There should be no retroactive immunity for the telcos. They broke the law, they knew they were breaking the law when they did it. They should now be open to civil litigation, now that their actions are out in the open.
To pass a bill granting retroactive immunity, would set a precedent I'm not comfortable with. The government(executive branch) violated citizens rights (wether or not they had a 'good' reason), and are now looking to protect their cohorts in crime.
What's next? Retroactive immunity for Microsoft, for installing a back door in windows, to help us catch terrorists?
I'm just afraid that immunity will send the message, that it's okay to violate civil rights, if the government asks you to. The government is the last people you should want violating your rights, it says so right in the constitution.
We're built from information contained in DNA, is it so far a stretch to think that one day we will grow the items we need on a day to day basis? Perhaps this is the basis for replicator technology.
C4, is the stable explosive you are thinking of, they used to use it for emergency campfires in Vietnam. You could actually shoot C4 with a gun, and the chances of it exploding are null. TNT is little more than stabilized NitroGlycerin, which is inherently unstable, and prone to random explosions.
If the RIAA, or a duly authorized agent of theirs, were to offer files, on a P2P network, there could be no resulting lawsuit. The reason being is that the RIAA, or duly appointed agent, is the one authorized to distribute the content, in whatever manner they see fit. They cannot give it to you, and then sue you for having it. It wouldn't be entrapment, it would be a corporate gift, and a nice one at that.
I can remember two movies relating to this. The first one is The Running Man starring Gov. Arnie. The other one is a B-Movie, whose name is I believe "Deadlocked Escape from Zone 14". And in that one, the prosoners were 'married', with their collars, if they got further than whatever distance from their 'marriage' partner BOOM for both of them. The whole trick, IIRC is nobody knew who they were 'married' to. I would imagine this was done to prevent escapes.
The fact that they sell the 'intellectual property' in question for far less than $10000, could go quite a ways toward minimizing the worth of said content.
The problem is he couldn't ask for ID, untill he had probable cause that 1) a crime had indeed occured & 2) these people, him in particular, was infact the guily party.
From what I gather the officer had neither, and therefore after detaining him for the stop-frisk, would have to release him
The problem with comparing the junk mail you recieve at home, with email spam is flawed. The two systems are different enough, even if it's hard to see at first.
Snail Mail spam, gets a 'pre-sorted bulk rate', so they usually concentrate on a certian market( geological, company customer bases etc. etc.) Also with a physical address you have a pretty good idea of the location of the customer.
Email Spam is just a 'shotgun load of crap', launched at the internet like buckshot. Part of what makes email spam 'work' for the spammer is that they pretty much hit 'everybody'.
I guess what I am trying to say is the email spammer is more likely to bombard 'everyone' because it costs the same. Snail mail will try to 'target' an audience, but still send out lots more mail than they would if they had to pay first class postage( what you or I have to pay to mail).
If they do institute a percharge for email, there should be no 'bulk discount'.
Although one might think that the odds of us(American populace) suceeding in a 'revolution' of sorts, a tearing up of the old dieseased tree, and an implating with the new, are dismal at best; fear not my fellow citizen. For it is the American way to let everything get out of hand till it's just 'enough', and we fix it. Americans, or so they seem, are too caught up in their everyday lives to be concerned with the world around them. This works just fine, untill the climate dictates that this will not work for much longer.
Although almost every American will tell you that they value 'freedom', most don't even know the true meaning of the word, nor would they know it if it landed on their faces.
Living in America, at least for me, has always meant being ready, more than anything else. I live my life with a certian amount of freedom, and dreadfully await the time, when freedom seems to be impossible to obtain.
I value my freedom first and foremost, I just wish that more Americans were versed on CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY. Freedom isn't free, it requires communities working together, it takes work.
Maybe there's something to be done, because I am sure, that they are advertised as CD's, and not some specality product.
Coming soon to a store near you. (Insert artist here)'s latest hits, on a specially encoded(read crippled), compact disc looking device, incompatible with compact disc players. Same great price, less functionality.
It shouldn't have a little macrovision badge on the back, it ought to be plastered on the jewel case, just like hte little compact disc logo should be.
