This goes the whole way back to the point of CSS (and deCSS). They want control over HOW you view your movies. CSS allows them to control the media in ways not granted to them via copyright law. Want to fast forward through the FBI warning? good luck. I'm impatient i want all of my DVDs to go directly to the movie, but on some of them I have to wait through menus and previews that i cannot fast forward on my DVD player because the way the DVD was designed.
I can see them trying to limit the flexibility of your DVD player so it is difficult to do cool things like on the fly playback editing like you are mentioning. Can you imaging if you could script your own editing of movies and share it with friends?
Well, if they want to make a better research article they should compare it to those people who are at the legal limit at 0.04! I'm sure talking on the phone while driving would be even X times more dangerous then the legal limit of 0.04.
Ah, yes, they will cooperate with law enforcement, but that doesn't mean they hand over all your data to LE at a whim. Also, you need to check how much and how long they hold your data for. If you are worried about the blithely giving away your data to LE, i don't think they would do it, seeing how they are building their company on their reputation (in contrast with the ISPs).
If you want a way to hide all of your data this way, you need to pipe it encrypted to a country that doesn't respect the jurisdiction of your country and whom you can trust to some degree. One way might be to host the server yourself in that country and on top of that get a large number of people to use it, making it hard/impossible to track individual users (and delete all logs, etc).
If you are worried about ever single bit, then Tor and the other methods you mention are a good way to go, but they aren't foolproof either.
I don't think you want to deal with the legal ramifications of being an ISP
I thought there were less legal ramifications if you were an ISP versus a home internet user. I thought ISPs didn't have to worry about the content going across their network?
I think you read him wrong if you think he was saying letting the offender get away with it. He was saying once they did their time and paid the price their slate should get wiped clean if there are circumstances that would make it more understandable. Like in the GP's post, the girl became turned 18 and was legally able to wipe her boyfriend's slate clean, why prevent her from doing this? How about after she married the "offender," can she do it then?
If you're on call, why are you at a cinema? If you're on call, you should not be partaking in any activity which prevents you being immediately available...
The statement is quite simple: don't go places where I can't contact you. This includes cinemas...
Why can't you contact them at cinemas if they have vibrate on and/or text messaging?
Watching movies on your home theater doesn't stop you being available does it?
That's my point! Neither does going to a cinema. This is what the GP was saying about needed cell phone access at the movies. People get up to go to the bathroom at the cinema all the time. what is the difference with getting up and leaving after seeing an important text message or incoming call on your phone? But it sounds like you would also dock them for not picking up within a certain amount of rings. Does it really matter if they call back 30 seconds later after they leave the theatre?
If you really think about it, if you want to be a control freak about you can, but it will cost you because people will work somewhere else more understanding for much less on-call money.
Very good advice, which is why i did research my facts.
Theo:
I can get documentation for pretty much 99% of the chips in the industry without supplying any private information. I don't TRUST you to keep my personal data private....
>This does represent some liberalization of access in recent months.
No it does not. 8 years ago all the above data sheets were fully available for download without any registration. Then about 5 years ago hifn closed up completely, and documentation was totally unavailable.
Now look up the facts having to do with the loosening of export laws. Things where much worse 8 years ago (see Zimmerman and PGP case) than they are now and back then the data sheets were fully available! This isn't about cryptography technology which is the excuse/lie they are using to muddy the water.
Besides from another slashdot poster, they aren't preventing export anyway:
You are wrong. I just filled out their form and got immediate access to the spec sheets, no NDA required. The form asked if I had an existing NDA and I said "no". It didn't complain. I was automatically e-mailed a password which gave me immediate access to the 7956 Security Accelerator data sheet, no questions asked.
If one of my contractors was out partying or in the cinema while I was paying them on-call rates, I'd dock their pay.
Wow, Mr. Boss...Are your contractors required to live in Company housing and buy their food at the Company store? Holy grapes of wrath. So you'd won't want them watching movies in their home theatre either? They better be at home washing, vacuuming the carpets, and washing the car, or you're going to dock them?
Being a cop doesn't (or at least shouldn't) give you magic immunity to do whatever you want.
Dude, that's only because magic isn't real.
Now if you are talking about Warcraft, he might have dropped a bunch of points in the Arcane talent tree to get "magic immunity to do whatever you want".
I'll let you go so you can get back to your primary language of engrish.
