The parent post inspired this idea for a compromise: If you register your copyright and somebody infringes upon it, you can sue them for damages, just like the current system. However, if you don't register, then you must send a Cease and Desist letter (and give ample time for the infringer to take it down) before you can sue.
I don't actually like this idea (not without some refinement), but it would solve the abandonware problem. If the owner of the copyright can't be found in the registry, then you can copy and preserve the work without risking any more than the expense of doing the copying.
The contract that we signed with SCO specifically prohibits any party from discussing the economics of the transaction.
In other words, "This is extortion, and we're gonna take it!"
It is a huge disappointment to us that we would be thrown in the same bucket, so to say, with the SCO Group.
Would that be the "you owe us money, but we won't tell you what it is you're buying" bucket? At least SCO has the decency to tell us how much.
It is a huge disappointment to us that, after signing a secret blood contract with Satan, our friends shunned us, we grew horns and a tail (er...maybe not), and we ended up in Hell for all eternity. What gives?
Obviously, SCO wrote MyDoom. Part of the payload is several lines of unix code copyrighted by SCO. Notice how the worm is reporting back to SCO? That's not a DDOS; that's the worm reporting the IP addresses of everybody who now owes SCO $699 for copyright infrigement.
The court order had a little clause that said if SCO couldn't find all of the evidence, they had to document their efforts to obtain it. In the notice, SCO says that it couldn't obtain some things because of "the holidays."
SCO is claiming that they can't present all of their evidence, in the lawsuit they filed, because they've been on vacation.
It's a little redundant, but not really contradictory. Contrast "airspeed" to "groundspeed". Airspeed means your speed relative to the air (and wind, Coriolis effect, etc.); goundspeed, to the ground. So "airspeed velocity" means your velocity relative to the air. In this case, "airspeed" is implied to mean "air-relative".
I just wish I'd bought SCO stock when this all started.
I just wish I'd gotten some GPL'd code into Linux before this all started. And that I'd gotten a law degree. (Not that I ever tried for either, mind you.)
It would be so nice if they just walked into the school and they were automatically noted.
So solve the problem the same way factories did decades ago. You give everybody a little punchcard and you punch-in and punch-out. Save the fifteen grand for some computer training for the administration.
Maybe I'm missing something (besides that book), but here's what I come up with as a quick, very crude upper bound:
There are 64 squares on a board. There are 13 possible pieces on a square: white/black pawn, w/b rook, w/b bishop, w/b knight, w/b king, w/b queen, and empty. 13^64 < 10^72.
Granted, this is still not a small number, but we're back down below the number of atoms in the universe.:-) Plus you get some easy optimizations, like there's exactly one of each king, and the board is always at least half-empty.
. . . but did Sonas consider his argument when Kasparov and Kramnik go to that great chessboad in the sky? If both were hit by a bus tomorrow, would the world's best chess computers' ratings immediately drop below the former #3 human?
How about the "data" he collected:
Includes all events, where each side had at least 20 minutes total for all their moves, where a computer played at least two games against humans with FIDE ratings of 2700 or more. Does not include any games against humans with FIDE ratings below 2700.
. . . on Tuesday when the ambient temperature was less than 20C during the transit of Venus. As Mark Twain said, "lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Seems to me that if you're gonna use SSDF and FIDE ratings at all, just plot the curves of humans vs. machines, fit a couple of nice equations, and extrapolate into the future.
There will be different jobs, probably less demanding (anyone heard of 35 hours?).
Seems to me we would need to lower the `standard work week' as technology progresses. Indeed, this has happened before, in the form of standardizing the work week in the first place. The way to keep robots and capitalism from unemploying millions is to make those that work, work less.
I think the point of the article was to redefine p2p in terms of very small client-server relationships. If a user wants to listen to song X, he doesn't request it -- he tunes to a station that is playing (or about to play) song X at the moment. It's like having millions of different FM stations. All you would really need is the infrastructure to collect the royalties.
To quote a well-known Utah Senator featured in an earlier story, "There's no excuse for violating copyright laws."
Now, granted, it was obviously the webmaster who made this mistake(?) and not Senator Hatch himself, for the good Senator really has little knowledge of this new-fangled technology. But remember that Senator Hatch's proposal wasn't to target webmasters or even p2p users. He was targeting the computers themselves for destruction.
Let's look at the computer a bit more closely. There's the fact that the computer was hosting his website and performing a service for him, and therefore he should be at least somewhat responsible.
There's also the point that the web server involved was (most probably) his computer. So the server should have one strike against it already. A couple more and the RIAA and/or whoever owns the code get to push the big red button. This is regardless of whether Hatch (vs. someone else) committed the violation or not.
BTW, has anyone sent the first "warning" to the webmaster yet?
There's no excuse for anyone violating a citizen's right to due process.
I'd be interested in a way to remove people who do so from office. That "may be the only way you can teach somebody about" the Constitution. The current legal checks we have in place (the Supreme Court) obviously are not working, so we need a technological solution.
This technology would twice warn the offending legislator, "then destroy their" place in Congress.
I've found http://www.tcl.tk/ rather handy. Anybody know any good sites for other (more useful) scripting languages in St. Helena (.sh), Poland (.pl), Paraguay (.py), etc.? Or maybe some good linker help in Sierra Leone (.sl) or Somalia (.so)? Sound files from Australia (.au)?
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The parent post inspired this idea for a compromise: If you register your copyright and somebody infringes upon it, you can sue them for damages, just like the current system. However, if you don't register, then you must send a Cease and Desist letter (and give ample time for the infringer to take it down) before you can sue.
I don't actually like this idea (not without some refinement), but it would solve the abandonware problem. If the owner of the copyright can't be found in the registry, then you can copy and preserve the work without risking any more than the expense of doing the copying.
