Washington, DC - At midyear, the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy figures reveal an ever-changing marketplace for unauthorized sound recordings. While counterfeit cassette seizures continued to decline -- nearly 57%, the demand for pirate and bootleg CDs remains steady. The RIAA dealt a significant blow to bootleggers around the globe through "Operation Goldmine" that resulted in the seizure of 800,000 bootleg CDs in March.
Throughout the first six months of 1997, the RIAA spent significant resources in redirecting its activities to protect copyrighted sound recordings in cyberspace. Through educational letters, speaking opportunities and training U.S. Attorney's offices and Federal Agencies regarding Internet piracy -- the RIAA is informing the Internet community about the legal implications of copyright infringement.
Were getting phantom pings from the ghosts of the still-smoldering servers we slashdotted in our folly! I'm scared... But the good news is that you aren't getting them anymore. You grammar nazis should give us a break on monday mornings : )
I wouldn't have thought/. would have too many people believing in responses from machines that don't exist. Were getting phantom pings from the ghosts of the still-smoldering servers we slashdotted in our folly! I'm scared...
overpriced, and not even the "best" in their class? Just because it has a rotten apple drawn in it's surface? Well, the buyers **are** the stupid part here. Hell, I don't even own an Ipod because it's not good enough for me. Having the Apple in the white shining surface may make you cool in the eyes of the teenagers, but doesn't mean a thing for me. Alright people, you see that post I quoted? 0 insight. All it's got is some ridiculous preconceived hatred of people who buy apple. If you've spent enough time on slashdot to get mod points, you should know by now that people who spew this crap are only trolling, and that people luv their macs because the damn thing work so darn well. He's trolling for this reply, and most likely for angry flames, so seriously, either ignore it or mod it down to oblivion, but for crying out loud, don't mod it up.
So my vacation pictures from our visit to Canada that I posted on my web site are somehow illegal? Vacation pictures are not illegal because they are information collected by individuals for non-commercial uses:
Limit (2) This Part does not apply to
(a) any government institution to which the Privacy Act applies;
(c) any organization in respect of personal information that the organization collects, uses or discloses for journalistic, artistic or literary purposes and does not collect, use or disclose for any other purpose.
There's also exceptions for organizations that act for the good of the individuals or the whole, artistic uses, journalistic uses, it's a pretty well drafted law, IMHO.
Probably because it costs quite a bit of computing time to recognise faces and number plates in gajillions of images... It's all about money in the end. Just pass on that CPU usage to the end user, no need to alter the source images, eh?
Although most of the constitutional rights that one refers to mostly only limit congress, it seems to have been agereed to, a long time ago, that these rights also bind lower levels of government. My understanding of the history of US constitutional law isn't strong enough to say exactly why -- but it makes perfect sense... otherwise your right to, say free speech, be free from unreasonable search and seizure or cruel and unusual punishment could be violently infringed by state or local governments. I think that this was done with a constitutional amendment, but I'm not entirely sure. Well, it doesn't sound wrong... but...
For instance, the search and seizures amendment says "the rights of the people shall not be infringed", it doesn't say by whom or how, it states it as an absolute. So that would apply to all levels. But when they go out of their way to mention which government entity and how, then there is an difference. So if Utah did have the legal right to declare Mormonism their official state religion, that would not mean they can search you willy-nilly.
And the only amendment I can think of that sounds like what your fuzzy memory is trying to drift towards is the tenth, which appears to be saying the opposite of what you recall... it says that powers not specifically forbidden to states or delegated to the federal level are to be left to the states or the people. So... well, you have a link to dig through, see if you can find something that clicks with your instincts and do get back to me with it if you do, I'd love to know for sure if it's the case.
... the Supreme Court is supreme only over other federal courts - not over the other branches of government". It's not a case of court vs court. It's a case of judge vs constitution.
