"But the court found that displaying the full-sized images through linking and framing was not transformative and harmed the market for the original photographs."
This is sheer thuggery, as is much of current so-called "copyright" law. Simply pointing to an image which was voluntarily, knowingly posted by the owner (or authorized party) on a publicly supported Internet[work] specifically for anonymous viewing, is gloatingly labelled "theft" by word-twisting professional liars.
Bullpucky.
The better anology is a man who is accused of theft because he pointed to a window, whereupon curious onlookers went over to look at the window and what was behind it, namely publicly mounted curiosities which the arrogant owner had expected only to be viewed by a very few people who even knew of the location of the shop, let alone that odd curiosities were there to be seen with which to begin.
If the arrogant owner hadn't wanted people on the public sidewalk to see his curiosities for free through his window, then why did he put them in the damn window with which to begin? He could have charged admission for people to enter a private room, or he could have put a curtain over the inside of the window, to be whipped aside only for paying customers. He is NOT ENTITLED, however, to essentially steal the public sidewalk from the public who paid for that sidewalk!
The courts are populated by bubbling morons who've taken it into their pinheads that their smarmy success at political cronyism means they are real judges. A plague on the lot of them.
What didn't get noted is that one can go to the same demos running Wintel and IE and get a working plugin automagically installed. This isn't just Linux/Mozilla but reasonably cross-platform.
This auto-installing MSIE plug-in did work on my box with the slightly jacked-up AMD K6-2/366MHz CPU (overclocked to 400MHz), 256M SDRAM and
generic Trident 4M AGP video card, but it was agonizingly slow. They're not kidding about needing at least a 450MHz CPU (something) and a modern TNT AGP video card. I'd suggest an Athlon 800MHz CPU for bearable performance.
I read the article top to bottom - TWICE, and as far as I can tell, the downstream bandwidth is 0 Mbit/s.
I noticed that also. At this page there's a listing (scroll down) in which there's a link for the detailed PDF datasheet. I don't see anything in there either about downloads, except:
"SWE DISH offer different option for
receiving the satellite transmission. We
can install a dedicated downlink at the
customer site or offer downlinking at
teleports worldwide for injection into the
internet backbone, virtual private
networks, fibre connectivity, etc."
Good enough if you're running a pirate hit-and-run transmission of back episodes of "South Park" but don't want anyone hacking into your box to track you.:)
Everyone has licenses like that. It's "industry standard boilerplate".
It's called that because the lawyers put you on a plate and boil you. Their computers need to be hot-wired to shock them from their keyboards when they try this stuff.
I send you this coal in your stocking in order to have your grimace. No thanks, bye.
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A major question is how heavy IT is (for lugging up and down steps and over bumps), and also how awkward IT is to store when not needed (at the office, say). The lawyers for businesses likely would have hissy fits about liability for injuries, so I can't see IT being allowed that quickly into most large office suites or complexes (or even factories), at least not without some non-trivial consideration of liability issues and rules of conduct.
Given the price, IT'd be a major target for theft. How will IT be secured outside while the owner is temporarily inside an office or store? How would a 7-11 manager react to a punk teenager wanting to scoot around in his cramped store on an IT? Suppose the scooter is an old lady or other disabled individual who can't get around without a wheelchair or (perhaps) a modified IT? Will the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) make it hard to refuse such an old lady her in-store scooting, even in an antique glass and china shop?
There are a number of such interesting, ancillary issues to consider, arising from the apparent possible "universality" of such devices.
Could one of these devices be fitted to the roof of the Congressional building? Some of the resultant electricity could be used to pipe in continous feedback from big-corporation lobbyists (such as the RIAA), thus raising the temperature inside to an even more useful level.
This would have the added benefit of increasing personnel turnover from heat-stroke, thus making term limits unnecessary.
Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.
