The scenario you describe would be effeciently served under all of our existing laws. What the government is seeking to do is to monitor DOMESTIC communications in bulk. Thank-you, but I would rather not have have the FBI busting down my door at three AM based upon THEIR misinterpretation of one of my emails, or my repeated visits to www.howtomakeabomb.com.
When it comes to highly technical topics, the government is dangerous because law enforcement is largely populated by morons. Its an ugly truth, but the truth nonetheless.
More importantly, ANY errosion of our liberties and/or privacies hands a measure of victory over to our recent attackers, whose real aim was not a crude attempt at premature urban renewal, but to attack the very fabric of our society.
And those of you who reply to this defense of RMS might consider the possibility that someday soon, you could loose to opportunity, nay right, to do so.
We have had no problems with it and have been very impressed with it's internal architecture and the amount of internal documentation of the code, which has mad it possible to modify both its look and feel and functionality and security.
As for the financial health of the company...I think that the weblication nature of this application insulates a purchaser more than a compiled application. Having access to the source is the ultimate insurance policy.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I took my teenage daughter to see this film Friday ONLY because the movie I had hoped to see was not going to screen for a few more hours, fully expecting to be revulsed by the usual teen formula picture.
I enjoyed this picture.
Furthermore, I think "A Knight's Tale" is one of those rare occurances where Hollywood has found just the right balance for this age group. As a parent, I resent movies that promote out of context, graphic sexual irresponsibility and senseless (or worse, fashionable) violence. This film handled both with kid gloves, and in many ways, this film reminded me of the horse opera films of the 60's which I grew up on.
The one, small flaw I found in the film was a product of the pop culture injection. While this worked well during the opening "We Will, We Will Rock You" segment because it was a clever extention/integration of the sountrack into the on-screen action, during the post-joust dinner dance sceen they revert to period music and then try to jump 400 years musically in mid dance. I felt that this came off awkwardly.
With the MPAA being what I percieve to be an immoral and oppressive force in our society today, I'm careful about how and when I give my money to Hollywood (I don't and will not own a DVD player). The makers of "A Knight's Tale" should feel good about this effort, right up to point where they release on DVD. Then they can go to hell.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
If CorpGreed and DumbGov drive a majority to media file exchange toward stego, there is a possibility that this could kill the net.
The target data needs to be embedded in a transport file typically ten to a hundred times larger. This represents a MAJOR increase in bandwidth requirements that are not likely to become available at the rate needed as most of this activity would be underground and miss usual forcasting methods.
But what the fsck do I know. Last year I thought Steganography was the art of photographing dinosaurs!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I want to create a Terminator clip screensaver for my sole use on my personal computer.
I want to run the (hopefully) last 'NSYNC album thru a voice-center filter to remove the vocals so my daughter can pretend to be a rock star.
I collect motion-picture "Boom-Mike" intrusion snippets for my Boom-Mike website in support of my Boom-Mike operators class I teach at the local community college. I never post the entire frame, just the mike part.
The sig below has been sacked. My new sig reads:
"Jack Valenti, you can blow me." -- GeneralEmergency
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
...is to codify all of these licenses into an actual copyleft law. A law that puts Open Information on the same (hopefully superior) legal footing as copyright.
Ok, all you computer saavy congressmen, who will step up to the plate on this one?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Empower your child with a Zero Tollerance Policy.
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I recently had a similar experience. My 12 year old daughter found her self besieged by a group of boys who were trying in a repeated and orchestrated manner to provoke her into anger. She said aloud "Why am I wishing I had a gun right now?". Needless to say I was summarily called to school and was diciplined by the vice principal. It also goes without saying that the real culprits in this incident went unpunished and were even lauded for their act of reporting my daughter's statement.
After I was done re-educating my daughter on the current state of our national problem with overreacting to "violent speech", I started to think more about the source of the problem.
I came to the conclusion that the school staff is no longer able to dicipline the bullies due to a gutting of their "en loco parentus" status, and that the students can no longer look to the school staff for protection from other students.
