"if they HAVE to violate our privacy, can't they do it to keep tabs on who downloads instructions for making nuclear bombs"
In the UK, they do exactly that: Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, every ISP or even operator of a private network (like a corporate LAN or a cybercafe) has to help the police by scanning their traffic for potential terrorist content. If they don't, it's five years in the slammer.
South Carolina has a similar law regarding child pornography.
Of course, if you're opposed to these laws, you must be a terrorist or a child molestor...
Is there actually any Linux antivirus software available? All the big security software vendors seem to be ignoring it, and I don't see any open-source antivirus projects either.
Most courts that I've been in (yeah, I'm a "criminal", like Dmitry...) have a very small public gallery. Will it really take that many people to "pack" it?
Of course, it's still worthwhile going, just to demonstrate outside. It'll be nice if the judge, lawyers and Dmitry himself get to see the huge public support he's garnered (among Internet geeks, at least). Maybe we can all greet him if he's actually bailed.
It's a pseudonym for a team of (quite knowledgeable, quite talented) writers. The guy who presents the TV show is just an actor. The story about Apple is completely false. (Jobs doesn't mind, of course --- it adds to the mythology.)
There was a front-page story in the WSJ a few years ago, about how InfoWorld, PBS and various freelance writers were locked in legal battles over who had rights to the name.
In many countries (like, say, the Netherlands) Marijuana posession is illegal, but the police choose not to prosecute it.
It's the same in the US: fellatio, sodomy and cunnilingus are illegal in many states, yet acts between consenting adults are rarely prosecuted. One southern state (can't remember which one) even banned inter-racial marriage until late last year, a law that was (sensibly) not enforced.
The gun crime (and overall crime) rate in Britain, and every other rich country that has gun control, is still way below that in the US. Of course, this doesn't mean that the US should just ban guns outright, for the simple reason that every criminal who wants one already has one.
Back to Sklyarov: The DMCA obviously violates the first ammendment, but there may be arguments that it violates the second, fourth ("the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers") and eighth ("excessive fines") too.
Regardless of the DMCA, Sklyarov's imprisonment definitely violates the sixth ("an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed", ie. Russia) and the eleventh ("the Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to...Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.")
Yes. Would any of us go to a foreign country and sit in one of their jails for up to 5 years in the hope of perhaps drawing attention to one of their unjust laws?
There are already civil cases working through the system that might (if the Supreme Court actually acts in an unbiased way) get the DMCA ruled unconstitutional, without anyone needing to be imprisoned.
Be careful. Your employer might fire you, then two years later prosecute and sue you for improper use of resources. If a second of CPU time is worth 59 cents, a number 2 pencil must be worth several thousand dollars.
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The irony is that the Elcomsoft product was more likely to increase ebook sales. Who's going to buy a "book" that's tied to one particular program installed on one particular PC? (Remember Divx?) Elcomsoft mereley restored the free use rights that ebook publishers can take away.
The EFF's objective isn't to embarrass the RIAA, gain money or even get its director charged with criminal acts (though all of those would be ncie). It's simply to have the DMCA tested against the First Ammendment, and so (iff the Supreme Court is fair --- a big iff, I admit) declared unconstitutional.
The Dmitry Sklyarov case might ultimately lead to the same thing, though I doubt that's much comfort to him as he rots in jail...
Yes, anyone can buy stock once it's listed on the exchange. Most dot-bomb floats in the US had the same rules: only US residents could apply for the IPO, but anyone could invest afterwards.
"If you fsck up, well... use windows. it won't kill you."
This demonstrates how far Linux still is from the mainstream. CmdrTaco was able to boot up Windows and use his scanner, but most users want to run only one OS. The average home user isn't going to migrate to Linux, then keep a spare Windows machine or partition around just in case of a fsck up.
As far as most users are concerned, the main advantage of Linux is that it's free (as in beer). But If you have to buy Windows anyway, s/he will ask, why not just run that instead?
He has two for "Brewed beverage maker with optical feedback system" (any beverage, not just coffee) and one for adding an antioxidant to coffee to keep it fresh.
Have the US patent examiners never read the ingredients list on a jar of instant coffee? Antioxidants have been added to nearly all processed foodstuffs (including coffee) for decades.
Better pay him a royalty for the cup I'm drinking now...
Sorry, I meant Orbcomm. Globalstar is the only LEO comsat operator that's managed *not* to file for bankruptcy.
Still, Metricom has a lot in common with Iridium: they both developed genuinely innovative technology that worked well, but the high costs of deployment them meant that they had to charge more than most potential customers were willing to pay.
Bankruptcy actually led to cheaper services for Iridium users, because the company that took over the system didn't have to pay for its construction. It could mean the same for Ricochet.
Bankruptcy is common in the wireless world, and doesn't necessarilly mean the end of the company or their service. Iridium kept going for several months after bankruptcy, then came back a year later. Globalstar did even better, emerging from Chapter 11 without affecting service.
I spend hours on Hotmail every day. I should switch to Yahoo instead (POP3 access), but my PC came with Outlook Express, which at the time allowed me to set up a Hotmail account and access it without going to the site. They got rid of that, so I now I have to manually click through all the different Hotmail addresses I've already given out to people.
BTW, *every one* of these top four also offer instant messaging. Perhaps having an AIM window open counts as spending time at AOL's site.
Ashamed to admit it, but I once bought a copy of Windows. By Ballmer's philosophy, I have the right to modify it (say, by replacing the startup screen with my own message instead of those irritating clouds), make as many copies as I like and sell them for profit.
