If I remember correctly, they tried this with some (Florida?) law officials at sobriety checkpoints in the early '90s. To say that the idea failed is quite the understatement. Reportedly, when the rep would go into his schpeil, the "cruisers" only turned the volume up until the police told them to stop. Unfortunately, the police are more cooperative now.
In an effort to fight rampant piracy, the RIAA announced that law enforcement officials will be arresting customers exiting music stores carrying product of any kind. "We've got to stem the flow of piracy at it's source" says Robbie Flack, the RIAA's cheif advisor to the Bush Administration. "These people are taking our intellectual property and playing it loud enough for other people to hear or showing it to their friends. Clearly this violates 'public performance' laws."
When asked whether this would discourage music sales, Flack responded that "those sheeple should just stay home and listen to appropriately licensed broadcasts of their favorite artists." RIAA officials stated that this is merely the first step in a long plan that they term the "War on Privac.... er Piracy" [ed note: this is how all RIAA staff pronounce it]. The next step according to the plan is to arrest executives from the very labels that the RIAA represents. "[the executives] are putting all of this copywritten material out there and giving consumers a sense that they own it. This is just wrong.", said Flack. The plan will culminate with the RIAA arresting themselves once Congress passes IMGOD-327, a controvercial new bill that would make RIAA staff federal law enforcement officers. The bill is expected become law in 2004 with very little resistance.
Noted. However, telling a kid to go to www.whatever.org is a lot easier than telling him/her to explain to their parents why and how they should change ISPs.
Unfortunately, you're comment sounds too much like an ad for anyone here to really take it seriously.
Has "Czar" become an official title of public office? What the hell? It's about as vague a title as "clerk".
A google search of "united states new czar -russia" turns up some strange results like "IT Czar", "World Trade Czar" and "Federal Homeless Czar" (king without a castle?).
Can I be the "Stupid Czar Title Czar"? I could work for the "National Office of We Don't Have a Homeland Title for You".
Does being a Czar mean I get to have people executed?
I got lost for a while checking out the rest of the site. Thanks for the link! They seem to have other tools as well as lesson plans and such. The other stuff can be had at Project Interactivate. I know some parents and teachers who would be interested in this.
hmmm... imagine letting a 6 year old absorb some complex math by making pretty pictures!
It's a site of educational links, but has categories for age group and more. Unfortunately, all the kids I used to send there are young adults now and can find stuff themselves.
I totally agree. I thought the slander and libel laws were out there to make you think of what you would say (reprecussions), not to prevent you from saying anything at all.
From what I gather, he was researching his subject of choice in school. Notice how corps are targeting schools lately? Unfortunately, I think this will lead to a "research our product/methodologies only if we're paying you to" attitude from business and government.
I sure hope this won't diminish the spirit of the young researchers out there. These kids are building our future whether we allow them to or not. Stifling their growth will only give us a dysfunctional future.
36. Without a Napster equivalent system, LAN users cannot effectively search for and transfer song recordings over the network.
Umm... The OS vendor makes tools to search the network for files and more. Check out the search! I would love to see the RIAA try to take on Microsoft. Squish! No more profiteering music industry the hard but effective way!
I once got one of those CD-ROM businesscards with a bootable linux AND a bootable DOS. Does anyone remember which company gave these out at a trade show or how to make one? It was great for mounting "non-DOSable" partitions (NTFS4 and linux partitions especially).
*RANT WARNING*
Without a unified recovery console, MS products will always force you to have the OS CD-ROM with you. It would have been nice if you could boot an NT4 box with the Win2K recovery console. How about a 2K box from an XP Pro disk? Even if it didn't "freshen" any files, it would be nice to be able to replace an errant registry hive with an older version.
I'll stop ranting now and go sort my "emergency" CD-ROM case now... hrmmpphh..... That's one heavy case!
I agree, but let the developer develop. I love the projects where the users give instruction since the end user usually doesn't have an intimate knowledge of the app. Sometimes the documentation that a developer writes assumes too much technical knowledge of the subject. The developer should be there for technical questions, but the users truly know what "use" of the app is like. I know that sounds silly, but it's a better perspective in my opinion. User written documentation also tends to cover problems that a developer may never see in his/her test environment. The Linux HowTos are a great example of this.
As a matter of fact, I think I might fire up the ol' CVS client and contribute to updating some HowTos with my own personal experience tonight. Thanks for the inspiration!
