Speaking of "titties and communism and D.H.Lawrence", I wonder if the gov't is ever going to try to censor The Bible?? That Song of Solomon is pretty racy stuff... It must *really* chap Dubya's ass that he's Constitutionally forbidden from fucking about with religion.
Bush was almost the *cause* of one of his daughters starring in one... I don't know the details, but I seem to remember that Bush was dancing with Jenna and somehow her dress started to fall down. That would have been much *more* visible than what's-er-name tit at the Superbowl.
and the longer they delay the outcome, the more people they can persuade.
In particular, the stock market analysts who were reacting positively to every lying piece of propaganda that SCO was issuing as "press releases", pumping the stock up so Darl & friends could extract some more cash.
It is reasonable to expect that ISPs do in fact keep logs of information. What they log and how they do it is generally up to them.
They only really *need* to keep enough logs to be able to bill customers correctly and deal with disputes that might arise. Presumably, "keep records of the time/date & recipient of every communication made by their subscribers" means tracking email, IM (of all kinds), ftp, telnet, ssh, http, https, &c. I mean, it would be trivial for a terrorist cell to use anonymous ftp to download target maps, or to upload surveillance notes. Or telnet into a a MUD or MOO type game and "meet" to discuss plans for the next atrocity.
Shoot, I'd say let's roll with it and lobby our politicians and insist that they legislate that mail carriers *also* record every communication, and that would *have* to include Fedex, UPS *and* the Post Office...
This is about the UK presidency of the European Union. I suspect the RIAA & MPAA don't figure quite so highly over there, even though they obviously have *some* impact - DVD region coding, for a start.
Erm, how could Samsung make a recall on these players? They can't force people to give them back.
Well, there's probably a few suckers that mailed in that product support card, and a few more that took the extended warranty from Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. Those would be easy pickings. For the rest, they'd be matching till receipts with credit card slips...
Isn't it an accepted practice that simply publishing a notice in a particular newspaper is sufficient to cover a manufacturer's liability?? I suppose the MPAA would prefer Samsung to post a notice like "These players have been known to catch fire" in order to get people's attention. I wonder if they could *stop* Samsung from publishing a notice like this: "We accidentally made it possible for users of these players to skip the ads by doing X, Y & Z on the remote. The MPAA don't like that, so please send them back for replacement with a crippled player."
Yeah, that about sums it up. I would only add, that suing a company's who's stock you own is exactly like shooting yourself in the foot. The company may fire the programmers, then their next game may not be such a big seller, the stock tanks and the shareholders lose *more* money.
In the interests of poetic justice, any settlement the company makes with the shareholders ought to be in the form of more shares... Imagine taking *that* for a spin through the courts if/when the stock takes a hit: "Boo hoo, they gave us shares and now they're not worth so much because they fired the programmers that we sued them over last time..."
If it became mandatory to have an in-house camera, I'd be inclined to get up under the camera and take a photo from its point of view, of the empty room. Make a nice sharp print of that, and hang it in front of the camera. Let it watch the print... OK, so it would be more geeky to intercept the feed and connect it to something else. I wonder how long it would take "them" to realise they were hooked into "The Sims" instead of a live video feed.
BTW, I don't see any comments about how these things would be connected back to the monitoring center. It'll probably be uplinked via satellite to Delhi or Bombay...
If the U.S. based its detention of Afghans solely on political or religious beliefs--as you seem to think they do--it would have to store nearly the entire population of Afghanistan in Guantanamo.
No, I'm not saying those folks are being detained solely on political or religious beliefs. They were fighting because of their political or religious beliefs, and as a result put themselves in a place where they were captured.
But you don't go to jail in the US for being of a certain political view, or religion.
Perhaps not, but based on recent evidence I'd say you'd have a fair chance of having your country invaded... Anyway, aren't all those people in Gitmo there *exactly* because of their "political view or religion"??
Ya know, somehow I think I'd put money on Google getting around such legislation legally. For instance, how about a subsidiary company working out of. mmm, Luxembourg or Andorra, providing Google servers in China??
Don't forget the flip side of the coin - Google is a subscriber to *their* ISP, paying for network access to serve up the content you want. Verizon thinks that they deserve a slice of the pie even if neither you nor Google are directly connected to Verizon...
For a while, my wife was getting calls from collection agencies because her name matched someone elses in the phone book, and never mind that the addresses for the two names were on opposite sides of town. Mind you, mistaken identity can have its humorous moments - there's a zoo not far from here with my name, and it's always good for a giggle when I write out a check for the entrance fee.
I rather hope they go after my parents - they're both dead and buried... With luck, the RIAA lawyers would disappear into the afterlife and never be seen again...:)
I'm glad they didn't try to charge the librarian with anything stupid.
Not yet, anyway... It would be interesting to follow up with Ms Glick-Weil in six months or so and see if anything unusual happened to her, like an IRS audit...
you're just not going to win unless they (AT&T) make a huge tactical error.
I don't mind being corrected on this, but I'd think helping the National Security Agency execute illegal warrant-less wiretaps against American citizens is well on the way towards being a huge tactical error...
As a member of the Military, you are missing some rights that you would have as a Civilian.
Yes, but there are some compensations, such as being allowed, nay, *expected* to run around with large pieces of ordnance, blowing up bits of the landscape...
