What entity should require Google to inform the IP holder? If the answer is the government through legislation then my answer is no, Google shouldn't be required to notify the IP holder.
If the answer is that the users of Blogger should be able to hold Google accountable for deleted or lost IP through a Terms of Use agreement enforceable by the Courts, then my answer is yes.
But the first step would be for the IP holder to not agree to the Terms of Use set forth by Google/Blogger and pressure then to change the terms of service, which state in part:
o Google also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you.
o You agree that Google has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Service. Google retains the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice.
I heard that the White House kitchen staff was in disarray so the staffers set up a turkey slaughter house on the White House lawn and Obama did an interview in front of it. Will they ever learn?
J Edgar Hoover was appointed to the Bureau of Investigation by a Republican (Calvin Coolidge), but while serving in the BI and FBI he served under a total four Democrats and four Republicans.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been equally responsible for big government and oppression at some point or another in our country's history.
Gen. Powell was the only reason I considered giving the Bush Administration the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. If Gen. Powell wants to go back into the military then I'd say that would be great and I think we'd benefit from that as a country, but politics is apparently not his thing.
What if we have an actual crisis and he's expected to explain to the country why we need to take some drastic action? I for one would have trouble buying his story after this Iraq debacle.
"Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again!" -George W. Bush, 2002
Desperate countries turn to imperialistic war. The Roman Empire, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia are just a few of the former "superpowers". Will we allow the United States to be next?
Meanwhile my snail-mail box will continue to overflow with junk mail everyday? Something is amiss.
On another note, it's worrying that many of my fellow Americans have no problems with someone being put in prison for nine years for something like spamming. One year ok, two years maybe, but nine years?
I worry that we are becoming a very punitive people for thing that really aren't that big of a deal.
I just recently bought a console. The main reason was because I was tired of needing to buy a new graphics card every year in order to to display the best graphics and have the best performance for the newest games and the only reason I needed to upgrade was for games. I did this when I went from PCI to AGP many yeas ago, thereby needing to buy a new motherboard, new processor, memory, etc. (I have also upgraded the motherboard several times since then in order to have a faster processor and memory.)
I didn't want to do that again in order to upgrade to PCI-E, so I bought a 360 console for less than half the price and I don't intend to upgrade my PC again for at least two or three years. I think a 3.2 GHz processsor and 2 GB of memory will be fine for software development for at least that long.
I also wanted to play games on a large screen and not have to sit in the same chair where I work all day when I'm relaxing.
Or come to downtown Chicago. I have six city/police cameras within two square blocks of my building with one on the lamp post directly outside of the front door to my building and one outside of the rear door. The camera grid extends all over the city with a camera every one to three blocks. At certain points a person standing on the street can be in sight of six cameras simultaneously. The city has thousands of hours of archived footage. As a matter of fact the City of Chicago has contracted with IBM to hoping to develop software to analyze the archives and scan real-time for "suspicious behavior."
They already do this for will-call orders. To do it for all orders though would be impossible and a huge inconvenience for concert goers. Waiting the the will-call line for big shows takes long enough as it is, not to mention waiting in the line to get past the security check and inside the actual show.
It will be interesting to see where the proceeds from selling the public airwaves will go. Will the proceeds come back to U.S. citizens in some beneficial way or will we end up subsidizing the buyers' cost through higher fees for the services that will be provided over this spectrum? Is there policy that determines where this revenue goes?
I've been mapping out locations of government surveillance cameras in Chicago for about a year. I'm hoping to eventually overlay the location of surveillance cameras with Chicago-area crime statistics in order to provide data showing the long-term effectiveness these cameras have in deterring or preventing crime in Chicago.
http://chicagocrime.org/ has been a huge inspiration for this project. Chicagocrime.org obtains it's crime data from the Chicago Citizen ICAM database (http://12.17.79.6/) and overlays that data onto Google Maps, providing a visual representation of exactly when and where crime occurs in Chicago.
I hope that the people reassembling the files don't misuse them in the same way that the East German government did. Wouldn't it be better to permanently destroy the files since they shouldn't have been compiled by the East German government in the first place?
Dag Hardyson, the national project leader for e-commerce for Skatteverket, the Swedish tax authority, was more forthcoming. Skatteverket is scheduled to join the Xenon project this year, and Hardyson said web crawling is well suited to tax enforcement.
"The internet is wide open for tools," said Hardyson. "It's much easier to handle than the real world."
That axe swings both ways. The Internet is wide open for "counter-tools" as well.
Surveillance cameras in Chicago are not only in high-crime areas. They are pretty much all over the downtown areas in low-crime areas, including Streeterville, the River North, all along Michigan Ave and State St. and pretty much everywhere in between every 3-4 blocks (every one or two blocks in some areas such as the Streerterville areas around the Columbus and Grand Ave area.). The ones in high-crime areas are the most obvious since they have flashing blues light on them, but the ones in other areas are just small black ball cameras hanging off the street lights. Some of them even seem to have some sort of wireless transmitter (indicated by the rather large antenna hanging beneath some of them.)
