The site http://www.vojvodina.com/mailovi.htm seems to be the official site of Vojvodina province of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. See their English site here.
I don't speak the language but the address list suggests it might have to do with the attacks on Yugoslavia in 1999. They still list Bill Clinton as President and NATO officers are included in the list as well.
I am certainly as much against allowing the music industry to attack p2p systems as the next guy but to be fair: According to the linked article the law seems to be like a certain little blue planet - mostly harmless.
DoS attacks on computers running p2p clients would not be covered by the law.
"A copyright owner should not be allowed to damage the property of a P2P file trader or any intermediaries, including ISPs," Berman said.
The planned changes will only allow copyright holders to fight the "abuse" of p2p systems by misleading those who search for copyrighted music.
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
So it is a step in the wrong direction, but a rather insignificant one. After all there is something like the constitution that would limit the government granting the music industry the right to start an all out cracker war against p2p users.;)
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It seems "only" the company has to give up. The system will live on - in a more exotic location:
The Web site and the software behind it are now owned by a privately held firm called Sharman Networks, based in Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific.
This promises to be an interesting legal battle, esp. for jurisdiction and enforcement of any rulings. The question is: Will the servers be moved to Vanuatu as well?
... for the author of the story. He could not resist it.;)
Personally I have always asked myself if we know everything about the rebellion, especially who supported it. These poor rebels are hunted all the way through the galaxy by the Imperial fleet, there is no planet in the Empire that supports them openly and no central base. Yet it is not a "Grab a gun and let's go over to the palace and overthrow the king" kind of revolution. They have a quite impressive fleet of starships in Episode VI that probably takes years to build. Where are those coming from?
Maybe be the rebels are supplied by someone outside of the Empire like we try to destabilize regimes by supporting the opposition. There is mor e about this rebellion than we know...:)
But then again I could be completely wrong. May be they are just a bunch of freedom fighters with homemade weaponry. "Come over and bring all your scrap metal, we are going to build a star destroyer in the backyard..."
Ancient cultures were able to communicate to us that dark and demonic pictorials mean "Do Not Enter!".
But what does a "Do not enter" sign mean to the average geek? It raises his or her curiosity why exactly whatever is behind closed doors should be left alone. Hence the number of mummys lying in museums instead of pyramids.
If the knowledge is lost why our generation took so much precaution, not even the best signs or defense systems or whatever will keep the curious out. But maybe the humans of the future will just scan the sites from their orbiting starship while sipping a cup of hot earl grey tea.... ahh, drifting off again...
To take it even further: The EU ethics group has just published a report recommending that stem cells that have been modified should be pantentable (internationally).
The Group considers that only human stem cells lines which have been modified by an inventive process to get new characteristics for specific industrial application are patentable. However, that stem cell which are been isolated and cultured but which have not been modified should not be considers as patentable inventions. Quoting from the press statement.
You are asking for impossible, maybe even obscure scientific inventions in movies or TV?
Well, you may find some, but my beloved favoured show, Star Trek (all incarnations without female vulcan science officers), has none of them. Everything shown on Star Trek is a possible future invention...
On a second thought, there might be a tiny, winy bit of unbelievable things in there, like the Heisenberg compensators making the transporters work. There is your neighbourhood dysons-sphere conveniently built around a sun to harvest energy (Next generation episode: Relics).
We shouldn't really get into discussing warp speed, everybody knows that Stephen Hawking is working on it. There are smaller things in Trek that go by hardly recognized. E.g. the weather control systems that are only mentioned when failing.
Force fields are mentioned so often in Scfi-Fi we just have to believe in the possiblity. There seem to be working experiments with magnetic "shields". Metaphasic shields on the other hand are something completely different, although they have become as common as cloaking devices in the Star Trek universe.
Let's face it, fellow trekkers: Most of this stuff is unreachable and will remain so for a long time, if not forever.;(
Now off for a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot, freshly converted from dilithium generated energy to matter by a food replicator...
Where did the spam come from? If it originated from a serious company and not some obscure {p0rn|make_money_fast|get_beautifull_painlessly|lo ose_50_pounds _in_1_day} outlet on the net then you could try this: Contact them with a very a polite e-mail (or in case of SMS spam: SMS) and inquire about a snail mail adress that you may use to serve a cease and desist order. The inquiry alone is often enough to end spam from that source.
