This is stupid, Adobe is using the meeting to stop the protest and nothing more. Adobe has put themselves in a position that they must follow through with the prosecution. This will be nothing but a meeting to justify their actions. Besides the criminal provisions of the DMCA must be stopped, so the next firm that comes along won't be able to throw computer programmer in jail for disclosing ROT-13 encryption.
It is about freedom of speech EFF, not dropping the charges against a single person.
Yea, I read it, it means they want a piece of the action for all downloads. Screw software patents they are wrong and the internet was created by US tax dollars not some companies patent.
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and Patents are going to kill the internet. With so many companies having patents the monthly internet bill for users should hit $200 a month as pay per download is implemented throughout the US.
I can just imagine people shopping on the internet receiving a email bill for $45 for looking through a companies web site.
Europe has the right idea, NO software patents because it will kill the internet and the computer industry.
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A sunken ship, a old WWII plane wreck or some shipper lost a cargo container overboard in a bad storm. I wonder who is paying for this weird obesssion of Ameila Earhart?
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Super soakers make great cat behavior-correction devices too.
I imagine that tomorrow morning the FBI will break down your/. cult doors and haul off all your cats while screaming PETA members spray you with water cannons. Remember what happened to the Bonsai Kitten plant!
I can just see the execs at Adobe going crazy with worry that Kde's program is going to ruin their reputation. How can they justify $500 license fees for a product people can use on linux
with X for free?
I strongly urge everyone to stop using PDF on their websites, Ghostscript is cool.
The US media made a big issue on how the Soviets and all it's eastern european brothers used cameras to spy on people. Now in the USA we imitate the Soviet Union all in the name of state security.
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This law does not outlaw UCE, but just requires the use of a valid email address and a proper subject line. This is proper regulation of commerce and should hold up in all courts.
I started of with @home last October with a free install and two free months. However I was soon greeted with lost email, dead connections and a webspace service that worked once in a while. The final straw was a rate increase of $6 which jumped my annual bill to $600 dollars. I found a dial up service for $200 a year and decided that I'd rather download files slower and use the $400 for more important things. I no longer suffer lost email, a web site that loads very slow and better usenet service. If one of the modem racks go down at the ISP I can dial up another modem rack.
For some reason people are getting their "panties in a bunch" about Deja selling off it's database. The sale of the Deja database does not infringe your copyright anymore then if your ISP is sold off to Earthlink. The copyright of the article on Deja has not been transferred
to Google.
For a comparison lets say you have a 20 Mb web site at your ISP and the ISP is bought by Earthlink. The fact that the data on the hard drives owned by your ISP is transferred doesn't make the copyright transfer.
When you publish your works on Usenet or an email list you are giving permission for people and companies that subscribe to that email list or usenet group permission to store, forward and propagate your copyrighted message. There are ways to protect your usenet posts, this can be a X-No-Archive: Yes: or Expiration: headers.
The same goes for that 20 Mb web page, you are giving people the right to copy your copyrighted web page for their own use.
If you put X-NO-Archive: Yes or did put a proper expiration date on all of your Articles then Deja.com did honor this. It also honored article removal for copyright issues and a Nuke form to remove any article by you.
Your message regarding the Web site www.bonsaikitten.com was forwarded to me
today; I am an Issues Specialist in the Companion Animals section of The
Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The bonsaikitten Web site first
appeared in late December. We received hundreds of complaints over just two
days. In response, we investigated the origin of the site and found that
the site was being hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In speaking with the MIT Network Manager, we found out that the name
and address the site is registered to, a "Dr. Michael Wong" in New York, is
false information. The creator of the site is actually a student at MIT who
initially created the site as a joke amongst friends, then, encouraged by
all the negative attention he was receiving, decided to make a
statement
about his right to free speech by keeping his site up and running despite
requests remove it. MIT was very supportive of the concerns of animal organizations and citizens sending in complaints about the site. Despite the
legal protest about the student's free speech rights, MIT removed the site
on December 22. In addition, a local humane organization has
investigated
as well (the student claimed to have used computer graphics to create the
shots of kittens in jars).
We began receiving complaints about the bonsaikitten site being back up
again several days ago. I have contacted MIT, which is not hosting the site.
