Do byrochrats have that short memories and little minds? TV stations are licensed because they use radio waves to broadcast their messages. That was the original reason - which often still holds. When cable came along, this line was continued although it didn't really fit. Now this??? There are parallels: Since my front door is accessible for all using a car - must I have a drivers license? What about telemarketers? Must they be licensed? Prostitutes are publically available - must they be licensed? And where do I apply for the test positions? My wife was sunbathing when google took the arial shots for their map - must they be x-rated? When I debate something with my friend on the bus - should I be licensed too? When lawyers comes up with such BS - must they pay polution taxes?
This is just such a wonderful example that solution to a problem often is not provided by intelligence but the multitude of views on the problem. I believe MySpace truely couldn't solve the problem. Not because their people are not intelligent, but simply because you cant beat the problem cracking force of the public. Penguins rule again.
It is one thing to catch pedofiles snaring their prey, but these people hasn't done anything wrong. Neither have they set out to any malicious endevour. They merely have a specific taste in sex, much like people who likes blondes, or... black females. To act like this person is to feed the very same monster which has killed so many people and maimed even more. Shame on him - this is not a harmless prank
Now is the time to create organ banks and empty the prisons by convicting everybody to be disassembled (not no 5 though) and places into organ banks. No wait - somebody has already come up with that idea - shute now I am in violation of the DCMA.
If I dont understand it - then it should be unlawful and perpetrators should be shot, tried and found guilty in that order.
Well - it actually is. The arguments are based on a normal company structure and not in the actual reality. Again Linux is used as an example stating that the only reason why the quality has been achived is because its a rip off.
That would be an argument in a regular company setting, but it does not apply here.
What the author fails to grasp is that OSS is not a company. Therefore other mechanisms are in play. There is no regular oversight or leadership like in a company, rather you have an evolutionary mechanism that serves somewhat the same purpose. Like Creativism and Darwinism. Same purpose, different anyway.
Who will argue that GCC is low quality? Or how about the change from X11Free to XOrg? In difference to a company OSS deals with wasted time as an abundant resource. Somthing a company can only do if it points a gun the heads of its shareholders.
Not a bright article. At least in my opinion
I think the reason is that Hollywood lost the art of telling a story. To much emphasis on bigbreasted blondes and too little attention to the details. Watch some of the old movies and see the difference. Long live "The Criterion Collection"
The good thing about greed is that it by itsel is recognized as a sin, thereby touching the core of its target
RIAA and MPAA are so to speak going down the highway with the pedal to the metal hoping somebody will make sure the highway stays straight.
Since the copyright law says "any reproduction" ultimately they would like to charge you every time you wistle or humm any recognizable tune they have the copyright for.
And that is the problem. RIAA and MPAA are misusing the copyright law in my opinion. The copyright law is intended, as any other law, to render a resoanble protection, given that there are no certainties in this univers. But they are upping the stakes to hold us all ransom and make anybody hurt to the degree that we just roll belly-up and surrender to any and all of their demands. Law or no law
The verdicts handed down here in the US have, I believe, for the most been utterly out of proportions since most of what these people are doing amounts to shoplifting and should be condemmed and punished as such.
Of course I am here not talking about the counterfeit industry which is quite something else and is much more than shoplifting.
But we also need a revision of the copyright laws. It is to easy to gain the laws protection and for an unrealistic long timeframe.
The society is not served well by that. I think you should be able to get 10 or 20 years worth of copyright free and then it will cost you $1M for each consequtive 10 years. If it is worth the protection then that kind of money is nothing.
Information is power. He who controls information controls the scociety.
Either way: this should be handled under the freedom of the press clause. What google intends to do is a novell new work and thus should be intitled to protection as free speach.
I always enjoy seeing our democracy in action.
Remember that there are places on this earth where people are killed or imprisoned when they find out that news are tampered with and try to publish their findings.
BEDEVERE: What also floats in water? VILLAGER #1: Bread! VILLAGER #2: Apples! VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks! VILLAGER #1: Cider! VILLAGER #2: Great gravy! VILLAGER #1: Cherries! VILLAGER #2: Mud! VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches! VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead! ARTHUR: A duck. CROWD: Oooh. BEDEVERE: Exactly! So, logically..., VILLAGER #1: If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood.