I have set the following guidelines for my daughter and have told her I will fully support her actions should she need to resort to them:
1. She has the RIGHT to an education and EXPECTATION of it being delivered in a violence and harrasment free setting.
2. Upon threat of violence or interpersonal harrasment from another student, she is to immediately inform the nearest staff member and request, in these words, that "The situation be dealt with immediately."
3. If the staff member does not respond in any meaningful way, she has been instructed to proceed to the nearest phone and call me. I will determine if the situation warrants a phone call to the local Police Department. If I am unavailable, she is to call the Police directly in cases where "she fears for her personal safety and physical well being". If being harrassed, she is not NOT to return to class until the REAL offender is dealt with.
The school has their Zero-tollerance policies, and now we have ours.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
The assumption of an artists right to persistant compensation is really the hingepin of why Intellectual Property is un-natural, artifical concept and is now becoming logistically indefensible.
When a plumber fixes my toilet, he has no royalty on future flushes.
Why is an artists work for hire accorded such special persistant compensation status?
Copyright is a monopoly on the intangible and subjective and hence has become an odeous burdon and scourge upon our global society. It is now time to rid ourselves of the this childish, protectionist legal snare. Enforcing it can only lead to centrally controlled, corrupt regime of freedom and thought control.
Oh yes, I can hear your response now..."But no one will make movies or write music and the world will end!"
Bullshit. And even if that were true, SO WHAT?
Maybe, just maybe, once copyright is gone the way of the Dodo, we'll find that the entertainment Industry is guilty of retarding the sciences and arts on a criminally global scale by wasting all of our time with this pablum and worse, being guilty of wasting our children's potential by smothering them with violence and lowest common denominator thinking.
Your 'morality' argument, Sir, is scandalously threadbare and truely revolting in light of the moral sewer that your precious entertainment industry has made of our national, ney, Global culture under the protection of copyright.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
The MPAA said the crackdown is the result of a month-long investigation by Ranger Online, a company it hired to scour the Web and find cases of copyright infringement.
Dude, you have some more numbers to look up I do believe.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
...concerted plan of action during the last three months to post the "copy is theft" argument to all the major public forums showcasing the intellectual property debate by what appear to be "hired posters"?
Could this be a joint effort by the RIAA/MPAA?
I can't be the only one to have noticed this.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
The RIAA accusation letters (AKA Notify and Takedown) to the ISPs in accordance with the DMCA are certifications made under the penalty of perjury, which is a true criminal act. In situations where the accusation is made falsely or in bad faith, or LACK OF DUE DILIGENCE, you should be able to refer the matter to your Local District Attorney. If enough of this happened nationally, it could potentially even be referred to the DOJ.
Perhaps enough chaff like this could drive the MPAA's hired henchmen out od profitability.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I think it was clueless MPAA spokes-dork Jack Valenti who made a big deal about only showing 32 seconds (fair use) of some "Pirated" movie before a senate committe hearing a few weeks ago.
I have suggested the development of just such a system several times. I'm glad to see the idea getting more exposure.
We could call it the "My Favorite Part" network!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Today, in an historic first for NASA, the controversial nuclear powered Accelerative Lunar Isotopic Combustion Engine was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:32 AM EST on it mission to help raise the now sagging lunar orbit. Thirty-Two billion dollars in the making, this ambitious and scientifically risky program was needed to compensate for years of careless 'Tidal Force Conversion' by many industrialized nations world-wide.
The launch occured on schedule and appeared to be fairly routine until Florida Space Systems launch controller Howard 'Buz' McCrackin substituted the usual "...Three..Two..One..Zero...Liftoff, We Have Liftoff!" traditional rocket sendoff announcement with the yet to be explained "...Three..Two..One..TO THE MOON ALICE!"
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
They can watch all the TV they want from orbit. And frankly, after a couple of hours of Super SmackDown, Jerry Springer and Survivor, I'd bet that they feel fully justified in nuking our monkey asses to a fucking cinder as a favor to the rest of the galaxy.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
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...that this will be a major failure. $120 a year for radio? Thank-you, no.
