This does not bode well for the people and ISPs in Utah. Without the 'common carrier' protection, an ISP is liable for any/all content viewed/received by a subscriber. All you need is one pervert to download illegal pron, or one child to download (without authorization) a piece of media and the lawsuits would be be staggering.
C'mon CowboyNeal, CmdrTaco, Zonk, Timothy, et. al. would it be too much to ask for you people to check published articles over the past 24 to 48 hours? Keep this up and the Dailyshow will mocking the great slashdot.
This is the only real huge drawback I see to the Apple iPod line - non-replaceable rechargeable batteries. Otherwise I would buy these things up like crazy.
I'll probably buy the shuttle as I like the function and excellent price-point, but I really don't like the battery issue.
Corporations that do damages on this scale to life and/or environment should have corporate charters suspended then revoked if compensation/cleanup is deemed inadequate. These charters should be revoked by every member state of the UN, and sanctions should be put on non-member states that do not cooperate.
Corporations and their leaders/shareholders should be held responsible for any damages done.
I don't know what part of this bill bothers me most - that the Gov signed it without a vote from the people (since it affects the public common it should go to a vote), or that this bill aides corporate coffers while blocking public access to information. And those are to say nothing about furthering the digital/economic divides splitting this nation.
While it is generally a good idea for the government to not be in competition with private enterprise, if that private enterprise is not providing a [level of] service for the public then I don't see any problem with the government acting to provide the service.
Considering this bill, was an article produced for this bill that would require [within a specified time] the services that the government was going to provide? Is, for example, Verizon going to provide large area WiFi services covering certain municipalities and allowing free access to those members of the public (on welfare, disability, students, social security, etc) as was the government? I somehow doubt that was written into the bill and that should be a reason for the bill to be dropped.
All in all, a very poor bill that will only serve to improve corporate coffers and futher reduce the public common.
As far a fun gaming goes, CS ranks pretty low on my scale. I would rather play MOO (original) than CS. As far as team-based action is concerned, CTF, team-DM, Tribes, team-fortress (whatever happened to this?) are so much more fun than CS it is amazing to me that anyone even plays CS.
Need to embrace digital media distribution...
on
TV Piracy is Next
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
All these entertainment groups need to embrace digital media distribution instead of trying to fight against it. They need to have produced content available in a digital media distribution format within a short time of releasing content to the general public. If an album is released then the high-quality song files should be available for paid download within a short time after. Every book written should be available as a pdf (or somesuch) and downloadable within a year of release of the dead tree version. Every movie released in theaters should have a DVD (without advertising!) following shortly. Every TV series aired should have a DVD (without advertising) released within a year after original airing.
Entertainment groups should be required to embrace and fully utilize digital media distribution, not vilify it.
With the votes not fully counted in Ohio (and elsewhere) this election is not yet over. Kerry conceding and Bush giving victory speeches is just a lot of hot air. If all the ballots in Ohio (and elsewhere) show Kerry the electoral winner I fully expect Bush to step down and Kerry to step up. If that does not happen a great injustice will be done to democracy.
Actually, this sounds quite reasonable. Why would you want to keep PPV/VOD programs stuffing up your TIVO/PVR? A reasonable finite time for PPV should be tolerated as long as a more permanent digital media recording (ie DVD) is made available within the timeline. As for VOD, I don't know why you would/should want to record it anyhow - it's 'on demand' - just order it again should you want to see it.
I don't see how this is any real threat to 'fair use'. You can still record the programs, but you have a limited timeline to watch. If you can't watch within that timeline, maybe you didn't really want to watch.
The secret Service has a legitimate concern for their wellfare.
Actually, the Secret Service only has concern for the President, Vice President, their family members and safeguarding our currency against counterfeiters.
Using the Secret Service to protect conventioneers and guests is probably abuse of power. Let the police protect the conventioneers and guests.
