I'm already there dude. You forgot swimming.
But as for the article, I think one thing that wasn't mentioned is the sad state of rapid prototyping patents. Don't believe me, go look for yourself. Try seaching for rapid prototype and plastic. You'll find that there are incredibly broad patents held by Boston law firms that are somehow being renewed annually that use almost absurd language to claim ownership of anything that has to do with printing and producing objects.
I came across this when I read that crazy glue --cyanoacrylate-- could be solidified instantly on contact with a mildly alkaline surface. As long as all moisture was kept out of the printing area, the glue wouldn't set within the printing head. I thought hey, this would work great in a modified inkjet using alkaline coated plastic sheets. But it seemed too easy and I began to wonder why I had never seen something like that for sale. So, I went and looked in the patent database and sure enough this one patent claimed almost any kind of glue.
In fact, the illustations containted a diagram that went like this: 3D Object -> Memory-> Computer-> Printer
Whoa, I thought you couldn't patent obvious designs. That seemed painfully obvious to me.
I think this kind of bullshit is why we're not going to see the fruits of this technology for at least a decade although it's probably doable now.
Not to sound arrogant, but I find actually learning another language by watching foreign TV with subtitles in the original language to be even more interesting than watching the dubbed or English subtitled version. It involves commitment to get to the point where you can understand the basics, but there are rewards to making a commitment to learn something new.
I like the idea of translating sentence by sentence as opposed to grammatically and word for word. I'm sure this guy is right that at some point this will produce reasonably acurate translations in many cases, but multiple languages are one of our greatest treasures.
I have read that the single most important factor in preventing senile dementia is the difference between those who continue to create novel memories throughout their lives and those who stick to what they have already learned. Learning multiple languages is a wonderful thing and once you get well into it, it is a lot of fun. It certainly increases your options for punning and rhyming and you end up with lots of aliases.
People who don't already know LiveCD also fail to understand RAMDisk. I've seen plenty of forums where people complained that LiveCD is stupid because you can't add anything to the distro, but that's not the case at all. In fact, you just substitute RAM for hard drive space and with RAM prices like they are today, you can make a LiveCD distro that is much faster than a generic distro.
True, the Lindows crowd is not likely to be using apt to build up a RAMDisk from a stripped down distro, but I just wanted to point out that LiveCD is often misunderstood. It can be very fast if you're running most stuff from RAMDisk and even a few Gigs of RAM is affordable these days.
It goes beyond just the lack of the DMCA outside the US, many other countries never adopted the Sonny Bono limits and are still at fifty years which means that works including audio and video made before '53 already ARE in the public domain.
For people in those countries, no laws are being broken when older material is being traded.
You might say, well who cares about old stuff, but it doesn't end there because in many of those countries, foreign copyrights are not granted automatically and require fees that are sometimes not paid even for the latest Hollywood movies.
The US tried to bully Taiwan into agreeing to the 70 year limit by threatening to cut off arms sales, but surprisingly the Taiwanese stood up to the big bad boys from Washington and said no.
Without DRM, broadband won't become popular. These guys really have thier finget on the pulse of the net generation. Yep, got it all wrapped up.
Reminds me of AT+T's CEO talking about the big telecoms recovery in the next few years where everybody is going to going crazy paying for music and movies and the best part --videoconfrencing.
Well, as long as he can hustle all the 80 year old shareholders it works. Shine on baby.
You just got to have confidence, see.
The assumption that you can and should be able to provide all kinds of programming through a web interface ignores the fact that many applications involve personal data and the web is fundamentally public even if you add SSL or whatever gizmos to try and avoid the fact. There are many services that should not be provided through a browser. That doesn't mean applications can't be network enabled, but perhaps they shouldn't operate within a browser.
Although the web is where a lot of great open souce development takes place, this fact shouldn't be interpreted as being anti-open source by any means. The web is great, but not everything has to be crammed into a browser. In fact, it seems like it's the closed source interests that are most intnet on pushing "web services."
