We went to war with the U.K. over their habit of seizing Americans (whom they still considered to be English citizens, not having formally recognized the United States of America) who were on British soil at the time and pressing them into service in their navy. Now we're behaving in basically the same way.
It's really a daft law in the first place. It's supposed to protect the online privacy of children under age 13, but then the same law demands that websites violate COPPA by gathering personal information about these kids in order to verify their age. The law requires that we violate it in order to comply with it.
Brasilian government: "We need this data. Here's a subpoena." Google Brasil: "We don't have it. It's on our parent company's servers in the U.S.A. Go ask them." Slashdot: "Your Rights Online: Google says No to Brasilian government datamining! Good old Google!"
(Later...) Brasilian government: "We need this data. Here's a subpoena." Google USA: "Okay, here." Slashdot: "Your Rights Online: Google sells out to foreign gummints again! Google == teh asshats!"
Sure, and all they have to do is present their contract with Google to the judge: the one that guarantees Kinderwossname a certain minimum page ranking.:)
If someone was providing them wih free advertising then stops doing so, I don't think that is grounds for a lawsuit (but, of course, IANAL).
Exactly! Legitimate Windows owners are to be held hostage. Either let M$ steal your bandwidth and potentially invade your privacy or else your computer will no longer load the OS, denying you access to your data and rendering the PC useless. Somehow I doubt that M$ is stupid enough to alienate their customers in this way.
anticipating the need to add future functionality at a later time
That's not the same thing as trying to anticipate the future functionality itself. I understood him to mean that he designs his modular code such that additional modules may be added as needed without requiring a complete rewrite or a horrible kludge job. It's like how a PC motherboard comes with PCI expansion slots. The board maker doesn't have to try and imagine every different type of PCI card that will ever be invented: they just provide a standard interface and leave it up to the add-on card maker to design its interface to the same standard.
What would this tell us, exactly? That people are more inclined to get drunk on weekends and are grouchier on Mondays than on other days? This is something we don't already know?
"What makes you think that a juries job is to ensure that justice is done? A juries job is to decide if a defendant is guilty of a crime. The crime is defined by a law."
Oh, common law precedent (Wikipedia) and John Adams (one of the Founding Fathers) who said "It is not only his right but his duty...to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
"But, if you want to change the way China operates and not beeing seen as a supporter of China and it's oppressive politics, you have to stay away and then work towards change in the Chinese system."
How do you "work towards change in the Chinese system" if you're commited to staying away from China entirely? I would think that maintaining a presense there would make it easier to help to change things.
Ah, but you forget, the felony charge was to "send a message". It says they can do that in the Constitution. See, it's right there where the bit about cruel and unusual punishment used to be.
What ever happened to sending messages via Western Union or something?
"1.) Radios used in 9/11 did not function when the person on the other end went into the building. This spectrum is said to "go through" building materials. Although a valid point, it isn't the only frequencies that do that. It is however a way to get television spectrum locked down digitally eventually making it all pay TV."
In crowded metropolitan areas such as NY and LA all of the lower frequencies that do work inside of buildings are already in use. The radio spectrum for commercial and emergency services' communications has been extremely tight for decades.
"Add to that the companies that responded with "digital radios" (and proprietary protocols) and even if you could listen it would be nothing but noise."
I believe you're thinking of trunked radio systems where a control computer grabs an open frequency out of a pool of available ones every time someone keys their mic, rather than having a dedicated frequency for every service out there. It allows a much more efficient use of the available spectrum.
"The issue of the agancies being on different frequencies within the same spectrum and unable to communicate isn't addressed either. You had fire companies responding from other states that could not even tell someone they were there over the radio because nobody was listening on their frequency."
What's needed is a nationwide set of Mutual Aid frequencies for police, fire and rescue, and other emergency services. The trouble is there is no section of the radio spectrum available everywhere across the nation whose frequencies have the propogation properties needed.
"This legislation does nothing to address either of those issues properly and is a knee-jerk reaction following 9/11 and the more recent issues in the hurricanes. (The same as above, I might add, only 4 years after this was supposed to be fixed with billions being spent in DHS for it)."
This legislation will probably make the needed spectrum available and allow for the creation of that nationwide emergency network. Once the channels are available, communications radio manufacturers would add them to all of the sets that they make (they'd love to be able to sell all new radio systems to all of the cops and firefighters in the country)
"Schools should teach what the majority of people in the district want taught."
And if the majority of people in the district are illiterate peasants who only want their children to learn to grow crops, what then?
Schools should teach what best practices dictate that they should teach, and also what colleges and universities expect that incoming students should know. If educators merely pander to the masses, the level of education will never rise. Any parents that don't like the curriculum can, as you say, home-school their kids.
This is very good advice, whether you're in a boom or a bust. You can even use experience gained in part-time or temporary work to your advantage this way.
Say you worked your way through college as a waiter or bartender. You know the restaurant business quite well. You're a natural for installing, supporting or selling point-of-sales systems, and would do well as an IT person for a wholesaler or jobber: you know that business in part, and you know its customers.
In our society we define stealing thisly: "the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use."
If you make a copy of a song, in digital format, and allow me to make yet another copy of it, whO has been deprived of the original copy of that song? The original CD still plays.
As has been repeatedly stated here, file sharing is copyright violation, illegal publishing without permission, lots of things. But it isn't "stealing".
"The issue I see most often is that blogs cludge up Google. Of course, there are solutions to this, like putting a default robots.txt in all blog software or Google making a blog search tool."
That would seem to me to be an issue with the search engine rather than with the blogs themselves. Maybe Google needs a "-noblogs" function for those who wish to avoid getting results from those sites. I think requesting such a feature would be more productive than whining about blogs' existance on/.
"UUNet hosts more spammers than any other ISP. It has 151 listings on the Spammers Block List (SBL), including 34 known spam gangs with ROKSO records, according to the anti-spam organisation Spamhaus' records for February 2004."
They host 34 known professional hard-core spam-gangs. Size has nothing to do with it.
Taken rather out of context to make it sound worse.
"As you move to conference on "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998," I write to express concern regarding unrelated provision[s] added by the House in its companion bill. These provisions deal with the protection of "collections of information," or databases.
I am specifically concerned about language contained in Title V of the House-passed bill. This language is similar to that contained in S. 2291, "The Collections and Information Antipiracy Act, " a bill introduced in the Senate that would amend current law by creating a new form of intellectual property protection for informational databases. In recent days, I have been approached by various Massachusetts- based groups and institutions with concerns regarding the potential implications of the language included in Title V.
While I am not opposed to the eventual consideration of the database legislation, I believe that the Senate Judiciary Committee has not had ample time to examine closely the specific provisions contained in Title V and their potential implications. I would therefore urge you to move forward with the passage of "The Digital Millenium Copyright Act," but to delay consideration of any database legislation until next year. This will provide the committee with the opportunity to hold hearings on the matter and to craft database legislation that enjoys broad-based support in both the public and private sectors."
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We went to war with the U.K. over their habit of seizing Americans (whom they still considered to be English citizens, not having formally recognized the United States of America) who were on British soil at the time and pressing them into service in their navy. Now we're behaving in basically the same way.
It's really a daft law in the first place. It's supposed to protect the online privacy of children under age 13, but then the same law demands that websites violate COPPA by gathering personal information about these kids in order to verify their age. The law requires that we violate it in order to comply with it.
Brasilian government: "We need this data. Here's a subpoena."
Google Brasil: "We don't have it. It's on our parent company's servers in the U.S.A. Go ask them."
Slashdot: "Your Rights Online: Google says No to Brasilian government datamining! Good old Google!"
(Later...)
Brasilian government: "We need this data. Here's a subpoena."
Google USA: "Okay, here."
Slashdot: "Your Rights Online: Google sells out to foreign gummints again! Google == teh asshats!"
I saw this coming days ago.
I live in Seattle and I've never seen one or heard of one of these. We still have ATMs on the outside wall of banks, right out in the open.
Sure, and all they have to do is present their contract with Google to the judge: the one that guarantees Kinderwossname a certain minimum page ranking. :)
If someone was providing them wih free advertising then stops doing so, I don't think that is grounds for a lawsuit (but, of course, IANAL).
Please mod this up as Insightful.
Me, I don't even like IE's "friendly" error pages. Plain old "404: page not found" was good enough for my granddaddy and it's good enough for me.
Exactly! Legitimate Windows owners are to be held hostage. Either let M$ steal your bandwidth and potentially invade your privacy or else your computer will no longer load the OS, denying you access to your data and rendering the PC useless. Somehow I doubt that M$ is stupid enough to alienate their customers in this way.
This should make the Flying Spaghetti Monster happy, anyway.
anticipating the need to add future functionality at a later time That's not the same thing as trying to anticipate the future functionality itself. I understood him to mean that he designs his modular code such that additional modules may be added as needed without requiring a complete rewrite or a horrible kludge job. It's like how a PC motherboard comes with PCI expansion slots. The board maker doesn't have to try and imagine every different type of PCI card that will ever be invented: they just provide a standard interface and leave it up to the add-on card maker to design its interface to the same standard.
Then why does NIST offer its own public domain client?
What would this tell us, exactly? That people are more inclined to get drunk on weekends and are grouchier on Mondays than on other days? This is something we don't already know?
"What makes you think that a juries job is to ensure that justice is done? A juries job is to decide if a defendant is guilty of a crime. The crime is defined by a law." Oh, common law precedent (Wikipedia) and John Adams (one of the Founding Fathers) who said "It is not only his right but his duty...to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."
"But, if you want to change the way China operates and not beeing seen as a supporter of China and it's oppressive politics, you have to stay away and then work towards change in the Chinese system." How do you "work towards change in the Chinese system" if you're commited to staying away from China entirely? I would think that maintaining a presense there would make it easier to help to change things.
"The internet is beautiful because every little joe can create his personal website..." Then charge Bell South for accessing it.
Ah, but you forget, the felony charge was to "send a message". It says they can do that in the Constitution. See, it's right there where the bit about cruel and unusual punishment used to be.
What ever happened to sending messages via Western Union or something?
In crowded metropolitan areas such as NY and LA all of the lower frequencies that do work inside of buildings are already in use. The radio spectrum for commercial and emergency services' communications has been extremely tight for decades.
"Add to that the companies that responded with "digital radios" (and proprietary protocols) and even if you could listen it would be nothing but noise."
I believe you're thinking of trunked radio systems where a control computer grabs an open frequency out of a pool of available ones every time someone keys their mic, rather than having a dedicated frequency for every service out there. It allows a much more efficient use of the available spectrum.
"The issue of the agancies being on different frequencies within the same spectrum and unable to communicate isn't addressed either. You had fire companies responding from other states that could not even tell someone they were there over the radio because nobody was listening on their frequency."
What's needed is a nationwide set of Mutual Aid frequencies for police, fire and rescue, and other emergency services. The trouble is there is no section of the radio spectrum available everywhere across the nation whose frequencies have the propogation properties needed.
"This legislation does nothing to address either of those issues properly and is a knee-jerk reaction following 9/11 and the more recent issues in the hurricanes. (The same as above, I might add, only 4 years after this was supposed to be fixed with billions being spent in DHS for it)."
This legislation will probably make the needed spectrum available and allow for the creation of that nationwide emergency network. Once the channels are available, communications radio manufacturers would add them to all of the sets that they make (they'd love to be able to sell all new radio systems to all of the cops and firefighters in the country)
And if the majority of people in the district are illiterate peasants who only want their children to learn to grow crops, what then?
Schools should teach what best practices dictate that they should teach, and also what colleges and universities expect that incoming students should know. If educators merely pander to the masses, the level of education will never rise. Any parents that don't like the curriculum can, as you say, home-school their kids.
This is very good advice, whether you're in a boom or a bust. You can even use experience gained in part-time or temporary work to your advantage this way.
Say you worked your way through college as a waiter or bartender. You know the restaurant business quite well. You're a natural for installing, supporting or selling point-of-sales systems, and would do well as an IT person for a wholesaler or jobber: you know that business in part, and you know its customers.
"...Linux administrators took 68 per cent longer to implement new business requirements than their Windows counterparts."
For values of business requirements that include Microsoft Sexchange. Miscrosoft Squeal 2000 Server, Microsoft IIS...
RTFA? This *is* /. you know!
In our society we define stealing thisly: "the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use."
If you make a copy of a song, in digital format, and allow me to make yet another copy of it, whO has been deprived of the original copy of that song? The original CD still plays.
As has been repeatedly stated here, file sharing is copyright violation, illegal publishing without permission, lots of things. But it isn't "stealing".
"The issue I see most often is that blogs cludge up Google. Of course, there are solutions to this, like putting a default robots.txt in all blog software or Google making a blog search tool."
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That would seem to me to be an issue with the search engine rather than with the blogs themselves. Maybe Google needs a "-noblogs" function for those who wish to avoid getting results from those sites. I think requesting such a feature would be more productive than whining about blogs' existance on
You've said this like four times in the last dozen posts. What, do you get money for recruiting people or something?
Did we RTFA?
"UUNet hosts more spammers than any other ISP. It has 151 listings on the Spammers Block List (SBL), including 34 known spam gangs with ROKSO records, according to the anti-spam organisation Spamhaus' records for February 2004."
They host 34 known professional hard-core spam-gangs. Size has nothing to do with it.
Taken rather out of context to make it sound worse.
"As you move to conference on "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998," I write to express concern regarding unrelated provision[s] added by the House in its companion bill. These provisions deal with the protection of "collections of information," or databases.
I am specifically concerned about language contained in Title V of the House-passed bill. This language is similar to that contained in S. 2291, "The Collections and Information Antipiracy Act, " a bill introduced in the Senate that would amend current law by creating a new form of intellectual property protection for informational databases. In recent days, I have been approached by various Massachusetts- based groups and institutions with concerns regarding the potential implications of the language included in Title V.
While I am not opposed to the eventual consideration of the database legislation, I believe that the Senate Judiciary Committee has not had ample time to examine closely the specific provisions contained in Title V and their potential implications. I would therefore urge you to move forward with the passage of "The Digital Millenium Copyright Act," but to delay consideration of any database legislation until next year. This will provide the committee with the opportunity to hold hearings on the matter and to craft database legislation that enjoys broad-based support in both the public and private sectors."