Its about time people realize that the world was never meant to be a place full of free stuff to take whenever you want it. This idea that its your right to do whatever the hell you want, and when a mega corporation tries to stop you they are suddenly infringing on your god given rights is ridiculous.
...The combination of this new cause of action and pre-existing causes of action will deter copyright owners from using the safe harbor as an excuse to harass file traders, indiscriminately impair the operation of a P2P network, frustrate competitors, or otherwise take any action not encompassed within the safe harbor....
...further limits the safe harbor created by Sec.514(a) by listing specific circumstances in which a copyright owner cannot rely on the safe harbor. The safe harbor is unavailable if:
the copyright owner impairs the trading of files that don't contain her copyrighted work, unless such impairment is necessary to impair the trading of her copyrighted work...
I need some help here. To me it seems that legally they'd only be able to DOS a "trader" if they could do it without limiting the trade on non-copyrighted material. I don't know the law well, and I definately need webster's to read some of this junk, but am I at all in the ballpark?
I usually cannot stand the ACLU. IMHO I feel like they usually get involved in issues that they really don't belong in because of the publicity they recieve. I hope this isn't the case here. I see their power and finances being a great benefit to the fight against the DMCA. I hope they can help fight for rights that I feel like we should have here in the US.
I think they mean to say that the virus is only able to force WebTV boxen to disconnect and dial the number. The malicious code doesn't have the same effect on a windows box.
...bringing to justice individuals charged with ill-defined "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity."... ...so you shouldn't feel safe just yet.
I fail to make the connection here. How would these websties fall under either of those categories? I would imagine that anyone in the U.S. wishing to mirror the offending site would be outside the Italian government's jurisdiction. That being said I still wouldn't be suprised if they tried to so something about it. I just don't believe they'd be successful.
I'd like to argue with your argument. IMHO part of the learning process is the experience of re-building after an error. That's part of the beauty of so called "real world" sets. I also believe that kids need to do things with their hands. Moving a mouse and clicking to attach parts is a far cry from holding them together, inserting a pin, and tightening the connection. Kids these days will get plenty of chances to use a computer keyboard and mouse in their lives, using tools and actually building something is becoming a lost art. One that I hope never dies.
I guess I'm just one of those geeks who will have all three. I'm buying the August, the November, and I'm counting on there being a boxed set as well.....
**Disclaimer** I really know nothing about carbon dating, just babbling here...
Now unless the "Born On" date was stamped to the bottom how exactly does one Future Date something? Does it actually gain more carbon that it would have now, so that by the time we see it the carbon is right?
Now what kind of argument is that? Pretty juvenile if you ask me. IMHO that is like saying, "OMG Hitler is killing Jews? Well thats why I'm Irish!" The way I see it is it's only a matter of time before The bells decide that they can make more money by cracking down on bandwidth sharing. I've read the thred, and I've seen both sides, and I can honestly say I'm riding the fence here. While I don't think its theft in the sense its being talked about here, I don't exactly see it as bveing like sharing a gallon of milk or a pizza either.
I think it is attitudes like yours that cause a lot of heartache for a lot of people.
(I appologize for the Hitler reference, I don't in any way mean to compare the holocaust to sharing Internet access in terms of their harm, but I feel the attitude represented is the same.)
Several folks in Corvallis, Oregon that run "open" wireless access points have banded together and formed the "Corvallis Area Federated Wireless Access Providers," or CAFWAP. Our website is www.cafwap.net. If you live in the willamette valley, please visit our webpage!
I agree with your point whole heartedly. I think that your point about it being wrong is right on.
I do not think however that Tom should be responsible for the use of this application. The app he has written is not milicious in nature. It has a very valid legal use, and he states that on his site.
I don't believe a software vendor has the right to stop him from legally using, and distributing his own creation. I think they need to stop users from using it. In that sense they have an uphill battle I do not envy.
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Amen my brother! In web design eye candy gets people to stop ONCE! Repeat visitors come for content. In fact most eye candy slows the experience or distracts from the actual content.
...to put it mildly, and anything that reduces its influence is worthwhile. The Google effect does just this.
It seems to me that this is a pretty bold statement about what is good. I seem to believe that this "Google Effect" dumbs down the average user and is part of why most people have no clue what is going on when it comes to the internet. I am all for making web searching easy, but to say that anything that slows intenic is good, I would have to stringly disagree.
This reminds me of the BidBay and E-Bay Lawsuit. In this case, unlike the ebay case, I disagree with the agressor. In the case of bidbay they blatently went after the ebay look and feel and in my opinion delibrately confused many people. Lindows has never tried to claim that they are a microsoft product, and just looking at what we've seen thus far they haver done a good job of keeping the line between Microsoft and Lindows black as night.
