...yet. I don't think it's an issue of any of the Universities not willing to back them up but they have to have a strategy before they can test the DMCA in this fashion. Think about it. If you knew that you were gonna be sued over the content of a seminar or publication you would do everything to prepare beforehand. The cancelling of the talk/publication of the subject is a CYA move, which is not a bad thing. It would be bad if it never gets published but I don't think the researchers will remain quiet about this.
Maybe they are either gonna wait for the DeCSS case to conclude, or maybe they are going to reorganize to protect the parties that can't afford to have their names appear at the top of a breif but I suspect that this is Far from over.
6000 sigs aside, maybe the Indrema (or the principles behind it) where the motivating factor.
Think about it, whats the best way to insure the longevity of a game these days? Ask Sierra studios and they'll tell you the answer is a community of home grown developers. This practice can easily translate to a console. Sony is protecting themselves against the Xbox and Gamecube by 'opening' their console to people who could develop apps and games at home.
Good point! One thing I think you left out is the identification of genes that responsible for those gradual neurological problems like Hodgkins (sp?) or even tweak the immune system a little for all the crazy stuff thats floating around. If we didn't have to rely on exotic plants for medicine and animals for insulin drugs would be so cheap and peace and love and blah blah blah...you get my point.
Given the problem with NASA and that we are truly going into a century of science. The USA needs to move to the metric system. It may take 25 years but it worth it. The US need to stop thinking they live in a bubble.
should we drive on the left side of the streets too?
imagine for a moment a hard drives and flash media enforcing copyright in the little things that are going to need them, not just our big and bad pc's. thats where you'll see the same outlines for cprm cept they'll do it on embedded hardware in something like, oh I don't know, a sony mp3 player, a panasonic hd based vcr (not the replaytv) to name a few.
They (thankfully) didnt penetrate the pc standards but that won't keep them from tying leashes to your media in the new (portabke) formats either.
My karma is too high so I'll add this: Stop calling for friggin boycotts already. Slashdot barely controls a million people. If it happened it would be on oprah's tv show, not/.
Actually, I think you got modded OT for no reason. This guy who used to write for NY Newsday (best sports section in the city), Josh Quitner I think it was, used to write a newbie article for them. He had McDonalds.com in like, 95 (+or-1year) and I read his story about it. So when they sent him a scarygram he said, "I'll hand you the domain IF you wire up a public (grammer) school and pay for their T1 for X years." There's no feel good moment at the end of this story cuz Mc'D's declined his offer and I think he lost the domain. His articles sucked but that story was interesting and I remember feeling disapointed that McD's didn't take him seriously. I'll get down on em for that instead of TM'ing a smiley.
I say good fir them! It wouldn't surprise me if some of those law firms and gov't agencies that read the TechLaw Journal are asking themselves, "If our email filter works this poorly, maybe the ones we are lobbying for in libraries and schools are POS' too!" While this isnt the most glaring and painfull ramification of censorship it might be the pebble that starts the landslide. I hope so anyway.
I wrote a story for an online video-game web page and it got a lot of positive feedback. This same web page is loosely affiliated with a quite-large dead-tree video game review rag. The story I wrote for them I did as a volunteer but I told the editor that if my story ever sees action on a printing press I wanted something in return. I only asked for a coffee mug but the priniciple remains. I see my online article as a contribution to the community. If they turned around and printed it, they are making a tangible profit off my work and I'd want a piece of that action. Would I be legally entitled to anything? Probably not. But I think they would be morally responsible to repay me for my contribution.
I still don't see how someone can confuse SSH with OpenSSH. There are OS versions of everything these days. It's not like OSSH is called S-SH or SSHOpen, which would be confusing. It's OpenFuckinSSH. Wait a sec, maybe I'm on to something there...:P
remember when they were subsidized by 'donations'? I've only been reading/. for about 8 months but I would pay $30/yr.
OTOH I don't think the exlcusive content thing could work here. The only real writer is JKatz and even thats debatable. I'm not trying to bash him (this time) but you can't have an exclusive section based around one guy's writing in a user submitted news site.
