this is beginning to become a huge scandal in Sweden with coverage on TV and all newspapers 4 days in a row
And deservedly so, if the seizure is indeed comparable to trying to fight crime by bulldozing an entire law-abiding, tax-paying business district on the vague rumor that someone might probably have bought a fake brand T-shirt once from a street vendor somewhere in there.
And no matter what statistics anyone may have come up with (or forged), Bittorrent is just a highly efficient means of distributing perfectly legal stuff such as Linux releases, scientific lectures and speeches, or free renders. Much like a knife is a proven instrument for cutting food, rather than reason for suspecting an intent to kill someone.
BTW if the laws had teeth against some real ills of the information age, and if the authorities were similarly responsive, though hopefully in a more targetted way, against botnet operators perpetrating DDoS and spam, we wouldn't need to have discussions like these for more than a decade already...
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However, in all of this the question comes to mind whether the best way to obtain as much as possible of Mac-like security and ease of use on PCs wouldn't simply be installing Linux in the first place.
...as soon as you have to pay the Bill (no pun intended):
This kind of "personal" computer only
allows customers to have a fully featured PC at home
- and one really has to wonder what happens to the data -and hardware- when poor people in hand-to-mouth economies can't afford unlocking their "own" PCs of this kind anymore.
Seems to have all the hallmarks and ugly side-effects the former "self-destruct DVDs", and worse...
This might seem a highly unusual source to make the most of the first hour on a Java course, but I've seen this appendix to a book that is actually on Operating System Concepts provide a better introduction (e.g. for several students on a university "101" course) to anyone who has ever programmed anything than tons of "heavy" and expensive books. They'll have to read them, too, but afterwards (i.e. having been fed this little link to a free PDF gem in a footnote to the course description already)...
If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge (oberster Gerichtsherr) of the German people.
Hopefully he'll be able to do so while neither a blood sample nor a fingerprint are considered "something that everyone should provide at video rental" just yet.
Assuming and abusing someone else's identity to burden the victim with the cost and complaints stemming from the perpetrators actions... this is the activity which should clearly be crime, severely and thoroughly prosecuted and punished by sufficiently qualified (i.e. computer-literate) authorities.
If this means jail time for the "top" several hundred spammers and scammers on counts of identity theft alone, this is only welcome - and actually at least a decade late!
Crime is best fought by apprehending the criminals, not by gag orders on the organisations who happen to have held enabling information in an insecure manner - which would make it even harder for the individuals affected to show they are completely innocent victims rather than crooks.
I might buy it (in both senses of the word) as soon as I've experienced a working prototype making all these promises come true right before my very eyes.
If it does work as advertised, its potential is huge e.g. for hands-free PDAs in all sorts of repair and construction jobs as well as military applications.
Spamming is one crime (...) not a legit way to make a living yet he thinks he has some sort of right to live off other people's hell. I hope he's taken out soon.
"Merely" sending unsolicited bulk eMail is still not (yet) a crime in too many jurisdictions.
Which is incomprehensible and irresponsibly lenient for the law, given that spam is so obviously annoying (and costing so much of everyone else's time and money) that the burden of proof for using only a legitimate opt-in list, as well as for providing full and true contact details of the spamvertised entity (to bear the brunt of complaints to the extent that it misbehaves!) should be on the offender deciding to employ such a parasitic way of "marketing" in the first place. And, no, the myth that there was any First Amendment issue about it has been debunked for more than a decade already.
We cannot have to wait for the authorities to painstakingly have to prove further mischief by the spammer, in every single case, such as harassment, sabotage, identity theft, not honoring opt-out requests, failing to deliver paid p***s pills;-), or making bogus claims in general: Spam itself should suffice to land the perpetrators in jail right away (and forfeit their fortunes - equipment and earnings).
You'll have to talk to your congresscritter about it (in most nations actually).
Actually, according to the very latest incarnation of Spelling Reform 51.3.597 or something (like kernels, they mostly come in odd numbers, i.e. instable hacker patchlevels) it should probably be back to "Versteht Ihr?" (personal albeit polite plural address, with a capital letter, similar to the singular "Verstehst Du?" and the formal plural "Verstehen Sie?") again, for the time being... until the next revirement (tomorrow or so).