With the current rumblings by the Bush administration about Iraq, there may soon be a chance to actually measure the effects of hundreds of nuclear bombs for comparison to a single huge meteor impact. Personally, I prefer the single huge meteor impact. The other way probably looks from orbit like a bunch of pimple pockmarks, which could lead to embarrassing questions if aliens ever visit for tea and crumpets at the White House.:)
By all means install such a system at your own front door to identify employees of corporations that spy on you and/or support the DMCA, so they can be relentlessly kept out of your home, your business, your life. Personal ostracization can be very effective, on a wide-spread scale.
Plus, it works well for predators of other kinds, such as convicted rapists and murderers and pedophiles, of which record may be kept on private networks.
Even though my current box is something like two hundred times faster, I somehow still miss that old Epson Equity I (an early near-clone of the IBM PC). It worked well, and was cheap compared to the "original" IBM PC. The keyboard was much better, too, even if it was "soft". Those early IBM PC keyboards did have the best "touch" per se, but the keyboards sucked otherwise. Teeny "Enter" key, teeny "backspace" key, bizarre layout... ugh.
IBM is to be credited with spurring the computer revolution by attempting to hijack it with way proprietary boxes, though.:)
It occurs that a simple measure against a keylogger is to run a program which continuously polls
the keyboard, making note of any occasion during which the keyboard is unavailable (or during which
the computer has not been functioning, meaning it's been turned off), and which gives alarm to the
user just before he begins work after having gone for some time. (Detection of this absence could be
automated with a cheap fuzzy vision system that only checks for warmth in front of the monitor, and
for motion indicative of a human and not a cat or very warm chair).
The electricity bill from leaving a computer on all the time (as would be necessary), and the
cost of a reliable uninterruptable power system, would be a small price to pay in such cases where
the owner has reason to worry about spying and the implantation of such sneaky devices.
The aim generally would be to make the computer an integrated, always-functioning system that
"knows" when oddities occur, such as being turned off, or losing the keyboard, or being moved more
than a few millimeters, or anything else that could be interpreted as tampering (when the authorized
user is absent, obviously).
Naturally, this measure works against hardware spying only. Software spying is another matter,
but the hardware is the first and most important line of defense.
Steve Ballmer dances around stage making monkey noises! http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy.mpg
Oddly enough, this reminded me of Hitler's speeches. Perhaps it was the mindless cheering, the slavish obedience to and adulation of authority. Most Germans did approve of Hitler, after all, at least in the earlier days of the Nazi regime. People are people, and many Americans living today certainly would have fit well into Nazi Germany.
If you're a Macintosh user, you'll be able to continue on Qwest until they figure out what to do with you.
Trick you into downloading a new and "improved" Internet Explorer with a special hidden feature that periodically makes your box erupt with a "blue screen of death", until you get used to it, then offer a discount on six months of future MSN service if you buy Windows Me on a new box, with the promise that "reliability will be better" (fewer blue screens of death).
"Remember, since you're going to be compressing the result to OGG or MP3 anyway, the small loss in sound quality that you have by going through the CD player's D/A and the outboard A/D converter is essentially irrelevant. Especially if you're going to play it through computer speakers, which are all pretty lousy anyway."
"In fact, with a good CD player and A/D equipment, the resulting compressed audio would sound better than your average 128 bit Napster crap."
An interesting possible side-effect of this could be that rips from these "uncopyable" CD's would be so much higher in quality (having been done by technically savvy folks who care about the music quality), that people would no longer feel the need to go buy the legitimate CD's to get the top-notch quality they crave for their favorite songs.
It makes grisly sense. I'd prefer though truly vicious guerrilla war, with flaming gasoline-soaked tyres placed forcibly and irremovably about the necks of the subhuman vermin that populate such "security forces" (known in plain English as "torturers").
[...], filtering based on domain names is incredibly simple to bypass. [...] Just open up a dos box, ping the host, and it will give you the IP address. Put the IP address in the address bar in your browser, and you're there.
