Just because a law is unenforceable now doesn't mean it won't be in the future. How can anyone know what technology will enable governments to do in ten years?
As another poster correctly pointed out, the DMCA is an implementation of a treaty. Treaties are the "Supreme Law of the Land" and whether that means "with" the Constitution or "secondary to" the Constitution is not entirely clear to me.
Treaties are inherently dangerous in that they provide a "workaround" for our government to pass legislation with the authority of the constitution without having to amend the constitution.
Collectively, all of these treaties being negotiated year after year scare the Shite out of me. People don't stop to consider how much weight they carry nor what effect they will have 50 years from now. "If it doen't work, than later we'll change it." does not work with treaties. They last forever.
Everyone complains when the Federal Government gets too involved with your business, but as soon as someone pisses you off you call for Congress to fix your problem for you. It's called "transferred responsibility".
Responsibility = Authority.
Some people may understand that this is why that big chunk of cash is taken out of our paychecks. Because our great-grandparents transferred the responsibility for their own welfare to the Federal Government. Every piece of legislation like this unlocks a door that can then be opened wider without your consent.
What is the legal definition of spam? How will this be enforced? Do you realize that Law Enforcement may later use this to justify Carnivore and other invasions?
They should first create an entire language, not just four words. Then build a universal translator into a Diamond Rio and embed it in the mouth of a mama dolphin or maybe they should use a robot for this (they could get Universal Studios to build it). Then they just kidnap a couple of baby dolphins and have the mama/robot teach them the made up language instead of their native language.
but I just want my fonts to stop giving me a headache. I'd solve the problem myself but I'm still logging on as root because I don't understand permissions.
Seriously, the Audio tools that Erik seems keen about could make Linux the choice for musicians. Like when Adobe made MAC the choice for graphic designers.
First, I'm not a hacker yet only a first year student so feel free to correct/flame any misunderstandings I have.
It seems to me that XML-RPC, and SOAP will be very useful to Microsofts.NET and the like. Outside of applications servers how useful are they?
IMO there is no demand for.NET but since programs like MS' Office suite can't really be improved anymore they're going to "create" a market for something else. So arguing about whether xml-rpc is better or not useless since what it hopes to accomplish is ultimately useless. Just like the aforementioned desktop channels.
Please view this statement as a question since I often don't know what I'm talking about.
Thanks,
That's what I thought. So if enlightened ISP's were to cooperate they could effectively "boycott" an entire region by ignoring requests from specific ip addresses.
selective block out a geographical region? I don't mean in the traditional sense where the region in question is filtering incoming data.
I mean is it possible to "blackout" a region from the rest of the world? I'm don't have the education but surely there must be a way to let governments know that "the people" can "limit" their power. So South Australia would get zero content from outside South Australia.
If there was enough cooperation and someone could do somehting about AOL... ok maybe I'm dreaming.
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Just because a law is unenforceable now doesn't mean it won't be in the future. How can anyone know what technology will enable governments to do in ten years?
As another poster correctly pointed out, the DMCA is an implementation of a treaty. Treaties are the "Supreme Law of the Land" and whether that means "with" the Constitution or "secondary to" the Constitution is not entirely clear to me.
Treaties are inherently dangerous in that they provide a "workaround" for our government to pass legislation with the authority of the constitution without having to amend the constitution.
Collectively, all of these treaties being negotiated year after year scare the Shite out of me. People don't stop to consider how much weight they carry nor what effect they will have 50 years from now. "If it doen't work, than later we'll change it." does not work with treaties. They last forever.
Legislation is a BAD THING.
Everyone complains when the Federal Government gets too involved with your business, but as soon as someone pisses you off you call for Congress to fix your problem for you. It's called "transferred responsibility".
Responsibility = Authority.
Some people may understand that this is why that big chunk of cash is taken out of our paychecks. Because our great-grandparents transferred the responsibility for their own welfare to the Federal Government. Every piece of legislation like this unlocks a door that can then be opened wider without your consent.
What is the legal definition of spam? How will this be enforced? Do you realize that Law Enforcement may later use this to justify Carnivore and other invasions?
Be careful what you ask for
They should first create an entire language, not just four words. Then build a universal translator into a Diamond Rio and embed it in the mouth of a mama dolphin or maybe they should use a robot for this (they could get Universal Studios to build it). Then they just kidnap a couple of baby dolphins and have the mama/robot teach them the made up language instead of their native language.
but I just want my fonts to stop giving me a headache. I'd solve the problem myself but I'm still logging on as root because I don't understand permissions. Seriously, the Audio tools that Erik seems keen about could make Linux the choice for musicians. Like when Adobe made MAC the choice for graphic designers.
First, I'm not a hacker yet only a first year student so feel free to correct/flame any misunderstandings I have. It seems to me that XML-RPC, and SOAP will be very useful to Microsofts .NET and the like. Outside of applications servers how useful are they?
IMO there is no demand for .NET but since programs like MS' Office suite can't really be improved anymore they're going to "create" a market for something else. So arguing about whether xml-rpc is better or not useless since what it hopes to accomplish is ultimately useless. Just like the aforementioned desktop channels.
Please view this statement as a question since I often don't know what I'm talking about.
Thanks, That's what I thought. So if enlightened ISP's were to cooperate they could effectively "boycott" an entire region by ignoring requests from specific ip addresses.
selective block out a geographical region? I don't mean in the traditional sense where the region in question is filtering incoming data. I mean is it possible to "blackout" a region from the rest of the world? I'm don't have the education but surely there must be a way to let governments know that "the people" can "limit" their power. So South Australia would get zero content from outside South Australia. If there was enough cooperation and someone could do somehting about AOL... ok maybe I'm dreaming.