Degrees have their place in IT just as certs do, but as we all know experience reigns supreme. I can see the author's point in wondering if a higher degree will be 'employable'. I too wonder what those in HR may think of people who spend so much time hitting the books (presumably instead of dealing with real world situations).
I couldn't agree more. In seems to me, at least in the US, that Copy protection is unenforcable. After all, if the copy protection being implemented doesn't automatically expire when its designated to, then it's effectively permanent. The constitution still states its a limited monopoly. If the disk is permenantly locked down, how is that limited?! Sure the disk will be unusable in a hundred years or so when the copyright eventually expire, but that's a moot point. Heh, that point in of itself should illustrate how ludicrous our IP and copyright laws have become over the last couple of years!
Amazing! Now people can be accused of a crime where the accusers know full well that the accused did not do anything wrong. If that's not harasment I don't know what is! If I don't commit a crime, but someone else in my family did, tell me again how am I guilty of said crime? Since when was there a law on the book that says you're guilty by relation?
Put your money where you rmouth is and help this kid out. I'll gladly give him $50 (as I just did) than give the recording industry one red cent.
Why, oh why can't someone just shut these bastards down? Aren't there laws against this sorta thing? How is what the RIAA is doing any different than how the mob shakes down businesses?
To my knowledge, they where NOT slapped with a subpoena. They were asked by the RIAA to turn over the name of someone they suspected of stealing music (which is the power given to copyright holders by the DMCA). And that's the whole crux of the argument. Any Joe Blow can walk up to an ISP and say I think so and so is violating my copyright. Give me my information NOW! No proof, no court order, nada, zilch and they walk away with your online identity (Username, password, IP, home of record, phone number, etc). Who's to say someone couldn't use this trick to stalk someone? God forbit it from ever happening, but it'd be a perfect argument as to why this is horrible legislation needs to be fixed.
Unless I misread the PATRIOT ACT, its exempt from judical challenge (id The Supreame Court). That's the reason it is only a time limited Act. IIRC it expires in 04 or 05--once that time had passed the PATRIOT Act will be null and void. However, there are congressmen in office right now trying to make it permenant thereby making any "illegal search and seisure" clauses/acts/ammendments moot. All the.gov needs to do is skew your detainment as being terrorist related, which when dealing with the Intarweb or enryption, would be fairly easy to pull off given the current cluelessness of the people running this country.
Sorry, but if you're doing more than 30GB of month at home, you're really lucky your ISP isn't just getting so pissed off that they report your downloads to the police:P How much of that 30GB+ is legal? 1GB? 2GB?
Considering I run my CS clan's alternate practice server and it's almost constantly in use, I'd say my stuff is about 99.999% legit.
What bandwidth isn't chewed up from the server is taken up by my KaZaA needs for MP3s of CDs I already own. I can't be bothered to re-rip all 130 CDs (2 IBM Deskstar's both died recently), especially after I realized I only listen to maybe 10-20% of them on a regular basis.
This change does not bode well for an already bankrupt NTL.
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I seriously doubt these types of rides will ever threaten an amusement park like Ceder Point.
If I had the choice between the Millenium Force and a psuedo-coaster, I'd take the real-deal any time!
Maybe they should just read the story above this one. It seems boy-bands have lost their popularity (thank god). Maybe that would account for their 7% decline (yeah, right!) in sales they've been seeing.
What kills me is that even with the massive profits WalMart took in on Friday, an estimated 1.42 BILLION dollars, that they'd still go after someone for such a frivalous reason as this. IMHO a nice compensation to Fatwallet would be 10% of Fridays gross plus legal fees.
Does this mean the cabbies can charge the advertisers who play commercials on the radio station? After all, the advertisers pay the radio stations. If playing music in the cab is a re-broadcast, or public performance, then the adverts have to pay again too, don't they?
Heh. And let's apply the same heavy-handedness -- since you can't tell which station is playing in which cab, ALL advertisers have to pay ALL the cabbies.
PS. This was ripped from an Arstechnica thread on the very same subject.
"I say probably, but it is conceivable that there's a judge out there who would throw out the evidence (i.e. the decrypted file) because The Man didn't have a court order or subpoena or whatever allowing the decryption. Don't bet on it."
Not anymore. Now that the Homeland Security Bill is being ratified, expect "illegal search and seizure" acts to reach new levels of absurdity.
"Thankfully, they seem to take care of things by themselves, happily depriving themselves of money, privacy, freedom, and, sometimes, when we're lucky, their own lives."
Unfortunately when the sheep do do those things, the rest of us are made to suffer. Just look at what happened to Dimitri--he's a knowledgable guy and he still got tossed in the slammer. With the growing police state and future errosion of our rights, the possibiliy of what heppened to him happening to you and I increases more and more everyday.
"It ain't no myth, Baby. The DMCA is yet another chip missing from your block of freedom."
That is one hell of a chip! I'd say its more of a chunk that's missing.
When I speak of the DMCA and such to the layman, I end up using the expression "you've been neutered and don't even know it yet". When I'm asked what the hell I'm talking about I begin to describe the DMCA and the erosion of their rights. You've got to open with a shocker, otherwise you risk not having their full and undivided attention--hence the "scare tactics" of the EFF. This isnt anyting new people. How else do you thing the DMCA and Patriot Act got put on the books to begin with?
I believe something like this could be useful, if and only if, OpenSource and Freeware-like software is exempt. How can someone make a reasonable claim to damages if they got the item for free? If they paid for it, then there obviously is a responsability by the manufacturer to make said product as reliable as possible. Maybe its just me, but doesn't something like holding a free product's manufacturer go against common-sense? Would everyone prefer to buy all of their code, even though there still isn't any true security? Just because you pay for a product doesn't mean it will be free of flaws/bugs. Firestone can attest to that! Its sad that one day Linux may need a disclaimer reading "Use at your own risk!"
The biggest benefit that I can think of from something like the propossed legislation would be (possibly) the end of security through obscurity and bugs being passed off as features.
Maybe I'm not seeing the point to all this, but how is this different than when Dimitry Slykarov (sp?) was arrested no so long ago for the e-books fiasco. In Russia he didn't do anything wrong, but in the US he broke the DMCA. So when he came over to the US they snatched him up and held him for trial. How is this any different than what the Aussies are proposing?
Okay folks. This is our chance to really hit them where it hurts. Most people in the industry like us that happen to have a clue also happen to like Star Wars. When all of us boycott the DVD release and everyone wonders why its sales are so shitty, they won't have any other explanation besides us not buying into A. the horrible practices of the **AA, B. the kickbacks, er, I mean donations to our congresscriters, and C. laws that restrict technology instead of punishing those that use it for illicit purposes.
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Add this one to my grownig list of obligatory spam to my friends and family. Another case of the entertainment industry lobbying in areas they have no business messing with, the technology industry. I have a serious problem with how congress has being going along with this racket. Its gotten to the point that our real enemy is an internal one: our own elected officials. ANYONE that supports this sort of legislation is betraying the people of this country, plain and simple. Congress by and large has been bought and are now adhering to an entertainment organization's call to prop up their dying monopoly. This act is a direct affront to the principles and democratic process our society was based upon, and should be looked upon with great scrutiny. In light of recent events and the current state of affairs in the US, its a wonder how these people aren't viewed as terrorists?! After all, if this type of legislation passes, our nation as a whole will be thrown into a digital dark ages (not that it hasn't been already).
Hello, welcome to Earth. The entertainment industry has had a stranglehold on the market since its inception. Now the RIAA and MPAA are flexing their muscle in markets they don't primarily belong to, as in the IT industry. They are lobbying congress to pass laws to prop up their dying monopolies. This act in itself is an afront to democracy and the principles our country was founded on. I say we brand them as terrorists! After all, we all know the headlines and subsequent support that'd pull for us.
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Degrees have their place in IT just as certs do, but as we all know experience reigns supreme. I can see the author's point in wondering if a higher degree will be 'employable'. I too wonder what those in HR may think of people who spend so much time hitting the books (presumably instead of dealing with real world situations).
"MOD chips on the playstation were only good for circumvention."
In the USA there are many legal uses for circumvention--playing backups is one of them.
I couldn't agree more. In seems to me, at least in the US, that Copy protection is unenforcable. After all, if the copy protection being implemented doesn't automatically expire when its designated to, then it's effectively permanent. The constitution still states its a limited monopoly. If the disk is permenantly locked down, how is that limited?! Sure the disk will be unusable in a hundred years or so when the copyright eventually expire, but that's a moot point. Heh, that point in of itself should illustrate how ludicrous our IP and copyright laws have become over the last couple of years!
Amazing! Now people can be accused of a crime where the accusers know full well that the accused did not do anything wrong. If that's not harasment I don't know what is! If I don't commit a crime, but someone else in my family did, tell me again how am I guilty of said crime? Since when was there a law on the book that says you're guilty by relation?
But if you mod your DVD player in this manner the MPAA may sue you for violating copyrighted movies in the way DirectTV has sued their customers:
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Put your money where you rmouth is and help this kid out. I'll gladly give him $50 (as I just did) than give the recording industry one red cent.
Why, oh why can't someone just shut these bastards down? Aren't there laws against this sorta thing? How is what the RIAA is doing any different than how the mob shakes down businesses?
I wonder if the ill-fated chicken-vac looked anything like the one in BASEketball? I always got a laugh out of the scene because of it.
Foomp! Ba-kaaak!
To my knowledge, they where NOT slapped with a subpoena. They were asked by the RIAA to turn over the name of someone they suspected of stealing music (which is the power given to copyright holders by the DMCA). And that's the whole crux of the argument. Any Joe Blow can walk up to an ISP and say I think so and so is violating my copyright. Give me my information NOW! No proof, no court order, nada, zilch and they walk away with your online identity (Username, password, IP, home of record, phone number, etc). Who's to say someone couldn't use this trick to stalk someone? God forbit it from ever happening, but it'd be a perfect argument as to why this is horrible legislation needs to be fixed.
What about when they invest in perfectly legal enterprises, which are later deemed illegal after new legislation gets bought by a competing entity?
Unless I misread the PATRIOT ACT, its exempt from judical challenge (id The Supreame Court). That's the reason it is only a time limited Act. IIRC it expires in 04 or 05--once that time had passed the PATRIOT Act will be null and void. However, there are congressmen in office right now trying to make it permenant thereby making any "illegal search and seisure" clauses/acts/ammendments moot. All the .gov needs to do is skew your detainment as being terrorist related, which when dealing with the Intarweb or enryption, would be fairly easy to pull off given the current cluelessness of the people running this country.
I seriously doubt these types of rides will ever threaten an amusement park like Ceder Point.
If I had the choice between the Millenium Force and a psuedo-coaster, I'd take the real-deal any time!
Why is this newsworthy today when these have been out for two weeks now?
It seems 'Taco Boy' is slipping in his old age.
Maybe they should just read the story above this one. It seems boy-bands have lost their popularity (thank god). Maybe that would account for their 7% decline (yeah, right!) in sales they've been seeing.
What kills me is that even with the massive profits WalMart took in on Friday, an estimated 1.42 BILLION dollars, that they'd still go after someone for such a frivalous reason as this. IMHO a nice compensation to Fatwallet would be 10% of Fridays gross plus legal fees.
Does this mean the cabbies can charge the advertisers who play commercials on the radio station? After all, the advertisers pay the radio stations. If playing music in the cab is a re-broadcast, or public performance, then the adverts have to pay again too, don't they?
Heh. And let's apply the same heavy-handedness -- since you can't tell which station is playing in which cab, ALL advertisers have to pay ALL the cabbies.
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This was ripped from an Arstechnica thread on the very same subject.
"I say probably, but it is conceivable that there's a judge out there who would throw out the evidence (i.e. the decrypted file) because The Man didn't have a court order or subpoena or whatever allowing the decryption. Don't bet on it."
Not anymore. Now that the Homeland Security Bill is being ratified, expect "illegal search and seizure" acts to reach new levels of absurdity.
"Thankfully, they seem to take care of things by themselves, happily depriving themselves of money, privacy, freedom, and, sometimes, when we're lucky, their own lives."
Unfortunately when the sheep do do those things, the rest of us are made to suffer. Just look at what happened to Dimitri--he's a knowledgable guy and he still got tossed in the slammer. With the growing police state and future errosion of our rights, the possibiliy of what heppened to him happening to you and I increases more and more everyday.
I believe something like this could be useful, if and only if, OpenSource and Freeware-like software is exempt. How can someone make a reasonable claim to damages if they got the item for free? If they paid for it, then there obviously is a responsability by the manufacturer to make said product as reliable as possible. Maybe its just me, but doesn't something like holding a free product's manufacturer go against common-sense? Would everyone prefer to buy all of their code, even though there still isn't any true security? Just because you pay for a product doesn't mean it will be free of flaws/bugs. Firestone can attest to that! Its sad that one day Linux may need a disclaimer reading "Use at your own risk!"
The biggest benefit that I can think of from something like the propossed legislation would be (possibly) the end of security through obscurity and bugs being passed off as features.
Maybe I'm not seeing the point to all this, but how is this different than when Dimitry Slykarov (sp?) was arrested no so long ago for the e-books fiasco. In Russia he didn't do anything wrong, but in the US he broke the DMCA. So when he came over to the US they snatched him up and held him for trial. How is this any different than what the Aussies are proposing?
Okay folks. This is our chance to really hit them where it hurts. Most people in the industry like us that happen to have a clue also happen to like Star Wars. When all of us boycott the DVD release and everyone wonders why its sales are so shitty, they won't have any other explanation besides us not buying into A. the horrible practices of the **AA, B. the kickbacks, er, I mean donations to our congresscriters, and C. laws that restrict technology instead of punishing those that use it for illicit purposes.
So in otherwords you're calling for a strike.
Add this one to my grownig list of obligatory spam to my friends and family. Another case of the entertainment industry lobbying in areas they have no business messing with, the technology industry. I have a serious problem with how congress has being going along with this racket. Its gotten to the point that our real enemy is an internal one: our own elected officials. ANYONE that supports this sort of legislation is betraying the people of this country, plain and simple. Congress by and large has been bought and are now adhering to an entertainment organization's call to prop up their dying monopoly. This act is a direct affront to the principles and democratic process our society was based upon, and should be looked upon with great scrutiny. In light of recent events and the current state of affairs in the US, its a wonder how these people aren't viewed as terrorists?! After all, if this type of legislation passes, our nation as a whole will be thrown into a digital dark ages (not that it hasn't been already).
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Hello, welcome to Earth. The entertainment industry has had a stranglehold on the market since its inception. Now the RIAA and MPAA are flexing their muscle in markets they don't primarily belong to, as in the IT industry. They are lobbying congress to pass laws to prop up their dying monopolies. This act in itself is an afront to democracy and the principles our country was founded on. I say we brand them as terrorists! After all, we all know the headlines and subsequent support that'd pull for us.