The constitution explicitly bans the establishment of a state religion --
Yeah, but it explicitly bans congress from favoring a religion, it's at the federal level. That's Ron's point: Not that it's a good idea for an Alabama judge to plant his religious convictions on the lawn of the state courthouse, but that it isn't anyone's business except for the state of Alabama and its citizens.
Personally, I pity the Hindu that has to walk past another religion's commandments on his way into a courthouse, but apparently, it's not the federal government's mandate to get involved in state courthouses' exterior decorating. I don't really have an opinion on this, but I have heard Ron Paul's logic, and it makes perfect sense. Of course, I also saw that infamous "better know a district" segment with a Georgia peach who could barely think of three things you shouldn't get caught doing, which Colbert generously counted as three of the ten commandments he asked that elected dumbass to enumerate, so I have absolutely no confidence in the state of Alabama nor its citizens, considering the fools they have representing them. But I think airing that was more significant than overreaching the powers of the federal government into intervening against it. You can't force progress on people, you have to educate them. Apparently thine founding fathers understood as much.
So, in conclusion: Please listen or read Ron Paul's actual opinions rather than trying to divine them from one of his votes on a bill relating to your pet issue, he's consistent on his logic, not on special interests. In fact if you look at his record one some issues, it first looks quite inconsistent, if you don't look for what he objected on specifically in each bill, rather than what push-button issue the bill can be labeled with.
Wasn't there an article on how the massive London camera network doesn't actually do any good? And that one has real people monitoring it. Who really thinks a computer will be able to do a better job at something so nebulous as "suspicious behavior?" FTFA: 'said Kevin Smith, a spokesman with the OEMC. "Ultimately I think what this software might be able to do is'
Ultimately? Think? Might be able? He isn't selling a product. He's selling a dream!
I think the history is that the courts have allowed temporary wartime injustices like this in the past, loss of habeas corpus during the Civil War (if you suggested peace with the South you might be arrested) Doesn't the US constitution, under article one, section nine, state specifically that "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."? I'm pretty sure the civil war counts as "rebellion".
Allowances for suspending it indefinitely for new reasons, however, doesn't seem to be written down anywhere I can find it in that document, though.
is how when things like this happen, we curse under our breath and then do nothing. By action, the vast majority of us are completely apathetic to the government, the police or any other powers that be, in abusing their powers.
This isn't about abuse of power. This is about citizen apathy. Apathy doesn't make me go WTF. I understand being tired/overwhelmed with life's little hassles or feeling helpless in the face of a giant machine.
It's the people who defend these actions that make me go WTF. People saying that the "don't tase me" bro wated to be subjected to that because, as a journalism student asking a question to a bona fide congress critter and genuine presidential near-miss, he asked someone to be his cameraman when he asked his questions. Or when an electronics student named Star makes herself a shining star name tag, there's people to say she deserved to be threatened with summary execution then arrested on phony charges. Those are the WTF reactions.
He should take it as a compliment that his art project worked well enough to fool the police. Is that the same police that sees a home-made light-up name tag and thinks "OMG A BOMB!"? Or sees a lite-bright mooninite and thinks "OMG A BOMB!"?
Because, I wouldn't take it as a compliment if they saw anything I made and thought "OMG A BOMB!", apparently to these people, if it's home-made, it's a bomb.
Voted to allow bigoted Alabama judge to post Ten Commandments in courtroom, as free expression is just one of those things we used to care about..
The issue in this case was not a small wall hanging obtained with personal funds. In this case it was a large monument obtained using several thousand dollars of state funds. I think that Alabama judge is a horses' ass, but I can't fault Dr. Paul's logic on that: "the Supreme Court is supreme only over other federal courts - not over the other branches of government". If it's a state judge doing something on state land with state money, Paul says that the federal government has no jurisdiction.
What I find disturbing is people who find there to be, first, a difference between the pixlated backsides, and second feel affected enough by staring at the pixelated bottom of an animated avatar to need to rationalize or justify their choice of an animated character. What if it was a painted character or a photographed character? Would that be an actual difference between 2D representations of secondary sexual characteristics you're throwing at your visual cortex? In case you haven't heard already, hentai actually arouse people, even though it's animated porn. Guess what, human brains are sophisticated enough to extrapolate meaning from hand-made representations!