<rant>
...When did/. become the repository for regurgitated Wired articles? I mean, c'mon, is the news so slow that Jon has to start digging through old articles and doing re-prints?
I personnaly hate the trend of Katz-Bashing that seems to go on every time one ofg his stories is posted, but this article goes ever further below my standards than the usual babble he is sputing. Normally I can take what he has to say because he is entitled to an opinion. I do not believe that I should have to sit here and read an article that he didn't even devote enough time to to at least be original...
</rant>
Did we really have to put 2 of the top 3 stories from bbc? On the day after thanksgiving we're slashdotting one of the only things keeping me awake...:(
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5 - Blue/Green screen of death will put off gamers. I bought a PS2 so I could get away from computer gaming and costant error messages and rebooting. When has anyone ever seen an error message on a Playstation or a Nintendo? I want drop in a game and play it never seeing an error message. PC users are use to getting them and can live with it. Console games don't and won't tolerate it. I gave up PC gaming because I got sick of upgrading video cards, getting more hard drive space, better processors. I just want to drop that disc in and play the game.
I don't really see this as a valid argument.
First - Does anyone else remember the days of PS games just hanging in the middle of a 95 yd. touchdown run because they had tiny scratches. OR does anyone remember blowing into old NES cartriages because all they would do is turn on with a black, blue, or multicolored screen. PC's are not the only environment that has problems. I see the PC as being a hell of a lot more informative when there is a problem.
Second - I hate to hear the garbage about more hard drive space and better video cards. It seems to me that every year there is a new $499 gaming console coming out that will be better than ever and will outdo everything we have ever seen. I spend a lot less than that on computer hardware I'll tell you that. I also have the ability to do much more with my PC than game. So in my opinion the money I am spending is a much better investment.
...But the web site seemed a bit slim on the details. How exactly does it work? Does it look at where your fingers are? I about 40 wpm with my two fingered approach, and I'd hate to have to learn to type for something like this. I have a Fujitsu Stylistic 3500 and this would be an attractive addition if it actually worked.
Slashdot Mirror
agreed.
Its about time people realize that the world was never meant to be a place full of free stuff to take whenever you want it. This idea that its your right to do whatever the hell you want, and when a mega corporation tries to stop you they are suddenly infringing on your god given rights is ridiculous.
...The combination of this new cause of action and pre-existing causes of action will deter copyright owners from using the safe harbor as an excuse to harass file traders, indiscriminately impair the operation of a P2P network, frustrate competitors, or otherwise take
...further limits the safe harbor created by Sec.514(a) by listing specific circumstances in which a copyright owner cannot rely on the safe
any action not encompassed within the safe harbor....
harbor. The safe harbor is unavailable if:
the copyright owner impairs the trading of files that don't contain her copyrighted work, unless such impairment is necessary to impair
the trading of her copyrighted work...
I need some help here. To me it seems that legally they'd only be able to DOS a "trader" if they could do it without limiting the trade on non-copyrighted material. I don't know the law well, and I definately need webster's to read some of this junk, but am I at all in the ballpark?
Some legal expertise might be helpful...
GREAT point. That is more likely the case. I admit I do not follow all of what the ACLU does.
I usually cannot stand the ACLU. IMHO I feel like they usually get involved in issues that they really don't belong in because of the publicity they recieve. I hope this isn't the case here. I see their power and finances being a great benefit to the fight against the DMCA. I hope they can help fight for rights that I feel like we should have here in the US.
/me has my fingers crossed.
I think they mean to say that the virus is only able to force WebTV boxen to disconnect and dial the number. The malicious code doesn't have the same effect on a windows box.
I don't mean to be a stickler, but...
...bringing to justice individuals charged with ill-defined "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity."...
...so you shouldn't feel safe just yet.
I fail to make the connection here. How would these websties fall under either of those categories? I would imagine that anyone in the U.S. wishing to mirror the offending site would be outside the Italian government's jurisdiction. That being said I still wouldn't be suprised if they tried to so something about it. I just don't believe they'd be successful.
I'd like to argue with your argument. IMHO part of the learning process is the experience of re-building after an error. That's part of the beauty of so called "real world" sets. I also believe that kids need to do things with their hands. Moving a mouse and clicking to attach parts is a far cry from holding them together, inserting a pin, and tightening the connection. Kids these days will get plenty of chances to use a computer keyboard and mouse in their lives, using tools and actually building something is becoming a lost art. One that I hope never dies.
I guess I'm just one of those geeks who will have all three. I'm buying the August, the November, and I'm counting on there being a boxed set as well.....