I'm not being fanatical but I would reccomend at least renting the dvd (if thats even possible). It was at least nice to see a more 'modern' interpretation. The funny thing is that where the old one excels the new one falters where as the old one faltered, the new one excels.:) "Me Ted"
I dunno about uneccesary functionality. If you ask the average luser about why they like windows they dont say, "cuz it duhz this and that and I can mess around with thoze" they say, "cuz itz eezy to yuse for email and the webwide internet." It's also true for mac lusers. Remember, we're not talking about ppl who can take advantage of aggresively speced machines. "Me Ted"
Take a look at these two quotes: Computer literacy is an excuse for techies to say, 'I don't want to actually have to think this stuff through.' "
Maybe the answer -- gulp -- is Washington. Perhaps the only way to create plateaus is to mandate them.
Which is scarier? A class of peeps who are afraid of thinking their way through a problem or a gov't doing it for them? His whole argument boils down to those two lines. I'll agree when he says UI's in general are immature. Fine. But the biggest problem is immaturity. Computers as they exist today are in an immature state where they aren't 'obvious' but gov't is as able to grasp these concepts as well as Joe Trailer-Park Sixpack. A voting body as messed up as congress/senate trying to nail down what "good" is scares the living shit out of me.
"Me Ted"
I dunno, there's still something to be said for real people. This isnt about movie purism or star wars fundamentalism either. I guess I thought that the story and the places it could go would be captivating enough to not have to lean on cg as it will. as far as the strike goes, i'd be willing to wait for the real people to come back... then again maybe i shouldn't post while i have and 102 fever. "Me Ted"
What are you, dense? They're suing Palm for SELLING the products! UPS and FedEx don't sell those hand-held signature thingies, they just USE them.
If this were a bar I'd think you were pickin a fight. But step back a second and try to think who MADEthe fuckin things. FedEx and UPS? I'd bet you a round of drinks for the entire readership of slashdot that they bought those motherfuckers and the infrastructure AND the support for it from someone else. So maybe FedEx isn't liable, and maybe not the gov't but maybe the people who sold it them are.
Add to that those people who walk around grocery stores with their portable price/inventory recording devices.
No shit!!! Did you know that US Gov't reps use something similar to calculate certain elements of Inflation. They monitor the prices of certain things like cereal and cooking oil and some other stuff that almost everyone buys on a regular basis and keep stats on it over a long period of time to see how far our buck goes now compared to then. Imagine if they try to sue the gov't...
I couldnt find their balance sheet but this might be helpfull. It's a five year graph of their stock value. Now, IANASB(stock broker) but in my amateur opinion they seem to be doing pretty well. I'm of course assuming that stock value has a correlation with corporate health. Which leads to the question, Where can I get some of what they're smokin????:0) "Me Ted"
I won't say MS, that's been done to death. BUT hows about UPS and FedEx, they have "portable personal terminals for use in a system for handling transactions". Come to think of it, so does ConEd and BUG (Con Edison, Brooklyn Union Gas: gas providers in NYC, they read the gas meters on the sides of our houses and have similar devices to the UPS guys).
Now that I think about it, I've been seeing a lot more IBM cash registers around then NCRs. However NCR is a huge manufacturer of ATM machines, I know that much. I'm gonna look for their balance sheet and post it up as a reply and see what their profit margins look like. Maybe we can figure out their motives. "Me Ted"
from not too long ago. PHB's complained that security is too costly to invest the time and money in because it doesnt realize a tangible return. It wasnt until everyone got hacked that they realized how backwards their thinking was. Once the Thought Police come a knockin people will realize what they lost.
It wont be until a majority of people, of which the/. readership certainly isnt, realize just what their privacy really means. Until then "The Big Four" are rightly trying to debunk user privacy. Why should they put forth the effort if no one perceptively cares? "Me Ted"
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...yet. I don't think it's an issue of any of the Universities not willing to back them up but they have to have a strategy before they can test the DMCA in this fashion. Think about it. If you knew that you were gonna be sued over the content of a seminar or publication you would do everything to prepare beforehand. The cancelling of the talk/publication of the subject is a CYA move, which is not a bad thing. It would be bad if it never gets published but I don't think the researchers will remain quiet about this.
