It would be nice if we get rid of the smaller value coins, since we're spending so much money on them, and they really don't do much for us. When they were first minted they could have the spending power of a loonie, but now they are tedious for everyone but children, destitute, and bankers.
I emailed the Canadian Music Creators, and they promise to have an update soon to debunk the RIAA, MPAA charge that's been put on lately. Maybe they can feel an election around the corner, and don't want to grease more palms in Canada's New New Government.
Do you think this Jack Bauer guy would ever try to take down the Teleban? After all the organization devoted to Banning TV, might pose a threat to his career.
The music business works that way, but the Internet doesn't. Mind you, I'm a little perturbed by all of the Asian anime crud showing up in the Top rated category on YouTube lately, so to each his own I guess.
I'm a card carrying Green supporter right now, but I managed to get a response from Garry B. for a complaint I made about stupid airport security of all things. He wanted to know what Cannon the Transport Minister replied with. The Minister didn't reply to either of us.
It's not very surprising, but he's very anti-gun registry, and this copyright change is right up the same government meddling alley. Postage isn't required when mailing your MP while Parliament is in session. Perhaps I've saved you some postage?
I wrote one last year, but here's a new more topical version people can use and modify: My letter:
Dear Mr. Breitkreuz,
I'm writing concerning this story in the media cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/01/11/copyright-canad a.html
If the Conservative government makes it a crime to put CD music onto iPod MP3 players, the government will be a laughingstock in the eyes of music consumers. Canadians in Yorkton-Melville regard the gun registry as an unenforceable, and intrusive law that makes criminals out of law abiding long gun owners. In the same way, removing Fair Use from Canadian copyright law will make criminals out of ordinary, law abiding Canadians, and does very little to help the people the law is supposed to protect.
As with previous emails on the topic of Copyright Act revisions, I offer you my expertise if you have questions regarding the technical nature of Digital Restrictions Management, and why there is an organization of professional Canadian musicians opposed to DRM, and the removal of Fair Use.
A short reply to acknowledge you received this letter, would be appreciated.
Thank you for your time, [Saskboy] Yorkton resident [phone number] www.abandonedstuff.com
I've written my MP about copyright at least 3 times last year, and didn't get one response. The Conservative MP for Yorkton-Melville obviously doesn't care about Canadian artists or stopping DRM.
It's obvious, but blogging really is the only way to go now if you want to write, and have lots of people read it. Making lots of money for having people read your work... that's not an area I've excelled at unfortunately.
Once again, a moderator who doesn't like me, mods the second post in a discussion as "redundant". Brilliant observation - may you burn in meta-mod hell.
As the author, I may be best qualified to give your answer:-)
This project may not rely on the vast computing horsepower that SETI@Home provided, but it does act just like the fabled Yeti@Home project, where the [laughable {yet astronomically sound}] theory was that many distributed backyard cameras could be processed digitally locally, and the results uploaded to a central repository if anything interesting was spotted. Since everyone can see the moon from where they are on earth, the chances of finding an explosion is even greater than spotting ET, or a Yeti, provided clouds or Yetis are not in the way.
I hadn't heard about the latest fee increase. The trouble is I don't think customers want to yet use other methods for searching for goods, everyone still looks at eBay, even when many of the best sellers have moved on to either their own sites, or other auction pages. It's unfortunate the market giant is so unfair.
If only eBay valued their customers - the sellers, more than they value a giant PR spin machine.
Neither can wheat, but at least it doesn't slime up the keyboard.
Sadly, even in SK, the computer would need patching, so that when the person moves to Alberta, their computer time can be correctly set automatically when they arrive. Meanwhile VCRs and other devices pre-programmed to switch to DST are just going to remain "broken" forever. Yet another monument to the Bush years in government -- all in the name of saving 1% of the State's oil a year, when they could be saving 40% easily by requiring personal vehicles get 40MPG.
Mr. Lister wasn't bad, but eBay's Turbo Lister is a blight on the history of application programming. While the site is generally well maintained, the support apps leave something to be desired, or they did anyway three years ago when I was still involved in using them. TL was the model of how NOT to design an application, in so many ways. Bloated file sizes, db corruption, copy/paste broken in the WYSIWYG editor. The list could go on and on.
And Ebay never used to tell customers when it expected to correct site programming errors.
In Canada people don't get consecutive sentences, they are concurrent. In the States, I think consecutive penalties [which often make more sense for serious crimes] are the norm. So yes that may be why the years are so many in this criminal's case.
Copying software is different from copying software and selling it to someone as the real thing which is what I believe he was guilt of? That's fraud, which is different from downloading Word for your home computer.
I'd argue that theivery is something you can train people not to resort to if they have a decent skill, but pedophillia is something a person lives with until they die or have brain surgery at the very least.
I think people who cheat others out of their legitimate software purchases ought to get jail time when it's obvious they or others will do it if no harsh penalty is on the table.
Isn't 7 years a bit long in comparison to more serious crimes of violence and fraud? Perhaps 7 years is average for a fraud conviction, but I don't understand why rapists [in Canada at least] get about 5 year sentences, mercy killers [Robert Latimer] 10 years, and serial killers [Karla Holmolka] gets 9 years. Where is the equity?