But we all digress: This article is looking for hints on learning Japanese; maybe German is just too easy (and it's currently "in beta" - remaining issues will be settled right after the release of Duke Nukem Forever for Windows Vista though)...;-)
Which government wouldn't just love to outlaw that
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These games frequently involve familiar themes such as [...] struggle against corrupt powers.
In retrospect, there always seems to come a time when certain ideas are "ripe" to start showing up independently, almost at once, in similar incarnations all over the place - not unlike flowers in spring.
This may of course suggest that many "inventions" are nowhere near as unrelated as their "inventors" might (quite honestly) wish to believe - which calls for restraint in strengthening the patent system without clear evidence of its benefits.
"the seeds of invention exist, as it were, in the air, ready to germinate whenever suitable conditions arise, and no legislative interference is needed to ensure their growth in proper season"
Albeit first made in a different context, it is also worth recalling Victor Hugo's observation from the same era that:
"Nothing in this world is as powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Doesn't fit your business model?
Need M$ and a Digital Restrictions Malice? Labels won't license without it?
So what?! It's not the fans' fault if the business model of music distribution is outdated/broken, and if the prescribed cures are even worse than the disease (or a disease in themselves)...
As to the labels, faced with the choice of not reaching their audience anymore, or consenting to unencumbered formats (CD used to be one, remember?), how long do you think they'll prefer selling nothing at all to selling something that may occasionally be pirated (if it isn't reasonably priced)?
Now do we have to add "didn't want to bet my job on deciding which variant of Windows would best fit our needs" to the top of our list of reasons for migrating to Linux altogether?;-)
Even better would be someone submitting the source code, and the examiner informing him that he has the wrong office. Go submit it to the copyrights office instead.
Of course, but post-State Street most people seem to think the USPTO is an appropriate avenue for code as well (and so everyone tries their luck, as in any "arms race", in spite of good reasons to the contrary)...
So, requiring a model should help fend off many dubious patent applications anyway: all that are based on an approach that "something already well-known could also be done on a computer, so let's get a patent trap to catch the ones who are unfortunate enough to actually implement it once the idea becomes viable..."
I'd really like to see the PTO require working models of all "inventions" submitted for patent
That used to be among the requirements, but the costs of storing all the models became prohibitive back in the 1870's or so.
The collection also caught fire and a substantial part of it was destroyed, even twice (IIRC - the story goes that at one time some were actually saved by PTO employees throwing the "best pieces" out of the window).
Anyway, for software there would hardly be a storage problem (at some US$400 per Terabyte) and the documentation&disclosure function of the patent system could even be much improved by requesting actual working and compilable source code as both a model and a "preferred embodiment" - so they should really require this (or better yet, abandon BMPs altogether, of course) to help rein in the trolls.
The present state of affairs looks rather bleak if it is news indeed that one patent office did for once require a model at least of something as outlandish as a Warp Drive, rather than rubber-stamping it.
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And no matter what statistics anyone may have come up with (or forged), Bittorrent is just a highly efficient means of distributing perfectly legal stuff such as Linux releases, scientific lectures and speeches, or free renders. Much like a knife is a proven instrument for cutting food, rather than reason for suspecting an intent to kill someone.
BTW if the laws had teeth against some real ills of the information age, and if the authorities were similarly responsive, though hopefully in a more targetted way, against botnet operators perpetrating DDoS and spam, we wouldn't need to have discussions like these for more than a decade already...
To be given equal time and consideration in class...
This, if anything, is all that "Captain Copyright" ought to say in a place called school (digne de ce nom).
Learning German is probably an effort on par with trying to replicate their years of work and experience. ;-)
There was even a database detailing which application caused how much trouble without administrator privileges.
However, in all of this the question comes to mind whether the best way to obtain as much as possible of Mac-like security and ease of use on PCs wouldn't simply be installing Linux in the first place.
