(b) "California electronic mail address" or "California e-mail
address" means any of the following:
(1) An e-mail address furnished by an electronic mail service
provider that sends bills for furnishing and maintaining that e-mail
address to a mailing address in this state.
(2) An e-mail address ordinarily accessed from a computer located
in this state.
(3) An e-mail address furnished to a resident of this state.
1) To all the folks trashing Gray Davis, your opinion of him aside, this is not Gray Davis' legislation nor does the responsibility of this law rest solely on his shoulders. Legislation must typically first pass through state legislatures and then can be signed into law by the governor once the legislature has voted in favor of the legislation. California has many unique governmental policies, but I'd imagine this one is still in place.
2) As per clogging courts, if each person independently brought their spammer to court over each e-mail, yes it would likely be absolutely awful. I would imagine there would be a series of class action lawsuits against the spammers rather than cases filed by individuals. You'll collect some small portion of the damages while the lawyers get rich. Expect to see lawyers advertising asking you to send them your spam.
3) Spammers cannot make money without pointing you at some contact point, be it a web site, a phone number, or some other form of point of contact. The case can be initiated against the individual for whom the spam advertises. The onus is then on their shoulders to prove they did not send the spam. You will likely see lawyers prosecuting these cases dropping charges against the contact agencies if they comply by providing the spammers they hired.
It will only mean that last mile solutions will become more plausible for those who don't live within a couple miles of their CO. This is a Good Thing, as having Dial-Up and Satellite as your only options is pretty unbearable.
Having recently swapped over to Gentoo from Red Hat there are three advantages to it that are fundamentally against the Red Hat machine:
1) Strong, FLAT LEVEL community. People in Gentoo help each other and there is no official Gentoo support facility. Likewise as Gentoo isn't trying to make money off of support contracts they actively work with the community forums and support them. I think this was the big thing that made me switch.
2) Streamlined "distribution". Gentoo is a meta-distribution engineered for helping you build your own distribution package from the ground up, letting you control what will be supported by the binaries you generate yourself. RedHat has a monolithic attempt to support everything out of the box.
3) Portage vs. Up2Date. Both can serve similar purposes (though portage will do more than up2date as most anyone who's used gentoo can tell you) in that portage lets you keep software up to date as up2date also does. Portage is a free service that is integrated into the heart of Gentoo. Up2date you have to pay for more than one machine (and have to 'pay' with demographic information every 60 days).
If you're confident with Linux it can really be a nobrainer.
The solution here is to break the system. Take razors off the shelf then leave them elsewhere within the store. You're not shoplifting and you can cause enough noise that the system is worthless.
1: You'll have concrete evidence that he is violating your copyright, which can be brought to court and presented.
2: He has to send you the CD, which requires a valid return address. If he's smart he isn't using his own home address, but it is a start, and enough that you should be able to track him down via subpoena.
He is violating your copyright outright. This is illegal, and not dependant on a law such as the DMCA. The DMCA would make the CDs that he is selling your text on illegal as they are being used to circumvent your copyright. This is just outright blatant theft of your intellectual property.
I'm curious why everyone is pointing at the telcos when the users should have changed their passwords. While I wouldn't abdicate either party from being guilty, I think that the people who leave their voicemail wide open are just as irresponsible as the telephone companies using an automated system.
There is a solution however and I feel that the easiest would be for SBC to require users to change their passwords upon logging in for the first time. I know that voicemail systems which I have used have made that the very first step, before even allowing you to record your "I'm away" message.
Fix the problem and the rest will fall into place.
You raise a very good point, however Universities are under no obligations to allow anyone to perform at the venues they have, be it musical or oratory. This is a matter solely up to the discretion of the University and the people who schedule and organize events there.
If they were to decide that they did not wish to support the RIAA and deny any speakers or musicians assosciated with the RIAA access to their venues, there's really not much you can do about it.
What's to prevent someone from cutting the tag out of the garment and tossing the chip after purchasing it? (Or for the thieves it's intended to stop, before stealing it?)
I cut all the tags out of my clothing anyways as they irritate me and I see absolutely no benefit to keeping them in.
Personally I'm planning on boycotting Blizzard in the future. They've made some really good games, but using the DMCA is, in my opinion, a really immoral tactic, and one that makes me reluctant to patronize companies which wield such a fuzzy and unjust law.
I don't plan on pirating WC3 either for that matter. I just will go without purchasing any products which are manufactured by companies who use the DMCA. Until we as consumers can get the funds to attack a company directly in a court of law, a war of attrition can work easily well.
If everyone boycotted companies who actually used the DMCA, and made a big stink over it, the law would become much less useful to big corporations.
If you can't speak with your wallet by giving money to a lawyer, speak with your wallet by not giving money to The Man.
Shakespeare's greatest works were written for two reasons:
1) To brown nose to the monarchy of England.
2) To provide cheap entertainment to the masses.
It was, on the whole, just cheap entertainment. Video games combine many different forms of art, drawing, storytelling, beautiful coding (oftentimes some of the most boundary pushing work in programming).
Personally I'm rather fond of Sacrifice. It's a bit of a leap from the traditional RTS model in that you're down on the field with your troops, but it greatly reduces the urge to just zerg your opponent with a few very simple rules.
1) When your units die, a soul pops up above their corpse.
2) You need souls to summon your units. Collecting your own souls involves just running over your troops.
3) Your enemy can convert your souls if you don't pick them up right away and use them against you.
4) Territorial aquisition is important, giving you more mana for casting spells and summoning critters.
5. Sheer numbers will not guarantee success against an intelligent opponent who deploys his troops properly against an unorganized zerg rush.