The closest example to this is caller pays cell phone, where the caller is charged for his minutes and for the minutes of those he calls, instead of each party paying for their own minutes (send and recv). Interestingly enough, this is just as stupid as what BellSouth is doing, but more people seem to be ok with it.
I think the only reason people are OK with it is because that's the way it has always been. It was different enough from regular landline phone service that the providers could get away with the "pay both ways" model. It's interesting that at least one cell provider is now advertising "no cost for incoming calls"
Maybe RICO doesn't apply, but how about "screwing with Interstate Commerce"?? Can BS be smacked upside the head on that count?? IANAL, so I don't really know much about that stuff...
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Speaking of "titties and communism and D.H.Lawrence", I wonder if the gov't is ever going to try to censor The Bible?? That Song of Solomon is pretty racy stuff... It must *really* chap Dubya's ass that he's Constitutionally forbidden from fucking about with religion.
If, and only if, no Republicans are caught by the new legislation...
Bush was almost the *cause* of one of his daughters starring in one... I don't know the details, but I seem to remember that Bush was dancing with Jenna and somehow her dress started to fall down. That would have been much *more* visible than what's-er-name tit at the Superbowl.
In particular, the stock market analysts who were reacting positively to every lying piece of propaganda that SCO was issuing as "press releases", pumping the stock up so Darl & friends could extract some more cash.
They only really *need* to keep enough logs to be able to bill customers correctly and deal with disputes that might arise. Presumably, "keep records of the time/date & recipient of every communication made by their subscribers" means tracking email, IM (of all kinds), ftp, telnet, ssh, http, https, &c. I mean, it would be trivial for a terrorist cell to use anonymous ftp to download target maps, or to upload surveillance notes. Or telnet into a a MUD or MOO type game and "meet" to discuss plans for the next atrocity.
Shoot, I'd say let's roll with it and lobby our politicians and insist that they legislate that mail carriers *also* record every communication, and that would *have* to include Fedex, UPS *and* the Post Office...
This is about the UK presidency of the European Union. I suspect the RIAA & MPAA don't figure quite so highly over there, even though they obviously have *some* impact - DVD region coding, for a start.
Would that be the "Intelligent Design" kind of evolution, or the "Shit Just Happens" kind??
Well, there's probably a few suckers that mailed in that product support card, and a few more that took the extended warranty from Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. Those would be easy pickings. For the rest, they'd be matching till receipts with credit card slips...
Isn't it an accepted practice that simply publishing a notice in a particular newspaper is sufficient to cover a manufacturer's liability?? I suppose the MPAA would prefer Samsung to post a notice like "These players have been known to catch fire" in order to get people's attention. I wonder if they could *stop* Samsung from publishing a notice like this: "We accidentally made it possible for users of these players to skip the ads by doing X, Y & Z on the remote. The MPAA don't like that, so please send them back for replacement with a crippled player."
In the interests of poetic justice, any settlement the company makes with the shareholders ought to be in the form of more shares... Imagine taking *that* for a spin through the courts if/when the stock takes a hit: "Boo hoo, they gave us shares and now they're not worth so much because they fired the programmers that we sued them over last time..."
BTW, I don't see any comments about how these things would be connected back to the monitoring center. It'll probably be uplinked via satellite to Delhi or Bombay...
No, I'm not saying those folks are being detained solely on political or religious beliefs. They were fighting because of their political or religious beliefs, and as a result put themselves in a place where they were captured.
Ya know, somehow I think I'd put money on Google getting around such legislation legally. For instance, how about a subsidiary company working out of. mmm, Luxembourg or Andorra, providing Google servers in China??
Don't forget the flip side of the coin - Google is a subscriber to *their* ISP, paying for network access to serve up the content you want. Verizon thinks that they deserve a slice of the pie even if neither you nor Google are directly connected to Verizon...
For a while, my wife was getting calls from collection agencies because her name matched someone elses in the phone book, and never mind that the addresses for the two names were on opposite sides of town. Mind you, mistaken identity can have its humorous moments - there's a zoo not far from here with my name, and it's always good for a giggle when I write out a check for the entrance fee.
I rather hope they go after my parents - they're both dead and buried... With luck, the RIAA lawyers would disappear into the afterlife and never be seen again... :)
Not yet, anyway... It would be interesting to follow up with Ms Glick-Weil in six months or so and see if anything unusual happened to her, like an IRS audit...
I don't mind being corrected on this, but I'd think helping the National Security Agency execute illegal warrant-less wiretaps against American citizens is well on the way towards being a huge tactical error...
Not if you copy the whole book. "Fair Use" only covers a small portion of the copyrighted work.
Yes, but there are some compensations, such as being allowed, nay, *expected* to run around with large pieces of ordnance, blowing up bits of the landscape...
I think it's illegal for companies to conspire to fix prices...
I think the only reason people are OK with it is because that's the way it has always been. It was different enough from regular landline phone service that the providers could get away with the "pay both ways" model. It's interesting that at least one cell provider is now advertising "no cost for incoming calls"
Maybe RICO doesn't apply, but how about "screwing with Interstate Commerce"?? Can BS be smacked upside the head on that count?? IANAL, so I don't really know much about that stuff...
I'm not going to believe that until Netcraft confirms it...