Slashdot Mirror
Overheard in a Tim Hortons in five years:
"I'll take a Decaf muffin please."
Loonies - I wonder how many Slashdotters know what those are.
o f-the-5cent-coin/
When Slashdot last wrote about making coin melting illegal in the USA, I wrote this
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/12/27/get-rid-
It would be nice if we get rid of the smaller value coins, since we're spending so much money on them, and they really don't do much for us. When they were first minted they could have the spending power of a loonie, but now they are tedious for everyone but children, destitute, and bankers.
I emailed the Canadian Music Creators, and they promise to have an update soon to debunk the RIAA, MPAA charge that's been put on lately. Maybe they can feel an election around the corner, and don't want to grease more palms in Canada's New New Government.
Do you think this Jack Bauer guy would ever try to take down the Teleban? After all the organization devoted to Banning TV, might pose a threat to his career.
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/01/15/fairusefi re/
It's important all Canadians write their MP and educate them about the CRIA shenanigans.
I can't wait until the stories of Sony spying on Nintendo or Microsoft come out. You KNOW it has to be going on.
The music business works that way, but the Internet doesn't. Mind you, I'm a little perturbed by all of the Asian anime crud showing up in the Top rated category on YouTube lately, so to each his own I guess.
I'm a card carrying Green supporter right now, but I managed to get a response from Garry B. for a complaint I made about stupid airport security of all things. He wanted to know what Cannon the Transport Minister replied with. The Minister didn't reply to either of us.
Bulte under Martin was falling into line with CRIA. Try a party that would care about artists and consumers like the Greens or NDP.
It's not very surprising, but he's very anti-gun registry, and this copyright change is right up the same government meddling alley. Postage isn't required when mailing your MP while Parliament is in session. Perhaps I've saved you some postage?
My letter:
I've written my MP about copyright at least 3 times last year, and didn't get one response. The Conservative MP for Yorkton-Melville obviously doesn't care about Canadian artists or stopping DRM.
It's obvious, but blogging really is the only way to go now if you want to write, and have lots of people read it. Making lots of money for having people read your work... that's not an area I've excelled at unfortunately.
"as this new approach using sugars may hold real potential"
Mmmmm, sugar donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
Once again, a moderator who doesn't like me, mods the second post in a discussion as "redundant". Brilliant observation - may you burn in meta-mod hell.
Feedback: Negative - Has poor moderation skills.
You made Internet predictions more than a decade ago, but have a bigger Slashdot ID number than I do? You leave me skeptical ;-)
Just kidding, it's actually neat that you were archived, and dug up.
As the author, I may be best qualified to give your answer :-)
This project may not rely on the vast computing horsepower that SETI@Home provided, but it does act just like the fabled Yeti@Home project, where the [laughable {yet astronomically sound}] theory was that many distributed backyard cameras could be processed digitally locally, and the results uploaded to a central repository if anything interesting was spotted. Since everyone can see the moon from where they are on earth, the chances of finding an explosion is even greater than spotting ET, or a Yeti, provided clouds or Yetis are not in the way.
I hadn't heard about the latest fee increase. The trouble is I don't think customers want to yet use other methods for searching for goods, everyone still looks at eBay, even when many of the best sellers have moved on to either their own sites, or other auction pages. It's unfortunate the market giant is so unfair.
If only eBay valued their customers - the sellers, more than they value a giant PR spin machine.
I guess this answers the question about 40,000 developers at 40,000 keyboards... they give the million monkeys a run for their money.
"Cod can't type :)"
Neither can wheat, but at least it doesn't slime up the keyboard.
Sadly, even in SK, the computer would need patching, so that when the person moves to Alberta, their computer time can be correctly set automatically when they arrive. Meanwhile VCRs and other devices pre-programmed to switch to DST are just going to remain "broken" forever. Yet another monument to the Bush years in government -- all in the name of saving 1% of the State's oil a year, when they could be saving 40% easily by requiring personal vehicles get 40MPG.
Mr. Lister wasn't bad, but eBay's Turbo Lister is a blight on the history of application programming. While the site is generally well maintained, the support apps leave something to be desired, or they did anyway three years ago when I was still involved in using them. TL was the model of how NOT to design an application, in so many ways. Bloated file sizes, db corruption, copy/paste broken in the WYSIWYG editor. The list could go on and on.
And Ebay never used to tell customers when it expected to correct site programming errors.
In Canada people don't get consecutive sentences, they are concurrent. In the States, I think consecutive penalties [which often make more sense for serious crimes] are the norm. So yes that may be why the years are so many in this criminal's case.
Copying software is different from copying software and selling it to someone as the real thing which is what I believe he was guilt of? That's fraud, which is different from downloading Word for your home computer.
I'd argue that theivery is something you can train people not to resort to if they have a decent skill, but pedophillia is something a person lives with until they die or have brain surgery at the very least.
I think people who cheat others out of their legitimate software purchases ought to get jail time when it's obvious they or others will do it if no harsh penalty is on the table.
Isn't 7 years a bit long in comparison to more serious crimes of violence and fraud? Perhaps 7 years is average for a fraud conviction, but I don't understand why rapists [in Canada at least] get about 5 year sentences, mercy killers [Robert Latimer] 10 years, and serial killers [Karla Holmolka] gets 9 years. Where is the equity?