Reading the article, apparently only Seminole County is applying the statute in such a manner, other counties in Florida say the state cannot supply something which they do not have, but it's not fatal to the Breathalyzer result being admittable as evidence.
MS: Microsoft Tech Support, this is Hajid, where do you want us to let you to go today?
Angry Customer: I'm trying to download the latest patch for my software and your (obscenity) software is saying something about DRM violations.
MS: Yes sir.
AC: Well, FIX IT!
MS: I can't do that sir, as part of our new "Personal Freedom" policy, combined with the BSA/RIAA/MPAA taskforce, we decided that too large a percentage of ftp users were using it to committ violations of intellectual property, or to use non-"Microsoft Approved (TM)" software. Therefore, we have added a DRM restriction to our software to prevent unauthorized access.
AC: I don't care.. this is MY COMPUTER you're restricting..
MS: No sir, it is no longer your computer.
AC: What the (obscenity) do you mean.. I PAID FOR THIS COMPUTER!
MS: By agreeing to the 185 page EULA that came with the Microsoft Longhorn (TM) software you run, it is no longer your computer. We even make it obvious by referring to the computer currently in your computer as "Computer" instead of "My Computer". We now have joint ownership of the computer, as required to maintain Microsoft's market share... er deter piracy and terrorism, for as long as you run Microsoft software.
AC: Fine! I'll just format it and run Linux instead.
MS: (checks box off that states "Customer mentioned Linux, Set up Customer for "random" BSA raid") on his Com.. um.. the "Computer" he is currently running.)
AC: You can't do anything about that, can you, you (obscenity obscenity obscenity!)
MS: Sir, I don't think you want to do that. By uninstalling Microsoft Longhorn you would allow us to take control of all data on your machine and post publically, such as user profiles, URL's visited, and documents you created using "Microsoft Approved" software..
AC: (pauses)
MS: Sir, why don't you take some time to think it over, and then call back in to let us know that everything's fine with your "Microsoft Approved" software.. otherwise, we'd hate to lose you as a customer, it gets so sad to see what sometimes happens to our former users..
Whoops. Apparently, it's not true about the pirate bay, if you look, apparently it was a hoax (the raid that is) to explain an outage caused by a server upgrade
Anyone else notice the irony that a guy who's sig has a line from a comedy skit about giving people who vote for the Republicans a boot to the head being called a facist?:)
Oh wait.. let me jumble up the letters for you (what do you think folks, double ROT-13 it?) so you can call me a crypto-facist?
I assume you take issue with my point that the top ten spammers deserve to be in jail, for their tactics in sending bulk UCE.
These so-called professional spammers are behind many popular viruses and trojans on the net, that attempt to hijack people's computers to send their crap, because they know they couldn't keep a net connection if they sent it from a net connection they paid for.
Ask a net.admin who just had to clean up after a spam run how harmless spammers tactics are. Ask some helpless guy who just saw his net connection yanked because some spammer hijacked his box to send further virused emails (like all viruses, they have to spread to live), scams, fraud, and Make Penis Fast emails.
Trust me, I'm MODERATE when it comes to jerks like that.
That a great deal of the (uninformed) public and the (uninformed/bribed , take your choice) politicians thought this would at least put a dent in spam here in the US.
Of course, the spammer scum (I know, don't need to add scum, spammer covers it) figure that it's a law for show, which it is..
The top 10 spammers are responsible for something like 3 quarters of the spam sent. If Only half of those spammers were locked up in jail (where you have to admit they belong, because of their tactics, never mind the UCE itself).. spam would drop noticeably.
The law needs to be improved. The law needs to have teeth.. and the law needs to chew some big time spammers.
And what if Cthulu himself rises from the waves and eats everyone's head..
It's about as likely.
The rule stands. If it can be seen, it can be copied. If it can be heard, it can be copied. Even if your RIAA pipedream happened, 2 weeks (tops) after release, there would be a hack or firmware upgrade that would get rid of such a pesky requirement.
And there's almost as many home video cameras out there as there are DVD players.