Good thing this cannot/should-not happen in the US - this would bring a ground swelling of lawsuits against any ISP that tried. If an ISP edited, or censored, any website, or online document, it could be considered that any illegal content found after that point is allowed and/or published by the ISP. If a subscriber to that ISP found some illegal content and the authorities busted the subscriber for downloading/storing said illegal content then the subscribers lawyer could point that the ISP is the party to blame since the ISP is filtering/editing/censoring content and allowed/permitted the illegal content to be available. The lawyer cound argue that the subscriber accidentally accessed the site and did not know about the browser cache, and futhermore since the ISP is filtering content the ISP must be considered a publisher-by-association and be held as accountable as the site operator(s)/proprieter(s)...
Disclaimer: I hate child porn and other illegal content as much as most normal people, but this method is the wrong way of tackling the problem. The sites with illegal content should be shutdown and the site proprieter(s) arrested.
The meat is the only thing pre-cooked in Voila! meals (or at least I hope it is). The veggies and pasta are pretty raw if you don't pan cook the whole thing.
Voila! meals in a bag are a mainstay in my diet. Whether it is chicken or beef variety it is always very easy to fix and store. Just grab a pan with a lid and apply to a hot stove top with half a cup of water and in 15-20 minutes you have an adequate dinner for two. As for taste - mild to lite depending on how well you cook it. You can usually taste the veggies and the meat and pasta usually do their own thing. I usually fix 2 or 3 bags of this stuff and freeze it for quick meals through the week.
For XP install...
1) Drivers (for everything not incl'd in XP)
2) Windows updates
3) Browser (Netscape/Mozilla)
4) Email (Eudora)
5) Usenet clients (for anonymous leech downloadings)
6) Anti-virus
7) Acronis True Image (and do first full boot partition backup so next re-install is easier)
8) Mass codec install
9) Open Office
10) Games
I've never done a *nix install that didn't result in four hours trying to get the video configured correctly and then ending up installing some version of windows. I'm hoping Xandros will change that.
I don't see any problem. The Google search engine is doing exactly as it should - it is finding matching/close references within its website database. It just makes sense that the engine will find competitors/similar sites. A lawsuit over a service that is performing as it should should be dismissed immediately (with a warning to the industry not to try this stunt again).
The criminalization of civil law is not what our country's founding fathers created. They created a legal system where a copyright owner could take a potential violator to court. These actions of searches and seizures of private property (& don't get me started on legality of sealed warrants) before a proper trial violate several constitutional, as well as international, laws. We need to contact our elected representatives and let them know our outrage at their silence while our rights are being trampled.
Granted, it is better without all the static. But the flutter (shwush, shwush, shwush...) introduced is still distracting and a serious quality problem. Actually, the new version gives me a low scale headache from the constant flutter.
I remember booting Microsoft Adventure (v 1.00 copyright IBM 1981 & Softwin Assoc 1979 implemented by Gordon Letwin - 5 1/4" floppy w/ manual and plastic cover - sweet) and I would get so engrossed that my father would have to hit the circuit breaker to get me off the the system (still have the system).
Now here is this review of a book about IF, and it is all coming back. Guess nothing to do but dig out both sets of the lost treasures of infocom and get lost for a few months. Ahhhhh.....
Civil law cases should remain in that area. By changing copyright law violations into criminal cases you move from copyright owners and civil courts enforcing copyright law into police and prisons enforcing copyright law. What is the next step? Calling the police for libel/slander cases?
Another point I dislike about this law is the punishment clause. One year in jail is seriously excessive. This law would be a prime candidate for 'community control' device. Unless you find a serial violator, there is no reason for jail/prison time. Leave jail/prison to violent/sexual criminal cases.
Lets see, the 'drive' (shell actually) is $400. Each additional cartridge (drive) is $60 for 35GB. Look at the alternatives - A cheap USB 2.0 3.5" drive enclosure is around $45, and a cheap 80GB drive is $60 (no economic sense to buy any smaller capacity)...
