I can understand a small printing fee for a dead-tree copy. But sheesh, when will these guys follow the lead of the IEEE on the 802. standards and just open them up?
You can tell by the way I fill your box
I'm an Intel man, no time for Macs
Fan so loud and chip so warm
Transistor count from Mr. Moore
But it's all right, it's ok
Just behind your CD tray
My mission, you understand
Is pusher for the Redmond man
Whether I'm a Xeon or a first-gen peon
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Maybe I'm a-F00Fin' or power-supply poofin'
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!
Well now, cache gets low and temp gets high
And for overclockers, I really fry
Got the gold flashing on my pads
And an F_DIV bug etched in my sand
But it's all right, it's ok
I also heard AMD is gay
And that VIA, and Transmeta
Can kiss my royal FPU
Whether I'm Centrino, you can bet that we know
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ain't got sixty-four-bit, but still think I'm hot shit
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!
According to the committee recommendations here , section B, the private copying provision will remain (as will the levy, likely). Here's the text of interest:
The Committee concludes, after considering the submissions and testimony of the witnesses, that the private copying regime does not prevent Canada's ratification of the WPPT. Analysis of the private copyright regime as a whole will continue as part of the copyright reform process.
So at least that part of "not breaking the law by copying songs" is not under immediate threat.
It seems the provision raising most hackles with Slashdotters is the notice and takedown provision recommendation of section D. The DMCA in the US has clearly been abused by RIAA and others, causing us Canadians to be wary.
The Committee recommends that the Copyright Act be amended to provide that Internet service providers (ISPs) can be subject to liability for copyrighted material on their facilities. The Committee notes, however, that ISPs should be exempt from liability if they act as true "intermediaries," without actual or constructive knowledge of the transmitted content, and where they meet certain prescribed conditions. ISPs should be required to comply with a "notice and takedown" scheme that is compliant with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with additional prescribed procedures to address other infringements.
It's clear that something in the arena was bound to happen to Canadian copyright law. IMHO we can encourage the legislators to do a better job than our American friends, by making the takedown procedures honour due process (courts must be involved to effect a takedown, none of these self-proclaimed infringement charges with extortion invoice), and get serious about the penalties for false notifications. If you're writing to your MP or the committee, you might get more traction if you speak about these facets directly than getting into a rant about WIPO and levies.
It seems possible, given the text above, that P2P network nodes (or end user computers, generally) would not be covered by the notice and takedown provision for ISPs, only material actually hosted by them. We might encourage the legislators to get specific about this interpretation as well.
Okay, Psychic Teleportation trainees, here are the rules.
lunch is 45 minutes at 12 sharp
smoking is only allowed outside the building
if you or your target is even suspected of being a fan of Jeff Goldblum, you are both terminated immediately, oh, and never, ever, for the love of God, allow a fly in the room while you're working
Your assertions on the Canadian healthcare system are absurd. You have not listed any sources, and I have first-hand knowledge that most of what you assert is patently false (like a co-worker who decided to have hip replacement and was back in the office on crutches with a new hip a couple of months later). Hospitals don't close due to budget constraints, that's ludicrous! Yes, the Canadian system has its problems but you are *not* characterising with any accuracy. C'mon moderators, this guy must be smoking the funny stuff.
Man do I feel lame for getting that. This feels worse than a caffiene-withdrawal headache. Does anyone know of an equivalent to mouthwash for the brain? Thanks a lot, Taco.
The GNURadio project has a HDTV implementation which AFAIK is grandfathered, and can *IGNORE* the broadcast flag. Hardware for GNURadio continues to be developed and prices for the high-speed electronics required continue to fall.
Isn't fraud a criminal act? Doesn't a District Attorney, Attorney General, or some other jurisdictional attorney have to press such charges? If SCO is indeed planning such a charge, don't they have to first convince someone in the *criminal* justice, and wouldn't that be a completely separate process?
Sure it might be a tactic in the current contract dispute to claim fraudulent behavior, but isn't that far from *charging* IBM with fraud?
A heat-packing FUD-man, McBride,
"Linus stole our UNIX" decried,
But Big Blue's hired sharks,
Disproved those remarks,
With a subtle "Fuck You" implied.