Baystar Capital Announces Repurchase Transaction With the SCO Group, Inc. Has Not Closed Friday July 23, 1:56 pm ET
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BayStar Capital today announced that, despite a prior announcement by The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) to the contrary, the transactions contemplated by the Stock Repurchase Agreement by and between BayStar and SCO, dated as of May 31, 2004, have not closed due to an unresolved dispute between the parties. BayStar intends to file an action requesting a declaratory judgment with respect to its rights under the Stock Repurchase Agreement. Until a final determination is made by the court, BayStar maintains its position as a Series A-1 Preferred stockholder of SCO.
LINDON, Utah, July 23/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) announced today that the SEC has declared effective, as of July 21, 2004, SCO's registration statement relating to the resale of shares of common stock issuable to BayStar Capital II, L.P. This fulfills the only condition to closing the repurchase transaction under the stock repurchase agreement between SCO and BayStar dated May 31, 2004, which was previously announced on June 1, 2004. Accordingly, SCO has informed BayStar that it considers the repurchase transaction to be closed as of July 21, 2004.
BayStar has notified SCO that it is BayStar's position that the repurchase transaction has not closed, pending resolution of claims by BayStar that SCO's recent public statements regarding SCOsource licensing opportunities are inconsistent with statements previously made by SCO to representatives of BayStar. SCO takes such questions very seriously and reaffirms the accuracy of its public disclosures concerning its SCOsource business and confirms its belief that such disclosures are not inconsistent with any confidential statements previously made to BayStar. As SCO previously has cautioned in its public disclosures, it has limited experience with its SCOsource licensing initiative, and projecting SCOsource revenue is difficult and subject to numerous risks and uncertainties.
BayStar has also claimed that it will not consider the repurchase transaction closed until SCO provides BayStar with confidential information supporting the accuracy of SCO's recent public disclosures regarding its SCOsource business. SCO has declined to provide the SCOsource information requested by BayStar in order to protect the confidential and proprietary nature of the information and the names of the companies engaged in SCOsource licensing discussions and to avoid fostering speculation regarding its SCOsource business.
SCO believes that the stock repurchase agreement with BayStar is effective and binding, and observes that the issues raised by BayStar are neither conditions to closing nor the subject of any representations, warranties or other terms of that agreement. In connection with the closing, SCO has sent to BayStar a stock certificate representing 2,105,263 shares of SCO common stock and notified BayStar that is ready to deliver $13,000,000 in cash, constituting the balance of the repurchase consideration, upon receipt from BayStar of its wire transfer instructions.
SCO has requested BayStar to fulfill its obligations under the stock repurchase agreement to deliver to SCO the certificates for the 40,000 shares of SCO Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock upon closing, and has informed BayStar that SCO will, in any case, consider all such Series A-1 stock cancelled and no longer issued and outstanding, effective as of the closing on July 21, 2004.
It's 50/50 because of the amount of FUD they've thrown, which includes the oh-so-coincidentally leaked "ELF was never public domain" issue, and the sheer amount of stuff they threw at the judge (How many times did they request overlength to state that IBM wasn't giving them what they said they needed"?
They just need a tiny kernel, a miniscule seed of doubt, and IBM won't get their summary judgement.
8/4 is D-Day in SCO-IBM, and the Nazgul are storming the beaches (if I may be allowed to mix my eras/metaphors)
IBM, Autozone, and Daimler-Chrysler. SCO's future was shaky, but they claimed with victory in the three cases mentioned, they would be rock solid.
And lo, the FUD'ed tripod stood firm against the gales of disbelieving laughter, and failed FUD attacks.
First, AutoZone gets an indefinite stay. (uh oh.. SCO's only got two legs left, it's wobbly, a gust of wind will blow it over)..
And now the judge rips out every avenue of attack in the Daimler-Chrysler case. The judge also made it pretty much impossible for SCO to extort^W license their technology to all their old customers who now use Linux..
There's an image for you. SCO's tripod only has one leg left. There's a technical term for that.
If they didn't DRM it, they could be found liable whn a counterfitter uses their programs to counterfit money.