This only becomes more of an issue with standards like XML. Sure, it's potentially possible to provide all kinds of interactivity through a browser with XML, but the question remains, should you?
Are you quite sure the colonists were all happy to pay taxes? Did they pay income tax? Are you aware of the history of income taxes in the US? I'll give you a hint, it comes after the Civil War.
Prior to that time, the US government's income came primarily from import duties and land sales, you will recall the westward settlement. I can guess you'll try and back out by saying that import duties are taxes, but they're not, they're duties. That's why there are two words. It's like calling copyright infrinegment stealing.
The parent is damn right that unjust laws should not be followed and should be broken willfully by corageous citizens and this is an American tradtion we should be proud of.
Well a rough answer looks pretty simple to guestimate me. An Si-Si bond is 0.235nm. We're about to head into the 90nm scale and there are plans to move quickly to the 60 and 45nm range by the end of the decade. Although there are many reasons things might slow down before then, it sure as hell is going to slow down within the next twenty years. That aint no mystery. Even if single atom silicon circuits are possible, we'll soon be within a few powers of ten from such a beast. Sure there's non conventional computing, but CMOS will certainly be used up before too many more doublings can occur. That should be common knowledge and it makes the article seem a bit ridiculous.
This would be great. It's constantly amazes me how people turn advances in technology into major social problems. If it became possible to produce limitless delicious food from a cheap little box that everybody could have I'm sure the first thing we would hear was how terrible it was and how it was going to destroy the traditional farm life forever. It's stealing to eat free food! People's immediate rush into self-righteous furies at every new advance are insane.
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I think this quote is merely a common example of an acadmic stating something that is painfully obvious as though it were an insight. This happens all the time in academia and it's because they get the good weed so they're euphoric about all sorts of pedestrian ideas. Not only that, they kid themselves that the zit-faced suburban coeds they're bagging are so hot. But I digress.
It's not at all useless to speak of conservative -vs- liberal. In fact, it's one of the finest topics around. But you have to listen to my opinions to know what's really going on. And since you're so interested, allow me to enlighten:
The difference is that liberals have a fatal faith in logic that does them no favors in the political realm where rhetoric takes precedence. This is hardly a mystery. The Democratic party is secretly known as the Teacher's Union Party. (Shh.) And we all know that teachers have a terrible time in politics. If you doubt it, just look into your average classroom. The problem is, they're pedantic. They are dying to pretend a logical explanation about why you shouldn't pull people's hair or cheat on your exam is going to solve the problem.
Conservatives, on the other hand, don't give a flying fuck about logic as long as it makes money and keeps them in power. Cross your fingers and salute the flag. This is why the conservatives always bounce back despite a collection of absolutely absurd and contradictory moral positions.
The moral is, fuck em' all. Don't take anybody too seriously. The way to save the net is to get your local utility to offer broadband. It's quite simple. Think globally, act locally.
As someone who lives off his passport on a daily basis this seems like a gimick. Passports are totally insecure documents and always will be because they are used by people who leave their country and its laws behind.
The real wake up call about passports happened for me when my first one expired. I had memorized the number and assumed that naturally this ultra important piece of ID would be kept for life --not a chance.
I specifically requested to keep my old number and the feds said, no its not allowed.
This struck me as totally bizarre, but by that point I'd travelled enough to have met people who casually threw away their passports and got new ones whenever they got into visa problems so I wasn't all that surprised. Passports are a joke and always will be.
This is definitely cool. For all the people saying this type of hack is irrelevant because of the storage difference between HDs and CDs, I must say that's rather short-sited when you consider that the form factor for optical media is most likely going to stay the same all the way into the violet laser media. So, while you could call this an out-of-date CD changer, you could also call it a cutting edge Blu-Ray changer. And commercial alternatives are insanely overpriced.
But this is certainly not the last word on the matter. I've got my own plans as well. One thing we didn't see was any kind of performance specs about how big of an unattended stack the thing could handle. I read the part where he said it was just for fun, but I'd still like to know how many he could do consecutively.
