except that I'm pretty sure a "user" can mean a device or piece of software. So your non-DRM-compliant TV and your DRM removing software are not authorized users, hence not fair use.
I agree, they shouldn't be classified as an importer, but my problem is that the DMCA allows other laws to be twisted into strange things. So, maybe if you straight download a file you can't be classified as an importer, but what if you download it into the shared directory of your P2P software and automatically share it with other americans? Or what if you download it with BitTorrent? Since the DMCA makes what the foreign distributor is doing a felony, are you aiding a felon? What if they decide to impound your computers, etc. as evidence against the foreign distributor for a year or two?
What if net neutrality doesn't go our way? Can/must the telcos provide 1 bit/day bandwidth from any non-DMCA-compliant countries?
Should we be relying on another country's lack of stupid laws to preserve our country's freedoms?
Just because it is illegal to create or distribute a tool in the US (it is, after all a US law, and despite parochial ideas otherwise, does not apply to the rest of the world), that does not make it illegal to receive such a tool from a foreign source.
By contrast, since the fair use doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a work, the act of circumventing a technological measure in order to gain access is prohibited.
So, if for example the media is encrypted, then I don't have authorized access to the physical sound/video data (except by circumventing the DRM, which is ILLEGAL). So how do I legally make a copy? Patch Windows Media Player? Yeah sounds like fun. But I'm sure there's some clause in my Media Player license that says I agree not to do that, and next week Microsoft will not let me install any updates when it is detected.
But the real POINT is, Joe Schmoe cannot exercise his fair use rights since distributing a tool or patch which allows someone to break DRM to make a fair use copy is illegal (according to the following paragraph which I won't quote, since as you so kindly pointed out it is easily available).
RTFL. It does indeed make an exception for circumvention for the purposes of fair use. However, this only applies to the actual person doing doing the circumvention. The distribution of tools to circumvent copyright protection technology is still illegal. So, going back to the circumvention of Adobe's DRM in Acrobat for use by the blind, none of the blind people using it (assuming they had legally obtained the copyrighted works in question) were breaking the law...only the person who gave them the software.
By this same reasoning, there is nothing illegal about circumventing CSS to rip a DVD you own to your iPod. However, you are expected to write your own tool to do so; nobody else is allowed to distribute it to you.
Right so my point is that it is effectively illegal. Is marijuana legal in the US? Ask anyone, and the answer is NO. Why? Will you be arrested for having a few joints? Not in most cases. Will you be arrested for smoking it? Not in most cases. Will you be arrested for buying it? Not in most cases. But, its generally illegal to grow, sell, have in large quantities, etc. "Grow your own pot" is not a generally feasible & perfectly legal solution (e.g., if you change jobs), so pot is effectively illegal.
The DMCA is the same way, it is effectively illegal to mess with any DRM, and on top of that even then the general consensus is that even if you're writing the code yourself the DMCA's fair use "copying" exemption does not work because you often need unauthorized access to make the copy, and fair use is NOT an excuse to have unauthorized access.
the DMCA does not have a fair use exemption. If it did, I don't think anyone would care about the DMCA, and people like the guy who was arrested for making an Acrobat reader for blind people, etc. would not have been bothered.
If it is indeed allowed to do this, then where is the LEGAL software to do things that are "fair use" with DRM'd data? It doesn't exist.
I think the idea is (hopefully) that they set a good example, and then eventually everyone up & down the supply chain will ALSO do this, which in turn makes the whole thing even in terms of carbon, etc.
I think the point is when there are 500 gauze pads soaked in blood, it is hard and time-consuming to peel them all apart and accurately count them.
It seems a simpler solution than RFID is just to embed an oddly-shaped piece of metal or something in everything they are going to use for the surgery, and then give you a good old X-ray, and look for bright, weird-shaped things on the X-ray. Of course, you should still attempt to manually count in addition...
I thought one of the advantages of using a pcmcia 3G card is that the antenna is physically sticking out of the laptop, giving both a better signal and reducing the possibly cancer-causing radiation your lap/hands are exposed to. So when 3G is integrated, is the antenna placed for example at the top back of the LCD screen, maximizing the distance between you and the transmissions (and probably eliminating some interference from all the other electronics)? None of the specs seem to mention this...