Look for censorware to block these IP addresses as well, as soon as someone at one of these censorware companies walks into a wall hard enough that he accidentally and temporarily has some sense knocked into him.
Before anyone starts frantically grabbing his pornography onto floppy at the local public library before even this loophole is closed, consider that even this slightly clueful measure is easily enough defeated by the use by site operators, of dynamic IP addresses connected with domain names via CNAME DNS records (in this context, aliases to such temporary subdomain names as are available at DHS). The practice therefore by censorware of blocking whole IP address ranges will accelerate the use of massive, dynamically switched IP address range pools (by overseas operators, probably), so that ultimately even IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses are no longer of much use as a guide to exactly from where data is arriving.
A world-wide information infrastructure based largely on immaterial information itself has by its very nature an almost infinite capacity for sneaky, slippery deception that makes a total mockery of any attempt to clamp down on it. One can easily envision for instance, an explosion of anonymous resurfers which themselves as needed use the techniques mentioned above.
The more the censorware tries to block off the sea, the more the sea will leak around every barrier placed in its path. In the end, as always, the sea will win.
Network World is running an article on how IT managers should deal with Linux "sneaking in" to their networks, or more precisely, being surreptitiously installed on workstations on their network.
Is this a trick question?
Well, hell, break out the Jolt and pepperoni pizza and party! Next, someone'll be asking you if you have any clear idea of what you'd do if Natalie Portman made a play for you. Geez....
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"But the court found that displaying the full-sized images through linking and framing was not transformative and harmed the market for the original photographs."
This is sheer thuggery, as is much of current so-called "copyright" law. Simply pointing to an image which was voluntarily, knowingly posted by the owner (or authorized party) on a publicly supported Internet[work] specifically for anonymous viewing, is gloatingly labelled "theft" by word-twisting professional liars.
Bullpucky.
The better anology is a man who is accused of theft because he pointed to a window, whereupon curious onlookers went over to look at the window and what was behind it, namely publicly mounted curiosities which the arrogant owner had expected only to be viewed by a very few people who even knew of the location of the shop, let alone that odd curiosities were there to be seen with which to begin.
If the arrogant owner hadn't wanted people on the public sidewalk to see his curiosities for free through his window, then why did he put them in the damn window with which to begin? He could have charged admission for people to enter a private room, or he could have put a curtain over the inside of the window, to be whipped aside only for paying customers. He is NOT ENTITLED, however, to essentially steal the public sidewalk from the public who paid for that sidewalk!
The courts are populated by bubbling morons who've taken it into their pinheads that their smarmy success at political cronyism means they are real judges. A plague on the lot of them.
What didn't get noted is that one can go to the same demos running Wintel and IE and get a working plugin automagically installed. This isn't just Linux/Mozilla but reasonably cross-platform.
This auto-installing MSIE plug-in did work on my box with the slightly jacked-up AMD K6-2/366MHz CPU (overclocked to 400MHz), 256M SDRAM and generic Trident 4M AGP video card, but it was agonizingly slow. They're not kidding about needing at least a 450MHz CPU (something) and a modern TNT AGP video card. I'd suggest an Athlon 800MHz CPU for bearable performance.
I read the article top to bottom - TWICE, and as far as I can tell, the downstream bandwidth is 0 Mbit/s.
I noticed that also. At this page there's a listing (scroll down) in which there's a link for the detailed PDF datasheet. I don't see anything in there either about downloads, except:
"SWE DISH offer different option for receiving the satellite transmission. We can install a dedicated downlink at the customer site or offer downlinking at teleports worldwide for injection into the internet backbone, virtual private networks, fibre connectivity, etc."
Good enough if you're running a pirate hit-and-run transmission of back episodes of "South Park" but don't want anyone hacking into your box to track you. :)
Everyone has licenses like that. It's "industry standard boilerplate".
It's called that because the lawyers put you on a plate and boil you. Their computers need to be hot-wired to shock them from their keyboards when they try this stuff.