Humans first met the Borg in the twenty-FIRST century, in the movie "First Contact". So it's perfectly reasonable that Seven's family would know about them, even if their first "official" contact with Starfleet wasn't until Picard's time.
Blocking advertising is not stealing. If I wasn't to respond to the advertising anyway, I actually save the advertisers' time and money by not loading it from them. Do you think that going to the bathroom or channel surfing during TV commercials is stealing? What about watching the advertising yet not buying the products? That might also be considered stealing.
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In the UK, they do exactly that: Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act, every ISP or even operator of a private network (like a corporate LAN or a cybercafe) has to help the police by scanning their traffic for potential terrorist content. If they don't, it's five years in the slammer.
South Carolina has a similar law regarding child pornography.
Of course, if you're opposed to these laws, you must be a terrorist or a child molestor...
For script kiddies who don't want to be bothered with the detailes, there's even a Windows program that automates the process.
Is there actually any Linux antivirus software available? All the big security software vendors seem to be ignoring it, and I don't see any open-source antivirus projects either.
Of course, it's still worthwhile going, just to demonstrate outside. It'll be nice if the judge, lawyers and Dmitry himself get to see the huge public support he's garnered (among Internet geeks, at least). Maybe we can all greet him if he's actually bailed.
Remember, criminalize the act (spamming), not the tool (writing software that might be used by spammers).
It's a pseudonym for a team of (quite knowledgeable, quite talented) writers. The guy who presents the TV show is just an actor. The story about Apple is completely false. (Jobs doesn't mind, of course --- it adds to the mythology.)
There was a front-page story in the WSJ a few years ago, about how InfoWorld, PBS and various freelance writers were locked in legal battles over who had rights to the name.
It's the same in the US: fellatio, sodomy and cunnilingus are illegal in many states, yet acts between consenting adults are rarely prosecuted. One southern state (can't remember which one) even banned inter-racial marriage until late last year, a law that was (sensibly) not enforced.
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Back to Sklyarov: The DMCA obviously violates the first ammendment, but there may be arguments that it violates the second, fourth ("the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers") and eighth ("excessive fines") too.
Regardless of the DMCA, Sklyarov's imprisonment definitely violates the sixth ("an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed", ie. Russia) and the eleventh ("the Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to...Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.")
There are already civil cases working through the system that might (if the Supreme Court actually acts in an unbiased way) get the DMCA ruled unconstitutional, without anyone needing to be imprisoned.
Be careful. Your employer might fire you, then two years later prosecute and sue you for improper use of resources. If a second of CPU time is worth 59 cents, a number 2 pencil must be worth several thousand dollars.
The irony is that the Elcomsoft product was more likely to increase ebook sales. Who's going to buy a "book" that's tied to one particular program installed on one particular PC? (Remember Divx?) Elcomsoft mereley restored the free use rights that ebook publishers can take away.
The Dmitry Sklyarov case might ultimately lead to the same thing, though I doubt that's much comfort to him as he rots in jail...
Yes, anyone can buy stock once it's listed on the exchange. Most dot-bomb floats in the US had the same rules: only US residents could apply for the IPO, but anyone could invest afterwards.
This demonstrates how far Linux still is from the mainstream. CmdrTaco was able to boot up Windows and use his scanner, but most users want to run only one OS. The average home user isn't going to migrate to Linux, then keep a spare Windows machine or partition around just in case of a fsck up.
As far as most users are concerned, the main advantage of Linux is that it's free (as in beer). But If you have to buy Windows anyway, s/he will ask, why not just run that instead?
For more than a year, ORBS claimed that MAPS wanted to go commercial. MAPS consistently denied this. Now, as soon as ORBS is gone...
Have the US patent examiners never read the ingredients list on a jar of instant coffee? Antioxidants have been added to nearly all processed foodstuffs (including coffee) for decades.
Better pay him a royalty for the cup I'm drinking now...
Still, Metricom has a lot in common with Iridium: they both developed genuinely innovative technology that worked well, but the high costs of deployment them meant that they had to charge more than most potential customers were willing to pay.
Bankruptcy actually led to cheaper services for Iridium users, because the company that took over the system didn't have to pay for its construction. It could mean the same for Ricochet.
Bankruptcy is common in the wireless world, and doesn't necessarilly mean the end of the company or their service. Iridium kept going for several months after bankruptcy, then came back a year later. Globalstar did even better, emerging from Chapter 11 without affecting service.
BTW, *every one* of these top four also offer instant messaging. Perhaps having an AIM window open counts as spending time at AOL's site.
Ashamed to admit it, but I once bought a copy of Windows. By Ballmer's philosophy, I have the right to modify it (say, by replacing the startup screen with my own message instead of those irritating clouds), make as many copies as I like and sell them for profit.
Son of Star Wars won't work, of course, but the threat alone might put off more than a few customers.
Humans first met the Borg in the twenty-FIRST century, in the movie "First Contact". So it's perfectly reasonable that Seven's family would know about them, even if their first "official" contact with Starfleet wasn't until Picard's time.
Blocking advertising is not stealing. If I wasn't to respond to the advertising anyway, I actually save the advertisers' time and money by not loading it from them. Do you think that going to the bathroom or channel surfing during TV commercials is stealing? What about watching the advertising yet not buying the products? That might also be considered stealing.
It's not a state monopoly, it's a privatised monopoly. More like the new gangster-maffia Russia than the old Soviet Union.