Before you support Rep. Boucher, you should know he supported the DMCA in 1998.
"...I am pleased to rise today in support of the passage of H.R. 2281, which will extend new protections against the theft of their works to copyright owners."
Full text of his DMCA speech:
DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (House of Representatives - August 04, 1998)
Mr. BOUCHER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) for yielding this time to me, and I am pleased to rise today in support of the passage of H.R. 2281, which will extend new protections against the theft of their works to copyright owners.
Madam Speaker, new protections are needed due to the ease with which flawless copies of copyrighted materials can both be made and transmitted in the digital network environment. Essential, however, to the creation of new guarantees for copyright owners is the retention of the traditional rights of the users of intellectual property. A balance has always existed in our law between these conflicting interests, and the major challenge in the writing of this legislation is to assure that no fundamental altering of that delicate balance takes place.
Another challenge is to ensure that in the effort to eliminate devices that are designed and produced to make illegal copies of copyrighted materials, that legitimate consumer electronics products are not also placed in a category of legal uncertainty.
Today I want to offer congratulations primarily to the Members of the House Committee on Commerce who have devoted long hours in the effort to assure that these challenges are met. Specifically, the Committee on Commerce has added provisions that protect personal privacy by clearly permitting personal computer owners to disable cookies that are placed on their disks by others; that allow the encryption research that will lead to a new generation of trusted and secure systems; that give equipment manufacturers the certainty that their consumer electronics products need not affirmatively accommodate all technological protection measures; and that creative procedure for assuring the continuation of the fair use rights of the American public, a procedure that will prevent material that is generally available today under fair use being locked away in a pay-per-use regime in future years.
[TIME: 1400]
Report language also specifies that the technological protection measure circumvention restrictions will not apply when manufacturers, retailers and technicians need to make adjustments to devices to ensure that their performance is not degraded as a consequence of the installation of a technological protection measure. These changes, taken together, significantly improve the original legislation.
The gentleman from Virginia (Chairman Bliley), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Klug), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), among others, deserve thanks for their successful efforts to create new copyright protections, while ensuring that traditional user rights are not undermined.
The Committee on Commerce has, in the manner for which it is known, mastered the intricate details of this complex subject and has produced a balanced result. I want to offer my congratulations to all who have been involved in that outstanding effort.
It is my pleasure to urge passage of H.R. 2281.
Madam Speaker, I will insert in the record correspondence from the subcommittee chairman, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble), to the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) and myself, which further defines the terminology that is used in the statute.
I've seen some IDEs so ugly I wouldn't touch them. Notably those that make you work with multiple windows that take up five positions on the task bar instead of having a workspace that you dock windows in. Also, especially with Linux, having usable widgets is not a given.. I cringe when I see buttons that total maybe 30 pixels or less.
The FCC fought hard against US West to keep them from giving out CPNI (individually identifiable call information). It first issued an order saying CPNI is the consumer's property, and should not be given away without consent.
US West then appealed to the 10th circuit court of appeals, where it overturned the FCC's order. The reason? The FCC didn't consider US West's right to "corporate speech".
US West argues the first amendment on two points. First, that it prevents it from speaking to its own customers:
US West contends the CPNI Order "violates the First Amendment by requiring that carriers secure prior affirmative consents from customers before using individually-identifiable customer information to speak with their customers on an individualized basis about services beyond the 'categories' of telecommunications services to which they currently subscribe." US West's Opening Brief at 22. In other words, US West suggests the CPNI Order unduly limits its ability to engage in commercial speech with its existing customers regarding new products and services it may offer.
and then more seriously, from the ability to "share and use CPNI internally". I'm pretty sure sharing here means with other companies...
US West also claims the CPNI Order "restricts the ability of carriers to share and use CPNI internally to have different divisions, affiliates, and personnel within the same carrier communicate information to each other (i.e., to speak to each other), absent a prior affirmative consent from the customer."
since a few paragraphs up, it is mentioned in an example clarifying the Telcom Act of 1996:
For example, petitioner could use CPNI obtained through the provision of local service to market other local service products, but not cellular services. Moreover, if the customer subscribes to both local and long-distance services, petitioner could use the CPNI to market either service and could exchange the CPNI between affiliates that provide such services, but petitioner could still not use the CPNI to market cellular services.
And the court agrees:
We vacate the FCC's CPNI Order, concluding that the FCC failed to adequately consider the constitutional ramifications of the regulations interpreting 222 and that the regulations violate the First Amendment.
"Question 37: Do you fear that Microsoft will change the spec and render Mono useless?
No. Microsoft proved with the CLI and the C# language that it was possible to create a powerful foundation for many languages to interoperate. We will always have that.
Even if changes happened in the platform which were undocumented, the existing platform would a value on its own."
Mono will be useful no matter what Microsoft does. Mono is taking Microsoft's expensive, paid-for research and applying it.
