i can go further. I could change my snail mail address to block junk mail. That's REALLY hard to do, as it also entails notifying all my bank, electric company, phone company (where to send the bill), the state (gotta get a new Driver's License, etc), and so on. Plus, the new address is only gonna get on junk mail lists as much as the phone number on telemarketer lists or email addresses on spammer lists.
further, that's like changing your phone number to block telemarketers. telemarketers are gonna end up with the new number anyway, and not to mention the inconvenience of having to notify everyone (family, friends, boss, etc) of the change of phone number or email address (assuming one can do that)
It looks like the patent is FAR more sweeping, as it's on the mere concept of data compression in general. The purpose of compression is the same as stated in the abstract: transfer over limited bandwidth medium. Surely any lawyer is capable of defining a disk drive as a transfer over bandwidth medium. Not to mention that compression algorithms were around long before this patent was filed. Huffman codes came out in 1952. http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Huffman+coding
that's why I brought up "Paid Political Announcements." This means the TV station airing the ad does not either support or denounce the ad to follow. You see them a lot during election season, the station will precede a commercial favoring/denouncing a candidate for office with a black screen with the text "The following is a Paid Political Announcement" in the middle, often with a voice reading that statement.
Yes, you're correct -- ABC is owned by Disney, CNN by Time-Warner. Those relationships may cause issues. But most journalists (I mean the really good ones) will say "screw that" and go about a story anyway, citing their rights as journalists to report what interests the public. They'll also mention that their network is affiliated with so-and-so as appilcable (you'll see many examples of this at MSNBC.com when the article is about MS, as well on TV).
John Stossel (ABC's 20/20) once got the ABC network (and several others) to change a certain policies or practices (I forget what exactly they were) because he did a story about it. He even used multiple examples from ABC's previous actions in the story.
not even a suit is completely necessary. a lot of people in Declan's photos were pretty well dressed.
golf shirt + khakis will do. so would a golf shirt tucked into plain denim jeans. no shirts with statements on them (like that one guy's "got DeCSS?"). small company logo's on the left-upper portion are ok.
other suggestions: groomed hair (ie, combed). controlled beards (no jokes about RMS's - he was wearing a good example). remove odd piercings (gentlemen - this includes earrings). attempt to cover tatoos.
and yes - speak in turn, without flaming. if they interrupt you, they make themselves look bad, and you can cash in by interrupting them back (in a stern voice) "Excuse me, I have the floor. I waited for you to finish your statements, now it is my turn"
clarification: By "people asking questions" I do mean regular people. Regular people are what's causing a lot of the hoopla in DC over terrorism and accounting scandals. Getting them to be aware of DRM would start a similar sprial effect. Get regular Joe's to asking questions to their reps as well as the mainstream media. In turn, the media will also be asking questions (to both sides), putting pressure on gov't officials to learn more about the situation and make it a higher priority, who may do their "research" by watching news reports of DRM, which further educate the public, to get them asking more questions, and so on and so forth.
i had an idea enter my head this morning. campaigns to educate the public on what the entertainment industry wants, and what rights are slowly being eaten away, are not reaching the general public, as it's mostly people online using P2P and the like who are aware of it.
I think groups like the EFF, Digital Consumer, etc. need to pool their resources and start a TV commercial campaign (eg, "paid political announcements") showing the typical American family (eg, mom, dad, 1-4 kids) who downloads maybe 10 songs/day or simply wants to listen to Internet radio.
Have the setting be one where the entertainment industry has full control, and how miserable the life is for this family. eg, getting a knock from police at the door after downloading an mp3.
Maybe not even miserable. Have a little girl that's maybe 4 years old try to do something on a computer, then ask her dad why it's not working. "Sorry sweetie, NSync doesnt want their music played on a computer."
Yes, it's only a 30 second commercial, but it should get the point across of the entertainment industry making the average consumer a criminal. One also needs to target such a campaign. During local evening news shows is good, as are spots on MTV and similar channels.
Dont directly portray Hollywood as evil though (like having Mickey Mouse step on a house, like he did in that recent EFF video), as most people will see that as a turn-off for getting the point across.
oh that's too easy. you have to edit the contract such that they owe you cold cash for clicking "I agree." Oh and dont forget the clause requiring Verizon employees to bow to you when they pass you on the street, greeting you with "Oh great one"
..tv show directors. Sooner or later some network is gonna place an ad and block something significant from view during a major tv show, causing a major uproar not only from viewers, but the show's executives. It already happens on some channels because of those little logos in the corner.
have you looked at that page? it appears a domain registrar is selling that domain -- and they probably got it when your registration expired.
OTOH, if it was taken from you, you cant just bitch about it, you have to go do something to get it back. file a complaint with WIPO, or file a lawsuit.
