They obviously didn't have to deal with removing 20 lbs of solid parrafin in order to replace a bad hard drive. And you better make sure all of your jumpers are set right. Ever tried to remove solid paraffin wax from a PCI slot?
Customers may be experiencing an issue with receiving inbound calls and placing outbound calls due to a network issue. This problem is also impacting availability of our web site.
Our engineers are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.
I have a hard time believing that pay per download will solve anything. I still RARELY am able to find the CDs I want when looking through my local music store.
Admittedly, I rarely listen to or buy music from major record labels. But try going into a music store and finding a CD by Juno Reactor. Or VNV Nation. No luck? How about DreamTrybe, or Thirteen of Everything. Or Kenna. STILL can't find it? Six Mile Bridge maybe? Probably not. So, I either have to hunt down those CDs on ebay or some obscure indie site (and no, not all those bands are indie) OR - I simply have to enter the band into KazAA and badaboom! I have the music I want.
Is it stealing? Probably - although I always end up buying the CD when I can find it. Is it illegal? Well, according to the RIAA - yes. Do I share my MP3s? YOU BET I DO! Who am I to be able to tell if that person downloading my file is trying to get another copy of that CD that was stolen out of his car, or if they just want to get it for free?
I find it terribly amusing through this whole thing that most state universities (and ALL state universities in Texas) are pretty much thumbing their nose at the RIAA and their demands.
take note that these are state universities where tax payer dollars pay for most of the tuition, and a hefty chunk of the networking and connectivity costs.
Does this count as the government (albeit state, not federal) ignoring the DMCA?
The Challenger didn't run on pure liquid hydrogen, but on a special compound called Hydrazine ( H2NNH2), which is VERY explosive (and corrosive too if I remember correctly) and extremely reactive. It will never make a safe commercial fuel for airliners, if for no other reason than manufacturing and safe storage costs.
To make things more interesting, it's also highly toxic (hydrogen - h2 - is not).
1.1.2. Toxic effects (This Section is for information only and should not be taken as the basis of OSHA Policy.)
Hydrazine is a severe skin and mucous membrane irritant in humans; in animals, it is also a convulsant and a carcinogen.
In humans, the vapor is immediately irritating to the nose and throat and causes dizziness and nausea; itching, burning, and swelling of the eyes develop over a period of several hours. Severe exposures of the eyes to the vapors causes temporary blindness lasting for about 24 hours. Recurrent exposure to hydrazine hydrate has been reported to cause contact dermatitis of the hands without systemic intoxication.
In humans, hydrazine is absorbed through the skin, by inhalation, and orally; systemic effects include weight loss, weakness, vomiting, excited behavior, and convulsions; the chief histologic findings are fatty degeneration of the liver and nephritis. (Ref. 5.6.)
Of course hydrogen still reacts well in the presence of oxygen, but unlike hydrazine, requires a spark or other catalyst to start cumbustion.
First off, many posts have been treating this situation as if the University was a private entity that owned the server and bandwidth in question. This could not be further from the truth.
The University of Utah is a PUBLIC University, subsidized by public taxes on the residents of Utah, and otherwise funded by the student's tuition.
Ergo, the University bandwidth, and server hosting WAS owned by the student. In addition, any portion of the site that could be called into question as NOT being owned by the student directly, is therefore owned by the public - this places the contents of the site DIRECTLY under speech protected by the constitution. The State does not have the right to prohibit speech placed in a public forum - this is why state universities in general have been a hotbed of free speech, be it in the form of protests, or websites.
For example, many students may find a gay pride march through the university center offensive, but it is protected speech. What difference does it make in a digital media? As a student or resident of the state, one pays for the ground the university is on, likewise in this case, the "digital" ground or "site" was ALSO paid for by the same.
As for the confiscation of the material, copyright infringement, expulsion, and legal action taken by the university, these can be considered nothing less than discrimination and legal persecution on the basis of speech that the state disagreed with. Speech which was presented in a public forum, on a medium owned jointly by the student and the public. Speech that is protected.
Using this as a precedent, what is to prevent the government, be it state or federal, from descending upon the peaceful participants in a million whatever march in Washington, siezing their picket signs, kicking them out of D.C., and threatinging them with legal repurcussions?
There is no difference. If this precedent remains, free speech will have taken a mortal blow.
Everyone seems to be that this is a virus that isn't really aimed at linux or win32... it's a worm written in assembly that only affects Intel Processors. Sun, Appple, and even your AMD processor machine are all safe.
- The Ravnos
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Take a look at TicketMaster V. Microsoft in the US District court. It deals with linking to any data on a website, and by providing that link, possibly, but not necessarily profiting from it. TicketMaster alleges that since it is charging a fee for some companies to be able to link to it's event schedules in various cities, that Microsoft cannot post a link to Ticketmaster, since they didn't pay for it, and even more so, that Microsoft might possibly profit from the fact that people use their site to navigate to the Ticketmaster one. Realize, that the pages in question on the ticketmaster site are freely avaliable to the public. Heck, have I infringed on them by providing the link above? Heaven forbid that I (or slashdot for that matter) profit by having the link here.
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They obviously didn't have to deal with removing 20 lbs of solid parrafin in order to replace a bad hard drive. And you better make sure all of your jumpers are set right. Ever tried to remove solid paraffin wax from a PCI slot?
