Correct. Safer does NOT equal trampled rights. However, many of the proposed solutions in the past have had problems with the rights of end users (or at least the appearance of a "big brother-esq" solution) -- at least as voiced by the/. group-think. And I think that was the point the submitter of the article was trying to make.
Actually, most Americans want an intact Constitution.
If "most" American's really want the "government" hover over the internet and potentially tramp on rights, there is fairly simple way -- amend the Constitution. It's not EASY, but it is a simple solution.
My personal favorite from TFA:
"I don't think the public knows what it wants Congress to do, but it wants Congress to do something," said Dan Burton, the senior lobbyist for Entrust Inc
How can the "public" know what it wants to do when most people don't even know how congress WORKS? Most don't even know the name of their own representatives. Besides, my understanding of TFA was that it WASN'T a poll of MOST Americans, but of "LIKELY VOTERS". Always need to read the 'fine print'.
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be unhelpful, but thats really the best solution. It's not difficult -- a simple excell sheet with product names and reg keys. Store it someplace safe -- which gets backed up with everything else. The actual paperwork? A simple binder with clear folders. Just stuff all your keys/serials there.
Since you are already *IN* that boat, you may want to try a few things on some test platforms:
(a) install the software on new platform (b) copy the install directory from the old to the new platform (c) cross fingers
or
(a) install the software on the new platform (b) copy the registry entries created by the old software to the new platform (c) cross fingers
or
(a) install the software on the new platform (b) crack open your handy disasmbler/softice combo (c) attempt to ID the protection and disable it (d) cross your fingers
Don't expect any of these things to work, but it wouldn't hurt to try. Other places you may look for hidden keys: win.ini, *.dll (usually created by the installed software), *.ini, *.cfg, etc etc etc. Keep a sharp eye and you may get lucky but as a betting man, I'd bet that you are going to be buying new licences, though.
I find this totally ludicrous, as we've paid for a license to use the software.
My guess is that you can't show that you haven't transfered those licences to another party.
If you are lucky and have access to a decent laser printer at work (like a Canon Imagerunner), take there and print it out. Usually employers are reasonable about such requests. Particularly if you provide your own paper. If they'll let you print at all, they will certainly eat the toner cost for you as well.
We have several students working at our lab and the frequently print out materials for school. Then again, maybe our employer is just 'cool' about such things.
About your only other 'cheap' option is to just focus on the sections you need and print THOSE out.
Outside of that, take it to a printer (kinko's or something) and pay the cost to have it printed and bound (or at least hole-punched). If you NEED it enough, you'll PAY for it if you have no other alternative. Otherwise, your need just isn't that great.
As the IT manager at my workplace, I'm often sought for 'personal tech-support' by the plebs. I do have "rules" I enforce if I'm to look at anyones home PC, but that's a different topic.
Every now and then someone asks me "how much does 'office' cost" or "can you fix my computer". I answer their questions to the best of my ability and suggest things like Open Office, Thunderbird, FoxFire, etc. I also give them a Knoppix CD (I keep a spindle of them handy), ask them to play with it and see if they like it. While it's been mostly unsuccessful, I've had a few convert do debian and a pup (16 y/o) take on slackware.
At the very least, I've opened up the eyes of a number of people that there are open-source solutions for pretty much what ever it is they are looking for.
Hitchhiker fans will know what is happening, but newcomers will be left scratching their heads at a story that flits from one unpronounceable planet to another - each one populated by equally exotic-sounding characters.
If this is the critic's biggest problem, I'm 'ok' with that. Besides, there were things in the book not in the BBC TV series -- or things on BBC Radio that weren't in either the book or the TV series. I realize you can't sqeeze everything (even those few 2 or 3 word chapters DNA liked to use) in to a 2 hour movie. I never expected it.
So if it's downloaded before release, presumably the 'owner' would lose the price of a theatre ticket.
That's just poor logic.