And another thing since I've already begun to rant. Shouldn't all of these 'new & improved' players that play these quasi-CD's be plainly labeled? Shouldn't DRM-COMPLIANT be required to be plastered all over the box? Something perhaps similar to the DDOT regulations for explosive labeling(Big placards, and warning stickers abound.)
Do any of the copy protection schemes, fit within the actual specification of Compact Disc? If the format of information, or the way it's written on the disc differs in any way from the published standard, couldn't a case be made agianst said product being actually called a compact disc. To the best of my knowledge there were no specifications for copy protection in the original CD standard. Has the standard been updated, or are all these companies trying to pass off a sub-standard, non spec conforming product, ( basically a conterfeit product) to us?
To the best of my knoweldge Gallelio(sp), is the European GPS replacement that they are working on, and from what I heard the US pitched a fit, unless there were a way to disable, or turn it off in time of national(read US) crisis. Although you are correct in the radom data, that is inserted into the civilian system, only causes a small error, wouldn't the increased speeds of the aircraft, versus foot travel, almost require a higher 'resolution'. If so I would find that a bit disturbing, because instead of people hi-jacking airplanes to crash them, they might just be after the 'high resolution(read government spec) GPS reciever, for use in something like a guided cruise missle( which if I am not mistaken, is one of the major reasons why they have the 'civilian distortion' built into GPS int he first place).
Would a catastrophic loss of the GPS system, render these planes unusable? Also, depending on the accuracy of the system(remember they 'skew' the signal for civilian recievers), it could make the planes a bigger target, for the possibly more accurate GPS recievers on them.
Yes it has been a while since that movie was shown. But I think it's definately a classic nightmare sci-fi scenario. Who knows about this stardust mission, check back with me (if we're all still here:P), when the probe lands. Oh well it was bound to happen sooner or later.
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Just trying to save some CO2 emissions.
Oh but they do exist, I've seen one.
Perhaps a percentage based system might be effective. A percentage of the gross I would think. Due yearly as property taxes are.
Because those who would surrender liberty for safety, deserve neither.
I believe the quote is attributed to Ben Franklin
There should be no retroactive immunity for the telcos. They broke the law, they knew they were breaking the law when they did it. They should now be open to civil litigation, now that their actions are out in the open.
To pass a bill granting retroactive immunity, would set a precedent I'm not comfortable with. The government(executive branch) violated citizens rights (wether or not they had a 'good' reason), and are now looking to protect their cohorts in crime.
What's next? Retroactive immunity for Microsoft, for installing a back door in windows, to help us catch terrorists?
I'm just afraid that immunity will send the message, that it's okay to violate civil rights, if the government asks you to. The government is the last people you should want violating your rights, it says so right in the constitution.
We're built from information contained in DNA, is it so far a stretch to think that one day we will grow the items we need on a day to day basis? Perhaps this is the basis for replicator technology.
Synthehol anyone?
Load too big on your server, need to slow down the traffic a bit.
Slashdot it.
That should work
Let's make DNA swabbing a requirement to get into public office, and see just how bad they want it.
C4, is the stable explosive you are thinking of, they used to use it for emergency campfires in Vietnam. You could actually shoot C4 with a gun, and the chances of it exploding are null. TNT is little more than stabilized NitroGlycerin, which is inherently unstable, and prone to random explosions.
If the RIAA, or a duly authorized agent of theirs, were to offer files, on a P2P network, there could be no resulting lawsuit. The reason being is that the RIAA, or duly appointed agent, is the one authorized to distribute the content, in whatever manner they see fit. They cannot give it to you, and then sue you for having it. It wouldn't be entrapment, it would be a corporate gift, and a nice one at that.
I can remember two movies relating to this. The first one is The Running Man starring Gov. Arnie. The other one is a B-Movie, whose name is I believe "Deadlocked Escape from Zone 14". And in that one, the prosoners were 'married', with their collars, if they got further than whatever distance from their 'marriage' partner BOOM for both of them. The whole trick, IIRC is nobody knew who they were 'married' to. I would imagine this was done to prevent escapes.
The fact that they sell the 'intellectual property' in question for far less than $10000, could go quite a ways toward minimizing the worth of said content.
The problem is he couldn't ask for ID, untill he had probable cause that 1) a crime had indeed occured & 2) these people, him in particular, was infact the guily party.
