Translation: He is a paid drone with no firm convictions, i.e., perfect for gov't work. He might as well be in the army.
Or an employee anywhere. If you take public positions opposing your employer, and it's easy to identify you and your employer, you're not likely to have a job for very long either. The more prominent a position you hold in your employer's organization, the more true this is. If you're a senior executive where you work, and your bosses don't have a problem with your going out and telling everyone that they're full of it, good for you, but I really doubt that's the case.
[blockquote] The interesting thing is that Ashcroft actually spoke out for copyrights when he was a senator.... He seems to have done a 180 since he became AG.[/blockquote]Ashcroft's job as a Senator was to make law. Ashcroft's job as Attorney General is to enforce and defend the law. Whether or not he supports the law, he is obligated to defend it to the best of his ability. Whether or not he should be lobbying Congress for changes in the laws is debatable, but he shouldn't be criticised for doing the job he's supposed to be doing.
Not just rural areas - Austin, TX is typically ranked as one of the most wired cities in the country, and the local ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and WB affiliates are all UHF. The Fox affiliate, and two unaffiliated stations, are VHF.
I'd rather deal with one problem that's the same on every machine than all different problems on different machines, usually.
When it's a security vulnerability, in an essential (for you) service, and you're at the mercy of the vendor to provide a fix? Having multiple options means that to may be able to move the service to a different server from a different vendor which doesn't have the vulnerability. Having a single option means that you're stuck with the problem.
Oddly enough, I don't remember there being much talk of CD copy-protection schemes before P2P mp3 trading services became popular
Then you weren't paying attention. When Digital Audio Tapes were being introduced, the music industry was concerned about people copying CDs to DATs. As a result, the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 was passed. This 1987 technofile even points out the implications for computers as well. Of course, this effectively killed DAT, since rather than purchasing recorders which couldn't record, consumers continued to purchase analog tape decks which could - at least until CD-Rs became affordable. Don't fool yourself - the entertainment industry is no friend of the consumer, and never has been. Sometimes consumers win (Sony v. Universal), but more often we lose (AHRA, DMCA, etc.).
Make the things cheap, aand give everyone 4 years to become compliant.
That isn't going to happen. The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards don't even require that high-mounted brake lights be retrofitted into older cars, and that's an extremely inexpensive addition. Retrofitting a wireless networking system that displays on the dash would require extensive modifications of the systems of older vehicles, and it simply isn't going to be mandated.
If for no other reason than to force there to be an actual cost for LE in a search - I doubt that ISPs get to bill LE for the cost of handling searches. The cop may not be able to perform the search, but should certainly be supervising it - they aren't supposed to be sitting in the lobby eating donuts while the ISP techs are gathering data.
The Authors Guild is just that. It's an entity set up to look out for the interests of the authors---not the publishers, the venders, or the readers
The Authors Guild isn't going this alone. They're marching shoulder-to-sholder with the Association of American Publishers in this attack on used books, and are looking out for what they perceive to be a shared interest of authors and publishers.
The Authors Guild made a business decision for the good of their members.
The short term good, perhaps, but not the long term good. They're trying to maximize profits on sales to current readers of their authors, while reducing the possibility of growing their audience by allowing new readers to take less of a financial risk on an untried (by the new reader) author.
Your library analogy is interesting, but I think you miss the core point of the guild's arguements. Their complaint revolves around selling new books and used ones side-by-side.
No, they're going after uses of books without per-user compensation. I've been in many book stores which sell both new and used books, which will buy back used books in good condition at 25-50% of cover price, and resell them at 50-75% of cover price right along with new copies. Even their argument regarding the sale of review copies is bogus, as the New York Times article pointed out that they have been available for resale in media centers for years. The Authors Guild allies in the AAP seem to be hostile to the entire notion of used book sales being legal, and it wouldn't surprise me if they try to come up with a bill to block them which will pass Supreme Court review.
Regarding your assertation to avoid buying new books. I'd like to quote sf/fantasy author Michael Stackpole
First, he's wrong. Authors do get paid for the books which are sold used - when they were first sold. If he's dissatisfied with his share of the profits from the first sale, then it's an issue for authors to address with publishers, rather than an excuse to attack readers who want to buy a used book, or booksellers who want to sell them. Second, if he's dissatisfied with how used book sales are (not) tracked, again, it's an issue for authors to take up with publishers. Finally, he uses the sales of an "average" science fiction book selling less than 20,000 copies, but in the appeal that you linked, he indicated that his publisher(s) was considering dropping him with sales of 30,000 copies, which means that those 20,000-and-under authors aren't going to be making a living writing science fiction, no matter what the royalty rate is.
