The "COPY" button on the Xerox machine at the/. office is stuck. Staff are trying to sort out the news among all the duplicate "Broadcast Flag" stories flying out of the Xerox. Details after this report on the Broadcast Flag.
Municipal utilities are public resources. Offices, mechanical plant, and carrier lines are public resources and are not taxable by the state. Customers of municipal utilities pay no state tax. I used to live in a municipal electric area, it was dirt cheap.
Quite the opposite for corporations, where offices, mechanical plant, carrier lines, and customers are a source of tax revenue.
In today's world of out-of-state sales, the states have a vested interest in limiting municipal broadband - it keeps the tax revenue flowing in the coffers.
Bribes don't have to be monetary; they can be indirect threats to their job security. M$ threatened to yank those 800 jobs, which would directly affect the public official's popularity at the next election.
I am waiting for the time comes when i purchase a movie, place it in my dvd player (flash upgrade) or in my computer and it will auto-install tracking software.
Corporations don't give a fuck. They're big enough that they're visible and able to bring in the brightest/best/most.
Corporations don't want the brightest/best/most people, they want the most malleable.
Malleable as in fresh out of college, willing to work for slave labor wages, still young and impressionable, doesn't question the wisdom of management, doesn't question overtime without compensation (fresh out of long-hard-study-hours don't-have-a-life college so overtime doesn't appear abnormal), and green to the labor abuses of the industry (unless being real geeks they read/.).
I know the damage that identity theft can do. But I have trouble with the plaintiff argument. Identity theft means the theft of personal sensitive information.
Was any of this information used to:
open a credit account without his knowledge...?
extract sensitive information from public offices...?
swindle his bank account...?
leave delinquent accounts in his name...?
induce collection agencies to confront him...?
damage his credit record...?
damage his legal integrity...?
These are much more serious than Mr. Doe impersonating him in an email address.
The defendant used the email account to distribute a less-than-flattering cartoon, not to secure credit accounts or embezzle money. That fits the definition of libel, not identity theft.
And to be impartial, impersonation does not fall under protection of free speech. Just ask any divorced parent whose children were abducted by the ex-spouse traveling under an assumed name.
Both parties are really long stretches of reasoning. I can't believe the Maine Supreme Court is hearing this.
After reports of Windows 95's strange habit of deleting WordPerfect from PCs, I would not trust ANY anti-spyware from M$.
I see a real conflict in the making here.
Realplayer is a known distributor of spyware/adware.
Likewise with Kazaa, Grokster, and other P2P apps.
RIAA/MPAA pressures M$ to label P2P apps as "spyware/adware apps". After all, M$ has a business interest in such a move because they want industry adoption of their DRM/media player system. And it would be xxAA's underhanded sweet revenge after their loss in court against Grokster.
M$ anti-spyware labels these apps as a source of spyware/adware and removes them.
Realplayer files antitrust complaints to DoJ, claiming that M$ is maliciously deleting their apps to maintain their monopoly on media players.
The animosity towards M$ and xxAA raises to a new level as millions of P2P users find their pipeline cut off.
The xxAA conglomerates are crafty and malicious. If they can't stop P2P in the courts, they will and have exploit other means at their disposal. They've already infiltrated WMA/V files with adware/spyware to thwart P2P. And the temptation for M$ to develop their anti-spyware to delete competing applications (OpenOffice users beware) is too great.
Except illegal drug distribution is linear, file sharing is exponential. Big difference.
Not to mention the extremes that drug addicts go through to feed their habits. They steal, they embezzle, they lie to friends/relatives to extract money, and they neglect or sell their children (yes a Philadelphia woman was convicted of selling her daughter into slavery to drug dealers in exchange for crack). Drug addicts suffer from work productivity and would never be put in the hands of public safety. Society undisputedly suffers from drug addicts.
I don't read of file sharers reverting to such tactics to feed their habits. And I don't see any harm to society from file sharers.
Especially since M$ has been wooing Hollywood into their DRM WMA/V format for years now. Hollywood was reluctant about M$ owning the gateway to entertainment, and now they just pissed off the supplier. That's a bad business move, both parties lose. Now that M$ has "tighyly intergrated" WMP into the OS, they suddenly have a file format that is vulnerable to malware. WMA/V may join the corporate banned attachment list whose extensions end with exe, bat, pif, and so on.
Carol: I just hate driving down to your
'rents for Xmas, honey. The
traffic on 95 is horrible, particularly at the Delaware Bridge...
Bob: I've got an idea... an hour before
we leave, I'll just
hack in a traffic report of a huge accident so that cars will re-route.
It will be clear sailing for us!
Carole: Oh, Bob... You're such a hot
stud. I'm so glad I married Geek...
Carol: Carole? Who's Carole? Married? You told me you were single you CREEP!
We all know that AOHell already had the Netscape and Mozilla browsers.
So why did they use IE instead of Mozilla?
Pop-up and banner ads. They are AOHell's modus operandi to pushing product. Mozilla includes tools to block them; IE has no ad blocking tools. It was a business decision to use a browser that does not block their revenue resource.
There's nothing I enjoy more than paying money to rent a movie and sitting through 15 minutes of advertisements because the DVD won't allow the player to skip forward through that crap.
If you paid attention to the five-second "coming soon" banner preceding the ads, you will notice an unobtrusive plain text message that says "press MENU to start the movie"
Fast forwarding is disabled, but the MENU button skips over the ads.
What is worse are DVDs that open with the FBI warning with all skip mechanisms disabled.
Over the last four years I've been converting IE users to Mozilla/Firefox. The single feature that gets their attention is built-in popup/banner blocking. Like me, they are tired of popup/banner ads.
