ah... true democracy. not seen since what, Athens? 700 BC? or did the Roman Empire qualify, as a republic? i wonder if voter turnout in the US would be any different if we were an actual democracy, and not a representative one.
okay, if their lighting disrupts our communication, is there a (legal) way to make our communication disrupt their lighting? this is our bandwidth, we were here first. if they want to destroy it (i.e., not play nice) then they better be prepared.
my wife's law school and my workplace are both wired for WiFi access. and while a law school may not have pull... the place i work probably would not roll over and die and let interference destroy their data networks. maybe WiFi for the home starts to get hurt, but WiFi is here to stay, at least in business. it sure beats running hundreds of meters of Cat-5.
In conformance with this universally accepted principle, the citizen has the right to know all information held by the State and not covered by well- founded declarations of secrecy based on law. Now, software deals with information and is itself information. Information in a special form, capable of being interpreted by a machine in order to execute actions, but crucial information all the same because the citizen has a legitimate right to know, for example, how his vote is computed or his taxes calculated. And for that he must have free access to the source code and be able to prove to his satisfaction the programs used for electoral computations or calculation of his taxes.
so it is obvious that peru believes code to be speech and information, and that for all non-secretive information, the people should have access to this information.
now, the united states has the freedom of information act, which provides access to all governmental information which is not "secret", i.e. "classified". thus, should not all government computer programs be available for public inspection? how can the US government, or any other government, purport to provide this information if they use proprietary (i.e., no source) software? doesn't the freedeom of information act (i probbaly have the name wrong) demand that the public be given access to this information?
have a state diagram, showing what is required to go between states.
i.e., have initial state of [PURCHASED], have an arrow to [MODIFY], [DISTRIBUTE], etc, with proper conditions which must be met to go to that state.
actually, this might make the GPL look much more complicated that most commercial licenses, which would just have the state of [LICENSED] and no way to get to modify or distribute, etc.
i've been using strictly scsi in my systems since i built my first box. however recently i put together a system and simply due to price and the apparent gains in ide speed, i went with ata/100 7200 RPM ide drive instead of my usual scsi. i wish i could undo that decision, as the ide seems simply unresponsive at times. as soon as i can afford a nice scsi drive, i'm switching back.
any wealthy skinny people want some fat... er... stem cells, yeah, stem cells... to "bank" away for future needs? if you'll pay for the lyposuction and a nominal fee, i've got about 50 pounds i'm willing to part with.
Conversely, can you name another OS company that also writes a browser? sun made the hotjava browser. it ran on their OS, solaris.
Instead of moaning, why don't companies just get out there and start taking market share. The POINT of this ENTIRE proceeding is that Microsoft is an abusive monopoly, meaning such a taking of market share is not possible.
any more than you can legislate a technological enforcement of traffic laws.
so a certain rental car company in the UK using GPS-based speed control doesn't scare you. okay, how about the future, where every car has a required device which communicates with the road. the road tells the car the speed limit, and the car will not exceed the speet limit except when in 'emergency manual mode' which is monitored very closely with time-consuming interviews after the fact. "You say your wife was in labor, Mr. Smith. How unfortunate for you to have missed it. But we here at the Agency have decided that it was not an actual emergency. Your license has been revoked and your car impounded. Have a nice day."
These kinds of technological solutions are coming, make no mistake.
at first i agreed with many of the posters who were concerned about retaining their privacy rights. much like a phone call, they say, my internet communication is private and should not be monitored without a warrant. that sounds fine and good, case closed.
but let's go back to the "information superhighway" analogy, and the "traffic cops". traffic cops do not need a warrant to park along the road and hit your car with radar to ensure you are following the speed limit. nor do they need a warrant to sit at a stoplight and watch the traffic to ensure that nobody runs a red light, etc. by driving on a public road, we take responsibility for following the laws of the public roads, including stoplights and speed limits.
if this analogy is indeed applied to the internet, then the internet is assumed to be a public road, and by participating in traffic along that road, we give the police of that road the implicit permission to monitor to ensure that applicable laws are followed. instead of using a radar gun to stop speeders, they use packet filters to stop piracy.
but then again, i have always hated the analogy of the internet as a highway. it makes much more sense, technologically and as far as expectations of privacy, to continue to compare internet usage to telephone usage.
