It's occured to me that since Dimitry can't go home to his wife & kids, would it be possible to bring his wife & kids here? It would probably take some fundraising to pay for plane tickets, living arrangements, etc.
I've been thinking a wood chipper myself. Feet first. With the motor at its slowest setting. About six hours after being forced to drink a glass of hydrofluoric acid. Make it twelve hours.
That's what happens when your Batman Factor is too high.
As for me, I keep my Leatherman tool & cell phone on my belt, keys & wallet in my jeans pockets. I've been thinking about getting a handheld, probably a Visor Prism, but I have no idea how to keep it on my person. I could put it on my belt, but that would bring my personal Batman Factor to 3, and the Visor is big enough to increase the dork quotient even further.
One of the reasons why I got broadband was so I didn't have to deal with dialing up & logging on every time I wanted to web surf. With cable internet, the connection's always on, I just fire up my browser & go. PPPoE reverses that - it forces users to log in if they want to surf the web. What a pain.
For all the sysadmins out there. Is there a genuinely good reason to set up a network with PPPoE rather than just letting them use ordinary ethernet, cable modem or DSL networking? It just sounds retarded to me.
I don't know how much money Dimitry can come up with, but if all else fails, he can do business with a bail bonds business. Costs typically are ten percent of the bail. The only problem is that you sign all your rights to the bail bonds service. If you jump bail, they'll send bounty hunters to bring you back to court in a body cast, and it's all legal.
There's always this thing called "bail". Kids repeat after me. "BAIL". Dimitry posts a bond consisting of a lot of money with the Feds, & if he shows up for his trial at the appointed time, he gets his money back. If he skips town, he loses it. How hard can it be to understand this surprisingly simple concept?
The program could be used to enable piracy. It also could be used for lots of legal purposes as well - backups, converting to a format usable with other software (such as the acrobat text-to-speech feature for the blind), space shifting to multiple computers owned by the legal user, selling the software to a friend (and deleting your own copy), etc.
If I use your logic, I'd suggest that cars be banned because someone could use them as getaway vehicles in bank robberies, or ban suitcases because they could be used for drug smuggling. So he broke the law. He broke a stupid, poorly designed, draconian, unconstitutional law that infringes on freedom of speech and needs to be struck down or repealed post haste.
I doubt he has to worry about clogged coronary arteries, he doesn't have coronary arteries anymore. This is a major advance - since the heart is self-contained - no tubes coming through the skin to a big pump machine, only a battery pack that induces electricity through the skin, the chance of infection is greatly reduced.
Really, I dream of a day when you and I can defend ourselves in court and not be called a fool by the judge.
Small Claims Court is the place where you can do that - neither the plaintiff or defendant are allowed to have lawyers, they state their cases themselves, and is designed to be layman friendly. Getting your day in court only costs fifteen dollars or so. The only restriction is that the amount of money in dispute must be less then $5000 or so, depending on jurisdiction - it is Small Claims Court.
One thing that would really help is to raise the standards of what is or isn't patentable, and have the Patent Office enforce them. Instead of the current system - where the company essentially writes the patent for itself and the Patent Office examiner rubber stamps it, there should be a thorough investigation of the invention by very skeptical examiners, and the company must prove before a patent board that the invention is worth patenting. The company must also present a business plan for selling products based on the patent - no sitting on an idle patent suing everyone. Use it or lose it.
I'm surprised noone has mentioned SpamCop yet. For those who don't know about SpamCop, they are a service that offers spam-filtered email accounts, and a free spam reporting service. Forward your spam to them, all headers included, and they will automagically look up the ISP that is responsible and send a complaint to their abuse hotline. I've lost track of how many spam accounts I've helped to cancel using SpamCop. Probably not 200 though, but every TOS termination helps.
<SARCASM>That's all due to everyone's favorite piece of legislation - the DMCA.</SARCASM> It specifically states that ISPs must maintain a contact person that copyright holders can report violations to, and when informed of a violation, they must take action or be held liable for contributory infringement. That action can start with warnings, then go on to suspensions and account terminations. They don't have any choice in the matter.:(
As long as access to the copyrighted files is password protected so others can't snarf them, I don't see why not. I don't see how the RIAA's goons could find out that is happening anyways, especially if you use encryption.
They obviously are not reading the stuff their voting on.
It's worse than that - they know they are writing and passing laws that stifle our freedoms and violate the Constitution, but they either don't care or actively oppose freedom for us little people.
"But I wonder if those same advocates would be as protective of a piece of technology that helps people obtain their personal information online."
