Is not keep sales records for anyone - anywhere - for any longer that is required to process the transaction and handle disputes (60-90 days). After that, then they can aggregate the sales data and strip the identify of the user. Keeping records going back to 2003 (and earlier) is just stupid and bait for any state to try this (especially if NC wins this in court).
give control to an auto-updating system blindly. Never trust someone else to have an update that will work with your system. Otherwise be prepared to live with a brick until you restore your computer (you do have backups - right?)
Actually there is a big difference. A drunk person is not able to enter into a contract. A better analogy would be a divorcing copule, where one partner sells a car for a $1. The divorce court can reduce the settlement by the fair market of the partner by the value of the car; but the new owners have no obligation to return the car or pay the difference.
Amazon's problem - They should swallow the loss, and not piss off customers by making them go to their credit card companies and complain that the new charge is unauthorized.
How about simply pulling the hard drives out of the machine!? As long as it is not a software/virus problem you are trying to fix; the techie can place his own hard drive in the box with all the tools he needs.
I did this the last time I had to have my system worked on and there was no problems. I told the tech that federal law required me to keep the data on the drives private (which was true - HIPPA).
From what I remember of the GPL, If you dont publish the binary code for a program, you may make any changes you want to the source and not be forced to release them.
Most agencies that handle classified information will not want to share the code that handles that data. So any development work done by these agencies is kept within the agency and not subject to GPL.
The commercial software houses see their meal tickets going away and will spread any amount of FUD to prevent it. If the current crop of contractors will not bid on contracts that use/require open source, too bad. Someone else will be glad to take the contract.
For the education, training, and support, they received. You use your creative skills to create the work that you copyright. So, society is *owed* the product of your efforts to form an element of the society for the next several generations.
If you don't want this, then don't publish the work. In fact, save yourself some effort and do not create. Society will get along without you.
Unless the scanner can correct for the misplacement of the image (skew and position). I dont see how it can generate the same key for two different passes of the same image. Most likely the document will not be retriveable reliably with this method.
They should have blocked foreign spam sources a long time ago. I block all email from outside the us and block the major american span sources (AOL, MSN, Earthlink, Compuserve and Hotmail).
I dont have a spam problem and I still get the email I want to see.
The only thing keeping me from dumping MS Office is OO's lack of a Wordperfect converter. Between that and the IE-Centric "Standards" my company has; I will have to stick with vmware/M$ucks a while more.
Actually, I do bid penny amounts (like 36.13) because most people only bid either whole dollars or $$ +.25 or +.50 cents. I do this when I snip (which is the only way to bid IMHO). Chris
Ameritech allows me to specify NO long distance carrier. They charge about $1/mo for the privilege. I also pay for non-published listing (no phone book listing, no directory listing (and no internet phonebook listing). I have to pay a $1.50/mo for the privilege.
As far as cable modems, they could just take the position that they will NOT ALLOW non company issued modem to connect to their system. They OWN the cable and they CAN dictate what attaches to it. Chris
I have some serious reservations on giving additional rights to an industry that wants to have a veto power over how I choose to watch there material.
I use MY vcr to record shows, since I sleep during prime time (I work early in the morning), My Video CD recorder to keep a copy of the shows for future use and reduce the amount of video tape i need. And my dvd player/cd player to handle those shows not on tv.
All of these uses are legetimate, and I do not appriciate someone in the movie industry calling me and others "Thieves" because we done want to watch lousy commercials. Or watch the show when the networks grant use permission (schedule) the program.
If the DRM hardware is mandated, I will keep my old equipment and record anyway. Since most electronics will last indefinely, it will become a "have/have not" situation. Those of use who get/have the products before your laws will continue to do want they want (both legal and illegal) and the rest of the people will have to live under the dictates of the so-called "owners".
I believe that the Congress has taken IP and copyright TOO FAR against consumers and the general public because thaey have been bought off with campain contributions from the software, recording and movie industries.
Finally, not every ADC chip can be controlled by a DRM "cop chip". Certain applications (medical, flight safty, process control) CAN NOT be shutdown or severe/fatal consequences will result. As long as these applications exist, uncontrolled ADC chips will exist, and someone will find a way to retrofit them into consumer products.
In short, you are fighting a battle you can not win as long as we are not a dictatorial police state. Laws are only ass effective as the willingness of the people to support them (Take a good look as the Civil Rights movement for an example). If the Congress is ready to setup a police state to protect industry, Then you have violated the spirit if not the letter of your Oath of Office.