If its in a bad place, then you're stuck with a 3G device within inches of your hands and family jewels for significant lengths of time... I'd rather a bluetooth phone so I can put it on the seat next to me or something.
They didn't let me take it (on the way back home), I had to mail it to myself from the LAS airport post office, then go back thru the security line (which took ~20 mins).
From personal experience, 2 weeks ago I flew from PHL to LAS, and on the *return* trip, the screener at LAS noticed my carry-on had a leatherman in it (which I had mistakenly had in the bag the entire trip!). When I got on the plane, I hear the guy in the row in front of me telling the guy sitting next to him about how the same thing had just happened to him!
Now I know who waits in line at 5am at CircuitCity to get the $40 after rebate HDDs! You should be ashamed CmdrTaco, come back when your measly 1/4 to 1/2 TB doubles every ten months.
I don't know the details, but Dr. Ray Crist at the college I went to worked on getting algea to clean up heavy metals since like the 70's until he passed away last year at the age of 105. Hopefully more people will work on this type of stuff... I don't think it takes a rocket scientist... though it probably helps that Dr. Crist was the director of the Manhattan Project for a time.
In short, did you notice how truveu.com has a place where you you can submit RSS video feeds? That's odd, their visual crawling isn't good enough to find them itself?
I did read the article and a good portion of the truveo website. All I found was marketing speak about how they "visually crawl" the internet and how they visually interpret surrounding content.
Regardless of what they do to interpret the pages & video, it boils down to the fact that they are extracting information content from the pages/videos, indexing them, and searching them. Just because its video, which is the hot topic of the month, doesn't mean it is special.
Interpreting video and speech is nothing new, there are 1000's of ways to extract info... Do they do it a little faster? maybe. Are they really doing hardcore interpretation (i.e., there's a tree in the video or the text "tree" is displayed in the video, so add tree to the extracted info)? Yeah right. Do they index & search it better than yahoo, google, etc.? Doubtful. Are they doing special interpretation of pages to see what is visually next to the videos? Maybe, but search engines have been doing this for years (giving more points to things which render in a large font, etc.) So, my question remains, what are they doing that is so awesome?
truveo.com is basically google image but for video... Take google's image search crawler logic, replace jpg with mpg (or rather wmv or flash...) and voila. explain why truveo.com is so awesome?
They also offer "naked" (no phone service required) for $30/mo at least in northeast US. Tell Comcast or our cable provider that you're going to switch to Verizon's DSL and they'll give you a little schpeel about how "the fan" is so awesome, then they'll agree to pricematch the $30/mo.
So this seems comparable to other countries... so this whole article is overblown.
eating more fiber (in convenient pill form) also helps. Since we're supposed to have ~10-20g of fiber a day and most people get ~2g if they're lucky, its no wonder some people's insides get ticked off about it.
Basically, it lets the individual cells be very simple. An ant in an ant colony has only very basic, localized senses and a tiny brain. But, lots of ants cooperating using very well-designed but simple behaviors can collaborate to do much more complicated things, like find the shortest path to a food source, etc.
So, these skin cells can be very simple and not be programmed in advance with how to handle each and every possible failure combination. Instead, through their cooperation they can (in theory) figure out what the best thing is to do. The trouble is that it is hard to perfect the local rules needed to produce the emergent behavior that you want.
Nope, they're not. I'm on comcast and I just tried, it works fine. I'd have to reconfigure my outbound mail, but I think they should block outgoing port 25 for home users though. They should then force you to either use a non-standard port or tunnel it, or use their smtp server.
The first 2 options assume you are aware port 25 is blocked but manually want to enable it, and they can't stop it anyway, so no big deal there.
If they otherwise make everyone go thru their smtp server (by blocking outbound port 25), they should monitor each user's count, and kill their entire internet connection if they send 10000+/day or whatever.
What they should NOT do, however, is redirect any port 25 traffic THRU their smtp server automatically. That just makes things more complicated for no reason.
do the nano switches get bumped into some new position? I imagine a new wave of computer pranks, walking over to your friend's PC or nanoswitch memory card and giving it a good shake.
The warning label will read "keep away from mechanical paint mixers".
If the Senators authoring the bill are *US* Senators, then it is obvious to say that is isn't just California which is considering recycling fees. I haven't read the article linked in the story but the story doesn't even make sense.