I went to KDE.org, and the installation instructions for KDE 3 still start out with "First, you will need this library. Now, here's a list of packages you will be installing..." I installed Gnome a year ago with Ximian's go-gnome script, which was totally painless. Is anything like this in the works for KDE?
DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (House of Representatives - August 04, 1998)
Mr. BOUCHER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) for yielding this time to me, and I am pleased to rise today in support of the passage of H.R. 2281, which will extend new protections against the theft of their works to copyright owners.
Madam Speaker, new protections are needed due to the ease with which flawless copies of copyrighted materials can both be made and transmitted in the digital network environment. Essential, however, to the creation of new guarantees for copyright owners is the retention of the traditional rights of the users of intellectual property. A balance has always existed in our law between these conflicting interests, and the major challenge in the writing of this legislation is to assure that no fundamental altering of that delicate balance takes place.
Another challenge is to ensure that in the effort to eliminate devices that are designed and produced to make illegal copies of copyrighted materials, that legitimate consumer electronics products are not also placed in a category of legal uncertainty.
Today I want to offer congratulations primarily to the Members of the House Committee on Commerce who have devoted long hours in the effort to assure that these challenges are met. Specifically, the Committee on Commerce has added provisions that protect personal privacy by clearly permitting personal computer owners to disable cookies that are placed on their disks by others; that allow the encryption research that will lead to a new generation of trusted and secure systems; that give equipment manufacturers the certainty that their consumer electronics products need not affirmatively accommodate all technological protection measures; and that creative procedure for assuring the continuation of the fair use rights of the American public, a procedure that will prevent material that is generally available today under fair use being locked away in a pay-per-use regime in future years.
[TIME: 1400]
Report language also specifies that the technological protection measure circumvention restrictions will not apply when manufacturers, retailers and technicians need to make adjustments to devices to ensure that their performance is not degraded as a consequence of the installation of a technological protection measure. These changes, taken together, significantly improve the original legislation.
The gentleman from Virginia (Chairman Bliley), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Klug), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), among others, deserve thanks for their successful efforts to create new copyright protections, while ensuring that traditional user rights are not undermined.
The Committee on Commerce has, in the manner for which it is known, mastered the intricate details of this complex subject and has produced a balanced result. I want to offer my congratulations to all who have been involved in that outstanding effort.
It is my pleasure to urge passage of H.R. 2281.
Madam Speaker, I will insert in the record correspondence from the subcommittee chairman, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble), to the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) and myself, which further defines the terminology that is used in the statute.
"...I am pleased to rise today in support of the passage of H.R. 2281, which will extend new protections against the theft of their works to copyright owners."
They might set up laptops with shared source for anyone to browse. In a few seconds you could make yourself ineligible to ever work on a related open source project.
They might further call for developers to port their shared source.NET CLR to Linux, claiming that it would be faster to port and superior to Mono due to more people (MS developers) having worked on it.
"Linux provides a far superior development model, allowing publishers to statically link the correct library into their binary."
Statically linking all your libraries is not a solution to DLL hell.
Instead of DLLs lying around you now have large binaries.
Programs can't share code like they can with DLLs and SOs. In Windows, the code to display and operate a button can be loaded once in memory and used by many different programs. Statically linked programs need their own copies.
Static linking is a matter of having the source, not using Linux.
I found the two XML files you need to change, at least for JDT and the global key bindings. Globals are in plugins\org.eclipse.ui_2.0.0\plugin.xml and the JDT (Java editor) bindings are in plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.ui_2.0.0\plugin.xml.
It doesn't look like it's easy to change key bindings, but I just want to change one, and I'm willing to recompile for it. Anyone have a link?
I'm very happy to see built-in code reformatting, and that you can bind things to the tab key without a modifier. Now I just need to put them together.
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Before you support Rep. Boucher, you should know he supported the DMCA in 1998.
"...I am pleased to rise today in support of the passage of H.R. 2281, which will extend new protections against the theft of their works to copyright owners."
Full text of his DMCA speech: To see the full text:
I've seen some IDEs so ugly I wouldn't touch them. Notably those that make you work with multiple windows that take up five positions on the task bar instead of having a workspace that you dock windows in. Also, especially with Linux, having usable widgets is not a given.. I cringe when I see buttons that total maybe 30 pixels or less.
If you happen to want a full-fledged high-quality IDE and an amazing documentation browser...
or simpler things like an optimizing compiler...
US West then appealed to the 10th circuit court of appeals, where it overturned the FCC's order. The reason? The FCC didn't consider US West's right to "corporate speech".
US West argues the first amendment on two points. First, that it prevents it from speaking to its own customers: and then more seriously, from the ability to "share and use CPNI internally". I'm pretty sure sharing here means with other companies... since a few paragraphs up, it is mentioned in an example clarifying the Telcom Act of 1996: And the court agrees:
Yep, you need those exact words, otherwise they can go "list? what list? I just want to tell you about this amazing offer..."
Linux has no critical period.
Linux doesn't care about business cycles.
Linux doesn't need a market.
