Aren't you still violating the DMCA for bypassing protection wether or not the company told you how to bypass it? If they were being honest they would just remove it completely.
Hmm... i wonder if the argument would hold that when a tv show is d/led from the internet that someone's share ratio is set to 1 or 2 the most he's sharing it with is one or two other people.
That way it can be claimed that you aren't re-broadcasting it. You're merely sending a copy to one or two other people.
You know. You bring up some valid points. However, If you merely did not issue visas to hostile foreign nationals i think that would make all your points moot. If you merely arrested or "detained" foreigners with expired visas that would also solve the problem. It's pretty simple to assume that if asked for identification and someone produces a visa, they are not a citizen. If they are not a citizen and the visa is expired, they should be deported. It's really not that mind bending to assume they would be, but they're not, hense what the "real ID" is made to fix will still be broken.
CC is commonly used form of ID. You can check into a flight with a CC, a bar, ect. Social security card is considered a form of ID. There was a checklist of what is considered forms of ID, driver's license and SS card together is the same as a passport (according to the list).
I personally don't really care too much about the having an all-in-one ID, however identify theft is so simple when there's RFIDs and smartcard readers that can pull all this information off of it. That and we'll be paying for all of this out of our pockets (paying for the new ID and being taxed for it). I don't see any security benefit for this other than everyone demanding it be shown wherever i go, and that's the issue i have with the idea.
I don't think that you can make the connection with expired visa with fradulantly obtained IDs=Terrorist or even a danger to you. The whole idea of Visas is broken. You don't fix the problem by applying yet another stupid waste of money and an extra false sense of security and pretending that this bandage is a cure all.
In reality, knowing who you're flying with does nothing at all. You think that flying is more dangerous than riding a bus or train with other people. However all the shoe inspections in the world is not going to stop someone from taking over a plane. I feel so much safer that after some idiots took over a plane with box cutters no one is allowed to fly with those dangerous nail clippers.
It's pointless. We already have tons of ids out there. Driver's license, social security card, credit cards. That's enough information out there already. Now they want to mandate that you have yet another card with everything on it? Yeah, losing your wallet is one thing, but losing this card would be extreme. They'll make it so that you can't go anywhere without it, post readers all over the place and track your movements.
Ohh, and to counter your argument, they have video survalence all over london, i guess that makes it right to start putting it everywhere. They use it to give tickets, prevent crime, and take pictures of people showering. Sounds like the right move to me ().
If you read a couple of the posts above i believe you can use Slashdot's logo without permission to create a parody.
I'm thinking that most people aren't lawyers themselves and have no idea or the wrong idea how copyrights work since legal text is hard to come by and RIAA/MPAA/DMCA information is talked about everyday.
I mean there's a lot of people who think that copyright infrindgement is stealing, so go figure.
did non-gov't organizations get the ability to tax people or even suggest a tax? Hell, I'd love to start a company and propose they tax the hell out of everyone and collect it. Considering that those "collectives" do not represent everyone, it seems quite unfair. I'd say boot them out just for thinking about it.
Yeah, the pimps got upset about Truckers having wireless pr0n, it was taking away from their prostitue sales. They lobbied the texas lawmakers to make sure that they'll stay in buisness for years to come under the "save the children at rest stops" campainge.
I've seen his flying car for years on the news. Every 2 or 3 years everyone forgets and they run another story. He's had his prototype tethered to a pole for years and it still hasn't left the ground except for a test run.
It's a neat concept, but i don't think it'll ever catch on. They constantly say that you don't need a pilots license for 400 feet or less then state that it's cruising altitute is 10,000 feet. That and when people start thinking about how terrorists can use this to bomb anything, it won't fly (except maybe on it's tether).
I don't understand why being a network admin allows me to whine a hell of a lot more than if i wasn't. If yer job is too hard for you, find another line of work.
How does the government installing wireless everywhere save you money? The government is paying for that with tax dollars. You remember taxes? Where the government takes your money and gives it to someone else?
I don't know. I'd rather see money being spent for the public good than going into someone else's pocket. When's the last time that gov't decided that it's taxing too much and they have too much of a surplus? Every form of Government will spend any surplus revenue on stupid projects just so they can ask for even more money next year. There's very little oversight.
Called Moo2, Starcontrol 2, the original mechwarrior. Tachyon the frindge is a good one too for a space action game, but all of those games (especially the first 2) hands down beats every space related game out there ever made.
I run my *OWN* mail server (as I have been doing for more than 8 years). It is for sending and receiving my own mail. It is my own property, about which I can decide how it is used for. It I do not want it to be used as a conduit for spam, it is my sole and only business, most importantly because the spammers are eating up the bandwidth I pay for out of my own pocket. If they would pay me the cost for the bandwidth they eat, I would not have as much a problem.