Slashdot Mirror
From the law in question:
(b) "California electronic mail address" or "California e-mail address" means any of the following:(1) An e-mail address furnished by an electronic mail service provider that sends bills for furnishing and maintaining that e-mail address to a mailing address in this state.
(2) An e-mail address ordinarily accessed from a computer located in this state.
(3) An e-mail address furnished to a resident of this state.
1) To all the folks trashing Gray Davis, your opinion of him aside, this is not Gray Davis' legislation nor does the responsibility of this law rest solely on his shoulders. Legislation must typically first pass through state legislatures and then can be signed into law by the governor once the legislature has voted in favor of the legislation. California has many unique governmental policies, but I'd imagine this one is still in place.
2) As per clogging courts, if each person independently brought their spammer to court over each e-mail, yes it would likely be absolutely awful. I would imagine there would be a series of class action lawsuits against the spammers rather than cases filed by individuals. You'll collect some small portion of the damages while the lawyers get rich. Expect to see lawyers advertising asking you to send them your spam.
3) Spammers cannot make money without pointing you at some contact point, be it a web site, a phone number, or some other form of point of contact. The case can be initiated against the individual for whom the spam advertises. The onus is then on their shoulders to prove they did not send the spam. You will likely see lawyers prosecuting these cases dropping charges against the contact agencies if they comply by providing the spammers they hired.
IANAL
Portable OpenSSH refers to OpenSSH running on some system which is not OpenBSD
That's the whole point, if you don't include a poll option that reflects the person's own choice, you are an insensitive clod!
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman imagines a beowulf cluster of grits welcoming our new profit overlords, you insensitive clod!
It will only mean that last mile solutions will become more plausible for those who don't live within a couple miles of their CO. This is a Good Thing, as having Dial-Up and Satellite as your only options is pretty unbearable.
Having recently swapped over to Gentoo from Red Hat there are three advantages to it that are fundamentally against the Red Hat machine: 1) Strong, FLAT LEVEL community. People in Gentoo help each other and there is no official Gentoo support facility. Likewise as Gentoo isn't trying to make money off of support contracts they actively work with the community forums and support them. I think this was the big thing that made me switch. 2) Streamlined "distribution". Gentoo is a meta-distribution engineered for helping you build your own distribution package from the ground up, letting you control what will be supported by the binaries you generate yourself. RedHat has a monolithic attempt to support everything out of the box. 3) Portage vs. Up2Date. Both can serve similar purposes (though portage will do more than up2date as most anyone who's used gentoo can tell you) in that portage lets you keep software up to date as up2date also does. Portage is a free service that is integrated into the heart of Gentoo. Up2date you have to pay for more than one machine (and have to 'pay' with demographic information every 60 days). If you're confident with Linux it can really be a nobrainer.
for my Linksys IOS!
The solution here is to break the system. Take razors off the shelf then leave them elsewhere within the store. You're not shoplifting and you can cause enough noise that the system is worthless.
1: You'll have concrete evidence that he is violating your copyright, which can be brought to court and presented.
2: He has to send you the CD, which requires a valid return address. If he's smart he isn't using his own home address, but it is a start, and enough that you should be able to track him down via subpoena.
He is violating your copyright outright. This is illegal, and not dependant on a law such as the DMCA. The DMCA would make the CDs that he is selling your text on illegal as they are being used to circumvent your copyright. This is just outright blatant theft of your intellectual property.
There is a solution however and I feel that the easiest would be for SBC to require users to change their passwords upon logging in for the first time. I know that voicemail systems which I have used have made that the very first step, before even allowing you to record your "I'm away" message.
Fix the problem and the rest will fall into place.
You raise a very good point, however Universities are under no obligations to allow anyone to perform at the venues they have, be it musical or oratory. This is a matter solely up to the discretion of the University and the people who schedule and organize events there.
If they were to decide that they did not wish to support the RIAA and deny any speakers or musicians assosciated with the RIAA access to their venues, there's really not much you can do about it.
What's to prevent someone from cutting the tag out of the garment and tossing the chip after purchasing it? (Or for the thieves it's intended to stop, before stealing it?) I cut all the tags out of my clothing anyways as they irritate me and I see absolutely no benefit to keeping them in.
Personally I'm planning on boycotting Blizzard in the future. They've made some really good games, but using the DMCA is, in my opinion, a really immoral tactic, and one that makes me reluctant to patronize companies which wield such a fuzzy and unjust law. I don't plan on pirating WC3 either for that matter. I just will go without purchasing any products which are manufactured by companies who use the DMCA. Until we as consumers can get the funds to attack a company directly in a court of law, a war of attrition can work easily well. If everyone boycotted companies who actually used the DMCA, and made a big stink over it, the law would become much less useful to big corporations. If you can't speak with your wallet by giving money to a lawyer, speak with your wallet by not giving money to The Man.
Shakespeare's greatest works were written for two reasons: 1) To brown nose to the monarchy of England. 2) To provide cheap entertainment to the masses. It was, on the whole, just cheap entertainment. Video games combine many different forms of art, drawing, storytelling, beautiful coding (oftentimes some of the most boundary pushing work in programming).
Personally I'm rather fond of Sacrifice. It's a bit of a leap from the traditional RTS model in that you're down on the field with your troops, but it greatly reduces the urge to just zerg your opponent with a few very simple rules. 1) When your units die, a soul pops up above their corpse. 2) You need souls to summon your units. Collecting your own souls involves just running over your troops. 3) Your enemy can convert your souls if you don't pick them up right away and use them against you. 4) Territorial aquisition is important, giving you more mana for casting spells and summoning critters. 5. Sheer numbers will not guarantee success against an intelligent opponent who deploys his troops properly against an unorganized zerg rush.