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except that I'm pretty sure a "user" can mean a device or piece of software. So your non-DRM-compliant TV and your DRM removing software are not authorized users, hence not fair use.
I agree, they shouldn't be classified as an importer, but my problem is that the DMCA allows other laws to be twisted into strange things. So, maybe if you straight download a file you can't be classified as an importer, but what if you download it into the shared directory of your P2P software and automatically share it with other americans? Or what if you download it with BitTorrent? Since the DMCA makes what the foreign distributor is doing a felony, are you aiding a felon? What if they decide to impound your computers, etc. as evidence against the foreign distributor for a year or two?
What if net neutrality doesn't go our way? Can/must the telcos provide 1 bit/day bandwidth from any non-DMCA-compliant countries?
Should we be relying on another country's lack of stupid laws to preserve our country's freedoms?
Uh, that would be called "importing". See title 17, section 1201, (a)(2) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/u
Just because people aren't arrested for it doesn't mean its not illegal. Its more of an enforcement problem, but thats not my point.
So, if for example the media is encrypted, then I don't have authorized access to the physical sound/video data (except by circumventing the DRM, which is ILLEGAL). So how do I legally make a copy? Patch Windows Media Player? Yeah sounds like fun. But I'm sure there's some clause in my Media Player license that says I agree not to do that, and next week Microsoft will not let me install any updates when it is detected.
But the real POINT is, Joe Schmoe cannot exercise his fair use rights since distributing a tool or patch which allows someone to break DRM to make a fair use copy is illegal (according to the following paragraph which I won't quote, since as you so kindly pointed out it is easily available).
Right so my point is that it is effectively illegal. Is marijuana legal in the US? Ask anyone, and the answer is NO. Why? Will you be arrested for having a few joints? Not in most cases. Will you be arrested for smoking it? Not in most cases. Will you be arrested for buying it? Not in most cases. But, its generally illegal to grow, sell, have in large quantities, etc. "Grow your own pot" is not a generally feasible & perfectly legal solution (e.g., if you change jobs), so pot is effectively illegal.
The DMCA is the same way, it is effectively illegal to mess with any DRM, and on top of that even then the general consensus is that even if you're writing the code yourself the DMCA's fair use "copying" exemption does not work because you often need unauthorized access to make the copy, and fair use is NOT an excuse to have unauthorized access.
the DMCA does not have a fair use exemption. If it did, I don't think anyone would care about the DMCA, and people like the guy who was arrested for making an Acrobat reader for blind people, etc. would not have been bothered.
If it is indeed allowed to do this, then where is the LEGAL software to do things that are "fair use" with DRM'd data? It doesn't exist.
I think the idea is (hopefully) that they set a good example, and then eventually everyone up & down the supply chain will ALSO do this, which in turn makes the whole thing even in terms of carbon, etc.
I think the point is when there are 500 gauze pads soaked in blood, it is hard and time-consuming to peel them all apart and accurately count them.
It seems a simpler solution than RFID is just to embed an oddly-shaped piece of metal or something in everything they are going to use for the surgery, and then give you a good old X-ray, and look for bright, weird-shaped things on the X-ray. Of course, you should still attempt to manually count in addition...
you'll get member pages at xanga as #3, myspace as #4
I thought one of the advantages of using a pcmcia 3G card is that the antenna is physically sticking out of the laptop, giving both a better signal and reducing the possibly cancer-causing radiation your lap/hands are exposed to. So when 3G is integrated, is the antenna placed for example at the top back of the LCD screen, maximizing the distance between you and the transmissions (and probably eliminating some interference from all the other electronics)? None of the specs seem to mention this...
If its in a bad place, then you're stuck with a 3G device within inches of your hands and family jewels for significant lengths of time... I'd rather a bluetooth phone so I can put it on the seat next to me or something.
They didn't let me take it (on the way back home), I had to mail it to myself from the LAS airport post office, then go back thru the security line (which took ~20 mins).
There have been tons of news stories about the high number of misses. I remember recently that the FBI or sometplace had tested whether suspicious objects were detected by the TSA and none were. Plus, you've got stories about fake bombs that were missed: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11863165/ and http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CWU/is _2004_Dec_16/ai_n8577062
From personal experience, 2 weeks ago I flew from PHL to LAS, and on the *return* trip, the screener at LAS noticed my carry-on had a leatherman in it (which I had mistakenly had in the bag the entire trip!). When I got on the plane, I hear the guy in the row in front of me telling the guy sitting next to him about how the same thing had just happened to him!
