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Euro DMCA Fails
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Well you may have studied EU law for 2 years but it looks like you have only studied EU politics for 2 minutes. The EU is not even close to being a supranational federal entity and political power rests very much with the national governments who decide if when and how EU Directives will be implemented. National courts follow national law, not Brussels. Many EU nations have a long list of un-implemented directives of which the leader is France. Indeed when EU directives and other nonsense do not suit a sovereign state it just tells the EU to go and get stuffed - again three recent examples come from France. (1) France flatly refused to obey EU directives and court decisions relating to beef imports (2) France has refused to allow the ECB (European Central Bank) to set its budget and (3) France and Spain have announced and enforced (with warships) a ban on single hulled oil tankes > 15yrs old within 200nm of their coast. So dear US Slashdotters remember that Europe is in reality the feisty disunited continent that it always was, regardless of the desires of would be empire builders. Brussels is not the capital of Europe, it is just a retirement home for failed bureaucrats and politicians and of course a life support system for Europe's farmers who take half the budget.
Zak Urlocker was driving Borland projects at Greenhills Road ten years ago. He is still at Borland, driving Delphi, driving quality. If Microsoft take over Borland (if)then surely any competition authority would have a lot to say about the Java and Linux tools. The deal has not got any chance whatsoever of getting past the EU competition office in Brussels, don't forget Microsoft is subject to that as well as US authorities even for an all US merger.
The BBC use Windows in house. Their internal training systems are based on IE6. Their net e-zine ClickOnLine http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonli ne.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=1
- which has a BBC TV WOrld Service show as well - is solid IE6. The other day they did an interview with Linus Torvalds and it was anodyne in the extreme. BBC also uses spyware with IE6 http://www.redsheriff.com. Although they promise Ogg the probability is Microsoft and DRM.
The use of msnMessenger to send instant spams is well known in the Windows world. It relies on the fact that many Win9x PCs have ports 137 138 139 open (yessss my precious!). M$ have fixed it with msnMessenger 5.0 and Win2000 ME and XP are not usually susceptible (unless somebody has installed netbios and msnMessenger 4.7 or earlier) AND opened up the relevant ports. So the Romanians cannot deliver to everybody. Try not to assume tcp/ip is the only way of networking. Interestingly M$ themselves can use msn for whatever purpose they want.
Re:I remember when it was the best...
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Altavista Renewed
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A coolt search engine is Kartoo http://www.kartoo.com. As well as hits it gives you a network of links, weak and strong and all sorts of other stuff. Looks purdy too. For those who saw the early version Kartoo has had a big makeover.
Windows users are already suffering from this. Kazaa "Pro" installs the Brilliant distributed ad server which goes a whole way further than the typical spyware and adware. Maybe Brilliant are an agent of RIAA who knows? Maybe the whole Kazaa thing is funded by RIAA. But the RIAA are too dumb to have read "the Prince". www.oartech.oar.net/library/presentations/ apr-2002/kazaa.ppt I omit the kazaa url - \. users probably know where to find the terrible Dutch brothers (hint: offshore).
Anglo-Saxon constitutions? Utter fantasy. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which eventually became the United Kingdom have never had, to this day, a written constitution. Parliament is sovereign and the courts may not overrule it.If you mean the constitution of a country to which a small group sailed away in the Mayflower (in a sulk as England insisted on relgious freedom) then you should say "American Constitution" and not pretend that it was handed down in tablets by Hengist and Horsa. FWIW when the UK saw the trouble that a written constitution gave to Canada they foreswore any such notion for themselves. The following link is to the standard work on English constitutional matters. Anglo-Saxon, mostly but we let the others benefit.
www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/bagehot/con stitution.pdf
There is already case law on copyright from one language to another under Bern convention. The USA is a Bern signatory. It is an obvious issue here in Europe where all EU states have two or more languages. Any published translation falls under the original copyright. The original owner can choose what terms the translator works under. This applies to TV programs, movies and books etc etc. Notably it applies to pop songs as well. So it goes.
