When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up Columbine High School, there were a lot of people (especially here) who said that their acts were horrendous, but they understood why they were committed: the boys were bullied and tortured constantly for years; they were finally getting revenge, kamikaze style.
This comparison is eery, especially since they too planned to crash a plane into New York City (scroll towards the end of the article).
But that's one reason why countries have to become more global. Otherwise, multinationals can begin to play governments off each other.
But if there is only one country, multinationals only need to buy one world government instead of 152. It's much cheaper that way for the multinational, and additionnally there is no risk that some foreign country may bail us out of the mess.
Did your comment just fall prey to Microsoft smart quotes ®, or are you just trying to make it extra clear that you are indeed speaking about copyright issues?
Yes, but the metric ton (1000 kg) is a unit of mass, not energy. For energy, we usually use Joules (kg * (m/s)^2). Occasionnally, older units are used in certain contexts: kilocalories (food), kilowatthours (electricity), etc.
Yeah, but what would happen to California if suddenly all its geeks jumped up and down at once? Wouldn't this have a chance of triggering the San Andreas fault, and solving the California power problems in quite a different way (no California => no California power problems...)
Now unless you are logged into an account you cannot see the or post to the comments on a story until at least 5 comments are posted.
IMHO, this has nothing to do with boosting ad revenue, but rather is intended for making frist psots more difficult. But on the other hand, is this really necessary with the new Slashcode which uses global (i.e. huge) article numbers?
And is it really efficient? Indeed, throwaway Slash accounts are a dime a dozen: all you need is a hotmail address (of which you can create as many as you want...). And forcing trolls to log in is actually counterproductive: now it takes two mod-points instead of one to mod down the trolls into oblivion.
Oh wait, nobody uses it, so it's OK to do the same exact thing as someone else. I get it.
I understand you meant your comment as a joke, but you are actually closer to the point than you think... Indeed, because of his dominant position, a monopolist has actually less rights than minor players. Acts which would be perfectly ok for a vendor which only has 10% market share are no-no for the 500 pound gorilla. The reasoning is that the minor player does not have the power to do real damage anyways (except maybe to himself...), so why restrict him? The bully, on the other hand, has the power to wreck the market-place, and thus has to be closely watched.
Interestingly, we can now transform lead into gold - it's just incredibly expensive (costs much more than the gold's worth) and you need a particle accelerator.
So, could a large lump of uranium act as a "philosopher's stone"?
Although the companies may be out of business, their founders and owners are not yet dead. You can always sue them if they leak your personal info when they sell the dotcom assets.
Is this actually true? I always assumed that liquidation of assets (which unfortunately include "customer" lists) was handled by a bankruptcy court appointed "repo-man", and that the (former) owners of the company couldn't do anything at this point to decide which assets got sold to whom.
The holders of battlebots.org are offering to sell the domain name to battlebots inc. for $5962 as compensation for the effort they've put into building the name of battlebots.org, potential loss of customers, etc...
They're playing with fire here. battlebots.com could convince the judge that battlebots.org were in it for the money all along, i.e. cybersquatting.
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> So circumventing the protection to access a work on which copyright has expired (ie an old work) does not form an offence under the act.
There is a small logical fallacy here: The DMCA forbids the creation and trafficking of circumvention tools. The same tools would be used on "new" works and on "old" works. So an easy cop-out would be if the authors just claimed that their tools were only intended to be used against works whose copyright has expired? I don't think the RIAA, the MPAA and their jackbooted thugs would agree with such an interpretation.
Re:DMCA Does Not Depend on the Copyright Clause!
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Fine for the parts which are commerce (I'll even assume they're going to get away with intrastate commerce, under the pretense that it affects interstate commerce), but how exactly is cicumvention of a technological measure interstate commerce? This isn't so much of a rhetorical question, I really want to know.
I think, what obviously follows from this is that the DMCA only applies to circumvention devices that are sold ("commerce"), and not to those given away for free. Either that, or the DMCA has been voted under blatantly false pretenses.
The Sklyarov case is clearly international commerce (assuming jurisdictional issues pan out), so that's unlikely to be unconstitutional.
Please explain how US law applies to an international situation? And please, don't bring up again that old canard of "but the software could be bought by US citizens". What's next: imprisonment of an Amsterdam coffee shop owner in an US jail, just because a Merkin managed to buy some weed there on his last visit to the Netherlands?
DeCSS is likewise clearly interstate commerce, although there is more of a chance of it being unconstitutional due to free speech.
Hey, DeCSS is not even sold, so how can it be commerce? Much less interstate commerce... Moreover, where it was made (Europe), law specifically allows for reverse engineer "for the purpose of interoperability".
I would think this would rely on the "promote the progress of science" power of congress, though.
Won't work because:
There is no fair-use exception in the DMCA...
There is no exception for circumventing access protections of old works ("
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; "). A law granting authors/publishers the power to lock access for an unlimited time would blatantly exceed the powers granted to Congress by the Consitituion.
It actively hampers the progress of science (Felten, Sklyarov, etc).
> ESR's head sure looks fucking big.
> Any confirmation that he may in fact be a midget?
We neither confirm nor deny this claim.
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Probably, the really highly classified stuff would not be stored on that network anyways. You have to be aware that all 13 "agencies" are connected to it. Knowing that often those agencies have secrets that they don't share with other such agencies, we can deduce that this network is mostly for "almost public" information. You can bet that really juicy stuff is stored elsewhere, and is only accessible from terminals within the same secure facility.
Probably our wannabe spy was punished more for his stupidity, rather than for leaking stuff that was actually useful to a foreign country. For all we know, the Libyan operatives to whom he was trying to sell the materials are laughing as loudly as we are...
Re:Wow... this should piss Russia off
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> I need only say "Goodwin's Law" to point out the historical precedent.
Congrats for this smart way of avoiding to trigger Godwin's law. Instead of mentioning the N word, you just mention Godwin's law... And indeed, it seems to have worked: you post netted two replies...
> it takes quite a few drops for humans to notice that it's raining, but just one well-placed droplet will fry your motherboard.
I doubt this. Water is not that good of an electrical conductor. Salt water would be a different matter of course.
I once had an battery driven alarm clock which got litterally soaked in water. After having dried for a couple of weeks, it started working again, no permanent damage;)
> So does this mean that if you loaded a watch battery (milliAh = up to 500) into a 38 shell and shot someone (in the right place I guess) they'd have a heart attack?
Interesting... so would the guy also die of a heart attack if you strangled him with a power cord? How come it does kill him even if it is not plugged into a wall socket?
> Finally, a place for hackers at banks that doesn't involve maintaining 30yr old Cobol programs!
...and a place that doesn't involve writing buggy Java code under the direction of a short and shiny Andersen Consultant^H^H^HAccenture who amuses the crowd by getting entangled in the curtain cord during important business meetings...
> Nope. You just grown older. Your upgrade cycles will tend to be longer
Indeed. There are two ways to get the feeling a machine is faster:
Speed up the machine.
Slow down your brain...
While you're young and sharp, your brain power won't decrease by much, so you'll have to upgrade if you want to see speed. But once you start to grow older, cousin Alzheimer takes care of all your "upgrade" needs...;-)
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This comparison is eery, especially since they too planned to crash a plane into New York City (scroll towards the end of the article).
But if there is only one country, multinationals only need to buy one world government instead of 152. It's much cheaper that way for the multinational, and additionnally there is no risk that some foreign country may bail us out of the mess.
Did your comment just fall prey to Microsoft smart quotes ®, or are you just trying to make it extra clear that you are indeed speaking about copyright issues?
Yeah, right...
Yes, but the metric ton (1000 kg) is a unit of mass, not energy. For energy, we usually use Joules (kg * (m/s)^2). Occasionnally, older units are used in certain contexts: kilocalories (food), kilowatthours (electricity), etc.
Yeah, but what would happen to California if suddenly all its geeks jumped up and down at once? Wouldn't this have a chance of triggering the San Andreas fault, and solving the California power problems in quite a different way (no California => no California power problems...)
That reminds me of the old microsoft hate page logo at enemy.org.
IMHO, this has nothing to do with boosting ad revenue, but rather is intended for making frist psots more difficult. But on the other hand, is this really necessary with the new Slashcode which uses global (i.e. huge) article numbers?
And is it really efficient? Indeed, throwaway Slash accounts are a dime a dozen: all you need is a hotmail address (of which you can create as many as you want...). And forcing trolls to log in is actually counterproductive: now it takes two mod-points instead of one to mod down the trolls into oblivion.
Why the blanket? In order not to be recognized and pestered by angry Linux fans?
I understand you meant your comment as a joke, but you are actually closer to the point than you think... Indeed, because of his dominant position, a monopolist has actually less rights than minor players. Acts which would be perfectly ok for a vendor which only has 10% market share are no-no for the 500 pound gorilla. The reasoning is that the minor player does not have the power to do real damage anyways (except maybe to himself...), so why restrict him? The bully, on the other hand, has the power to wreck the market-place, and thus has to be closely watched.
So, could a large lump of uranium act as a "philosopher's stone"?
Is this actually true? I always assumed that liquidation of assets (which unfortunately include "customer" lists) was handled by a bankruptcy court appointed "repo-man", and that the (former) owners of the company couldn't do anything at this point to decide which assets got sold to whom.
They're playing with fire here. battlebots.com could convince the judge that battlebots.org were in it for the money all along, i.e. cybersquatting.
There is a small logical fallacy here: The DMCA forbids the creation and trafficking of circumvention tools. The same tools would be used on "new" works and on "old" works. So an easy cop-out would be if the authors just claimed that their tools were only intended to be used against works whose copyright has expired? I don't think the RIAA, the MPAA and their jackbooted thugs would agree with such an interpretation.
I think, what obviously follows from this is that the DMCA only applies to circumvention devices that are sold ("commerce"), and not to those given away for free. Either that, or the DMCA has been voted under blatantly false pretenses.
The Sklyarov case is clearly international commerce (assuming jurisdictional issues pan out), so that's unlikely to be unconstitutional.
Please explain how US law applies to an international situation? And please, don't bring up again that old canard of "but the software could be bought by US citizens". What's next: imprisonment of an Amsterdam coffee shop owner in an US jail, just because a Merkin managed to buy some weed there on his last visit to the Netherlands?
DeCSS is likewise clearly interstate commerce, although there is more of a chance of it being unconstitutional due to free speech.
Hey, DeCSS is not even sold, so how can it be commerce? Much less interstate commerce... Moreover, where it was made (Europe), law specifically allows for reverse engineer "for the purpose of interoperability".
I would think this would rely on the "promote the progress of science" power of congress, though.
Won't work because:
> Any confirmation that he may in fact be a midget?
We neither confirm nor deny this claim.
Probably our wannabe spy was punished more for his stupidity, rather than for leaking stuff that was actually useful to a foreign country. For all we know, the Libyan operatives to whom he was trying to sell the materials are laughing as loudly as we are...
Congrats for this smart way of avoiding to trigger Godwin's law. Instead of mentioning the N word, you just mention Godwin's law... And indeed, it seems to have worked: you post netted two replies...
I doubt this. Water is not that good of an electrical conductor. Salt water would be a different matter of course.
I once had an battery driven alarm clock which got litterally soaked in water. After having dried for a couple of weeks, it started working again, no permanent damage ;)
Interesting... so would the guy also die of a heart attack if you strangled him with a power cord? How come it does kill him even if it is not plugged into a wall socket?
Yeah, and when the weather is bad, people will blame it on the guys who manufactured the weather forecaster's computer.
Indeed. There are two ways to get the feeling a machine is faster:
- Speed up the machine.
- Slow down your brain...
While you're young and sharp, your brain power won't decrease by much, so you'll have to upgrade if you want to see speed. But once you start to grow older, cousin Alzheimer takes care of all your "upgrade" needs...RMS's personal version of DOS? Ya know, the backslash...