We still have most of that left (Dutch courage, the national debt, and most importantly, freedom of the press, not sure about the revolution (maybe it would be good (-; ))
NachtVorst
Yes, they could easily identify me, there's no chance to do this anonymously.
I don't even think I want to do this anonymously, that way I would give the impression that I'm not confident that what I write/report is protected free speech. Ofcourse I will make sure I'm within the law before I would post anything, therefore I will also accept responsibilty for it (within dutch law, which I still have some faith in).
It might be a Good Idea to do this as a journal entry (would be my first), that way it would at least attract some attention if Sony does decide to make a fuss about it.
Not that I have any really shocking new facts to reveal or anything, it just confirms what everyone already knows (or should know): Sony (or insert your fav. mega-corp/industry lobby group/religous lobby group here) only cares about money and control and is always looking for new ways to screw their customers and Artists, while spouting marketing-lingo to make the customers, bands and other labels think everything is done in their best interest.
But no - the RIAA hasn't learned what the Software industry has learned. Go after the big illegal distributors, and leave the little guys alone.
So very true, but they are still hoping to take out both 'professional' and 'casual' pirates. At least Sony is. I asked them for info on their key2audio 'protection', posing as a small record-company, and they told me it was to stop 'casual copying' (their words), which is ofcourse what (small) labels want to hear. Today they had a statement in the newspaper (here in Holland, de Volkskrant) that it was mainly meant to stop the 'big pirates', which is ofcourse what the public wants to hear.
I was glad to see the mainstream media give attention to this issue, but disappointed that they gave Sony such a nice chance to 'legitimize' their 'protection' to the public. Their answers to the questions I asked them already made it clear they don't give a fsck about the public. There were a lot of funny answers in their e-mail, I should put it on the web, maybe. Does anyone know if it's legal to make an e-mail, sent to you personaly, public? I'd rather not get sued by Sony, but it would help the public to know the other side of the story.
When I firsted glanced the headline, I swear I saw "Your Own Linux Submarine?"... Shouldn't that be a GNU/Linux submarine anyway?
It made me laugh enough to read the article, even though it's not a Linux submarine... This is a pretty cool toy, it even has an F-16 Style Joystick! But I agree it needs some torpedoes to be a True Submarine(r)...
*Wanders of singing: "We all live in a Linux submarine, a Linux submarine, GNU/Linux submarine..."*
My TV-set got wet, after which the picture was still good, but the tuner part is fried, so the TV-set became as good as useless.
I don't watch much TV, so I didn't want to buy a new set and decided to buy a cheap TV-card for my PC. It was only after I bought the card that I finally realized that when I hook the TV-out on my videocard to my non-tuning TV-set, I could use the PC as a tuner and use the TV-set again, only better, as I can now watch DVD's, DivX's, and normal TV on the nice big TV-screen, with the sound coming through my stereo, instead of the small speakers on the TV-set.
Re:Good to see misinformation is alive and well.
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don't forget to compare atrocities and ill-actions done by other governments in the same time period.
I'm thinking very hard here, but I can't think of any country comming even close to the list of American atrocities listed above (which seems far from complete). Sure, no country is innocent in this aspect either, but when it comes to being *bad*, as you put it, I think the USA is #1.
Please give some examples of other counries that have a reputation in this equal to the USA...
Don't like MS, fine. But come on slashdot - GROW UP! This is business!
Yes, it is business, and I assume it's legal in the USA, but is this normal?
Here in Holland you get a heavy fine if you slander your competitors like this, especially if you can't prove your statements. Forbidding misleading and slandering advertisement protects the citizens/consumers but also give the ads that are allowed more credibility, because the consumers know that the misleading/slandering ads are filtered out. I think these ads would be cause for pretty stiff fines over here, even if most of the statements would be true.
btw, I don't quite agree with the Cheerios analogy... That would be calling Unix a "generic wanna be MS-Windows".