Maybe they are either gonna wait for the DeCSS case to conclude, or maybe they are going to reorganize to protect the parties that can't afford to have their names appear at the top of a breif but I suspect that this is Far from over.
6000 sigs aside, maybe the Indrema (or the principles behind it) where the motivating factor.
Think about it, whats the best way to insure the longevity of a game these days? Ask Sierra studios and they'll tell you the answer is a community of home grown developers. This practice can easily translate to a console. Sony is protecting themselves against the Xbox and Gamecube by 'opening' their console to people who could develop apps and games at home.
Good point! One thing I think you left out is the identification of genes that responsible for those gradual neurological problems like Hodgkins (sp?) or even tweak the immune system a little for all the crazy stuff thats floating around. If we didn't have to rely on exotic plants for medicine and animals for insulin drugs would be so cheap and peace and love and blah blah blah...you get my point.
*IANADoctor
Sex-for-pay sites grew from 230 to 1,100 during the same period.
:P
...he visited each one in the name of "journalistic integrity".
He's probably gonna have to settle some issues with Lord British before the UN signs off on it though.
Given the problem with NASA and that we are truly going into a century of science. The USA needs to move to the metric system. It may take 25 years but it worth it. The US need to stop thinking they live in a bubble.
should we drive on the left side of the streets too?
imagine for a moment a hard drives and flash media enforcing copyright in the little things that are going to need them, not just our big and bad pc's. thats where you'll see the same outlines for cprm cept they'll do it on embedded hardware in something like, oh I don't know, a sony mp3 player, a panasonic hd based vcr (not the replaytv) to name a few.
/.
They (thankfully) didnt penetrate the pc standards but that won't keep them from tying leashes to your media in the new (portabke) formats either.
My karma is too high so I'll add this: Stop calling for friggin boycotts already. Slashdot barely controls a million people. If it happened it would be on oprah's tv show, not
Actually, I think you got modded OT for no reason. This guy who used to write for NY Newsday (best sports section in the city), Josh Quitner I think it was, used to write a newbie article for them. He had McDonalds.com in like, 95 (+or-1year) and I read his story about it.
:)
So when they sent him a scarygram he said, "I'll hand you the domain IF you wire up a public (grammer) school and pay for their T1 for X years." There's no feel good moment at the end of this story cuz Mc'D's declined his offer and I think he lost the domain. His articles sucked but that story was interesting and I remember feeling disapointed that McD's didn't take him seriously. I'll get down on em for that instead of TM'ing a smiley.
if this is ot see my sig
I say good fir them! It wouldn't surprise me if some of those law firms and gov't agencies that read the TechLaw Journal are asking themselves, "If our email filter works this poorly, maybe the ones we are lobbying for in libraries and schools are POS' too!"
While this isnt the most glaring and painfull ramification of censorship it might be the pebble that starts the landslide. I hope so anyway.
I wrote a story for an online video-game web page and it got a lot of positive feedback. This same web page is loosely affiliated with a quite-large dead-tree video game review rag. The story I wrote for them I did as a volunteer but I told the editor that if my story ever sees action on a printing press I wanted something in return. I only asked for a coffee mug but the priniciple remains. I see my online article as a contribution to the community. If they turned around and printed it, they are making a tangible profit off my work and I'd want a piece of that action. Would I be legally entitled to anything? Probably not. But I think they would be morally responsible to repay me for my contribution.
Gandalf could kick all their asses.
I still don't see how someone can confuse SSH with OpenSSH. There are OS versions of everything these days. It's not like OSSH is called S-SH or SSHOpen, which would be confusing. It's OpenFuckinSSH. Wait a sec, maybe I'm on to something there... :P
I'm sure you had good intentions when you posted this but enough with the fuckin scientologists.
remember when they were subsidized by 'donations'? I've only been reading /. for about 8 months but I would pay $30/yr.
OTOH I don't think the exlcusive content thing could work here. The only real writer is JKatz and even thats debatable. I'm not trying to bash him (this time) but you can't have an exclusive section based around one guy's writing in a user submitted news site.
