From what I've read about the hearing, it seems that Lessig's approach to go back to the copyright clause and not focus on the first amendment issues was not the right approach. However, IANAL, especially a scholarly constitutional one, so my opinion means squat.
This was an interesting analysis that summed this up.
One thing you can do is donate your old cell phone. I believe battered women's shelters and/or the YWCA take old cell phones whose service has been cancelled. These organizations give the cell phones to woman who can use them if they need to call 911. 911 will still work on any cell phone, even if the service has been cancelled.
This is much better than throwing one away and it is tax deductable.
You are making an assumption the anonymous user is a criminal and has stolen the copyrighted work. Even the judge disagreed with this as an article at Salon stated, "The judge disagreed with Verrilli's assumption that the works were stolen"
I find it odd that a corporation can get time with any congressmen or senator, but the emails of joe citizen are ignored just because they are not a direct constituent. As a taxpayer, I still pay that guy's salary while that corporation may employ noone in the congressman's district.
All this complaining about how advertisers pop up commercials is a little odd. I mean, it's like violence on TV. If you don't want to watch it there is always the power button. Read a book if you don't like how the networks make money. If you are going to find a way around their current advertising methods (i.e. TIVO, the remote control, etc.) they are damn well going to figure out another way to pay the bills. I mean they do have to pay all those Friends.
Was watching a National Geographic Explorer show this weekend about how they used a photograph taken twenty years ago to prove whether or not a woman was the same person as the girl in the famous Afghan Girl photograph. The article is here. One of the interesting aspects was how they used iris scans to determine if the women they had found was actually the same person as the original girl.
Wife and I bought this at Costco before our Road Trip from Washington, DC to San Diego, CA. Also, came with software that helped us plan the trip. Had lots of places of interest and good directions. I still use it to plan some longer and shorter trips (Went out to Joshua Tree a few weeks ago).
I didn't touch a calculator my first two years of college calculus. Everything was variables except for some simple math. These kids will only be set back in college if they start to rely on their calculators. Then again, maybe college profs are making it easier and allowing calculators. NOT!!
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My wife and I have been netflix users for about 18 months. It really has changed what and how we watch movies. We used to only watch new releases. Now we're just as likely to watch an old film (Seven Samurai) or a completely independent film (Things to Do in Denver When Your Dead and The Tao of Steve) that we enjoy and would not have watched if not for netflix.
Other good things about using netflix is we don't always have to agree on movies to rent. I can rent movies she does not want to watch and vice versa and watch when I have time and she is doing something else. Also, we regularly were late returning movies to Blockbuster, so we figure we are saving money even if we only watch a few movies in a month. Our biggest month has been ~12 movies.
Started reading a week ago this book by Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer. Great story and interesting characters with good tid bits on creating comic books and life in New York in the late 30s and 40s.
Do you really think TV is not already catering to the advertisers. Why do think The Shield is on FX and Sopranos, Six-Feet Under, and Sex and the City are on HBO. Because if these shows were on network TV they'd be crap. The networks would cow-tow to the advertisers and would not let them have any controversy. FX is the only one with balls big enough to say oh well we lost some advertiser, we'll keep the show going.
Well then maybe more World Cup games will be shown on TV. They seem to be the ones who have already started doing this with the little product ad inserted in the upper left corner of the screen for the entire game. Also, no more TV time outs in basketball games. Maybe sports will speed up the pace of play because they don't have to worry about getting that last advertisement in.
Isn't Picture in Picture (PIP) and remote controls the same idea, only you switch channels when a commercial comes on the show you are watching until the commercial is over or you find something more interesting.
You also have to look at this from the perspective of the locality. Israel is surrounded by countries that don't allow Jews to live there. In fact, before the mass immigration of Soviet/Russian Jews the majority of the population in Israel could trace their roots back to Arab nations that kicked them out leaving them with nothing when they came to Israel. These people came from Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Egypt among other nations. So, if you wish to claim that Israel, which does allow their Moslem and Christian populations to vote and has outlawed obvious racist parties (i.e. Kahane's party), is Nazi-like you should also look at many of the countries that accuse them of this behaviour (Saudi Arabia for one).
From reading the article by the EFF, it seems that this legislation is in some ways a threat to get the computer companies to play ball. They may realize that this proposal is way out of line, but by starting out in the fringe, the MPAA would show how they are "compromising" with the tech companies to force some methodology to "protect their copyrighted works."
It makes me wonder if Congress thinks Hollywood brings more money into the US than our tech industry. I mean do you think an ADC built in China for use outside the US will have this technology built in. NO WAY! Therefore, noone will ever buy US products again outside the US. Don't even get me started on the creation of a black market for foreign technology goods that bypass future US copyright laws.
The scarier part of the article to me was the other aspects/changes they are looking to put in place. How do they propose to change the internet? Who are they the Chinese government? Block all access to P2P networks, yeah right.
It's called printing. HP makes more profit than Compaq from the printing side alone. Not sure about the revenue side. I believe overall revenues are/were nearly the same for the companies. However, HP had a market cap of about 40 billion before the merger while Compaq's was on the order of 20 billion. Also, HP produces a lot of products on their own, especially imaging and printing.
Well with people like this why are people still surprised by education system in America. As the old George Carlin quote goes, "Imagine how stupid the average person is. Then imagine that 50% are even stupider than that."
Uh, go to some neighborhoods in DC, New York, LA, etc. Kids and adults have to scavenge for food in a lot of places. It is not just a third world phenomenom. Just because their are better charities in the US where a lot of these kids might get a meal or two, doesn't mean there aren't kids in the US who go hungry every night.
The difference between the US and India is that instead of a few yards away, they are probably ten to twenty blocks away so passersby don't have to see them.
I'd really feel better about them learning the three R's before they do anything more complex. I could see the benefit in the physics class example. But you need reading, writing, and arithmetic skills before you can truly start learning things for yourself.
Well looks like some people are asking for folks to put there money where there mouths are. From this article"Jeff Gerhardt, host of "The Linux Show," and Doc Searls, senior editor of the Linux Journal, are forming a lobbying group called GeekPAC that would try to convince lawmakers to consider developers when they draft laws concerning technology."
Says they are calling on developers and tech supporters to open their wallets to fight the colossal lobbying attempts of companies such as Disney.
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From what I've read about the hearing, it seems that Lessig's approach to go back to the copyright clause and not focus on the first amendment issues was not the right approach. However, IANAL, especially a scholarly constitutional one, so my opinion means squat.
This was an interesting analysis that summed this up.
One thing you can do is donate your old cell phone. I believe battered women's shelters and/or the YWCA take old cell phones whose service has been cancelled. These organizations give the cell phones to woman who can use them if they need to call 911. 911 will still work on any cell phone, even if the service has been cancelled.
This is much better than throwing one away and it is tax deductable.
You are making an assumption the anonymous user is a criminal and has stolen the copyrighted work. Even the judge disagreed with this as an article at Salon stated, "The judge disagreed with Verrilli's assumption that the works were stolen"
Key lines from the Salon article...
Verrilli also dismissed Verizon's position that the Internet provider's customers have a right to privacy.
"You don't have a first amendment right to steal copyright works," Verrilli said.
The judge disagreed with Verrilli's assumption that the works were stolen.
Seems like the judge understands that just because you have music downloaded or available for download doesn't mean you didn't buy the CD.
I find it odd that a corporation can get time with any congressmen or senator, but the emails of joe citizen are ignored just because they are not a direct constituent. As a taxpayer, I still pay that guy's salary while that corporation may employ noone in the congressman's district.
All this complaining about how advertisers pop up commercials is a little odd. I mean, it's like violence on TV. If you don't want to watch it there is always the power button. Read a book if you don't like how the networks make money. If you are going to find a way around their current advertising methods (i.e. TIVO, the remote control, etc.) they are damn well going to figure out another way to pay the bills. I mean they do have to pay all those Friends.
Was watching a National Geographic Explorer show this weekend about how they used a photograph taken twenty years ago to prove whether or not a woman was the same person as the girl in the famous Afghan Girl photograph. The article is here. One of the interesting aspects was how they used iris scans to determine if the women they had found was actually the same person as the original girl.
I'm with you, as long as it costs less than $100.
Wife and I bought this at Costco before our Road Trip from Washington, DC to San Diego, CA. Also, came with software that helped us plan the trip. Had lots of places of interest and good directions. I still use it to plan some longer and shorter trips (Went out to Joshua Tree a few weeks ago).
I didn't touch a calculator my first two years of college calculus. Everything was variables except for some simple math. These kids will only be set back in college if they start to rely on their calculators. Then again, maybe college profs are making it easier and allowing calculators. NOT!!
My wife and I have been netflix users for about 18 months. It really has changed what and how we watch movies. We used to only watch new releases. Now we're just as likely to watch an old film (Seven Samurai) or a completely independent film (Things to Do in Denver When Your Dead and The Tao of Steve) that we enjoy and would not have watched if not for netflix.
Other good things about using netflix is we don't always have to agree on movies to rent. I can rent movies she does not want to watch and vice versa and watch when I have time and she is doing something else. Also, we regularly were late returning movies to Blockbuster, so we figure we are saving money even if we only watch a few movies in a month. Our biggest month has been ~12 movies.
Started reading a week ago this book by Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer. Great story and interesting characters with good tid bits on creating comic books and life in New York in the late 30s and 40s.
I need to read it as well according to my wife who is now vegetarian, partly because of the book.
Do you really think TV is not already catering to the advertisers. Why do think The Shield is on FX and Sopranos, Six-Feet Under, and Sex and the City are on HBO. Because if these shows were on network TV they'd be crap. The networks would cow-tow to the advertisers and would not let them have any controversy. FX is the only one with balls big enough to say oh well we lost some advertiser, we'll keep the show going.
Well then maybe more World Cup games will be shown on TV. They seem to be the ones who have already started doing this with the little product ad inserted in the upper left corner of the screen for the entire game. Also, no more TV time outs in basketball games. Maybe sports will speed up the pace of play because they don't have to worry about getting that last advertisement in.
Isn't Picture in Picture (PIP) and remote controls the same idea, only you switch channels when a commercial comes on the show you are watching until the commercial is over or you find something more interesting.
You also have to look at this from the perspective of the locality. Israel is surrounded by countries that don't allow Jews to live there. In fact, before the mass immigration of Soviet/Russian Jews the majority of the population in Israel could trace their roots back to Arab nations that kicked them out leaving them with nothing when they came to Israel. These people came from Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Egypt among other nations. So, if you wish to claim that Israel, which does allow their Moslem and Christian populations to vote and has outlawed obvious racist parties (i.e. Kahane's party), is Nazi-like you should also look at many of the countries that accuse them of this behaviour (Saudi Arabia for one).
From reading the article by the EFF, it seems that this legislation is in some ways a threat to get the computer companies to play ball. They may realize that this proposal is way out of line, but by starting out in the fringe, the MPAA would show how they are "compromising" with the tech companies to force some methodology to "protect their copyrighted works."
It makes me wonder if Congress thinks Hollywood brings more money into the US than our tech industry. I mean do you think an ADC built in China for use outside the US will have this technology built in. NO WAY! Therefore, noone will ever buy US products again outside the US. Don't even get me started on the creation of a black market for foreign technology goods that bypass future US copyright laws.
The scarier part of the article to me was the other aspects/changes they are looking to put in place. How do they propose to change the internet? Who are they the Chinese government? Block all access to P2P networks, yeah right.
It's called printing. HP makes more profit than Compaq from the printing side alone. Not sure about the revenue side. I believe overall revenues are/were nearly the same for the companies. However, HP had a market cap of about 40 billion before the merger while Compaq's was on the order of 20 billion. Also, HP produces a lot of products on their own, especially imaging and printing.
15,000 jobs out of 150,000 jobs total in the company over the next two years will be eliminated. Not great but, not 150,000 jobs lost.
Well with people like this why are people still surprised by education system in America. As the old George Carlin quote goes, "Imagine how stupid the average person
is. Then imagine that 50% are even stupider than that."
No, but if it is on company property (the legal pad) your boss does. Sucks to work for a corporation, doesn't it?
Uh, go to some neighborhoods in DC, New York, LA, etc. Kids and adults have to scavenge for food in a lot of places. It is not just a third world phenomenom. Just because their are better charities in the US where a lot of these kids might get a meal or two, doesn't mean there aren't kids in the US who go hungry every night.
The difference between the US and India is that instead of a few yards away, they are probably ten to twenty blocks away so passersby don't have to see them.
I'd really feel better about them learning the three R's before they do anything more complex. I could see the benefit in the physics class example. But you need reading, writing, and arithmetic skills before you can truly start learning things for yourself.
Well looks like some people are asking for folks to put there money where there mouths are. From this article "Jeff Gerhardt, host of "The Linux Show," and Doc Searls, senior editor of the Linux Journal, are forming a lobbying group called GeekPAC that would try to convince lawmakers to consider developers when they draft laws concerning technology."
Says they are calling on developers and tech supporters to open their wallets to fight the colossal lobbying attempts of companies such as Disney.