Not intending to be dismissive of your pain, but if UCSD has enough money to send lawyers after websties on trumped up copyright claims because they don't like what they have to say, they need their funding cut some more. Were I a California resident, I'd write to the Board of Regents with a copy to the Governator and say so myself.
If your the type that needs a service that allows servers, static ips, 4 hour service resolutions, higher upload then you can pay extra for those things and get a business class connection. That's really what it boils down to. -
Or just sign up with Speakeasy, that gives you all of the above except an SLA, and doesn't meddle with what you do with your connection and justify it with the misdeeds of hojillions of clueless newbies on their network.
Perhaps they'll still work for less, even given equivalent protections to workers in the civilized world? If not, they're best off not dependent on multinationals for their livelihood, anyway.
No tarrifs? Fine, revoke the citizenship of those who ship the capital out of the country to avoid the laws. Let them enjoy the benefits of being governed by the tyrants in charge of the third world countries whose cheap labor they're exploiting. Oh, and make them subject to arrest if they ever set foot on their (former) home country's soil.
It's not protectionism--unless it's protectionism to avoid the imperial exploitation of workers in other countries, which if they are working under poor conditions, without protection against discrimination and other crimes, and are underpaid, is what's happening there.
As a country, this isn't an imposition of one country's labor laws on another--it's just an adjustment of tax codes to discourage commerce with countries who choose not to have standards equivalent to those of the importing country. Should that be a problem, the government of the exporting country has two choices: bring its labor standards up to facilitate commerce, or remain uncompetitive if it can't compete on a level playing field. This isn't coercion--there's no military force at work here.
Works for me--but then the purpose of exporting the job wouldn't be to circumvent labor laws. This would help provide the "level playing field" we hear apologists for offshoring talk so much about when jobs go offshore, but not with respect to worker protections.
Yes--any country has the right and the duty to attempt to avoid the circumvention of its employment laws. The best way to effect this is to hit said companies in the pocketbook. The next step in the escalation is that the capital leaves the country--but then, tarrifs can be employed to keep the fruits of exploited labor out.
Which is why when jobs are outsourced like this to circumvent American worker protections, the products of such labor (or the gross, in case of service businesses) should be heavily taxed.
The last I knew, even most of the little plastic frames that carry a car dealer's name are illegal in my state, although there are millions of them - they obscure a small part of the lettering on the plate.
I saw a nice plate cover over a plate in the parking lot at work yesterday. When you look at it dead on, you can read the plate just fine. But from more than about 10 degrees off normal, you can't see the plate number at all. Would be quite useful if you lived in an area with traffic light cameras. BTW, love your nick--but it should really be "FORTRAN IV."
Being able to browse iTunes over the Internet (something that won't last long once Apple hears about this)
What? Are they going to break all the existing iTunes clients and force an upgrade? How many people who would have been using it to buy music would then say "fuck it" and uninstall iTunes?
If they didn't force a client upgrade to start a war of escalation with PlayFair, they sure as hell aren't going to over a Perl script that browses the store. They'll DMCA it, which means that thousands of defiant people will archive it and share it with all comers.
. . . according to CAPPS, you travel an awful lot for someone of your stated income. Is there something you would like to tell us? We could go easier on you . . .
I don't know--I think I'd agree about the part about trying to steer people away from old games towards expensive new ones, except that at $2-$4, it's pretty reasonable.
Now, no one except your most militant copyright proponent is actually going to buy these ROMs to play at home, given the easy availability of MAME ROMs. But they've now eliminated the "you aren't making any money on these games anymore anyway" excuse for trading them, putting another arrow in the quiver of the IDSA (or whatever the game industry's group of jackbooted thugs is called now) when trying to choke off ROM distribution.
This service could actually come in handy for people who work in an environment tolerating installation of personally owned software, but intolerant of copyright infrigement (i.e. prudent). Installing MAME with anything other than one of the few available ROMs would have been verboten before, but now an employee could buy a few faves and play them on MAME legally thanks to this program.
I also do agree that the old games are better, but then, I'm old:).
What public domain movies do you have? How are they indexed? I pull down old stuff that has entered PD all the time--old cartoons like Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, etc.
And it doesn't matter if the most common use might be infringing--P2P apps have non-infringing use, and thus are legal (q.v. the Betamax case).
That those producing the locked down machines won't:
have the ability to impersonate any Pd machine.
cooperate with the *AA by either sharing that ability or acting on their behalf to intervene in the P2P networks
That, and the authors give away their toadyism to the "content industries" by referring to P2P networks as "peer to peer pirate networks," as if they have no possible legitimate use save to board ships on the high seas, murder the crew, and plunder the vessels.