Reminds me of my two old pals: OZ1RO and OZ2LW who could morse faster than they could speak.
And you can do so while drinking a P35 with your XYL.
(P35 is a beer and XYL is a x-young-lady: your wife)
I agree, but actually it goes further than that:
What about those politicians who have demonstrated their incompetence by enacting a law that penalizes people more for download copying than shoplifting? Because that is what it amounts to.
Of course not to speak about physical violence where a person is being hurt. Sorry - you are not incorporated. You are just a person. This is nowhere as bad as downloading.
Get your (politicians) priorities straight: First people - then people - then people then animals and then corporations.
Bicycle Repair Man....
Somebody remember "Troop Beverly Hills" ?
Next up will be badges for:
"Can count to 10 on one hand" and
"Have watched all 350 episodes of Simpsons consecutively"
There is an underlying reson for this. In difference to the POTS the network structure makes it very difficult to pinpoint the geographical position of the IP exactly. In other words: You can't 100% prove who is who. Also: Phone lines are specifically dealt with in the laws. Police needs a warrent to tap your phone. At least in theory:-).
But the question remains what is protected from tapping on the internet.
Put this together: To prove that a conversation took place between two parties you need to prove that the endpoints were in fact where you allege they were. To do so you need elaborate finger printing of the machines involved. That is far easier to achieve when you own the network. Also since you use routers (which you don't own) to forward your message (VoIP) your package can be intercepted and recorded.
Since it may be encrypted the following questions arise - and I am not sure there is any court decisions on this:
- Is a VoIP conversation protected the same way as a POTS? Do you have expectation of privacy?
- If the conversation is encrypted and the encryption not broken: If it is stored is it then recorded or merely timeshifted?
I think we are looking at some very interesting groundbreaking stuff here.
Please don't take this as flame bait. There is more to it than that.
I have two daughters. One was sexually assaulted.
What this politician is suggesting is i my opinion totally and utterly an attemt to assassinate common decency. I find it revolting.
First of all I think that rape is a dumm word and the sentences for rape are equally stupid. There should be no "rape". There is only one thing: Assault. An act of violating another human being against the other persons will.
Be it for sexual reasons or for money or any other reason.
Maintaining the word rape in my opinion creates the aura of mysticism around this subject. It shows that many females have difficulties dealing with the experience and I believe (although I am not female) it is because there is this artificial destiction between rape and assault.
That you convict somebody of rape does more than just that. It creates a victom of rape. And this seems to often create a very slow healing process.
Call it what it is: Assault. Period.
Nobody likes to be mugged for whatever reason. And both genders can relate to it with no difficulties.
And I really don't see that any substantially part of the female victom has been damaged anymore than if somebody put a gun to my head: As long as I survive with my body intact - I am the surviver.
If females are still judged by their virginity instead of their personality and intellect - then shame on those who do so.
Doing what this politician is doing he is putting a constant reminder out there to delay the healing process. Revenge is always empty. You think you want it - but it is not a reward. It is just you doing the same thing that was done to you.
If you really think surveillance is nescessary - then these people belong in an institution to be released when the psychiatrists say so. Don't make the society a parkinglot.
So really - I see this as just another attemp to gain control. The goal to be total control. Massive surveillance units. Administrations. Kings.
Use the money that you save by not doing this to help all victoms of assault. Males or females.
Why not make a law requiring all males to have their genitals tatooed with a barcode.
This way females by using a hand-scanner can easily identify who they are getting too close to.
Of course - in the dark - you may have to swipe more than once for a good result.
(Sorry - to good to pass up)
KDE should stop whining. Apple is not doing anything different than they have for many many years. I personally worked for two companies who got screwed by Apple in much the same way and I know of many other companies.
Apple may have another color than M$ but they are still a very big company and the bigger they get, the more they emphasize that the need of the company outweighs the need of anything else.
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Do byrochrats have that short memories and little minds? TV stations are licensed because they use radio waves to broadcast their messages. That was the original reason - which often still holds. When cable came along, this line was continued although it didn't really fit. Now this???
There are parallels:
Since my front door is accessible for all using a car - must I have a drivers license?
What about telemarketers? Must they be licensed?