THE ONLY INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS IS THE OFFICE POOL WE HAVE GOING HERE PREDICTING HOW LONG IT WILL BE BEFORE THE SYSTEM IS HACKED.
The scenario you describe would be effeciently served under all of our existing laws. What the government is seeking to do is to monitor DOMESTIC communications in bulk. Thank-you, but I would rather not have have the FBI busting down my door at three AM based upon THEIR misinterpretation of one of my emails, or my repeated visits to www.howtomakeabomb.com.
When it comes to highly technical topics, the government is dangerous because law enforcement is largely populated by morons. Its an ugly truth, but the truth nonetheless.
More importantly, ANY errosion of our liberties and/or privacies hands a measure of victory over to our recent attackers, whose real aim was not a crude attempt at premature urban renewal, but to attack the very fabric of our society.
...is immaterial and irrelevant.
His MESSAGE...
MIND YOUR FREEDOMS CLOSELY KIDDIES...
is dead on, cogent and timely.
And those of you who reply to this defense of RMS might consider the possibility that someday soon, you could loose to opportunity, nay right, to do so.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
"Acts like this deliver more victory to our enemies than would a thousand downed towers."
Indiana Jones and the Quest for Geritol.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Thanks for the heaDS uP dOOD!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
As for the financial health of the company...I think that the weblication nature of this application insulates a purchaser more than a compiled application. Having access to the source is the ultimate insurance policy.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I took my teenage daughter to see this film Friday ONLY because the movie I had hoped to see was not going to screen for a few more hours, fully expecting to be revulsed by the usual teen formula picture.
I enjoyed this picture.
Furthermore, I think "A Knight's Tale" is one of those rare occurances where Hollywood has found just the right balance for this age group. As a parent, I resent movies that promote out of context, graphic sexual irresponsibility and senseless (or worse, fashionable) violence. This film handled both with kid gloves, and in many ways, this film reminded me of the horse opera films of the 60's which I grew up on.
The one, small flaw I found in the film was a product of the pop culture injection. While this worked well during the opening "We Will, We Will Rock You" segment because it was a clever extention/integration of the sountrack into the on-screen action, during the post-joust dinner dance sceen they revert to period music and then try to jump 400 years musically in mid dance. I felt that this came off awkwardly.
With the MPAA being what I percieve to be an immoral and oppressive force in our society today, I'm careful about how and when I give my money to Hollywood (I don't and will not own a DVD player). The makers of "A Knight's Tale" should feel good about this effort, right up to point where they release on DVD. Then they can go to hell.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
If you need an easy to use UI, take a look at Xerox Docushare or perhaps if you want to lean toward groupware look at Amphora.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
If CorpGreed and DumbGov drive a majority to media file exchange toward stego, there is a possibility that this could kill the net.
The target data needs to be embedded in a transport file typically ten to a hundred times larger. This represents a MAJOR increase in bandwidth requirements that are not likely to become available at the rate needed as most of this activity would be underground and miss usual forcasting methods.
But what the fsck do I know. Last year I thought Steganography was the art of photographing dinosaurs!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Sometimes the siren call of the troll cannot be resisted.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Good examples of fair use of digital content are:
I want to create a Terminator clip screensaver for my sole use on my personal computer.
I want to run the (hopefully) last 'NSYNC album thru a voice-center filter to remove the vocals so my daughter can pretend to be a rock star.
I collect motion-picture "Boom-Mike" intrusion snippets for my Boom-Mike website in support of my Boom-Mike operators class I teach at the local community college. I never post the entire frame, just the mike part.
The sig below has been sacked. My new sig reads:
"Jack Valenti, you can blow me." --
GeneralEmergency
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Ok, all you computer saavy congressmen, who will step up to the plate on this one?
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
I recently had a similar experience. My 12 year old daughter found her self besieged by a group of boys who were trying in a repeated and orchestrated manner to provoke her into anger. She said aloud "Why am I wishing I had a gun right now?". Needless to say I was summarily called to school and was diciplined by the vice principal. It also goes without saying that the real culprits in this incident went unpunished and were even lauded for their act of reporting my daughter's statement.