The option I'm considering is where you take a plastic housed stack of a hundred hundred discs sitting on a conveyer whith a slot at the bottom of the stack only big enough for one disc at a time to be rolled out. I think some of the commercaial solutions might work like this.
I followed the link and I was so impressed, I went to the USPTO and tried to find some technical background in the patents.
Using "Xerox" and "Phaser" as search terms I found number 6,042,227 and it seems to be right on the nose. The patent was even more interesting than Xerox's marketing hype. Apparently this hot crayon-like system is among the most environmentally friendly printing systems of all and is potentially very cheap. I would guess it's just a matter of time before this technology moves into the budget slot.
I had a hooker give me a frisbee once. She game me some tweak too and we used to smoke her weed all the time. I used to let her hang out in my living room when the heat was on back in college.
Oh, freebie. Nevermidn. Nah, she was fat. But very friendly.
How can mega-corporations remain competitive and maintain our free market economy without taxpayer support? Just look at what happens to countries like Japan, Korea and Taiwan where the telecoms are state owned monoplies. You wouldn't want to end up like that, would you?
I was about to get one a few months back because I had some files that were too big for CD and then I found 900meg CDs and I couldn't think of a good reason to need one.
I'll get one eventually I'm sure. We all will. I've had like six CD-Rs so far and it's obvious that the DVD writers will go to at least sixteen speed, so yeah there's life in this market, but I don't think it's going to be as long as it was from CD to DVD writers till we get to blue.
Maybe it will be a long time, maybe not.
I don't think the DVD analogy is fair. I've seen memos published in 1995 by movie studio executives in talks with the Japanese manufacturers where they were talking about DVD-R coming out within months unless they could get court orders to prevent it. The rollout date for DVD-R was put off for legal rather than technical or purely IC market reasons.
You might think that this is just going to happen again, but it's not necessarily the case. We're in a rapidly changing world. Just last year the Bush administration was saying China could not be allowed to import cutting edge IC tech from the West, but after Bush went and unilaterally attacked a sovereign nation to please his father the German company Infineon violated internation agreements and sold 90nm chip fab equipment to China.
So, this isn't the 90s. We're in a new world and organizations that used to be able to squelch technology in the courts like the RIAA and MPAA are beginning to lose favor with the public.
Blue might come sooner than you think.
Speaking of between the teeth. Whoa, when you lose a tooth and get a chance to see what's between those suckers, it makes a little yellow on the outsides seem quite irrelevant.
I've lost about three so far to root canals. Two broken as a youngster and one rotted out from general deterioration as I started getting older.
Seeing what was between those puppies when one came out terrified me. I floss daily and brush plenty of times, but that doesn't matter. It's scarry.
Now I'm hooked on these inter-dental cleaners, but I know they just can't get everything out of those spaces. So, I'd have to go with those who say just don't worry about it. Call it character. Look at Al Sharpton, he got nominated for president.
When I read that quote about customers. I said, Halleluja this guy rocks.
There are places and times where it's a good thing to reach out to people for whatever reason and try to cajole them into various actions. Marriage wouldn't go far without a good customer service attitude on the parts of both partners, but there are limits for christ's sake. Just like mantra "let the markets decide" customer focus becomes a slavish dogma and it so damned refreshing to hear someone who has billions of customers say fuck em'.
Amen brother. Tell it to the people!
Thinking that problems are limited to IT is a bit myopic. Semiconductors are not exactly the place to be these days either.
The problem goes back to the Reagan era policy of putting all the US's eggs in the service sector and then building up this straw man called intellectual property that is essentially hollow. It was never intended to be more than a scam like ponzi or a pyramid game which is what it has turned out to be.
Tighten up patent law back to where it was before the depression, make deregulation a mantra and the monopolies will grow like cockroaches in a backed up sewer.
Well, it worked. Now we're talking about deflation. Hmm, is this really so mysterious.
Okay, could you guys give some illustrations regarding a hypothetical situation to clarify a few things?
