Something that seems to have been missed in all this fury, it that British ISP are vulnerable to the threats of large copyright owners because there is no safe harbour provision as provided for by the DMCA. Large ISP's like BT or Virgin have the financial resources to fight, medium sized ISPs like Karoo or small scale ISPs cannot afford to spend millions defending themselves in the high court.
As Hull resident and Karoo broadband customer, I can tell you things are never as simple as they appear. The people who get cut off are those that are saturating their bandwidth, and have ignored multiple warnings, first by email and then by letter. I know lots of people file sharing on a limited basis that have never been cut off. Though a few saturating their bandwidth have received warning email and letters.
Wikimedia foundation had an income of $7.75 Million last year and retained earning of $8m from previous years. The NPG had an income of £2.24 Million last year. So relatively speaking Wikimedia foundation is the rich one stealing from the poor one.
The Berne Convention requires its signatories to recognize the copyright of works of authors from other signatory countries.
Recognising the copyright of a work created outside the the US is a different set of circumstances to refusing to grant a copyright to a digital photo created in the US.
A court might consider a work created and copyrighted outside of the US differently to a work denied copyright in the US under Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
... cars can only be properly and safely operated by mechanics, engineers, and aficionados? Obviously, that is not true. Cars are designed to be relatively simple to operate, yet can be highly reliable, safe, and low maintenance. At least for the majority of their lifetime, for the average person.
Car Drivers need a licence to ensure they are properly and safely operated. Car Drivers can be sanctioned for dangerous or irresponsible practices. Car Drivers require insurance to compensate people who suffer a lost caused by incompetence or recklessness of the Driver. Cars must be regularly serviced and maintained by trained experts. Cars must be registered & require regular safety inspections.
Some similar practices might avoid most of the problems with have with irresponsible PC owner/operators. e.g. worms, virus, UCE/UBE, phishing, fraud, DDOS.
Wifi computer networks can operate in ad-hoc which allows WiFi enabled devices to communicate directly with each other without needing an access point/base station. When operating in ad-hoc mode all wireless devices within range can be discovered and communicate in peer-to-peer fashion.
All wireless adapters on the ad-hoc network must use the same SSID and the same channel number. Ad hoc networks a great when needing to build a small, all-wireless LAN quickly. You can configure "add-hoc" network mode through the network configuration in Control panel.
Read the following for detailed descriptions of what to do.
1) anonymous web proxies that only accept inbound connections from Iran IP space. 2) TOR servers. 3) Ad-Hoc WiFi networks could be used to create a Mesh networks. 4) Multicast information, documents, video over the Mesh.
It is not your responsibility. These people are not your friends, they are using you unless there is quid quo pro.
[b]Learn to say no.[/b]
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Names matter a lot more than you might expect. Did you know that names perceived as a different enthnicity face discrimination even during blind tests ? Did you know that Children whose name appears earlier in the alaphabet are more successful? Or that common names like Pete & Paul tend you towards an average acheivements in life ? Name choice has a much larger impact on children than most parents know.
It saddens me to think that so many people are that shallow. It no longer surprises me that people would risk their financial stability to have a baby with a particular hair color. But it does still depress me.
What saddens me is that somebody should be so shallow they believe the accumulation of wealth for wealth's sake is somehow virtuous.
The natural purpose of the drive to succeed is to enhance the prospects of your children.
You are simply a custodian of your genes for your future generation.
Natural Selection in a Safe world
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Shock, horror! The religious right has a problem with a process of natural selection in a civilised world too safe for the survival of the fittest to thrive. Rich successful geeks will be able to afford to ensure their smart children are also beautiful & sporty. Those meatheads too stupid to appreciate the value of this won't benefit. A delicious irony if every there was one.
I've said it before and will say it again, natural selection is a meta process; change the environment to make it safe and natural selection it's self will evolve.
IWF are the same group of self appointed censors whos system is so badly flawed that they included Wikipedia and threatened Amazon with black listing and were forced to back down after they it was discovered the image was an Album cover sold legal in the UK for years.
That Evolution is a meta-process (a process that acts on its self) is obvious to anybody that truely grasps neo-Darwinism and seperates the knowlegable from the dilettante.
Evolution is self selective, if something works it survives if it fails is falters, this applies just as much to the processes of evolution as it does to the things which evolve!
The British Parachute Regiment in Afghanistan had over 700 confirmed kills on their last tour alone. The British forces have lost of 122 men since the start of the conflict.
Their strategy may be cheap in money but is costly in casualties.
One of photos published by the Sun which is supposed to have come off the camera is exactly the same as the first photo that shows up when searching google images for the Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi.
This bears many hallmarks of urban myth/ counter knowledge. No real details, assumptions as facts, facts that a wrong.
No details of Who, where, when. How did he know they where terrorists? MI6 are spys and officially don't exist. MI5 investigate terrorism. Why would MI6 sell a camera on ebay?
I'll bet my karma that this turns out to be an urban myth and received counter knowledge in a year.
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Something that seems to have been missed in all this fury, it that British ISP are vulnerable to the threats of large copyright owners because there is no safe harbour provision as provided for by the DMCA. Large ISP's like BT or Virgin have the financial resources to fight, medium sized ISPs like Karoo or small scale ISPs cannot afford to spend millions defending themselves in the high court.
Kingston Communications is to drop its hardline approach of immediately cutting the Internet connection of people caught illegally downloading films and music.
As Hull resident and Karoo broadband customer, I can tell you things are never as simple as they appear. The people who get cut off are those that are saturating their bandwidth, and have ignored multiple warnings, first by email and then by letter. I know lots of people file sharing on a limited basis that have never been cut off. Though a few saturating their bandwidth have received warning email and letters.
