You can't get damages from a publisher if one author of a short story collection lied about the authorship, nor can you collect from the bookstores and purchasers.
Unfortunately, the trend in litigation is to go after whoever can pay, by reading additional duties into existing laws. If you serve drinks at a party, and a partygoer kills someone while driving home drunk, who is liable? It would make sense that the driver is solely liable for his or her actions, but in fact recent rulings indicate that the host has a duty of care!
So can anyone honestly believe that it is impossible for end users or publishers to be found liable? Of course not.
A dynamic IP won't save you from a subopena and law enforcement hitting up your ISP provider for your exact personal info. Especially since you'd likely be breaking the ISP's TOS again by sharing copyrighted material.
I agree, but if the law is looking at Kazaa, and not at httpd, why not go with httpd? Security through obscurity is not always a bad idea.
Presumably, if you were doing this, you would have a niche ISP that allowed you to use port 80. And Kazaa won't save you from huge bandwidth usage or the ISP's TOS, either.
takes a semi-technically inclined person to do it, webspace costs money,
I agree with some of your points, but not these two. If you have broadband and know what you're doing, why not install apache, open up port 80, and start sharing? The only problem is your dynamic IP address, but that's nota bug, that's a feature, because it will change before the authorities will figure it out. You and all your sharing buddies can agree to post your new IP addresses at a designated place on Geocities or something. Pretty anonymous.
Yes, and when HardOCP called that office building, Infimum was not listed as a tenant, and the 8th floor (where the offices were allegedly located) was vacant.
HardOCP also sent a photographer to the address of the company's alleged headquarters, and found a strip mall.
I was already saving for a G4 powerbook. Now I have to start saving for a G5 powerbook. At this rate I will own a powerbook when the sun is a cold, dark lump of coal. Great business model, Apple.
The best way to read the NewsForge article is that Tim Roberts trolled Roblimo. I'm impressed... trolls, take note.
Read the HardOCP article first, then the NewsForge article. When Roblimo said, "He's renting high-end office space in Sarasota, Florida," soda nearly went shooting out of my nose. (I won't spoil it for you, read the articles.)
As for banned books, he's probably talking about this, the case of Little Sisters Bookstore vs. The Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Attorney General of British Columbia. Little Sisters is a gay and lesbian bookstore in Vancouver, and the case involved repeated seizures of imported books on the grounds that they were obscene.
As for thought crime, he's probably talking about an overly restrictive law on child pornography, which prohibited even personal drawings and writings that had child-pornographic content. The law has since been struck down.
Canada and the US have a fairly strong extradition treaty, and if you commit a crime in the US and run to Canada, it makes no difference whether that act is legal in Canada. With all the existing and more important disputes between the Canadian and American governments (including softwood lumber, beef imports, continental missile defence, Iraq,...), our government is not going to stick its neck out to protect you for file sharing.
But if you're thinking of emigrating to Canada, legal P2P is but one of many advantages, which also include universal health care, social libertarianism, and exciting three-down football.
But we know that some frequencies are bad for us humans. More specifically the higher freq. above some threshold.
Correct, X rays and Gamma rays with very high frequencies are known to be ionizing, and hence harmful. However, microwaves and cell phone channels have very low frequencies, far lower than visible light. About the only effect these frequencies can have is heating of tissue. After inconclusive study after inconclusive study, I think quite enough has been done on the question of whether cell phones cause cancer.
However, I will be closely following work related to the current article.
As you will surely know the electro-magnetic waves used for cell phone communication are just the same a radioactive waves used in nuclear power plants
Firstly, wrong. Only gamma rays are electromagnetic. Alpha and beta rays are highly energetic helium nuclei and electrons, respectively.
Secondly, visible light is electromagnetic rays. Think about how much of that you absorb in an average day. Augghhhh, the light!! The horrible light! Won't someone think of the children?
I find that surprising, especially if the drive is all-electric, such as in the Toyota Prius. Theoretically, an electric motor has maximum torque at zero RPM, so the pickup from a standing start should be pretty good. It seems to me that I have heard comments to this effect about the Prius.
This quote better sums up Kennedy's vision for space and technology:
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
Remember animated gifs? I remember seeng one for the first time and thinking, cool. Then everybody had one, and they went from uncool, to annoying, to laughable.
I wonder if animated gifs will make a comeback in twenty years, giving "retro" web pages that 1997 look.