Should there be an exemption for folks who have legitimate use? Sure. But it should be very limited. Just like in the old days, very few people had access to the template plates money was issued from, the ability to restrict people that would make money that would fool even a cursory glance is a good thing, not a bad thing
Joe-Jobs are made to order... Just send a bunch of mail through a rooted proxy, advertising the competition's stuff, and watch Habeas sic the lawyer dogs of war on your competition. You'd laugh all the way to the bank.
Same type of thing if enough spammers use this trick, the lawyers will be too busy.
Did Habeas actually think this was going to work? I mean, spammers are willing to do ANYTHING to make sure Joe Public reads their garbage. Constantly changing tactics to evade filters, to write viruses specifically to generate more open proxies to send their garbage through, to Denial of Service attacks against those who try to filter out this stuff, to garbage lawsuits. This is nothing compared to those..
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Reading the article, apparently only Seminole County is applying the statute in such a manner, other counties in Florida say the state cannot supply something which they do not have, but it's not fatal to the Breathalyzer result being admittable as evidence.
MS: Microsoft Tech Support, this is Hajid, where do you want us to let you to go today?
Angry Customer: I'm trying to download the latest patch for my software and your (obscenity) software is saying something about DRM violations.
MS: Yes sir.
AC: Well, FIX IT!
MS: I can't do that sir, as part of our new "Personal Freedom" policy, combined with the BSA/RIAA/MPAA taskforce, we decided that too large a percentage of ftp users were using it to committ violations of intellectual property, or to use non-"Microsoft Approved (TM)" software. Therefore, we have added a DRM restriction to our software to prevent unauthorized access.
AC: I don't care.. this is MY COMPUTER you're restricting..
MS: No sir, it is no longer your computer.
AC: What the (obscenity) do you mean.. I PAID FOR THIS COMPUTER!
MS: By agreeing to the 185 page EULA that came with the Microsoft Longhorn (TM) software you run, it is no longer your computer. We even make it obvious by referring to the computer currently in your computer as "Computer" instead of "My Computer". We now have joint ownership of the computer, as required to maintain Microsoft's market share... er deter piracy and terrorism, for as long as you run Microsoft software.
AC: Fine! I'll just format it and run Linux instead.
MS: (checks box off that states "Customer mentioned Linux, Set up Customer for "random" BSA raid") on his Com.. um.. the "Computer" he is currently running.)
AC: You can't do anything about that, can you, you (obscenity obscenity obscenity!)
MS: Sir, I don't think you want to do that. By uninstalling Microsoft Longhorn you would allow us to take control of all data on your machine and post publically, such as user profiles, URL's visited, and documents you created using "Microsoft Approved" software..
AC: (pauses)
MS: Sir, why don't you take some time to think it over, and then call back in to let us know that everything's fine with your "Microsoft Approved" software.. otherwise, we'd hate to lose you as a customer, it gets so sad to see what sometimes happens to our former users..
Whoops. Apparently, it's not true about the pirate bay, if you look, apparently it was a hoax (the raid that is) to explain an outage caused by a server upgrade
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=811
Apparently, what's on there now means (babelfished and smoothed out by me)
"Now maybe you are wondering why we did it? We only did it to make you aware on that The Pirate Bay soon is debuting a new version soon."
Anyone else notice the irony that a guy who's sig has a line from a comedy skit about giving people who vote for the Republicans a boot to the head being called a facist? :)
Oh wait.. let me jumble up the letters for you (what do you think folks, double ROT-13 it?) so you can call me a crypto-facist?
I assume you take issue with my point that the top ten spammers deserve to be in jail, for their tactics in sending bulk UCE.
These so-called professional spammers are behind many popular viruses and trojans on the net, that attempt to hijack people's computers to send their crap, because they know they couldn't keep a net connection if they sent it from a net connection they paid for.
Ask a net.admin who just had to clean up after a spam run how harmless spammers tactics are. Ask some helpless guy who just saw his net connection yanked because some spammer hijacked his box to send further virused emails (like all viruses, they have to spread to live), scams, fraud, and Make Penis Fast emails.
Trust me, I'm MODERATE when it comes to jerks like that.
Ah.. you don't know the Frantics comedy routine. Shame. For that I bequeath you.. a life time supply of icecream.
