"This comes upon reversal of the SCO Group statement according to Chief Executive Darl McBride of having not engaged Mr. Boies to take legal action against our fellow Linux vendors. Now, CNet News is reporting that not only is SCO Group investigating the Linux vendors.
How do you spell: "Lying scak of shit?"
D A R L Mc B R I D E
I work in TV. TV broadcasters frequently SUE some companies to force them to put their over the air signals over wires so anyone that's connected to those wires can see their picture.
In fact,in the USA there's laws REQUIRING the owners of the wires to do it.
The wires are called cable TV and the laws are called MUST CARRY.
Now..it seems to me that the broadcasters want it both ways. They want to have total control over what's done with their over the air signal. They want to be able to force companies to carry their signals when it benefits THEM and yet force other companies to NOT carry their signals when it benefits THEM!
This isn't fair, nor is it right, nor is it moral.
Now, I know what many will say..that the cable companies don't modify the signals at all.. BULL!
Many cable systems re-modulate over the air TV signals onto other channels and digital cable systems digitize the TV stations' signal.
How is this any different then converting their signals to TCP/IP?
It isn't. Period.
Yet one is legal and the other isn't.
This law is wrong. Pure and simple.
Hmmm...is that cum dripping out of your mouth?
I'll never respect YOU in the morning!
Seriously though...once again, government is doing what they seem to want to do bast - protecting us from ourseles.
Question is....who (then) protects us from THEM???
The irony is that KGB is now owned by Clear Channel. When I was there one summer day in 2001, the station was on autopilot, with an empty studio and the Prophet (aka: "Profit") system playing the generic classic rock tha station now plays (over and over and over).
~sigh~
Ron Jacobs is now retired and lives in Honolulu where he quite vocally trashes 2000 era radio every chance he gets!
Ron Jacobs did...at KGB AM&FM in San Diego. Lee Abrams ripped him off!
Proof of this is at www.reelradio.com. Do a serch for KGB.
You'll quickly find the: "Ron Jacobs 1972 KGB recycle documentary", which ran on KGB 24/7 for an entire week before he introduced HIS new rock radio format..the one Abrams stoe from him.
Actually, the documentary is quite interesting to listen to, as is this entire site.
So I went out and bought her CD, but found out that I can't play in to my computer (which IS my CD player by the way).
"No problem": I thought to myself. Since I already own the CD (that I can't play), I'll go onto Kazaa and download the tracks. BIG PROBLEM, as every one of them has been altered with a 'swishing' tone every 30 seconds or so.
In disgust, I returned the CD. If Norah doesn't want me as a fan, she can go fuck herself. Actually, I wonder if Norah (even) knows and appreciates how hard her label works at derailing her career?
In the 1960's, many states passed laws that basically banned black people from voting. Many fought and even died protesting and fighting to overturn these BAD laws!
Following some people's logic here, we all should have passively just obeyed those laws. I'm sure that Rosa Parks should have been flogged for deciding to sit in front of the bus too, right?
Look, laws are passed by people, not gods. Since people are not gods, they can be motivated by
- how can I put this - less them ethical principles (These are called LOBBYISTS for the unitiated).
A democracy needs, no rather DEMANDS that it's citizens keep its lawmakers honest, BUT THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!. Apathy by the voters is the problem, and it's caused by the lawmakers themselves! They employ psychologists, press agents, publicists, ad agencies and other 'spin meisters' to keep the voters in line (and out of the ballot box). That way their re-election is assured, and the ability for their pockets to be 'greased' as well. Until the people speak at the ballot box (and based on the pathetically small turnouts these days it's not likely to happen) things will not change, they'll just continue getting worse.
This is true. It's EASY. There's no more code test for the Communicator license. All you have to do is memorize some really easy stuff. Radio Shack even has a book called: "From 5 watts to 100 watts", that's designed for CB ers!
Exams are given every week all over the place.
Check out arrl.org for locations and practice tests. Also, there's an iminent FCC ruling allowing hams to use digital encryption for their data. You know you'd like to run an 802.11(b) link with up to 1000 watts, now wouldn't you?
and when the govt. borrows, that puts them in competition with me for borrowing that money. If I want to buy a house or car, and the govt. wants to buy guns and airplanes to use in Iraq or North Korea, we're both borrowers. If there's only so much money available that means that according to supply and demand, the COST for borrowing that money goes up. In other words, we both pay a higher interest rate. This means that the govt. has to either borrow more money or raise taxes to make the payments (something like 18-20% of the federal budget goes just to pay the INTEREST on the loans the U.S. already has (AKA the deficit)). It means that my monthly mortgage payments go up (if I can still afford to buy, that is). It also means that I have a larger mortgage deduction which means that I pay less income tax which forces the federal govt. to borrow more $$ to pay for next year's guns and airplanes. See how it's interrelated? It isn't an easy problem that has an easy solution. The only way to really help the deficit is for the federal govt. to SPEND LESS MONEY.
