I wonder how long it will take before we will all be wearing one AlwaysClean(tm) Wrinkle-B-Gone(tm) T-shirt for your entire life, having it change color, shape, texture, even brand-name as fads come and go... It's going to be great!
"DMCA "aims" (completely unsuccessfully) to ensure copyright can still function profitably (a noble aim, not everybody is motivated to create without an incentive), and Carnivore aims (with more success, but with many more undesirable side effects) to negate the effects of terrorism, the activities of child pornographers, etc etc. There are valid motives behind these things, but somewhere along the line, they got hijacked by combinations of big bizness(TM), stupid senators, and fascistic neo-mccarthyists."
No, don't you see? It is exactly those valid motives that makes those laws and technologies so wrong. Then ends do NOT justify the means, my friend. Sure one or two "good hearted" ideas turned bad won't ruin the country, but once started down that slippery slope, there is no going back. Where is the line? When do you say "No, this particular piece of legistaltion is wrong but that one is fine."? The Ministry of Love was all about good motives, you know...
...whew! I just have a great big belly laugh when those clowns in the senate are up to thier tricks... Observe this line:
...knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education.
By using the word "affects" in this bill basically makes it illegal (without "authorization") to even view a school's web site (viewing a website "affects" a machine by causing it to write information to the log files). Be careful next time you want to check out the football schedule on the web-page calendar!
Yessiree, before much longer Americans will be fleeing to Russia to escape the tyranny and opression. Orwell, eat your heart out.:)
(Of course, I'm assume by "computer" they mean a machine, and not the little kids in math class.)
The concept in a good one, targeting your ads to a specific audience, but in practice it will fail for one simple reason. In the marketing and ad placement world, the ultimate goal is not to find the right customers, instead, the goal is to find any customers. If this kind of software ever takes off you will find the more cash-heavy companies buying not just words in thier own sphere, but all of the words in the English language.
Instead of having "shoes" going to Nike and "food" going to McDonalds, you'll have "bike" "Mozart" "the" "Sunday" and a whole host of random and indiscriminate words all pointing to www.xxxhotteens.com.
Did anyone else see the irony of an anti-piracy campaign going around and scaring people and threating them with suprise raids unless given money? We live in a strange world, methinks.
An idea similar to this could and should be tried to bring the USENET back into the hands of masses. Having some sort of k5 style moderation used on USENET message id could potentially end spam as we know it. The simplest appriach would be to have a few groups fo competing "moderation" servers that you could query and rate messages by thier message id and then build in some client plugins to filter based on a given threshhold. Of course to really get the system to work, some thought would have to be put into authentication (say only 5 moderations allowed per IP per day, or even have an actualy login proccess to moderate) to keep spammers from moderating up thier own posts. If we have a loose network of many of these moderation servers, they all use different ways to pick out the good posts and user preference would dictate which system works best.
Actually, I would guess that it's a pretty good chance he won't be reading your email if you have PGP on your machine... Depending on what happened with the Dmitry case, your employer may go to jail for up to five years for reading it.
I would love to see that argument hold up... "Honestly, officer, I was decrypting the copy protection on my Matrix DVD to make sure that they weren't using any of my copyrighted material!"
If you encrypt all your email and use SSL for all communications, then as long as the DMCA stands, your employer can't spy on you without a jail sentence. People need to start encrypting things, not just your secret stuff, everything. Until we start doing this as a country and it catches on, we'll alwyas have to worry about who is looking over our shoulder no matter where we are...
Finding conclusive proof of life on Mars would cause a huge, HUGE change in the is country and all over the world concerning the need and worth of the space program. On the other hand, having lots of fanfare and parading about that you will test for life, but then fail to find anything will cause more backlash and disgruntled Americans to wonder why we are hurling things up into space when, by all rights, we could be thinking about the children.
Probably the best solution, and I think this may have been happening all along, would be to do preliminary tests in secret, maybe by seperating a 10 part test into 10 different missions, where they would never be discovered by the press, but that could help them determine whether or not they should go balls out on another test for life.
Of course I am pulling this out of my ass, but at the same time NASA has become less of a science endeavor and more of a PR firm. They still do some science, but in order to justify it to the public, it has to be sexy.
-final:
- me: fix ptrace and/proc issues with new core-dump permissions
- numerous: IDE tape driver update for completion handlers
- Ben Collins: ieee1394 GUID cleanups
- Jacek Stepniewski: nasty deadlock in rename()
Whew, good thing Jacek was able to get that deadlock into this patch!
Not to invoke godwin's law too early, but when you start preaching about how this man is a lawbreaker and should be in prison, never never forget this: The Jews in Nazi Germany were breaking the law. Just because a law is in the books does not mean that it is a JUST law.
Congress can make any damn laws that they want, but that doesn't mean that they are constituional, moral or right. Instead of jumping on the guy for playing a little fast and loose with IP (Imaginary Property), ask youself what harm he has really done the world. Ask youself if a few petty royalty disputes are worth the price of YOUR right to free speach. Don't forget you stand on the edge of a wonderfully slippery slope, and all it takes are a few more Russians coming to America and "trafficing" in free thought and you find you self trapped 17 years in the past.
At least a decade of further research on the security of home computers is needed before Internet voting can come in.
In Palm Beach, a "decade" of further research either works out to 34 years, or yesterday, depending on how many of the MIT computer scientests were named "Chad".
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...something about an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters. It could work... :)
"PI is exactly 4!" -- Professor Frink
Well, as long as everyone else thinks we should be "mob programming", I guess I should too... :)
At least now the arrow underneath my "I'm with Stupid" shirt will always be pointing in the right direction...
I wonder how long it will take before we will all be wearing one AlwaysClean(tm) Wrinkle-B-Gone(tm) T-shirt for your entire life, having it change color, shape, texture, even brand-name as fads come and go... It's going to be great!