A company is required by law not to export this data outside of the US. You fill out a form and say that you live in the US and you get the data you're requesting. If you're really paranoid, you do what any smart person does and use a spam-email account and a fake address.
A company lies about being required by law not to export this data outside of the US...and then lies that it is completely open...
Pray tell why Theo says he can get the same information from other us crypto chip makers without this same problem?
He called them on it and they don't want to admit that the only reason they have registrations is for marketing purposes. Everything else is a smokescreen.
But the interesting thing is, monopolies cannot exist in the wild. They only exist when the government establishes the monopoly for a company, as it has with the telcos.
That's why the meat trusts never existed, right? Standard oil? Just a figment of people's imagination.
The OP was trying to find a reason why people are more alarmed by sexual content then violent content.
There are studies that try to establish a correlation between exposure to violent content and violent behavior just like what you are saying. Shouldn't we be much more alarmed by violent behavior? These "pornographic studies" don't have any more weight then the studies about violent content. In fact, I'd be willing to wager the pornographic studies have less to do with porn and more with treating women poorly or with violence. I don't believe simple nudity in a game would provoke the same reaction as gonzo porn or game violence.
I repost this since some retard modded it flamebait:
1.) Conservatives doen't care about legitimate anti-trust complaints unless it affects their company because they dream of doing the same thing. Secondly, antitrust complaints aren't complaints against capitalism, they are complaints to maintain capitalism. Capitalism requires many sellers competing against one another, because without competition and without CHOICE there is no capitalism. How much does it matter if your one seller is a gov't run company or a single company with equivalent power? I don't know of any large political party in the US that is against capitalism.
2.) 1 Million. 1.2 million if you include people who don't fit into your left-right world.
1.) Conservatives doen't care about legitimate anti-trust complaints unless it affects their company because they dream of doing the same thing. Secondly, antitrust complaints aren't complaints against capitalism, they are complaints to maintain capitalism. Capitalism requires many sellers competing against one another, because without competition and without CHOICE there is no capitalism. How much does it matter if your one seller is a gov't run company or a single company with equivalent power? I don't know of any large political party in the US that is against capitalism.
2.) 1 Million. 1.2 million if you include people who don't fit into your left-right world.
Uh, have you never heard of "burnback" and a "controled burn?" It's used to burn out fuel so a forest fire cannot use that fuel and get out of control. For example, fire fighters can start a fire from the fire break and let the burnback burn towards the main fire, expanding the firebreak.
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This goes the whole way back to the point of CSS (and deCSS). They want control over HOW you view your movies. CSS allows them to control the media in ways not granted to them via copyright law. Want to fast forward through the FBI warning? good luck. I'm impatient i want all of my DVDs to go directly to the movie, but on some of them I have to wait through menus and previews that i cannot fast forward on my DVD player because the way the DVD was designed. I can see them trying to limit the flexibility of your DVD player so it is difficult to do cool things like on the fly playback editing like you are mentioning. Can you imaging if you could script your own editing of movies and share it with friends?
Haha. That is genius. Maybe on the second read people will read the copyright statute.
Well that's good. I like it when people do not agree with bombing me.
Well, if they want to make a better research article they should compare it to those people who are at the legal limit at 0.04! I'm sure talking on the phone while driving would be even X times more dangerous then the legal limit of 0.04.
The other answer is that maybe the illegal limit is set to low? The limits are only where they are because of the crazy madd people.
Ah, yes, they will cooperate with law enforcement, but that doesn't mean they hand over all your data to LE at a whim. Also, you need to check how much and how long they hold your data for. If you are worried about the blithely giving away your data to LE, i don't think they would do it, seeing how they are building their company on their reputation (in contrast with the ISPs).
If you want a way to hide all of your data this way, you need to pipe it encrypted to a country that doesn't respect the jurisdiction of your country and whom you can trust to some degree. One way might be to host the server yourself in that country and on top of that get a large number of people to use it, making it hard/impossible to track individual users (and delete all logs, etc).
If you are worried about ever single bit, then Tor and the other methods you mention are a good way to go, but they aren't foolproof either.
Well now you just start a privacy company that you connect to using a VPN before sending any traffic across the connection. http://www.anonymizer.com/
I thought there were less legal ramifications if you were an ISP versus a home internet user. I thought ISPs didn't have to worry about the content going across their network?
