You're correct, except when it comes to the public broadcast spectrum which is the only one that is applicable here.
Remember that part of the purpose of the public broadcast system is the Emergency Broadcast System. Isn't it wonderfull to know that now only authorized owners of licensed devices will have access to emergency information broadcasts?
Not copyrighted music or movies. That would be copyright infringment and play right into the enemies hands.
Serve public domain information. Serve your own copyrighted information. Mirror Project Gutenberg. If you can't mirror the entire project, choose some appropriate selections:
The Federalist Papers
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
Poor Richard's Almanac
Crap, write a cron job to pull the latest copy of the Federal Register and serve that.
Make a significant body of non-infringing file-sharing content and it will then be impossible for any court to enforce an anti-P2P law. Serve content that is undeniably public and so patriotic that Congress will have an uphill battle to outlaw it.
Imagine the headline: Congress bans publishing the Constitution. What citizen^Hvoter would not respond with "You did What?!?!?".
This is exactly how it needs to be put to your elected representatives.
The FCC's media consolidation rules where overturned by Congress because of public outcry. That was strike 1.
The 9th curcuit court overruled the FCC's decision that cable providers where not internet service providers. That was strike 2.
Educate your congressman and senators about how this will delay Congress's mandate that TV be all digital by 2006, how it will restrict free speech (broadcast flag on presidential debates anyone?), and how it will most affect those with lesss financial resources.
Make this strike 3. It is time for Congress to slap down hard on the FCC whose first responsibility is to the citizens, not to the "content providers".
I believe the original poster is correct, but I've been searching since the broadcast flag discussion came up for an actual reference. The FCC's site is one of the least communicative sites I've ever seen.</irony>. There's tons of "speeches" and "statements", but if there's any actual regulations there, I can't find 'em.
Other organizations do encrypt over the "public spectrum", but not the "broadcast (TV & radio) spectrum". I believe the original argument was not only that it's a public resource, but that it was a part of the "Emergency Broadcast System". A scrambled message that the Russians were sending nukes our way wouldn't be helpful to the whole public, would it?
Of course, a lot of regulations have been slipped through since those days, so I, too, would like a reference. The fact is that the airwaves are our's, and I would like for them to stay that way.
The Ninth Circuit Court today overruled the FCC's designation of the
cable broadband as an information service and rightly classified it as
a communication service.
The cable industries foray into the internet has made them capable of
providing Voice over IP, fax over IP and every other service that a
regulated communication's company provides. Exempting the cable
internet service providers from the same regulation as traditional
telecommunications providers is bad for competition and bad for
consumers.
The FCC decided against the public in it's media consolidation rules
and has been overruled by the voice of the people and the U.S.
Congress. Consumer rights groups and informed consumers are equally
upset over the FCC's decision to support the cable industries' monopoly
over the promotion of consumer choice and improved competition.
I urge the FCC, and Mr. Powel in particular to drop this case now. An
appeal will only result in the further expenditure of taxpayers' money
to fight a cause that the Ninth Circuit just won for them. An appeal will
only only result in another consumer backlash casting an even darker
shadow over the FCC regarding who it truly represents, industry or
citizens.
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The article is discussing GPS tracking of volunteer pedophiles. From the article:
'To be able to have "Talk down" with an offender because he is in a high-risk area and likely to offend is the single most effective control measure that be applied,' Crosby added
IOW, pedophiles that don't want to offend again, but feel they may be tempted in some situations can be given a optional program where assistance is available to help them control their "urge".
This is called "rehabilitation", a concept that seems regretably foreign to the Department of Corrections.
Even more surprising, it saves money:
Wyre said the new technology was far cheaper than the current tagging devices used to enforce curfews and probation orders which costs around 500 per offender each month.
So, everyone either a) don't read the article, b) misunderstand what it says, c) misrepresent the technology used and then condemn a pilot program that is trying to help pedophiles help themselves with lower cost to the taxpayer and lower risk to the community at large. After all, this is/. It's our right to be wrong out of ignorance and adamantly maintain that ignorance regardless of what the referenced article says!
If anyone's interested, the presentation also shows Looking Glass 3D desktop and compatibility demonstrations using Office documents from Microsoft's website.
Really? I couldn't tell since Mozilla goes into some evil "Detecting Plugins" logic and does absolutely nothing. I guess they're not looking to current Linux users as potential customers....
Whether someone else prevents it from spreading or not is irrelevant to me - only I have the ability to prevent it from attacking me.
Really? Tell me how I could have prevented the 4,152 (and counting...) copies of SoBig and it's associated bounces that (would) have ended up in my pine mailbox. If I had been on vacation and not had a chance to write a procmail filter, my mailbox would have been DoS'ed.
Even if you assume I should have known an email virus would sooner later assault my mailbox
(a true assumption, btw), how can you possibly assume that I'd know in advance what signature to look for in order to prevent it from affecting me?
Even if you take that leap, say I only allow incoming mail from known good, unforged sources, doesn't the incoming barrage still constitute an attack? You may be able to prevent an attack from succeeding, but you cannot prevent an attack from occuring.
Your points on practicality and free speech stand, however.
Why should software require a different consumers' organization? Pick almost any of these, become active and promote this as just another facet of consumer protection. Because it is.
Any attempt to form a "Software Consumer's Organization" will have a BSA bullseye painted on it in a heartbeat. It would be far more exciting to see the Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing and Electronic Commerce (AAFTEC) decide that current software licensing practices are deceptive, fraudulent and unfair to consumers.
Unless you know of a way to enter the BIOS without pressing a key he did agree to the license because he read it, then pressed a key. Nothing on the screen indicated that if you reboot before pressing a key, then you don't agree. There is simply no way to turn it on on and get around the agreeing if you don't know it's there.
Now, thanks to this unfortunate person's experience, we can all buy Dell's and make sure we don't see the screen. I fact whenever I get any new computer, the first thing I'm going to do is "check out" the BIOS settings.
I wasn't trying to start a political debate, mostly because its so obvious how far we've strayed from the Federalist Papers conception of consitutional intent. I was just trying to blast the popular conception that we have a "right to defend" ourselves from muggers and burglarers, but not from the government itself. Your comments simply underscore that point.
We have strayed so far away from a "government by the people" that it would likely take another revolution to get it back. And since those revolutionaries would be hopelessy outgunned and the majority of the citizenry have accepted their re-branding as "consumers" it's just not gonna happen.
But if a peacefull revolution could occur I would debate whether replacing the current administration with one from the other major political party would make any difference at all. The primary motivation of both major parties at this point is to keep any other party from being able to successfully challenge their monopoly on power through such things as free access to ballots, federally funded campaigns, state funded political primaries, etc., etc., etc.
A third party (or even better, a "non-party*") is our only chance. "Vote for "Anyone Else".
* Note that registering as an "Independent" in most states means you belong to the party formed for George Wallace's presidential campaign. If you want to step outside party boundaries, ask your supervisor of elections how to register with "no party preference".
"The right to bear arms" != "The right of personal defense"
What would a person blow up with it?
The seat of government? I dunno, what do you think the government should blow up with it?
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. -- Thomas Jefferson
If the "tyranny in government" has nuclear warheads, how can we protect ourselves from it without the right to equal arms?
No, I don't think the indiscrimate ownership of nuclear warheads is a good idea, but I'll bet if protesting the robbing of the peoples' right to a public commons of intellectual rights by the virtually unlimited extension of copyrights and the ludicrous patentability of business processes was performed by peacefully, and legally, circling a thousand tanks around congress, it would make a point.
And it would be crystal clear.
Like the water true patriots dumped perfectly good tea in one time.
The best way to keep a government subserviant to the people is to make sure the people have the means to force it to be. Not the other way around.
p.s. I don't own guns and I don't like guns but I will defend to the death the right of American citizens to have and to keep them. I want somebody on my side armed when the revolution comes.
Outstanding, except your title should be "Let's look at this correctly." The transaction is called a "sale". There are no contracts involved, therefore there are NO licenses involved. The fact that this question was even posed suggests the **AA are doing an excellent PR job at obfuscating copyright law in such a way as to bludgeon their customers with FUD about what they can and cannot do with something they own.
First problem: buying all those shares will drive the stock price up. It would have to be done slowly, a few at a time and when the stock is as low as it would seem reasonable to buy. It could take a long time but not necessarily as long as the legal battle.
Second problem: If "an organization" tries to tackle this, there are certain procedures and filings that have to take place if you intend to buy some percentage of stock. IANALOSA (IANAL Or Stock Analyst). I don't know what the rules are, but I know there are rules. We could still buy small amounts of shares each, and maybe develop a "community of shareholders with similar interests" (where collective shares are tallied so we know where we stand, etc.) but there are probably rules for that, too. (There's always rules.....). Plus, it puts us squarely in the public eye and there's no telling what that would do to the stock price. I suppose we could all sign over the shares at some future point to a properly formed and chartered.org, but we had damn well better have legal advice first.
Third Problem: None of us wants to throw money away. Trying to convinc e a million or so people to chip in a few bucks to take on SCO's debts and pay for executive parachutes is a tough sell. Everyone on/. has been bitching about "these companies" not being able to come up with a survivable business model for open source. This is an opportunity for us to quit bitching, figure one out, and instead of trashing the company turn it around to embrace open source (somehow, GPL or not) and actually make money on the transaction. Now that would motivate participation.
So the biggest problem I see is how to organize such an assault without a "real" organization.
What message would it send? I don't know. If we could take a shark tank and somehow figure out how to make a profit while "serving the public good" (we all know that corporations are, in fact, chartered to serve the public good, NOT just to line shareholders pockets, right?), we could actually transform corporate cultural dynamics in the marketplace. You know, where people do business with a company because they actually like their products and services and appreciate the fact that their purchases actually give back to the public good...
Still, it would be a nice gamble to give it a shot. But we still need that business model thing to give it some practical motivation. I'm all ears.
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Like when you want to log into another system and run GVIM.
Slightly OT, but in GVIM
:e scp://remotehost//path/to/file
Same with http, ftp, rcp. Try:help scp
Great when you don't want to maintail gvim for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX,....
You don't suppose there's a possibility that he was setting up a strawman to be knocked down with:
"Far from being a particularly unethical generation, the file-sharing Americans of the Napster era may be no more or less moral than those that came before. They may well be willing to pay for their entertainment -- if the quality is guaranteed and the price is fair.".
I had the same problem reading the first book. I found it tedious, slow and boring. Now, however, I absolutely love the "books" and so do most of the adults I've told this secret too. Most of us have gone through them multiple times. Don't tell anyone else, though, 'cause I'm one of the few people who walked into Borders Saturday evening and got The Phoenix without reserving a copy*.
Here's the secret: Get them in audio form read by Grammy award winner (nominated for 3 of the books [so far] and winner for The Goblet of Fire)
Jim Dale on either cassette or CD. (CD's better 'cause it's easier to rip to you PDA.) After 15 minutes, you know every character by their "voice" and his characterizations come through more fully and completely than the films could possibly approach.
His reading of these books simply delightful.
* I refused to reserve the CD because the pre-release info did not say "read by Jim Dale".
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have a link for reference?
Remember that part of the purpose of the public broadcast system is the Emergency Broadcast System . Isn't it wonderfull to know that now only authorized owners of licensed devices will have access to emergency information broadcasts?
Not copyrighted music or movies. That would be copyright infringment and play right into the enemies hands.
Serve public domain information. Serve your own copyrighted information. Mirror Project Gutenberg. If you can't mirror the entire project, choose some appropriate selections:
- The Federalist Papers
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Constitution
- Poor Richard's Almanac
Crap, write a cron job to pull the latest copy of the Federal Register and serve that.Make a significant body of non-infringing file-sharing content and it will then be impossible for any court to enforce an anti-P2P law. Serve content that is undeniably public and so patriotic that Congress will have an uphill battle to outlaw it.
Imagine the headline: Congress bans publishing the Constitution. What citizen^Hvoter would not respond with "You did What?!?!?".
The FCC's media consolidation rules where overturned by Congress because of public outcry. That was strike 1.
The 9th curcuit court overruled the FCC's decision that cable providers where not internet service providers. That was strike 2.
Educate your congressman and senators about how this will delay Congress's mandate that TV be all digital by 2006, how it will restrict free speech (broadcast flag on presidential debates anyone?), and how it will most affect those with lesss financial resources.
Make this strike 3. It is time for Congress to slap down hard on the FCC whose first responsibility is to the citizens, not to the "content providers".
Absolutely not! No jury in the world would convict. All you have to do is plead insanity...
Other organizations do encrypt over the "public spectrum", but not the "broadcast (TV & radio) spectrum". I believe the original argument was not only that it's a public resource, but that it was a part of the "Emergency Broadcast System". A scrambled message that the Russians were sending nukes our way wouldn't be helpful to the whole public, would it?
Of course, a lot of regulations have been slipped through since those days, so I, too, would like a reference. The fact is that the airwaves are our's, and I would like for them to stay that way.
The Ninth Circuit Court today overruled the FCC's designation of the cable broadband as an information service and rightly classified it as a communication service.
The cable industries foray into the internet has made them capable of providing Voice over IP, fax over IP and every other service that a regulated communication's company provides. Exempting the cable internet service providers from the same regulation as traditional telecommunications providers is bad for competition and bad for consumers.
The FCC decided against the public in it's media consolidation rules and has been overruled by the voice of the people and the U.S. Congress. Consumer rights groups and informed consumers are equally upset over the FCC's decision to support the cable industries' monopoly over the promotion of consumer choice and improved competition.
I urge the FCC, and Mr. Powel in particular to drop this case now. An appeal will only result in the further expenditure of taxpayers' money to fight a cause that the Ninth Circuit just won for them. An appeal will only only result in another consumer backlash casting an even darker shadow over the FCC regarding who it truly represents, industry or citizens.
- 'To be able to have "Talk down" with an offender because he is in a high-risk area and likely to offend is the single most effective control measure that be applied,' Crosby added
IOW, pedophiles that don't want to offend again, but feel they may be tempted in some situations can be given a optional program where assistance is available to help them control their "urge".This is called "rehabilitation", a concept that seems regretably foreign to the Department of Corrections.
Even more surprising, it saves money:
- Wyre said the new technology was far cheaper than the current tagging devices used to enforce curfews and probation orders which costs around 500 per offender each month.
So, everyone either a) don't read the article, b) misunderstand what it says, c) misrepresent the technology used and then condemn a pilot program that is trying to help pedophiles help themselves with lower cost to the taxpayer and lower risk to the community at large. After all, this isReally? I couldn't tell since Mozilla goes into some evil "Detecting Plugins" logic and does absolutely nothing. I guess they're not looking to current Linux users as potential customers....
Didn't you just violate the MS EULA that says "Thou shalt not publish .NET benchmarking statistics"?
Really? Tell me how I could have prevented the 4,152 (and counting...) copies of SoBig and it's associated bounces that (would) have ended up in my pine mailbox. If I had been on vacation and not had a chance to write a procmail filter, my mailbox would have been DoS'ed.
Even if you assume I should have known an email virus would sooner later assault my mailbox (a true assumption, btw), how can you possibly assume that I'd know in advance what signature to look for in order to prevent it from affecting me?
Even if you take that leap, say I only allow incoming mail from known good, unforged sources, doesn't the incoming barrage still constitute an attack? You may be able to prevent an attack from succeeding , but you cannot prevent an attack from occuring .
Your points on practicality and free speech stand, however.
Any attempt to form a "Software Consumer's Organization" will have a BSA bullseye painted on it in a heartbeat. It would be far more exciting to see the Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing and Electronic Commerce (AAFTEC) decide that current software licensing practices are deceptive, fraudulent and unfair to consumers.
Now, thanks to this unfortunate person's experience, we can all buy Dell's and make sure we don't see the screen. I fact whenever I get any new computer, the first thing I'm going to do is "check out" the BIOS settings.
We have strayed so far away from a "government by the people" that it would likely take another revolution to get it back. And since those revolutionaries would be hopelessy outgunned and the majority of the citizenry have accepted their re-branding as "consumers" it's just not gonna happen.
But if a peacefull revolution could occur I would debate whether replacing the current administration with one from the other major political party would make any difference at all. The primary motivation of both major parties at this point is to keep any other party from being able to successfully challenge their monopoly on power through such things as free access to ballots, federally funded campaigns, state funded political primaries, etc., etc., etc.
A third party (or even better, a "non-party*") is our only chance. "Vote for "Anyone Else".
