Since you clearly are not referring to the ancient Greek fellow who took it as a given that drudge work would always be done by slaves, could you tell us who this other one is? /.
I remember a branch of UN suggested e-mail tax for helping underdeveloped countries build their IT infrastructure. Collect tax from welthier countries, then invest it in poor countries
The people holding the machine say they bought it unknowingly
Oh, sure -- why, just the other day I was at a yard sale and saw an Enigma machine, one of the propellers from the plane Admiral Yamamoto was shot down in, and the original V2 plans signed by Wehrer von Braun.
/.
Perhaps I've missed something but if the goal of the FBI is to intercept messages from and to a specific address would it not be simpler to present the ISP with a warrant for a tap?
And herein lies one of the fundamental objections to Carnivore. It's not about maintaining the government's power to conduct surveillance -- it's about giving the government the power to conduct surveillance without bringing an outsider into the loop. The fact that they feel the need to eliminate any risk of ISP whistle-blowing raises a big red flag.
/.
If you garble the signal too much, you will get music that most people actually can hear has been tampered with.
I have this mental image of a bunch of RIAA executives being flown to a nice resort hotel, gathering in the conference room, listening to a full-blown multimedia presentation on their new Copy Resistant Audio Protection[tm] system, watching the techs wheel in the prototype and start it up... and hearing something that makes Thomas Edison's wax-cylinder phonograph sound like top-of-the-line Bang & Olufsen. /.
A consumer who knows what SDMI is has no incentive to buy one, unless manufacturers slash prices on them but that's unlikely given the cost of developing the new devices.
Manufacturers are the people who tried to establish DIVX as the market standard by selling the players for $50-$100 more than regular DVD units. AFAIKT, they haven't gotten any more clueful since then.
/.
Thanks for the advise. Oddly, the network configuration on the PC may have been the problem -- I deselected "Client for MS Networks" and haven't had the problem since then (again, that doesn't mean much so far for a rather rare intermittent problem, but we'll see). /.
No, spam can be used or abused just like any other form of advertising.
Nope; spam is inherently abusive. Legitimate (i.e. purely opt-in) e-mail is either legitimate or abusive depending on how it is administered (for instance, dumping a bunch of messages unrelated to the advertised purpose of the mailing list is abusive).
/.
since it costs nothing it is sent in huge quantities and sometimes multiple times
Kinda like all those mass mailing I get time and time again, or the multiple telemarketer calls I get every day?
They found a source of postage, paper, and phone service that costs nothing? Cool! Where do I sign up?
If you want to argue that the receiver pays for it, at least there is something to that (although at least in the US, the practice of paying for bandwidth usage is almost completely dead).
In that case, all you folks who are paying bills for a Net connection ought to find out who is really getting the money -- it's obviously isn't the ISP, since "the practice of paying for bandwidth usage is almost completely dead" -- and put a stop to it.
(The expected rejoinder "I meant that people don't typically pay 'per-minute'" is beside the point. When you get spam, the spammer has stolen some of your ISPs bandwidth, and the ISP will pass the cost of that along to you one way or another.)
Some people advertise responsibly via email
Yes; the ones who operate strictly opt-in mailing lists. I haven't seen anybody here complaining about those (and, in fact, they are themselves victims of spammer scum because they have to carefully distinguish their legitimate e-mail advertisements from the spam).
/.
And for all that I thought we were all hard-working libertarians who believe in the principles of a free market for getting the best out of society
One of the most fundamental principles of a free market -- if not the most fundamental one -- is the one traditionally expressed as Thou Shalt Not Steal. Yea, verily, thou shalt not steal thy neighbor's ox, or thy neighbor's ass, nor shalt thou steal thy neighbor's bandwidth.
/.
I've generally been getting good service (about 375/375 via Northpoint's "DSL partnership" with Radix.Net), except that sometimes I find the DATA light flashing red and performance gone to hell. The customer service people's latest theory is that it's a network collision on my end, which seems unlikely since it recurs when I power everything down and then restore power to only the modem -- surely not even Bill Gates can make a computer malfunction without electrical power.