From what I gather the officer had neither, and therefore after detaining him for the stop-frisk, would have to release him
The problem with comparing the junk mail you recieve at home, with email spam is flawed. The two systems are different enough, even if it's hard to see at first.
Snail Mail spam, gets a 'pre-sorted bulk rate', so they usually concentrate on a certian market( geological, company customer bases etc. etc.) Also with a physical address you have a pretty good idea of the location of the customer.
Email Spam is just a 'shotgun load of crap', launched at the internet like buckshot. Part of what makes email spam 'work' for the spammer is that they pretty much hit 'everybody'.
I guess what I am trying to say is the email spammer is more likely to bombard 'everyone' because it costs the same. Snail mail will try to 'target' an audience, but still send out lots more mail than they would if they had to pay first class postage( what you or I have to pay to mail).
If they do institute a percharge for email, there should be no 'bulk discount'.
Although one might think that the odds of us(American populace) suceeding in a 'revolution' of sorts, a tearing up of the old dieseased tree, and an implating with the new, are dismal at best; fear not my fellow citizen. For it is the American way to let everything get out of hand till it's just 'enough', and we fix it. Americans, or so they seem, are too caught up in their everyday lives to be concerned with the world around them. This works just fine, untill the climate dictates that this will not work for much longer.
Although almost every American will tell you that they value 'freedom', most don't even know the true meaning of the word, nor would they know it if it landed on their faces.
Living in America, at least for me, has always meant being ready, more than anything else. I live my life with a certian amount of freedom, and dreadfully await the time, when freedom seems to be impossible to obtain.
I value my freedom first and foremost, I just wish that more Americans were versed on CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY. Freedom isn't free, it requires communities working together, it takes work.
--End Rant
Those who would surrender freedom for safety, deserve neither.
I wonder if this will have enough horsepower, to accelerate all of the 'electronics of the future' we've been promised for so long.
Maybe there's something to be done, because I am sure, that they are advertised as CD's, and not some specality product.
Coming soon to a store near you. (Insert artist here)'s latest hits, on a specially encoded(read crippled), compact disc looking device, incompatible with compact disc players. Same great price, less functionality.
It shouldn't have a little macrovision badge on the back, it ought to be plastered on the jewel case, just like hte little compact disc logo should be.
And another thing since I've already begun to rant.
Shouldn't all of these 'new & improved' players that play these quasi-CD's be plainly labeled? Shouldn't DRM-COMPLIANT be required to be plastered all over the box? Something perhaps similar to the DDOT regulations for explosive labeling(Big placards, and warning stickers abound.)
--End Rant
Do any of the copy protection schemes, fit within the actual specification of Compact Disc? If the format of information, or the way it's written on the disc differs in any way from the published standard, couldn't a case be made agianst said product being actually called a compact disc. To the best of my knowledge there were no specifications for copy protection in the original CD standard. Has the standard been updated, or are all these companies trying to pass off a sub-standard, non spec conforming product, ( basically a conterfeit product) to us?
To the best of my knoweldge Gallelio(sp), is the European GPS replacement that they are working on, and from what I heard the US pitched a fit, unless there were a way to disable, or turn it off in time of national(read US) crisis. Although you are correct in the radom data, that is inserted into the civilian system, only causes a small error, wouldn't the increased speeds of the aircraft, versus foot travel, almost require a higher 'resolution'. If so I would find that a bit disturbing, because instead of people hi-jacking airplanes to crash them, they might just be after the 'high resolution(read government spec) GPS reciever, for use in something like a guided cruise missle( which if I am not mistaken, is one of the major reasons why they have the 'civilian distortion' built into GPS int he first place).
Would a catastrophic loss of the GPS system, render these planes unusable? Also, depending on the accuracy of the system(remember they 'skew' the signal for civilian recievers), it could make the planes a bigger target, for the possibly more accurate GPS recievers on them.
Yes it has been a while since that movie was shown. But I think it's definately a classic nightmare sci-fi scenario. Who knows about this stardust mission, check back with me (if we're all still here :P), when the probe lands. Oh well it was bound to happen sooner or later.
He might have been drunk, but it was the Sterno he was drinking, that made him a viable test subject.
I can't wait to see these pictures. It was getting time to change wallpaper anyway, this looks like they will do just fine
The future economic benefit is going to be interesting, if they can pull it off.