Since you ignore ACs - I'll repeat a quote by one in this thread -- If someone steals your car, do you go complain on USENET or do you call the cops?
i can agree with that. Here in the US/Canada (as in right this moment), the Baseball All Star game is in progress. Each season, fans get to vote for whom they want to be starting players for the game.
Phillies 3rd Baseman Scott Rolen was elected to be the starter, despite tons of negative press about Rolen outside the Philadelphia area (here in Phila, it's the same negative press mixed with positive stuff from the games). The reserve 3B (Mike Lowell of Florida Marlins) for the game was second in voting, but has not been in the news nationally.
Comparing the two players - Mike is the better one offensively (meaning he's a better batter), while Rolen hands down is the better fielder. To the common fan, they're about the same.
Hence, when most fans were voting, they would see the name "Scott Rolen" and recognize it, maybe not recalling why they saw his name, and would vote for him. To the average baseball fan, every other name (other than a local player) is unrecognized, hence a person wouldn't vote them.
ah, ok. I had a feeling it made it into slashback anyway, given the recinding occured within days of the original announcement. guess that makes this article a duplicate by about 2.5 months:-)
excellent points, especially the username list & 8 char limit.
just a comment: the default install includes various servers, yet they're all disabled by default. only after a completed install can those services be enabled.
PGP is very good in Outlook for email and within Windows for it's other features. Not making it available for Windows leaves people stuck in Windows with only proprietary options bundled in with Outlook/Windows, or those supplied by other vendors. GnuPG (not GnuPGP) dont work in Windows (well, it might via cygwin, but I'm not counting on it).
actually, JAR files are a Sun thing, not Netscape or MS. It stands for Java ARchive. But your point is correct - signed archives are a good thing. IIRC, MS does something like this within Windows Update when you patch your box.
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i'm not exactly sure. i've read three accounts of yesterday's festivities, and could not determine how the session was run.
TW is thoughtfully leaving out one feature: Ad skipping.
i can go further. I could change my snail mail address to block junk mail. That's REALLY hard to do, as it also entails notifying all my bank, electric company, phone company (where to send the bill), the state (gotta get a new Driver's License, etc), and so on. Plus, the new address is only gonna get on junk mail lists as much as the phone number on telemarketer lists or email addresses on spammer lists.
somebody send that judge a clue-by-four
further, that's like changing your phone number to block telemarketers. telemarketers are gonna end up with the new number anyway, and not to mention the inconvenience of having to notify everyone (family, friends, boss, etc) of the change of phone number or email address (assuming one can do that)
yeah, sure. most people have fixed addresses, as they're assigned by their employer, school, etc. Let's see bill gates try and change bgates@microsoft
while one guy already brought up MPEG, AVI, PNG.
It looks like the patent is FAR more sweeping, as it's on the mere concept of data compression in general. The purpose of compression is the same as stated in the abstract: transfer over limited bandwidth medium. Surely any lawyer is capable of defining a disk drive as a transfer over bandwidth medium. Not to mention that compression algorithms were around long before this patent was filed. Huffman codes came out in 1952. http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Huffman+coding
that's why I brought up "Paid Political Announcements." This means the TV station airing the ad does not either support or denounce the ad to follow. You see them a lot during election season, the station will precede a commercial favoring/denouncing a candidate for office with a black screen with the text "The following is a Paid Political Announcement" in the middle, often with a voice reading that statement.
Yes, you're correct -- ABC is owned by Disney, CNN by Time-Warner. Those relationships may cause issues. But most journalists (I mean the really good ones) will say "screw that" and go about a story anyway, citing their rights as journalists to report what interests the public. They'll also mention that their network is affiliated with so-and-so as appilcable (you'll see many examples of this at MSNBC.com when the article is about MS, as well on TV).
John Stossel (ABC's 20/20) once got the ABC network (and several others) to change a certain policies or practices (I forget what exactly they were) because he did a story about it. He even used multiple examples from ABC's previous actions in the story.
not even a suit is completely necessary. a lot of people in Declan's photos were pretty well dressed.
golf shirt + khakis will do. so would a golf shirt tucked into plain denim jeans. no shirts with statements on them (like that one guy's "got DeCSS?"). small company logo's on the left-upper portion are ok.
other suggestions: groomed hair (ie, combed). controlled beards (no jokes about RMS's - he was wearing a good example). remove odd piercings (gentlemen - this includes earrings). attempt to cover tatoos.
and yes - speak in turn, without flaming. if they interrupt you, they make themselves look bad, and you can cash in by interrupting them back (in a stern voice) "Excuse me, I have the floor. I waited for you to finish your statements, now it is my turn"
clarification: By "people asking questions" I do mean regular people. Regular people are what's causing a lot of the hoopla in DC over terrorism and accounting scandals. Getting them to be aware of DRM would start a similar sprial effect. Get regular Joe's to asking questions to their reps as well as the mainstream media. In turn, the media will also be asking questions (to both sides), putting pressure on gov't officials to learn more about the situation and make it a higher priority, who may do their "research" by watching news reports of DRM, which further educate the public, to get them asking more questions, and so on and so forth.
i had an idea enter my head this morning. campaigns to educate the public on what the entertainment industry wants, and what rights are slowly being eaten away, are not reaching the general public, as it's mostly people online using P2P and the like who are aware of it.