I'm getting a little tired of the apologists for this guy saying that he did nothing wrong, he tried to help, and he did no damage.
If the sysadmin is aware of any unauthorized intrusion, he or she would be utterly incompetent to take the cracker's word for it that no damage was caused. Evaluating the integrity of the system is time consuming and causes major problems for the users.
Our e-mail server was once hacked -- the hacker caused no damage, but we were without e-mail for several days while our sysadmin made sure we were okay.
Firstly, technology is rarely single use, only for the military. Average citizens drive frickin' Hummvees down highway streets, for crying out loud.
Secondly, since when is it unethical for a scientist to aid the military? The world is not a nice place, and if we accept that a military is necessary, then why not have the best damn military in the world?
Thirdly, guess what, posting messages to Slashdot is using technology developed with military grants -- a hell of a lot of communication research is done with military money. Shock, horror.
Signed, a telecommunication scientist who once served in the military.
The Russians figured this one out years ago ...
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The Russians have had to do space on the cheap for years, and their response was to stick with the Soyuz capsule, which has now been in service for nearly 40 years, and is one of the most reliable launch vehicles available, and certainly far less expensive than the shuttle.
The last fatal Soyuz accident was in 1971. In 1983, a Soyuz rocket exploded on the pad, but the crew was whisked to safety thanks to an escape rocket, which is lacking on the shuttle. Given the choice, I would fly to space on a Soyuz any day over the shuttle.
Decompiling is a very crude solution. Take a compiled Linux kernel and decompile it, and try to figure out what's going on -- it will be just about impossible, if for no other reason than decompilng can't reproduce comments.
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You can't get damages from a publisher if one author of a short story collection lied about the authorship, nor can you collect from the bookstores and purchasers.
Unfortunately, the trend in litigation is to go after whoever can pay, by reading additional duties into existing laws. If you serve drinks at a party, and a partygoer kills someone while driving home drunk, who is liable? It would make sense that the driver is solely liable for his or her actions, but in fact recent rulings indicate that the host has a duty of care!
So can anyone honestly believe that it is impossible for end users or publishers to be found liable? Of course not.
Are you saying that someone who isn't technically inclined can set up Apache and figure out some, if not all, of the following
No, that's why I prefaced my comment with "if you know what you are doing". Let the masses have their Kazaa.
A dynamic IP won't save you from a subopena and law enforcement hitting up your ISP provider for your exact personal info. Especially since you'd likely be breaking the ISP's TOS again by sharing copyrighted material.
I agree, but if the law is looking at Kazaa, and not at httpd, why not go with httpd? Security through obscurity is not always a bad idea.
Presumably, if you were doing this, you would have a niche ISP that allowed you to use port 80. And Kazaa won't save you from huge bandwidth usage or the ISP's TOS, either.
takes a semi-technically inclined person to do it, webspace costs money,
I agree with some of your points, but not these two. If you have broadband and know what you're doing, why not install apache, open up port 80, and start sharing? The only problem is your dynamic IP address, but that's nota bug, that's a feature, because it will change before the authorities will figure it out. You and all your sharing buddies can agree to post your new IP addresses at a designated place on Geocities or something. Pretty anonymous.
Yes, and when HardOCP called that office building, Infimum was not listed as a tenant, and the 8th floor (where the offices were allegedly located) was vacant.
HardOCP also sent a photographer to the address of the company's alleged headquarters, and found a strip mall.
Sorry, man. I think you got taken.
I was already saving for a G4 powerbook. Now I have to start saving for a G5 powerbook. At this rate I will own a powerbook when the sun is a cold, dark lump of coal. Great business model, Apple.
The best way to read the NewsForge article is that Tim Roberts trolled Roblimo. I'm impressed ... trolls, take note.
Read the HardOCP article first, then the NewsForge article. When Roblimo said, "He's renting high-end office space in Sarasota, Florida," soda nearly went shooting out of my nose. (I won't spoil it for you, read the articles.)
That is not correct. The frequency spectrum looks like:
a violet
AM/FM/TV (lowest)
Microwave/cell
Infrared
Visible
Ultr
X Rays
Gamma rays (highest)
See also this page.
Perhaps, but the government can decide how hard to fight, by deciding how high to appeal and adverse ruling.
As for banned books, he's probably talking about this, the case of Little Sisters Bookstore vs. The Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Attorney General of British Columbia. Little Sisters is a gay and lesbian bookstore in Vancouver, and the case involved repeated seizures of imported books on the grounds that they were obscene.