So for around $105 I can get an equivalent speed drive with over twice the space. I don't know about most of you readers, but I could put that nearly $300 to good use elsewhere.
Corporations cannot use the 'bill of rights' since corporations have never explicitly been given any 'rights'. There have been judgements that have caused mass delusions within the legal profession that corporations have 'rights', but no changes have been made to the constitution to grant same 'rights' to corporations as those of citizens.
Corporations should-not/cannot be given the same rights as citizens. Corporations cannot be held to equal responsibilities as citizens, nor can be punished to equal measurements to citizens. Corporations have much more resources available to utilize the legal and/or government systems to their own purposes. The people responsible for running of corporations are not held responsible nor punished as harshly when found guilty.
If these 'flags' are brought into practice, I hope that an FCC backed regulatory commission (balanced between industry and public interest) is appointed to oversee and address abuses within the system.
The power of broad- and cable-casters is too strong with these 'flags'. One can easily see that eventually all shows on TV would have a flag enabled to stop recording and/or time-shifting.
If we cannot stop this plan, the very least we should do is propose how to make it a little fairer to the general public.
Every time I watch an episode of Cops, or read a news report on DUI, I remember an episode of Cops about a driver getting stopped for his 15th DUI. This has got to stop.
Punishing the general driving population by requiring breathalyzer tests is not a good idea.
Even if it includes a generous insurance reduction, it would still be a bad idea. A good idea to handle DUI offences is to improve the punishments and get the habitual drunks off the road.
An example: After the third strike he should never get a drivers license in any state, never own/register another motor vehicle in any state, and be sentenced to minimum five years community control (ankle strap, payments & all). No hardship, no pleas, no nonsense.
Anyone know how Crossover compares to Wine and/or WineX? I am really considering a purchase to try this distro, but I would rather do a clean break from windows (not dual boot). Migrate apps slowly to native distro and in the meantime continue to use Windows apps on the distro. So, how is Crossover compared to Wine/WineX?
Slashdot Mirror
This does not bode well for the people and ISPs in Utah. Without the 'common carrier' protection, an ISP is liable for any/all content viewed/received by a subscriber. All you need is one pervert to download illegal pron, or one child to download (without authorization) a piece of media and the lawsuits would be be staggering.
C'mon CowboyNeal, CmdrTaco, Zonk, Timothy, et. al. would it be too much to ask for you people to check published articles over the past 24 to 48 hours? Keep this up and the Dailyshow will mocking the great slashdot.
This is the only real huge drawback I see to the Apple iPod line - non-replaceable rechargeable batteries. Otherwise I would buy these things up like crazy.
I'll probably buy the shuttle as I like the function and excellent price-point, but I really don't like the battery issue.
It says 'loon' not intelligent former presidential candidate.
Obviously they are making a veiled reference to Pres Bush (or Terry McAuliffe).
Corporations that do damages on this scale to life and/or environment should have corporate charters suspended then revoked if compensation/cleanup is deemed inadequate. These charters should be revoked by every member state of the UN, and sanctions should be put on non-member states that do not cooperate.
Corporations and their leaders/shareholders should be held responsible for any damages done.
I don't know what part of this bill bothers me most - that the Gov signed it without a vote from the people (since it affects the public common it should go to a vote), or that this bill aides corporate coffers while blocking public access to information. And those are to say nothing about furthering the digital/economic divides splitting this nation.
While it is generally a good idea for the government to not be in competition with private enterprise, if that private enterprise is not providing a [level of] service for the public then I don't see any problem with the government acting to provide the service.
Considering this bill, was an article produced for this bill that would require [within a specified time] the services that the government was going to provide? Is, for example, Verizon going to provide large area WiFi services covering certain municipalities and allowing free access to those members of the public (on welfare, disability, students, social security, etc) as was the government? I somehow doubt that was written into the bill and that should be a reason for the bill to be dropped.
All in all, a very poor bill that will only serve to improve corporate coffers and futher reduce the public common.