I think groups like the EFF, Digital Consumer, etc. need to pool their resources and start a TV commercial campaign (eg, "paid political announcements") showing the typical American family (eg, mom, dad, 1-4 kids) who downloads maybe 10 songs/day or simply wants to listen to Internet radio.
Have the setting be one where the entertainment industry has full control, and how miserable the life is for this family. eg, getting a knock from police at the door after downloading an mp3.
Maybe not even miserable. Have a little girl that's maybe 4 years old try to do something on a computer, then ask her dad why it's not working. "Sorry sweetie, NSync doesnt want their music played on a computer."
Yes, it's only a 30 second commercial, but it should get the point across of the entertainment industry making the average consumer a criminal. One also needs to target such a campaign. During local evening news shows is good, as are spots on MTV and similar channels.
Dont directly portray Hollywood as evil though (like having Mickey Mouse step on a house, like he did in that recent EFF video), as most people will see that as a turn-off for getting the point across.
sorry. meant Verisign, not Verizon
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oh that's too easy. you have to edit the contract such that they owe you cold cash for clicking "I agree." Oh and dont forget the clause requiring Verizon employees to bow to you when they pass you on the street, greeting you with "Oh great one"
..tv show directors. Sooner or later some network is gonna place an ad and block something significant from view during a major tv show, causing a major uproar not only from viewers, but the show's executives. It already happens on some channels because of those little logos in the corner.
as far as the actual physical move is concerned, some donts
IIRC, doesnt MS's Windows Update already do something like SHA1 (or some other algorithm) signiture checking?
have you looked at that page? it appears a domain registrar is selling that domain -- and they probably got it when your registration expired.
OTOH, if it was taken from you, you cant just bitch about it, you have to go do something to get it back. file a complaint with WIPO, or file a lawsuit.
Since you ignore ACs - I'll repeat a quote by one in this thread -- If someone steals your car, do you go complain on USENET or do you call the cops?
i can agree with that. Here in the US/Canada (as in right this moment), the Baseball All Star game is in progress. Each season, fans get to vote for whom they want to be starting players for the game.
Phillies 3rd Baseman Scott Rolen was elected to be the starter, despite tons of negative press about Rolen outside the Philadelphia area (here in Phila, it's the same negative press mixed with positive stuff from the games). The reserve 3B (Mike Lowell of Florida Marlins) for the game was second in voting, but has not been in the news nationally.
Comparing the two players - Mike is the better one offensively (meaning he's a better batter), while Rolen hands down is the better fielder. To the common fan, they're about the same.
Hence, when most fans were voting, they would see the name "Scott Rolen" and recognize it, maybe not recalling why they saw his name, and would vote for him. To the average baseball fan, every other name (other than a local player) is unrecognized, hence a person wouldn't vote them.
given the recent user friendliness story, i can see tech support calls already...
LTTFM!!! (Listen to the f****** manual)
ah, ok. I had a feeling it made it into slashback anyway, given the recinding occured within days of the original announcement. guess that makes this article a duplicate by about 2.5 months :-)
2002-04-16 19:56:07 IEEE Recinds DMCA Clause (articles,slashback) (rejected)
http://yro.slashdot.org/~jeffy124/journal/7023
excellent points, especially the username list & 8 char limit.
just a comment: the default install includes various servers, yet they're all disabled by default. only after a completed install can those services be enabled.
set up an ssl tunnel between each client node and the print server(s). STunnel might help you out with this.
ok, then it just plain dont work well from a user's viewpoint (which was really my point). Or from Outlook, FWIW.
PGP is very good in Outlook for email and within Windows for it's other features. Not making it available for Windows leaves people stuck in Windows with only proprietary options bundled in with Outlook/Windows, or those supplied by other vendors. GnuPG (not GnuPGP) dont work in Windows (well, it might via cygwin, but I'm not counting on it).
actually, JAR files are a Sun thing, not Netscape or MS. It stands for Java ARchive. But your point is correct - signed archives are a good thing. IIRC, MS does something like this within Windows Update when you patch your box.