For those who want to get into this sort of thing, the first step is to take notes as you try to install/make something. You may be getting the same errors everyone else does, but no-one has documented it yet.
(INAL)In order to sue for wrongful arrest, he would have had to have been charged with a crime. Unfortunately, he was not and will probably be released (who knows when) with a mere "sorry about that". I've known a couple of people that were actually charged (falsly) for a crime that got similar results (OK, 1 got the exra perk of missing jury duty being forgiven - they were in jail).
Sorry but law enforcement has a lot of tools to use in this country and very few real reprocussions.
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Since I'm not the best coder (I can get by with scripting languages), but I am a good graphic designer/3d modeller, I tend to offer the developers of my favorite OSS/Freeware other contributions. I don't know how many times I've made a few graphics to spice up a developers plain text website or whipped up some HTML so the site is a bit more user friendly.
My point is, there are plenty of ways for a non-programmer to help make an OSS or freeware project better and/or give something pack (pay for it). Write some documentation... Moderate a message board... Do some graphics... Answer some tech support questions.
If more people gave back in this way, the OSS community wouldn't be completely dominated by programmers and I bet (but I could be wrong) that more projects would cross polinate or converge because of a common user base.
Piracy in a smuch as its a legal term is when you board a ship, kill the crew and steal the cargo.
That sounds like a great punishment for the RIAA members! Now how can we board a corporate headquartters??.... hmmmm.... Does anyone have a factory or a parking garage we can broadside it with?
You ever hear "Frampton Comes Alive"?... No studio at all.
Atcually, there was a studio heavily involved. Recording live sound is arguably the hardest. The Frampton shows were mic'ed from about 24 places in the venue (not including the stage feed - drums vocals and all else). At the end of the tour (it may have been mid-way, I don't remember), all of the tracks (and takes - every gig could be considered it's own take) were brought into a studio and messed with for weeks. Once they had figured out which tracks from which dates were the best, the individual tracks were mixed. Some bands/producers that do this kind of thing regularly will use the venue feeds all over the place (like insirting a yelled "I love you" in a completely different track.)
Live recording should NEVER be considered the easy way. It's only different and requires just as much skill and time as a studio recording. If you don't think that's true, just go try to record a band at your local club with any equipment you want to. You will never have something as well done as Frampton Comes Alive without spending studio time.
Technically you do in California. In order to service any UL listed device (swapping a PCI card counts), you must be certified in electronics repair.
It never gets brought up. It never gets enforced. It just got swept under the rug in the 80s and has never been remembered. If you have a problem with a service department, just ask them for their certification. They will panic and make you happy any way they can. I have used this technique many times (in fact a former client even used it on me)
When I worked for an insurance company using an OS390 system, we backed everything up to tape (Storagetek Timberline silo for those who care).
Once when we had a disaster recovery simulation at IBM, one tape failed. Unfortunately, that tape was a database backup. We lost the middle of our master CICS region (A big DB2 runtime). The guys at IBM couldn't even rebuild the tape, and we were at their big disaster recovery facility. We failed the simulation because one tape in the 2500 or so that we brought failed.
hoes and pumps and condoms... Oh My!
hoes and pumps and condoms... Oh My!
hoes and pumps and condoms... Oh My!
I guess I should tone down my dirty little smart ass mind...
Pumping hoes with condoms is recommended.
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I wish I could remember where I read it at...
In an effort to fight rampant piracy, the RIAA announced that law enforcement officials will be arresting customers exiting music stores carrying product of any kind. "We've got to stem the flow of piracy at it's source" says Robbie Flack, the RIAA's cheif advisor to the Bush Administration. "These people are taking our intellectual property and playing it loud enough for other people to hear or showing it to their friends. Clearly this violates 'public performance' laws."
When asked whether this would discourage music sales, Flack responded that "those sheeple should just stay home and listen to appropriately licensed broadcasts of their favorite artists." RIAA officials stated that this is merely the first step in a long plan that they term the "War on Privac.... er Piracy" [ed note: this is how all RIAA staff pronounce it]. The next step according to the plan is to arrest executives from the very labels that the RIAA represents. "[the executives] are putting all of this copywritten material out there and giving consumers a sense that they own it. This is just wrong.", said Flack. The plan will culminate with the RIAA arresting themselves once Congress passes IMGOD-327, a controvercial new bill that would make RIAA staff federal law enforcement officers. The bill is expected become law in 2004 with very little resistance.
