Unless you're a really big company in really flagrant violation of the law, you have nothing to worry about.
Good, the last thing we need is government regulating every little thing on the internet. What are they going to do about foreign sites? Nothing, that's what. So this whole law is just a stupid little bone they can throw to say "look at what we are doing to ugh, Protect the Children". If a site wants to collect info, they just move offshore.
God forbid they actually do something that benefits children, like cut taxes or something.
I hope more companies will see the light and produce StrongARM and Crusoe based Laptops. Those chips use much less power and run Linux, so what more do you need?
Whereas Brin taught us that you can take on of the great series in Science Fiction history, namely Asimov's Foundation series, give a well thought of author a pen, and he can produce a complete piece of crap.
," the bulletin (which was also a press release, AFAIK) contained a large paragraph denouncing video bootlegging of Episode 1. Wow. Lucas really has copyright and control on the brain, doesn't he?
Yeah, God forbid he wan't to keep people from stealing his work or anything like that.
Screw you people, he should keep his damn money and invest it... this allows capital to be loaned out, generating jobs and raising everyone's standard of living, not just those few that some charity gives the money to.
The rich created the government, including the whole *concept* of government in the first place.
I'm sure those old Babalonians will be surprised to find out they were rich.
Republican rhetoric about small government sounds well and good when you're listening to Rush Limbaugh, but the reality is that although personal welfare has been reduced and limited, schools are underfunded
School funding is almost entirely a local issue, not a federal one.
and health care is expensively privatized,
If you think socialized health care is so great, move to Canada... I hear if you need heart surgery they actually get you in within the year now a days.
the government will still be doing it's best to break union strikes, beat down inner city rebellions, pepper spray peaceful protestors, as well as spreading this form of American "democracy" across the globe.
Good.
And at the same time, they'll be cutting a check to GM in order to keep them from moving yet *another* plant down to Mexico so they can exploit cheap labor
Doesn't that make you happy that the mean nasty corporation is partially leaving so as no to Oppress the poor workers...
They also didn't introduce any real standards, the standards you're thinking of are "a world with only Microsoft" standards. ASP, J++, COM,.DOC,
You don't know what the hell you are talking about... ASP is open, can use even PERL as its scripting language, and is available on multiple platforms. J++ was fully compatable with Java, just with added functionality (which you could turn off if you wanted). COM is fully documented and available on multiple platforms. The.DOC file format is fully documented on MS's Techweb site (and is in XML for Office 2000).
Maybe you have a different idea of what standards are... but these all seem pretty standard and open to me.
The average person doesn't care about his/her rights
Unsupportable statement. Just becuase the average person doesn't care about the lunatic fringle's holy war(s) against the MPAA and RIAA doesn't mean that they don't care about their rights.
And we either have to kiss our rights goodbye or have no content.
What rights are you talking about? The "rights" people are using to pirate music and videos?
Also, I have as much a right to break CSS (and not get sued for it) as they do to implement it, or even more.
Well, aparently the courts disagree with you, and its their opinion that counts, not yours.
They should make you buy one DVD that can only be listened to during the day at home, one for at night at home, and one for in the car.
Companies should have the right to place whatever license they want on their product. No one is putting a gun to your head and focing you to buy the product.
So a company (or a bunch of companies) can spend their time and money developing a spec, such as DVD, but they don't have the right to place licenses on it in your world?
Basically we should let them require you to sell yourself into slavery to them in order to access their wonderful content
Like everything in the world, you have a choice. There is a cost to the content (both in money and rights you may give up). You perform a simple equation in your head... do I value the content enough to give up the required money and combination of rights? If so, you pay, otherwise, you don't use the content. How hard is that to understand?????
It works really well, and has its own built in negative feedback mechanism, as if the cost of the content is too high (in either rights or $$$$), no one will view the content.
We've got to crack the nut of organizations who want to retain intimate and complete control over content delivery
Why? Why shouldn't companies have rights to control their content? If you were producting something of value, you probably wouldn't like it if I were to steal/hijack/pirate it.
As opposed to RMS who thinks that closed-source software is "immoral" somehow... If that doesn't amke him a dancing monkey for the granola-eating set, I don't know what does.
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Unless you're a really big company in really flagrant violation of the law, you have nothing to worry about.
Good, the last thing we need is government regulating every little thing on the internet. What are they going to do about foreign sites? Nothing, that's what. So this whole law is just a stupid little bone they can throw to say "look at what we are doing to ugh, Protect the Children". If a site wants to collect info, they just move offshore.
God forbid they actually do something that benefits children, like cut taxes or something.
So this is the kind of person who works at Andover.net. No wonder your stock is in the toilet.
There is a preference you can set in your user profile to filter out star wars stories, if you don't want to see them.
Too bad there isn't one to filter out your whiny ass.
What does air filter boy from Star Trek have to do with this?
Since I got my cable modem and cancelled my landline telephone service. It seems telemarketers will not call cell phones for some reason.
I hope more companies will see the light and produce StrongARM and Crusoe based Laptops. Those chips use much less power and run Linux, so what more do you need?