Mayor Daley recently pledged to have surveillance cameras on "virtually every block" in Chicago by 2016 and recently proposed that every business in Chicago requiring every "'licensed business that is open more than 12 hours in a 24-hour period to install and monitor a ''sufficient number of cameras'' to record the comings and goings of its customers." Here is the an article from the Sun Times:
Another recent article described the removal of surveillance cameras from Millenium Park, stating that "As suddenly as a pair of security cameras had appeared last month on Jaume Plensa's brightly lit glass-block towers at Millennium Park, they were gone Tuesday. Anxiety over national security saw them installed atop one of Chicago's most visible public art installations. Uneasiness over their aesthetic impact had them removed."
If that's the case then the answer to Howard Melamed's question as to why the FBI can use jammers but state and local governments can't is clear: Don't allow the FBI to use cellular-jamming equipment.
"'It just doesn't make much sense that the FBI can use this equipment, but that the local and state governments, which the Homeland Security Act has acknowledged as being an important part of combating terrorism, cannot,' said Howard Melamed, chief executive of CellAntenna. 'We give local police guns and other equipment to protect the public, but we can't trust them with cellular-jamming equipment? It doesn't make sense.'"
"At the Symantec Vision event in Bangalore Thursday, chairman and CEO John Thompson spoke about a shift his company has observed in the threat posed to computer users and companies by hackers. 'While a few years ago many people were much more focused gaining visibility, now all of a sudden we've noticed a significant shift in both the type of attack and the motivation of the attack,' he said. 'The attacks that we see today are more targeted and more silent and their objective is to create true bodily harm to the user as opposed to true financial harm.'"
Wow. For the past five years all I've heard from politicians is how technically sophisticated terrorists are and how they have the ability to create a "Digital Pearl Harbor."
But now terrorists can't even Photoshop an airline boarding pass without the help of some guy's website?
I guess that means we're winning the War on Terror.
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What entity should require Google to inform the IP holder? If the answer is the government through legislation then my answer is no, Google shouldn't be required to notify the IP holder.
If the answer is that the users of Blogger should be able to hold Google accountable for deleted or lost IP through a Terms of Use agreement enforceable by the Courts, then my answer is yes.
But the first step would be for the IP holder to not agree to the Terms of Use set forth by Google/Blogger and pressure then to change the terms of service, which state in part:
o Google also reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any liability to you.
o You agree that Google has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Service. Google retains the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice.
Most of my servers have a Hunter S. Thompson theme. Lazlo, Gonzo, Mahalo, Lono, Oscar and, of course, Nixon (the outcast)
I heard that the White House kitchen staff was in disarray so the staffers set up a turkey slaughter house on the White House lawn and Obama did an interview in front of it. Will they ever learn?
J Edgar Hoover was appointed to the Bureau of Investigation by a Republican (Calvin Coolidge), but while serving in the BI and FBI he served under a total four Democrats and four Republicans.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been equally responsible for big government and oppression at some point or another in our country's history.
When do the criminal negligence trials of the military network administrators start?
Gen. Powell was the only reason I considered giving the Bush Administration the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. If Gen. Powell wants to go back into the military then I'd say that would be great and I think we'd benefit from that as a country, but politics is apparently not his thing.
What if we have an actual crisis and he's expected to explain to the country why we need to take some drastic action? I for one would have trouble buying his story after this Iraq debacle.
"Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again!" -George W. Bush, 2002
I can't name the specific program , but I can say for sure that the oldest piece of code is being used by a U.S. Government agency.
Desperate countries turn to imperialistic war. The Roman Empire, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia are just a few of the former "superpowers". Will we allow the United States to be next?
The appeal definitely won't go anywhere.
Meanwhile my snail-mail box will continue to overflow with junk mail everyday? Something is amiss.
On another note, it's worrying that many of my fellow Americans have no problems with someone being put in prison for nine years for something like spamming. One year ok, two years maybe, but nine years?
I worry that we are becoming a very punitive people for thing that really aren't that big of a deal.
Uh huh. I feel so much better that the pervert checking out my junk is out of sight. Yeah, much better.
It's called The Glory Hole Theory.
I just recently bought a console. The main reason was because I was tired of needing to buy a new graphics card every year in order to to display the best graphics and have the best performance for the newest games and the only reason I needed to upgrade was for games. I did this when I went from PCI to AGP many yeas ago, thereby needing to buy a new motherboard, new processor, memory, etc. (I have also upgraded the motherboard several times since then in order to have a faster processor and memory.)
I didn't want to do that again in order to upgrade to PCI-E, so I bought a 360 console for less than half the price and I don't intend to upgrade my PC again for at least two or three years. I think a 3.2 GHz processsor and 2 GB of memory will be fine for software development for at least that long.
I also wanted to play games on a large screen and not have to sit in the same chair where I work all day when I'm relaxing.
Or come to downtown Chicago. I have six city/police cameras within two square blocks of my building with one on the lamp post directly outside of the front door to my building and one outside of the rear door. The camera grid extends all over the city with a camera every one to three blocks. At certain points a person standing on the street can be in sight of six cameras simultaneously. The city has thousands of hours of archived footage. As a matter of fact the City of Chicago has contracted with IBM to hoping to develop software to analyze the archives and scan real-time for "suspicious behavior."