I'm not being fanatical but I would reccomend at least renting the dvd (if thats even possible). It was at least nice to see a more 'modern' interpretation. The funny thing is that where the old one excels the new one falters where as the old one faltered, the new one excels. :)
"Me Ted"
I dunno about uneccesary functionality. If you ask the average luser about why they like windows they dont say, "cuz it duhz this and that and I can mess around with thoze" they say, "cuz itz eezy to yuse for email and the webwide internet." It's also true for mac lusers. Remember, we're not talking about ppl who can take advantage of aggresively speced machines.
"Me Ted"
Take a look at these two quotes:
Computer literacy is an excuse for techies to say, 'I don't want to actually have to think this stuff through.' "
Maybe the answer -- gulp -- is Washington. Perhaps the only way to create plateaus is to mandate them.
Which is scarier? A class of peeps who are afraid of thinking their way through a problem or a gov't doing it for them? His whole argument boils down to those two lines. I'll agree when he says UI's in general are immature. Fine. But the biggest problem is immaturity. Computers as they exist today are in an immature state where they aren't 'obvious' but gov't is as able to grasp these concepts as well as Joe Trailer-Park Sixpack. A voting body as messed up as congress/senate trying to nail down what "good" is scares the living shit out of me.
"Me Ted"
I dunno, there's still something to be said for real people. This isnt about movie purism or star wars fundamentalism either. I guess I thought that the story and the places it could go would be captivating enough to not have to lean on cg as it will. as far as the strike goes, i'd be willing to wait for the real people to come back... then again maybe i shouldn't post while i have and 102 fever.
"Me Ted"
Why not just raise the price of all of em? Make the box black and white, instead of a black and a white box?
"Me Ted"
I dont know what's scarier looking, that stamp with Hitlers profile on it, or that Dr. Cerf guy in the picture right above it... yikes!
"Me Ted"
What are you, dense? They're suing Palm for SELLING the products! UPS and FedEx don't sell those hand-held signature thingies, they just USE them.
If this were a bar I'd think you were pickin a fight. But step back a second and try to think who MADEthe fuckin things. FedEx and UPS? I'd bet you a round of drinks for the entire readership of slashdot that they bought those motherfuckers and the infrastructure AND the support for it from someone else. So maybe FedEx isn't liable, and maybe not the gov't but maybe the people who sold it them are.
dickhead
"Me Ted"
Add to that those people who walk around grocery stores with their portable price/inventory recording devices.
:0)
No shit!!! Did you know that US Gov't reps use something similar to calculate certain elements of Inflation. They monitor the prices of certain things like cereal and cooking oil and some other stuff that almost everyone buys on a regular basis and keep stats on it over a long period of time to see how far our buck goes now compared to then. Imagine if they try to sue the gov't...
I couldnt find their balance sheet but this might be helpfull. It's a five year graph of their stock value. Now, IANASB(stock broker) but in my amateur opinion they seem to be doing pretty well. I'm of course assuming that stock value has a correlation with corporate health. Which leads to the question, Where can I get some of what they're smokin????
"Me Ted"
I won't say MS, that's been done to death. BUT hows about UPS and FedEx, they have "portable personal terminals for use in a system for handling transactions". Come to think of it, so does ConEd and BUG (Con Edison, Brooklyn Union Gas: gas providers in NYC, they read the gas meters on the sides of our houses and have similar devices to the UPS guys).
Now that I think about it, I've been seeing a lot more IBM cash registers around then NCRs. However NCR is a huge manufacturer of ATM machines, I know that much. I'm gonna look for their balance sheet and post it up as a reply and see what their profit margins look like. Maybe we can figure out their motives.
"Me Ted"
I thought Compuserve was the corp trying to get royalties for GIF.
"Me Ted"
from not too long ago. PHB's complained that security is too costly to invest the time and money in because it doesnt realize a tangible return. It wasnt until everyone got hacked that they realized how backwards their thinking was. Once the Thought Police come a knockin people will realize what they lost.
/. readership certainly isnt, realize just what their privacy really means. Until then "The Big Four" are rightly trying to debunk user privacy. Why should they put forth the effort if no one perceptively cares?
It wont be until a majority of people, of which the
"Me Ted"