Linux will always survive to fight another day.
Linux doesn't need anything.
Linux will live through FUD.
Linux has a future.
Linux will not die.
Or you can use SharpDevelop, specifically written to use the free compiler in the .NET framework SDK.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have a GUI editor to work with WinForms yet. This attempt is the best I've seen.
If you do that the resolution changes, but the virtual desktop stays the same size. Not what most people want.
I went to KDE.org, and the installation instructions for KDE 3 still start out with "First, you will need this library. Now, here's a list of packages you will be installing..." I installed Gnome a year ago with Ximian's go-gnome script, which was totally painless. Is anything like this in the works for KDE?
OpenGL may be popular with some amateur programmers, but practically every game released today uses Direct3D except for those by id.
DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (House of Representatives - August 04, 1998)
Mr. BOUCHER. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) for yielding this time to me, and I am pleased to rise today in support of the passage of H.R. 2281, which will extend new protections against the theft of their works to copyright owners.
Madam Speaker, new protections are needed due to the ease with which flawless copies of copyrighted materials can both be made and transmitted in the digital network environment. Essential, however, to the creation of new guarantees for copyright owners is the retention of the traditional rights of the users of intellectual property. A balance has always existed in our law between these conflicting interests, and the major challenge in the writing of this legislation is to assure that no fundamental altering of that delicate balance takes place.
Another challenge is to ensure that in the effort to eliminate devices that are designed and produced to make illegal copies of copyrighted materials, that legitimate consumer electronics products are not also placed in a category of legal uncertainty.
Today I want to offer congratulations primarily to the Members of the House Committee on Commerce who have devoted long hours in the effort to assure that these challenges are met. Specifically, the Committee on Commerce has added provisions that protect personal privacy by clearly permitting personal computer owners to disable cookies that are placed on their disks by others; that allow the encryption research that will lead to a new generation of trusted and secure systems; that give equipment manufacturers the certainty that their consumer electronics products need not affirmatively accommodate all technological protection measures; and that creative procedure for assuring the continuation of the fair use rights of the American public, a procedure that will prevent material that is generally available today under fair use being locked away in a pay-per-use regime in future years.
[TIME: 1400]
Report language also specifies that the technological protection measure circumvention restrictions will not apply when manufacturers, retailers and technicians need to make adjustments to devices to ensure that their performance is not degraded as a consequence of the installation of a technological protection measure. These changes, taken together, significantly improve the original legislation.
The gentleman from Virginia (Chairman Bliley), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Klug), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), among others, deserve thanks for their successful efforts to create new copyright protections, while ensuring that traditional user rights are not undermined.
The Committee on Commerce has, in the manner for which it is known, mastered the intricate details of this complex subject and has produced a balanced result. I want to offer my congratulations to all who have been involved in that outstanding effort.
It is my pleasure to urge passage of H.R. 2281.
Madam Speaker, I will insert in the record correspondence from the subcommittee chairman, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble), to the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) and myself, which further defines the terminology that is used in the statute.
"...I am pleased to rise today in support of the passage of H.R. 2281, which will extend new protections against the theft of their works to copyright owners."
To see the full text of his DMCA speech:
They might set up laptops with shared source for anyone to browse. In a few seconds you could make yourself ineligible to ever work on a related open source project.
.NET CLR to Linux, claiming that it would be faster to port and superior to Mono due to more people (MS developers) having worked on it.
They might further call for developers to port their shared source
http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2002_01/magazine /columns/jfinsel/
Now we know who to watch as they grow up for signs of brain damage, though it probably won't be cancer.
I found the two XML files you need to change, at least for JDT and the global key bindings. Globals are in plugins\org.eclipse.ui_2.0.0\plugin.xml and the JDT (Java editor) bindings are in plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.ui_2.0.0\plugin.xml.
It doesn't look like it's easy to change key bindings, but I just want to change one, and I'm willing to recompile for it. Anyone have a link?
I'm very happy to see built-in code reformatting, and that you can bind things to the tab key without a modifier. Now I just need to put them together.
Over nothing?
We're just taking NPR at its word, like the courts would if NPR decided to sue.
They could add that to a list of referrers they'd allow then, since the form requests the exact URL that would contain the link.
It's trivial to block linking by looking at the referrer field and only allowing access if it's empty or from npr.org.
Why would NPR rather sue people than just prevent it at the source?
Here's the Quantum Teleportation page at ANU, which has a brief interview with Ping Koy Lam on the research page:
6 225/quantum.html
http://bohm.anu.edu.au/units/public/phys1007/s329
When will we get pictures of Earth-sized planets with enough resolution to see the general geography of the planet?
Take the counter-offer for a job you're happy with and risk being the first to be layed off when times are tough..
*munches on the McD's cheeseburger taken home from work*
or risk taking a new job and having it not work out..
*notices I'm down to my last ramen packet for tonight's dinner*
This drama isn't as interesting as last night's Star Trek, but I'll e-mail it to my friends.