode is when Picard makes an impossioned speech and says to the effect "Our Misison is to seek out new life, well there it sits", He furthers the idea saying ok you repilcate Data make more of them, put them to work for Starfleet, use them for what ever purpose suits your fancy, sounds a lot like Slave labor. The descion is made that Data is infact a sentient being, with freewill, self awareness and even in a fashion the ability to reproduce. The second happens a bit after that episode, the Enterprise is visiting a station where a scientist is using small Driods to repairs and maintain a project, they appear to be malfuntioning. Data thinks differently that they are acting in an intelligent manner, refusing to do dangerous or self destructive tasks. In try to prove this they setup a test that the driods see right through and work around seemingly failing yet in the end proving Data's theory. Data is able to prove that they are another form of intelligence much like himself. Fianlly back to Asimov, he has two works that really prove out these Ideas, "I Robot" and "The Positronic Man", In 'I Robot' the Illistrated screenplay(A movie that seriously needs to get made but likely never will), we see how Robots develop, and move forward slowly becoming part of society, to the point where one becomes indistingushable from a human being. "The Positronic Man" takes this still further as the main Character the AI, wishes to become more than he is, he desires to grow beyond his original design, in the end becoming very human, to the point of creating an artifical body for himself. These works are incredible read them if you have not I can't begin to explain in this forum how they have shaped my thoughts on this subject.
Thats Bull#$%^ the only name that will work as a proper parody is the one he had, and he has all the right in the world to it! I maintain that he was absolutely not volitating their trademark, and Infact even if he was too bad! Trademark law doesn't belong in the realm of internet domains anyway....I also maintain that Those Peta A holes prosocuted this case with an agenda, and that was to CENSOR!!!!!! anything that is counter to their anti meat campaign.
Not the same thing...not at all...They are very obviously angry at the content of the site and attmepting to shut it down, and using the alleged infringement as a justification for their actions. They really are just a bunch of cry babies. I have no personal issues with people who do or do not eat meat, or use animals for food or testing or whatever. These people do and are known to be militant about it, this guy came up with a clever way to stick his middle finger up at their arrogance and I applaud him for it. My only real issue is what they did, they had absolutely no right to press that lawsuit, and it sets an extremely dangerous precedent. Please come one people...get a clue...live and let live on the net its the only way to behave responsibly... Now I really have to get back to this Cow I am carving up, I want steak for dinner, and I will never finsh this expirement on his liver before he dies if I don't hurry up... BTW anyone got any A1 sauce?
Does anyone else remember when once upon a time the citizens of the net controlled the net... I do and I miss it. I really think its about time we get back to that the politics of no nation or organization should have anything to do with the internet. If two people have a disagreement on the NET they should work it out, and it should be none of the Courts or anyone else's business. I happen to agree in some way here..Orgs are not supposed to collect $$$ for profit in any way. Infact in reality, peta.org should have been peta.org in the first place. Perhaps if anything its time or Internic, etc to start enforcing the meanings of the domains..com(are you a company, No then you can't register this domain).net(are you an ISP, or maintain a network service of some sort).org(are you going to make a profit, by charging Money) In the DNS hosting service I own I will not take a registration if the registering person does not fit these rules.
Truth to tell everytime an article like this shows up there is always the question of ethics that gets included, WHY? I really have to ask that! This is a no-brainer(no pun intended) folks, if there is a way to improve humanities lot in life, just do it. Evolution has moved us as far forward as it can. We have one or two break out above average people come along each generation, thats true. Still this really isn't moving us forward as a species. These individuals do pass along their genes, but usually their mate is just another average person. Even when two above average people do get together it many times doesn't make a huge difference as they are just as likely due to the uncertianies of genes to have only average children. Let me offer and example: If evolution were still involved, along with a natural selection, and we were moving forward as a species, we would be talking about the Einstein family and not just Albert. We having(or at least developing) the technology to change our own species fate and lot in the universe have the obligation! to use it. I'd be the first person to volunteer in fact. I have above average intelligence, but I'd love to be able to run faster. Maybe I might someday have a child who can't run at all...I would certianly want everything possible done to change that condition. Our Species no longer has the conditioning factors that allow us to become something greater, we have in fact breed and medicate evolution out of existance.