It's one of those intermittent things that is hard to pin down because it's impossible to tell if it went away because I do something or because of the phase of the moon. Fortunately, it hasn't happened too often. /.
Sometimes, when an employee leaves on good terms, there is a full intention that they will dial in or whatever from time to time to help transition responsbilities to other people
Normally, pointing out misspellings is a bit rude, but in this case it's a public service for anyone wishing to do a net search for more information. /.
Anyway, my original point was that the introduction to the story said it would be part of a series of Batman stories set in dramatically different contexts than the "normal" Gotham -- Is that the Batman Beyond series?
That sounds like you're referring to the Elseworlds line (out-of-continuity stories placing some version of Batman in a different setting). The Batman Beyond series is set a few decades in the future (an elderly Bruce Wayne has reluctantly passed the mantle to Terry McGinnis). /.
I just hope the new Batman won't be trying to solve math riddles...
Nah, they already used the Riddler. /.
Re:But they could be better communities.
on
Disconnected
·
· Score: 1
Fostering a corporate culture where courtesy and respect are expected at all times is simply good management practice. It's not the same thing as expecting people to tie their social lives and work together. I gather that you're talking about the former. /.
(wipes the coffee off monitor; gives thanks that the cat doesn't like to sit on laps)
has a role in monitoring criminal communications. Some random hacker who threw together a program does not.
An ISP can have whatever policies it likes, so long as it does not deceive its customers. (Obviously, an ISP with a known policy of contempt for privacy isn't going to attract many customers.)
In any case, you've missed the fundamental point -- the FBI can no longer claim that its secret black box serves any legitimate need which cannot be better met by ISPs using this software to perform legally authorized monitoring. If, as some of us suspect, the FBI's agenda includes illegal monitoring (once the black boxen are in place, who's to know?), they'll have to go back to the drawing board. /.
One difference is that Carnivore is specifically designed to be usable only by the Feds. If Napster were specifically designed to be usable only by some East Asian counterfeiting factory (to use an example of someone whose respect for IP laws corresponds to the Feds' respect for the Fourth Amendment), then it would be easier to sympathize with the RIAA's apoplexy. /.
I'm not an encryption expert, but surely it seems to me that any algorithm that has been released by a company into the public domain cannot be particularly secure
Er, you do know that they released their claim on RSA about two weeks before their patent was going to expire anyway?
The theory that they did it for PR reasons makes a lot more sense than your conspiracy theory. /.
Another item from the I Swear I Am Not Making This Up department: Wizards of the Coast had to change the Legend of the Five Rings collectible card game logo -- it seems that the USOC owns any logo having five interlocking rings. /.
Slashdot Mirror
Since you clearly are not referring to the ancient Greek fellow who took it as a given that drudge work would always be done by slaves, could you tell us who this other one is?
/.
Irrelevant -- by definition, the issue only arises with people who request a PC with no pre-installed OS, not "normal consumers".
/.
Since when is Switzerland a poor country?
/.
They aren't.
It isn't.
/.
Oh, sure -- why, just the other day I was at a yard sale and saw an Enigma machine, one of the propellers from the plane Admiral Yamamoto was shot down in, and the original V2 plans signed by Wehrer von Braun.
/.
And herein lies one of the fundamental objections to Carnivore. It's not about maintaining the government's power to conduct surveillance -- it's about giving the government the power to conduct surveillance without bringing an outsider into the loop. The fact that they feel the need to eliminate any risk of ISP whistle-blowing raises a big red flag.
/.
I have this mental image of a bunch of RIAA executives being flown to a nice resort hotel, gathering in the conference room, listening to a full-blown multimedia presentation on their new Copy Resistant Audio Protection[tm] system, watching the techs wheel in the prototype and start it up... and hearing something that makes Thomas Edison's wax-cylinder phonograph sound like top-of-the-line Bang & Olufsen.
/.
Manufacturers are the people who tried to establish DIVX as the market standard by selling the players for $50-$100 more than regular DVD units. AFAIKT, they haven't gotten any more clueful since then.
/.
Thanks for the advise. Oddly, the network configuration on the PC may have been the problem -- I deselected "Client for MS Networks" and haven't had the problem since then (again, that doesn't mean much so far for a rather rare intermittent problem, but we'll see).
