Most utility / telephone poles are located on easements of private property, and those easements have restrictions and limitations. Is the ability for the federal/state/ local government written into the easement? Most of them are very specific about what can and cannot be placed in the easement, and to change them most often requires the approval of the governing authority that placed the easement. Ma Bell fought for a long time to keep other peoples wires off their poles and used those very easement rules as a block. Many utility companies do the same. If you put it on a pole in an easement in my yard, Whicxh is still my yard, I still have to pay taxes on it, it is still "my" property, shouldn't you have to tell me about it?
A pin or pattern / gesture lock is useless if the cops have the phone. They DO have tools to render such trivial things useless. They DO use those tools. I have seen the little box with the multitude of connectors being attached to a phone, and then the phone is unlocked, data dumped, and sorted through. Encryption, strong, non manufacturer based encryption, is the only thing close to safe.
My only problem with this scheme, and I work for the local constabulatory as a civilian, is that they hope to give preferential treatment to the 'press'. If they won't let Joe Citizen have access to, then no one should. Just because you work for a paper or TV or Radio station doesn't make you better or more able to access information than anyone else. Maybe it's different in California, but where I live, there is no law granting the 'press' special powers or privilege to information that is denied to everyone else.
If one had flown and crashed, everyone would have blamed the governments involved for not stopping all the traffic. While I am no fan of the government, this is one where they could not win. Grimjack
Public bans in "Restaurants, Bars, Etc," hmm, who owns the restaurant or bar where you go? Does the government own it? Does the "public" own it? I suspect a person or corporate entity owns it. That would make it a private property, not a public one. Where do you get off telling me or anyone else who my clientele will be? If I want to cater to smokers that should my business choice. Let's have a debate about public smoking since it is an issue, but first, lets remember what "public" is. Grimjack
Congress may pass the INDUCE act, good for congress. That will not make existing programs illegal, nor the people who wrote those programs criminals. The Induce can not go backward in time and change the law for the here and now. Some silly thing about ex-post facto something or other. I read about it on a boat, called the Constitution.
He is talking to the US Congress, which is last time I checked, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hell Inc, whoes CEO is S. A. Tan, and the mailing address is 666 Pitchfork way.
Make sure to attach said envelope to the top of a small box containing about a pound of rocks. This will make it cost them so much more to get it back.
I got a call from a company many days in a row, and it played the nice DTMF tones that cause the phone companies computer to ignore your switch hook, so when you hang up, it doesn't recognize that you have done so. after about 3 days in a row of this, I stayed on the line until I got to a real live person. I asked that I be taken off their list, and was told it would be done, but could take a few days. I Politely asked for the companies name, phone number and address, which was given to me. (it is a violation of federal law not to). I then called the phone company and after getting ahold of a person there with some real power, (this is the hardest part) explained that company A was twiddling with their computers using aforementioned DTMF tones. This is a violation of almost all phone companies TOS. The engineer type said he would look into it.
The next day, I did not receive a phone call from company A, so I decided to call them, and darn it, there phones had been disconnected.
True story, it really works. If you are persistent, you can get their phones turned off.
There was an administration before Washington. Prior to the current Constitution, there was this little thing called The Articles of Confederation. There were 9 administrations before Washington. Prior to the current constitution, the president of the senate was the President of the US.
They did not "FIX" the O-rings, they decided that they can't launch in cold weather. The fix is to spend millions of dollars holding up the launch of a multi Billion spacecraft over a 50 dollar piece of rubber. Nothing was "fixed" because of the Challenger, we just adjusted our capability to our technological weakest link.
As I recall, one of the ways to utterly destroy a diamond is to run an excess amount of current through it. So, if you try to overclock your diamond chip, could you vaporize it? What about current overloads caused by over heating or bad power supply? Could be interesting.
The TOS is really irrelevant in most markets. Check out TWC's franchise agreement with the city where you receive the service if they have one. EVERYTHING they can do or prevent you from doing is spelled out in that franchise agreement. The hard part is getting a copy of the agreement from either the Cable Company or the city.
I work for a small ISP, and we tried very hard to keep our mail relay as open as possible so our users could set up mail at work, at the office and other places where they may have a different connection to the net. We did and still do run filters on our mail server, to try and stop spam and virii, yet we were placed on ORDB and on ORBZ . The whole we were placed on these lists was not due to anyone complaining about spam originating or being relayed from our server, but just because it had an open relay. In the end we closed the relay, which caused us to lose customers who could no longer send mail through us from their work or other places, but we were also losing customers when we were on these lists because people could not send mail to their friends and business contacts.
Most of these Blackhole lists do send a message back to the person trying to send the mail, and they often portray admins who run open relays as evil spammers or complete morons. Neither of these is true. We were trying to provide a service to our customers, and we work CONSTANTLY to keep the spam out.
