With all the publicity this site has been getting (here, Fark, ZDNet, News.com, etc), I wonder how long until some company sends the lawyers after him?
I honestly hope not, becuse the site seems to be doing some good in hitting people with the clue stick.
Basically, the article says that using the law to limit research is "a strech," and that the EFF is being overly alarmist about the issue.
To which I say, laws have been stretched by powerful interests much farther than the DMCA will have to be to create a chilling effect in the past, and while the EFF may be "exaggerating" the issues, the author does nothing to challenge the fact that nastgrams based on the DMCA can and are being used to curtail research.
This is an excellent point on why there will never be a technical cure-all for this problem, especially now that airport security is federalized. The backbone of government employment is avoiding responsibility for bad things. The level of "urgency" (for lack of a better word) cannot and will not be kept up by the people in charge of security, which will render any technical solution useless.
Without human supervision, there will be too many false positives for the average person to stand for. Without *diligent* human supervision, the false negatives will slip through too easily.
Not that I'm necessarily being critical of the security employees. It is only human nature. How many security checks and stops did you happily (or at least understandingly) endure in the months after September 11th that you grouse about now? Keeping security personnel at top alert all the time is the problem they should be working on. That and getting the INS to do their job.
Oh lord. Not another one of them. And enough zombies to mod that ball of lies up as insightful.
...willing to push some boundaries.
If, by that, you mean steal some cliches, then yes.
It attacked Sci-Fi when Sci-Fi (with a few notable exceptions in Star Wars and Terminator) was not considered a viable genre.
Welcome to the real world, where there were at least five big budget sci0fi films released that year.
It brought Hong Kong style action and anime inspired cinematography to the masses, when both were considered to be niche markets at best.
You mean, right when Jackie Chan was making a big splash for the first time in America?
(yes, Bullet time was invented for the Matrix and is a trademarked and patented technique...
It existed at least four years before.
It was willing to have a complex and highbrow storyline that was dark and brooding while still being fun and exciting.
Oh god, the laughter pain. The plot was paper-thin, the set up unbelievable. It is the kind of thing that first year philosophy students discuss while stoned.
such as the filming of all three Lord of the Rings movies at once...
No. That was a money-saving issue. It had been done at least a decade before with Back To The Future.
directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame
This had more to do with Raimi's other body of work.
Overall I trust these sequels because of how well The Matrix was done the first time around. I have confidence that it will be as esoteric and interesting as the first, while still kicking ass.
Why don't you tell us how it gets your whites whiter and had improved your sex life. You sound like a $cientologist.
Nike's position was strongly supported by the ACLU, which joined Nike in opposing this case on the basis that it violated the First Amendment.
I don't always agree with the ACLU's choice of clients or their politics, but I understand their absolute need to be there to defend people and personages that the general public wouldn't defend, but since WHEN do corporations have the right to free speech, especially deceptive speech?
The ACLU is absolutely, unflinchingly wrong in this case.
I stumbled onto this one by accident, when a credit card I had previously had got my middle inital wrong. Then I noticed all this mail coming to me with my wrong middle inital. Then I tried it myself. It is an excellent way to keep track of who is selling your information to whom.
Wow, a whole two paragraphs and a score given with out a real breakdown of how it was determined. I don't know about you, but that lacks any real content to be called a review IMO.
Hell, Katz does it every week, and he doesn't even provide a score, and Slashdot calls it a "movie review."
I'm sorry, but the story clearly states that Amazon successfully fought an attempt to subpeona their records while a lot of small (presumably local) bookstores rolled over for the authorities.
You can not like Amazon for other reasons, but this was just a cheap shot.
As I said, to some extent. In Israel, these act of racisim support are labeled a danger to society and to the future existence of Israel as a democracy.
Unless it is racist speech against Palestinians, in which case you get elected head of government.
Hey, someone had to bring it up.
Israel may not be a police state for Jewish people, but ask any of your Palestinian citizens and see what they say.
Sure, she looks nice in a generic and souless kind of way, but at least the other BattleBot bimbos they had in previous seasons could fake enthusiasm in a somewhat believable way. Electra just stands there, stock still, with the microphone in the spokesmodel position, and then whores herself out monotone. You can tell she is just doing it for the money and hates being there.
And now, the show has become Carmen Electra & Battlebots. She is in every segment. They talk about her, get her to do interviews, or cut to her in the stands so she can say one line, and then cut back to the booth so they can make some sexual innuendo about her one line.
Sad.
Okay, I'm done now.
Yeah, we're OT at this point, but I'm capped. Go crazy.
Evan, honey, if you actually believe the "Message From Kabul" story, you're not one to be calling people a moron.
I understand that Commodore made other machines besides the 64. I own two. Hell, I still play with the 128 from time to time, but the Amiga crapped out and I haven't had time to fix it. It was just funnier that way.
And while I acknowledge that the scenario (movies onto Commodore machines) is technologically possible, there is no way that a week after the liberation of a city in one of the most war-damaged "cities" in the world, that there was some linox haxor downloading full Hollywood movies over non-existant 28.8 ISP connections.
And that's just one part of the story that's credability-bending.
Katz has had plenty of time and prompting to prove his outrageous fabrication, but has not done so. I know that I would publically apologise to him for everything bad I ever said about him if he could document it to my satisfaction. But he can't, because he made it up and is now trying to brush it under the rug.
I'm sorry, that wasn't a review. That was barely a TV Guide summary of the movie.
Amongst all all the other faults Katz has (*coughCommie64splayingmoviesinKabulcough*), his movie reviews tend to be nothing if he can't bring out one of his dead horses (Columbine, geek prejudice, globalism) to beat. And even then, it has no actual bearing on the movie review.
And why is this even being reviewed here? Jesus, if Katz can't make at least a tenuous connection with some of his tropes, how does this fit "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters"?
And, granted that this was likely a horribly bad movie from everything I've seen on it and heard from others, Katz is still supposedly getting paid for this "work," so he can at least put some effort into it. I mean, hell, Mr. Cranky devoted more words to his review.
The second requirement is that a sport has to involve athletes, and athletes have to exhibit a whole heck of a lot of physical prowess. Out goes
baseball...
Hah.
One could argue that baseball is more of a sport than others that would meet your criteria as it combines many skills that are indivudal events. Baseball players, especially at the pre-professional level, are in excellent shape, and the sport takes tremendous prowess and smarts.
If nothing else, hitting a baseball delivered by a skilled pitcher is one of the single hardest tasks in all of sport.
In this case, it is a short-term, long-term thing. By relying on vendor test models, Tom's is entering a dance that it cannot win with its outsider posturing.
So Sansung decides it does not want to be part of a review. So Tom's posts a very unprofessional rant about it. Do you think Samsung is ever going to send Tom review units again?
Now, on the short-term, it makes Samsung look bad. A popular and generally respected Web guide runs a review of products and you are not in it. Tom gets a some baby sucker-punches in. Maybe Samsung loses a couple of sales. Maybe enough to even be a fractional blip on their radar (but not likely). Tom wins short-term.
However, the other participants see this. Eventually, some other big player decides it doesn't want to deal with someone that unprofessional, and refuses to send units. Now Tom has a big hole in its coverage, and its readership will fall off because of it.
If you are going to play the independent news card, you can't be beholden to companies for review units.
I mean, I'm with you if you mean "reasonable for RMS," but did you read the "polite" responses he had?
Can you imagine how anyone in the mainstream corporate world would react to any of them?
At best, they'd think you're a paranoid loon. At worst, they'd get furious at you and spread their opinions to others.
Tons of people following this advice would be the single biggest setback that free software would have in the corporate world.
That said, an actual polite response would probably get some effect. Something explaining that you do not use Word, what formats you'd accept, and how to do so in Word.
Clearly a troll, but what the hell. Go brag to your under-bridge buddies.
You're missing the other meaning of free speech.
You are not allowed to make other people pay to execute your right of speech, especially commercial speech. That's why commercial faxes are illegal. That's one reason why spamming can be illegal. Most spam is also fraudulent, from making illegal commercial claims to forging addresses.
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I honestly hope not, becuse the site seems to be doing some good in hitting people with the clue stick.
To which I say, laws have been stretched by powerful interests much farther than the DMCA will have to be to create a chilling effect in the past, and while the EFF may be "exaggerating" the issues, the author does nothing to challenge the fact that nastgrams based on the DMCA can and are being used to curtail research.
In a word, no. You have the emphasis wrong for one thing. It is more like this:
They supply content and you (as far as they're concerned) are served their ads.
This isn't prohibiting ad-blocking tools. This is prohibiting tools that replace their ads with other ads.
*waits patiently for the Bab5/Star Trek flamewar*
Without human supervision, there will be too many false positives for the average person to stand for. Without *diligent* human supervision, the false negatives will slip through too easily.
Not that I'm necessarily being critical of the security employees. It is only human nature. How many security checks and stops did you happily (or at least understandingly) endure in the months after September 11th that you grouse about now? Keeping security personnel at top alert all the time is the problem they should be working on. That and getting the INS to do their job.
If, by that, you mean steal some cliches, then yes.
It attacked Sci-Fi when Sci-Fi (with a few notable exceptions in Star Wars and Terminator) was not considered a viable genre.
Welcome to the real world, where there were at least five big budget sci0fi films released that year.
It brought Hong Kong style action and anime inspired cinematography to the masses, when both were considered to be niche markets at best.
You mean, right when Jackie Chan was making a big splash for the first time in America?
(yes, Bullet time was invented for the Matrix and is a trademarked and patented technique...
It existed at least four years before.
It was willing to have a complex and highbrow storyline that was dark and brooding while still being fun and exciting.
Oh god, the laughter pain. The plot was paper-thin, the set up unbelievable. It is the kind of thing that first year philosophy students discuss while stoned.
such as the filming of all three Lord of the Rings movies at once...
No. That was a money-saving issue. It had been done at least a decade before with Back To The Future.
directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame
This had more to do with Raimi's other body of work.
Overall I trust these sequels because of how well The Matrix was done the first time around. I have confidence that it will be as esoteric and interesting as the first, while still kicking ass.
Why don't you tell us how it gets your whites whiter and had improved your sex life. You sound like a $cientologist.
I don't always agree with the ACLU's choice of clients or their politics, but I understand their absolute need to be there to defend people and personages that the general public wouldn't defend, but since WHEN do corporations have the right to free speech, especially deceptive speech?
The ACLU is absolutely, unflinchingly wrong in this case.
Actually, that's pretty damn ironic.
Hell, Katz does it every week, and he doesn't even provide a score, and Slashdot calls it a "movie review."
You can not like Amazon for other reasons, but this was just a cheap shot.
Unless it is racist speech against Palestinians, in which case you get elected head of government.
Hey, someone had to bring it up.
Israel may not be a police state for Jewish people, but ask any of your Palestinian citizens and see what they say.
Put your hand down, Mr. Katz.
Sure, she looks nice in a generic and souless kind of way, but at least the other BattleBot bimbos they had in previous seasons could fake enthusiasm in a somewhat believable way. Electra just stands there, stock still, with the microphone in the spokesmodel position, and then whores herself out monotone. You can tell she is just doing it for the money and hates being there.
And now, the show has become Carmen Electra & Battlebots. She is in every segment. They talk about her, get her to do interviews, or cut to her in the stands so she can say one line, and then cut back to the booth so they can make some sexual innuendo about her one line.
Sad.
Okay, I'm done now.
Yeah, we're OT at this point, but I'm capped. Go crazy.
I understand that Commodore made other machines besides the 64. I own two. Hell, I still play with the 128 from time to time, but the Amiga crapped out and I haven't had time to fix it. It was just funnier that way.
And while I acknowledge that the scenario (movies onto Commodore machines) is technologically possible, there is no way that a week after the liberation of a city in one of the most war-damaged "cities" in the world, that there was some linox haxor downloading full Hollywood movies over non-existant 28.8 ISP connections.
And that's just one part of the story that's credability-bending.
Katz has had plenty of time and prompting to prove his outrageous fabrication, but has not done so. I know that I would publically apologise to him for everything bad I ever said about him if he could document it to my satisfaction. But he can't, because he made it up and is now trying to brush it under the rug.
Amongst all all the other faults Katz has (*coughCommie64splayingmoviesinKabulcough*), his movie reviews tend to be nothing if he can't bring out one of his dead horses (Columbine, geek prejudice, globalism) to beat. And even then, it has no actual bearing on the movie review.
And why is this even being reviewed here? Jesus, if Katz can't make at least a tenuous connection with some of his tropes, how does this fit "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters"?
And, granted that this was likely a horribly bad movie from everything I've seen on it and heard from others, Katz is still supposedly getting paid for this "work," so he can at least put some effort into it. I mean, hell, Mr. Cranky devoted more words to his review.
What do you think that means?
Hah.
One could argue that baseball is more of a sport than others that would meet your criteria as it combines many skills that are indivudal events. Baseball players, especially at the pre-professional level, are in excellent shape, and the sport takes tremendous prowess and smarts.
If nothing else, hitting a baseball delivered by a skilled pitcher is one of the single hardest tasks in all of sport.
Your argument is empty.
In this case, it is a short-term, long-term thing. By relying on vendor test models, Tom's is entering a dance that it cannot win with its outsider posturing.
So Sansung decides it does not want to be part of a review. So Tom's posts a very unprofessional rant about it. Do you think Samsung is ever going to send Tom review units again?
Now, on the short-term, it makes Samsung look bad. A popular and generally respected Web guide runs a review of products and you are not in it. Tom gets a some baby sucker-punches in. Maybe Samsung loses a couple of sales. Maybe enough to even be a fractional blip on their radar (but not likely). Tom wins short-term.
However, the other participants see this. Eventually, some other big player decides it doesn't want to deal with someone that unprofessional, and refuses to send units. Now Tom has a big hole in its coverage, and its readership will fall off because of it.
If you are going to play the independent news card, you can't be beholden to companies for review units.
I mean, I'm with you if you mean "reasonable for RMS," but did you read the "polite" responses he had?
Can you imagine how anyone in the mainstream corporate world would react to any of them?
At best, they'd think you're a paranoid loon. At worst, they'd get furious at you and spread their opinions to others.
Tons of people following this advice would be the single biggest setback that free software would have in the corporate world.
That said, an actual polite response would probably get some effect. Something explaining that you do not use Word, what formats you'd accept, and how to do so in Word.
You're kidding, right?
Most debit-card type systems for mass transit have tracking built in.
You're missing the other meaning of free speech.
You are not allowed to make other people pay to execute your right of speech, especially commercial speech. That's why commercial faxes are illegal. That's one reason why spamming can be illegal. Most spam is also fraudulent, from making illegal commercial claims to forging addresses.
But you already knew that.