/.
Nope; spam is inherently abusive. Legitimate (i.e. purely opt-in) e-mail is either legitimate or abusive depending on how it is administered (for instance, dumping a bunch of messages unrelated to the advertised purpose of the mailing list is abusive).
/.
Kinda like all those mass mailing I get time and time again, or the multiple telemarketer calls I get every day?
They found a source of postage, paper, and phone service that costs nothing? Cool! Where do I sign up?
If you want to argue that the receiver pays for it, at least there is something to that (although at least in the US, the practice of paying for bandwidth usage is almost completely dead).
In that case, all you folks who are paying bills for a Net connection ought to find out who is really getting the money -- it's obviously isn't the ISP, since "the practice of paying for bandwidth usage is almost completely dead" -- and put a stop to it.
(The expected rejoinder "I meant that people don't typically pay 'per-minute'" is beside the point. When you get spam, the spammer has stolen some of your ISPs bandwidth, and the ISP will pass the cost of that along to you one way or another.)
Some people advertise responsibly via email
Yes; the ones who operate strictly opt-in mailing lists. I haven't seen anybody here complaining about those (and, in fact, they are themselves victims of spammer scum because they have to carefully distinguish their legitimate e-mail advertisements from the spam).
/.
One of the most fundamental principles of a free market -- if not the most fundamental one -- is the one traditionally expressed as Thou Shalt Not Steal. Yea, verily, thou shalt not steal thy neighbor's ox, or thy neighbor's ass, nor shalt thou steal thy neighbor's bandwidth.
/.
It's one of those intermittent things that is hard to pin down because it's impossible to tell if it went away because I do something or because of the phase of the moon. Fortunately, it hasn't happened too often.
/.
...a GPS with at least 1m accuracy, so I can note where I left stuff around here.
/.
How much would it cost to get from Earth to Mars using current technology?
Hmmm... let's see if I can dig up the GNP of Spain in 1492, so that a relevant comparison can be made....
/.
Then they should say so.
/.
Normally, pointing out misspellings is a bit rude, but in this case it's a public service for anyone wishing to do a net search for more information.
/.
That sounds like you're referring to the Elseworlds line (out-of-continuity stories placing some version of Batman in a different setting). The Batman Beyond series is set a few decades in the future (an elderly Bruce Wayne has reluctantly passed the mantle to Terry McGinnis).
/.
Nah, they already used the Riddler.
/.
Fostering a corporate culture where courtesy and respect are expected at all times is simply good management practice. It's not the same thing as expecting people to tie their social lives and work together. I gather that you're talking about the former.
/.
Geez -- don't do that without a C&C warning.
(wipes the coffee off monitor; gives thanks that the cat doesn't like to sit on laps)
has a role in monitoring criminal communications. Some random hacker who threw together a program does not.
An ISP can have whatever policies it likes, so long as it does not deceive its customers. (Obviously, an ISP with a known policy of contempt for privacy isn't going to attract many customers.)
In any case, you've missed the fundamental point -- the FBI can no longer claim that its secret black box serves any legitimate need which cannot be better met by ISPs using this software to perform legally authorized monitoring. If, as some of us suspect, the FBI's agenda includes illegal monitoring (once the black boxen are in place, who's to know?), they'll have to go back to the drawing board.
/.
One difference is that Carnivore is specifically designed to be usable only by the Feds. If Napster were specifically designed to be usable only by some East Asian counterfeiting factory (to use an example of someone whose respect for IP laws corresponds to the Feds' respect for the Fourth Amendment), then it would be easier to sympathize with the RIAA's apoplexy.
/.
Aw, look at the cute widdle troll!
/.
Er, you do know that they released their claim on RSA about two weeks before their patent was going to expire anyway?
The theory that they did it for PR reasons makes a lot more sense than your conspiracy theory.
/.
Another item from the I Swear I Am Not Making This Up department: Wizards of the Coast had to change the Legend of the Five Rings collectible card game logo -- it seems that the USOC owns any logo having five interlocking rings.
/.