perhaps the RIAA/MPAA/Congress should look at existing laws and FCC regulations, and court rulings about those laws and regulations, concerning what can and cannot be monitored. i think they will find that they need a warrant to listen to any conversation, and that those warrants must be obtained in orderly fashion, following all precedence for just cause. by passing a law which attempts to supercede the privacy of internet communications, Congress would succeed in one of two things: (1) passing a law which will be costly to enforce and defend in the courts until it is eventually overturned, or (2) passing a law which has the unfortunate side effect of allowing all telephone conversations to be listened to without need of a warrant.
neither of those options seem good. perhaps Congress (and the RIAA/MPAA) should stay away from such laws entirely. sorry for not offering any suggestions for a "good law" but there are enough laws on the books and enough ruling which resoundingly support the privacy of personal communication which would overwhelm any such law which attempts to open holes to allow for easy, arbitrary policement.
it does not require accuracy only insofar as it may be blank to ensure privacy. by intentionally using the referer fraudulently to gain access to the site, your intent and actions are fraud. read the rfc again, it says it is optional to send it to protect privacy. it does not say you may send inaccurate information. in fact, it says that if you send information at all, it must be the URI of the actual refering page.
usually when i go to a theatre, i go with a large group to dinner before and go out to a bar or some such afterward. thus, to me, going to a theatre means socializing.
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ah... true democracy. not seen since what, Athens? 700 BC? or did the Roman Empire qualify, as a republic? i wonder if voter turnout in the US would be any different if we were an actual democracy, and not a representative one.
-sam
um... doesn't luke's hand get cut OFF in empire? and doesn't he hack off his own father's hand in ROJ?
hell, even in TPM alone, Qui-Gonn gets gutted and Darth Maul gets gut in HALF.
star WARS. sheesh. people die. badly.
-rp
okay, if their lighting disrupts our communication, is there a (legal) way to make our communication disrupt their lighting? this is our bandwidth, we were here first. if they want to destroy it (i.e., not play nice) then they better be prepared.
-rp
my wife's law school and my workplace are both wired for WiFi access. and while a law school may not have pull... the place i work probably would not roll over and die and let interference destroy their data networks. maybe WiFi for the home starts to get hurt, but WiFi is here to stay, at least in business. it sure beats running hundreds of meters of Cat-5.
-rp
i buy my refills from costco, save about $10 every trip and still get the "real brand".
-rp
the real questions are:
(1) how is the health care in peru?
(2) how is the standard of living?
if the answers to both are "very good" pack your bags. sounds like the newest utopia. a good place to live, with a government with a brain.
-rp
chicken, like everything else.
-rp
In conformance with this universally accepted principle, the citizen has the right to know all information held by the State and not covered by well- founded declarations of secrecy based on law. Now, software deals with information and is itself information. Information in a special form, capable of being interpreted by a machine in order to execute actions, but crucial information all the same because the citizen has a legitimate right to know, for example, how his vote is computed or his taxes calculated. And for that he must have free access to the source code and be able to prove to his satisfaction the programs used for electoral computations or calculation of his taxes.
so it is obvious that peru believes code to be speech and information, and that for all non-secretive information, the people should have access to this information.
now, the united states has the freedom of information act, which provides access to all governmental information which is not "secret", i.e. "classified". thus, should not all government computer programs be available for public inspection? how can the US government, or any other government, purport to provide this information if they use proprietary (i.e., no source) software? doesn't the freedeom of information act (i probbaly have the name wrong) demand that the public be given access to this information?
-rp
I had the highest hopes of any movie since Episode I.
so i guess a little book made into a movie last christmas didn't suit your fancy?
-rp
have a state diagram, showing what is required to go between states.
i.e., have initial state of [PURCHASED], have an arrow to [MODIFY], [DISTRIBUTE], etc, with proper conditions which must be met to go to that state.
actually, this might make the GPL look much more complicated that most commercial licenses, which would just have the state of [LICENSED] and no way to get to modify or distribute, etc.
-rp
i've been using strictly scsi in my systems since i built my first box. however recently i put together a system and simply due to price and the apparent gains in ide speed, i went with ata/100 7200 RPM ide drive instead of my usual scsi. i wish i could undo that decision, as the ide seems simply unresponsive at times. as soon as i can afford a nice scsi drive, i'm switching back.