I'm glad there's finally a judge that applies logic to this situation, intead of listening to the coprporations, but I agree the USA will not like this at all.
Maybe they will add us (Holland) to the ever-growing list of 'rogue-states', or create a new 'axis of piracy*' (Holland, Russia, SE-Asia)
Seeing the current state of US law (copyright and otherwise), that would almost seem like a Good Thing. Once again, I'm glad to live in Holland, with reasonably sane laws, government an people.
* Ofcourse, the Dutch stop piracy (men in boats robbing other boats and saying 'har, har') a few hundred years ago, these days we're just into copyright-infringemnt (sp?)
"We've been doubling sales every 18 months. However, when you start from zero, it takes a long while."
Uhmm.. exactly how long does it take to double your sales when they start at zero? If they hire me I can show them how to double their sales every day, or every hour or minute, whatever they want.
I've found the Chainmail rules (scanned originals) on various p2p networks... Kazaa (before they succumbed to the dark side) and eDonkey for sure, probably on others too... It's pretty cool to browse those pieces of history, a lot of the other 'ancient' d&d-stuff is out there too.
I never said they should use UNIX-machines (though ofcourse they should;-) ), just that it would be nice if they accepted standard, common formats for your resume other than.doc files.
On the other hand, it would also be nice if the HR-person that hires you for a UNIX-job, knows a little bit about UNIX and UNIX-folks. Then again, I don't know if you're in a situation to be picky about your employer/job.
Still, if I were M$ (damn, what a ghastly thought), I'd say "screw this settlement, if you can't make it stick, drop the charges or spend another decade trying to make it stick, cause in ten years we will own you anyway".
If M$ does settle it means they weren't quite convinced the justice department can't make this stick.
I sure hope the EU monopoly-trial goes better (I can dream, can't I?)...
I couldn't even submit a resume for a job working on Unix without the document being in WORD.
Seems like a good hint you're applying with the wrong company;-). If they only accept M$-crap, not even plain-text or HTML, then the UNIX-folks probably don't have any influence in the company.
It's probaly at bit late in the trial to ask, but anyways...
Why are they settling at all? Either M$ broke the law, in which case they get their punishment, or they haven't broken the law, and they don't get punished...
This would be like a judge telling me "I think you killed this man, but I can't make the evidence 'stick', so let's settle at, say, half the normal sentence."
Basically they say "we can't prove they're guilty" in which case the old 'innocent until proven guilty' applies (sadly enough in this case)...
From the FAQ: What consultations has the Commission undertaken on this issue? ....Most recently, a discussion document was published on the Europa website on 19 October 2000 (see http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indpr op/softpaten.htm.... bla, bla....
The consultation produced 1447 responses, the overwhelming majority by e-mail. An analysis of these responses is available at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indpr op/softpatanalyse.htm
Many of the responses supporting a more restrictive approach than at present, with fewer patents being granted, were transmitted through an open forum set up by the "Eurolinux Alliance", a group of companies and other entities supporting the development of open source software such as Linux. Although this group numerically dominated (90%) the response, the major sectoral bodies representing the information and communication technology industries, as well as many of the Member States, all supported the approach put forward by the discussion paper. Some responses argued for eligibility for patents to be widened in line with the practice in the US.
To me this translates as : "Let's just take the 10% of responses that agree with us (us being the EU), and ignore the other 90%, because those people are just hackers/crackers, who didn't even try to bribe us" Why the hell would you have a call for public comments only to ignore 90% of it?
Also, the consulting firm they hired to analyse the comments doen't seem to think much of the open-source movement either. Funny thing is the firm doesn't even have a website. I wonder what were the criteria to hire them.
We are, say some people who study such things, at a critical place in history..."
And exactly why is this more 'critical' then any other moment in history?
Please, only use phrases like this, or 'the world will never be the same..', or 'this will change our lives forever', etc, etc, only if you really mean it, not just because you think it makes your article sound more important. I hate those Katz articles, but I love the discussions it generates. Especially the way all of his points get torpedoed one-by-one.