If its downloaded before its commercial release, it could do far more damage than the loss of the price of a movie ticket. It could generate bad publicity, preempt any PR planned for the movie, generate 'negative' buzz that could hurt not just SINGLE ticket sales, but TOTAL box office draw as WELL as DVD sales in the future.
Your logic is fatally flawed -- yet you REALIZE that and state as such:
I think the damage people fear is that a pre-release version goes out, get's unirversally panned, and nobody goes to the theatre to see it. Case in point, if I had access to Daredevil before I shelled out my $13 (cdn)
Whichever side you're on in the copyright debate, you have to agree this legislation is draconian and excessive, to say the least."
I don't think its draconian. To me, it seems that if You release a copywrited work without authority BEFORE it's commercial release it's a FAR larger crime than ripping and sharing the latest DVD release or previously broadcast TV show.
Why? The damages are greater to the copywrite holder.
Yes, I believe copywrite law is being abused (by both the (c) holder AND the (c) violator) -- however, this doesn't appear to me to be an abuse...
Back in September, my sister had a stroke (she's in her late 40s). She suffers from expressive aphasia and a very mild receptive aphasia. She has trouble speaking and reading. She understands virtually everything spoken to her but she gets confused when numbers are spoken -- but she can READ and WRITE numbers fine with full understanding. Her reading weakness is with regards to syntax/grammer. Simple sentences she's OK with, but toss in more than Subject-Verb and she struggles. Read it out loud and she understand perfectly.
I've found the following bits of software helpful:
Sayzme -- simple text-to-speech software. Anything copied to the clipboard gets read outloud. It takes a little getting used to highlighting/cont-c, but she adapted quickly. She uses it for reading email, internet news sites, and she even types in her own SNAILMAIL and has the PC read it back to her.
Bungalow Software - There are many worksheets and excercizes available. Download the "shareware" versions and see which ones will best direct your mother's therapy.
Wizcom - They have a number of handheld scanner/text-to-speech gizmos. I've yet to get one for my sister, but I will shortly.
The BEST advice I can give is talk to your mother OFTEN. Get her to excercize her weaknesses EVERYDAY in REAL WORLD situations. My sister is just over 6 months past her stroke and the recovery is amazing. She want from being able to only say 3 or 4 words to being able to communicate with some dificulty (like a stutter). The words she cant "remember" how to say, she can mostly WRITE. It's amazing how she's adapted. She talks -- with a notepad with her. When she hits a word she cant say, she WRITES the word, then READS it out loud.
If you want to contact me directly, try jhonryan at gmail dot com. I'll be happy to share my experiences with you.
I'm quite happy with my citicard. I get 5% back on purchases of gas, groceries and pharm -- 1% everything else (up to $300 per year). That's a check cut in my name for that "cash back", not credit. I make all my gas and grocery purchases on it. I MAKE $300/year buying stuff I'm going to buy anyway. They've not made a penny off me. and I've made nearly $600 since I got the card.
Those "checks" you speak of, worst case is someone steals one and cashes it. I play "round robin" with citicorp fraud for an hour or two, file a police report and get the charges cancelled. Not fun, but for $300/year? if it happens ONCE a year (hasn't ever happened to me -- at least not yet), it's still worth it. My time is valuable, but not $150/hour valuable once a year...
I've seen a lot of RTFAs in my day, but it's rare to need to suggest the submitter RTFA!
A quick search of the Yahoo! phone book reveals at least 3 other people sharing the name Hillary Clinton living Ohio, California, and Delaware, respectively.
What does that have to do with the price of Tea in Washington? The one who HAD and was USING the domain WAS NOT a "Hillary Clinton", it was a "Michele Dinoia" who was using it to redirect traffic to search (*cough*)SPAM(*cough) engines.
Good riddance to a bit more sleezy domain profiteering. I don't even like Clinton, but I'm glad she won.
Since I did not cite materials from "Law and Order" but from "Law's Order"
That is correct. I misread your first sentence and your lack of a linked source compounded my initial error. My bad.