IBM surveillance software to scan Chicago streets
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/07/09/27/IBM-software-to-scan-Chicago-streets_1.html
It's the last four terms that I've found to be very disturbing. And the three terms before that I would consider to just be plain disturbing.
They already do this for will-call orders. To do it for all orders though would be impossible and a huge inconvenience for concert goers. Waiting the the will-call line for big shows takes long enough as it is, not to mention waiting in the line to get past the security check and inside the actual show.
It will be interesting to see where the proceeds from selling the public airwaves will go. Will the proceeds come back to U.S. citizens in some beneficial way or will we end up subsidizing the buyers' cost through higher fees for the services that will be provided over this spectrum? Is there policy that determines where this revenue goes?
I've been mapping out locations of government surveillance cameras in Chicago for about a year. I'm hoping to eventually overlay the location of surveillance cameras with Chicago-area crime statistics in order to provide data showing the long-term effectiveness these cameras have in deterring or preventing crime in Chicago.
http://chicagocrime.org/ has been a huge inspiration for this project. Chicagocrime.org obtains it's crime data from the Chicago Citizen ICAM database (http://12.17.79.6/) and overlays that data onto Google Maps, providing a visual representation of exactly when and where crime occurs in Chicago.
This law should apply to books such as George Orwell's 1984 as well.
The passages in which government-employed thugs torture citizen Winston Smith are unnecessarily violent and disturbing.
If people stop writing about violence and oppression then violence and oppression will surely disappear.
I hope that the people reassembling the files don't misuse them in the same way that the East German government did. Wouldn't it be better to permanently destroy the files since they shouldn't have been compiled by the East German government in the first place?
Is that piece of toast a subtle warning?
Or is it just breakfast?
http://geektechnique.org/images/1387.jpg
P.S. - CTA President Frank Kruesi deserves to be fired.
Dag Hardyson, the national project leader for e-commerce for Skatteverket, the Swedish tax authority, was more forthcoming. Skatteverket is scheduled to join the Xenon project this year, and Hardyson said web crawling is well suited to tax enforcement.
"The internet is wide open for tools," said Hardyson. "It's much easier to handle than the real world."
That axe swings both ways. The Internet is wide open for "counter-tools" as well.
Surveillance cameras in Chicago are not only in high-crime areas. They are pretty much all over the downtown areas in low-crime areas, including Streeterville, the River North, all along Michigan Ave and State St. and pretty much everywhere in between every 3-4 blocks (every one or two blocks in some areas such as the Streerterville areas around the Columbus and Grand Ave area.). The ones in high-crime areas are the most obvious since they have flashing blues light on them, but the ones in other areas are just small black ball cameras hanging off the street lights. Some of them even seem to have some sort of wireless transmitter (indicated by the rather large antenna hanging beneath some of them.)
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Mayor Daley recently pledged to have surveillance cameras on "virtually every block" in Chicago by 2016 and recently proposed that every business in Chicago requiring every "'licensed business that is open more than 12 hours in a 24-hour period to install and monitor a ''sufficient number of cameras'' to record the comings and goings of its customers." Here is the an article from the Sun Times:
Picture this: Aldermen caught on camera: http://www.suntimes.com/news/anderson/209791,CST-
Another recent article described the removal of surveillance cameras from Millenium Park, stating that "As suddenly as a pair of security cameras had appeared last month on Jaume Plensa's brightly lit glass-block towers at Millennium Park, they were gone Tuesday. Anxiety over national security saw them installed atop one of Chicago's most visible public art installations. Uneasiness over their aesthetic impact had them removed."
Millennium Park cameras removed after outcry: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroo
The FBI can use cellular-jamming equipment?
If that's the case then the answer to Howard Melamed's question as to why the FBI can use jammers but state and local governments can't is clear: Don't allow the FBI to use cellular-jamming equipment.
"'It just doesn't make much sense that the FBI can use this equipment, but that the local and state governments, which the Homeland Security Act has acknowledged as being an important part of combating terrorism, cannot,' said Howard Melamed, chief executive of CellAntenna. 'We give local police guns and other equipment to protect the public, but we can't trust them with cellular-jamming equipment? It doesn't make sense.'"
"At the Symantec Vision event in Bangalore Thursday, chairman and CEO John Thompson spoke about a shift his company has observed in the threat posed to computer users and companies by hackers. 'While a few years ago many people were much more focused gaining visibility, now all of a sudden we've noticed a significant shift in both the type of attack and the motivation of the attack,' he said. 'The attacks that we see today are more targeted and more silent and their objective is to create true bodily harm to the user as opposed to true financial harm.'"
FUD. (btw, I like the new beta tagging system)
Wow. For the past five years all I've heard from politicians is how technically sophisticated terrorists are and how they have the ability to create a "Digital Pearl Harbor."
But now terrorists can't even Photoshop an airline boarding pass without the help of some guy's website?
I guess that means we're winning the War on Terror.