>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>> additional comment If this passes, then the various industries will have one more convert to either boycott or actively bypass their control every chance I can. It will be time for Civil Disobedence.
Chris If you want freedom, be prepared to PAY the price for it.
There should be a limit on soceity's curiousity (even for a good purpose). Just limit the data to the same type recorded by an airplane black box (it could even have GPS info).
A short 3 min memory should help to protect most privacy (it takes at least 5 min to get anywhere these days). As far as the wire cutters are concerned. they may place the recorder within the computer module that most cars have. That way the only additional hardware needed is the force sensors in the body and wiring for them and GPS.
Having been the victim of credit card fraud, I personally think that this will be a "good thing".
I tried paypal for a few transactions then closed my account when I realized they have an uncontrolled access the my $$$.
So as far as I am concerned, Paypal is insecure, uncontrollable service and should be restricted from doing bussiness by Mastercard (which by the way has contractual aggrements to protect me and laws enacted to regulate their bussiness).
Instead of getting them at new $$$. Support you local used music store. You may have to wait a while to get what you want but you can get the music for 1/3 to 1/4 the price of new.
Seems the best way to have the sound and screw the Machine. Chris
Sounds like if the internet is considered to be extra-terriorial, then the US can consider limiting access to ANY server, just as we limit trade across the border to what we think is in our interest. Could you see a dispute over access to internet gambling or porn being arbitrated by the WTO?!?
AS always, there are downsides to being a forienger in any country. Chris
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Unless they can put "copy protection" in my eyes and ears; I will still be able to copy anything!!!
Keep that old equipment people. The corporate wars begin here!
Neither if which would work in a "grab a slot and start talking" mode of operations. On the radio, there would be more interference than happens today with skip and pirate stations.
Just as each computer needs a unique address (let's leave NAT out of this) to successfully transmit and receive their data; radio transmitters must use specific frequencies, power levels and operating times to avoid interferience (the operating times make the spectrum allocations work like dymanic IP).
So someone has to retain control of the spectrum "for the public interest". That's why we human beings create organizations.
What the american people, states, of feds want. I will have my own encryption software without the backdoors. I will have encrypted backups, and encrypted filesystems. My business is not your business not the new "police" state.
And for what I want to keep really secret, the good old one-time pad will do nicely.
Sounds like another rehash of the old State vs Federal debate. The Constitution is meant to define and LIMIT the power of the federal government to specifically allowed and deny the government specific powers.
In the 10th Admendment, All other powers are reserved to the State or The People. Since schools are not Federal Institutions, They are limited by the laws of the individual States which do not have to be as tolerant of freedoms. In fact, most of the federal control of schools comes from the fact that the school takes federal money. Otherwise the school could forego the money, and implement whatever regulations they want (aka private/religous education).
The Goverments of the United States are more like a network than a single PC. For foreign affairs, defense, and interstate commerence (plus a few others) the Feds have the authority over the States. That is why Drivers lisences and Gun laws, are different between the states.
-- Just my Rant for *LIMITED* federal governemnt
Uncle Sam overdosed on Viagra and it went to his head.
Thank you for the clarification. But I still believe that even under that system, the apportionment of electors is more in line with the popular vote than in winner-take-all.
You don't always have to tear down a building in order to repair a problem within the building, the same can be said for government. You just have to decide what you want.
How about the people in the states that have initiative petitions change their state constitutions to allow dividing the electoral delegates by popular percentage. (like Maine) The people in the other states will have to work a bit harder (called lobbying)
Then the Electoral College will more accurately reflect the will of the people instead if the "winner take all" state of affairs we have today.
Of course, there is the possiblity of having more states needing recounts or "voting irregularities".
I for one will not buy ANY Intel cpu's as long as I do not have a way of PERMENTLY disable the CPUID in the microprocessor. Looks like Intel could supply a bios update to do this. If not, any retired microcode ppl out there wanting to take a stab at this?
What is wrong with people! You dont leave the back door to you house open at night. Anytime you go online, regarless of the method, you are opening a back door to you computer!!
If you go online anywhere with you personal/finacial data on the computer and you do not use encryption/firewalls, then you DESERVE to get you like screwed up by some punk who can prove he smarter at getting you information that you are at keeping it.
As for @HOME, When I when online with their service I got probed by several ip addresses in the domain. One letter to abuse@home.com and I have not seen these ip addresses touch my system again.