Briefly looking over "Law's Order", it appears more a history of law itself and less one of politics and government types. I obviously can't dismiss it outright as I haven't completely (or even partially) read it.
I'm still going with my (perhaps somewhat foggy) memory of long since completed college history classes. Perhaps that opinion will change based on further reflection on the materials you provided, but I'm skeptical.
Tenth-century Iceland was......a pattern of leadership emerged, some farmers acting asleaders of their close kin or immediate neighbours, others functioning as more formal leaders of a larger clientele, and eventually a distinct group of chieftains formed. A chieftain might be descended from an early settler who had claimed extensive land and been able to retain some sort of authority over later settlers in "his" area. Preferably, the chieftain had to be able to trace his ancestry to aristocratic families in Norway or somewhere in the Viking world
That strongly suggests to me that leadership was at least somewhat hereditary and it also suggests that leadership was ineffectual beyond the "clan":
...Old Iceland would be more cogently defined as a "stateless society", despite its central institutions and legal unity, as there was no public executive power. Neither court verdicts nor legislation nor even the constitutional arrangements had any coercive power behind them, other than the free initiative of individual chieftains with their armed following.
In closing, I respectfully apologize for mis-reading your initial post. I would also respectfully disagree that 10th-13th century Iceland was democratic. It may have had elements of democracy, but more like the UN than an actual 'government'.
I'd rather not even reply to someone citing "Law and Order" as a source... What you describe about Iceland may have been true for 'lords' or those higher up on the social order, but memories of history classes long since over suggest to me that Iceland between the 10th and 13th centuries was mostly feudal.
If you can cite materials other than "Law and Order", I'd be happy to review it and retract my statement should it be necessary.
Isn't the whole US governed pretty much that way??
No. It would make a poor analogy to suggest so. *IF* each state were autonomous (which it isn't) and *IF* each state (or even ONE of them) were not democratic, then perhaps so. But then, the US wouldn't qualify as a "democratic" anything really. Just a loose confederacy of independent nations.
What is your true name, or do you hide behind a person
Funny coming from an AC. My guess is you are the nutter who authored the post in your link. Either that, or you are just whacked to think that linking to a -1 slashdot post has any weight...
BTW, I'm not "Ronald {emm} Wilcox". Funny you should think so...
Lastly, your statement: "Debunking the Buck Act", it is unqualified and unfounded comments. is just crazy when you note the article cites references and has quite extensive footnotes. Yet the loon-Buck-Act paper which he attempts to 'debunk' actually qualifies under your "unqualified and unfounded comments" statement. Funny that, huh?
It means that you failed to cite references. It means that if you had, it would be painfully obvious what a nutter the author of this white paper is. It means you were being deceptive by omission.
A loon who writes a white paper that finds its way to a bunch of fringe conspiracy theory websites hardly qualifies as a quality source. The entire paper is a sophistic excercise in parsing words and hardly reflects accurately how our system actually works. Besides, do you REALLY want to cite as an authoratative source someone who says:
Please send a copy of this paper to everybody that you think is smart enough to understand it.
Do you REALLY? This is the same garbage that appears on a number of 'subscription' nut-job sites authored under "John Smith". Come ON. You need to subscribe to the Skeptical Inquirer.
You are correct. I'm not includnig Iceland, which was ruled in some form or another from Denmark until the 1940's when the current government was formed.
You are also correct that I'm not including The Six Nations as the Iroquois Confederacy was not a 'true' government as such. It was far weaker than the US was under the articles of confederacy. The 'member nations' of the Confedeeracy could hardly be called democratic.
You cut-paste something without providing any source for review. I'll include it here:
You may also find it disturbing to know how an administrative procedure can remove your children from you. In 1921 Congress passed the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act that created the United States birth "registration" area (see Public Law 97, 67th Congress, Session I, Chapter 135, 1921.) That act allows you to register your children when they are born. If you do so, you will get a copy of the birth certificate. By registering your children, which is voluntary, they become Federal Children. This does several things: Your children become subjects of Congress (they lose their state citizenship). A copy of the birth certificate is sent to the Department of Vital Statistics in the state in which they were born. The original birth certificate is sent to the Department of Commerce in the District of Columbia. It then gets forwarded to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) building in Europe. Your child's future labor and properties are put up as collateral for the public debt.