**Disclaimer** I really know nothing about carbon dating, just babbling here...
Now unless the "Born On" date was stamped to the bottom how exactly does one Future Date something? Does it actually gain more carbon that it would have now, so that by the time we see it the carbon is right?
Now what kind of argument is that? Pretty juvenile if you ask me. IMHO that is like saying, "OMG Hitler is killing Jews? Well thats why I'm Irish!" The way I see it is it's only a matter of time before The bells decide that they can make more money by cracking down on bandwidth sharing. I've read the thred, and I've seen both sides, and I can honestly say I'm riding the fence here. While I don't think its theft in the sense its being talked about here, I don't exactly see it as bveing like sharing a gallon of milk or a pizza either.
I think it is attitudes like yours that cause a lot of heartache for a lot of people.
(I appologize for the Hitler reference, I don't in any way mean to compare the holocaust to sharing Internet access in terms of their harm, but I feel the attitude represented is the same.)
For mre information on communities/groups working on this check out Freenetworks.org.
They have a bunch of info for people looking to get involved in such a project.
Just an example:
Several folks in Corvallis, Oregon that run "open" wireless access points have banded together and formed the "Corvallis Area Federated Wireless Access Providers," or CAFWAP. Our website is www.cafwap.net. If you live in the willamette valley, please visit our webpage!
I agree with your point whole heartedly. I think that your point about it being wrong is right on.
I do not think however that Tom should be responsible for the use of this application. The app he has written is not milicious in nature. It has a very valid legal use, and he states that on his site.
I don't believe a software vendor has the right to stop him from legally using, and distributing his own creation. I think they need to stop users from using it. In that sense they have an uphill battle I do not envy.
Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon April 08, 09:13 AM
from the tightening-our-belts dept.
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I wonder how these things will do during incliment weather. Guess I should go do some more reading. Heres another site about this type technology...:
Wave Energy
Here ya go (For those who like BluePrints more than cute pics)
http://members.aol.com/Satrnpress/samprotw.htm
...or airport painting crews will be staffing up:
Magnetic North Keeps Moving
Amen my brother! In web design eye candy gets people to stop ONCE! Repeat visitors come for content. In fact most eye candy slows the experience or distracts from the actual content.
Well Put!
...to put it mildly, and anything that reduces its influence is worthwhile. The Google effect does just this.
It seems to me that this is a pretty bold statement about what is good. I seem to believe that this "Google Effect" dumbs down the average user and is part of why most people have no clue what is going on when it comes to the internet. I am all for making web searching easy, but to say that anything that slows intenic is good, I would have to stringly disagree.
This reminds me of the BidBay and E-Bay Lawsuit. In this case, unlike the ebay case, I disagree with the agressor. In the case of bidbay they blatently went after the ebay look and feel and in my opinion delibrately confused many people. Lindows has never tried to claim that they are a microsoft product, and just looking at what we've seen thus far they haver done a good job of keeping the line between Microsoft and Lindows black as night.
<rant> /. become the repository for regurgitated Wired articles? I mean, c'mon, is the news so slow that Jon has to start digging through old articles and doing re-prints?
...When did
I personnaly hate the trend of Katz-Bashing that seems to go on every time one ofg his stories is posted, but this article goes ever further below my standards than the usual babble he is sputing. Normally I can take what he has to say because he is entitled to an opinion. I do not believe that I should have to sit here and read an article that he didn't even devote enough time to to at least be original...
</rant>
It's about time someone came up with some REAL information for a change. I wish I had some moderation points to give your way.
Did we really have to put 2 of the top 3 stories from bbc? On the day after thanksgiving we're slashdotting one of the only things keeping me awake...:(
I don't really see this as a valid argument.
First - Does anyone else remember the days of PS games just hanging in the middle of a 95 yd. touchdown run because they had tiny scratches. OR does anyone remember blowing into old NES cartriages because all they would do is turn on with a black, blue, or multicolored screen. PC's are not the only environment that has problems. I see the PC as being a hell of a lot more informative when there is a problem.
Second - I hate to hear the garbage about more hard drive space and better video cards. It seems to me that every year there is a new $499 gaming console coming out that will be better than ever and will outdo everything we have ever seen. I spend a lot less than that on computer hardware I'll tell you that. I also have the ability to do much more with my PC than game. So in my opinion the money I am spending is a much better investment.
...But the web site seemed a bit slim on the details. How exactly does it work? Does it look at where your fingers are? I about 40 wpm with my two fingered approach, and I'd hate to have to learn to type for something like this. I have a Fujitsu Stylistic 3500 and this would be an attractive addition if it actually worked.
The holes in this document are large enough for any competent lawyer to drive several large trucks through...
Sounds just like their security holes. At least they are doing something consistently.