Despite its position in the middle of the pack, merd is pretty close to shit. I mean literally, just add an 'e' to the end. Check the fish if you don't believe me.
Samizdat concludes that the root of attribution, IP misappropriation, and acknowledgement problems in Linux is ---in fact--- the trust model.
Duh.
Is trust not the root of all distribution of IP "works"? When you sell your old paperbacks, do you check that the publisher had correctly and legally obtained the printing rights from the author and that you may legally pass the books on to others? When you give your folks a laptop for Christmas with WinXP do you follow the legal paper trail to be sure you and MS are in the clear IP-wise? Gimme a break.
What Mr. Brown seems to fail to understand is that even if IP is misappropriated, it's up to the owner to pursue the infringer in the courts. We all see how SCO, self-styled as the "owner" of Unix and the outfit best suited to pursue an IP issue with Linux, is faring. Open source makes IP ownership issues transparent since anyone suspecting a problem can look at the source and check it out. To wit, SCO's case is withering on the vine as the Linux codebase gets stronger with each passing day as scrutiny mounts. It's closed source that makes IP misappropriation hard to detect, not open source.
And besides, it's in every Linux booster's interest to vet the source for these problems... we simply don't want a tainted code base. It's essentially self-regulating. For those end-users who are still nervous about being sued when the use Linux... insurance is still cheaper than closed source, because you keep your soul.
AT also points out that he had just returned to the Netherlands from a trip to the US. Unless he is also a US citizen (or perhaps a citizen of some other excluded country like Canada), that means he was fingerprinted and photographed on arrival, thanks to Patriot Act.
Mr. Ken Burns surely didn't have to go through that same silly little exercise at Schipol (Amsterdam airport). IMHO that alone earns AT the chance to be a little snippy at the US Administration.
We all know that Alexis is the vindictive first wife of Blake Carrington, who will lie, cheat, steal - stop at nothing, really - to stake her claim to the Carrington oil fortune. Not satisfied with her twisted little poker hand of kidnapped babies, amnesia, pregnancy, infidelity, and treachery, she has armed herself with a new weapon - FUD.
Yes, Alexis claims that Linus Torvalds could not have been the father of Linux, because he was with HER the night Linux was conceived. While the story sounds somewhat plausible (what self-respecting male geek wouldn't go for a little Edith Keeler?), but she's gotta be about the crustiest piece of British crumpet this side of the Guardian of Forever. Sheesh. Even the Nordic winter can't tone that image down.
One can only wonder what peccadillo Linus had committed to incur the wrath of such a parasitic, psychotic banshee. Perhaps he simply didn't grovel to her liking. Sadly, it seems Linus has been added to the long list of poor innocent bastards who crossed Alexis, and will forever bear her scar.
Just force all hikers to buy their gear from WalMart. When someone goes missing, just give Sam a call at "the control center", and ask for the location of the particular item (with UPC, purchase date, and store code, natch).
It will be cool one day, imagining that for a brief moment, the photons, being in a superposition of states, *could* be transferring all the known wealth of the universe to my bank account. Sadly, when observed, minus service fees, it's probably only like a buck-fifty.
CDMA the phone standard is junk, in all honesty, and is being phased out. The direct replacement for it is CDMA2000, which existing US IS-95 operators like Sprint PCS and Verizon are moving to.
I assume you are implying that the voice quality is junk. The cellular providers are under pressure to make a profit so that generally means they utilize lower bit-rate voice coders on their IS-95 networks (to get more users on a given bandwidth). cdma2000 uses the exact same voice coders (well there is a new one too). And let's not forget that half of every conversation is a mobile phone, and all those legacy IS-95 phones still work on cdma2000 networks which are backwards compatible.
Although a number of other improvements are offered by cdma2000, when it comes to voice quality cdma2000 is no Cadillac to IS-95's Pinto.
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The PCMCIA folks, who are behind this ExpressCard thing, want $349 USD for a copy of the standard, and it is only available in electronic form.
I can understand a small printing fee for a dead-tree copy. But sheesh, when will these guys follow the lead of the IEEE on the 802. standards and just open them up?