Oh. In that case, I fully agree with you :) I try to be fair to the AOLers who love the service, even though I don't quite understand why...
Unfortunately, you're comment sounds too much like an ad for anyone here to really take it seriously.
A google search of "united states new czar -russia" turns up some strange results like "IT Czar", "World Trade Czar" and "Federal Homeless Czar" (king without a castle?).
Can I be the "Stupid Czar Title Czar"? I could work for the "National Office of We Don't Have a Homeland Title for You".
Does being a Czar mean I get to have people executed?
Do we really need to go find more to dispute such an bad assumption?
hmmm... imagine letting a 6 year old absorb some complex math by making pretty pictures!
http://www.educationindex.com/
It's a site of educational links, but has categories for age group and more. Unfortunately, all the kids I used to send there are young adults now and can find stuff themselves.
I totally agree. I thought the slander and libel laws were out there to make you think of what you would say (reprecussions), not to prevent you from saying anything at all.
I sure hope this won't diminish the spirit of the young researchers out there. These kids are building our future whether we allow them to or not. Stifling their growth will only give us a dysfunctional future.
The day I felt that Google had "made it" was when Yahoo! licenced their search technology. Look here if you didn't know.
That rocks! Where was that documented?
*RANT WARNING* Without a unified recovery console, MS products will always force you to have the OS CD-ROM with you. It would have been nice if you could boot an NT4 box with the Win2K recovery console. How about a 2K box from an XP Pro disk? Even if it didn't "freshen" any files, it would be nice to be able to replace an errant registry hive with an older version.
I'll stop ranting now and go sort my "emergency" CD-ROM case now... hrmmpphh..... That's one heavy case!
As a matter of fact, I think I might fire up the ol' CVS client and contribute to updating some HowTos with my own personal experience tonight. Thanks for the inspiration!
For those who want to get into this sort of thing, the first step is to take notes as you try to install/make something. You may be getting the same errors everyone else does, but no-one has documented it yet.
Sorry but law enforcement has a lot of tools to use in this country and very few real reprocussions.
My point is, there are plenty of ways for a non-programmer to help make an OSS or freeware project better and/or give something pack (pay for it). Write some documentation... Moderate a message board... Do some graphics... Answer some tech support questions.
If more people gave back in this way, the OSS community wouldn't be completely dominated by programmers and I bet (but I could be wrong) that more projects would cross polinate or converge because of a common user base.
That sounds like a great punishment for the RIAA members! Now how can we board a corporate headquartters??.... hmmmm.... Does anyone have a factory or a parking garage we can broadside it with?
Atcually, there was a studio heavily involved. Recording live sound is arguably the hardest. The Frampton shows were mic'ed from about 24 places in the venue (not including the stage feed - drums vocals and all else). At the end of the tour (it may have been mid-way, I don't remember), all of the tracks (and takes - every gig could be considered it's own take) were brought into a studio and messed with for weeks. Once they had figured out which tracks from which dates were the best, the individual tracks were mixed. Some bands/producers that do this kind of thing regularly will use the venue feeds all over the place (like insirting a yelled "I love you" in a completely different track.)
Live recording should NEVER be considered the easy way. It's only different and requires just as much skill and time as a studio recording. If you don't think that's true, just go try to record a band at your local club with any equipment you want to. You will never have something as well done as Frampton Comes Alive without spending studio time.
It never gets brought up. It never gets enforced. It just got swept under the rug in the 80s and has never been remembered. If you have a problem with a service department, just ask them for their certification. They will panic and make you happy any way they can. I have used this technique many times (in fact a former client even used it on me)
Isn't there already a tax like this on CDs? I know there's one for DAT, Video Tapes, Cassettes and more.
When I worked for an insurance company using an OS390 system, we backed everything up to tape (Storagetek Timberline silo for those who care).
Once when we had a disaster recovery simulation at IBM, one tape failed. Unfortunately, that tape was a database backup. We lost the middle of our master CICS region (A big DB2 runtime). The guys at IBM couldn't even rebuild the tape, and we were at their big disaster recovery facility. We failed the simulation because one tape in the 2500 or so that we brought failed.
ALL media fails. Usually in a very bad way.
hoes and pumps and condoms... Oh My! hoes and pumps and condoms... Oh My! hoes and pumps and condoms... Oh My! I guess I should tone down my dirty little smart ass mind... Pumping hoes with condoms is recommended.