--Allan Adler
I don't blame the technology that collects my personal data (web bugs, cookes, databases). I blame the people who use this technology for dishonorable purposes. Cookies can be used to track my surfing habits without my knowledge, and they can retain my preferences and login information so I don't have to relogin to Slashdot every time I visit.
In the same way, copy protection circumvention devices can be used for making legitimate backups and shifting the data to other devices and operating systems, or they can be used for piracy. Don't blame the tool, blame the person who uses the tool.
Habeas Corpus is Latin for "Produce the body". In legal terms, it means that the government can't imprison someone for more that a couple days without charging him with a crime. I do believe that Sklyarov has already had an arraignment hearing where he was formally charged, then denied bail, so he already had his Habeas Corpus rights fulfilled.
Try telling that to Rosa Parks - the law said black people must move to the back of the bus. The result of her civil disobedience was that she was arrested. Then, the outcry over that incident brought an end to Jim Crow laws.
It is not only OK to break laws that are blatently unfair, it is your duty to do so.
Speaking of duty... This version is probably HTML mangled, see the DeCSS gallery for the unmangled version.
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Having attended this meeting, I can say the Denver protesters are going to change the emphasis of the protest slightly. Because Adobe is willing to talk to the EFF, we're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, so instead of protesting Adobe, we're protesting against the DMCA at the Denver Federal Courthouse, and protesting against the FBI & the Justice Department for jailing Sklyarov for violating the DMCA.
Here's a disturbing thought. Apparently, the feds wanted to make an example of someone to cow everyone into obeying the DMCA. They could have busted Professor Turensky(sp?) for his DeCSS gallery, or dozens of other people for making PlayStation mod chips, game copy protection cracks, Macrovision filters for VCRs, etc. But they picked Dmitry while he was attending and speaking at DefCon. I think this is because they could easily vilify him as an "EVIL RUSSIAN HACKER" to the press and to the courts, while they would have had a harder time vilifying a university professor. This smells like anti-Russian bigotry.
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It's occured to me that since Dimitry can't go home to his wife & kids, would it be possible to bring his wife & kids here? It would probably take some fundraising to pay for plane tickets, living arrangements, etc.
I believe he was released into the custody of a Russian friend, and he's gonna crash at his house for the time being.
I've been thinking a wood chipper myself. Feet first. With the motor at its slowest setting. About six hours after being forced to drink a glass of hydrofluoric acid. Make it twelve hours.
That's what happens when your Batman Factor is too high.
As for me, I keep my Leatherman tool & cell phone on my belt, keys & wallet in my jeans pockets. I've been thinking about getting a handheld, probably a Visor Prism, but I have no idea how to keep it on my person. I could put it on my belt, but that would bring my personal Batman Factor to 3, and the Visor is big enough to increase the dork quotient even further.
One of the reasons why I got broadband was so I didn't have to deal with dialing up & logging on every time I wanted to web surf. With cable internet, the connection's always on, I just fire up my browser & go. PPPoE reverses that - it forces users to log in if they want to surf the web. What a pain.
For all the sysadmins out there. Is there a genuinely good reason to set up a network with PPPoE rather than just letting them use ordinary ethernet, cable modem or DSL networking? It just sounds retarded to me.
I don't know how much money Dimitry can come up with, but if all else fails, he can do business with a bail bonds business. Costs typically are ten percent of the bail. The only problem is that you sign all your rights to the bail bonds service. If you jump bail, they'll send bounty hunters to bring you back to court in a body cast, and it's all legal.
There's always this thing called "bail". Kids repeat after me. "BAIL". Dimitry posts a bond consisting of a lot of money with the Feds, & if he shows up for his trial at the appointed time, he gets his money back. If he skips town, he loses it. How hard can it be to understand this surprisingly simple concept?
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I've given them $100.00 on several occasions.
The program could be used to enable piracy. It also could be used for lots of legal purposes as well - backups, converting to a format usable with other software (such as the acrobat text-to-speech feature for the blind), space shifting to multiple computers owned by the legal user, selling the software to a friend (and deleting your own copy), etc.
If I use your logic, I'd suggest that cars be banned because someone could use them as getaway vehicles in bank robberies, or ban suitcases because they could be used for drug smuggling. So he broke the law. He broke a stupid, poorly designed, draconian, unconstitutional law that infringes on freedom of speech and needs to be struck down or repealed post haste.