I think you read him wrong if you think he was saying letting the offender get away with it. He was saying once they did their time and paid the price their slate should get wiped clean if there are circumstances that would make it more understandable. Like in the GP's post, the girl became turned 18 and was legally able to wipe her boyfriend's slate clean, why prevent her from doing this? How about after she married the "offender," can she do it then?
That's my point! Neither does going to a cinema. This is what the GP was saying about needed cell phone access at the movies. People get up to go to the bathroom at the cinema all the time. what is the difference with getting up and leaving after seeing an important text message or incoming call on your phone? But it sounds like you would also dock them for not picking up within a certain amount of rings. Does it really matter if they call back 30 seconds later after they leave the theatre?
If you really think about it, if you want to be a control freak about you can, but it will cost you because people will work somewhere else more understanding for much less on-call money.
They should have called them the Mickey Mouse Pirates then.
Theo: Now look up the facts having to do with the loosening of export laws. Things where much worse 8 years ago (see Zimmerman and PGP case) than they are now and back then the data sheets were fully available! This isn't about cryptography technology which is the excuse/lie they are using to muddy the water.
Besides from another slashdot poster, they aren't preventing export anyway:
You sound like a great boss.
Being a cop doesn't (or at least shouldn't) give you magic immunity to do whatever you want.
Dude, that's only because magic isn't real.
Now if you are talking about Warcraft, he might have dropped a bunch of points in the Arcane talent tree to get "magic immunity to do whatever you want". I'll let you go so you can get back to your primary language of engrish.
Pray tell why Theo says he can get the same information from other us crypto chip makers without this same problem?
He called them on it and they don't want to admit that the only reason they have registrations is for marketing purposes. Everything else is a smokescreen.
But the interesting thing is, monopolies cannot exist in the wild. They only exist when the government establishes the monopoly for a company, as it has with the telcos.
That's why the meat trusts never existed, right? Standard oil? Just a figment of people's imagination.
You are missing the point.
The OP was trying to find a reason why people are more alarmed by sexual content then violent content.
There are studies that try to establish a correlation between exposure to violent content and violent behavior just like what you are saying. Shouldn't we be much more alarmed by violent behavior? These "pornographic studies" don't have any more weight then the studies about violent content. In fact, I'd be willing to wager the pornographic studies have less to do with porn and more with treating women poorly or with violence. I don't believe simple nudity in a game would provoke the same reaction as gonzo porn or game violence.
How is "deciding" to re-rate it sticking to their "decision?"
Doesn't that mean they haven't stood by their original decision?
"No, the ESRB isn't being prudish. They're just sticking to their decisions."
Changing the rating is "sticking to their decisions?"
It shouldn't even be an issue, because it is man nipples.
I'm confused.
What does sex content have to do with sex crimes against women? Does that mean women who see sex content commit crimes against women too?
Most if not all sex crimes are violent crimes dealing with power and domination.
I repost this since some retard modded it flamebait:
1.) Conservatives doen't care about legitimate anti-trust complaints unless it affects their company because they dream of doing the same thing. Secondly, antitrust complaints aren't complaints against capitalism, they are complaints to maintain capitalism. Capitalism requires many sellers competing against one another, because without competition and without CHOICE there is no capitalism. How much does it matter if your one seller is a gov't run company or a single company with equivalent power? I don't know of any large political party in the US that is against capitalism.
2.) 1 Million. 1.2 million if you include people who don't fit into your left-right world.
1.) Conservatives doen't care about legitimate anti-trust complaints unless it affects their company because they dream of doing the same thing. Secondly, antitrust complaints aren't complaints against capitalism, they are complaints to maintain capitalism. Capitalism requires many sellers competing against one another, because without competition and without CHOICE there is no capitalism. How much does it matter if your one seller is a gov't run company or a single company with equivalent power? I don't know of any large political party in the US that is against capitalism.
2.) 1 Million. 1.2 million if you include people who don't fit into your left-right world.
5?
Uh, have you never heard of "burnback" and a "controled burn?" It's used to burn out fuel so a forest fire cannot use that fuel and get out of control. For example, fire fighters can start a fire from the fire break and let the burnback burn towards the main fire, expanding the firebreak.
Flamebait, but Linus Is GOD. Mess with real god and the fundies get you. Mess with Linux God and the LinuxFundies get you.