Windows support for the other 99% of the world.
Whereas Brin taught us that you can take on of the great series in Science Fiction history, namely Asimov's Foundation series, give a well thought of author a pen, and he can produce a complete piece of crap.
Why should you have to pay more to get the whole movie?
Well, if you buy the pan-and-scan version, aren't you essentially paying less for less of the movie?
," the bulletin (which was also a press release, AFAIK) contained a large paragraph denouncing video bootlegging of Episode 1. Wow. Lucas really has copyright and control on the brain, doesn't he?
Yeah, God forbid he wan't to keep people from stealing his work or anything like that.
. Libertarians are still fighting big government, today in the form of big corporations
Boy, I must have missed that memo. Let's see do corportations:
Take taxes from you?
Start wars?
Engage in gross acts of waste?
Hmm... guess not... I'll take corporations over government any day of the week.
That if I own a web server I shouldn't be allowed to take down whatever I want to?
the only reason people want/need broadband internet access is for the downloading of pr0n, MP3 and warez
You make that sound like a bad thing...
Well, if they hadn't been silly and given away their work they might have made some money... oh well...
I am really, really, considering moving to Europe
You should go, no one here will miss you.
Oh that's right, whiny little shits like you never acutally leave, they just stick around and bitch and moan.
If it morally offends you so much, you are free to send your money directly to those people, you know.
. when is the last time either of these two made an impact on anything.
Well most of NASA's spacecraft have made pretty big impacts on Mars lately...
Rim shot
Thank you! I'm at the Funny Bone in Cleveland next week... please tip your waitresses and drive safely.
Good, sounds like a win-win situation all around then. Schools get software for cheap, and MS gets mindshare.
What's wrong with that?
Screw you people, he should keep his damn money and invest it... this allows capital to be loaned out, generating jobs and raising everyone's standard of living, not just those few that some charity gives the money to.
The rich created the government, including the whole *concept* of government in the first place.
I'm sure those old Babalonians will be surprised to find out they were rich.
Republican rhetoric about small government sounds well and good when you're listening to Rush Limbaugh, but the reality is that although personal welfare has been reduced and limited, schools are underfunded
School funding is almost entirely a local issue, not a federal one.
and health care is expensively privatized,
If you think socialized health care is so great, move to Canada... I hear if you need heart surgery they actually get you in within the year now a days.
the government will still be doing it's best to break union strikes, beat down inner city rebellions, pepper spray peaceful protestors, as well as spreading this form of American "democracy" across the globe.
Good.
And at the same time, they'll be cutting a check to GM in order to keep them from moving yet *another* plant down to Mexico so they can exploit cheap labor
Doesn't that make you happy that the mean nasty corporation is partially leaving so as no to Oppress the poor workers...
They also didn't introduce any real standards, the standards you're thinking of are "a world with only Microsoft" standards. ASP, J++, COM, .DOC,
.DOC file format is fully documented on MS's Techweb site (and is in XML for Office 2000).
You don't know what the hell you are talking about... ASP is open, can use even PERL as its scripting language, and is available on multiple platforms. J++ was fully compatable with Java, just with added functionality (which you could turn off if you wanted). COM is fully documented and available on multiple platforms. The
Maybe you have a different idea of what standards are... but these all seem pretty standard and open to me.
Thank goodness... I trust any company over the government any day.
The average person doesn't care about his/her rights
Unsupportable statement. Just becuase the average person doesn't care about the lunatic fringle's holy war(s) against the MPAA and RIAA doesn't mean that they don't care about their rights.
And we either have to kiss our rights goodbye or have no content.
What rights are you talking about? The "rights" people are using to pirate music and videos?
Also, I have as much a right to break CSS (and not get sued for it) as they do to implement it, or even more.
Well, aparently the courts disagree with you, and its their opinion that counts, not yours.
Yeah, I think we should give them total control
Good, glad we see eye to eye
They should make you buy one DVD that can only be listened to during the day at home, one for at night at home, and one for in the car.
Companies should have the right to place whatever license they want on their product. No one is putting a gun to your head and focing you to buy the product.
So a company (or a bunch of companies) can spend their time and money developing a spec, such as DVD, but they don't have the right to place licenses on it in your world?
Basically we should let them require you to sell yourself into slavery to them in order to access their wonderful content
Like everything in the world, you have a choice. There is a cost to the content (both in money and rights you may give up). You perform a simple equation in your head... do I value the content enough to give up the required money and combination of rights? If so, you pay, otherwise, you don't use the content. How hard is that to understand?????
It works really well, and has its own built in negative feedback mechanism, as if the cost of the content is too high (in either rights or $$$$), no one will view the content.
We've got to crack the nut of organizations who want to retain intimate and complete control over content delivery
Why? Why shouldn't companies have rights to control their content? If you were producting something of value, you probably wouldn't like it if I were to steal/hijack/pirate it.
As opposed to RMS who thinks that closed-source software is "immoral" somehow... If that doesn't amke him a dancing monkey for the granola-eating set, I don't know what does.