As far a fun gaming goes, CS ranks pretty low on my scale. I would rather play MOO (original) than CS. As far as team-based action is concerned, CTF, team-DM, Tribes, team-fortress (whatever happened to this?) are so much more fun than CS it is amazing to me that anyone even plays CS.
All these entertainment groups need to embrace digital media distribution instead of trying to fight against it. They need to have produced content available in a digital media distribution format within a short time of releasing content to the general public. If an album is released then the high-quality song files should be available for paid download within a short time after. Every book written should be available as a pdf (or somesuch) and downloadable within a year of release of the dead tree version. Every movie released in theaters should have a DVD (without advertising!) following shortly. Every TV series aired should have a DVD (without advertising) released within a year after original airing.
Entertainment groups should be required to embrace and fully utilize digital media distribution, not vilify it.
With the votes not fully counted in Ohio (and elsewhere) this election is not yet over. Kerry conceding and Bush giving victory speeches is just a lot of hot air. If all the ballots in Ohio (and elsewhere) show Kerry the electoral winner I fully expect Bush to step down and Kerry to step up. If that does not happen a great injustice will be done to democracy.
Actually, this sounds quite reasonable. Why would you want to keep PPV/VOD programs stuffing up your TIVO/PVR? A reasonable finite time for PPV should be tolerated as long as a more permanent digital media recording (ie DVD) is made available within the timeline. As for VOD, I don't know why you would/should want to record it anyhow - it's 'on demand' - just order it again should you want to see it.
I don't see how this is any real threat to 'fair use'. You can still record the programs, but you have a limited timeline to watch. If you can't watch within that timeline, maybe you didn't really want to watch.
Actually, the Secret Service only has concern for the President, Vice President, their family members and safeguarding our currency against counterfeiters.
Using the Secret Service to protect conventioneers and guests is probably abuse of power. Let the police protect the conventioneers and guests.
Good thing this cannot/should-not happen in the US - this would bring a ground swelling of lawsuits against any ISP that tried. If an ISP edited, or censored, any website, or online document, it could be considered that any illegal content found after that point is allowed and/or published by the ISP. If a subscriber to that ISP found some illegal content and the authorities busted the subscriber for downloading/storing said illegal content then the subscribers lawyer could point that the ISP is the party to blame since the ISP is filtering/editing/censoring content and allowed/permitted the illegal content to be available. The lawyer cound argue that the subscriber accidentally accessed the site and did not know about the browser cache, and futhermore since the ISP is filtering content the ISP must be considered a publisher-by-association and be held as accountable as the site operator(s)/proprieter(s)...
: I hate child porn and other illegal content as much as most normal people, but this method is the wrong way of tackling the problem. The sites with illegal content should be shutdown and the site proprieter(s) arrested.
Disclaimer
Normally I don't respond to Cowards, but...
The meat is the only thing pre-cooked in Voila! meals (or at least I hope it is). The veggies and pasta are pretty raw if you don't pan cook the whole thing.
Voila! meals in a bag are a mainstay in my diet. Whether it is chicken or beef variety it is always very easy to fix and store. Just grab a pan with a lid and apply to a hot stove top with half a cup of water and in 15-20 minutes you have an adequate dinner for two. As for taste - mild to lite depending on how well you cook it. You can usually taste the veggies and the meat and pasta usually do their own thing. I usually fix 2 or 3 bags of this stuff and freeze it for quick meals through the week.
For XP install...
1) Drivers (for everything not incl'd in XP)
2) Windows updates
3) Browser (Netscape/Mozilla)
4) Email (Eudora)
5) Usenet clients (for anonymous leech downloadings)
6) Anti-virus
7) Acronis True Image (and do first full boot partition backup so next re-install is easier)
8) Mass codec install
9) Open Office
10) Games
I've never done a *nix install that didn't result in four hours trying to get the video configured correctly and then ending up installing some version of windows. I'm hoping Xandros will change that.