Let's say a person in a country outside the US with, let us say, a fifty year copyright law for all kinds of media including audio and video is using P2P. That person doesn't have any way of knowing the location of the other people connecting to his P2P application, and he is freely sharing thousands of files that would be covered by copyright within the US, but are not in his country because they are all copyrighted before 1953 and have therefore entered the public domain in his country. Some of those files are being downloaded to the US where they would still be under copyright according to that country's (the USA) laws.
The question is whether this would be considered infringement by the DOJ. And if it would, then who is doing the infringing? The server only, the dowloader only or both?
Now if the answer is that the server is considered to be infringing copyright, then why are his ISP's servers exempt?
To summarize, how can you draw the line on common carrier status in an international P2P situation where there are differences in laws.
Don't feel bad. I was in the same boat when I saw how active Dean was on the net, I thought alright, here's a candidate that seems to get it.
So, I started looking at his blog and then went to a forum set up by his supporters and that's where I found out that his drug stance is same 'ol same 'ol, don't rock the boat etc. I was disappointed, but seeing that he's a former MD, I'm not all that surprised really. Most medical doctors are so high on their I-Am-God trip that they would never admit that the patients might better know what's good for them. I will probably vote for Kucinich, but I agree he looks like a long shot.
What confuses me is why Kucinich isn't the one with the most active net presence.
Can you provide a link or two that shows where Dean made such a statement? I've looked around and found quite the opposite. As governor, Dean has strongly opposed even medical marijuana in the face of pleading by terminally ill patients.
The only concession that Dean made about drug policy when speculation on what he would do as president was to say that he would insist that further medical marijuana trials be pursued. How can you translated that into "end the drug war?"
As a matter of fact, if you look at Dean's homepage, you will see that his issues section does not even include the phrase drug war or any reference to drug law reforms. This is not a Dean issue. So, unless you have a link to back up your statement, I think you're making a hell of an assumption here.
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I'm already there dude. You forgot swimming.
But as for the article, I think one thing that wasn't mentioned is the sad state of rapid prototyping patents. Don't believe me, go look for yourself. Try seaching for rapid prototype and plastic. You'll find that there are incredibly broad patents held by Boston law firms that are somehow being renewed annually that use almost absurd language to claim ownership of anything that has to do with printing and producing objects.
I came across this when I read that crazy glue --cyanoacrylate-- could be solidified instantly on contact with a mildly alkaline surface. As long as all moisture was kept out of the printing area, the glue wouldn't set within the printing head. I thought hey, this would work great in a modified inkjet using alkaline coated plastic sheets. But it seemed too easy and I began to wonder why I had never seen something like that for sale. So, I went and looked in the patent database and sure enough this one patent claimed almost any kind of glue.
In fact, the illustations containted a diagram that went like this:
3D Object -> Memory-> Computer-> Printer
Whoa, I thought you couldn't patent obvious designs. That seemed painfully obvious to me.
I think this kind of bullshit is why we're not going to see the fruits of this technology for at least a decade although it's probably doable now.
Not to sound arrogant, but I find actually learning another language by watching foreign TV with subtitles in the original language to be even more interesting than watching the dubbed or English subtitled version. It involves commitment to get to the point where you can understand the basics, but there are rewards to making a commitment to learn something new.
I like the idea of translating sentence by sentence as opposed to grammatically and word for word. I'm sure this guy is right that at some point this will produce reasonably acurate translations in many cases, but multiple languages are one of our greatest treasures.
I have read that the single most important factor in preventing senile dementia is the difference between those who continue to create novel memories throughout their lives and those who stick to what they have already learned. Learning multiple languages is a wonderful thing and once you get well into it, it is a lot of fun. It certainly increases your options for punning and rhyming and you end up with lots of aliases.
People who don't already know LiveCD also fail to understand RAMDisk. I've seen plenty of forums where people complained that LiveCD is stupid because you can't add anything to the distro, but that's not the case at all. In fact, you just substitute RAM for hard drive space and with RAM prices like they are today, you can make a LiveCD distro that is much faster than a generic distro.