But they don't pay for the bandwidth that they are STEALING from me. It's MY bandwidth, not theirs.
Ok dude, look. If you bought a house right next to a horse farm then complained about the smell, you would be the same as you're doing right now. It's part of the internet. You email people for free (ok, so you have an email server. I'm pretty damn sure you don't pay for the relays to other email servers or the routers it goes through) and people can email you back for free. If you have a problem with paying for bandwidth, take it up with your ISP. Maybe you should think about connecting to a different network which has rules and regulations that won't allow people to spam you.
Let me put it to you in another way. People and organizations pay out of their own pocket to run routers and servers all over the world to be connected together. What right do you have to enforce rules on what they can and cannot do? The only thing you can do is control your own end of the network. Just by claiming that you pay money for internet service and certain people are making you pay for stuff you don't want doesn't mean that they're at fault. It's either you or your ISP. If everyone filtered out the spammers themselves, they would be out of buisness and we wouldn't have China asking to regulate the internet to protect us from the spam.
See where this leads you? "Yes, we'll enforce new laws to destroy the spammers out there. While we're at it, lets stifle free speech and political discussions and destroy the ability to be anonymous that has made the internet so great, but don't worry, we'll protect you from spam".
Unlike like the last 4039 spam which were shoved into your inbox, you actually, deliberately and willfully loaded the relevant Slashdot page into your browser. And by doing so, you fully accept all consequences that may occur to you by doing so, namely the loss of bandwidth, computer memory and time.
And you actually, deliberately and willfully connected to the internet this morning and by doing so, you fully accept all consequences that may occur to you by doing so, namely the loss of bandwidth, computer memory and time.
Think about that one.
What is illegal (or should be) with spam is not the fact that it is a communication, but the fact that it is done WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE RECEIVING PARTY, AND AT THE SOLE EXPENSE OF THE RECEIVING PARTY.
Hmm, you mean i have to authorize people to send me email? IMs? What you don't get is that I do fully understand that anything I do on the internet is at my sole expense. I don't associate value with a FREE SERVICE (email, Ims, any other form of communication on the internet). I pay for the connection, that does not give me the right to file for damages every time I don't like something that i receive. Just like a television, i filter out the content that i don't wish to get. It's that simple. Learn to use technology before crying to the government for help. And while I agree that spam is an issue on zombie machines, i don't believe in making laws to stop this. Just enforce the existing ones you already have and presto, problem solved. No need for more rules and regulations on something that isn't designed for either.
If Spam is a matter of theft of services and resources, then i make the claim that you're post is in fact waste of my time, my computer's time and the cost of power it takes to create such message on my monitor. I demand that you return to me in full the costs associated with the above resources and expenses i have incured.
Yeah, so that was a joke. Maybe i had to make that joke so that you can understand. Making spam or any other form of communication illegal is a violation of free speech. By allowing these laws to be approved because of the popularity allows other laws to regulate a resource that is not supposed to be regulated.
And i wouldn't use your example that most spam is illegally send through breached and trojaned computers as a reason why it should be outlawed. That same logic can be applied (and is currently) to just about anything. P2P is the perfect example.
ha. Yeah, you know there's a lot of expensive software out there. Some software is like $30,000. I doubt some highschool kid who d/led it beacuse it wanted to try it out can pay $60,000.
"I don't understand how people think that downloading cracked copies of software isn't stealing"
That's easy, because it's not stealing. It's copyright infrindgement.
"Maybe once the consequences of the actions get high enough, more people will stop"
Ohh, so you mean like drugs?
"I pay higher prices for software and music because of the rampant theft."
I love how people can say that since copies of software/music/movies aren't being sold that they are losing money somehow. No one is entitled to a profit.
"They are the ones that are causing the honest amongst us to have to jump through increasingly more difficult hoops to install, register and maintain our software"
And has that ever stopped anyone so far? From either copying said software or from you buying it?
"Simply make the people that are caught pay double the full retail price for each piece of stolen software. That should be discouraging enough and fits the crime."
To people who would not have bought it in the first place, yeah, that certainly fits the crime. Make them buy it twice! Maybe someday there's be lower prices all around (damn, you're living in a fantasy land there buddy).
What exactly is TV piracy? Is it a bunch of people getting onto a boat with sony tvs and stealing them?... or is it taping a show then sharing it with your friends? Exactly how is that illegal since it has been broadcasted? There is no monetary value to a show that has been recorded off the air. When did the copyright holders have the right to make sure that when it reached the show reached the TV that it would end there?
So what? I would love to see the fantasy math and faked statistics that they used to come to this number. Exactly how are you supposed to guess how many potential sales you would have lost in the future? Look at trends and then put a money count of the growth?