In short, Encrypt what you don't want others to see, Firewall the computers that you don't want others to probe. And rat out those that try to you ISP's abuse email account.
80% of the human race are idiots, 20% are morons, and 10% know what they are doing.
Chris Sutter
Slashdot Mirror
Is not keep sales records for anyone - anywhere - for any longer that is required to process the transaction and handle disputes (60-90 days). After that, then they can aggregate the sales data and strip the identify of the user. Keeping records going back to 2003 (and earlier) is just stupid and bait for any state to try this (especially if NC wins this in court).
give control to an auto-updating system blindly. Never trust someone else to have an update that will work with your system. Otherwise be prepared to live with a brick until you restore your computer (you do have backups - right?)
Actually there is a big difference. A drunk person is not able to enter into a contract. A better analogy would be a divorcing copule, where one partner sells a car for a $1. The divorce court can reduce the settlement by the fair market of the partner by the value of the car; but the new owners have no obligation to return the car or pay the difference.
Amazon's problem - They should swallow the loss, and not piss off customers by making them go to their credit card companies and complain that the new charge is unauthorized.
How about simply pulling the hard drives out of the machine!? As long as it is not a software/virus problem you are trying to fix; the techie can place his own hard drive in the box with all the tools he needs.
I did this the last time I had to have my system worked on and there was no problems. I told the tech that federal law required me to keep the data on the drives private (which was true - HIPPA).
Put the RFID chips in their tags, so I can remove them when the flight is over, why should this be a big deal. They already use barcodes on the tags.
From what I remember of the GPL, If you dont publish the binary code for a program, you may make any changes you want to the source and not be forced to release them.
Most agencies that handle classified information will not want to share the code that handles that data. So any development work done by these agencies is kept within the agency and not subject to GPL.
The commercial software houses see their meal tickets going away and will spread any amount of FUD to prevent it. If the current crop of contractors will not bid on contracts that use/require open source, too bad. Someone else will be glad to take the contract.
Chris
For the education, training, and support, they received. You use your creative skills to create the work that you copyright. So, society is *owed* the product of your efforts to form an element of the society for the next several generations.
If you don't want this, then don't publish the work. In fact, save yourself some effort and do not create. Society will get along without you.
Unless the scanner can correct for the misplacement of the image (skew and position). I dont see how it can generate the same key for two different passes of the same image. Most likely the document will not be retriveable reliably with this method.
Chris
They should have blocked foreign spam sources a long time ago. I block all email from outside the us and block the major american span sources (AOL, MSN, Earthlink, Compuserve and Hotmail).
I dont have a spam problem and I still get the email I want to see.
Chris
The only thing keeping me from dumping MS Office is OO's lack of a Wordperfect converter. Between that and the IE-Centric "Standards" my company has; I will have to stick with vmware/M$ucks a while more.
Actually, I do bid penny amounts (like 36.13) because most people only bid either whole dollars or $$ +.25 or +.50 cents. I do this when I snip (which is the only way to bid IMHO).
Chris
Ameritech allows me to specify NO long distance carrier. They charge about $1/mo for the privilege. I also pay for non-published listing (no phone book listing, no directory listing (and no internet phonebook listing). I have to pay a $1.50/mo for the privilege.
As far as cable modems, they could just take the position that they will NOT ALLOW non company issued modem to connect to their system. They OWN the cable and they CAN dictate what attaches to it.
Chris
I have some serious reservations on giving additional rights to an industry that wants to have a veto power over how I choose to watch there material.
I use MY vcr to record shows, since I sleep during prime time (I work early in the morning), My Video CD recorder to keep a copy of the shows for future use and reduce the amount of video tape i need. And my dvd player/cd player to handle those shows not on tv.
All of these uses are legetimate, and I do not appriciate someone in the movie industry calling me and others "Thieves" because we done want to watch lousy commercials. Or watch the show when the networks grant use permission (schedule) the program.
If the DRM hardware is mandated, I will keep my old equipment and record anyway. Since most electronics will last indefinely, it will become a "have/have not" situation. Those of use who get/have the products before your laws will continue to do want they want (both legal and illegal) and the rest of the people will have to live under the dictates of the so-called "owners".
I believe that the Congress has taken IP and copyright TOO FAR against consumers and the general public because thaey have been bought off with campain contributions from the software, recording and movie industries.
Finally, not every ADC chip can be controlled by a DRM "cop chip". Certain applications (medical, flight safty, process control) CAN NOT be shutdown or severe/fatal consequences will result. As long as these applications exist, uncontrolled ADC chips will exist, and someone will find a way to retrofit them into consumer products.