As the owner of another internet service these issues obviously concern me. I believe your service much like my own fits into the legal staus and definition of an "Enhanced Service Provider" The same laws that protect AT&T and ISPs protect you. I quote from my FAQ( http://wickednews.voyeurs.net/faq/#5) I have heard most Internet services such as WickedNews, called Enhanced Service Providers. Is WickedNews an Enhanced Service Provider? And if so, What is an Enhanced Service Provider? Yes, WickedNews is an Enhanced Service Provider, A site that gives Usenet service (feeds or newsreaders) to anyone who asks, without making any additional qualifications for the service (other than keeping the bill paid), is classified as an enhanced service provider in the United States. This is like a common carrier, the classification for bussinesses like telephone companies and railroad freight firms, but with a bit less govenmental regulation than common carriers suffer. By not regulating the content of traffic passing through them, enhanced service providers are believed to be absolved from liability for "illegal" speech (e.g., copyright violations, obsenity, conspiracy, presidential death threats). (Henry Spencer & David Lawrence. Managing Usenet. Cambridge: O'reilly & Associates, Inc, 1998.) From what I have been told if you sensor anything you automatically loose this status, my advice do nothing, but reply to MS reminding them of this information. I would also hazard to say that you are also covered under the laws on fair use as well... Bill Dunn Owner/ Server Administrator V N Internet Services www.wickednews.net newsmaster@wickednews.net
Slashdot Mirror
I was promised High Speed ATA support! Seriously the supposed next gen kernel oughta run my current gen hardware! My only complaint really...
Actually speaking of this, perhaps its time for someone to propose a law that assures users rights on the internet. Basically saying that these kinds of restrictions are not allowed. I am highly of the Opinion, that the service company provides me with a link to the net, and that is the end of the story. At that point, what I do with that connection is my business. The one that always makes me want to grab a gun is when they put in clauses about games servers, and web servers. Why should I have to go to some outside company, who is going to charge outragous fees, and restrict the kind of web content I put up when I can get an inexpensive connection from my local cable company(DSL from the phone company, although DSL at least in new england can't touch Cable modem data rates for the price), and build the server and site myself. I am sure they put this stuff in as an assureance that someone will not hog all the bandwidth, and slow up the network. If this is the case they really should have better equipment and higher data rates available before they push into the market.
http://wickednews.voyeurs.net/sampler/ When do they claim to have created the technology because I can narrow down to almost the day this site did.
10 digit dailing, doesn't bother, I hate remembering if someone is in or out of may area code or in my area code, but ZI still need to dial the area code because they too far away from my town...MA-is a great place to dial a phone, most confusing in this manner because we have concentric rings of area codes basically. There are easy ways to fix these issues, and make things make more sense:
1. 10 digits is Ok, let it be.
2. Long distance is anything outside your area code, local is anything in your area code.
3. Have a matching land area code, and wireless area code that is clear about local calls vs. long distance(see rule #2 above) so that for instance 508 is the land code for your area, while 518 is the Cell Phone pager code for your area.
4. Lines that are used for outgoing Data comm Only, Modems, Faxes, Alarm systems, etc do not have phone numbers.
5. Rolled over lines (for example your ISP has tons of lines all of which have a number assigned to it, but you only call one number for access, all those lines should be assigned the one number)
6. Solve the even bigger problem, give my Cell phone and my home Phone the same number, when some one calls me they both ring. Kinda like an Email address, I have 7 machines that all have the ability to grab my email when they are turned on and Outlook is started, but I have the convinence of getting that mail anywhere I want.(Only one of them is allowed to delete it from the email server though)
Haplo "Common sense is not nearly so common as one would think from the name"
Yeah but, you rarely see farscape suffer from that, maybe they should have used the same special effects house.