I have contacted the group we suspect is hosting this site and have stated
our concerns and asked that the site be taken down. I am currently waiting
for a response. I will be glad to contact you when I have any further update
on this situation.
In the meantime, please advise those concerned NOT to send e-mail or otherwise contact the person running this site (I believe there is some
contact information listed on the Web pages). As I mentioned, it appears
that he is only encouraged by the negative attention and the more he receives the stronger his resolve to keep the site up and running will be.
Thank you for your concern. Please feel free to share this response with
others who are concerned about this site.
Sincerely,
Julie Shellenberger
Issues Specialist, Companion Animal Outreach
The Humane Society of the United States
www.hsus.org
Well I have taken down the pictures of me and my friends at our annual Cat BBQ. I wouldn't want the FBI to track me down and put me in prison.
Carnivorie has been renamed to the Dynamic Cat Snoop 1000!
Get a life people!
Urban Legend"postage garanted" postcards to bricks
on
Spammer Gets Spammed
·
· Score: 1
I once received crap from some idiot who was sending me Spam with return enveloppes included but they were "return postage garanteed" enveloppes. The company HAS to pay the post office the postage due on what ever they received.
This is an urban legend. These bricks are not properly packaged according to US postal service regulations, therefore they are thrown away.
The ACLU and EFF must act now to stop this obscene act by the police and government of New Hampshire from stopping political speech. No matter how offensive this is the kind of speech that the first amendment protects against.
The assignment of Federal callsigns belong to the federal government. This is why a commercial radio or TV station can not trademark their call sign. If QVC has a problem with N7QVC they will have to take it up with the Federal Government and not the licensee. Good Luck to anyone that attempts this since the FCC has never lost on this issue.
There is no way anyone could build a tunnel here.
Take a look at the earthquake record here and 5.0
magnitudes are very common in the region. In the
1960's Alaska had a 9.0 quake that destroyed hundreds of miles of the sea bed and the shore. NO WAY!
It has been discovered that AMSAT didn't pay license fees to the RIAA and M$, so the copy protection in the hardware and software turned off the Satellite. RIAA and M$ have stated, "We can not allow hacker ham radio operators to steal our intellectual property." They will allow AMSAT Corp access again for 26 Million Dollars for a 1 year license fee. They also want to inspect the satellite HD contents because the Napster server says they have a MP3 of Rocket man and a AVI video of the Moon Launch on the HD
In a related story the FBI has raided the ARRL
ham radio HQ looking for antennas and radios
that could be used to listen to frequencies, they
also confiscated secret PSK31 transmitters that could be used by spies to send signals to spy agencies.
Also discovered was a secret world wide system to track people, cars, boats and planes without the knowledge of the passengers. The secret program, called APRS, violates USC 3, 21 and Janet Reno indicated today that all licensed ham radio operators will be investigated. You may remember that the Branch Davidians used ham radio during the seige at Waco.
Slashdot Mirror
Is Slashdot becoming the Drudgereport?
It is about freedom of speech EFF, not dropping the charges against a single person.
My removed PDF files are here
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Yea, I read it, it means they want a piece of the action for all downloads. Screw software patents they are wrong and the internet was created by US tax dollars not some companies patent.
--
I can just imagine people shopping on the internet receiving a email bill for $45 for looking through a companies web site.
Europe has the right idea, NO software patents because it will kill the internet and the computer industry.
--
A sunken ship, a old WWII plane wreck or some shipper lost a cargo container overboard in a bad storm. I wonder who is paying for this weird obesssion of Ameila Earhart?
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You are sick :)
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I imagine that tomorrow morning the FBI will break down your /. cult doors and haul off all your cats while screaming PETA members spray you with water cannons. Remember what happened to the Bonsai Kitten plant!
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I strongly urge everyone to stop using PDF on their websites, Ghostscript is cool.
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The US media made a big issue on how the Soviets and all it's eastern european brothers used cameras to spy on people. Now in the USA we imitate the Soviet Union all in the name of state security.
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Good God, Keep these people in office and they will soon make the internet illegal. See the ISP censorship bill.
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This law does not outlaw UCE, but just requires the use of a valid email address and a proper subject line. This is proper regulation of commerce and should hold up in all courts.