According to my memory and this BBC article I just found...
The 1997 agreement was signed by the Clinton administration, European Union member states and Japan, but the White House says Mr Bush does not support it and is calling for a cabinet review of climate change policy.
I read somewhere that calling for a policy review right now is like calling for a review of fire-safety while your house is burning down.
TV-companies created this problem themselves
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In a way the TV-companies are responsible for this themselves.
I live in Holland, and I like to watch sci-fi shows (Red Dwarf, Farscape, Trek, etc..). However, most of these shows don't run here at all, with the exception of Trek and Red Dwarf on the BBC.
I read all about Enterprise on the net, and was quite curious what it would be like. The only way to watch Enterprise (or The final season of Voyager, or Farscape, or Scifi-channels Dune, etc...) is to download the rips from KaZaa/E-Donkey/IRC/Whatever. If I had to wait for dutch TV or the beeb to show this, I'd still be waiting at least 6 months, now I get to see the shows within a few days of the first airing in the USA.
These days, the only way I use my TV-set is to view downloaded episodes using the tv-out on my PC, this way I get the sound over my stereo too, which is a nice improvement. The only thing that sucks is that some people think it's good to pir episodes in crappy.WMF.ASF , with keyframes every 5 minutes or so, instead of nice divX with a keyframe every second.
The good side is I never have to hear that fsck-uped intro to Enterprise anymore... The person who made that intro needs to be killed in a slow and horribly painfull way.
Oh, and about the comercials, neither dutch (Public) TV nor BBC show commercials during shows anyway.
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We still have most of that left (Dutch courage, the national debt, and most importantly, freedom of the press, not sure about the revolution (maybe it would be good (-; )) NachtVorst
Yes, they could easily identify me, there's no chance to do this anonymously.
I don't even think I want to do this anonymously, that way I would give the impression that I'm not confident that what I write/report is protected free speech. Ofcourse I will make sure I'm within the law before I would post anything, therefore I will also accept responsibilty for it (within dutch law, which I still have some faith in).
It might be a Good Idea to do this as a journal entry (would be my first), that way it would at least attract some attention if Sony does decide to make a fuss about it.
Not that I have any really shocking new facts to reveal or anything, it just confirms what everyone already knows (or should know): Sony (or insert your fav. mega-corp/industry lobby group/religous lobby group here) only cares about money and control and is always looking for new ways to screw their customers and Artists, while spouting marketing-lingo to make the customers, bands and other labels think everything is done in their best interest.
NachtVorst
No, no such statements at all... This might be worth a try... I'll consult a friend who just finished his Law-studies first, just to be sure.
NachtVorst
But no - the RIAA hasn't learned what the Software industry has learned. Go after the big illegal distributors, and leave the little guys alone.
So very true, but they are still hoping to take out both 'professional' and 'casual' pirates. At least Sony is. I asked them for info on their key2audio 'protection', posing as a small record-company, and they told me it was to stop 'casual copying' (their words), which is ofcourse what (small) labels want to hear. Today they had a statement in the newspaper (here in Holland, de Volkskrant) that it was mainly meant to stop the 'big pirates', which is ofcourse what the public wants to hear.
I was glad to see the mainstream media give attention to this issue, but disappointed that they gave Sony such a nice chance to 'legitimize' their 'protection' to the public. Their answers to the questions I asked them already made it clear they don't give a fsck about the public. There were a lot of funny answers in their e-mail, I should put it on the web, maybe. Does anyone know if it's legal to make an e-mail, sent to you personaly, public? I'd rather not get sued by Sony, but it would help the public to know the other side of the story.
NachtVorst
When I firsted glanced the headline, I swear I saw "Your Own Linux Submarine?"... Shouldn't that be a GNU/Linux submarine anyway?
It made me laugh enough to read the article, even though it's not a Linux submarine... This is a pretty cool toy, it even has an F-16 Style Joystick! But I agree it needs some torpedoes to be a True Submarine(r)...