Prostitutes are publically available - must they be licensed? And where do I apply for the test positions?
My wife was sunbathing when google took the arial shots for their map - must they be x-rated?
When I debate something with my friend on the bus - should I be licensed too?
When lawyers comes up with such BS - must they pay polution taxes?
This is just such a wonderful example that solution to a problem often is not provided by intelligence but the multitude of views on the problem. I believe MySpace truely couldn't solve the problem. Not because their people are not intelligent, but simply because you cant beat the problem cracking force of the public.
Penguins rule again.
Evolving this process, one may suspect that even one day it may be possible to grow functional brains for amputees like Bush, Gore and Springer....
It is one thing to catch pedofiles snaring their prey, but these people hasn't done anything wrong. Neither have they set out to any malicious endevour. ... black females.
They merely have a specific taste in sex, much like people who likes blondes, or
To act like this person is to feed the very same monster which has killed so many people and maimed even more.
Shame on him - this is not a harmless prank
Now is the time to create organ banks and empty the prisons by convicting everybody to be disassembled (not no 5 though) and places into organ banks. No wait - somebody has already come up with that idea - shute now I am in violation of the DCMA.
If I dont understand it - then it should be unlawful and perpetrators should be shot, tried and found guilty in that order.
Well - it actually is. The arguments are based on a normal company structure and not in the actual reality. Again Linux is used as an example stating that the only reason why the quality has been achived is because its a rip off.
That would be an argument in a regular company setting, but it does not apply here.
What the author fails to grasp is that OSS is not a company. Therefore other mechanisms are in play. There is no regular oversight or leadership like in a company, rather you have an evolutionary mechanism that serves somewhat the same purpose. Like Creativism and Darwinism. Same purpose, different anyway.
Who will argue that GCC is low quality? Or how about the change from X11Free to XOrg? In difference to a company OSS deals with wasted time as an abundant resource. Somthing a company can only do if it points a gun the heads of its shareholders.
Not a bright article. At least in my opinion
Anyone who has a battlechicken knows that they are 1.5lb of muscle and beak.
And if it scales - then T-rex's bites must have been awful......
I think the reason is that Hollywood lost the art of telling a story. To much emphasis on bigbreasted blondes and too little attention to the details. Watch some of the old movies and see the difference. Long live "The Criterion Collection"
Maybe it is the "End of the world" :-)
(or the giants drink)
(For those who remember Bresenhams flailing hammer.
If they had any brains left (but lawyers or brains may be an XOR), then they would offer a $10/month you-may-copy-freely free instead of.
They would be making sooo much on that one.
Gives new meaning to the Star Trek.....
The good thing about greed is that it by itsel is recognized as a sin, thereby touching the core of its target
RIAA and MPAA are so to speak going down the highway with the pedal to the metal hoping somebody will make sure the highway stays straight.
Since the copyright law says "any reproduction" ultimately they would like to charge you every time you wistle or humm any recognizable tune they have the copyright for.
And that is the problem. RIAA and MPAA are misusing the copyright law in my opinion. The copyright law is intended, as any other law, to render a resoanble protection, given that there are no certainties in this univers. But they are upping the stakes to hold us all ransom and make anybody hurt to the degree that we just roll belly-up and surrender to any and all of their demands. Law or no law
The verdicts handed down here in the US have, I believe, for the most been utterly out of proportions since most of what these people are doing amounts to shoplifting and should be condemmed and punished as such.
Of course I am here not talking about the counterfeit industry which is quite something else and is much more than shoplifting.
But we also need a revision of the copyright laws. It is to easy to gain the laws protection and for an unrealistic long timeframe.
The society is not served well by that. I think you should be able to get 10 or 20 years worth of copyright free and then it will cost you $1M for each consequtive 10 years. If it is worth the protection then that kind of money is nothing.
Information is power. He who controls information controls the scociety.
Either way: this should be handled under the freedom of the press clause. What google intends to do is a novell new work and thus should be intitled to protection as free speach.
I always enjoy seeing our democracy in action.
Remember that there are places on this earth where people are killed or imprisoned when they find out that news are tampered with and try to publish their findings.
Something comes to mind - thinking - thinking....
BEDEVERE: What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1: Bread!
VILLAGER #2: Apples!
VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1: Cider!