I'm sure the salesmen of horses lost many potential sales due to cars back in the day. Does it mean anything?
I think it's some space debris falling at a high angle. Metal in origin, a part of it would have survived through the atmosphere and traveled at high velocity, turned into a molten form and splashed down in the lake. As you can see, besides the flash (from the impact) there was steam from the water. The dark streak that was left behind was the burning of impurities in the metal itself. I bet if they took divers out to that location and checked the bottom of the floor they would find a fist full of metal that's fairly un-corroded from the rest of the junk there.
Am I looking at a series of awful jobs if I don't transfer?
You're in for a series of awful jobs whether you transfer or don't. The computer field is almost dead. The only good that can come out of transfering is networking with the kids from a more presteigous school. If you think what degree you have counts for a BS in computer science, think again.
I do have somewhat of a problem about this. While i don't agree with copyright infringements, i don't agree with Steam at all. I bought a copy of half-life. I play counter-strike. I wasn't very happy when i had to register my cd-key for half-life with an email just to play it. In fact, i was upset when my account was suddenly disabled. No warning, no anything. I checked the Steam webpage and it had some crap about being able to suspend acconuts for a year if they catch you cheating (hacking) in counterstrike.
Even though i wasn't hacking, they suspended my account. Not only could i not play any game (halflife singleplayer or otherwise) without steam anymore, there was no recourse (sent email out to them, no response at all) in order to try and get it resolved. I had to create another account with a friend of mine's cd key (was on his shelf for quite some time). I bought the damn game and they somehow reserved the right to prevent me from playing it.
Now how many of those "Pirates" had actually bought half-life and had active accounts under steam? Now they lose the ability to play it. I certainly won't be buying half-life 2 or anything else from valve until they learn that when they sell something they don't have the right to stop me from using it unless they'll give me a refund.
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Aren't you still violating the DMCA for bypassing protection wether or not the company told you how to bypass it? If they were being honest they would just remove it completely.
That way it can be claimed that you aren't re-broadcasting it. You're merely sending a copy to one or two other people.
You know. You bring up some valid points. However, If you merely did not issue visas to hostile foreign nationals i think that would make all your points moot. If you merely arrested or "detained" foreigners with expired visas that would also solve the problem. It's pretty simple to assume that if asked for identification and someone produces a visa, they are not a citizen. If they are not a citizen and the visa is expired, they should be deported. It's really not that mind bending to assume they would be, but they're not, hense what the "real ID" is made to fix will still be broken.
I personally don't really care too much about the having an all-in-one ID, however identify theft is so simple when there's RFIDs and smartcard readers that can pull all this information off of it. That and we'll be paying for all of this out of our pockets (paying for the new ID and being taxed for it). I don't see any security benefit for this other than everyone demanding it be shown wherever i go, and that's the issue i have with the idea.
In reality, knowing who you're flying with does nothing at all. You think that flying is more dangerous than riding a bus or train with other people. However all the shoe inspections in the world is not going to stop someone from taking over a plane. I feel so much safer that after some idiots took over a plane with box cutters no one is allowed to fly with those dangerous nail clippers.
Ohh, and to counter your argument, they have video survalence all over london, i guess that makes it right to start putting it everywhere. They use it to give tickets, prevent crime, and take pictures of people showering. Sounds like the right move to me ().
I'm thinking that most people aren't lawyers themselves and have no idea or the wrong idea how copyrights work since legal text is hard to come by and RIAA/MPAA/DMCA information is talked about everyday.
I mean there's a lot of people who think that copyright infrindgement is stealing, so go figure.
did non-gov't organizations get the ability to tax people or even suggest a tax? Hell, I'd love to start a company and propose they tax the hell out of everyone and collect it. Considering that those "collectives" do not represent everyone, it seems quite unfair. I'd say boot them out just for thinking about it.
Yeah, the pimps got upset about Truckers having wireless pr0n, it was taking away from their prostitue sales. They lobbied the texas lawmakers to make sure that they'll stay in buisness for years to come under the "save the children at rest stops" campainge.
It's a neat concept, but i don't think it'll ever catch on. They constantly say that you don't need a pilots license for 400 feet or less then state that it's cruising altitute is 10,000 feet. That and when people start thinking about how terrorists can use this to bomb anything, it won't fly (except maybe on it's tether).
I don't understand why being a network admin allows me to whine a hell of a lot more than if i wasn't. If yer job is too hard for you, find another line of work.
I don't know. I'd rather see money being spent for the public good than going into someone else's pocket. When's the last time that gov't decided that it's taxing too much and they have too much of a surplus? Every form of Government will spend any surplus revenue on stupid projects just so they can ask for even more money next year. There's very little oversight.