In short, you are fighting a battle you can not win as long as we are not a dictatorial police state. Laws are only ass effective as the willingness of the people to support them (Take a good look as the Civil Rights movement for an example). If the Congress is ready to setup a police state to protect industry, Then you have violated the spirit if not the letter of your Oath of Office.
>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>> additional comment
If this passes, then the various industries will have one more convert to either boycott or actively bypass their control every chance I can. It will be time for Civil Disobedence.
Chris
If you want freedom, be prepared to PAY the price for it.
There should be a limit on soceity's curiousity (even for a good purpose). Just limit the data to the same type recorded by an airplane black box (it could even have GPS info).
A short 3 min memory should help to protect most privacy (it takes at least 5 min to get anywhere these days). As far as the wire cutters are concerned. they may place the recorder within the computer module that most cars have. That way the only additional hardware needed is the force sensors in the body and wiring for them and GPS.
Just keep the transponder out of it!
Chris
Having been the victim of credit card fraud, I personally think that this will be a "good thing".
I tried paypal for a few transactions then closed my account when I realized they have an uncontrolled access the my $$$.
So as far as I am concerned, Paypal is insecure, uncontrollable service and should be restricted from doing bussiness by Mastercard (which by the way has contractual aggrements to protect me and laws enacted to regulate their bussiness).
Money Orders still work. Just a bit slower.
Chris
Instead of getting them at new $$$. Support you local used music store. You may have to wait a while to get what you want but you can get the music for 1/3 to 1/4 the price of new.
Seems the best way to have the sound and screw the Machine.
Chris
Sounds like if the internet is considered to be extra-terriorial, then the US can consider limiting access to ANY server, just as we limit trade across the border to what we think is in our interest. Could you see a dispute over access to internet gambling or porn being arbitrated by the WTO?!?
AS always, there are downsides to being a forienger in any country.
Chris
Unless they can put "copy protection" in my eyes and ears; I will still be able to copy anything!!!
Keep that old equipment people. The corporate wars begin here!
Just as each computer needs a unique address (let's leave NAT out of this) to successfully transmit and receive their data; radio transmitters must use specific frequencies, power levels and operating times to avoid interferience (the operating times make the spectrum allocations work like dymanic IP).
So someone has to retain control of the spectrum "for the public interest". That's why we human beings create organizations.
Chris
What the american people, states, of feds want. I will have my own encryption software without the backdoors. I will have encrypted backups, and encrypted filesystems. My business is not your business not the new "police" state.
And for what I want to keep really secret, the good old one-time pad will do nicely.
Chris
In the 10th Admendment, All other powers are reserved to the State or The People. Since schools are not Federal Institutions, They are limited by the laws of the individual States which do not have to be as tolerant of freedoms. In fact, most of the federal control of schools comes from the fact that the school takes federal money. Otherwise the school could forego the money, and implement whatever regulations they want (aka private/religous education).
The Goverments of the United States are more like a network than a single PC. For foreign affairs, defense, and interstate commerence (plus a few others) the Feds have the authority over the States. That is why Drivers lisences and Gun laws, are different between the states.
-- Just my Rant for *LIMITED* federal governemnt
Uncle Sam overdosed on Viagra and it went to his head.
Chris
You don't always have to tear down a building in order to repair a problem within the building, the same can be said for government. You just have to decide what you want.
Chris
Then the Electoral College will more accurately reflect the will of the people instead if the "winner take all" state of affairs we have today.
Of course, there is the possiblity of having more states needing recounts or "voting irregularities".
Chris
I for one will not buy ANY Intel cpu's as long as I do not have a way of PERMENTLY disable the CPUID in the microprocessor. Looks like Intel could supply a bios update to do this. If not, any retired microcode ppl out there wanting to take a stab at this?
If you go online anywhere with you personal/finacial data on the computer and you do not use encryption/firewalls, then you DESERVE to get you like screwed up by some punk who can prove he smarter at getting you information that you are at keeping it.
As for @HOME, When I when online with their service I got probed by several ip addresses in the domain. One letter to abuse@home.com and I have not seen these ip addresses touch my system again.
In short, Encrypt what you don't want others to see, Firewall the computers that you don't want others to probe. And rat out those that try to you ISP's abuse email account.
80% of the human race are idiots, 20% are morons, and 10% know what they are doing.
Chris Sutter