You can tell by the way I fill your box
I'm an Intel man, no time for Macs
Fan so loud and chip so warm
Transistor count from Mr. Moore
But it's all right, it's ok
Just behind your CD tray
My mission, you understand
Is pusher for the Redmond man
Whether I'm a Xeon or a first-gen peon
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Maybe I'm a-F00Fin' or power-supply poofin'
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!
Well now, cache gets low and temp gets high
And for overclockers, I really fry
Got the gold flashing on my pads
And an F_DIV bug etched in my sand
But it's all right, it's ok
I also heard AMD is gay
And that VIA, and Transmeta
Can kiss my royal FPU
Whether I'm Centrino, you can bet that we know
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ain't got sixty-four-bit, but still think I'm hot shit
I'm x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six, x-eighty-six
Ah ah ah ah x-eighty-six!
According to the committee recommendations here , section B, the private copying provision will remain (as will the levy, likely). Here's the text of interest:
The Committee concludes, after considering the submissions and testimony of the witnesses, that the private copying regime does not prevent Canada's ratification of the WPPT. Analysis of the private copyright regime as a whole will continue as part of the copyright reform process.
So at least that part of "not breaking the law by copying songs" is not under immediate threat. It seems the provision raising most hackles with Slashdotters is the notice and takedown provision recommendation of section D. The DMCA in the US has clearly been abused by RIAA and others, causing us Canadians to be wary.
The Committee recommends that the Copyright Act be amended to provide that Internet service providers (ISPs) can be subject to liability for copyrighted material on their facilities. The Committee notes, however, that ISPs should be exempt from liability if they act as true "intermediaries," without actual or constructive knowledge of the transmitted content, and where they meet certain prescribed conditions. ISPs should be required to comply with a "notice and takedown" scheme that is compliant with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with additional prescribed procedures to address other infringements.
It's clear that something in the arena was bound to happen to Canadian copyright law. IMHO we can encourage the legislators to do a better job than our American friends, by making the takedown procedures honour due process (courts must be involved to effect a takedown, none of these self-proclaimed infringement charges with extortion invoice), and get serious about the penalties for false notifications. If you're writing to your MP or the committee, you might get more traction if you speak about these facets directly than getting into a rant about WIPO and levies.
It seems possible, given the text above, that P2P network nodes (or end user computers, generally) would not be covered by the notice and takedown provision for ISPs, only material actually hosted by them. We might encourage the legislators to get specific about this interpretation as well.
Okay, Psychic Teleportation trainees, here are the rules.
Your assertions on the Canadian healthcare system are absurd. You have not listed any sources, and I have first-hand knowledge that most of what you assert is patently false (like a co-worker who decided to have hip replacement and was back in the office on crutches with a new hip a couple of months later). Hospitals don't close due to budget constraints, that's ludicrous! Yes, the Canadian system has its problems but you are *not* characterising with any accuracy. C'mon moderators, this guy must be smoking the funny stuff.
from the joe-don-danny-donny-jordan dept.
Man do I feel lame for getting that. This feels worse than a caffiene-withdrawal headache. Does anyone know of an equivalent to mouthwash for the brain? Thanks a lot, Taco.
The GNURadio project has a HDTV implementation which AFAIK is grandfathered, and can *IGNORE* the broadcast flag. Hardware for GNURadio continues to be developed and prices for the high-speed electronics required continue to fall.
Isn't fraud a criminal act? Doesn't a District Attorney, Attorney General, or some other jurisdictional attorney have to press such charges? If SCO is indeed planning such a charge, don't they have to first convince someone in the *criminal* justice, and wouldn't that be a completely separate process?
Sure it might be a tactic in the current contract dispute to claim fraudulent behavior, but isn't that far from *charging* IBM with fraud?
A heat-packing FUD-man, McBride,
"Linus stole our UNIX" decried,
But Big Blue's hired sharks,
Disproved those remarks,
With a subtle "Fuck You" implied.
wget --recursive http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other- formats/html_single/
Despite its position in the middle of the pack, merd is pretty close to shit. I mean literally, just add an 'e' to the end. Check the fish if you don't believe me.
International keyboards may eliminate it, but US keyboards will always have Caps Lock. Being a capitalist state and all.