You see, my wife's uncle is like you, a conspiracy nut-job. I'm very familiar with this material. You are CITING a nutjobs faulty interpretation of a federal act. Way to go, Joe!
Actually, if the federal government followed the initial plans of the founding fathers and held to a truly libretarian view
You can stop right there. You've no idea of what the "true" ideals of the founding fathers were. It's evident in your broad stroke claim that they were "libertarian".
"ACTUALLY", the framers were quite varied in their views. From Hamilton's Jay's, and Madison's strong central government to Gerry's, Monroe's and S. Adams's ideals of a weaker one (in favor of stronger states). If there was ONE lesson we could ALL learn that seems to have been forgotten by the right AND the left is that COMPROMISE is was what built this nation and has held it together for the past 200+ years. Longer than ANY other democratic type of government in the past.
The rest of your post is so full of actual ignorance of the facts as to defy comprehension. Unless you are intentially trying to decieve people. Are you?
I recommend you do some research on the country you live in, and exactly how its supposed to work
I suggest you re-take your high-school US history class. It's obvious that you've slept through quite a bit the first time.
Put a lean on my house and I foresee a certain house mysteriously burning down....
Talk about plucking your eye to spite your face. Great idea! Burn down a house and lose any equity you may have so you can save paying out a few grand. Way to go!
Honestly, it doesn't matter. Sooner or later that property will sell or title will change and that lien will get paid off. First come, first serve.
But why bother even trying to explain anything to you? You're simply proud of the fact that you've cheated people out of money and haven't paid back anything. What a great legacy to leave your descendents... a burned down house and a cable bill in a fake name.
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Correct. Safer does NOT equal trampled rights. However, many of the proposed solutions in the past have had problems with the rights of end users (or at least the appearance of a "big brother-esq" solution) -- at least as voiced by the /. group-think. And I think that was the point the submitter of the article was trying to make.
If "most" American's really want the "government" hover over the internet and potentially tramp on rights, there is fairly simple way -- amend the Constitution. It's not EASY, but it is a simple solution.
My personal favorite from TFA:How can the "public" know what it wants to do when most people don't even know how congress WORKS? Most don't even know the name of their own representatives. Besides, my understanding of TFA was that it WASN'T a poll of MOST Americans, but of "LIKELY VOTERS". Always need to read the 'fine print'.
To Harrison: It wasn't THAT good.
to Jamie: It wasn't THAT bad.
I saw it. It was worth the price of admission, a soda and nachos. More importantly, it was worth my TIME, which to me is infinately more valuable.
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be unhelpful, but thats really the best solution. It's not difficult -- a simple excell sheet with product names and reg keys. Store it someplace safe -- which gets backed up with everything else. The actual paperwork? A simple binder with clear folders. Just stuff all your keys/serials there.
Since you are already *IN* that boat, you may want to try a few things on some test platforms:
(a) install the software on new platform
(b) copy the install directory from the old to the new platform
(c) cross fingers
or
(a) install the software on the new platform
(b) copy the registry entries created by the old software to the new platform
(c) cross fingers
or
(a) install the software on the new platform
(b) crack open your handy disasmbler/softice combo
(c) attempt to ID the protection and disable it
(d) cross your fingers
Don't expect any of these things to work, but it wouldn't hurt to try. Other places you may look for hidden keys: win.ini, *.dll (usually created by the installed software), *.ini, *.cfg, etc etc etc. Keep a sharp eye and you may get lucky but as a betting man, I'd bet that you are going to be buying new licences, though. My guess is that you can't show that you haven't transfered those licences to another party.
If you are lucky and have access to a decent laser printer at work (like a Canon Imagerunner), take there and print it out. Usually employers are reasonable about such requests. Particularly if you provide your own paper. If they'll let you print at all, they will certainly eat the toner cost for you as well.