Blocking or denigrating the ISP or admin of a mail server which happens to have an open relay that may get used for spamming is like blaming Boeing for the recent trade center attacks. They built the plane but they did not do the deed. We ran a mail server, but we did not spam people. Go after the spammers, and their backbone providers, and their corporate backers, not the little guys who get hurt by this the most.
The Constitution is supposed to protect us from the government spying on us in our private lives. The Bill of Rights reiterates this, saying "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" (Amendment #4). The bills currently going through would violate these ideas
On a side note, I must point out that the Constitution does not protect you from your ISP or other access/content provider spying on you or your activities. If they determine you are being bad and then go to the authorities, you could be investigated further, and probably legally.
Our best hope here is that after these laws pass (and they probably will) that a relatively benign case makes its way to the Supreme Court, and that they will strike the law down as unconstitutional.
Section 1201, (c)(1) of the DMCA
''(c) OTHER RIGHTS, ETC., NOT AFFECTED.--(1) Nothing in this
section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to
copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title."
The supreme court has already ruled that you may make a backup of anything you purchase, be it a video, a cassette tape, or a computer program. The DMCA does not prohibit this. The RIAA is trying to establish new laws through litigation, not legislation. They tried the legislative route and all they got was the DMCA, so now they go to court until they get what they want, which is a pay per listen model.
In many states, the commercial code says that if a product is to be licensed or leased, (like a car) the full disclosure of the lease or license agreement must be available before the exchange of tender. If the agreement is not available, and a transaction takes place, then it is not a lease or license, but an outright sale. Since the EULA is only available to you after you purchase and open the product, would this not make it an outright sale? IANAL, however if it is an outright sale, shouldn't I be able to do as I please with MY product?
I used to work as the tech guy for a grade school, and had the honor of getting to teach for two hours a day in the process. Teach the kids how computers work, as in binary math. Nothing complicated, just a little addition and subtraction with very small numbers.
Then, show them how a computer draws a picture. draw a simple picture, then cut it up. paste an address on each one piece then mix the pieces up and hand one out to each kid. Have them line up as you call the pieces in order. another way is to give each child a few pieces of colored paper, then assign a value to each color, then write a series of number on a chalk board, and let the kids make the picture.
Be creative, have fun, and just remember, the computer can only count to one, even if it can do it 100 million times a second.
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Most utility / telephone poles are located on easements of private property, and those easements have restrictions and limitations. Is the ability for the federal /state/ local government written into the easement? Most of them are very specific about what can and cannot be placed in the easement, and to change them most often requires the approval of the governing authority that placed the easement. Ma Bell fought for a long time to keep other peoples wires off their poles and used those very easement rules as a block. Many utility companies do the same. If you put it on a pole in an easement in my yard, Whicxh is still my yard, I still have to pay taxes on it, it is still "my" property, shouldn't you have to tell me about it?
A pin or pattern / gesture lock is useless if the cops have the phone. They DO have tools to render such trivial things useless. They DO use those tools. I have seen the little box with the multitude of connectors being attached to a phone, and then the phone is unlocked, data dumped, and sorted through. Encryption, strong, non manufacturer based encryption, is the only thing close to safe.
My only problem with this scheme, and I work for the local constabulatory as a civilian, is that they hope to give preferential treatment to the 'press'. If they won't let Joe Citizen have access to, then no one should. Just because you work for a paper or TV or Radio station doesn't make you better or more able to access information than anyone else. Maybe it's different in California, but where I live, there is no law granting the 'press' special powers or privilege to information that is denied to everyone else.
If one had flown and crashed, everyone would have blamed the governments involved for not stopping all the traffic. While I am no fan of the government, this is one where they could not win.
Grimjack
This is what happens when the students are smarter than the teachers.
While the Space Shuttles have had their share of problems, and have cost lives, they are beautiful to watch launch.
Public bans in "Restaurants, Bars, Etc," hmm, who owns the restaurant or bar where you go? Does the government own it? Does the "public" own it? I suspect a person or corporate entity owns it. That would make it a private property, not a public one. Where do you get off telling me or anyone else who my clientele will be? If I want to cater to smokers that should my business choice. Let's have a debate about public smoking since it is an issue, but first, lets remember what "public" is.
Grimjack
Congress may pass the INDUCE act, good for congress. That will not make existing programs illegal, nor the people who wrote those programs criminals. The Induce can not go backward in time and change the law for the here and now. Some silly thing about ex-post facto something or other. I read about it on a boat, called the Constitution.
He is talking to the US Congress, which is last time I checked, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hell Inc, whoes CEO is S. A. Tan, and the mailing address is 666 Pitchfork way.
Make sure to attach said envelope to the top of a small box containing about a pound of rocks. This will make it cost them so much more to get it back.