I bet you can't understand why people can be sad at animated characters dying at the movies.
...but the people who are on it. But still, I applaud them for standing up to the bully that he is. Your are technically right, in a limited way, but poetically your logic is abysmal.
We are online, the internet is part of our lives and our lives are reflected on the internet. It reroutes through us. In complex systems, this is called emergence, and if you didn't realize by now that humans are part of the complex system that is the internet, then I wonder who you thought laid down all cable and fiber to begin with.
Read the Wiki and you'll find that it was classic police investigation that screwed up resulted in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. An address from inside an undetonated bag lead them to the flats that Jean Charles was living in. The fatal flaw was that Jean Charles was never compared to the CCTV images and it went downhill from there. According to wikipedia, he was compared to the CCTV images, and was deemed to fit:
surveillance officers observing the address saw de Menezes emerge from the communal entrance of the block. The officers were watching three men who they claimed were Somali or Ethiopian in appearance.
De Menezes, an electrician, lived in one of the flats with two of his cousins, and had just received a call to fix a broken fire alarm in Kilburn.
An officer on duty at Scotia Road compared de Menezes to the CCTV photographs of the bombing suspects from the previous day, and felt "it would be worth someone else having a look"
[...]
The three surveillance officers later stated that they were satisfied that they had the correct man, noting that he "had Mongolian eyes".
It was because they had fuzzy images of brown people that this brown guy was a suspect and that he was shot 7 times in the head, once in the shoulder.
Look, Apple does some stupid shit, but blaming them for the terrible and non-competitive state of the U.S. cel phone industry is just plain stupid. We have, IMO, a de facto telecommunications monopoly in this country, and the reasons for that are a whole lot more complicate than 'Apple is teh sux0r!' The whole essay reads like someone who lives a fair distance from logic. Right on the money, let's quote from our electronic freedom prophet:
A more common phenomenon
Locked cellphones have become common in North America as carriers claim that they sell "subsidized" phones in return for an exclusive commitment and long-term contract from consumers. While many consumers may like the opportunity to purchase a phone for a fraction of the full retail price, others would presumably prefer the freedom of an "unlocked" cellphone that would allow them to easily switch between carriers.
The freedom provided by unlocked cellphones is particularly useful for people who travel, since they can avoid roaming fees by converting their phone into a local phone in most countries by simply inserting a local SIM card. This approach is standard in Europe and Asia, where consumers would not tolerate a market comprised solely of locked cellphones.
Michael Geist
So why is the iPhone carrier-locked? Because that's the way things are in the market where the iPhone was developed. Mystery solved!
We used the CCTV network to backtrack the bombers and to find out about their network. You then shot a south-American student 8 times in the head because your surveillance implied that he was marginally connected to that "network".
OK, the US Congress can protect him from American prosecution for war crimes, but would they alone be able to protect him from international war crimes, say, at the Hague? No, not alone. They'd need some kind of gigantic standing army or something, at their disposal, if they wanted to do that. Possibly even some kind of deterrent to keep foreign powers at bay. Something big and scary... perhaps an arsenal of scary things might be enough to make sure no one even seriously talks of making a move.
I whole heartedly agree with you that the word person is used. However, the reason the Fourteenth Amendment defines the word "citizen" is because of the historical interpretation of the pre-Civil War courts that the word "person" meant only white American males were entitled to the protections of the Fifth Amendment. Step 1: Define citizens. Step 2: say that citizens cannot be denied their rights Step 3: say that any person in the jurisdiction also has rights that cannot be denied.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
"citizens nor any person within the jurisdiction"
Step 4: Bullshit your way out of step 3 when convenient (what are they gonna do? Vote you out? Ah!).