Look, I do buy in-print books from authors who I know and enjoy new, not used, but there's no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to buy a book, no matter how recently published, second-hand, other than the greed of the authors and publishers. From what I've read, most publishers are nearly as good as RIAA members at screwing over the people who actually produce the content that they are selling. However, that fact doesn't mean that I'm any more willing to line the pockets of a publisher and pay an overinflated price for a book than I am for a CD, just to put a few pennies in the pockets of an author, especially when I've never read that author before.
To: staff@authorsguild.com Subject: Pressing Amazon.com to alter its marketing of used books
Dear Authors Guild, I have read your letter to Jeffrey Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, and am appalled at your position. Are you next going to attack public libraries for making books freely available for loan, or individuals for loaning a book to a friend? After all, these loans "earn no payment for the authors and publishers of the books in question", meaning that, according to you, "book authors and publishers aren't adequately compensated for their work", "directly harming authors and publishers". Clearly, this is ludicrious, but it is the logical next step for your position, which apparently desires a pay-per-use model. Since you have chosen to advise your members to de-link Amazon.com and instead use Barnesandnoble.com and "especially" BookSense.com, I will advise my friends, family, and associates to avoid purchasing new books by your members, and instead patronize used book stores, the Amazon.com Marketplace, and especially public libraries for books by your members.
For when the people you chat with are sitting 6 feet away.®
As they might be when you're trapped in a mind-numbing company meeting. It can look like you're diligently taking notes, when in reality you're playing Buzzword Bingo against your friends.
Long before September 11 and last year's virus-like attacks over the Internet, the United States government announced plans to train an elite corps of computer security experts [...] Oh come on, do you really beleive that?
Since I heard about these scholarships two years ago, yup. And here and here are articles from two years ago about the program. I'm sure you can find enough references, from enough different sources, on your own to satisfy all but the most devoted conspiracy theorist that these weren't all planted recently.
Considering that one of the core principals of spam activists used to be "content doesn't matter", it's quite arguable. Unsolicited bulk email is unsolicited bulk email, whether it is sent to make money, promote a political candidate, solicit donations to a charity, or test if an alleged open relay is, in fact, open.
Now I bet that this dongle would leave you high and dry when some idiot went crazy buying fuel and burgers on your tab.
Insightful? More like clueless. Exxon/Mobil makes it quite clear that you're protected from unauthorized usage. As for "walking a wee bit too close to the pumps", you'd have to be staggering around the pumps. The dongle version of the Speedpass needs to be right up against the sensor to work, so inadvertantly activating it isn't likely, and : can't see them giving this watch version more than a couple inces in range.
Due to an overloaded utility name. I was looking at SD on my Windows ME system, but I see what you're describing on my 2K box. NSW installs different versions of Norton Utilities on 9x/ME and NT/2K/XP, including different versions of Speed Disk. The latter version clearly doesn't offer the ability to wipe free space.
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Linux is not a charity case
The free software foundation is, in fact, a charity.
The FSF is not Linux. Linux development may depend upon FSF-sponsored tools, and Linux distributions may include FSF-sponsored code, but that still does not make Linux a chairity case.
1. GNU and Linux were never excuses to leech everything. That was never Stallman's point.
Actually, setting aside the inflammatory term leech, it was always Stallman's point. According to him, code should be freely available, to the end user, and the end user should be free to do anything she wants with the code, including and especially make copies and share them, whether or not the end user can contribute anything back to the community. He doesn't encourage breaking the law, but I seriously doubt that he spent more money on Loki games than the pirates did.
Also, after I bought System Works for 2002, I noticed that there is no longer a "Wipe Free Space" option in either Wipe Info or Speed Disk. What gives?
Where are you looking? I'm running SW 2002 Speed Disk right now, and in the Properties|Options dialog, at the bottom are Security Options: Verify Writes and Wipe Free Space.
The email is pretty easy to enforce because we use Lotus Notes. The deletion takes place on the server copy and the deletes are replicated down to the local copy.
I have a DTivo and it's never recorded the wrong thing in a "zim" slot. It's also always had episode descriptions. I suggest you yell at TMS and Tivo about the SA having bad/stale guide data.
Well, my SA TiVo often doesn't have episode descriptions for Invader Zim (ditto for many shows on Cartoon Network (it would be good to see IZ move to Adult Swim)), but I've never gotten the wrong thing in the slot, aside from when the cabable box didn't get all of the channel.