In other words, "This is extortion, and we're gonna take it!"
Would that be the "you owe us money, but we won't tell you what it is you're buying" bucket? At least SCO has the decency to tell us how much.
It is a huge disappointment to us that, after signing a secret blood contract with Satan, our friends shunned us, we grew horns and a tail (er...maybe not), and we ended up in Hell for all eternity. What gives?
Obviously, SCO wrote MyDoom. Part of the payload is several lines of unix code copyrighted by SCO. Notice how the worm is reporting back to SCO? That's not a DDOS; that's the worm reporting the IP addresses of everybody who now owes SCO $699 for copyright infrigement.
The court order had a little clause that said if SCO couldn't find all of the evidence, they had to document their efforts to obtain it. In the notice, SCO says that it couldn't obtain some things because of "the holidays."
SCO is claiming that they can't present all of their evidence, in the lawsuit they filed, because they've been on vacation.
In her email to the columnist, the Richland Middle School "campus computer liason" explained (emphasis mine):
The analogy breaks down at "reinstall," though.
It's a little redundant, but not really contradictory. Contrast "airspeed" to "groundspeed". Airspeed means your speed relative to the air (and wind, Coriolis effect, etc.); goundspeed, to the ground. So "airspeed velocity" means your velocity relative to the air. In this case, "airspeed" is implied to mean "air-relative".
I just wish I'd bought SCO stock when this all started.
I just wish I'd gotten some GPL'd code into Linux before this all started. And that I'd gotten a law degree. (Not that I ever tried for either, mind you.)
It would be so nice if they just walked into the school and they were automatically noted.
So solve the problem the same way factories did decades ago. You give everybody a little punchcard and you punch-in and punch-out. Save the fifteen grand for some computer training for the administration.
So basically SCO has changed their position from:
to:
. . . if we're still predicting its death.
Good start. I think Congress should have to sacrifice a goat (or at least a few chickens) right after reciting the pledge each day too.
I guess the point would be lost on many. But at least I'd watch CSPAN a lot more!
Sounds pretty innovative to me. Maybe we can get Verisign to host the new SMTP server.
Maybe I'm missing something (besides that book), but here's what I come up with as a quick, very crude upper bound:
There are 64 squares on a board. There are 13 possible pieces on a square: white/black pawn, w/b rook, w/b bishop, w/b knight, w/b king, w/b queen, and empty. 13^64 < 10^72.
Granted, this is still not a small number, but we're back down below the number of atoms in the universe. :-) Plus you get some easy optimizations, like there's exactly one of each king, and the board is always at least half-empty.
. . . but did Sonas consider his argument when Kasparov and Kramnik go to that great chessboad in the sky? If both were hit by a bus tomorrow, would the world's best chess computers' ratings immediately drop below the former #3 human?
How about the "data" he collected:
Includes all events, where each side had at least 20 minutes total for all their moves, where a computer played at least two games against humans with FIDE ratings of 2700 or more. Does not include any games against humans with FIDE ratings below 2700.
. . . on Tuesday when the ambient temperature was less than 20C during the transit of Venus. As Mark Twain said, "lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Seems to me that if you're gonna use SSDF and FIDE ratings at all, just plot the curves of humans vs. machines, fit a couple of nice equations, and extrapolate into the future.
Unfortunately, there are only 10^80 atoms in the observable universe.
Fortunately, there are a lot more, say, electrons, photons, and/or quantum states.
Did anybody else have this sinking revelation? Instead of getting sales pitches at dinner, we'll be getting political pitches to repeal the DNC list.
There will be different jobs, probably less demanding (anyone heard of 35 hours?).
Seems to me we would need to lower the `standard work week' as technology progresses. Indeed, this has happened before, in the form of standardizing the work week in the first place. The way to keep robots and capitalism from unemploying millions is to make those that work, work less.
I think the point of the article was to redefine p2p in terms of very small client-server relationships. If a user wants to listen to song X, he doesn't request it -- he tunes to a station that is playing (or about to play) song X at the moment. It's like having millions of different FM stations. All you would really need is the infrastructure to collect the royalties.
To quote a well-known Utah Senator featured in an earlier story, "There's no excuse for violating copyright laws."
Now, granted, it was obviously the webmaster who made this mistake(?) and not Senator Hatch himself, for the good Senator really has little knowledge of this new-fangled technology. But remember that Senator Hatch's proposal wasn't to target webmasters or even p2p users. He was targeting the computers themselves for destruction.
Let's look at the computer a bit more closely. There's the fact that the computer was hosting his website and performing a service for him, and therefore he should be at least somewhat responsible.
There's also the point that the web server involved was (most probably) his computer. So the server should have one strike against it already. A couple more and the RIAA and/or whoever owns the code get to push the big red button. This is regardless of whether Hatch (vs. someone else) committed the violation or not.
BTW, has anyone sent the first "warning" to the webmaster yet?
So you can remove them, but you have to eat the mattress afterward.
There's no excuse for anyone violating a citizen's right to due process.
I'd be interested in a way to remove people who do so from office. That "may be the only way you can teach somebody about" the Constitution. The current legal checks we have in place (the Supreme Court) obviously are not working, so we need a technological solution.
This technology would twice warn the offending legislator, "then destroy their" place in Congress.
What'll really be confusing is when Georgia tries to get .ga and finds that it had .ge all along.
I've found http://www.tcl.tk/ rather handy. Anybody know any good sites for other (more useful) scripting languages in St. Helena (.sh), Poland (.pl), Paraguay (.py), etc.? Or maybe some good linker help in Sierra Leone (.sl) or Somalia (.so)? Sound files from Australia (.au)?
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
This may be the quote you are looking for. It's probably not the exact quote either, but I think it's pretty close from some Google cross-referencing.