You should also check if the terms of use of your service provider allows the company to distribute your e-mail address. Sometimes one forgets to check the conveniently hard to see "I don't want any valuable unsolicited consumer advice" boxes.
Max Headroom, the classic (late 80ies/early 90ies) show, saw it all coming: As far as I remember in the world of Network 23 it was illegal to switch off your TV. Every citizen had the right and duty to watch TV. Back then I thought this to be too grotesque, but now....
If I remember correctly the show started with the title "A not too distant future..." or sth. like that. Frightening, truly frightening.
Just an example that we need a global recycling system for hardware components. Few countries have implemented laws that demand hardware producers to take back their products and recycle them as much as possible. Such a thing can't be handled by single nations IMHO - or governments at all. The hardware industry should come together and create binding recycling standards. It is sad that there is still a large share of computer companies ignoring environmental concerns.
If the spreadsheet contains algorithms in a computer readable form then it should be considered a program (at least partly) from a computer science point of view. If it were data it functions would be limited to providing input that is processed entirely by the undelying application. If it contains formulas it has to be considered to be more than pure data.
However the term software is not the opposite of data but of the term hardware. It may be well possible that some legal definitions use "software" to describe both - data and programs. You should try to find the regulations covering the fee you are expected to pay.
is one thing. Not getting any cooperation when your own e-mail address is used as a false sender in the header of "enlarge your {certain male bodyparts}"-spam mails is a another thing. Ask me, it happened to me two weeks ago. I didn't even get a mail back from the provider.
WRONG! Digitial signatures were equal to written ones in Germany long before the EU directive. IIRC germany was actually the first state in the world to pass such laws.
Sorry, but you are partly mistaken: Germany was among the first nations to introduce a Digital Signatures Act (Signaturgesetz in German) in 1997 but it only set a standard for digital signatures. So they existed but could not be used where public and civil law required a "signature". This changed on the 1st of August 2001 with another law. Now you can use digital signatures where a handwritten signature was required before - with a few exceptions (see article 126 paragraph
3 of the German Civil Code [BGB]).
It is not really a innovative step by the German government alone. All EU member states have to transform the EU directive on e-commerce into national law. According to the directive the member states have to make sure that most contracts (very few exceptions) can be closed online. The German government just tries to extend this rule to public law.
Actually it is http://www.nec.co.jp and my Japanese is terrible. If there is any info on the site about the notebook being available outside Japan it is beyond me.
There is a minimal common standard in the EU. Article 7 of the e-commerce directive demands that "unsolicited commercial communication" must be clearly identifiable as such and spammers have to check robinson lists regularly. However it was left to the member states to set sanctions for non-compliance.
It is legal, at least according to German law which was mentioned in the discussion. To be exact it is the other way around: 53 of the German copyright act (Urhebergesetz) allows copies for private use. The fees are a form of compensation for this right. They are collected and distributed to individual artists (read: the big entertainment companies) by a special government body.
I would imagine the French law will follow this model.
AMD's press statement reads: "AMD is excited that NEC Japan is using the Mobile AMD Duron processor to power its new LaVie U notebooks,"
I haven't heard or read anything about this LaVie U notebook line from NEC. It is not mentioned on nec.com. Will these notebooks only be available in Japan (The press statement only mentions NEC Japan!)?
That would mean a relatively low level of support for the mobile Duron, wouldn't it? It would fit the impression you get when you look at the press statements on NEC's website: They still praise the introduction of the mobile PIII 800Mhz but I can't find anything about the new notebooks.
pcMods.com was started with one thing in mind: "The Cool Factor."
This is exactly what I worry about at night: Does my computer look "cool" enough? Nevermind that it lacks RAM and urgently needs a current generation CPU, the coolness of looking at it is far more important. Or at least that's what the good ppl at pcmods.com seem to think. Personally I couldn't care less how my machines look. A computer case should be stable and absorb noise (if possible). Any form of electrical illumination inside the case is just an unnecessary heat source. These cases might be well suited for desktops of executives but not for the typical geek user.
But then: Maybe I underestimate the importance of being cool. This might be a good subject for a Slashdot Poll: What do you look for in a new computer case?... I would have to go for CowboyNeal.