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...when they were making mix tapes back in the 80's? If copying is copying then I don't see the difference... August 29, 1997Recording Industry Releases 1997 Midyear Anti-Piracy Statistics
Cassette Piracy Wanes; CD Piracy On the Rise; Internet Piracy Poses New Threat
Washington, DC - At midyear, the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy figures reveal an ever-changing marketplace for unauthorized sound recordings. While counterfeit cassette seizures continued to decline -- nearly 57%, the demand for pirate and bootleg CDs remains steady. The RIAA dealt a significant blow to bootleggers around the globe through "Operation Goldmine" that resulted in the seizure of 800,000 bootleg CDs in March.
Throughout the first six months of 1997, the RIAA spent significant resources in redirecting its activities to protect copyrighted sound recordings in cyberspace. Through educational letters, speaking opportunities and training U.S. Attorney's offices and Federal Agencies regarding Internet piracy -- the RIAA is informing the Internet community about the legal implications of copyright infringement.
I'm scared... But the good news is that you aren't getting them anymore. You grammar nazis should give us a break on monday mornings : )
I'm scared...
If you've spent enough time on slashdot to get mod points, you should know by now that people who spew this crap are only trolling, and that people luv their macs because the damn thing work so darn well. He's trolling for this reply, and most likely for angry flames, so seriously, either ignore it or mod it down to oblivion, but for crying out loud, don't mod it up.
Limit
(2) This Part does not apply to
(a) any government institution to which the Privacy Act applies;
(b) any individual in respect of personal information that the individual collects, uses or discloses for personal or domestic purposes and does not collect, use or disclose for any other purpose; or
(c) any organization in respect of personal information that the organization collects, uses or discloses for journalistic, artistic or literary purposes and does not collect, use or disclose for any other purpose.
There's also exceptions for organizations that act for the good of the individuals or the whole, artistic uses, journalistic uses, it's a pretty well drafted law, IMHO.
For instance, the search and seizures amendment says "the rights of the people shall not be infringed", it doesn't say by whom or how, it states it as an absolute. So that would apply to all levels. But when they go out of their way to mention which government entity and how, then there is an difference. So if Utah did have the legal right to declare Mormonism their official state religion, that would not mean they can search you willy-nilly.
And the only amendment I can think of that sounds like what your fuzzy memory is trying to drift towards is the tenth, which appears to be saying the opposite of what you recall... it says that powers not specifically forbidden to states or delegated to the federal level are to be left to the states or the people. So... well, you have a link to dig through, see if you can find something that clicks with your instincts and do get back to me with it if you do, I'd love to know for sure if it's the case.
Yeah, but it explicitly bans congress from favoring a religion, it's at the federal level. That's Ron's point: Not that it's a good idea for an Alabama judge to plant his religious convictions on the lawn of the state courthouse, but that it isn't anyone's business except for the state of Alabama and its citizens.The constitution explicitly bans the establishment of a state religion --
Personally, I pity the Hindu that has to walk past another religion's commandments on his way into a courthouse, but apparently, it's not the federal government's mandate to get involved in state courthouses' exterior decorating. I don't really have an opinion on this, but I have heard Ron Paul's logic, and it makes perfect sense. Of course, I also saw that infamous "better know a district" segment with a Georgia peach who could barely think of three things you shouldn't get caught doing, which Colbert generously counted as three of the ten commandments he asked that elected dumbass to enumerate, so I have absolutely no confidence in the state of Alabama nor its citizens, considering the fools they have representing them. But I think airing that was more significant than overreaching the powers of the federal government into intervening against it. You can't force progress on people, you have to educate them. Apparently thine founding fathers understood as much.
So, in conclusion: Please listen or read Ron Paul's actual opinions rather than trying to divine them from one of his votes on a bill relating to your pet issue, he's consistent on his logic, not on special interests. In fact if you look at his record one some issues, it first looks quite inconsistent, if you don't look for what he objected on specifically in each bill, rather than what push-button issue the bill can be labeled with.
Ultimately? Think? Might be able?
He isn't selling a product. He's selling a dream!
I'm pretty sure the civil war counts as "rebellion".