The entire sitation is insane, I run my domain off my Charter cable modem, because there is nothing else available where I live. Well I could have a T1 or the like, but the price of that is just insane. I have not noticed them blocking or restricting any ports(My mail server, news server, Web server, ftp server, Unreal server, etc work), but the speed they provide me is insanely slow. I recently moved here, where I came from I had mediaone(AT&T, whatever they are called today) on the exact same equipment(same model of 3com cable modem, the one that looks like a shark fin) I got 1.5Mb down and 300-500Kbs up, consistently. With charter most days I am lucky to get 250kbs in either direction, and until the day they came to install it I had no idea that they only say that they "can" reach 500kbs or so, and don't even say it WILL got that fast. I explained to them that 500kbs will barely enable to me to work from home(my company will soon allow me to work from howm via VPN) and that they really should look into improving the service or loose customers(Unfortunately in this area, Near Worcester, MA they have alot of us over the barrel, the verizon COs are to far away, most are in non-residential areas, to support DSL) I inquired of a friend on a local planning board about Mediaone providing needed competion, but was told that subject has already been brought up and dismissed before, once AT&T took over... IN Short the situation sucks! Needed, better Bandwidth, at a reasonable price, anyone out there listening, and want to help out a lost soul in the Auburn, ma Area
Well personally I have to say I am not the biggest fan of the fact that Domain records are public, but as the owner of an internet business who makes use of this information from time to time I think it has to stay. The Whois resource is really the best way to at least begin tracking down those who attempt to attack my company, DoS, or just general hacking. This the information contained therein I can at least contact the ISP that got that attacker on the net and if they co-operate maybe get at them. (14 people have lost their ISP, and 3 have been arrested to date, I have no problem in general with hackers just don't hack me)...on the flip side I do hate the fact that anybody and their brother can access my domain records, and become a general pain in my head. Last year someone used my domain registration to track me down and begin attacking me for infringing on his company's trademark. This jerk used all sorts of intimidation, scare tatics, and general un-niceness to attempt to convince me that I should change my domain name, and at one point he threated to sue me and force me to turn the domain name over to him. Unfortunatel he had no right to at all, my domain name, and the company it is attached to have existed longer than his. If anyone is infringing on anyone else its him on me, in my way of seeing it. My compan maintains a fairl low profile in general, and we keep as much as possible about ourselves hidden, had this guy not had the Whois to work from he probabl never would have found me. Haplo
What is the point after all of keeping a copy righ on something that is basically impossible to use because no one makes the hardware anymore. If a hardware platform is retired(no longer sold), or he company that made the hardware is gone, the software still being copy righted is kinda odd they really can't make any money on it if they can't sell copies to a widening user base.
There is asolutely no reason to import workers...there is not and never was a shortage, unless your counting the shortage of people willing to work s**t hours for s**t pay. Companies would have no issues getting(and keeping) the help they need if they would pay for it. MCSE, MCDBA, NCA, etc should = LARGE $$, but imported labor keeps that from happening.
You Know I would love for Mozart's or Bach's or somebody like that's great great great great Grandchild to show up and say hey that music is the property of my estate, all you people owe me like $10000000Billion for using my property for these years...that would show them!
Ah yes...but it used to be the other way around...not not all that long ago...my father who is 55, can even remember when it was the other way around....and thats the way it should have stayed.
Well ya see....I find recorded music boring actually...I would much rather see a live band...and to counter your arguement, there is no reason this could not be done live...and I am not saying anyone has to tour all the time...but I am sorry if your a musician thats your JOB, just like its my job to show up at my company every day and Plug away at code for 12 hours.