This kind of "personal" computer only
- and one really has to wonder what happens to the data -and hardware- when poor people in hand-to-mouth economies can't afford unlocking their "own" PCs of this kind anymore.Seems to have all the hallmarks and ugly side-effects the former "self-destruct DVDs", and worse...
This might seem a highly unusual source to make the most of the first hour on a Java course, but I've seen this appendix to a book that is actually on Operating System Concepts provide a better introduction (e.g. for several students on a university "101" course) to anyone who has ever programmed anything than tons of "heavy" and expensive books. They'll have to read them, too, but afterwards (i.e. having been fed this little link to a free PDF gem in a footnote to the course description already)...
Shirer (1959) has this translation:
Over in Europe, another agency's hands have allegedly just been caught in a very similar kind of cookie jar indeed.
Here are two particular movies the submitter urgently ought to get for the weekend:
Hopefully he'll be able to do so while neither a blood sample nor a fingerprint are considered "something that everyone should provide at video rental" just yet.
If this means jail time for the "top" several hundred spammers and scammers on counts of identity theft alone, this is only welcome - and actually at least a decade late!
Crime is best fought by apprehending the criminals, not by gag orders on the organisations who happen to have held enabling information in an insecure manner - which would make it even harder for the individuals affected to show they are completely innocent victims rather than crooks.
If it does work as advertised, its potential is huge e.g. for hands-free PDAs in all sorts of repair and construction jobs as well as military applications.
Which is incomprehensible and irresponsibly lenient for the law, given that spam is so obviously annoying (and costing so much of everyone else's time and money) that the burden of proof for using only a legitimate opt-in list, as well as for providing full and true contact details of the spamvertised entity (to bear the brunt of complaints to the extent that it misbehaves!) should be on the offender deciding to employ such a parasitic way of "marketing" in the first place. And, no, the myth that there was any First Amendment issue about it has been debunked for more than a decade already.
We cannot have to wait for the authorities to painstakingly have to prove further mischief by the spammer, in every single case, such as harassment, sabotage, identity theft, not honoring opt-out requests, failing to deliver paid p***s pills ;-), or making bogus claims in general: Spam itself should suffice to land the perpetrators in jail right away (and forfeit their fortunes - equipment and earnings).
You'll have to talk to your congresscritter about it (in most nations actually).
But we all digress: This article is looking for hints on learning Japanese; maybe German is just too easy (and it's currently "in beta" - remaining issues will be settled right after the release of Duke Nukem Forever for Windows Vista though)... ;-)
If they really didn't have it, they have already assimilated that particular strand of DNA:
Product line.
This may of course suggest that many "inventions" are nowhere near as unrelated as their "inventors" might (quite honestly) wish to believe - which calls for restraint in strengthening the patent system without clear evidence of its benefits.
Sir William G. Armstrong, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, put it this way - in 1863(!):
Albeit first made in a different context, it is also worth recalling Victor Hugo's observation from the same era that:So what?! It's not the fans' fault if the business model of music distribution is outdated/broken, and if the prescribed cures are even worse than the disease (or a disease in themselves)...
As to the labels, faced with the choice of not reaching their audience anymore, or consenting to unencumbered formats (CD used to be one, remember?), how long do you think they'll prefer selling nothing at all to selling something that may occasionally be pirated (if it isn't reasonably priced)?
Now do we have to add "didn't want to bet my job on deciding which variant of Windows would best fit our needs" to the top of our list of reasons for migrating to Linux altogether? ;-)
So, requiring a model should help fend off many dubious patent applications anyway: all that are based on an approach that "something already well-known could also be done on a computer, so let's get a patent trap to catch the ones who are unfortunate enough to actually implement it once the idea becomes viable..."
Anyway, for software there would hardly be a storage problem (at some US$400 per Terabyte) and the documentation&disclosure function of the patent system could even be much improved by requesting actual working and compilable source code as both a model and a "preferred embodiment" - so they should really require this (or better yet, abandon BMPs altogether, of course) to help rein in the trolls.
The present state of affairs looks rather bleak if it is news indeed that one patent office did for once require a model at least of something as outlandish as a Warp Drive, rather than rubber-stamping it.