(I highly recommend the DTivo.)
Wish I could, but my apartment balcony is a north facing.;(
Anyway, you can usually get a generic "state ID card."
And in how many states are the state ID cards issued by the same agency that issues drivers licenses? And do you think that they'd fail to require the same features in the ID cards as are in the drivers licenses?
I worked for a company that maintained a number of mailing lists - which I know were strictly opt-in
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the business people were always changing the names of the lists, and merging the lists, and splitting the lists,
I might agree that the lists were strictly opt-in if lists were split (since the subscribers opted in for all of the content which is now on multiple lists), but if I can't call it opt-in if lists were merged (since people who were not on all of the lists did not opt in to material from them).
-Check to see if it has unsubscribe instructions. Yes, I know, every spam these days says "mail jessica12345@hotmail.com to unsubscribe!", but if you get a message from "newsletter@example.com" that says "You are receiving this message because you subscribed to the Foo Newsletter at http://www.example.com/subscribe; to unsubscribe, simply forward this message to unsubscribe@example.com; if you have a question or a problem, please contact us at newsletter@example.com" - then it's probably real and MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY ACTUALLY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Been there, done that, seen how often it works. In fact, I see the "because you subscribed" notices more often in emails sent to an email address I never use (my account at the ISP that hosts my domains), than in email sent to addresses which are actually subscribed to mailing lists.
Don't you know, Bernie was a founding member of the US Internet Industry Association. What's next, him holding a "WILL SPAM FOR FOOD" sign at Soldier Field?
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And that's truly astonishing, since the cost of lawyers paying of a legislature should be extremely low (professional courtesy).
[blockquote] The interesting thing is that Ashcroft actually spoke out for copyrights when he was a senator. ... He seems to have done a 180 since he became AG.[/blockquote]Ashcroft's job as a Senator was to make law. Ashcroft's job as Attorney General is to enforce and defend the law. Whether or not he supports the law, he is obligated to defend it to the best of his ability. Whether or not he should be lobbying Congress for changes in the laws is debatable, but he shouldn't be criticised for doing the job he's supposed to be doing.
Not just rural areas - Austin, TX is typically ranked as one of the most wired cities in the country, and the local ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and WB affiliates are all UHF. The Fox affiliate, and two unaffiliated stations, are VHF.
Don't fool yourself - the entertainment industry is no friend of the consumer, and never has been. Sometimes consumers win (Sony v. Universal), but more often we lose (AHRA, DMCA, etc.).
If for no other reason than to force there to be an actual cost for LE in a search - I doubt that ISPs get to bill LE for the cost of handling searches. The cop may not be able to perform the search, but should certainly be supervising it - they aren't supposed to be sitting in the lobby eating donuts while the ISP techs are gathering data.
Look, I do buy in-print books from authors who I know and enjoy new, not used, but there's no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to buy a book, no matter how recently published, second-hand, other than the greed of the authors and publishers. From what I've read, most publishers are nearly as good as RIAA members at screwing over the people who actually produce the content that they are selling. However, that fact doesn't mean that I'm any more willing to line the pockets of a publisher and pay an overinflated price for a book than I am for a CD, just to put a few pennies in the pockets of an author, especially when I've never read that author before.
To: staff@authorsguild.com
Subject: Pressing Amazon.com to alter its marketing of used books
Dear Authors Guild,
I have read your letter to Jeffrey Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, and am appalled at your position. Are you next going to attack public libraries for making books freely available for loan, or individuals for loaning a book to a friend? After all, these loans "earn no payment for the authors and publishers of the books in question", meaning that, according to you, "book authors and publishers aren't adequately compensated for their work", "directly harming authors and publishers".
Clearly, this is ludicrious, but it is the logical next step for your position, which apparently desires a pay-per-use model. Since you have chosen to advise your members to de-link Amazon.com and instead use Barnesandnoble.com and "especially" BookSense.com, I will advise my friends, family, and associates to avoid purchasing new books by your members, and instead patronize used book stores, the Amazon.com Marketplace, and especially public libraries for books by your members.
Considering that one of the core principals of spam activists used to be "content doesn't matter", it's quite arguable. Unsolicited bulk email is unsolicited bulk email, whether it is sent to make money, promote a political candidate, solicit donations to a charity, or test if an alleged open relay is, in fact, open.
Don't you know, Bernie was a founding member of the US Internet Industry Association. What's next, him holding a "WILL SPAM FOR FOOD" sign at Soldier Field?