I doubt he has to worry about clogged coronary arteries, he doesn't have coronary arteries anymore. This is a major advance - since the heart is self-contained - no tubes coming through the skin to a big pump machine, only a battery pack that induces electricity through the skin, the chance of infection is greatly reduced.
Small Claims Court is the place where you can do that - neither the plaintiff or defendant are allowed to have lawyers, they state their cases themselves, and is designed to be layman friendly. Getting your day in court only costs fifteen dollars or so. The only restriction is that the amount of money in dispute must be less then $5000 or so, depending on jurisdiction - it is Small Claims Court.
One thing that would really help is to raise the standards of what is or isn't patentable, and have the Patent Office enforce them. Instead of the current system - where the company essentially writes the patent for itself and the Patent Office examiner rubber stamps it, there should be a thorough investigation of the invention by very skeptical examiners, and the company must prove before a patent board that the invention is worth patenting. The company must also present a business plan for selling products based on the patent - no sitting on an idle patent suing everyone. Use it or lose it.
For me, I found it was simpler just to send $100 to the EFF.
I'm surprised noone has mentioned SpamCop yet. For those who don't know about SpamCop, they are a service that offers spam-filtered email accounts, and a free spam reporting service. Forward your spam to them, all headers included, and they will automagically look up the ISP that is responsible and send a complaint to their abuse hotline. I've lost track of how many spam accounts I've helped to cancel using SpamCop. Probably not 200 though, but every TOS termination helps.
<SARCASM>That's all due to everyone's favorite piece of legislation - the DMCA.</SARCASM> It specifically states that ISPs must maintain a contact person that copyright holders can report violations to, and when informed of a violation, they must take action or be held liable for contributory infringement. That action can start with warnings, then go on to suspensions and account terminations. They don't have any choice in the matter. :(
As long as access to the copyrighted files is password protected so others can't snarf them, I don't see why not. I don't see how the RIAA's goons could find out that is happening anyways, especially if you use encryption.
Heh, Seagate's Longmont, CO site is at 389 Disc Drive, Longmont, CO 80503
It's worse than that - they know they are writing and passing laws that stifle our freedoms and violate the Constitution, but they either don't care or actively oppose freedom for us little people.
I don't blame the technology that collects my personal data (web bugs, cookes, databases). I blame the people who use this technology for dishonorable purposes. Cookies can be used to track my surfing habits without my knowledge, and they can retain my preferences and login information so I don't have to relogin to Slashdot every time I visit.
In the same way, copy protection circumvention devices can be used for making legitimate backups and shifting the data to other devices and operating systems, or they can be used for piracy. Don't blame the tool, blame the person who uses the tool.
These posts call for an invocation of Godwin's Law. Can we go back to talking about Sklyarov & the DMCA?
Habeas Corpus is Latin for "Produce the body". In legal terms, it means that the government can't imprison someone for more that a couple days without charging him with a crime. I do believe that Sklyarov has already had an arraignment hearing where he was formally charged, then denied bail, so he already had his Habeas Corpus rights fulfilled.
Try telling that to Rosa Parks - the law said black people must move to the back of the bus. The result of her civil disobedience was that she was arrested. Then, the outcry over that incident brought an end to Jim Crow laws.
It is not only OK to break laws that are blatently unfair, it is your duty to do so.
Speaking of duty... This version is probably HTML mangled, see the DeCSS gallery for the unmangled version.
No copy protection is secure, no matter how elaborate the scheme or how tough the encryption. If the data can be decrypted, it can be copied.
<bad_analogy>It's like installing an expensive, high-tech alarm system on your car, then leaving your keys in the ignition.</bad_analogy>
Using bad laws and legal intimidation to force this junk on all of us simply makes our legal system look bad.
Having attended this meeting, I can say the Denver protesters are going to change the emphasis of the protest slightly. Because Adobe is willing to talk to the EFF, we're willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, so instead of protesting Adobe, we're protesting against the DMCA at the Denver Federal Courthouse, and protesting against the FBI & the Justice Department for jailing Sklyarov for violating the DMCA.
Here's a disturbing thought. Apparently, the feds wanted to make an example of someone to cow everyone into obeying the DMCA. They could have busted Professor Turensky(sp?) for his DeCSS gallery, or dozens of other people for making PlayStation mod chips, game copy protection cracks, Macrovision filters for VCRs, etc. But they picked Dmitry while he was attending and speaking at DefCon. I think this is because they could easily vilify him as an "EVIL RUSSIAN HACKER" to the press and to the courts, while they would have had a harder time vilifying a university professor. This smells like anti-Russian bigotry.