I got a call from a company many days in a row, and it played the nice DTMF tones that cause the phone companies computer to ignore your switch hook, so when you hang up, it doesn't recognize that you have done so. after about 3 days in a row of this, I stayed on the line until I got to a real live person. I asked that I be taken off their list, and was told it would be done, but could take a few days. I Politely asked for the companies name, phone number and address, which was given to me. (it is a violation of federal law not to). I then called the phone company and after getting ahold of a person there with some real power, (this is the hardest part) explained that company A was twiddling with their computers using aforementioned DTMF tones. This is a violation of almost all phone companies TOS. The engineer type said he would look into it.
The next day, I did not receive a phone call from company A, so I decided to call them, and darn it, there phones had been disconnected.
True story, it really works. If you are persistent, you can get their phones turned off.
Of course they had to send it to a French lab, it also being an invertebrate.
There was an administration before Washington. Prior to the current Constitution, there was this little thing called The Articles of Confederation. There were 9 administrations before Washington. Prior to the current constitution, the president of the senate was the President of the US.
They did not "FIX" the O-rings, they decided that they can't launch in cold weather. The fix is to spend millions of dollars holding up the launch of a multi Billion spacecraft over a 50 dollar piece of rubber. Nothing was "fixed" because of the Challenger, we just adjusted our capability to our technological weakest link.
George Bush would not Nuclear. We will instead be riding to Mars on Nu-ku-lar rockets.
As I recall, one of the ways to utterly destroy a diamond is to run an excess amount of current through it. So, if you try to overclock your diamond chip, could you vaporize it? What about current overloads caused by over heating or bad power supply? Could be interesting.
The TOS is really irrelevant in most markets. Check out TWC's franchise agreement with the city where you receive the service if they have one. EVERYTHING they can do or prevent you from doing is spelled out in that franchise agreement. The hard part is getting a copy of the agreement from either the Cable Company or the city.
I work for a small ISP, and we tried very hard to keep our mail relay as open as possible so our users could set up mail at work, at the office and other places where they may have a different connection to the net. We did and still do run filters on our mail server, to try and stop spam and virii, yet we were placed on ORDB and on ORBZ . The whole we were placed on these lists was not due to anyone complaining about spam originating or being relayed from our server, but just because it had an open relay. In the end we closed the relay, which caused us to lose customers who could no longer send mail through us from their work or other places, but we were also losing customers when we were on these lists because people could not send mail to their friends and business contacts.
Most of these Blackhole lists do send a message back to the person trying to send the mail, and they often portray admins who run open relays as evil spammers or complete morons. Neither of these is true. We were trying to provide a service to our customers, and we work CONSTANTLY to keep the spam out.
Blocking or denigrating the ISP or admin of a mail server which happens to have an open relay that may get used for spamming is like blaming Boeing for the recent trade center attacks. They built the plane but they did not do the deed. We ran a mail server, but we did not spam people. Go after the spammers, and their backbone providers, and their corporate backers, not the little guys who get hurt by this the most.
Yes, there is, the info was posted here on slashdot a while back
The Constitution is supposed to protect us from the government spying on us in our private lives. The Bill of Rights reiterates this, saying "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" (Amendment #4). The bills currently going through would violate these ideas
On a side note, I must point out that the Constitution does not protect you from your ISP or other access/content provider spying on you or your activities. If they determine you are being bad and then go to the authorities, you could be investigated further, and probably legally.
Our best hope here is that after these laws pass (and they probably will) that a relatively benign case makes its way to the Supreme Court, and that they will strike the law down as unconstitutional.
Section 1201, (c)(1) of the DMCA
''(c) OTHER RIGHTS, ETC., NOT AFFECTED.--(1) Nothing in this
section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to
copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title."
The supreme court has already ruled that you may make a backup of anything you purchase, be it a video, a cassette tape, or a computer program. The DMCA does not prohibit this. The RIAA is trying to establish new laws through litigation, not legislation. They tried the legislative route and all they got was the DMCA, so now they go to court until they get what they want, which is a pay per listen model.
In many states, the commercial code says that if a product is to be licensed or leased, (like a car) the full disclosure of the lease or license agreement must be available before the exchange of tender. If the agreement is not available, and a transaction takes place, then it is not a lease or license, but an outright sale. Since the EULA is only available to you after you purchase and open the product, would this not make it an outright sale? IANAL, however if it is an outright sale, shouldn't I be able to do as I please with MY product?
I used to work as the tech guy for a grade school, and had the honor of getting to teach for two hours a day in the process. Teach the kids how computers work, as in binary math. Nothing complicated, just a little addition and subtraction with very small numbers.
Then, show them how a computer draws a picture. draw a simple picture, then cut it up. paste an address on each one piece then mix the pieces up and hand one out to each kid. Have them line up as you call the pieces in order. another way is to give each child a few pieces of colored paper, then assign a value to each color, then write a series of number on a chalk board, and let the kids make the picture.
Be creative, have fun, and just remember, the computer can only count to one, even if it can do it 100 million times a second.