Not every new legal development concerning the net is bad. IMHO some legislation is necessary to help technology finding widespread acceptance. The EU law quoted in the article that gives ppl the possibility to sue e-commerce companies in the customer's home country is such an example. As a European I want to buy from American dot.coms (keep the DVDs rolling;) ) but I don't want to be forced to settle conflicts with them in foreign courts.
While regulation per se is not a bad thing, we should closely watch the details of any new internet regulation. Those who cry "censorship" at the first sight of a law with the word "internet" in its title cause the whole net community to be taken less than serious. Sadly, almost every Slashdot discussion (at least in the YRO section) contains this sort of outcry.
Don't get me wrong here: There are threatening laws out there that need to be critized, but in an intelligent manner. The Economist article is quite detailed and well worth the read although I don't share the pessimism.
Maybe I am the only one who missed this last year but it seems the folks at e2p are not the only ones who challenge ICANN's right to introduce new TLDs. A number of email (and snail mail) exchanges can be found at
Slashdot Mirror
I don't speak the language but the address list suggests it might have to do with the attacks on Yugoslavia in 1999. They still list Bill Clinton as President and NATO officers are included in the list as well.
DoS attacks on computers running p2p clients would not be covered by the law.
The planned changes will only allow copyright holders to fight the "abuse" of p2p systems by misleading those who search for copyrighted music.
So it is a step in the wrong direction, but a rather insignificant one. After all there is something like the constitution that would limit the government granting the music industry the right to start an all out cracker war against p2p users. ;)
The Web site and the software behind it are now owned by a privately held firm called Sharman Networks, based in Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific.
This promises to be an interesting legal battle, esp. for jurisdiction and enforcement of any rulings. The question is: Will the servers be moved to Vanuatu as well?
3D CONVENTION CENTER MINIMUM COMPUTER SPECIFICATIONS
Operating System: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, XP and 2000.
Taken from www.vir-con.net.
Personally I have always asked myself if we know everything about the rebellion, especially who supported it. These poor rebels are hunted all the way through the galaxy by the Imperial fleet, there is no planet in the Empire that supports them openly and no central base. Yet it is not a "Grab a gun and let's go over to the palace and overthrow the king" kind of revolution. They have a quite impressive fleet of starships in Episode VI that probably takes years to build. Where are those coming from?
Maybe be the rebels are supplied by someone outside of the Empire like we try to destabilize regimes by supporting the opposition. There is mor e about this rebellion than we know ... :)
But then again I could be completely wrong. May be they are just a bunch of freedom fighters with homemade weaponry. "Come over and bring all your scrap metal, we are going to build a star destroyer in the backyard ..."
But what does a "Do not enter" sign mean to the average geek? It raises his or her curiosity why exactly whatever is behind closed doors should be left alone. Hence the number of mummys lying in museums instead of pyramids.
If the knowledge is lost why our generation took so much precaution, not even the best signs or defense systems or whatever will keep the curious out. But maybe the humans of the future will just scan the sites from their orbiting starship while sipping a cup of hot earl grey tea .... ahh, drifting off again ...
The Group considers that only human stem cells lines which have been modified by an inventive process to get new characteristics for specific industrial application are patentable. However, that stem cell which are been isolated and cultured but which have not been modified should not be considers as patentable inventions. Quoting from the press statement.
The full report is available here (here).
On a second thought, there might be a tiny, winy bit of unbelievable things in there, like the Heisenberg compensators making the transporters work. There is your neighbourhood dysons-sphere conveniently built around a sun to harvest energy (Next generation episode: Relics).
We shouldn't really get into discussing warp speed, everybody knows that Stephen Hawking is working on it. There are smaller things in Trek that go by hardly recognized. E.g. the weather control systems that are only mentioned when failing.
Force fields are mentioned so often in Scfi-Fi we just have to believe in the possiblity. There seem to be working experiments with magnetic "shields". Metaphasic shields on the other hand are something completely different, although they have become as common as cloaking devices in the Star Trek universe.
Let's face it, fellow trekkers: Most of this stuff is unreachable and will remain so for a long time, if not forever. ;(
Now off for a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot, freshly converted from dilithium generated energy to matter by a food replicator ...
Where did the spam come from? If it originated from a serious company and not some obscure {p0rn|make_money_fast|get_beautifull_painlessly|lo ose_50_pounds _in_1_day} outlet on the net then you could try this: Contact them with a very a polite e-mail (or in case of SMS spam: SMS) and inquire about a snail mail adress that you may use to serve a cease and desist order. The inquiry alone is often enough to end spam from that source.