True, the Lindows crowd is not likely to be using apt to build up a RAMDisk from a stripped down distro, but I just wanted to point out that LiveCD is often misunderstood. It can be very fast if you're running most stuff from RAMDisk and even a few Gigs of RAM is affordable these days.
It goes beyond just the lack of the DMCA outside the US, many other countries never adopted the Sonny Bono limits and are still at fifty years which means that works including audio and video made before '53 already ARE in the public domain.
For people in those countries, no laws are being broken when older material is being traded.
You might say, well who cares about old stuff, but it doesn't end there because in many of those countries, foreign copyrights are not granted automatically and require fees that are sometimes not paid even for the latest Hollywood movies.
The US tried to bully Taiwan into agreeing to the 70 year limit by threatening to cut off arms sales, but surprisingly the Taiwanese stood up to the big bad boys from Washington and said no.
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2. ?????
3. Profit
Without DRM, broadband won't become popular. These guys really have thier finget on the pulse of the net generation. Yep, got it all wrapped up.
Reminds me of AT+T's CEO talking about the big telecoms recovery in the next few years where everybody is going to going crazy paying for music and movies and the best part --videoconfrencing.
Well, as long as he can hustle all the 80 year old shareholders it works. Shine on baby.
You just got to have confidence, see.
The assumption that you can and should be able to provide all kinds of programming through a web interface ignores the fact that many applications involve personal data and the web is fundamentally public even if you add SSL or whatever gizmos to try and avoid the fact. There are many services that should not be provided through a browser. That doesn't mean applications can't be network enabled, but perhaps they shouldn't operate within a browser.
Although the web is where a lot of great open souce development takes place, this fact shouldn't be interpreted as being anti-open source by any means. The web is great, but not everything has to be crammed into a browser. In fact, it seems like it's the closed source interests that are most intnet on pushing "web services."
This only becomes more of an issue with standards like XML. Sure, it's potentially possible to provide all kinds of interactivity through a browser with XML, but the question remains, should you?
Are you quite sure the colonists were all happy to pay taxes? Did they pay income tax? Are you aware of the history of income taxes in the US? I'll give you a hint, it comes after the Civil War.
Prior to that time, the US government's income came primarily from import duties and land sales, you will recall the westward settlement. I can guess you'll try and back out by saying that import duties are taxes, but they're not, they're duties. That's why there are two words. It's like calling copyright infrinegment stealing.
The parent is damn right that unjust laws should not be followed and should be broken willfully by corageous citizens and this is an American tradtion we should be proud of.
Well a rough answer looks pretty simple to guestimate me. An Si-Si bond is 0.235nm. We're about to head into the 90nm scale and there are plans to move quickly to the 60 and 45nm range by the end of the decade. Although there are many reasons things might slow down before then, it sure as hell is going to slow down within the next twenty years. That aint no mystery. Even if single atom silicon circuits are possible, we'll soon be within a few powers of ten from such a beast. Sure there's non conventional computing, but CMOS will certainly be used up before too many more doublings can occur. That should be common knowledge and it makes the article seem a bit ridiculous.
This would be great. It's constantly amazes me how people turn advances in technology into major social problems. If it became possible to produce limitless delicious food from a cheap little box that everybody could have I'm sure the first thing we would hear was how terrible it was and how it was going to destroy the traditional farm life forever. It's stealing to eat free food! People's immediate rush into self-righteous furies at every new advance are insane.
I think this quote is merely a common example of an acadmic stating something that is painfully obvious as though it were an insight. This happens all the time in academia and it's because they get the good weed so they're euphoric about all sorts of pedestrian ideas. Not only that, they kid themselves that the zit-faced suburban coeds they're bagging are so hot. But I digress.