*Wanders of singing: "We all live in a Linux submarine, a Linux submarine, GNU/Linux submarine..."*
I do just that...
My TV-set got wet, after which the picture was still good, but the tuner part is fried, so the TV-set became as good as useless.
I don't watch much TV, so I didn't want to buy a new set and decided to buy a cheap TV-card for my PC. It was only after I bought the card that I finally realized that when I hook the TV-out on my videocard to my non-tuning TV-set, I could use the PC as a tuner and use the TV-set again, only better, as I can now watch DVD's, DivX's, and normal TV on the nice big TV-screen, with the sound coming through my stereo, instead of the small speakers on the TV-set.
don't forget to compare atrocities and ill-actions done by other governments in the same time period.
I'm thinking very hard here, but I can't think of any country comming even close to the list of American atrocities listed above (which seems far from complete). Sure, no country is innocent in this aspect either, but when it comes to being *bad*, as you put it, I think the USA is #1.
Please give some examples of other counries that have a reputation in this equal to the USA...
Don't like MS, fine. But come on slashdot - GROW UP! This is business!
;)
Yes, it is business, and I assume it's legal in the USA, but is this normal?
Here in Holland you get a heavy fine if you slander your competitors like this, especially if you can't prove your statements. Forbidding misleading and slandering advertisement protects the citizens/consumers but also give the ads that are allowed more credibility, because the consumers know that the misleading/slandering ads are filtered out. I think these ads would be cause for pretty stiff fines over here, even if most of the statements would be true.
btw, I don't quite agree with the Cheerios analogy... That would be calling Unix a "generic wanna be MS-Windows".
oh, and don't call me a hippie
Ofcourse, you're more than welcome, we can always use more geeks here...
I'm glad there's finally a judge that applies logic to this situation, intead of listening to the coprporations, but I agree the USA will not like this at all.
Maybe they will add us (Holland) to the ever-growing list of 'rogue-states', or create a new 'axis of piracy*' (Holland, Russia, SE-Asia)
Seeing the current state of US law (copyright and otherwise), that would almost seem like a Good Thing. Once again, I'm glad to live in Holland, with reasonably sane laws, government an people.
* Ofcourse, the Dutch stop piracy (men in boats robbing other boats and saying 'har, har') a few hundred years ago, these days we're just into copyright-infringemnt (sp?)
"And if somebody tries to take my plane, we'll all have our own knives and guns aboard to stop them in their tracks. Who's with me?"
Yes, great idea, let's all start shooting guns in the plane, at least then we know for sure we'll die.
"We've been doubling sales every 18 months. However, when you start from zero, it takes a long while."
Uhmm.. exactly how long does it take to double your sales when they start at zero? If they hire me I can show them how to double their sales every day, or every hour or minute, whatever they want.
Thanks, now I finally know what that button does :)
I pasted the text to an editor to read it.
Black text on dark-grey, that's even harder to read than the new 3rd edition d&d rulebooks
I've found the Chainmail rules (scanned originals) on various p2p networks... Kazaa (before they succumbed to the dark side) and eDonkey for sure, probably on others too...
It's pretty cool to browse those pieces of history, a lot of the other 'ancient' d&d-stuff is out there too.
I never said they should use UNIX-machines (though ofcourse they should ;-) ), just that it would be nice if they accepted standard, common formats for your resume other than .doc files.
On the other hand, it would also be nice if the HR-person that hires you for a UNIX-job, knows a little bit about UNIX and UNIX-folks. Then again, I don't know if you're in a situation to be picky about your employer/job.
I think I'll spare my head (and my wall) and just stop trying to understand American law and 'justice'.
Thanks, that makes sense...
Still, if I were M$ (damn, what a ghastly thought), I'd say "screw this settlement, if you can't make it stick, drop the charges or spend another decade trying to make it stick, cause in ten years we will own you anyway".
If M$ does settle it means they weren't quite convinced the justice department can't make this stick.