I could have told you this by observation. IT is the worst place to work if you have IT knowledge. I am personally completely burned out and as stressed as I can get, I leave work and get home many days in a dysfunctional haze...I literally can't even think, doing everything on autopiolt basically...I frequently have memory gaps where I don't even remember streches of Highway driving, or at work I can't even remember what I was doing 5 minutes earlier! The worst part is I have to be so regimented and in control at work to say sane, that its ruined my social life, I meet a great new girl and I get fustrated right away because, my mind immediately tries to classify everything as a project, after 10 years+ in IT my mind is having trouble doing anything in a relaxed manner because nothing is allowed to be relaxed...just go go go! Don't even get me started on salary, unpopular opinion I know but all those extra Visas bad idea I need my company to get lean and hungry so they recognize my worth, they don't pay me(or anyone else) nearly what we are worth for waht we do or the abuse we take doing it...
Why is it that industry guys can't latch onto the idea that no matter what they do someone will break it. Music is about the freeest form of expression there is and their is no way to stop it...stop trying give up, and tell your performers if they want to make money get on a Bus and tour, recordings are ads...the show is what your promoting and people will pay for, if your a musician your job is to come to my town and entertain me, your recordings are just the way of letting me know your out there and get me excited to see your show.
The DMCA is inconsistent with the legal defination of an Enhanced Service Provider...to paraphrase from a web site I visit( http://www.wickednews.net ) in their FAQ(Which is a quote from an O'reilly book I believe)... ISP's are legally defined as Enhanced Service Providers, aka those companies which provide a transport service of some type, but take no interest(or responsiblity) in that which travels over the pipe...they therefore cannot be held legally responsible for what is being brought over the pipe, so long as they in no way sensor the material or take any contol of it. An Excellent example is AT&T, who cannot be responsible for two Bank robbers planning a heist over the phone. An example of a Company not fitting this description is AOL, they do sensor their content, and therefore do not fit this description. This works as well for Cable modem and DSL access, its just an internet pipe, and by legal defination the sevice company cannot be held responsible for your world domination plans on your web site. The rights of an enhanced service provider are guanteed legally by the Constitution of the USA, in this country, therefore the DMCA should be struck down as Unconstitustional, ANY LAWYERS want to make yourself famous and strike this puppy down for us.
Can't anyone tell that the system that is currently in place just isn't working out... The Registration system needs fixing and it needs fixing fast. .sex, Map sites on .map, ISP's on .net or .isp, only real companies as .com's etc. .com
1. I agree needed are more TLD's, but they need to be logical ones. Sex sites on
2. There need to be rules and the registration services need to enforce them. aka if your not a company you don't get a
3. First come first served, end of story. If you register xxxx.yyy its yours unless there is a superior claim. ie mcdonalds.com should belong to the company, but if you register mcdonalds.fam because thats your family name no one cna take it away.
4. Trademarks mean nothing on the internet, and should not be enforcable. see above.
5. A new central authority, the current ones don't work.
6. Registration services cannot own domain names, or horde domain names that they do not use as part of their business.
7. Domain names are the property of the person who registers them, the fee is simply for the up keep of the central domain records, so your DNS server can be found.
8.Owners have the right to move to a different service if they so desire at anytime.
9. Anyone can provide registration services, just like networksolutions, register.com whatever.
10. Domain names cannot be suspended or taken away, unless you can provide a superior claim, TRADEMARKS do not count. You must simply have existed longer doing what you are doing on the internet...first come first served again.
11. You have the right to a single top level domain. If you have xxxx.yyy you cannot own xxxx.zzz as well unless it is providing entirely different content and services. This is common sense stuff, that personally i had always thought was just standard practice until I really started paying attention to internet politics.