It's not at all useless to speak of conservative -vs- liberal. In fact, it's one of the finest topics around. But you have to listen to my opinions to know what's really going on. And since you're so interested, allow me to enlighten:
The difference is that liberals have a fatal faith in logic that does them no favors in the political realm where rhetoric takes precedence. This is hardly a mystery. The Democratic party is secretly known as the Teacher's Union Party. (Shh.) And we all know that teachers have a terrible time in politics. If you doubt it, just look into your average classroom. The problem is, they're pedantic. They are dying to pretend a logical explanation about why you shouldn't pull people's hair or cheat on your exam is going to solve the problem.
Conservatives, on the other hand, don't give a flying fuck about logic as long as it makes money and keeps them in power. Cross your fingers and salute the flag. This is why the conservatives always bounce back despite a collection of absolutely absurd and contradictory moral positions.
The moral is, fuck em' all. Don't take anybody too seriously. The way to save the net is to get your local utility to offer broadband. It's quite simple. Think globally, act locally.
As someone who lives off his passport on a daily basis this seems like a gimick. Passports are totally insecure documents and always will be because they are used by people who leave their country and its laws behind.
The real wake up call about passports happened for me when my first one expired. I had memorized the number and assumed that naturally this ultra important piece of ID would be kept for life --not a chance.
I specifically requested to keep my old number and the feds said, no its not allowed.
This struck me as totally bizarre, but by that point I'd travelled enough to have met people who casually threw away their passports and got new ones whenever they got into visa problems so I wasn't all that surprised. Passports are a joke and always will be.
This is definitely cool. For all the people saying this type of hack is irrelevant because of the storage difference between HDs and CDs, I must say that's rather short-sited when you consider that the form factor for optical media is most likely going to stay the same all the way into the violet laser media. So, while you could call this an out-of-date CD changer, you could also call it a cutting edge Blu-Ray changer. And commercial alternatives are insanely overpriced.
But this is certainly not the last word on the matter. I've got my own plans as well. One thing we didn't see was any kind of performance specs about how big of an unattended stack the thing could handle. I read the part where he said it was just for fun, but I'd still like to know how many he could do consecutively.
The option I'm considering is where you take a plastic housed stack of a hundred hundred discs sitting on a conveyer whith a slot at the bottom of the stack only big enough for one disc at a time to be rolled out. I think some of the commercaial solutions might work like this.
I followed the link and I was so impressed, I went to the USPTO and tried to find some technical background in the patents.
Using "Xerox" and "Phaser" as search terms I found number 6,042,227 and it seems to be right on the nose. The patent was even more interesting than Xerox's marketing hype. Apparently this hot crayon-like system is among the most environmentally friendly printing systems of all and is potentially very cheap. I would guess it's just a matter of time before this technology moves into the budget slot.
I had a hooker give me a frisbee once. She game me some tweak too and we used to smoke her weed all the time. I used to let her hang out in my living room when the heat was on back in college.
Oh, freebie. Nevermidn. Nah, she was fat. But very friendly.
It was a joke for cryin' out loud. I live in Taiwan and I pay twenty bucks a month for 1.5megs WITH phone service.
How can mega-corporations remain competitive and maintain our free market economy without taxpayer support? Just look at what happens to countries like Japan, Korea and Taiwan where the telecoms are state owned monoplies. You wouldn't want to end up like that, would you?
I was about to get one a few months back because I had some files that were too big for CD and then I found 900meg CDs and I couldn't think of a good reason to need one.
I'll get one eventually I'm sure. We all will. I've had like six CD-Rs so far and it's obvious that the DVD writers will go to at least sixteen speed, so yeah there's life in this market, but I don't think it's going to be as long as it was from CD to DVD writers till we get to blue.
Maybe it will be a long time, maybe not.
I don't think the DVD analogy is fair. I've seen memos published in 1995 by movie studio executives in talks with the Japanese manufacturers where they were talking about DVD-R coming out within months unless they could get court orders to prevent it. The rollout date for DVD-R was put off for legal rather than technical or purely IC market reasons.