:D)
(AC asks Ice Cream? What Flavor?)
Boot to the Head!
(Insert sound effects if thwapping, ow! etc..etc...etc..
That a great deal of the (uninformed) public and the (uninformed/bribed , take your choice) politicians thought this would at least put a dent in spam here in the US.
Of course, the spammer scum (I know, don't need to add scum, spammer covers it) figure that it's a law for show, which it is..
The top 10 spammers are responsible for something like 3 quarters of the spam sent. If Only half of those spammers were locked up in jail (where you have to admit they belong, because of their tactics, never mind the UCE itself).. spam would drop noticeably.
The law needs to be improved. The law needs to have teeth.. and the law needs to chew some big time spammers.
That's the only thing that'll slow things down.
I spent all this time building myself up to the ideal geek stereotype. And all this time, they've lied to me. LIED I TELL YOU!
All this time chasing the perfect stereotype, ruined!
The reason there's only 10 display characters on the RAM?
Because DDR songs only go up to 10 feet, silly.
I would guess that the TV networks would try to stomp this and hard.
Why?
Protection of an already diluted market.
Over the last 10 years, they've been hammered by Cable, Sattelite TV, and now BitTorrent. Appointment TV is dying.
Now comes another technology designed to possibly make it so you can watch any show at any time. The more who watch, the more who are able to watch.
The TV Networks SHOULD be the ones leading this charge.
But they won't, because they can't imagine anything outside of the current "Must See TV" trap that's locked them in over the past decades.
And what if Cthulu himself rises from the waves and eats everyone's head..
It's about as likely.
The rule stands. If it can be seen, it can be copied. If it can be heard, it can be copied. Even if your RIAA pipedream happened, 2 weeks (tops) after release, there would be a hack or firmware upgrade that would get rid of such a pesky requirement.
And there's almost as many home video cameras out there as there are DVD players.
Rots o Ruck
It can be recorded/copied.
When are they going to learn?
Slashdot users say.. "Well, DUUUUHhhhh.."
"That said, neither is it an excuse for passing it, and every legislator that passes a bill before reading it should be shot"
:D
The only thing, the only way a bill like that would pass? If people didn't read it before passing it.
YOU KNOW what that would mean, right?
Baystar Capital Announces Repurchase Transaction With the SCO Group, Inc. Has Not Closed
Friday July 23, 1:56 pm ET
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23
Source: BayStar Capital
Basically, SCO want to hurry up and retire the A-1 stock (which gives BayStar a lot of say about how SCO runs the lawsuit and their business).
The SEC signed off on the deal, and SCO says "Ok. Here's your money and shares. You're now a commoner just like the rest of our stockholders."
Baystar: "I still have some questions about the SCOSource Licensing program... you're telling us one thing and doing another."
SCO: "Not Listening! TAKE THE STOCK AND MONEY! LA! LA! LA! (fingers in ears)"
Baystar: "Wait a second.. I have valid concerns, I haven't signed off on this yet.."
SCO: "Yes you have! You just own a ton of our stock now. Go away! We don't like you anymore"
(Just saw this yahoo press release from SCO)
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News) announced today that the SEC has declared effective, as of July 21, 2004, SCO's registration statement relating to the resale of shares of common stock issuable to BayStar Capital II, L.P. This fulfills the only condition to closing the repurchase transaction under the stock repurchase agreement between SCO and BayStar dated May 31, 2004, which was previously announced on June 1, 2004. Accordingly, SCO has informed BayStar that it considers the repurchase transaction to be closed as of July 21, 2004.
LINDON, Utah, July 23
BayStar has notified SCO that it is BayStar's position that the repurchase transaction has not closed, pending resolution of claims by BayStar that SCO's recent public statements regarding SCOsource licensing opportunities are inconsistent with statements previously made by SCO to representatives of BayStar. SCO takes such questions very seriously and reaffirms the accuracy of its public disclosures concerning its SCOsource business and confirms its belief that such disclosures are not inconsistent with any confidential statements previously made to BayStar. As SCO previously has cautioned in its public disclosures, it has limited experience with its SCOsource licensing initiative, and projecting SCOsource revenue is difficult and subject to numerous risks and uncertainties.