I sure hope the EU monopoly-trial goes better (I can dream, can't I?)...
I couldn't even submit a resume for a job working on Unix without the document being in WORD.
;-). If they only accept M$-crap, not even plain-text or HTML, then the UNIX-folks probably don't have any influence in the company.
Seems like a good hint you're applying with the wrong company
It's probaly at bit late in the trial to ask, but anyways...
Why are they settling at all? Either M$ broke the law, in which case they get their punishment, or they haven't broken the law, and they don't get punished...
This would be like a judge telling me "I think you killed this man, but I can't make the evidence 'stick', so let's settle at, say, half the normal sentence."
Basically they say "we can't prove they're guilty" in which case the old 'innocent until proven guilty' applies (sadly enough in this case)...
From the FAQ: What consultations has the Commission undertaken on this issue?
....Most recently, a discussion document was published on the Europa website on 19 October 2000 (see http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indpr op/softpaten.htm .... bla, bla .... r op/softpatanalyse.htm
The consultation produced 1447 responses, the overwhelming majority by e-mail. An analysis of these responses is available at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indp
Many of the responses supporting a more restrictive approach than at present, with fewer patents being granted, were transmitted through an open forum set up by the "Eurolinux Alliance", a group of companies and other entities supporting the development of open source software such as Linux. Although this group numerically dominated (90%) the response, the major sectoral bodies representing the information and communication technology industries, as well as many of the Member States, all supported the approach put forward by the discussion paper. Some responses argued for eligibility for patents to be widened in line with the practice in the US.
To me this translates as : "Let's just take the 10% of responses that agree with us (us being the EU), and ignore the other 90%, because those people are just hackers/crackers, who didn't even try to bribe us" Why the hell would you have a call for public comments only to ignore 90% of it?
Also, the consulting firm they hired to analyse the comments doen't seem to think much of the open-source movement either. Funny thing is the firm doesn't even have a website. I wonder what were the criteria to hire them.
We are, say some people who study such things, at a critical place in history..."
And exactly why is this more 'critical' then any other moment in history?
Please, only use phrases like this, or 'the world will never be the same..', or 'this will change our lives forever', etc, etc, only if you really mean it, not just because you think it makes your article sound more important.
I hate those Katz articles, but I love the discussions it generates. Especially the way all of his points get torpedoed one-by-one.
It has already been done... Check out this hand-powered web server
Oh, here's the link, I pressed submit too soon in the prev. post..1 248000/1248278.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
According to my memory and this BBC article I just found...
The 1997 agreement was signed by the Clinton administration, European Union member states and Japan, but the White House says Mr Bush does not support it and is calling for a cabinet review of climate change policy.
I read somewhere that calling for a policy review right now is like calling for a review of fire-safety while your house is burning down.
In a way the TV-companies are responsible for this themselves.
.WMF.ASF , with keyframes every 5 minutes or so, instead of nice divX with a keyframe every second.
I live in Holland, and I like to watch sci-fi shows (Red Dwarf, Farscape, Trek, etc..). However, most of these shows don't run here at all, with the exception of Trek and Red Dwarf on the BBC.
I read all about Enterprise on the net, and was quite curious what it would be like. The only way to watch Enterprise (or The final season of Voyager, or Farscape, or Scifi-channels Dune, etc...) is to download the rips from KaZaa/E-Donkey/IRC/Whatever. If I had to wait for dutch TV or the beeb to show this, I'd still be waiting at least 6 months, now I get to see the shows within a few days of the first airing in the USA.
These days, the only way I use my TV-set is to view downloaded episodes using the tv-out on my PC, this way I get the sound over my stereo too, which is a nice improvement. The only thing that sucks is that some people think it's good to pir episodes in crappy
The good side is I never have to hear that fsck-uped intro to Enterprise anymore... The person who made that intro needs to be killed in a slow and horribly painfull way.
Oh, and about the comercials, neither dutch (Public) TV nor BBC show commercials during shows anyway.