We have several students working at our lab and the frequently print out materials for school. Then again, maybe our employer is just 'cool' about such things.
About your only other 'cheap' option is to just focus on the sections you need and print THOSE out.
Outside of that, take it to a printer (kinko's or something) and pay the cost to have it printed and bound (or at least hole-punched). If you NEED it enough, you'll PAY for it if you have no other alternative. Otherwise, your need just isn't that great.
As the IT manager at my workplace, I'm often sought for 'personal tech-support' by the plebs. I do have "rules" I enforce if I'm to look at anyones home PC, but that's a different topic.
Every now and then someone asks me "how much does 'office' cost" or "can you fix my computer". I answer their questions to the best of my ability and suggest things like Open Office, Thunderbird, FoxFire, etc. I also give them a Knoppix CD (I keep a spindle of them handy), ask them to play with it and see if they like it. While it's been mostly unsuccessful, I've had a few convert do debian and a pup (16 y/o) take on slackware.
At the very least, I've opened up the eyes of a number of people that there are open-source solutions for pretty much what ever it is they are looking for.
If its downloaded before its commercial release, it could do far more damage than the loss of the price of a movie ticket. It could generate bad publicity, preempt any PR planned for the movie, generate 'negative' buzz that could hurt not just SINGLE ticket sales, but TOTAL box office draw as WELL as DVD sales in the future.
Your logic is fatally flawed -- yet you REALIZE that and state as such: Thank you for refuting your own argument for me.
3 years MAX for releasing a previously unreleased commercial copyrighted material.
Then we have this.
Hmmm... Up to 30 years MAX (depending on the state and the circumstances of the rape).
Yeah... sounds about right to me...
Yeah... you got me. Thats what I get for typing in a slashdot post while on the phone. Feel good?
Why? The damages are greater to the copywrite holder.
Yes, I believe copywrite law is being abused (by both the (c) holder AND the (c) violator) -- however, this doesn't appear to me to be an abuse...
Back in September, my sister had a stroke (she's in her late 40s). She suffers from expressive aphasia and a very mild receptive aphasia. She has trouble speaking and reading. She understands virtually everything spoken to her but she gets confused when numbers are spoken -- but she can READ and WRITE numbers fine with full understanding. Her reading weakness is with regards to syntax/grammer. Simple sentences she's OK with, but toss in more than Subject-Verb and she struggles. Read it out loud and she understand perfectly.
I've found the following bits of software helpful:
Sayzme -- simple text-to-speech software. Anything copied to the clipboard gets read outloud. It takes a little getting used to highlighting/cont-c, but she adapted quickly. She uses it for reading email, internet news sites, and she even types in her own SNAILMAIL and has the PC read it back to her.
Bungalow Software - There are many worksheets and excercizes available. Download the "shareware" versions and see which ones will best direct your mother's therapy.
Wizcom - They have a number of handheld scanner/text-to-speech gizmos. I've yet to get one for my sister, but I will shortly.
The BEST advice I can give is talk to your mother OFTEN. Get her to excercize her weaknesses EVERYDAY in REAL WORLD situations. My sister is just over 6 months past her stroke and the recovery is amazing. She want from being able to only say 3 or 4 words to being able to communicate with some dificulty (like a stutter). The words she cant "remember" how to say, she can mostly WRITE. It's amazing how she's adapted. She talks -- with a notepad with her. When she hits a word she cant say, she WRITES the word, then READS it out loud.
If you want to contact me directly, try jhonryan at gmail dot com. I'll be happy to share my experiences with you.
I'm quite happy with my citicard. I get 5% back on purchases of gas, groceries and pharm -- 1% everything else (up to $300 per year). That's a check cut in my name for that "cash back", not credit. I make all my gas and grocery purchases on it. I MAKE $300/year buying stuff I'm going to buy anyway. They've not made a penny off me. and I've made nearly $600 since I got the card.