BayStar has also claimed that it will not consider the repurchase transaction closed until SCO provides BayStar with confidential information supporting the accuracy of SCO's recent public disclosures regarding its SCOsource business. SCO has declined to provide the SCOsource information requested by BayStar in order to protect the confidential and proprietary nature of the information and the names of the companies engaged in SCOsource licensing discussions and to avoid fostering speculation regarding its SCOsource business.
SCO believes that the stock repurchase agreement with BayStar is effective and binding, and observes that the issues raised by BayStar are neither conditions to closing nor the subject of any representations, warranties or other terms of that agreement. In connection with the closing, SCO has sent to BayStar a stock certificate representing 2,105,263 shares of SCO common stock and notified BayStar that is ready to deliver $13,000,000 in cash, constituting the balance of the repurchase consideration, upon receipt from BayStar of its wire transfer instructions.
SCO has requested BayStar to fulfill its obligations under the stock repurchase agreement to deliver to SCO the certificates for the 40,000 shares of SCO Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock upon closing, and has informed BayStar that SCO will, in any case, consider all such Series A-1 stock cancelled and no longer issued and outstanding, effective as of the closing on July 21, 2004.
There was a story a couple days ago that the only thing propping up SCO at this point was the insane percentage of short positions held in the stock.
Something like 54.5% of the positions held in SCO were shorts..
It's 50/50 because of the amount of FUD they've thrown, which includes the oh-so-coincidentally leaked "ELF was never public domain" issue, and the sheer amount of stuff they threw at the judge (How many times did they request overlength to state that IBM wasn't giving them what they said they needed"?
They just need a tiny kernel, a miniscule seed of doubt, and IBM won't get their summary judgement.
8/4 is D-Day in SCO-IBM, and the Nazgul are storming the beaches (if I may be allowed to mix my eras/metaphors)
If SCO is standing on that particular appendage, they better be careful.. IBM's about to kick them there ;)
August 4th, SCO faces a IBM motion for summary judgement that IBM's contributions to Linux are "non-infringing".
If the judge grants that (and it looks 50/50).. it's game, set and match.
IBM, Autozone, and Daimler-Chrysler. SCO's future was shaky, but they claimed with victory in the three cases mentioned, they would be rock solid.
And lo, the FUD'ed tripod stood firm against the gales of disbelieving laughter, and failed FUD attacks.
First, AutoZone gets an indefinite stay. (uh oh.. SCO's only got two legs left, it's wobbly, a gust of wind will blow it over)..
And now the judge rips out every avenue of attack in the Daimler-Chrysler case. The judge also made it pretty much impossible for SCO to extort^W license their technology to all their old customers who now use Linux..
There's an image for you. SCO's tripod only has one leg left. There's a technical term for that.
BROKEN.
Now I wonder if Snotty Scotty Richter is worried.. He Should Be
Sure.
:)
The band is called The Frantics, and the song is called Tie Kwan Leep/Boot to the Head.
They use the Boot to the Head bit in another one of their skits, "LAST WILL AND TEMPERAMENT"
It helps sometime at work.. to quote the student from Tie Kwan Leep... "I want to boot some head too"
If they didn't DRM it, they could be found liable whn a counterfitter uses their programs to counterfit money.
Should there be an exemption for folks who have legitimate use? Sure. But it should be very limited. Just like in the old days, very few people had access to the template plates money was issued from, the ability to restrict people that would make money that would fool even a cursory glance is a good thing, not a bad thing
Joe-Jobs are made to order... Just send a bunch of mail through a rooted proxy, advertising the competition's stuff, and watch Habeas sic the lawyer dogs of war on your competition. You'd laugh all the way to the bank.
Same type of thing if enough spammers use this trick, the lawyers will be too busy.
Did Habeas actually think this was going to work? I mean, spammers are willing to do ANYTHING to make sure Joe Public reads their garbage. Constantly changing tactics to evade filters, to write viruses specifically to generate more open proxies to send their garbage through, to Denial of Service attacks against those who try to filter out this stuff, to garbage lawsuits. This is nothing compared to those..