You should also check if the terms of use of your service provider allows the company to distribute your e-mail address. Sometimes one forgets to check the conveniently hard to see "I don't want any valuable unsolicited consumer advice" boxes.
I wonder why LSU did not use a dispute resolution provider instead of a district court. Would have been the right thing to do in the academic world.
Anyway, I wish Mr. Dorhauer the best for his exam.
Max Headroom, the classic (late 80ies/early 90ies) show, saw it all coming: As far as I remember in the world of Network 23 it was illegal to switch off your TV. Every citizen had the right and duty to watch TV. Back then I thought this to be too grotesque, but now....
..." or sth. like that. Frightening, truly frightening.
If I remember correctly the show started with the title "A not too distant future
The truth - just a poor excuse for a lack of creativity!
Just an example that we need a global recycling system for hardware components. Few countries have implemented laws that demand hardware producers to take back their products and recycle them as much as possible. Such a thing can't be handled by single nations IMHO - or governments at all.
The hardware industry should come together and create binding recycling standards. It is sad that there is still a large share of computer companies ignoring environmental concerns.
If the spreadsheet contains algorithms in a computer readable form then it should be considered a program (at least partly) from a computer science point of view. If it were data it functions would be limited to providing input that is processed entirely by the undelying application. If it contains formulas it has to be considered to be more than pure data.
However the term software is not the opposite of data but of the term hardware. It may be well possible that some legal definitions use "software" to describe both - data and programs. You should try to find the regulations covering the fee you are expected to pay.
is one thing. Not getting any cooperation when your own e-mail address is used as a false sender in the header of "enlarge your {certain male bodyparts}"-spam mails is a another thing. Ask me, it happened to me two weeks ago. I didn't even get a mail back from the provider.
WRONG! Digitial signatures were equal to written ones in Germany long before the EU directive. IIRC germany was actually the first state in the world to pass such laws.
Sorry, but you are partly mistaken: Germany was among the first nations to introduce a Digital Signatures Act (Signaturgesetz in German) in 1997 but it only set a standard for digital signatures. So they existed but could not be used where public and civil law required a "signature". This changed on the 1st of August 2001 with another law. Now you can use digital signatures where a handwritten signature was required before - with a few exceptions (see article 126 paragraph
3 of the German Civil Code [BGB]).
It is not really a innovative step by the German government alone. All EU member states have to transform the EU directive on e-commerce into national law. According to the directive the member states have to make sure that most contracts (very few exceptions) can be closed online. The German government just tries to extend this rule to public law.
I would imagine the French law will follow this model.
I haven't heard or read anything about this LaVie U notebook line from NEC. It is not mentioned on nec.com. Will these notebooks only be available in Japan (The press statement only mentions NEC Japan!)?
That would mean a relatively low level of support for the mobile Duron, wouldn't it? It would fit the impression you get when you look at the press statements on NEC's website: They still praise the introduction of the mobile PIII 800Mhz but I can't find anything about the new notebooks.
This is exactly what I worry about at night: Does my computer look "cool" enough? Nevermind that it lacks RAM and urgently needs a current generation CPU, the coolness of looking at it is far more important. Or at least that's what the good ppl at pcmods.com seem to think. Personally I couldn't care less how my machines look. A computer case should be stable and absorb noise (if possible). Any form of electrical illumination inside the case is just an unnecessary heat source. These cases might be well suited for desktops of executives but not for the typical geek user.
But then: Maybe I underestimate the importance of being cool. This might be a good subject for a Slashdot Poll: What do you look for in a new computer case? ... I would have to go for CowboyNeal.
While regulation per se is not a bad thing, we should closely watch the details of any new internet regulation. Those who cry "censorship" at the first sight of a law with the word "internet" in its title cause the whole net community to be taken less than serious. Sadly, almost every Slashdot discussion (at least in the YRO section) contains this sort of outcry.
Don't get me wrong here: There are threatening laws out there that need to be critized, but in an intelligent manner. The Economist article is quite detailed and well worth the read although I don't share the pessimism.
http://www.icann.org/tlds/correspondence/
There is even a first court decision (in favor of ICANN).
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