As for thought crime, he's probably talking about an overly restrictive law on child pornography, which prohibited even personal drawings and writings that had child-pornographic content. The law has since been struck down.
Canada and the US have a fairly strong extradition treaty, and if you commit a crime in the US and run to Canada, it makes no difference whether that act is legal in Canada. With all the existing and more important disputes between the Canadian and American governments (including softwood lumber, beef imports, continental missile defence, Iraq, ...), our government is not going to stick its neck out to protect you for file sharing.
But if you're thinking of emigrating to Canada, legal P2P is but one of many advantages, which also include universal health care, social libertarianism, and exciting three-down football.
Lets set up tariffs. They want to farm there work offshore, lets make it so expensive to do so that they will lose money outsourcing.
...
Yes. Let's ask the government to prop up our obsolete business model. Oh wait
But we know that some frequencies are bad for us humans. More specifically the higher freq. above some threshold.
Correct, X rays and Gamma rays with very high frequencies are known to be ionizing, and hence harmful. However, microwaves and cell phone channels have very low frequencies, far lower than visible light. About the only effect these frequencies can have is heating of tissue. After inconclusive study after inconclusive study, I think quite enough has been done on the question of whether cell phones cause cancer.
However, I will be closely following work related to the current article.
As you will surely know the electro-magnetic waves used for cell phone communication are just the same a radioactive waves used in nuclear power plants
Firstly, wrong. Only gamma rays are electromagnetic. Alpha and beta rays are highly energetic helium nuclei and electrons, respectively.
Secondly, visible light is electromagnetic rays. Think about how much of that you absorb in an average day. Augghhhh, the light!! The horrible light! Won't someone think of the children?
Thank you for the troll. Please move along.
According to him the pickup is slow
I find that surprising, especially if the drive is all-electric, such as in the Toyota Prius. Theoretically, an electric motor has maximum torque at zero RPM, so the pickup from a standing start should be pretty good. It seems to me that I have heard comments to this effect about the Prius.
This quote better sums up Kennedy's vision for space and technology:
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
I always thought Xerox PARC, that place that made money for everybody except Xerox, invented the mouse. Is that just common misconception?
I use the Free software that I do because it is better than Fee software
Strangely, your view is shared by Linus, who is using BitKeeper because it is free and the best tool for the job, even though it's not Free.
It's just the RMS fanboys who are obsessed with avoiding any software that is not ideologically pure.
Remember animated gifs? I remember seeng one for the first time and thinking, cool. Then everybody had one, and they went from uncool, to annoying, to laughable.
I wonder if animated gifs will make a comeback in twenty years, giving "retro" web pages that 1997 look.
I'm getting a little tired of the apologists for this guy saying that he did nothing wrong, he tried to help, and he did no damage.
If the sysadmin is aware of any unauthorized intrusion, he or she would be utterly incompetent to take the cracker's word for it that no damage was caused. Evaluating the integrity of the system is time consuming and causes major problems for the users.
Our e-mail server was once hacked -- the hacker caused no damage, but we were without e-mail for several days while our sysadmin made sure we were okay.
Hmm. My intellectual opinion is that pacifism is completely irresponsible, and no rational person can adopt it as a belief.
Firstly, technology is rarely single use, only for the military. Average citizens drive frickin' Hummvees down highway streets, for crying out loud.
Secondly, since when is it unethical for a scientist to aid the military? The world is not a nice place, and if we accept that a military is necessary, then why not have the best damn military in the world?
Thirdly, guess what, posting messages to Slashdot is using technology developed with military grants -- a hell of a lot of communication research is done with military money. Shock, horror.
Signed, a telecommunication scientist who once served in the military.
I wonder if the e-book site sold this book?
The Russians have had to do space on the cheap for years, and their response was to stick with the Soyuz capsule, which has now been in service for nearly 40 years, and is one of the most reliable launch vehicles available, and certainly far less expensive than the shuttle.
The last fatal Soyuz accident was in 1971. In 1983, a Soyuz rocket exploded on the pad, but the crew was whisked to safety thanks to an escape rocket, which is lacking on the shuttle. Given the choice, I would fly to space on a Soyuz any day over the shuttle.
Decompiling is a very crude solution. Take a compiled Linux kernel and decompile it, and try to figure out what's going on -- it will be just about impossible, if for no other reason than decompilng can't reproduce comments.