"DMCA "aims" (completely unsuccessfully) to ensure copyright can still function profitably (a noble aim, not everybody is motivated to create without an incentive), and Carnivore aims (with more success, but with many more undesirable side effects) to negate the effects of terrorism, the activities of child pornographers, etc etc. There are valid motives behind these things, but somewhere along the line, they got hijacked by combinations of big bizness(TM), stupid senators, and fascistic neo-mccarthyists."
No, don't you see? It is exactly those valid motives that makes those laws and technologies so wrong. Then ends do NOT justify the means, my friend. Sure one or two "good hearted" ideas turned bad won't ruin the country, but once started down that slippery slope, there is no going back. Where is the line? When do you say "No, this particular piece of legistaltion is wrong but that one is fine."? The Ministry of Love was all about good motives, you know...
Jar Jar clones...
...whew! I just have a great big belly laugh when those clowns in the senate are up to thier tricks... Observe this line:
...knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education.
:)
By using the word "affects" in this bill basically makes it illegal (without "authorization") to even view a school's web site (viewing a website "affects" a machine by causing it to write information to the log files). Be careful next time you want to check out the football schedule on the web-page calendar!
Yessiree, before much longer Americans will be fleeing to Russia to escape the tyranny and opression. Orwell, eat your heart out.
(Of course, I'm assume by "computer" they mean a machine, and not the little kids in math class.)
Well, if it had been a grey slime, I would just use my +5 2-handed sword, Sunblade...
:)
But for grey goo? Hmm, I don't think I can help you there...
The concept in a good one, targeting your ads to a specific audience, but in practice it will fail for one simple reason. In the marketing and ad placement world, the ultimate goal is not to find the right customers, instead, the goal is to find any customers. If this kind of software ever takes off you will find the more cash-heavy companies buying not just words in thier own sphere, but all of the words in the English language.
Instead of having "shoes" going to Nike and "food" going to McDonalds, you'll have "bike" "Mozart" "the" "Sunday" and a whole host of random and indiscriminate words all pointing to www.xxxhotteens.com.
Did anyone else see the irony of an anti-piracy campaign going around and scaring people and threating them with suprise raids unless given money? We live in a strange world, methinks.
An idea similar to this could and should be tried to bring the USENET back into the hands of masses. Having some sort of k5 style moderation used on USENET message id could potentially end spam as we know it. The simplest appriach would be to have a few groups fo competing "moderation" servers that you could query and rate messages by thier message id and then build in some client plugins to filter based on a given threshhold. Of course to really get the system to work, some thought would have to be put into authentication (say only 5 moderations allowed per IP per day, or even have an actualy login proccess to moderate) to keep spammers from moderating up thier own posts. If we have a loose network of many of these moderation servers, they all use different ways to pick out the good posts and user preference would dictate which system works best.
Anyway, just my 2 cents...
I Had mono in college, and while it was a pain to be tired all the time, I was in no real danger. :)
...beer is the true mother of invention!
They used even bigger nano-tubes to puncture the walls of the first tubes... that's how they got rid of them.
Actually, I would guess that it's a pretty good chance he won't be reading your email if you have PGP on your machine... Depending on what happened with the Dmitry case, your employer may go to jail for up to five years for reading it.
I would love to see that argument hold up... "Honestly, officer, I was decrypting the copy protection on my Matrix DVD to make sure that they weren't using any of my copyrighted material!"
If you encrypt all your email and use SSL for all communications, then as long as the DMCA stands, your employer can't spy on you without a jail sentence. People need to start encrypting things, not just your secret stuff, everything. Until we start doing this as a country and it catches on, we'll alwyas have to worry about who is looking over our shoulder no matter where we are...
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<TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
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The requested URL was not found on this server.
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Finding conclusive proof of life on Mars would cause a huge, HUGE change in the is country and all over the world concerning the need and worth of the space program. On the other hand, having lots of fanfare and parading about that you will test for life, but then fail to find anything will cause more backlash and disgruntled Americans to wonder why we are hurling things up into space when, by all rights, we could be thinking about the children.
Probably the best solution, and I think this may have been happening all along, would be to do preliminary tests in secret, maybe by seperating a 10 part test into 10 different missions, where they would never be discovered by the press, but that could help them determine whether or not they should go balls out on another test for life.
Of course I am pulling this out of my ass, but at the same time NASA has become less of a science endeavor and more of a PR firm. They still do some science, but in order to justify it to the public, it has to be sexy.
...just my 2 cents
- me: fix ptrace and
- numerous: IDE tape driver update for completion handlers
- Ben Collins: ieee1394 GUID cleanups
- Jacek Stepniewski: nasty deadlock in rename()
Whew, good thing Jacek was able to get that deadlock into this patch!
Not to invoke godwin's law too early, but when you start preaching about how this man is a lawbreaker and should be in prison, never never forget this: The Jews in Nazi Germany were breaking the law. Just because a law is in the books does not mean that it is a JUST law.
Congress can make any damn laws that they want, but that doesn't mean that they are constituional, moral or right. Instead of jumping on the guy for playing a little fast and loose with IP (Imaginary Property), ask youself what harm he has really done the world. Ask youself if a few petty royalty disputes are worth the price of YOUR right to free speach. Don't forget you stand on the edge of a wonderfully slippery slope, and all it takes are a few more Russians coming to America and "trafficing" in free thought and you find you self trapped 17 years in the past.
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Want to know why these ads "come from nowhere"? Well, search your house right now! Becuase they are spying on you! With thier little X10 camera! :)
In Palm Beach, a "decade" of further research either works out to 34 years, or yesterday, depending on how many of the MIT computer scientests were named "Chad".