I noticed that too...
From the Vonage site:
Customers may be experiencing an issue with receiving inbound calls and placing outbound calls due to a network issue. This problem is also impacting availability of our web site.
Our engineers are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.
a beowulf cluster of these things!
only outlaws will use filesharing.
I have a hard time believing that pay per download will solve anything. I still RARELY am able to find the CDs I want when looking through my local music store.
Admittedly, I rarely listen to or buy music from major record labels. But try going into a music store and finding a CD by Juno Reactor. Or VNV Nation. No luck? How about DreamTrybe, or Thirteen of Everything. Or Kenna. STILL can't find it? Six Mile Bridge maybe? Probably not. So, I either have to hunt down those CDs on ebay or some obscure indie site (and no, not all those bands are indie) OR - I simply have to enter the band into KazAA and badaboom! I have the music I want.
Is it stealing? Probably - although I always end up buying the CD when I can find it. Is it illegal? Well, according to the RIAA - yes. Do I share my MP3s? YOU BET I DO! Who am I to be able to tell if that person downloading my file is trying to get another copy of that CD that was stolen out of his car, or if they just want to get it for free?
I find it terribly amusing through this whole thing that most state universities (and ALL state universities in Texas) are pretty much thumbing their nose at the RIAA and their demands.
take note that these are state universities where tax payer dollars pay for most of the tuition, and a hefty chunk of the networking and connectivity costs.
Does this count as the government (albeit state, not federal) ignoring the DMCA?
The Challenger didn't run on pure liquid hydrogen, but on a special compound called Hydrazine ( H2NNH2), which is VERY explosive (and corrosive too if I remember correctly) and extremely reactive. It will never make a safe commercial fuel for airliners, if for no other reason than manufacturing and safe storage costs.
To make things more interesting, it's also highly toxic (hydrogen - h2 - is not).
Osha comments on it as:
1.1.2. Toxic effects (This Section is for information only and should not be taken as the basis of OSHA Policy.)
Hydrazine is a severe skin and mucous membrane irritant in humans; in animals, it is also a convulsant and a carcinogen. In humans, the vapor is immediately irritating to the nose and throat and causes dizziness and nausea; itching, burning, and swelling of the eyes develop over a period of several hours. Severe exposures of the eyes to the vapors causes temporary blindness lasting for about 24 hours. Recurrent exposure to hydrazine hydrate has been reported to cause contact dermatitis of the hands without systemic intoxication.
In humans, hydrazine is absorbed through the skin, by inhalation, and orally; systemic effects include weight loss, weakness, vomiting, excited behavior, and convulsions; the chief histologic findings are fatty degeneration of the liver and nephritis. (Ref. 5.6.)
Of course hydrogen still reacts well in the presence of oxygen, but unlike hydrazine, requires a spark or other catalyst to start cumbustion.
- The Ravnos
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Buh-bye to Samba / Mandrake! Seriously, it's coming already with XP and .NET
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First off, many posts have been treating this situation as if the University was a private entity that owned the server and bandwidth in question. This could not be further from the truth. The University of Utah is a PUBLIC University, subsidized by public taxes on the residents of Utah, and otherwise funded by the student's tuition. Ergo, the University bandwidth, and server hosting WAS owned by the student. In addition, any portion of the site that could be called into question as NOT being owned by the student directly, is therefore owned by the public - this places the contents of the site DIRECTLY under speech protected by the constitution. The State does not have the right to prohibit speech placed in a public forum - this is why state universities in general have been a hotbed of free speech, be it in the form of protests, or websites. For example, many students may find a gay pride march through the university center offensive, but it is protected speech. What difference does it make in a digital media? As a student or resident of the state, one pays for the ground the university is on, likewise in this case, the "digital" ground or "site" was ALSO paid for by the same. As for the confiscation of the material, copyright infringement, expulsion, and legal action taken by the university, these can be considered nothing less than discrimination and legal persecution on the basis of speech that the state disagreed with. Speech which was presented in a public forum, on a medium owned jointly by the student and the public. Speech that is protected. Using this as a precedent, what is to prevent the government, be it state or federal, from descending upon the peaceful participants in a million whatever march in Washington, siezing their picket signs, kicking them out of D.C., and threatinging them with legal repurcussions? There is no difference. If this precedent remains, free speech will have taken a mortal blow.
Everyone seems to be that this is a virus that isn't really aimed at linux or win32... it's a worm written in assembly that only affects Intel Processors. Sun, Appple, and even your AMD processor machine are all safe. - The Ravnos **THIS SIG FOR SALE**
Take a look at TicketMaster V. Microsoft in the US District court. It deals with linking to any data on a website, and by providing that link, possibly, but not necessarily profiting from it. TicketMaster alleges that since it is charging a fee for some companies to be able to link to it's event schedules in various cities, that Microsoft cannot post a link to Ticketmaster, since they didn't pay for it, and even more so, that Microsoft might possibly profit from the fact that people use their site to navigate to the Ticketmaster one. Realize, that the pages in question on the ticketmaster site are freely avaliable to the public. Heck, have I infringed on them by providing the link above? Heaven forbid that I (or slashdot for that matter) profit by having the link here.