I also refuse to install Flash, it is a tool that has been abused by marketers. Transparent animation over page text was the last straw, that went WAY over the line for intrusion. Whenever I visit a Flash-only website, I complain to the webmaster for a non-Flash page. It usually gets results.
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What's wrong with violins on television?
It sure won't be the starving artist signed to a one-sided restrictive indentured servitude contract.
The "COPY" button on the Xerox machine at the /. office is stuck. Staff are trying to sort out the news among all the duplicate "Broadcast Flag" stories flying out of the Xerox. Details after this report on the Broadcast Flag.
Quite the opposite for corporations, where offices, mechanical plant, carrier lines, and customers are a source of tax revenue.
In today's world of out-of-state sales, the states have a vested interest in limiting municipal broadband - it keeps the tax revenue flowing in the coffers.
Bribes don't have to be monetary; they can be indirect threats to their job security. M$ threatened to yank those 800 jobs, which would directly affect the public official's popularity at the next election.
I can't wait until I can replace my Samsung!
(yes I know, dupe of joke, how original :)
How about we give the spammers the boot?
The US Copyright system places the burden of proof on the copyright owner. It's YOUR problem.
We will not do your dirty work for you.
Love,
The Parents
Have you bought any new Beastie Boys CDs lately...?
Corporations don't want the brightest/best/most people, they want the most malleable.
Malleable as in fresh out of college, willing to work for slave labor wages, still young and impressionable, doesn't question the wisdom of management, doesn't question overtime without compensation (fresh out of long-hard-study-hours don't-have-a-life college so overtime doesn't appear abnormal), and green to the labor abuses of the industry (unless being real geeks they read /.).
Big difference.
It makes the lawyers taller.
Was any of this information used to:
- open a credit account without his knowledge...?
- extract sensitive information from public offices...?
- swindle his bank account...?
- leave delinquent accounts in his name...?
- induce collection agencies to confront him...?
- damage his credit record...?
- damage his legal integrity...?
These are much more serious than Mr. Doe impersonating him in an email address.The defendant used the email account to distribute a less-than-flattering cartoon, not to secure credit accounts or embezzle money. That fits the definition of libel, not identity theft.
And to be impartial, impersonation does not fall under protection of free speech. Just ask any divorced parent whose children were abducted by the ex-spouse traveling under an assumed name.
Both parties are really long stretches of reasoning. I can't believe the Maine Supreme Court is hearing this.
Welcome to mole country. Here's your hammer. Happy whacking.
I see a real conflict in the making here.
- Realplayer is a known distributor of spyware/adware.
- Likewise with Kazaa, Grokster, and other P2P apps.
- RIAA/MPAA pressures M$ to label P2P apps as "spyware/adware apps". After all, M$ has a business interest in such a move because they want industry adoption of their DRM/media player system. And it would be xxAA's underhanded sweet revenge after their loss in court against Grokster.
- M$ anti-spyware labels these apps as a source of spyware/adware and removes them.
- Realplayer files antitrust complaints to DoJ, claiming that M$ is maliciously deleting their apps to maintain their monopoly on media players.
- The animosity towards M$ and xxAA raises to a new level as millions of P2P users find their pipeline cut off.
The xxAA conglomerates are crafty and malicious. If they can't stop P2P in the courts, they will and have exploit other means at their disposal. They've already infiltrated WMA/V files with adware/spyware to thwart P2P. And the temptation for M$ to develop their anti-spyware to delete competing applications (OpenOffice users beware) is too great.Yeah I've seen that too, it was in The Italian Job. But keep the movies out of it, willya? ;)
Not to mention the extremes that drug addicts go through to feed their habits. They steal, they embezzle, they lie to friends/relatives to extract money, and they neglect or sell their children (yes a Philadelphia woman was convicted of selling her daughter into slavery to drug dealers in exchange for crack). Drug addicts suffer from work productivity and would never be put in the hands of public safety. Society undisputedly suffers from drug addicts.
I don't read of file sharers reverting to such tactics to feed their habits. And I don't see any harm to society from file sharers.
Big difference, indeed.
Especially since M$ has been wooing Hollywood into their DRM WMA/V format for years now. Hollywood was reluctant about M$ owning the gateway to entertainment, and now they just pissed off the supplier. That's a bad business move, both parties lose. Now that M$ has "tighyly intergrated" WMP into the OS, they suddenly have a file format that is vulnerable to malware. WMA/V may join the corporate banned attachment list whose extensions end with exe, bat, pif, and so on.
Bob: I've got an idea... an hour before we leave, I'll just hack in a traffic report of a huge accident so that cars will re-route. It will be clear sailing for us!
Carole: Oh, Bob... You're such a hot stud. I'm so glad I married Geek...
Carol: Carole? Who's Carole? Married? You told me you were single you CREEP!
But it is innovation in MS's eyes :)
Spammers are unscrupulous law-defying scum.
Didn't you forget some addition?
So why did they use IE instead of Mozilla?
Pop-up and banner ads. They are AOHell's modus operandi to pushing product. Mozilla includes tools to block them; IE has no ad blocking tools. It was a business decision to use a browser that does not block their revenue resource.
If you paid attention to the five-second "coming soon" banner preceding the ads, you will notice an unobtrusive plain text message that says "press MENU to start the movie"
Fast forwarding is disabled, but the MENU button skips over the ads.
What is worse are DVDs that open with the FBI warning with all skip mechanisms disabled.
Girls = Time * Money
Girls = (Money)^2
Girls = ( square root (Evil) )^2
Girls = Evil
Funny as it seems, my ex fit this proof perfectly.
I also refuse to install Flash, it is a tool that has been abused by marketers. Transparent animation over page text was the last straw, that went WAY over the line for intrusion. Whenever I visit a Flash-only website, I complain to the webmaster for a non-Flash page. It usually gets results.