I started of with @home last October with a free install and two free months. However I was soon greeted with lost email, dead connections and a webspace service that worked once in a while. The final straw was a rate increase of $6 which jumped my annual bill to $600 dollars. I found a dial up service for $200 a year and decided that I'd rather download files slower and use the $400 for more important things. I no longer suffer lost email, a web site that loads very slow and better usenet service. If one of the modem racks go down at the ISP I can dial up another modem rack.
This could work great to hide P2P file sharing.
Nuff Said!
Google will honor X-no-Archive and nuke request.
When you publish your works on Usenet or an email list you are giving permission for people and companies that subscribe to that email list or usenet group permission to store, forward and propagate your copyrighted message. There are ways to protect your usenet posts, this can be a X-No-Archive: Yes: or Expiration: headers.
The same goes for that 20 Mb web page, you are giving people the right to copy your copyrighted web page for their own use.
If you put X-NO-Archive: Yes or did put a proper expiration date on all of your Articles then Deja.com did honor this. It also honored article removal for copyright issues and a Nuke form to remove any article by you.
The NNTP protocol is open source.\
Your message regarding the Web site www.bonsaikitten.com was forwarded to me today; I am an Issues Specialist in the Companion Animals section of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The bonsaikitten Web site first appeared in late December. We received hundreds of complaints over just two days. In response, we investigated the origin of the site and found that the site was being hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In speaking with the MIT Network Manager, we found out that the name and address the site is registered to, a "Dr. Michael Wong" in New York, is false information. The creator of the site is actually a student at MIT who initially created the site as a joke amongst friends, then, encouraged by all the negative attention he was receiving, decided to make a statement about his right to free speech by keeping his site up and running despite requests remove it. MIT was very supportive of the concerns of animal organizations and citizens sending in complaints about the site. Despite the legal protest about the student's free speech rights, MIT removed the site on December 22. In addition, a local humane organization has investigated as well (the student claimed to have used computer graphics to create the shots of kittens in jars). We began receiving complaints about the bonsaikitten site being back up again several days ago. I have contacted MIT, which is not hosting the site. I have contacted the group we suspect is hosting this site and have stated our concerns and asked that the site be taken down. I am currently waiting for a response. I will be glad to contact you when I have any further update on this situation. In the meantime, please advise those concerned NOT to send e-mail or otherwise contact the person running this site (I believe there is some contact information listed on the Web pages). As I mentioned, it appears that he is only encouraged by the negative attention and the more he receives the stronger his resolve to keep the site up and running will be. Thank you for your concern. Please feel free to share this response with others who are concerned about this site. Sincerely, Julie Shellenberger Issues Specialist, Companion Animal Outreach The Humane Society of the United States www.hsus.org
Carnivorie has been renamed to the Dynamic Cat Snoop 1000!
Get a life people!
This is an urban legend. These bricks are not properly packaged according to US postal service regulations, therefore they are thrown away.
The ACLU and EFF must act now to stop this obscene act by the police and government of New Hampshire from stopping political speech. No matter how offensive this is the kind of speech that the first amendment protects against.
The assignment of Federal callsigns belong to the federal government. This is why a commercial radio or TV station can not trademark their call sign. If QVC has a problem with N7QVC they will have to take it up with the Federal Government and not the licensee. Good Luck to anyone that attempts this since the FCC has never lost on this issue.
There is no way anyone could build a tunnel here. Take a look at the earthquake record here and 5.0 magnitudes are very common in the region. In the 1960's Alaska had a 9.0 quake that destroyed hundreds of miles of the sea bed and the shore. NO WAY!
RIAA and M$ have stated, "We can not allow hacker ham radio operators to steal our intellectual property." They will allow AMSAT Corp access again for 26 Million Dollars for a 1 year license fee.
They also want to inspect the satellite HD contents because the Napster server says they have a MP3 of Rocket man and a AVI video of the Moon Launch on the HD
In a related story the FBI has raided the ARRL ham radio HQ looking for antennas and radios that could be used to listen to frequencies, they also confiscated secret PSK31 transmitters that could be used by spies to send signals to spy agencies.
Also discovered was a secret world wide system to track people, cars, boats and planes without the knowledge of the passengers. The secret program, called APRS, violates USC 3, 21 and Janet Reno indicated today that all licensed ham radio operators will be investigated. You may remember that the Branch Davidians used ham radio during the seige at Waco.