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Interesting. I understand there's a book like this at the security check-in stations at most U.S. airports, as well.
Not intending to be dismissive of your pain, but if UCSD has enough money to send lawyers after websties on trumped up copyright claims because they don't like what they have to say, they need their funding cut some more. Were I a California resident, I'd write to the Board of Regents with a copy to the Governator and say so myself.
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Or just sign up with Speakeasy, that gives you all of the above except an SLA, and doesn't meddle with what you do with your connection and justify it with the misdeeds of hojillions of clueless newbies on their network.
Perhaps they'll still work for less, even given equivalent protections to workers in the civilized world? If not, they're best off not dependent on multinationals for their livelihood, anyway.
No tarrifs? Fine, revoke the citizenship of those who ship the capital out of the country to avoid the laws. Let them enjoy the benefits of being governed by the tyrants in charge of the third world countries whose cheap labor they're exploiting. Oh, and make them subject to arrest if they ever set foot on their (former) home country's soil.
It's not protectionism--unless it's protectionism to avoid the imperial exploitation of workers in other countries, which if they are working under poor conditions, without protection against discrimination and other crimes, and are underpaid, is what's happening there.
As a country, this isn't an imposition of one country's labor laws on another--it's just an adjustment of tax codes to discourage commerce with countries who choose not to have standards equivalent to those of the importing country. Should that be a problem, the government of the exporting country has two choices: bring its labor standards up to facilitate commerce, or remain uncompetitive if it can't compete on a level playing field. This isn't coercion--there's no military force at work here.
Works for me--but then the purpose of exporting the job wouldn't be to circumvent labor laws. This would help provide the "level playing field" we hear apologists for offshoring talk so much about when jobs go offshore, but not with respect to worker protections.
Yes--any country has the right and the duty to attempt to avoid the circumvention of its employment laws. The best way to effect this is to hit said companies in the pocketbook. The next step in the escalation is that the capital leaves the country--but then, tarrifs can be employed to keep the fruits of exploited labor out.
Which is why when jobs are outsourced like this to circumvent American worker protections, the products of such labor (or the gross, in case of service businesses) should be heavily taxed.
It's a radical problem in our schools (rim shot).
+5, Insightful
I saw a nice plate cover over a plate in the parking lot at work yesterday. When you look at it dead on, you can read the plate just fine. But from more than about 10 degrees off normal, you can't see the plate number at all. Would be quite useful if you lived in an area with traffic light cameras. BTW, love your nick--but it should really be "FORTRAN IV."
I can't imagine how it would help, either. It's not as if Linux users are known for their passion for paying for things.
What? Are they going to break all the existing iTunes clients and force an upgrade? How many people who would have been using it to buy music would then say "fuck it" and uninstall iTunes?
If they didn't force a client upgrade to start a war of escalation with PlayFair, they sure as hell aren't going to over a Perl script that browses the store. They'll DMCA it, which means that thousands of defiant people will archive it and share it with all comers.
porno, pornonis, m.? I think not. That should definitely be a feminine noun.
. . . according to CAPPS, you travel an awful lot for someone of your stated income. Is there something you would like to tell us? We could go easier on you . . .
Cool--music on hold!
He probably had to say that for the article--working in a university's IT department, he has to at least appear to respect intellectual "property."
Now, no one except your most militant copyright proponent is actually going to buy these ROMs to play at home, given the easy availability of MAME ROMs. But they've now eliminated the "you aren't making any money on these games anymore anyway" excuse for trading them, putting another arrow in the quiver of the IDSA (or whatever the game industry's group of jackbooted thugs is called now) when trying to choke off ROM distribution.
This service could actually come in handy for people who work in an environment tolerating installation of personally owned software, but intolerant of copyright infrigement (i.e. prudent). Installing MAME with anything other than one of the few available ROMs would have been verboten before, but now an employee could buy a few faves and play them on MAME legally thanks to this program.
I also do agree that the old games are better, but then, I'm old :).
And it doesn't matter if the most common use might be infringing--P2P apps have non-infringing use, and thus are legal (q.v. the Betamax case).
That, and the authors give away their toadyism to the "content industries" by referring to P2P networks as "peer to peer pirate networks," as if they have no possible legitimate use save to board ships on the high seas, murder the crew, and plunder the vessels.
Don't some of the papers and inks give off toxic fumes when burned?
And after building up their database, they're starting to charge. No thanks.