Music is a commodity, give it UP its FREE, Turn on the damn Radio. If I really want a copy of a song that bad and I don't want to pay for it. I will throw on my favorite station run my recorder, and get a damn copy. If I want it on my PC I will record it to my machine, turn it into a .wav or .mp3...if my friend likes it I will mail it to him. Napsten, et al are just tools for doing it...it can't stopped. If these bands really want to make $$$ do it the old fashion way. TOUR! get on a damn bus and drive you ass to my town and play a gig, I will come hand you $30-100 for the privilage...thats the the way the music industry should be making money. it sickens me when my father tells me about all the bands he used to go see as a kid, for cheap $$$, because thats how they made $$$ they packed them into the parks, dance halls, etc night after night to watch the play. CD's etc, are promotional material for the band as far as I am concerned, I would much rather have the live expirence then listen to the Canned crap day after after day. Metallica, are the worst offenders right now, they have not been on a serious tour since practicaly the beginning of the 90's. Whats this summer a total of 14 dates, and at huge stadiums where I will barely even be able to see them. Get back to reality, come back and play 4000 person halls everynight, thats MUSIC.
Excellent point...Peta.org is really where they belonged in the first place...I might feel that they had a case if the guy had bought the .com and they were at .org.
This is one that is near and dear to my heart. As we move forward into this new digital age, we have to start looking at the issues that will begin to develop. Begin a huge Fan of Issac Asimove I have to think that his ideas and concepts of the future of Robots are probably some of the best around. He already saw some of the forth coming issues involved. In his works he created what are probably the best common sense laws of how it should all work that are possible. The laws of Robotics.
1) A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence so long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Still as we move forward other issues will begin to come into play. As these contructs of man evolve so to speak, as the technology becomes greater will we not eventually have to reach a point that we must consider them more than a machine. Will we reach a point where they stop being tools and there by become a slave race?
That Idea gets explored again and agian in works of fiction. There are two stand out ST:THG episodes that explore just those ideas. I am not the sort of fan that remembers titles so you will have to forgive me.
In the first a scientist desires to strip data to his wires to find out more about him whereby be might make more Datas. Data fears this(in a way anyway, as he does not yet have emotions at this point) and is going to leave starfleet because he does not desire this, he fears he will lose the spark of life so to speak that makes him, himself. A ruling is made that Data is equipment, property to do with as Starfleet pleases("data is a toaster"). Picard and Riker are forced to argue opposite sides in a court case to descide what Data "Is". The thing that stands out the most for me in that episode is when Picard makes an impossioned speech and says to the effect "Our Misison is to seek out new life, well there it sits", He furthers the idea saying ok you repilcate Data make more of them, put them to work for Starfleet, use them for what ever purpose suits your fancy, sounds a lot like Slave labor. The descion is made that Data is infact a sentient being, with freewill, self awareness and even in a fashion the ability to reproduce.
The second happens a bit after that episode, the Enterprise is visiting a station where a scientist is using small Driods to repairs and maintain a project, they appear to be malfuntioning. Data thinks differently that they are acting in an intelligent manner, refusing to do dangerous or self destructive tasks. In try to prove this they setup a test that the driods see right through and work around seemingly failing yet in the end proving Data's theory. Data is able to prove that they are another form of intelligence much like himself.
Fianlly back to Asimov, he has two works that really prove out these Ideas, "I Robot" and "The Positronic Man", In 'I Robot' the Illistrated screenplay(A movie that seriously needs to get made but likely never will), we see how Robots develop, and move forward slowly becoming part of society, to the point where one becomes indistingushable from a human being. "The Positronic Man" takes this still further as the main Character the AI, wishes to become more than he is, he desires to grow beyond his original design, in the end becoming very human, to the point of creating an artifical body for himself. These works are incredible read them if you have not I can't begin to explain in this forum how they have shaped my thoughts on this subject.
Thats Bull#$%^ the only name that will work as a proper parody is the one he had, and he has all the right in the world to it! I maintain that he was absolutely not volitating their trademark, and Infact even if he was too bad! Trademark law doesn't belong in the realm of internet domains anyway....I also maintain that Those Peta A holes prosocuted this case with an agenda, and that was to CENSOR!!!!!! anything that is counter to their anti meat campaign.
Interesting question? Is Peta Non-Profit?