I don't see any problem. The Google search engine is doing exactly as it should - it is finding matching/close references within its website database. It just makes sense that the engine will find competitors/similar sites. A lawsuit over a service that is performing as it should should be dismissed immediately (with a warning to the industry not to try this stunt again).
The criminalization of civil law is not what our country's founding fathers created. They created a legal system where a copyright owner could take a potential violator to court. These actions of searches and seizures of private property (& don't get me started on legality of sealed warrants) before a proper trial violate several constitutional, as well as international, laws. We need to contact our elected representatives and let them know our outrage at their silence while our rights are being trampled.
Granted, it is better without all the static. But the flutter (shwush, shwush, shwush...) introduced is still distracting and a serious quality problem. Actually, the new version gives me a low scale headache from the constant flutter.
I remember booting Microsoft Adventure (v 1.00 copyright IBM 1981 & Softwin Assoc 1979 implemented by Gordon Letwin - 5 1/4" floppy w/ manual and plastic cover - sweet) and I would get so engrossed that my father would have to hit the circuit breaker to get me off the the system (still have the system).
Now here is this review of a book about IF, and it is all coming back. Guess nothing to do but dig out both sets of the lost treasures of infocom and get lost for a few months. Ahhhhh.....
Civil law cases should remain in that area. By changing copyright law violations into criminal cases you move from copyright owners and civil courts enforcing copyright law into police and prisons enforcing copyright law. What is the next step? Calling the police for libel/slander cases?
Another point I dislike about this law is the punishment clause. One year in jail is seriously excessive. This law would be a prime candidate for 'community control' device. Unless you find a serial violator, there is no reason for jail/prison time. Leave jail/prison to violent/sexual criminal cases.
Lets see, the 'drive' (shell actually) is $400. Each additional cartridge (drive) is $60 for 35GB. Look at the alternatives - A cheap USB 2.0 3.5" drive enclosure is around $45, and a cheap 80GB drive is $60 (no economic sense to buy any smaller capacity)...
So for around $105 I can get an equivalent speed drive with over twice the space. I don't know about most of you readers, but I could put that nearly $300 to good use elsewhere.
Corporations cannot use the 'bill of rights' since corporations have never explicitly been given any 'rights'. There have been judgements that have caused mass delusions within the legal profession that corporations have 'rights', but no changes have been made to the constitution to grant same 'rights' to corporations as those of citizens.
Corporations should-not/cannot be given the same rights as citizens. Corporations cannot be held to equal responsibilities as citizens, nor can be punished to equal measurements to citizens. Corporations have much more resources available to utilize the legal and/or government systems to their own purposes. The people responsible for running of corporations are not held responsible nor punished as harshly when found guilty.
If these 'flags' are brought into practice, I hope that an FCC backed regulatory commission (balanced between industry and public interest) is appointed to oversee and address abuses within the system.
The power of broad- and cable-casters is too strong with these 'flags'. One can easily see that eventually all shows on TV would have a flag enabled to stop recording and/or time-shifting.
If we cannot stop this plan, the very least we should do is propose how to make it a little fairer to the general public.
Every time I watch an episode of Cops, or read a news report on DUI, I remember an episode of Cops about a driver getting stopped for his 15th DUI. This has got to stop.
Punishing the general driving population by requiring breathalyzer tests is not a good idea. Even if it includes a generous insurance reduction, it would still be a bad idea. A good idea to handle DUI offences is to improve the punishments and get the habitual drunks off the road.
An example: After the third strike he should never get a drivers license in any state, never own/register another motor vehicle in any state, and be sentenced to minimum five years community control (ankle strap, payments & all). No hardship, no pleas, no nonsense.
Anyone know how Crossover compares to Wine and/or WineX? I am really considering a purchase to try this distro, but I would rather do a clean break from windows (not dual boot). Migrate apps slowly to native distro and in the meantime continue to use Windows apps on the distro. So, how is Crossover compared to Wine/WineX?
Maybe I'm too late posting this question...