Without ads, there would definately be no free internet.
Whoa there, fella. The internet definitely existed without ads to begin with, and I dare say some of us preferred it that way. Now maybe you mean no free internet access, and I would largely agree there, but that's another thing entirely.
While the supreme court has created the notion of a distinction between commercial and non-commerical speech, the commercial speech does enjoy SOME protection. And in any case they're constantly whittling away at their own definition of what falls into the less-protected category.
But it's a slippery slope. Once you 'oh-fficially' start down the path of using kludges and workarounds to coddle this broken stuff, where do you stop?
There's an easier way. Try winkey assassin: www.diabloii.net/files/utilities.shtml.
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So let me get this straight. Joe Greasemonkey at the goddamn gas station where I buy tires is recording my car's license number and sending a correlated list of plates and rfid's to the feds? Um, sure.
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If they are doing it, it will be useful for about 16 seconds because that's how long it will take the plate-swapping people to figure out to swap the tires too.
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Really. And what if I paid cash for my damn tires? Wouldn't it make more sense to attach them to the car's frame instead of a tire? At least the car is registered to someone. Unless the 'T' in BATF stands for 'tires' I don't see this happening around here anytime soon.
Probably not. The DMCA restricts reverse engineering of protection schemes on copyrighted works. Of course I wouldn't put it past the nerve of lawyers to claim that embedding RFID's in (say) DVD packaging to weed out pirate copies IS copyright protection, but on the other hand I don't see it as being too useful either.
Yeah, the problem with this is that we won't know what the "worthy things" were until it's too late. Hindsight being 20/20 and all. Half the value in old journals, letters, and records is stuff that the original owners considered utterly unimportant.
If this was anywhere close to legally feasible, the RIAA would have tried using it to shut down used CD stores by now. Used CD stores were their big 'X is killing music' bugbear before mp3's.
Indeed, and MS agrees. "NT" afterall stands for "New Technology", it really was starting over after a fashion. (Although later they seemed to forget the meaning of their own abbreviation, and described 2000 as being built on "NT Technology", or "New Technology Technology". But yeah, the 95/98/ME stuff all still rests on DOS.
I cant imagine who would prefer slowly lumbering around like a mecha-frankenstein to a wheelchair.
I can. Have you ever spent any time in a wheelchair? Believe me, those ramps are not everywhere, and some of them are so steep that you need the upper-body strength of a slow-talking California gubernatorial candidate to wheel yourself up them.
In line with the recent 'white worm' autofix, someone should write a NotSoBig virus that changes the file extension associations of.pif,.scr, and.vbs to point to notepad. Potentially destructive? Sure. But remember the 'virus' will only be making these changes on the machines of people dumb enough to click on.pif's they get in the mail.
Well it does delete itself at the end of the year. In addition, they SHOULD have made it so that it scans at (say) 1/1000 rate if it can't find anything to 'infect' in 15 minutes of scanning.
He'll probably have better luck searching for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, rather than Microsoft Baseline Security Scanner. But yeah, it's a useful thing. And here it is.
"Nothing in the preceding sentence shall apply to the rental, lease, or lending of a phonorecord for nonprofit purposes by a nonprofit library" So it's a library. And just because it's nonprofit doesn't mean it can't charge a fee for it's services.
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Whoa there, fella. The internet definitely existed without ads to begin with, and I dare say some of us preferred it that way. Now maybe you mean no free internet access, and I would largely agree there, but that's another thing entirely.
But not to allow copyright violation. This != DMCA
I think we need this guy as our spokesman. Do you own a suit?
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While the supreme court has created the notion of a distinction between commercial and non-commerical speech, the commercial speech does enjoy SOME protection. And in any case they're constantly whittling away at their own definition of what falls into the less-protected category.
Easy, use Mozilla's mail client. You can set it to display everything as plaintext. Very handy for html-mail-haters such as myself.
But it's a slippery slope. Once you 'oh-fficially' start down the path of using kludges and workarounds to coddle this broken stuff, where do you stop?
There's an easier way. Try winkey assassin: www.diabloii.net/files/utilities.shtml.
So let me get this straight. Joe Greasemonkey at the goddamn gas station where I buy tires is recording my car's license number and sending a correlated list of plates and rfid's to the feds? Um, sure.
If they are doing it, it will be useful for about 16 seconds because that's how long it will take the plate-swapping people to figure out to swap the tires too.
Really. And what if I paid cash for my damn tires? Wouldn't it make more sense to attach them to the car's frame instead of a tire? At least the car is registered to someone. Unless the 'T' in BATF stands for 'tires' I don't see this happening around here anytime soon.
Probably not. The DMCA restricts reverse engineering of protection schemes on copyrighted works. Of course I wouldn't put it past the nerve of lawyers to claim that embedding RFID's in (say) DVD packaging to weed out pirate copies IS copyright protection, but on the other hand I don't see it as being too useful either.
Yeah, the problem with this is that we won't know what the "worthy things" were until it's too late. Hindsight being 20/20 and all. Half the value in old journals, letters, and records is stuff that the original owners considered utterly unimportant.
If this was anywhere close to legally feasible, the RIAA would have tried using it to shut down used CD stores by now. Used CD stores were their big 'X is killing music' bugbear before mp3's.
Indeed, and MS agrees. "NT" afterall stands for "New Technology", it really was starting over after a fashion. (Although later they seemed to forget the meaning of their own abbreviation, and described 2000 as being built on "NT Technology", or "New Technology Technology". But yeah, the 95/98/ME stuff all still rests on DOS.
I can. Have you ever spent any time in a wheelchair? Believe me, those ramps are not everywhere, and some of them are so steep that you need the upper-body strength of a slow-talking California gubernatorial candidate to wheel yourself up them.
In line with the recent 'white worm' autofix, someone should write a NotSoBig virus that changes the file extension associations of .pif, .scr, and .vbs to point to notepad. Potentially destructive? Sure. But remember the 'virus' will only be making these changes on the machines of people dumb enough to click on .pif's they get in the mail.
"In Soviet Russia, the virus patches you!"
Good luck finding them; worms are hard to trace. I think they gave up on finding Mr./Ms SQL Slammer.
Well it does delete itself at the end of the year. In addition, they SHOULD have made it so that it scans at (say) 1/1000 rate if it can't find anything to 'infect' in 15 minutes of scanning.
I suspect that the extremely cold temp helps to keep the beer from foaming when blasted into the glass at this ludicrous rate.
Promethium also falls into this category http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/61.html
He'll probably have better luck searching for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, rather than Microsoft Baseline Security Scanner. But yeah, it's a useful thing. And here it is.
"Nothing in the preceding sentence shall apply to the rental, lease, or lending of a phonorecord for nonprofit purposes by a nonprofit library" So it's a library. And just because it's nonprofit doesn't mean it can't charge a fee for it's services.
The DMCA prohibits decrypting and the like *for purposes of making illegal copies*. That's not why they'd be doing it.