After I was done re-educating my daughter on the current state of our national problem with overreacting to "violent speech", I started to think more about the source of the problem.
I came to the conclusion that the school staff is no longer able to dicipline the bullies due to a gutting of their "en loco parentus" status, and that the students can no longer look to the school staff for protection from other students.
I have set the following guidelines for my daughter and have told her I will fully support her actions should she need to resort to them:
1. She has the RIGHT to an education and EXPECTATION of it being delivered in a violence and harrasment free setting.
2. Upon threat of violence or interpersonal harrasment from another student, she is to immediately inform the nearest staff member and request, in these words, that "The situation be dealt with immediately."
3. If the staff member does not respond in any meaningful way, she has been instructed to proceed to the nearest phone and call me. I will determine if the situation warrants a phone call to the local Police Department. If I am unavailable, she is to call the Police directly in cases where "she fears for her personal safety and physical well being". If being harrassed, she is not NOT to return to class until the REAL offender is dealt with.
The school has their Zero-tollerance policies, and now we have ours.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
The assumption of an artists right to persistant compensation is really the hingepin of why Intellectual Property is un-natural, artifical concept and is now becoming logistically indefensible.
When a plumber fixes my toilet, he has no royalty on future flushes.
Why is an artists work for hire accorded such special persistant compensation status?
Copyright is a monopoly on the intangible and subjective and hence has become an odeous burdon and scourge upon our global society. It is now time to rid ourselves of the this childish, protectionist legal snare. Enforcing it can only lead to centrally controlled, corrupt regime of freedom and thought control.
Oh yes, I can hear your response now..."But no one will make movies or write music and the world will end!"
Bullshit. And even if that were true, SO WHAT?
Maybe, just maybe, once copyright is gone the way of the Dodo, we'll find that the entertainment Industry is guilty of retarding the sciences and arts on a criminally global scale by wasting all of our time with this pablum and worse, being guilty of wasting our children's potential by smothering them with violence and lowest common denominator thinking.
Your 'morality' argument, Sir, is scandalously threadbare and truely revolting in light of the moral sewer that your precious entertainment industry has made of our national, ney, Global culture under the protection of copyright.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
According to CNET:
The MPAA said the crackdown is the result of a month-long investigation by Ranger Online, a company it hired to scour the Web and find cases of copyright infringement.
Dude, you have some more numbers to look up I do believe.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Could this be a joint effort by the RIAA/MPAA?
I can't be the only one to have noticed this.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Perhaps enough chaff like this could drive the MPAA's hired henchmen out od profitability.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
This is a great idea.
I think it was clueless MPAA spokes-dork Jack Valenti who made a big deal about only showing 32 seconds (fair use) of some "Pirated" movie before a senate committe hearing a few weeks ago.
I have suggested the development of just such a system several times. I'm glad to see the idea getting more exposure.
We could call it the "My Favorite Part" network!
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
We can't revert to IBM, they're sorta cool these days with all their support for Linux.
Who is evil enough to make a good replacement target for all of our venomous screed?
I am soooooooo confused.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Today, in an historic first for NASA, the controversial nuclear powered Accelerative Lunar Isotopic Combustion Engine was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:32 AM EST on it mission to help raise the now sagging lunar orbit. Thirty-Two billion dollars in the making, this ambitious and scientifically risky program was needed to compensate for years of careless 'Tidal Force Conversion' by many industrialized nations world-wide.
The launch occured on schedule and appeared to be fairly routine until Florida Space Systems launch controller Howard 'Buz' McCrackin substituted the usual "...Three..Two..One..Zero...Liftoff, We Have Liftoff!" traditional rocket sendoff announcement with the yet to be explained "...Three..Two..One..TO THE MOON ALICE!"
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
"WELCOME BACK TO TEEGEEACK LORD XENU"
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
They can watch all the TV they want from orbit. And frankly, after a couple of hours of Super SmackDown, Jerry Springer and Survivor, I'd bet that they feel fully justified in nuking our monkey asses to a fucking cinder as a favor to the rest of the galaxy.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --