I still can't figure out how the authors of WinRAR and CDRWin make any money, either, being that piracy is their primary raison d^etre, as well.
Oh, come on. That's just trolling, fair and simple. There are plenty of legitimate uses of compression and CD-burning. For example, by the end of the year, I will have myself a low-cost non-realtime video editing system with a DVD player for playback. I will be using CDs to create 'mini-DVDs', which are CDs with DVD data on them. Perfect for small snippets of video like news opens, backgrounds, etc. Also a perfectly legitimate use for the technology, since the video I would be burning would be my own.
Of course, Sony's going to kill it--why would the people who developed the PSX need outside help in emulating it?
I'm not saying that they won't kill it, but if they decide not to, they don't have to develop the software from scratch - someone else has already done that. All they have to do is tweak it and fix the bugs, and with the original programmers, that will be a lot easier than if they just got the source. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I used to work for a tiny community ISP, and I had a hand in drawing up the TOS. One of the points I made was that we weren't a common carrier, and therefore had the luxury of picking and choosing our clients. I was completely content to drop somebody for using racist epithets on a web page, never mind the kind of concentrated evil we're talking about here. There are some people whose money I literally don't want to touch.
If I understand the law correctly (but IANAL), when you do that, you are liable for any content on your system. So if one of your clients put up a seemingly innocent page with links to kiddie porn on a hidden, unlinked page, then you would be liable. That's why aiming for 'common carrier' status would be preferable, because in order to prevent illegal activites, you would literally have to monitor every bit of your users' access. Don't want anything to slip through, you know. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
If the USPS advertised a "Priority Mail Letter Bomb" package ("When he absolutely, positively, has to die"), then yes, after the police caught the bomber I'd go after the carrier.
And if AOL advertised similarly in this case ("You've got kiddie porn!") then yes, I would go after AOL. But I highly doubt AOL would be that stupid. Corporations can be stupid sometimes but not that bad.
Her argument was that AOL was aware of this and allowed it to continue. Some of my local TV stations run "community classifieds" and that sort of thing. Does WKPT have a similar program, and would it knowingly accept an ad for child pornography? If it had done so unwittingly, would it remove the ad when it was brought to the station's attention?
Yes, we do have a 'community bulletin board' (as a matter of fact, I produce it each week). The difference between WKPT and AOL is that you have to go through the station to get something on the air, while anyone can post anything through AOL without having to send it in and have it posted by someone at AOL. That makes WKPT a whole lot more liable for stuff like this than AOL. And yes, if somehow a highly criminal event was posted, it would be removed. We're not that stupid.
I still can't justify going after AOL for this.
_______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Everybody looks for someone to blame when anything happens. Two AOL subscribers trade kiddie porn, sue AOL. What's next, suing the telcos when somebody calls you up and says 'FUCK YOU'? Suing the US Postal Service because somebody sends a bomb through the mail?
That's the biggest problem in the world - blame-shifting. You heard me, blame-shifting. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
If your CDs are stolen, that's your PHYSICAL property being stolen... the physical object you paid $15 for. Buy another one, them's the breaks; or get insurance.
Ok, let me extend your example...let's say I make CD-R's of all my CD's, as my form of "insurance", and carry one or two with me in the car. Is that any different than what you described, with the added value that my original is safely tucked away at home? _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I completely agree. I don't understand why people are so resistant to having the ability to catch criminals. What they concerned them is the vigilance required to ensure that the laws that one can be punished for remain reasonable.
Because these type of laws restricting technology can (and have) been abused. Big example - the DMCA. If you've been following the DeCSS case, you know that it's the same type deal - only it's a law that was bought by the MPAA.
The internet is public domain. If we obviously want the cops to patrol the streets, shouldn't we want them to protect people on the net as well?
A private conversation on the street is comparable to using PGP and neither is outlawed. However, an illegal verbal act (threatening someone for example) is illegal to do on the street, and should likewise be illegal in a public chatroom.
Okay, fine. There are laws covering this in meatspace, correct? Apply them to the Internet only to those connected where the law applies. No need to make more laws to cover the same stuff for a different medium. We don't have different laws for print, TV, radio, and in-person.
What are the "slipery slope" issues that I'm missing here? I don't mind if my web traffic is monitored, as long as the info is not used commercially.
You know that link on/. you clicked a couple of days ago that was actually www.goatse.cx? Well, the authorities saw that, and since sodomy is still illegal in many areas, they will likely come to your house with a warrant for your arrest. That's the slippery slope.
Just because it doesn't affect you now doesn't mean it won't affect you later. Remember that.
_______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Quite frankly, I don't blame them, either. I wouldn't want to spend thousands of dollars on a TV show just to have some punk kid record it and 'share' it with a few thousand of his closest friends. The copies that are now in peoples possession are lost income for the industry- they could have been sold to people for profit.
Oh, yeah. When was the last time you bought a show from the owner just because you missed it? You probably called up a friend and asked, "Hey, did you tape <whatever> last night? You did? Lemme borrow it!"
I guess that all free, unfettered, unsanctioned digital video tools should now be illegal, since I can use bbMPEG and VirtualDub to edit and recompress a show, all to send it out 'willy-nilly' over the net! _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
What would be illegal, and very bad, is for someone to copy it and put it up on the internet. And just watch- it will happen. HDTV was never intended to have shows off of it canned and passed out on the net like acid at a phish concert.
So to prevent this, you're going to remove legal rights afforded to U.S. citizens by copyright law, all because some lamer sends out copies of last week's Survivor to his friends. Those friends probably have dial-up access (at best, DSL or cable) so it would literally take hours and hours to transfer 150-300MB files around.
It's funny - analog never had this type stuff (unless you count Macrovision, which is defeatable by a 'video stabilizer' or if you have access to one, a full fledged time-base corrector). And yet the content providers never bitched about people copying stuff and sending it out to any and all who want it (except at the very beginning when Sony released Betamax). All these so-called 'copy-protections' do is make it harder for the average Joe - not the wholesale pirate across the street - to do with the content what the law expressly permits. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
The livelihood of everyone involved in the creation and broadcasting of the signal. If you decide to h4x0r it, then the reprocussions will be bad for all of us- the people who earn their living from it, and us, the consumers of their product.
So content providers should be able to disable recording of off-air signals? Bullshit. The signal is free to anyone with an antenna, so the signal should be free to record. Time-shifting is a legal right that the Betamax case precedented. I can understand (somewhat) no recording off pay channels (HBO and the like) but not on free, off-air signals. That's just wrong.
By copying into a digital format that can be distributed around the internet ad hoc, they have to make it secure so you can't just send your 5,000 closest friends copies. This is bad for everyone, since copy protection is a hassle at best, and makes it impossible to watch at worst (see: DVD region codes).
By copying into a digital format that can be edited and re-edited with no loss of quality, I can edit out commercials and have a nice library of The Simpsons on CD-R. Just because I want to record a signal esn't mean I'm automatically going to send it out to hundreds. Oh, and sure you can transfer this stuff over the net, but who really has that kind of bandwidth? Even recompressing with MPEG-4 results in largish file sizes - the average DivX-compressed movie is 600-700MB. Let's say that's two hours long. Therefore, a 30-minute show, sans-commercials (which usually comes out to about 22-23 minutes) will take up approximately 1/4th that (forgiving bitrate differences, keyframe intervals, etc) which means that one episode of The Simpsons will be roughly 150MB. Not easy to transfer, even with broadband (ever tried leeching stuff with a cable modem? Sure it's always on but it still takes a while). Now multiply that by the number of episodes out there and the number goes up exponentially.
Compressed digital video (and it's all usually compressed, unless you're working with a Video Toaster NT or other D1 equipment) is not small enough to shuttle over the net ad hoc. Hell, compressed digital audio is barely small enough.
Unless the content providers get the 10 foot long red hot poker out of their foot, they will kill HDTV. Nobody will spend the money for the quality if they can't timer-record Friends to watch after they get off work. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Care for another example? How about VCRs? The majority of the VCR-purchasing audience was completely unaware of Macromedia protection schemes. Hell, many people still are. That doesn't stop them from buying them.
Small nitpick, but it's Macrovision. Macromedia is the creator of Shockwave and Flash.
_______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...and should be avoided at any costs. Myself, I haven't signed a non-compete nor will I ever.
I work at the local ABC affiliate. About 2 weeks before New Years' Day 2k, we were told that there were going to be 16 people laid off at the beginning of the year because of a sales agreement with the NBC affiliate. I wasn't present in the room myself, but I was told that all 16 were brought into a conference room and coerced into signing non-competes. Some of the 16 (I think all but 4 or 5) were hired by the NBC affiliate, but the rest either didn't want to work for them or weren't wanted. One of those people wanted to apply at the CBS affiliate afterwards, at which time they were turned down because of the non-compete. He told me that he was under duress to sign the non-compete and that he was going to take them to court, but I don't know if he actually did or not.
Moral of the story? Don't sign non-competes. Period. Even if it means you have to look somewhere else for a job. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...then the studios should have to pay this tax on all their CD's too. Otherwise, it stifles competition because independent artists have to pay the RECORDING INDUSTRY to create independent content.
Oh wait. That's the way they want it. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
The problem with this is that it allows them to go after anybody with a similar process. Sure, they very well may decide to let us play over here, or they may decide to come into our sandbox and plop their name on our sand castle. The mere possibility that they may do this is enough to shoot the patent down, IMO. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I don't mean free as in Napster, I mean free as in the artist gives the music away.
For example, there is a collection of over 10,000 Commodore 64 SID tunes available, all of which have been given to the C64 community by their authors. If I decide to set up a stream which contains this music, should I have to pay to the RIAA?
And before the argument comes up: yes, there are some covers included, but 99% of the music is original. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
They probably don't know how to disable file sharing (or they enabled when they started Napster once, since it bugs you about file sharing EVERY TIME YOU LAUNCH NAPSTER). _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I'm not going to retype the entire thing, but
feel free to read my view of this whole thing about the history. Maybe there's some work to be done, but it can't be that much (granted, I'm not a C programmer). _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Gore knows what he's talking about if you listen to him. When he was talking about having to get children to install filter programs. He does understand the problem. Histories can be easily wiped. And what about those internet applicances that don't have histories? Have you even seen any of those?
My idea is to integrate browser history with the parental control settings, which when activated would make the history read-only. That way, if the parent actually takes time to learn enough about the browser to use the parental controls, they already have a log of what their kids have been visiting.
And of course, filters are hideously broken. And who's to say that shielding kids from violence is good for them? Maybe if they were to encounter violence, their parents could sit down and say, 'Son, there is a lot of violence in the world. You will see it in movies, on TV, just about everywhere. This doesn't make it right.' Maybe then, parents could take responsibility for their kids back from the government, because when government intervenes they invariably step on someone else's toes.
Yet another reason to vote Libertarian.
_______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Gore just asks that they keep track of web requests from their machine, which can rather easily be done.
Why put more responsibility on the ISP when it is a small code addition to any browser to integrate the history into the other parental control settings, to make it read-only. Of course this means parents actually have to learn about the parental control settings of their browser of choice (which is more than likely IE), which completely goes against the New American Way of letting the government set rules for everybody to live by and values that should be instilled in every kid, whether or not the parents agree with those values.
Yet another reason to vote Libertarian. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...because the feature he wants is integral to every browser and is called 'History'.
And I know this is probably highly redundant, but I was up last night watching the replay of the debate and when Gore said this, I was infuriated. Bush isn't any better, supporting mandatory flawed filter software on public computers.
It's just one more reason to vote for Harry Browne. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
If you look at periods of time when you had massive unrestricted use of drugs (look at the 19th century England/America to see some good examples).
Before 1914 in America, there was no 'drug problem'. The first anti-drug laws in this country were based on racism (criminalize opium for the Chinese, marijuana for the Blacks). Since then, the anti-drug laws have been used to put non-violent, casual marijuana smokers in jail, taking up room that could be better used to hold violent criminals.
Control of drugs has been a good thing.
No it hasn't. Control of drugs has brought criminal actions within the realm of the otherwise law-abiding users (not all users).
Control of drugs has made it possible for the police to invade your life if they have the slightest idea that you might be toking up.
Control of drugs caused a 61-year old man in Lebanon, TN to be shot to death during a raid of the wrong house.
Getting stoned out of your gord and becomming insanely addicted to something and the social, political, societal, health, etc ramifactions of such were quite bad hence legislation.
Give me proof that smoking weed is addictive. Give me proof that smoking weed leads to other drugs as a fact.
I don't know about you but I don't see too many opioum addicts roming around today.
I don't know about you but I don't see too many marijuana addicts roaming around today. I see people who might smoke weed after work to relax. I see people who smoke marijuana in the company of other consenting adults. I see people who lead great lives, whose only crime is to smoke a plant that grows naturally in the world. I see people like myself, who have a great job (20 yrs old and I'm a newscast director), who like the effects that cannabis gives them.
If you want to see your rights eroded away one at a time, vote for Bush or Gore. If you want to see control of your life returned to you, vote Harry Browne.
Disclaimer: I am not paid by, or personally involved with Harry Browne in any way. I just believe in everything he and the Libertarian Party stands for. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Wrongo. I have the patent on scrollbars. I've got a few phone calls to return from Redmond, WA. Maybe I can give you a call too? It even covers scrollbars that haven't been used yet.
Device: Scrollbar
Abstract
Covering a device displayed on a video screen or other electronic display which has the function of changing the position of the viewable area of information displayed inside of a window based on the vertical, horizontal, or diagonal position of said device. May also be controlled by buttons that move said device vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Buttons may or may not be labeled as to their function, and may be physical or onscreen. _______ Scott Jones Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
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- I still can't figure out how the authors of WinRAR and CDRWin make any money, either, being that piracy is their primary raison d^etre, as well.
Oh, come on. That's just trolling, fair and simple. There are plenty of legitimate uses of compression and CD-burning. For example, by the end of the year, I will have myself a low-cost non-realtime video editing system with a DVD player for playback. I will be using CDs to create 'mini-DVDs', which are CDs with DVD data on them. Perfect for small snippets of video like news opens, backgrounds, etc. Also a perfectly legitimate use for the technology, since the video I would be burning would be my own.- Of course, Sony's going to kill it--why would the people who developed the PSX need outside help in emulating it?
I'm not saying that they won't kill it, but if they decide not to, they don't have to develop the software from scratch - someone else has already done that. All they have to do is tweak it and fix the bugs, and with the original programmers, that will be a lot easier than if they just got the source._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- I used to work for a tiny community ISP, and I had a hand in drawing up the TOS. One of the points I made was that we weren't a common carrier, and therefore had the luxury of picking and choosing our clients. I was completely content to drop somebody for using racist epithets on a web page, never mind the kind of concentrated evil we're talking about here. There are some people whose money I literally don't want to touch.
If I understand the law correctly (but IANAL), when you do that, you are liable for any content on your system. So if one of your clients put up a seemingly innocent page with links to kiddie porn on a hidden, unlinked page, then you would be liable. That's why aiming for 'common carrier' status would be preferable, because in order to prevent illegal activites, you would literally have to monitor every bit of your users' access. Don't want anything to slip through, you know._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- If the USPS advertised a "Priority Mail Letter Bomb" package ("When he absolutely, positively, has to die"), then yes, after the police caught the bomber I'd go after the carrier.
And if AOL advertised similarly in this case ("You've got kiddie porn!") then yes, I would go after AOL. But I highly doubt AOL would be that stupid. Corporations can be stupid sometimes but not that bad.- Her argument was that AOL was aware of this and allowed it to continue. Some of my local TV stations run "community classifieds" and that sort of thing. Does WKPT have a similar program, and would it knowingly accept an ad for child pornography? If it had done so unwittingly, would it remove the ad when it was brought to the station's attention?
Yes, we do have a 'community bulletin board' (as a matter of fact, I produce it each week). The difference between WKPT and AOL is that you have to go through the station to get something on the air, while anyone can post anything through AOL without having to send it in and have it posted by someone at AOL. That makes WKPT a whole lot more liable for stuff like this than AOL. And yes, if somehow a highly criminal event was posted, it would be removed. We're not that stupid.I still can't justify going after AOL for this.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Everybody looks for someone to blame when anything happens. Two AOL subscribers trade kiddie porn, sue AOL. What's next, suing the telcos when somebody calls you up and says 'FUCK YOU'? Suing the US Postal Service because somebody sends a bomb through the mail?
That's the biggest problem in the world - blame-shifting. You heard me, blame-shifting.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Disclaimer: I have not read the article yet, I am just skimming through /., but this topic caught my eye.
I read that sentence as comparing the original HD signal with the encoded one.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
It's just a number, doesn't mean shit.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- I completely agree. I don't understand why people are so resistant to having the ability to catch criminals. What they concerned them is the vigilance required to ensure that the laws that one can be punished for remain reasonable.
Because these type of laws restricting technology can (and have) been abused. Big example - the DMCA. If you've been following the DeCSS case, you know that it's the same type deal - only it's a law that was bought by the MPAA.- The internet is public domain. If we obviously want the cops to patrol the streets, shouldn't we want them to protect people on the net as well?
A private conversation on the street is comparable to using PGP and neither is outlawed. However, an illegal verbal act (threatening someone for example) is illegal to do on the street, and should likewise be illegal in a public chatroom.
Okay, fine. There are laws covering this in meatspace, correct? Apply them to the Internet only to those connected where the law applies. No need to make more laws to cover the same stuff for a different medium. We don't have different laws for print, TV, radio, and in-person.- What are the "slipery slope" issues that I'm missing here? I don't mind if my web traffic is monitored, as long as the info is not used commercially.
You know that link onJust because it doesn't affect you now doesn't mean it won't affect you later. Remember that.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Quite frankly, I don't blame them, either. I wouldn't want to spend thousands of dollars on a TV show just to have some punk kid record it and 'share' it with a few thousand of his closest friends. The copies that are now in peoples possession are lost income for the industry- they could have been sold to people for profit.
Oh, yeah. When was the last time you bought a show from the owner just because you missed it? You probably called up a friend and asked, "Hey, did you tape <whatever> last night? You did? Lemme borrow it!"I guess that all free, unfettered, unsanctioned digital video tools should now be illegal, since I can use bbMPEG and VirtualDub to edit and recompress a show, all to send it out 'willy-nilly' over the net!
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- What would be illegal, and very bad, is for someone to copy it and put it up on the internet. And just watch- it will happen. HDTV was never intended to have shows off of it canned and passed out on the net like acid at a phish concert.
So to prevent this, you're going to remove legal rights afforded to U.S. citizens by copyright law, all because some lamer sends out copies of last week's Survivor to his friends. Those friends probably have dial-up access (at best, DSL or cable) so it would literally take hours and hours to transfer 150-300MB files around.It's funny - analog never had this type stuff (unless you count Macrovision, which is defeatable by a 'video stabilizer' or if you have access to one, a full fledged time-base corrector). And yet the content providers never bitched about people copying stuff and sending it out to any and all who want it (except at the very beginning when Sony released Betamax). All these so-called 'copy-protections' do is make it harder for the average Joe - not the wholesale pirate across the street - to do with the content what the law expressly permits.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- The livelihood of everyone involved in the creation and broadcasting of the signal. If you decide to h4x0r it, then the reprocussions will be bad for all of us- the people who earn their living from it, and us, the consumers of their product.
So content providers should be able to disable recording of off-air signals? Bullshit. The signal is free to anyone with an antenna, so the signal should be free to record. Time-shifting is a legal right that the Betamax case precedented. I can understand (somewhat) no recording off pay channels (HBO and the like) but not on free, off-air signals. That's just wrong.- By copying into a digital format that can be distributed around the internet ad hoc, they have to make it secure so you can't just send your 5,000 closest friends copies. This is bad for everyone, since copy protection is a hassle at best, and makes it impossible to watch at worst (see: DVD region codes).
By copying into a digital format that can be edited and re-edited with no loss of quality, I can edit out commercials and have a nice library of The Simpsons on CD-R. Just because I want to record a signal esn't mean I'm automatically going to send it out to hundreds. Oh, and sure you can transfer this stuff over the net, but who really has that kind of bandwidth? Even recompressing with MPEG-4 results in largish file sizes - the average DivX-compressed movie is 600-700MB. Let's say that's two hours long. Therefore, a 30-minute show, sans-commercials (which usually comes out to about 22-23 minutes) will take up approximately 1/4th that (forgiving bitrate differences, keyframe intervals, etc) which means that one episode of The Simpsons will be roughly 150MB. Not easy to transfer, even with broadband (ever tried leeching stuff with a cable modem? Sure it's always on but it still takes a while). Now multiply that by the number of episodes out there and the number goes up exponentially.Compressed digital video (and it's all usually compressed, unless you're working with a Video Toaster NT or other D1 equipment) is not small enough to shuttle over the net ad hoc. Hell, compressed digital audio is barely small enough.
Unless the content providers get the 10 foot long red hot poker out of their foot, they will kill HDTV. Nobody will spend the money for the quality if they can't timer-record Friends to watch after they get off work.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Care for another example? How about VCRs? The majority of the VCR-purchasing audience was completely unaware of Macromedia protection schemes. Hell, many people still are. That doesn't stop them from buying them.
Small nitpick, but it's Macrovision. Macromedia is the creator of Shockwave and Flash._______
Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Like I said, I don't know much of the nitty-gritty details, I wasn't in the room.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...and should be avoided at any costs. Myself, I haven't signed a non-compete nor will I ever.
I work at the local ABC affiliate. About 2 weeks before New Years' Day 2k, we were told that there were going to be 16 people laid off at the beginning of the year because of a sales agreement with the NBC affiliate. I wasn't present in the room myself, but I was told that all 16 were brought into a conference room and coerced into signing non-competes. Some of the 16 (I think all but 4 or 5) were hired by the NBC affiliate, but the rest either didn't want to work for them or weren't wanted. One of those people wanted to apply at the CBS affiliate afterwards, at which time they were turned down because of the non-compete. He told me that he was under duress to sign the non-compete and that he was going to take them to court, but I don't know if he actually did or not.
Moral of the story? Don't sign non-competes. Period. Even if it means you have to look somewhere else for a job.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...on Pricewatch for $259... load up now while you can.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...then the studios should have to pay this tax on all their CD's too. Otherwise, it stifles competition because independent artists have to pay the RECORDING INDUSTRY to create independent content.
Oh wait. That's the way they want it.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
The problem with this is that it allows them to go after anybody with a similar process. Sure, they very well may decide to let us play over here, or they may decide to come into our sandbox and plop their name on our sand castle. The mere possibility that they may do this is enough to shoot the patent down, IMO.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I don't mean free as in Napster, I mean free as in the artist gives the music away.
For example, there is a collection of over 10,000 Commodore 64 SID tunes available, all of which have been given to the C64 community by their authors. If I decide to set up a stream which contains this music, should I have to pay to the RIAA?
And before the argument comes up: yes, there are some covers included, but 99% of the music is original.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
They probably don't know how to disable file sharing (or they enabled when they started Napster once, since it bugs you about file sharing EVERY TIME YOU LAUNCH NAPSTER).