I send you this coal in your stocking in order to have your grimace. No thanks, bye.
A major question is how heavy IT is (for lugging up and down steps and over bumps), and also how awkward IT is to store when not needed (at the office, say). The lawyers for businesses likely would have hissy fits about liability for injuries, so I can't see IT being allowed that quickly into most large office suites or complexes (or even factories), at least not without some non-trivial consideration of liability issues and rules of conduct.
Given the price, IT'd be a major target for theft. How will IT be secured outside while the owner is temporarily inside an office or store? How would a 7-11 manager react to a punk teenager wanting to scoot around in his cramped store on an IT? Suppose the scooter is an old lady or other disabled individual who can't get around without a wheelchair or (perhaps) a modified IT? Will the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) make it hard to refuse such an old lady her in-store scooting, even in an antique glass and china shop?
There are a number of such interesting, ancillary issues to consider, arising from the apparent possible "universality" of such devices.
"[...] which could result in mixed-species creatures."
I'd like to see a combination of Britney Spears and a lioness. The howls might be the same, but the striped fur and twitchy tail would rock! :)
Could one of these devices be fitted to the roof of the Congressional building? Some of the resultant electricity could be used to pipe in continous feedback from big-corporation lobbyists (such as the RIAA), thus raising the temperature inside to an even more useful level.
This would have the added benefit of increasing personnel turnover from heat-stroke, thus making term limits unnecessary.
Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.
With the current rumblings by the Bush administration about Iraq, there may soon be a chance to actually measure the effects of hundreds of nuclear bombs for comparison to a single huge meteor impact. Personally, I prefer the single huge meteor impact. The other way probably looks from orbit like a bunch of pimple pockmarks, which could lead to embarrassing questions if aliens ever visit for tea and crumpets at the White House. :)
Cool, I can beam a high-powered microwave beam at my refrigerator to cool it down! Uh ... I mean ... okay, this may take more thought.
I guess this means truly thin computing isn't quite here yet, at least not if the fellow who buys it uses it all on his buttered corn. :)
By all means install such a system at your own front door to identify employees of corporations that spy on you and/or support the DMCA, so they can be relentlessly kept out of your home, your business, your life. Personal ostracization can be very effective, on a wide-spread scale.
Plus, it works well for predators of other kinds, such as convicted rapists and murderers and pedophiles, of which record may be kept on private networks.
This is the sort of cutting edge technology that belongs on Slashdot!
Imagine it inventing a Beowulf cluster of itself! It ... it would ....
Dammit. Less coffee, more sleep.
Even though my current box is something like two hundred times faster, I somehow still miss that old Epson Equity I (an early near-clone of the IBM PC). It worked well, and was cheap compared to the "original" IBM PC. The keyboard was much better, too, even if it was "soft". Those early IBM PC keyboards did have the best "touch" per se, but the keyboards sucked otherwise. Teeny "Enter" key, teeny "backspace" key, bizarre layout ... ugh.
IBM is to be credited with spurring the computer revolution by attempting to hijack it with way proprietary boxes, though. :)
The 3,000 pilots and flight crew members will query the mainframe system to check the status of their assignments.
Will the stewardesses be given special instructions about how to handle clients who demand canned mackerel?
It occurs that a simple measure against a keylogger is to run a program which continuously polls the keyboard, making note of any occasion during which the keyboard is unavailable (or during which the computer has not been functioning, meaning it's been turned off), and which gives alarm to the user just before he begins work after having gone for some time. (Detection of this absence could be automated with a cheap fuzzy vision system that only checks for warmth in front of the monitor, and for motion indicative of a human and not a cat or very warm chair).
The electricity bill from leaving a computer on all the time (as would be necessary), and the cost of a reliable uninterruptable power system, would be a small price to pay in such cases where the owner has reason to worry about spying and the implantation of such sneaky devices.