Called Moo2, Starcontrol 2, the original mechwarrior. Tachyon the frindge is a good one too for a space action game, but all of those games (especially the first 2) hands down beats every space related game out there ever made.
Ok dude, look. If you bought a house right next to a horse farm then complained about the smell, you would be the same as you're doing right now. It's part of the internet. You email people for free (ok, so you have an email server. I'm pretty damn sure you don't pay for the relays to other email servers or the routers it goes through) and people can email you back for free. If you have a problem with paying for bandwidth, take it up with your ISP. Maybe you should think about connecting to a different network which has rules and regulations that won't allow people to spam you.
Let me put it to you in another way. People and organizations pay out of their own pocket to run routers and servers all over the world to be connected together. What right do you have to enforce rules on what they can and cannot do? The only thing you can do is control your own end of the network. Just by claiming that you pay money for internet service and certain people are making you pay for stuff you don't want doesn't mean that they're at fault. It's either you or your ISP. If everyone filtered out the spammers themselves, they would be out of buisness and we wouldn't have China asking to regulate the internet to protect us from the spam.
See where this leads you? "Yes, we'll enforce new laws to destroy the spammers out there. While we're at it, lets stifle free speech and political discussions and destroy the ability to be anonymous that has made the internet so great, but don't worry, we'll protect you from spam".
Think about that one.
Hmm, you mean i have to authorize people to send me email? IMs? What you don't get is that I do fully understand that anything I do on the internet is at my sole expense. I don't associate value with a FREE SERVICE (email, Ims, any other form of communication on the internet). I pay for the connection, that does not give me the right to file for damages every time I don't like something that i receive. Just like a television, i filter out the content that i don't wish to get. It's that simple. Learn to use technology before crying to the government for help. And while I agree that spam is an issue on zombie machines, i don't believe in making laws to stop this. Just enforce the existing ones you already have and presto, problem solved. No need for more rules and regulations on something that isn't designed for either.Yeah, so that was a joke. Maybe i had to make that joke so that you can understand. Making spam or any other form of communication illegal is a violation of free speech. By allowing these laws to be approved because of the popularity allows other laws to regulate a resource that is not supposed to be regulated.
And i wouldn't use your example that most spam is illegally send through breached and trojaned computers as a reason why it should be outlawed. That same logic can be applied (and is currently) to just about anything. P2P is the perfect example.
ha. Yeah, you know there's a lot of expensive software out there. Some software is like $30,000. I doubt some highschool kid who d/led it beacuse it wanted to try it out can pay $60,000.
Ohh, so you mean like drugs?
I love how people can say that since copies of software/music/movies aren't being sold that they are losing money somehow. No one is entitled to a profit.And has that ever stopped anyone so far? From either copying said software or from you buying it?
To people who would not have bought it in the first place, yeah, that certainly fits the crime. Make them buy it twice! Maybe someday there's be lower prices all around (damn, you're living in a fantasy land there buddy).
You suckers got P0wned! Who the hell would donate money to a warez site? Whoever did is a complete sucker.
What exactly is TV piracy? Is it a bunch of people getting onto a boat with sony tvs and stealing them?... or is it taping a show then sharing it with your friends? Exactly how is that illegal since it has been broadcasted? There is no monetary value to a show that has been recorded off the air. When did the copyright holders have the right to make sure that when it reached the show reached the TV that it would end there?
a plugin that allows you to record nfl games? That would be sweet considering that Tivo doesn't allow it (suckers :P).
I'm sure the salesmen of horses lost many potential sales due to cars back in the day. Does it mean anything?
I think it's some space debris falling at a high angle. Metal in origin, a part of it would have survived through the atmosphere and traveled at high velocity, turned into a molten form and splashed down in the lake. As you can see, besides the flash (from the impact) there was steam from the water. The dark streak that was left behind was the burning of impurities in the metal itself. I bet if they took divers out to that location and checked the bottom of the floor they would find a fist full of metal that's fairly un-corroded from the rest of the junk there.
You're in for a series of awful jobs whether you transfer or don't. The computer field is almost dead. The only good that can come out of transfering is networking with the kids from a more presteigous school. If you think what degree you have counts for a BS in computer science, think again.
Even though i wasn't hacking, they suspended my account. Not only could i not play any game (halflife singleplayer or otherwise) without steam anymore, there was no recourse (sent email out to them, no response at all) in order to try and get it resolved. I had to create another account with a friend of mine's cd key (was on his shelf for quite some time). I bought the damn game and they somehow reserved the right to prevent me from playing it.
Now how many of those "Pirates" had actually bought half-life and had active accounts under steam? Now they lose the ability to play it. I certainly won't be buying half-life 2 or anything else from valve until they learn that when they sell something they don't have the right to stop me from using it unless they'll give me a refund.