VILLAGER #2: Great gravy!
VILLAGER #1: Cherries!
VILLAGER #2: Mud!
VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches!
VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead!
ARTHUR: A duck.
CROWD: Oooh.
BEDEVERE: Exactly! So, logically...,
VILLAGER #1: If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood.
Reminds me of my two old pals: OZ1RO and OZ2LW who could morse faster than they could speak.
And you can do so while drinking a P35 with your XYL.
(P35 is a beer and XYL is a x-young-lady: your wife)
At least 3 MPs......
Stasi used to do just that in the old East-block
I agree, but actually it goes further than that:
What about those politicians who have demonstrated their incompetence by enacting a law that penalizes people more for download copying than shoplifting?
Because that is what it amounts to.
Of course not to speak about physical violence where a person is being hurt. Sorry - you are not incorporated. You are just a person. This is nowhere as bad as downloading.
Get your (politicians) priorities straight: First people - then people - then people then animals and then corporations.
Bicycle Repair Man....
Somebody remember "Troop Beverly Hills" ?
Next up will be badges for:
"Can count to 10 on one hand" and
"Have watched all 350 episodes of Simpsons consecutively"
Geez
There is an underlying reson for this. In difference to the POTS the network structure makes it very difficult to pinpoint the geographical position of the IP exactly. In other words: You can't 100% prove who is who. Also: Phone lines are specifically dealt with in the laws. Police needs a warrent to tap your phone. At least in theory :-).
But the question remains what is protected from tapping on the internet.
Put this together: To prove that a conversation took place between two parties you need to prove that the endpoints were in fact where you allege they were. To do so you need elaborate finger printing of the machines involved. That is far easier to achieve when you own the network. Also since you use routers (which you don't own) to forward your message (VoIP) your package can be intercepted and recorded.
Since it may be encrypted the following questions arise - and I am not sure there is any court decisions on this: - Is a VoIP conversation protected the same way as a POTS? Do you have expectation of privacy?
- If the conversation is encrypted and the encryption not broken: If it is stored is it then recorded or merely timeshifted?
I think we are looking at some very interesting groundbreaking stuff here.
Please don't take this as flame bait. There is more to it than that.
I have two daughters. One was sexually assaulted.
What this politician is suggesting is i my opinion totally and utterly an attemt to assassinate common decency. I find it revolting.
First of all I think that rape is a dumm word and the sentences for rape are equally stupid. There should be no "rape". There is only one thing: Assault. An act of violating another human being against the other persons will.
Be it for sexual reasons or for money or any other reason.
Maintaining the word rape in my opinion creates the aura of mysticism around this subject. It shows that many females have difficulties dealing with the experience and I believe (although I am not female) it is because there is this artificial destiction between rape and assault.
That you convict somebody of rape does more than just that. It creates a victom of rape. And this seems to often create a very slow healing process.
Call it what it is: Assault. Period. Nobody likes to be mugged for whatever reason. And both genders can relate to it with no difficulties.
And I really don't see that any substantially part of the female victom has been damaged anymore than if somebody put a gun to my head: As long as I survive with my body intact - I am the surviver.
If females are still judged by their virginity instead of their personality and intellect - then shame on those who do so.
Doing what this politician is doing he is putting a constant reminder out there to delay the healing process. Revenge is always empty. You think you want it - but it is not a reward. It is just you doing the same thing that was done to you.
If you really think surveillance is nescessary - then these people belong in an institution to be released when the psychiatrists say so. Don't make the society a parkinglot.
So really - I see this as just another attemp to gain control. The goal to be total control. Massive surveillance units. Administrations. Kings.
Use the money that you save by not doing this to help all victoms of assault. Males or females.
Butt what about the antenna ?
Why not make a law requiring all males to have their genitals tatooed with a barcode.
This way females by using a hand-scanner can easily identify who they are getting too close to.
Of course - in the dark - you may have to swipe more than once for a good result.
(Sorry - to good to pass up)
KDE should stop whining. Apple is not doing anything different than they have for many many years. I personally worked for two companies who got screwed by Apple in much the same way and I know of many other companies.
Apple may have another color than M$ but they are still a very big company and the bigger they get, the more they emphasize that the need of the company outweighs the need of anything else.