Wikimedia foundation had an income of $7.75 Million last year and retained earning of $8m from previous years. The NPG had an income of £2.24 Million last year. So relatively speaking Wikimedia foundation is the rich one stealing from the poor one.
However the US is a signatory of the Berne Convention.
The Berne Convention requires its signatories to recognize the copyright of works of authors from other signatory countries.
Recognising the copyright of a work created outside the the US is a different set of circumstances to refusing to grant a copyright to a digital photo created in the US.
A court might consider a work created and copyrighted outside of the US differently to a work denied copyright in the US under Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
His own user page states (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee).
I'm Derrick Coetzee, an English Wikipedia administrator with background in computer science and mathematics.
Car Drivers need a licence to ensure they are properly and safely operated.
Car Drivers can be sanctioned for dangerous or irresponsible practices.
Car Drivers require insurance to compensate people who suffer a lost caused by incompetence or recklessness of the Driver.
Cars must be regularly serviced and maintained by trained experts.
Cars must be registered & require regular safety inspections.
Some similar practices might avoid most of the problems with have with irresponsible PC owner/operators. e.g. worms, virus, UCE/UBE, phishing, fraud, DDOS.
If you are not prepared to fight for liberty then you don't deserve it.
Wifi computer networks can operate in ad-hoc which allows WiFi enabled devices to communicate directly with each other without needing an access point/base station. When operating in ad-hoc mode all wireless devices within range can be discovered and communicate in peer-to-peer fashion.
All wireless adapters on the ad-hoc network must use the same SSID and the same channel number. Ad hoc networks a great when needing to build a small, all-wireless LAN quickly. You can configure "add-hoc" network mode through the network configuration in Control panel.
Read the following for detailed descriptions of what to do.
Configuring an ad-hoc Wifi network with Windows XP
Configuring an ad-hoc Wifi network with Windows Vista
Some ways to subvert the censorship.
1) anonymous web proxies that only accept inbound connections from Iran IP space.
2) TOR servers.
3) Ad-Hoc WiFi networks could be used to create a Mesh networks.
4) Multicast information, documents, video over the Mesh.
It should be called the Goodie, because it's dense, unstable and has a short life span.
It is not your responsibility. These people are not your friends, they are using you unless there is quid quo pro.
[b]Learn to say no.[/b]
Names matter a lot more than you might expect. Did you know that names perceived as a different enthnicity face discrimination even during blind tests ? Did you know that Children whose name appears earlier in the alaphabet are more successful? Or that common names like Pete & Paul tend you towards an average acheivements in life ? Name choice has a much larger impact on children than most parents know.
It saddens me to think that so many people are that shallow. It no longer surprises me that people would risk their financial stability to have a baby with a particular hair color. But it does still depress me.
What saddens me is that somebody should be so shallow they believe the accumulation of wealth for wealth's sake is somehow virtuous.
The natural purpose of the drive to succeed is to enhance the prospects of your children.
You are simply a custodian of your genes for your future generation.
Try reading the The Selfish Gene and you might get it.
Shock, horror! The religious right has a problem with a process of natural selection in a civilised world too safe for the survival of the fittest to thrive. Rich successful geeks will be able to afford to ensure their smart children are also beautiful & sporty. Those meatheads too stupid to appreciate the value of this won't benefit. A delicious irony if every there was one.
I've said it before and will say it again, natural selection is a meta process; change the environment to make it safe and natural selection it's self will evolve.
Martin
IWF are the same group of self appointed censors whos system is so badly flawed that they included Wikipedia and threatened Amazon with black listing and were forced to back down after they it was discovered the image was an Album cover sold legal in the UK for years.
Cartman was for development because it was imature
And Kenny was the live machine because you couldn't kill kenny.
Why stop with the albums of decedant rock bands, Wikipedia is full of images of naked children.
Chances are he needed to use a satellite phone with charges of 20-40 euros/dollars a Minute.
That Evolution is a meta-process (a process that acts on its self) is obvious to anybody that truely grasps neo-Darwinism and seperates the knowlegable from the dilettante.
Evolution is self selective, if something works it survives if it fails is falters, this applies just as much to the processes of evolution as it does to the things which evolve!
The British Parachute Regiment in Afghanistan had over 700 confirmed kills on their last tour alone.
The British forces have lost of 122 men since the start of the conflict.
Their strategy may be cheap in money but is costly in casualties.
Winning or Losing have the same result; American (& Allies) armed forces leave Iraq.
Therefore "Winning" must be defined differently.
Different people will consider different outcomes successful.
Some of the choices are:
[ ] stable [ ] unstable [ ] don't care
[ ] peaceful [ ] not peaceful [ ] don't care
[ ] democratic [ ] theocratic [ ] dictatorship [ ] don't care
[ ] oil producing [ ] not oil producing
[ ] grateful [ ] ungrateful [ ] don't care
[ ] Allied to America [ ] Opposing America [ ] Neutral to America [ ] don't care
[ ] Allied to Iran [ ] Opposing Iran [ ] Neutral to Iran [ ] don't care
One of photos published by the Sun which is supposed to have come off the camera is exactly the same as the first photo that shows up when searching google images for the Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi.
I have a hard time believing the anybody can really be so stupid to believe this sham is true.
This bears many hallmarks of urban myth/ counter knowledge. No real details, assumptions as facts, facts that a wrong.
No details of Who, where, when.
How did he know they where terrorists?
MI6 are spys and officially don't exist.
MI5 investigate terrorism.
Why would MI6 sell a camera on ebay?
I'll bet my karma that this turns out to be an urban myth and received counter knowledge in a year.
... watching this short clip and thinking before you leap to conclusions.