The aim generally would be to make the computer an integrated, always-functioning system that "knows" when oddities occur, such as being turned off, or losing the keyboard, or being moved more than a few millimeters, or anything else that could be interpreted as tampering (when the authorized user is absent, obviously).
Naturally, this measure works against hardware spying only. Software spying is another matter, but the hardware is the first and most important line of defense.
Find the fastest pub warez sites at http://3640001799/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term= %67%75%6c%6c%69%62%6c%65 and fight da man!
Hey, really cool link! More people ought to patronise this site.
Steve Ballmer dances around stage making monkey noises! http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy.mpg
Oddly enough, this reminded me of Hitler's speeches. Perhaps it was the mindless cheering, the slavish obedience to and adulation of authority. Most Germans did approve of Hitler, after all, at least in the earlier days of the Nazi regime. People are people, and many Americans living today certainly would have fit well into Nazi Germany.
Ach. Maybe I'm just tired.
If you're a Macintosh user, you'll be able to continue on Qwest until they figure out what to do with you.
Trick you into downloading a new and "improved" Internet Explorer with a special hidden feature that periodically makes your box erupt with a "blue screen of death", until you get used to it, then offer a discount on six months of future MSN service if you buy Windows Me on a new box, with the promise that "reliability will be better" (fewer blue screens of death).
That's what they'll do with you. Mark my words.
Maybe "prune-flavored"?
"Remember, since you're going to be compressing the result to OGG or MP3 anyway, the small loss in sound quality that you have by going through the CD player's D/A and the outboard A/D converter is essentially irrelevant. Especially if you're going to play it through computer speakers, which are all pretty lousy anyway."
"In fact, with a good CD player and A/D equipment, the resulting compressed audio would sound better than your average 128 bit Napster crap."
An interesting possible side-effect of this could be that rips from these "uncopyable" CD's would be so much higher in quality (having been done by technically savvy folks who care about the music quality), that people would no longer feel the need to go buy the legitimate CD's to get the top-notch quality they crave for their favorite songs.
This would be a colossal irony, eh? :)
Have a look at Rubberhose.
I looked at this at Rubberhose.
It makes grisly sense. I'd prefer though truly vicious guerrilla war, with flaming gasoline-soaked tyres placed forcibly and irremovably about the necks of the subhuman vermin that populate such "security forces" (known in plain English as "torturers").
[...], filtering based on domain names is incredibly simple to bypass. [...] Just open up a dos box, ping the host, and it will give you the IP address. Put the IP address in the address bar in your browser, and you're there.
Look for censorware to block these IP addresses as well, as soon as someone at one of these censorware companies walks into a wall hard enough that he accidentally and temporarily has some sense knocked into him.
Before anyone starts frantically grabbing his pornography onto floppy at the local public library before even this loophole is closed, consider that even this slightly clueful measure is easily enough defeated by the use by site operators, of dynamic IP addresses connected with domain names via CNAME DNS records (in this context, aliases to such temporary subdomain names as are available at DHS). The practice therefore by censorware of blocking whole IP address ranges will accelerate the use of massive, dynamically switched IP address range pools (by overseas operators, probably), so that ultimately even IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses are no longer of much use as a guide to exactly from where data is arriving.
A world-wide information infrastructure based largely on immaterial information itself has by its very nature an almost infinite capacity for sneaky, slippery deception that makes a total mockery of any attempt to clamp down on it. One can easily envision for instance, an explosion of anonymous resurfers which themselves as needed use the techniques mentioned above.
The more the censorware tries to block off the sea, the more the sea will leak around every barrier placed in its path. In the end, as always, the sea will win.
Network World is running an article on how IT managers should deal with Linux "sneaking in" to their networks, or more precisely, being surreptitiously installed on workstations on their network.
Is this a trick question?
Well, hell, break out the Jolt and pepperoni pizza and party! Next, someone'll be asking you if you have any clear idea of what you'd do if Natalie Portman made a play for you. Geez ....