Very reassuring indeed.
I think the 1 woman who reads slashdot was not amused.
Can I buy Pund-IT on eBay along with my regular "It"?
Seriously, when he's got some sort of reputation, does he expect people to introduce him as a "Pund-IT Analyst"? Lame
Now I know who waits in line at 5am at CircuitCity to get the $40 after rebate HDDs! You should be ashamed CmdrTaco, come back when your measly 1/4 to 1/2 TB doubles every ten months.
I don't know the details, but Dr. Ray Crist at the college I went to worked on getting algea to clean up heavy metals since like the 70's until he passed away last year at the age of 105. Hopefully more people will work on this type of stuff... I don't think it takes a rocket scientist... though it probably helps that Dr. Crist was the director of the Manhattan Project for a time.
In short, did you notice how truveu.com has a place where you you can submit RSS video feeds? That's odd, their visual crawling isn't good enough to find them itself?
I did read the article and a good portion of the truveo website. All I found was marketing speak about how they "visually crawl" the internet and how they visually interpret surrounding content.
Regardless of what they do to interpret the pages & video, it boils down to the fact that they are extracting information content from the pages/videos, indexing them, and searching them. Just because its video, which is the hot topic of the month, doesn't mean it is special.
Interpreting video and speech is nothing new, there are 1000's of ways to extract info... Do they do it a little faster? maybe. Are they really doing hardcore interpretation (i.e., there's a tree in the video or the text "tree" is displayed in the video, so add tree to the extracted info)? Yeah right. Do they index & search it better than yahoo, google, etc.? Doubtful. Are they doing special interpretation of pages to see what is visually next to the videos? Maybe, but search engines have been doing this for years (giving more points to things which render in a large font, etc.) So, my question remains, what are they doing that is so awesome?
truveo.com is basically google image but for video... Take google's image search crawler logic, replace jpg with mpg (or rather wmv or flash...) and voila. explain why truveo.com is so awesome?
They also offer "naked" (no phone service required) for $30/mo at least in northeast US. Tell Comcast or our cable provider that you're going to switch to Verizon's DSL and they'll give you a little schpeel about how "the fan" is so awesome, then they'll agree to pricematch the $30/mo.
So this seems comparable to other countries... so this whole article is overblown.
eating more fiber (in convenient pill form) also helps. Since we're supposed to have ~10-20g of fiber a day and most people get ~2g if they're lucky, its no wonder some people's insides get ticked off about it.
Basically, it lets the individual cells be very simple. An ant in an ant colony has only very basic, localized senses and a tiny brain. But, lots of ants cooperating using very well-designed but simple behaviors can collaborate to do much more complicated things, like find the shortest path to a food source, etc.
So, these skin cells can be very simple and not be programmed in advance with how to handle each and every possible failure combination. Instead, through their cooperation they can (in theory) figure out what the best thing is to do. The trouble is that it is hard to perfect the local rules needed to produce the emergent behavior that you want.
Nope, they're not. I'm on comcast and I just tried, it works fine. I'd have to reconfigure my outbound mail, but I think they should block outgoing port 25 for home users though. They should then force you to either use a non-standard port or tunnel it, or use their smtp server.
The first 2 options assume you are aware port 25 is blocked but manually want to enable it, and they can't stop it anyway, so no big deal there.
If they otherwise make everyone go thru their smtp server (by blocking outbound port 25), they should monitor each user's count, and kill their entire internet connection if they send 10000+/day or whatever.
What they should NOT do, however, is redirect any port 25 traffic THRU their smtp server automatically. That just makes things more complicated for no reason.
the drag & drop to re-arrange the sections on your personalized page is slick.
do the nano switches get bumped into some new position? I imagine a new wave of computer pranks, walking over to your friend's PC or nanoswitch memory card and giving it a good shake.
The warning label will read "keep away from mechanical paint mixers".
If the Senators authoring the bill are *US* Senators, then it is obvious to say that is isn't just California which is considering recycling fees. I haven't read the article linked in the story but the story doesn't even make sense.