-rp
any wealthy skinny people want some fat... er... stem cells, yeah, stem cells... to "bank" away for future needs? if you'll pay for the lyposuction and a nominal fee, i've got about 50 pounds i'm willing to part with.
-rp
It looks like we'll have to have AOL to do it, though.
/me thinks it will be less than a few hours before a few linux apps can do it. at least until the next "upgrade".
-rp
when did Corel Linux become the abusive monopoly?
-rp
when those beos clone guys get beos running on top of linux.
-rp
Conversely, can you name another OS company that also writes a browser? sun made the hotjava browser. it ran on their OS, solaris.
Instead of moaning, why don't companies just get out there and start taking market share. The POINT of this ENTIRE proceeding is that Microsoft is an abusive monopoly, meaning such a taking of market share is not possible.
-rp
if buying one of those infernal x-cams would get their ads to STOP popping up on my screen, i would buy an x-cam.
-rp
any more than you can legislate a technological enforcement of traffic laws.
so a certain rental car company in the UK using GPS-based speed control doesn't scare you. okay, how about the future, where every car has a required device which communicates with the road. the road tells the car the speed limit, and the car will not exceed the speet limit except when in 'emergency manual mode' which is monitored very closely with time-consuming interviews after the fact. "You say your wife was in labor, Mr. Smith. How unfortunate for you to have missed it. But we here at the Agency have decided that it was not an actual emergency. Your license has been revoked and your car impounded. Have a nice day."
These kinds of technological solutions are coming, make no mistake.
-rp
at first i agreed with many of the posters who were concerned about retaining their privacy rights. much like a phone call, they say, my internet communication is private and should not be monitored without a warrant. that sounds fine and good, case closed.
but let's go back to the "information superhighway" analogy, and the "traffic cops". traffic cops do not need a warrant to park along the road and hit your car with radar to ensure you are following the speed limit. nor do they need a warrant to sit at a stoplight and watch the traffic to ensure that nobody runs a red light, etc. by driving on a public road, we take responsibility for following the laws of the public roads, including stoplights and speed limits.
if this analogy is indeed applied to the internet, then the internet is assumed to be a public road, and by participating in traffic along that road, we give the police of that road the implicit permission to monitor to ensure that applicable laws are followed. instead of using a radar gun to stop speeders, they use packet filters to stop piracy.
but then again, i have always hated the analogy of the internet as a highway. it makes much more sense, technologically and as far as expectations of privacy, to continue to compare internet usage to telephone usage.
perhaps the RIAA/MPAA/Congress should look at existing laws and FCC regulations, and court rulings about those laws and regulations, concerning what can and cannot be monitored. i think they will find that they need a warrant to listen to any conversation, and that those warrants must be obtained in orderly fashion, following all precedence for just cause. by passing a law which attempts to supercede the privacy of internet communications, Congress would succeed in one of two things: (1) passing a law which will be costly to enforce and defend in the courts until it is eventually overturned, or (2) passing a law which has the unfortunate side effect of allowing all telephone conversations to be listened to without need of a warrant.
neither of those options seem good. perhaps Congress (and the RIAA/MPAA) should stay away from such laws entirely. sorry for not offering any suggestions for a "good law" but there are enough laws on the books and enough ruling which resoundingly support the privacy of personal communication which would overwhelm any such law which attempts to open holes to allow for easy, arbitrary policement.
-rp
it does not require accuracy only insofar as it may be blank to ensure privacy. by intentionally using the referer fraudulently to gain access to the site, your intent and actions are fraud. read the rfc again, it says it is optional to send it to protect privacy. it does not say you may send inaccurate information. in fact, it says that if you send information at all, it must be the URI of the actual refering page.
-rp
what the web site needs to do to generate revenue and what is legally possible may not be the same things.
-rp
i live in raleigh, nc, and that's exactly what we get also. although add in a couple home shopping networks.
-rp
and the star-bellied sneeches were the best sneeches on the beaches.
-rp
usually when i go to a theatre, i go with a large group to dinner before and go out to a bar or some such afterward. thus, to me, going to a theatre means socializing.
-rp
riiiight. you know slashdot types don't actually leave their homes and go out and socialize.
and even if they did, about 1% of them are over 21 anyway, so no worries, there will be plenty of leather seats.
-rp