"If you let me write $50 billion a year of hot checks, I'll give you the illusion of prosperity too!" - Lloyd Bentsen in a 1984 vice presidential debate against Dan Quayle
Oh wait...I just infringed on his (copyrighted) saying! Does this mean he owns me now?
Q: Why does someone sue?
A: Because they can.
and until the rules are changed to stop them from suing just because they can, these kind of ridiculous lawsuits will continue...
"An acquaintance recently purchased the new Peter Gabriel CD. It played fine on her standard CD players, but would not play on her computer at work where she regularly listens to music to pass the tedium of her job. What did she do? She simply downloaded the files from the Net onto her PC and played that instead.
The problem is she was still angry that the CD she bought was intentionally disabled, preventing her from using it as she wished. Do you know what she did next? She returned the CD.
A perfect example of a dissatisfied consumer who (had) already committed to the purchase and was completely discouraged by the intentional hampering of the product. Scariest for the music industry was when I heard her angrily mutter these words..."I won't make that mistake again.""
Did you hear that, RIAA? Your antics are really pissing off your customers! Oh wait - I forgot...you don't call them customers, do you? You call them thieves and pirates!
When will the lawyers and courts in this country realize that the USA isn't the ONLY country on earth? First they pulled this crap with Elcomsoft, now Kazaa!
HEY (pinhead) JUDGE...they aren't from America! Is our country so arrogant that we honestly believe our laws and rules apply to everyone in the world? Kazaa was founded in The Netherlands, and now originates from Vanatu. Last time I checked, neither of these places were U.S. states or possessions. Unlike Elcomsoft, Kazaa never sold anything in the USA nor is their software hosted by them on US servers.
"those who apply for some of the settlement will receive "vouchers redeemable for any manufacturer's computer-related products and software"
Let's see...a few million $ for the lawyers and a bunch of cardboard and polyethelene (shrink wrap) for the rest of us....
Sounds fair to me!
Tauzin....one of the most paid off politicians in history!
Once again, he shows how little he cares about the people who put him in office..and how much he cares about the telemarketing industry who helpe greas his pockets...
Nor can Hilary Rosen, or Jack Valenti or any of those pinhead types. See, they probably have never heard 99.9% of the music they represent, nor seen 99.9 % of the movies. They're a perfect example of the cancer that's killing innovation (and with it, the economy) in the U.S. Today.
Here's an even better example:
E-Books: My wife loves E-books, they're cheap and she can buy and download them online (read: Impulse buy for instant gratification). What does drive her crazy though is that she can't print most of them. She has to be tied to a computer to read them. So, she winds up buying a mix of books or goes to the library. Enter Elcomsoft...a Russian company that can fix this...which will make my wife happy so she'll buy even MORE e-books. Another thing that Elcomsoft's product can do is open up an entire NEW MARKET..the blind book market. See, the millions of blind people in the world can't USE E-books, but with Elcomsoft's program these books can be read on a standard text reader that many of these blind people use. Instead of JUMPING FOR JOY at this innovative product that can result in MILLIONS MORE E-books being sold, the industry sues it out of existance. Now, explain to me how THAT made any sense? Like I'm a six year old.
I think that's the big improvement over AT&T. Vonage has a delay that I can not notice on both its U.S. and international calls. No echo either.
I think that this all may have to do with the fact that the ATA (analog telephone adaptor) is located right at your phone.
a good start.... Seriously though, This DMCA is a true land grab for the status quo. Innovate? You can't, I'm involking the DMCA. Improve an existing product? DMCA again. Mod kit? Same thing. As an example, let's take the auto industry. If we had am AMCA in force, we'd all still be driving Model T's, with AM radios in them because every time someone proposed an imrovement, the AMCA would be brought out to stop it. How could OUR Congress allow such an anti-competitive law to pass?
For now, someone (telco, cable company, etc.) owns the 'last mile' of the circuit. My ISP tells me that about 2/3 of my monthly DSL bill goes direct to the ILEC (telco). They get 1/3 to fill the line with Internet. That means that they get 17 bucks a month out of the 50 and the telco gets 34 just for providing the last mile. To add insult to injury, to get ADSL I must also have an analog telephone line, (at 20 bucks a month) which means that the telco actually gets paid TWICE for the last mile.
It seems to me that the telco's are committing highway robbery. They're getting over 50 bucks a month for providing a single copper pair about five blocks. Cable's pricing is no better, and all the cable companies are capping upload limits which limits your ability to use VOIP (the reason is clear here too; cable wants to charge you for THEIR OWN VOIP).
Seems to me that a community could make a small fortune by running fiber and charging even half what the telco's and cable companies charge for that last mile.
Finally, I have Vonage VOIP service. Had it for over a year now and I love it. I use it with DSL. My wife talks to her mother over 10 hours a week. I call all my friends and my kids constantly. The bill is always the same: 39.99 plus tax. Also, their international calls sound better then AT&T and you can't beat calling most of Europe for 5 cents a minute. Plus it's great having a 617 (downtown Boston) incoming phone number that is a local call for all my friends there, yet rings at my condo in Los Angeles.
"We have tried to get Mr. Pavlovich to agree that he would not distribute (the DeCSS software), but he has left it up in the air what he would do and refused to indicate what his intentions are. We'll have to take that into account in deciding how we will proceed," Kessler said."
Since when is posting a link to something considered distributing it?
Do these lawyers have a smart bone in their entire body..or are they doing a 'scorched earth' legal policy?
I live in Los Angeles, home of the record business...and music on the radio here here is pathetic! I like alternative and AAA (adult album alternative) and neither are played here.
We have KROQ (AKA Hype radio) but that's about it. There's a bunch of hip hop and top 40 stations, a couple of classic rock stations, one country station and the rest is Spanish. I find it pathetic that I have to go to websites of stations in other parts of the country to find the titles of music that otherwise I might not have even heard of!
Then I have to break the law by downloading the stuff so I can sample it. THEN if I find something I like and want to buy, it's likely that I won't find it at a local record store. If the RIAA wants to know why music sales are down, just look at me. They've gone out of their way to alienate me as a buyer! Hilary Rosen would do more of a service to her industry if she figured out how to court the 25-54 demographic (you know..the baby boomers who represent the largest single group of people in the U.S. right now - and the ones with most of the $$ too!), instead of working her panties into a froth about p2p.
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Poor dyke can't get anyone...yanno?
"This comes upon reversal of the SCO Group statement according to Chief Executive Darl McBride of having not engaged Mr. Boies to take legal action against our fellow Linux vendors. Now, CNet News is reporting that not only is SCO Group investigating the Linux vendors. How do you spell: "Lying scak of shit?" D A R L Mc B R I D E
I work in TV. TV broadcasters frequently SUE some companies to force them to put their over the air signals over wires so anyone that's connected to those wires can see their picture. In fact,in the USA there's laws REQUIRING the owners of the wires to do it. The wires are called cable TV and the laws are called MUST CARRY. Now..it seems to me that the broadcasters want it both ways. They want to have total control over what's done with their over the air signal. They want to be able to force companies to carry their signals when it benefits THEM and yet force other companies to NOT carry their signals when it benefits THEM! This isn't fair, nor is it right, nor is it moral. Now, I know what many will say..that the cable companies don't modify the signals at all.. BULL! Many cable systems re-modulate over the air TV signals onto other channels and digital cable systems digitize the TV stations' signal. How is this any different then converting their signals to TCP/IP? It isn't. Period. Yet one is legal and the other isn't. This law is wrong. Pure and simple.
Hmmm...is that cum dripping out of your mouth? I'll never respect YOU in the morning! Seriously though...once again, government is doing what they seem to want to do bast - protecting us from ourseles. Question is....who (then) protects us from THEM???
The irony is that KGB is now owned by Clear Channel. When I was there one summer day in 2001, the station was on autopilot, with an empty studio and the Prophet (aka: "Profit") system playing the generic classic rock tha station now plays (over and over and over). ~sigh~ Ron Jacobs is now retired and lives in Honolulu where he quite vocally trashes 2000 era radio every chance he gets!
Ron Jacobs did...at KGB AM&FM in San Diego. Lee Abrams ripped him off! Proof of this is at www.reelradio.com. Do a serch for KGB. You'll quickly find the: "Ron Jacobs 1972 KGB recycle documentary", which ran on KGB 24/7 for an entire week before he introduced HIS new rock radio format..the one Abrams stoe from him. Actually, the documentary is quite interesting to listen to, as is this entire site.
So I went out and bought her CD, but found out that I can't play in to my computer (which IS my CD player by the way). "No problem": I thought to myself. Since I already own the CD (that I can't play), I'll go onto Kazaa and download the tracks. BIG PROBLEM, as every one of them has been altered with a 'swishing' tone every 30 seconds or so. In disgust, I returned the CD. If Norah doesn't want me as a fan, she can go fuck herself. Actually, I wonder if Norah (even) knows and appreciates how hard her label works at derailing her career?
In the 1960's, many states passed laws that basically banned black people from voting. Many fought and even died protesting and fighting to overturn these BAD laws! Following some people's logic here, we all should have passively just obeyed those laws. I'm sure that Rosa Parks should have been flogged for deciding to sit in front of the bus too, right? Look, laws are passed by people, not gods. Since people are not gods, they can be motivated by - how can I put this - less them ethical principles (These are called LOBBYISTS for the unitiated). A democracy needs, no rather DEMANDS that it's citizens keep its lawmakers honest, BUT THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!. Apathy by the voters is the problem, and it's caused by the lawmakers themselves! They employ psychologists, press agents, publicists, ad agencies and other 'spin meisters' to keep the voters in line (and out of the ballot box). That way their re-election is assured, and the ability for their pockets to be 'greased' as well. Until the people speak at the ballot box (and based on the pathetically small turnouts these days it's not likely to happen) things will not change, they'll just continue getting worse.
This is true. It's EASY. There's no more code test for the Communicator license. All you have to do is memorize some really easy stuff. Radio Shack even has a book called: "From 5 watts to 100 watts", that's designed for CB ers! Exams are given every week all over the place. Check out arrl.org for locations and practice tests. Also, there's an iminent FCC ruling allowing hams to use digital encryption for their data. You know you'd like to run an 802.11(b) link with up to 1000 watts, now wouldn't you?
and when the govt. borrows, that puts them in competition with me for borrowing that money. If I want to buy a house or car, and the govt. wants to buy guns and airplanes to use in Iraq or North Korea, we're both borrowers. If there's only so much money available that means that according to supply and demand, the COST for borrowing that money goes up. In other words, we both pay a higher interest rate. This means that the govt. has to either borrow more money or raise taxes to make the payments (something like 18-20% of the federal budget goes just to pay the INTEREST on the loans the U.S. already has (AKA the deficit)). It means that my monthly mortgage payments go up (if I can still afford to buy, that is). It also means that I have a larger mortgage deduction which means that I pay less income tax which forces the federal govt. to borrow more $$ to pay for next year's guns and airplanes. See how it's interrelated? It isn't an easy problem that has an easy solution. The only way to really help the deficit is for the federal govt. to SPEND LESS MONEY.
"If you let me write $50 billion a year of hot checks, I'll give you the illusion of prosperity too!" - Lloyd Bentsen in a 1984 vice presidential debate against Dan Quayle
After all, you're an OS that runs on a computer. They have a patent for that you know!
Oh wait...I just infringed on his (copyrighted) saying! Does this mean he owns me now? Q: Why does someone sue? A: Because they can. and until the rules are changed to stop them from suing just because they can, these kind of ridiculous lawsuits will continue...
"An acquaintance recently purchased the new Peter Gabriel CD. It played fine on her standard CD players, but would not play on her computer at work where she regularly listens to music to pass the tedium of her job. What did she do? She simply downloaded the files from the Net onto her PC and played that instead. The problem is she was still angry that the CD she bought was intentionally disabled, preventing her from using it as she wished. Do you know what she did next? She returned the CD. A perfect example of a dissatisfied consumer who (had) already committed to the purchase and was completely discouraged by the intentional hampering of the product. Scariest for the music industry was when I heard her angrily mutter these words..."I won't make that mistake again."" Did you hear that, RIAA? Your antics are really pissing off your customers! Oh wait - I forgot...you don't call them customers, do you? You call them thieves and pirates!
U.S. law still applies...just ask Adobe!
When will the lawyers and courts in this country realize that the USA isn't the ONLY country on earth? First they pulled this crap with Elcomsoft, now Kazaa! HEY (pinhead) JUDGE...they aren't from America! Is our country so arrogant that we honestly believe our laws and rules apply to everyone in the world? Kazaa was founded in The Netherlands, and now originates from Vanatu. Last time I checked, neither of these places were U.S. states or possessions. Unlike Elcomsoft, Kazaa never sold anything in the USA nor is their software hosted by them on US servers.
"those who apply for some of the settlement will receive "vouchers redeemable for any manufacturer's computer-related products and software" Let's see...a few million $ for the lawyers and a bunch of cardboard and polyethelene (shrink wrap) for the rest of us.... Sounds fair to me!
Tauzin....one of the most paid off politicians in history! Once again, he shows how little he cares about the people who put him in office..and how much he cares about the telemarketing industry who helpe greas his pockets...
Nor can Hilary Rosen, or Jack Valenti or any of those pinhead types. See, they probably have never heard 99.9% of the music they represent, nor seen 99.9 % of the movies. They're a perfect example of the cancer that's killing innovation (and with it, the economy) in the U.S. Today.
Here's an even better example:
E-Books:
My wife loves E-books, they're cheap and she can buy and download them online (read: Impulse buy for instant gratification). What does drive her crazy though is that she can't print most of them. She has to be tied to a computer to read them. So, she winds up buying a mix of books or goes to the library.
Enter Elcomsoft...a Russian company that can fix this...which will make my wife happy so she'll buy even MORE e-books. Another thing that Elcomsoft's product can do is open up an entire NEW MARKET..the blind book market. See, the millions of blind people in the world can't USE
E-books, but with Elcomsoft's program these books can be read on a standard text reader that many of these blind people use. Instead of JUMPING FOR JOY at this innovative product that can result in MILLIONS MORE E-books being sold, the industry sues it out of existance. Now, explain to me how THAT made any sense? Like I'm a six year old.
How can this be a Class Action Suit when the RIAA has no class? Crass action would be more accurate...
I think that's the big improvement over AT&T. Vonage has a delay that I can not notice on both its U.S. and international calls. No echo either. I think that this all may have to do with the fact that the ATA (analog telephone adaptor) is located right at your phone.
a good start....
Seriously though, This DMCA is a true land grab for the status quo. Innovate? You can't, I'm involking the DMCA. Improve an existing product? DMCA again. Mod kit? Same thing. As an example, let's take the auto industry. If we had am AMCA in force, we'd all still be driving Model T's, with AM radios in them because every time someone proposed an imrovement, the AMCA would be brought out to stop it.
How could OUR Congress allow such an anti-competitive law to pass?
For now, someone (telco, cable company, etc.) owns the 'last mile' of the circuit. My ISP tells me that about 2/3 of my monthly DSL bill goes direct to the ILEC (telco). They get 1/3 to fill the line with Internet. That means that they get 17 bucks a month out of the 50 and the telco gets 34 just for providing the last mile. To add insult to injury, to get ADSL I must also have an analog telephone line, (at 20 bucks a month) which means that the telco actually gets paid TWICE for the last mile.
It seems to me that the telco's are committing highway robbery. They're getting over 50 bucks a month for providing a single copper pair about five blocks. Cable's pricing is no better, and all the cable companies are capping upload limits which limits your ability to use VOIP (the reason is clear here too; cable wants to charge you for THEIR OWN VOIP).
Seems to me that a community could make a small fortune by running fiber and charging even half what the telco's and cable companies charge for that last mile.
Finally, I have Vonage VOIP service. Had it for over a year now and I love it. I use it with DSL.
My wife talks to her mother over 10 hours a week. I call all my friends and my kids constantly. The bill is always the same: 39.99 plus tax. Also, their international calls sound better then AT&T and you can't beat calling most of Europe for 5 cents a minute. Plus it's great having a 617 (downtown Boston) incoming phone number that is a local call for all my friends there, yet rings at my condo in Los Angeles.
Does this mean that we'll start seeing laptops with ebooks on them left on trains and busses? Hmmmmmm.....
"We have tried to get Mr. Pavlovich to agree that he would not distribute (the DeCSS software), but he has left it up in the air what he would do and refused to indicate what his intentions are. We'll have to take that into account in deciding how we will proceed," Kessler said." Since when is posting a link to something considered distributing it? Do these lawyers have a smart bone in their entire body..or are they doing a 'scorched earth' legal policy?
I live in Los Angeles, home of the record business...and music on the radio here here is pathetic! I like alternative and AAA (adult album alternative) and neither are played here. We have KROQ (AKA Hype radio) but that's about it. There's a bunch of hip hop and top 40 stations, a couple of classic rock stations, one country station and the rest is Spanish. I find it pathetic that I have to go to websites of stations in other parts of the country to find the titles of music that otherwise I might not have even heard of! Then I have to break the law by downloading the stuff so I can sample it. THEN if I find something I like and want to buy, it's likely that I won't find it at a local record store. If the RIAA wants to know why music sales are down, just look at me. They've gone out of their way to alienate me as a buyer! Hilary Rosen would do more of a service to her industry if she figured out how to court the 25-54 demographic (you know..the baby boomers who represent the largest single group of people in the U.S. right now - and the ones with most of the $$ too!), instead of working her panties into a froth about p2p.