Those "checks" you speak of, worst case is someone steals one and cashes it. I play "round robin" with citicorp fraud for an hour or two, file a police report and get the charges cancelled. Not fun, but for $300/year? if it happens ONCE a year (hasn't ever happened to me -- at least not yet), it's still worth it. My time is valuable, but not $150/hour valuable once a year...
Sadly, that is a direct cut-paste from my IM window this morning.
Good riddance to a bit more sleezy domain profiteering. I don't even like Clinton, but I'm glad she won.
Briefly looking over "Law's Order", it appears more a history of law itself and less one of politics and government types. I obviously can't dismiss it outright as I haven't completely (or even partially) read it.
I'm still going with my (perhaps somewhat foggy) memory of long since completed college history classes. Perhaps that opinion will change based on further reflection on the materials you provided, but I'm skeptical.
Briefly, here's a google html cache of a PDF on Icelandic history which supports my memory:That strongly suggests to me that leadership was at least somewhat hereditary and it also suggests that leadership was ineffectual beyond the "clan":In closing, I respectfully apologize for mis-reading your initial post. I would also respectfully disagree that 10th-13th century Iceland was democratic. It may have had elements of democracy, but more like the UN than an actual 'government'.
I'd rather not even reply to someone citing "Law and Order" as a source... What you describe about Iceland may have been true for 'lords' or those higher up on the social order, but memories of history classes long since over suggest to me that Iceland between the 10th and 13th centuries was mostly feudal.
If you can cite materials other than "Law and Order", I'd be happy to review it and retract my statement should it be necessary.
BTW, I'm not "Ronald {emm} Wilcox". Funny you should think so...
Lastly, your statement: "Debunking the Buck Act", it is unqualified and unfounded comments. is just crazy when you note the article cites references and has quite extensive footnotes. Yet the loon-Buck-Act paper which he attempts to 'debunk' actually qualifies under your "unqualified and unfounded comments" statement. Funny that, huh?
A loon who writes a white paper that finds its way to a bunch of fringe conspiracy theory websites hardly qualifies as a quality source. The entire paper is a sophistic excercise in parsing words and hardly reflects accurately how our system actually works. Besides, do you REALLY want to cite as an authoratative source someone who says:Do you REALLY? This is the same garbage that appears on a number of 'subscription' nut-job sites authored under "John Smith". Come ON. You need to subscribe to the Skeptical Inquirer.
You are correct. I'm not includnig Iceland, which was ruled in some form or another from Denmark until the 1940's when the current government was formed.
You are also correct that I'm not including The Six Nations as the Iroquois Confederacy was not a 'true' government as such. It was far weaker than the US was under the articles of confederacy. The 'member nations' of the Confedeeracy could hardly be called democratic.
You see, my wife's uncle is like you, a conspiracy nut-job. I'm very familiar with this material. You are CITING a nutjobs faulty interpretation of a federal act. Way to go, Joe!
You are one of those cranks who believe in crazy conspiracy theories, huh?
For the not-so-loony.
Adjust your tinfoil hat. It's a bit tight.
'Nuff said...
"ACTUALLY", the framers were quite varied in their views. From Hamilton's Jay's, and Madison's strong central government to Gerry's, Monroe's and S. Adams's ideals of a weaker one (in favor of stronger states). If there was ONE lesson we could ALL learn that seems to have been forgotten by the right AND the left is that COMPROMISE is was what built this nation and has held it together for the past 200+ years. Longer than ANY other democratic type of government in the past.
The rest of your post is so full of actual ignorance of the facts as to defy comprehension. Unless you are intentially trying to decieve people. Are you?I suggest you re-take your high-school US history class. It's obvious that you've slept through quite a bit the first time.
Honestly, it doesn't matter. Sooner or later that property will sell or title will change and that lien will get paid off. First come, first serve.
But why bother even trying to explain anything to you? You're simply proud of the fact that you've cheated people out of money and haven't paid back anything. What a great legacy to leave your descendents... a burned down house and a cable bill in a fake name.