Allowances for suspending it indefinitely for new reasons, however, doesn't seem to be written down anywhere I can find it in that document, though.
This isn't about abuse of power. This is about citizen apathy. Apathy doesn't make me go WTF. I understand being tired/overwhelmed with life's little hassles or feeling helpless in the face of a giant machine.
It's the people who defend these actions that make me go WTF. People saying that the "don't tase me" bro wated to be subjected to that because, as a journalism student asking a question to a bona fide congress critter and genuine presidential near-miss, he asked someone to be his cameraman when he asked his questions. Or when an electronics student named Star makes herself a shining star name tag, there's people to say she deserved to be threatened with summary execution then arrested on phony charges.
Those are the WTF reactions.
Because, I wouldn't take it as a compliment if they saw anything I made and thought "OMG A BOMB!", apparently to these people, if it's home-made, it's a bomb.
The issue in this case was not a small wall hanging obtained with personal funds. In this case it was a large monument obtained using several thousand dollars of state funds. I think that Alabama judge is a horses' ass, but I can't fault Dr. Paul's logic on that: "the Supreme Court is supreme only over other federal courts - not over the other branches of government".
If it's a state judge doing something on state land with state money, Paul says that the federal government has no jurisdiction.
In case you haven't heard already, hentai actually arouse people, even though it's animated porn. Guess what, human brains are sophisticated enough to extrapolate meaning from hand-made representations!
I bet you can't understand why people can be sad at animated characters dying at the movies.
...but the people who are on it. But still, I applaud them for standing up to the bully that he is. Your are technically right, in a limited way, but poetically your logic is abysmal.We are online, the internet is part of our lives and our lives are reflected on the internet. It reroutes through us.
In complex systems, this is called emergence, and if you didn't realize by now that humans are part of the complex system that is the internet, then I wonder who you thought laid down all cable and fiber to begin with.
"I believe that if you give people real value (music or anything else) they are happy to pay." So THAT's why iTunes never sold a single song!
Yeah, yeah, I know: Subjective term relative to current efficiency levels... still, they're pushing it.
surveillance officers observing the address saw de Menezes emerge from the communal entrance of the block. The officers were watching three men who they claimed were Somali or Ethiopian in appearance.
De Menezes, an electrician, lived in one of the flats with two of his cousins, and had just received a call to fix a broken fire alarm in Kilburn.
An officer on duty at Scotia Road compared de Menezes to the CCTV photographs of the bombing suspects from the previous day, and felt "it would be worth someone else having a look"
[...]
The three surveillance officers later stated that they were satisfied that they had the correct man, noting that he "had Mongolian eyes".
It was because they had fuzzy images of brown people that this brown guy was a suspect and that he was shot 7 times in the head, once in the shoulder.
A more common phenomenon
Locked cellphones have become common in North America as carriers claim that they sell "subsidized" phones in return for an exclusive commitment and long-term contract from consumers. While many consumers may like the opportunity to purchase a phone for a fraction of the full retail price, others would presumably prefer the freedom of an "unlocked" cellphone that would allow them to easily switch between carriers.
The freedom provided by unlocked cellphones is particularly useful for people who travel, since they can avoid roaming fees by converting their phone into a local phone in most countries by simply inserting a local SIM card. This approach is standard in Europe and Asia, where consumers would not tolerate a market comprised solely of locked cellphones.
Michael Geist
So why is the iPhone carrier-locked? Because that's the way things are in the market where the iPhone was developed. Mystery solved!
GREAT JOB!
Possibly even some kind of deterrent to keep foreign powers at bay. Something big and scary... perhaps an arsenal of scary things might be enough to make sure no one even seriously talks of making a move.
Step 2: say that citizens cannot be denied their rights
Step 3: say that any person in the jurisdiction also has rights that cannot be denied.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
"citizens nor any person within the jurisdiction"
Step 4: Bullshit your way out of step 3 when convenient (what are they gonna do? Vote you out? Ah!).