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
I'm not going to retype the entire thing, but feel free to read my view of this whole thing about the history. Maybe there's some work to be done, but it can't be that much (granted, I'm not a C programmer).
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Gore knows what he's talking about if you listen to him. When he was talking about having to get children to install filter programs. He does understand the problem. Histories can be easily wiped. And what about those internet applicances that don't have histories? Have you even seen any of those?
My idea is to integrate browser history with the parental control settings, which when activated would make the history read-only. That way, if the parent actually takes time to learn enough about the browser to use the parental controls, they already have a log of what their kids have been visiting.And of course, filters are hideously broken. And who's to say that shielding kids from violence is good for them? Maybe if they were to encounter violence, their parents could sit down and say, 'Son, there is a lot of violence in the world. You will see it in movies, on TV, just about everywhere. This doesn't make it right.' Maybe then, parents could take responsibility for their kids back from the government, because when government intervenes they invariably step on someone else's toes.
Yet another reason to vote Libertarian.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- Gore just asks that they keep track of web requests from their machine, which can rather easily be done.
Why put more responsibility on the ISP when it is a small code addition to any browser to integrate the history into the other parental control settings, to make it read-only. Of course this means parents actually have to learn about the parental control settings of their browser of choice (which is more than likely IE), which completely goes against the New American Way of letting the government set rules for everybody to live by and values that should be instilled in every kid, whether or not the parents agree with those values.Yet another reason to vote Libertarian.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
...because the feature he wants is integral to every browser and is called 'History'.
And I know this is probably highly redundant, but I was up last night watching the replay of the debate and when Gore said this, I was infuriated. Bush isn't any better, supporting mandatory flawed filter software on public computers.
It's just one more reason to vote for Harry Browne.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
- If you look at periods of time when you had massive unrestricted use of drugs (look at the 19th century England/America to see some good examples).
Before 1914 in America, there was no 'drug problem'. The first anti-drug laws in this country were based on racism (criminalize opium for the Chinese, marijuana for the Blacks). Since then, the anti-drug laws have been used to put non-violent, casual marijuana smokers in jail, taking up room that could be better used to hold violent criminals.- Control of drugs has been a good thing.
No it hasn't. Control of drugs has brought criminal actions within the realm of the otherwise law-abiding users (not all users).Control of drugs has made it possible for the police to invade your life if they have the slightest idea that you might be toking up.
Control of drugs caused a 61-year old man in Lebanon, TN to be shot to death during a raid of the wrong house.
- Getting stoned out of your gord and becomming insanely addicted to something and the social, political, societal, health, etc ramifactions of such were quite bad hence legislation.
Give me proof that smoking weed is addictive. Give me proof that smoking weed leads to other drugs as a fact.- I don't know about you but I don't see too many opioum addicts roming around today.
I don't know about you but I don't see too many marijuana addicts roaming around today. I see people who might smoke weed after work to relax. I see people who smoke marijuana in the company of other consenting adults. I see people who lead great lives, whose only crime is to smoke a plant that grows naturally in the world. I see people like myself, who have a great job (20 yrs old and I'm a newscast director), who like the effects that cannabis gives them.If you want to see your rights eroded away one at a time, vote for Bush or Gore. If you want to see control of your life returned to you, vote Harry Browne.
Disclaimer: I am not paid by, or personally involved with Harry Browne in any way. I just believe in everything he and the Libertarian Party stands for.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT
Wrongo. I have the patent on scrollbars. I've got a few phone calls to return from Redmond, WA. Maybe I can give you a call too? It even covers scrollbars that haven't been used yet.
Device: Scrollbar
Abstract
Covering a device displayed on a video screen or other electronic display which has the function of changing the position of the viewable area of information displayed inside of a window based on the vertical, horizontal, or diagonal position of said device. May also be controlled by buttons that move said device vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Buttons may or may not be labeled as to their function, and may be physical or onscreen.
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Scott Jones
Newscast Director / ABC19 WKPT