* Note that registering as an "Independent" in most states means you belong to the party formed for George Wallace's presidential campaign. If you want to step outside party boundaries, ask your supervisor of elections how to register with "no party preference".
(Score: -4 -- completely and randomly off-topic)
What would a person blow up with it?
The seat of government? I dunno, what do you think the government should blow up with it?
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. -- Thomas Jefferson
If the "tyranny in government" has nuclear warheads, how can we protect ourselves from it without the right to equal arms?
No, I don't think the indiscrimate ownership of nuclear warheads is a good idea, but I'll bet if protesting the robbing of the peoples' right to a public commons of intellectual rights by the virtually unlimited extension of copyrights and the ludicrous patentability of business processes was performed by peacefully, and legally, circling a thousand tanks around congress, it would make a point.
And it would be crystal clear.
Like the water true patriots dumped perfectly good tea in one time.
The best way to keep a government subserviant to the people is to make sure the people have the means to force it to be. Not the other way around.
p.s. I don't own guns and I don't like guns but I will defend to the death the right of American citizens to have and to keep them. I want somebody on my side armed when the revolution comes.
So if you haven't signed an NDA, you better stop looking at the source code in your own distribution. Good luck making patch sets! MuHaHaHA....
Outstanding, except your title should be "Let's look at this correctly." The transaction is called a "sale". There are no contracts involved, therefore there are NO licenses involved. The fact that this question was even posed suggests the **AA are doing an excellent PR job at obfuscating copyright law in such a way as to bludgeon their customers with FUD about what they can and cannot do with something they own.
For those that did not understand the parent comment's discussion, I'll link again to U.S. Code Title 17, section 106.
Read it. Study it. Understand it. It is the contract you agree to when you don't agree to any contract.
Second problem: If "an organization" tries to tackle this, there are certain procedures and filings that have to take place if you intend to buy some percentage of stock. IANALOSA (IANAL Or Stock Analyst). I don't know what the rules are, but I know there are rules. We could still buy small amounts of shares each, and maybe develop a "community of shareholders with similar interests" (where collective shares are tallied so we know where we stand, etc.) but there are probably rules for that, too. (There's always rules.....). Plus, it puts us squarely in the public eye and there's no telling what that would do to the stock price. I suppose we could all sign over the shares at some future point to a properly formed and chartered .org, but we had damn well better have legal advice first.
Third Problem: None of us wants to throw money away. Trying to convinc e a million or so people to chip in a few bucks to take on SCO's debts and pay for executive parachutes is a tough sell. Everyone on /. has been bitching about "these companies" not being able to come up with a survivable business model for open source. This is an opportunity for us to quit bitching, figure one out, and instead of trashing the company turn it around to embrace open source (somehow, GPL or not) and actually make money on the transaction. Now that would motivate participation.
So the biggest problem I see is how to organize such an assault without a "real" organization.
What message would it send? I don't know. If we could take a shark tank and somehow figure out how to make a profit while "serving the public good" (we all know that corporations are, in fact, chartered to serve the public good, NOT just to line shareholders pockets, right?), we could actually transform corporate cultural dynamics in the marketplace. You know, where people do business with a company because they actually like their products and services and appreciate the fact that their purchases actually give back to the public good...
Still, it would be a nice gamble to give it a shot. But we still need that business model thing to give it some practical motivation. I'm all ears.
Slightly OT, but in GVIM
:e scp://remotehost//path/to/file
Same with http, ftp, rcp. TryGreat when you don't want to maintail gvim for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, ....
I value my freedom, don't you?
There is: vCalendar.
Telnet's bloated. All those IAC whatevers... Use netcat.
"Far from being a particularly unethical generation, the file-sharing Americans of the Napster era may be no more or less moral than those that came before. They may well be willing to pay for their entertainment -- if the quality is guaranteed and the price is fair.".
Naah... Just another RIAA shill.
Here's the secret: Get them in audio form read by Grammy award winner (nominated for 3 of the books [so far] and winner for The Goblet of Fire) Jim Dale on either cassette or CD. (CD's better 'cause it's easier to rip to you PDA.) After 15 minutes, you know every character by their "voice" and his characterizations come through more fully and completely than the films could possibly approach.
His reading of these books simply delightful.
* I refused to reserve the CD because the pre-release info did not say "read by Jim Dale".