You might think that this is just going to happen again, but it's not necessarily the case. We're in a rapidly changing world. Just last year the Bush administration was saying China could not be allowed to import cutting edge IC tech from the West, but after Bush went and unilaterally attacked a sovereign nation to please his father the German company Infineon violated internation agreements and sold 90nm chip fab equipment to China.
So, this isn't the 90s. We're in a new world and organizations that used to be able to squelch technology in the courts like the RIAA and MPAA are beginning to lose favor with the public.
Blue might come sooner than you think.
Speaking of between the teeth. Whoa, when you lose a tooth and get a chance to see what's between those suckers, it makes a little yellow on the outsides seem quite irrelevant.
I've lost about three so far to root canals. Two broken as a youngster and one rotted out from general deterioration as I started getting older.
Seeing what was between those puppies when one came out terrified me. I floss daily and brush plenty of times, but that doesn't matter. It's scarry.
Now I'm hooked on these inter-dental cleaners, but I know they just can't get everything out of those spaces. So, I'd have to go with those who say just don't worry about it. Call it character. Look at Al Sharpton, he got nominated for president.
When I read that quote about customers. I said, Halleluja this guy rocks.
There are places and times where it's a good thing to reach out to people for whatever reason and try to cajole them into various actions. Marriage wouldn't go far without a good customer service attitude on the parts of both partners, but there are limits for christ's sake. Just like mantra "let the markets decide" customer focus becomes a slavish dogma and it so damned refreshing to hear someone who has billions of customers say fuck em'.
Amen brother. Tell it to the people!
Thinking that problems are limited to IT is a bit myopic. Semiconductors are not exactly the place to be these days either.
The problem goes back to the Reagan era policy of putting all the US's eggs in the service sector and then building up this straw man called intellectual property that is essentially hollow. It was never intended to be more than a scam like ponzi or a pyramid game which is what it has turned out to be.
Tighten up patent law back to where it was before the depression, make deregulation a mantra and the monopolies will grow like cockroaches in a backed up sewer.
Well, it worked. Now we're talking about deflation. Hmm, is this really so mysterious.
Okay, could you guys give some illustrations regarding a hypothetical situation to clarify a few things?
Let's say a person in a country outside the US with, let us say, a fifty year copyright law for all kinds of media including audio and video is using P2P. That person doesn't have any way of knowing the location of the other people connecting to his P2P application, and he is freely sharing thousands of files that would be covered by copyright within the US, but are not in his country because they are all copyrighted before 1953 and have therefore entered the public domain in his country. Some of those files are being downloaded to the US where they would still be under copyright according to that country's (the USA) laws.
The question is whether this would be considered infringement by the DOJ. And if it would, then who is doing the infringing? The server only, the dowloader only or both?
Now if the answer is that the server is considered to be infringing copyright, then why are his ISP's servers exempt?
To summarize, how can you draw the line on common carrier status in an international P2P situation where there are differences in laws.
Don't feel bad. I was in the same boat when I saw how active Dean was on the net, I thought alright, here's a candidate that seems to get it.
So, I started looking at his blog and then went to a forum set up by his supporters and that's where I found out that his drug stance is same 'ol same 'ol, don't rock the boat etc. I was disappointed, but seeing that he's a former MD, I'm not all that surprised really. Most medical doctors are so high on their I-Am-God trip that they would never admit that the patients might better know what's good for them. I will probably vote for Kucinich, but I agree he looks like a long shot.
What confuses me is why Kucinich isn't the one with the most active net presence.
Can you provide a link or two that shows where Dean made such a statement? I've looked around and found quite the opposite. As governor, Dean has strongly opposed even medical marijuana in the face of pleading by terminally ill patients.
The only concession that Dean made about drug policy when speculation on what he would do as president was to say that he would insist that further medical marijuana trials be pursued. How can you translated that into "end the drug war?"
As a matter of fact, if you look at Dean's homepage, you will see that his issues section does not even include the phrase drug war or any reference to drug law reforms. This is not a Dean issue. So, unless you have a link to back up your statement, I think you're making a hell of an assumption here.