Samizdat concludes that the root of attribution, IP misappropriation, and acknowledgement problems in Linux is ---in fact--- the trust model.
Duh.
Is trust not the root of all distribution of IP "works"? When you sell your old paperbacks, do you check that the publisher had correctly and legally obtained the printing rights from the author and that you may legally pass the books on to others? When you give your folks a laptop for Christmas with WinXP do you follow the legal paper trail to be sure you and MS are in the clear IP-wise? Gimme a break.
What Mr. Brown seems to fail to understand is that even if IP is misappropriated, it's up to the owner to pursue the infringer in the courts. We all see how SCO, self-styled as the "owner" of Unix and the outfit best suited to pursue an IP issue with Linux, is faring. Open source makes IP ownership issues transparent since anyone suspecting a problem can look at the source and check it out. To wit, SCO's case is withering on the vine as the Linux codebase gets stronger with each passing day as scrutiny mounts. It's closed source that makes IP misappropriation hard to detect, not open source.
And besides, it's in every Linux booster's interest to vet the source for these problems... we simply don't want a tainted code base. It's essentially self-regulating. For those end-users who are still nervous about being sued when the use Linux... insurance is still cheaper than closed source, because you keep your soul.
the initial data set for The Matrix is born.
AT also points out that he had just returned to the Netherlands from a trip to the US. Unless he is also a US citizen (or perhaps a citizen of some other excluded country like Canada), that means he was fingerprinted and photographed on arrival, thanks to Patriot Act.
Mr. Ken Burns surely didn't have to go through that same silly little exercise at Schipol (Amsterdam airport). IMHO that alone earns AT the chance to be a little snippy at the US Administration.
Sad for him, cuz' we all know this ride is gonna end with Blitzen.
We all know that Alexis is the vindictive first wife of Blake Carrington, who will lie, cheat, steal - stop at nothing, really - to stake her claim to the Carrington oil fortune. Not satisfied with her twisted little poker hand of kidnapped babies, amnesia, pregnancy, infidelity, and treachery, she has armed herself with a new weapon - FUD.
Yes, Alexis claims that Linus Torvalds could not have been the father of Linux, because he was with HER the night Linux was conceived. While the story sounds somewhat plausible (what self-respecting male geek wouldn't go for a little Edith Keeler?), but she's gotta be about the crustiest piece of British crumpet this side of the Guardian of Forever. Sheesh. Even the Nordic winter can't tone that image down.
One can only wonder what peccadillo Linus had committed to incur the wrath of such a parasitic, psychotic banshee. Perhaps he simply didn't grovel to her liking. Sadly, it seems Linus has been added to the long list of poor innocent bastards who crossed Alexis, and will forever bear her scar.
Just force all hikers to buy their gear from WalMart. When someone goes missing, just give Sam a call at "the control center", and ask for the location of the particular item (with UPC, purchase date, and store code, natch).
I'm sorry, sir, we are all out of tin foil hats.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those. Mmmmmmm cluster.
A GUI wrapper for this command. Or maybe use HTML so its plaftorm neutral. Now that would be neat.
(for North Americans) Repeat the following words, quickly slurring them together:
whale oil beef hooked
It will be cool one day, imagining that for a brief moment, the photons, being in a superposition of states, *could* be transferring all the known wealth of the universe to my bank account. Sadly, when observed, minus service fees, it's probably only like a buck-fifty.
CDMA the phone standard is junk, in all honesty, and is being phased out. The direct replacement for it is CDMA2000, which existing US IS-95 operators like Sprint PCS and Verizon are moving to.
I assume you are implying that the voice quality is junk. The cellular providers are under pressure to make a profit so that generally means they utilize lower bit-rate voice coders on their IS-95 networks (to get more users on a given bandwidth). cdma2000 uses the exact same voice coders (well there is a new one too). And let's not forget that half of every conversation is a mobile phone, and all those legacy IS-95 phones still work on cdma2000 networks which are backwards compatible.
Although a number of other improvements are offered by cdma2000, when it comes to voice quality cdma2000 is no Cadillac to IS-95's Pinto.
This is disturbing. Maybe the box in my car is broken and 'stuck at 98'.
Having your box stuck at Windows 98 is *beyond* disturbing. Oh wait.