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Well you may have studied EU law for 2 years but it looks like you have only studied EU politics for 2 minutes. The EU is not even close to being a supranational federal entity and political power rests very much with the national governments who decide if when and how EU Directives will be implemented. National courts follow national law, not Brussels. Many EU nations have a long list of un-implemented directives of which the leader is France. Indeed when EU directives and other nonsense do not suit a sovereign state it just tells the EU to go and get stuffed - again three recent examples come from France. (1) France flatly refused to obey EU directives and court decisions relating to beef imports (2) France has refused to allow the ECB (European Central Bank) to set its budget and (3) France and Spain have announced and enforced (with warships) a ban on single hulled oil tankes > 15yrs old within 200nm of their coast. So dear US Slashdotters remember that Europe is in reality the feisty disunited continent that it always was, regardless of the desires of would be empire builders. Brussels is not the capital of Europe, it is just a retirement home for failed bureaucrats and politicians and of course a life support system for Europe's farmers who take half the budget.
Zak Urlocker was driving Borland projects at Greenhills Road ten years ago. He is still at Borland, driving Delphi, driving quality. If Microsoft take over Borland (if)then surely any competition authority would have a lot to say about the Java and Linux tools. The deal has not got any chance whatsoever of getting past the EU competition office in Brussels, don't forget Microsoft is subject to that as well as US authorities even for an all US merger.
The BBC use Windows in house. Their internal training systems are based on IE6. Their net e-zine ClickOnLine http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonli ne.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=1
- which has a BBC TV WOrld Service show as well - is solid IE6. The other day they did an interview with Linus Torvalds and it was anodyne in the extreme. BBC also uses spyware with IE6 http://www.redsheriff.com. Although they promise Ogg the probability is Microsoft and DRM.
The use of msnMessenger to send instant spams is well known in the Windows world. It relies on the fact that many Win9x PCs have ports 137 138 139 open (yessss my precious!). M$ have fixed it with msnMessenger 5.0 and Win2000 ME and XP are not usually susceptible (unless somebody has installed netbios and msnMessenger 4.7 or earlier) AND opened up the relevant ports. So the Romanians cannot deliver to everybody. Try not to assume tcp/ip is the only way of networking. Interestingly M$ themselves can use msn for whatever purpose they want.
A coolt search engine is Kartoo http://www.kartoo.com. As well as hits it gives you a network of links, weak and strong and all sorts of other stuff. Looks purdy too. For those who saw the early version Kartoo has had a big makeover.
Windows users are already suffering from this. Kazaa "Pro" installs the Brilliant distributed ad server which goes a whole way further than the typical spyware and adware. Maybe Brilliant are an agent of RIAA who knows? Maybe the whole Kazaa thing is funded by RIAA. But the RIAA are too dumb to have read "the Prince". www.oartech.oar.net/library/presentations/ apr-2002/kazaa.ppt I omit the kazaa url - \. users probably know where to find the terrible Dutch brothers (hint: offshore).
Anglo-Saxon constitutions? Utter fantasy. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which eventually became the United Kingdom have never had, to this day, a written constitution. Parliament is sovereign and the courts may not overrule it.If you mean the constitution of a country to which a small group sailed away in the Mayflower (in a sulk as England insisted on relgious freedom) then you should say "American Constitution" and not pretend that it was handed down in tablets by Hengist and Horsa. FWIW when the UK saw the trouble that a written constitution gave to Canada they foreswore any such notion for themselves. The following link is to the standard work on English constitutional matters. Anglo-Saxon, mostly but we let the others benefit. www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/bagehot/con stitution.pdf
beware of software engineers with screwdrivers
There is already case law on copyright from one language to another under Bern convention. The USA is a Bern signatory. It is an obvious issue here in Europe where all EU states have two or more languages. Any published translation falls under the original copyright. The original owner can choose what terms the translator works under. This applies to TV programs, movies and books etc etc. Notably it applies to pop songs as well. So it goes.