Not the same thing...not at all...They are very obviously angry at the content of the site and attmepting to shut it down, and using the alleged infringement as a justification for their actions. They really are just a bunch of cry babies. I have no personal issues with people who do or do not eat meat, or use animals for food or testing or whatever. These people do and are known to be militant about it, this guy came up with a clever way to stick his middle finger up at their arrogance and I applaud him for it. My only real issue is what they did, they had absolutely no right to press that lawsuit, and it sets an extremely dangerous precedent. Please come one people...get a clue...live and let live on the net its the only way to behave responsibly... Now I really have to get back to this Cow I am carving up, I want steak for dinner, and I will never finsh this expirement on his liver before he dies if I don't hurry up... BTW anyone got any A1 sauce?
Does anyone else remember when once upon a time the citizens of the net controlled the net... I do and I miss it. I really think its about time we get back to that the politics of no nation or organization should have anything to do with the internet. If two people have a disagreement on the NET they should work it out, and it should be none of the Courts or anyone else's business. I happen to agree in some way here. .Orgs are not supposed to collect $$$ for profit in any way. Infact in reality, peta.org should have been peta.org in the first place. Perhaps if anything its time or Internic, etc to start enforcing the meanings of the domains. .com(are you a company, No then you can't register this domain) .net(are you an ISP, or maintain a network service of some sort) .org(are you going to make a profit, by charging Money) In the DNS hosting service I own I will not take a registration if the registering person does not fit these rules.
Truth to tell everytime an article like this shows up there is always the question of ethics that gets included, WHY? I really have to ask that! This is a no-brainer(no pun intended) folks, if there is a way to improve humanities lot in life, just do it. Evolution has moved us as far forward as it can. We have one or two break out above average people come along each generation, thats true. Still this really isn't moving us forward as a species. These individuals do pass along their genes, but usually their mate is just another average person. Even when two above average people do get together it many times doesn't make a huge difference as they are just as likely due to the uncertianies of genes to have only average children. Let me offer and example: If evolution were still involved, along with a natural selection, and we were moving forward as a species, we would be talking about the Einstein family and not just Albert. We having(or at least developing) the technology to change our own species fate and lot in the universe have the obligation! to use it. I'd be the first person to volunteer in fact. I have above average intelligence, but I'd love to be able to run faster. Maybe I might someday have a child who can't run at all...I would certianly want everything possible done to change that condition. Our Species no longer has the conditioning factors that allow us to become something greater, we have in fact breed and medicate evolution out of existance.
As the owner of another internet service these issues obviously concern me. I believe your service much like my own fits into the legal staus and definition of an "Enhanced Service Provider" The same laws that protect AT&T and ISPs protect you.
I quote from my FAQ( http://wickednews.voyeurs.net/faq/#5) I have heard most Internet services such as WickedNews, called Enhanced Service Providers. Is WickedNews an Enhanced Service Provider? And if so, What is an Enhanced Service Provider?
Yes, WickedNews is an Enhanced Service Provider, A site that gives Usenet service (feeds or newsreaders) to anyone who asks, without making any additional qualifications for the service (other than keeping the bill paid), is classified as an enhanced service provider in the United States. This is like a common carrier, the classification for bussinesses like telephone companies and railroad freight firms, but with a bit less govenmental regulation than common carriers suffer. By not regulating the content of traffic passing through them, enhanced service providers are believed to be absolved from liability for "illegal" speech (e.g., copyright violations, obsenity, conspiracy, presidential death threats).
(Henry Spencer & David Lawrence. Managing Usenet. Cambridge: O'reilly & Associates, Inc, 1998.)
From what I have been told if you sensor anything you automatically loose this status, my advice do nothing, but reply to MS reminding them of this information.
I would also hazard to say that you are also covered under the laws on fair use as well...
Bill Dunn
Owner/ Server Administrator
V N Internet Services
www.wickednews.net
newsmaster@wickednews.net