A web page is a creative work of the author(s). Modifying that work without their permission is a copyright infringement which is tortuous. Most people use "illegal" for things that are contrary to criminal or civil law - hence "illegally".
The law may be an ass but I think the GP is correct here in his synopsis.
If an author chooses to place ads in their page that is their prerogative - they are not obliged to give away their work for free, even on teh internetz. You have no legal remedy to remove the ads in order to view the content without annoyance.
(2) The minimum standards of protection relate to the works and rights to be protected, and the duration of the protection:
(a) As to works, the protection must include "every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression" (Article 2(1) of the Convention).
(b) Subject to certain permitted reservations, limitations or exceptions, the following are among the rights which must be recognized as exclusive rights of authorization:
* the right to translate,
* the right to make adaptations and arrangements of the work, [...]
* the right to make reproductions in any manner or form (with the possibility of a contracting State to permit, in certain special cases, reproduction without authorization provided that the reproduction does not conflict with the normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author, and with the possibility of a contracting State to provide, in the case of sound recordings of musical works, for a right to equitable remuneration),
[...]/IANA Copyright Lawyer, but I pretend to be one on Slashdot. This is not legal advice. /
What are those organizations going to do when technology allows virtually anyone to covertly record what they see through their eyes (organic or cybernetic)? They should start thinking about that now, because in the not-too-distant future they will have no choice but to allow it.
Blindfolds are cheap, they'll need foil linings to avoid people have IR (or other non-visible spectrum receiver) eyes though.
I'm shocked nobody has capitalized on this to release "Cam-less mods" for those Blackberrys where the cam can be hidden and crippled by changing the user removable back panel for one without the lens opening.
If the cam is simply hidden then how hard is it really to whip the back off to take a covert photo? I'd have thought some sort of whitelist of the devices that are allowed in the court is best, like calculators allowed in maths exams (in the UK). Still abusable by switching the innards of a device.
I use it in the vernacular British English sense of "you are due [to pay]" as in - in the future you must pay. There is an expression "pay your dues" which means to pay what you owe (specifically in membership fees, but it's used more broadly too).
Did anyone mention HP POD, appears to be an off-the-shelf containerised server farm like Google's except that you can buy them - http://www.hp.com/go/pod.
Bottom line, though, is that there are a LOT of dinosaur fossils below the iridium-enriched layer and VERY few, and those not for very long, above it.
How many. I've been trying to find numbers on dinosaur fossils found globally and the dates ascribed to those fossils - do you know where I can get those details?
How many samples do you have covering that 10 million year period? Assuming they are related to modern Coleoidea then there numbers are likely to fluctuate in similar ways - ie sometime change vastly from year to year by location.
I really can't see you'd have enough samples, even of Ammonoidea, with verified dates (with a narrow enough error range) from diverse regions to show anything about the trend in global numbers at all.
How many species then did you use that were declining and were not declining? How many samples of each of these were used?
Hence "they could download it from the 'net". I've used IEs4linux but I prefer to run "Multiple IEs" ( http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE ) on a VirtualBox with the license of XP I have from my stolen laptop.
What's the geographical location of the future stock price of Google?
The Geographical location of the company, fair enough, it has several. You can locate the transaction, sure, but if it's just about the location of the transaction then a MMORPG transaction is just as much located geographically as a gamble on a stock price fluctuation.
What if the transaction is actuated on a computer on a ship in international waters? Futures to my mind are equally tangible as MMORPG monies.
Corporate users wont be switching away from IE6 anytime soon. Not whilst PHBs continue to be worried about some tiny little funky feature that no-one uses on some corporate intranet site breaks as a result of the switch.
Couldn't Microsoft release an official standalone version of IE6 or IE8 too (they could download it from the 'net if they don't know how;0)>
Then corporate users could use IE6 internally as long as they want (either as the OS segment or simply as a browser) and connect to the WWW with IE8.
Is that really that hard to do?
Train analogy: Rather than scrapping your inefficient steam engine (IE6) that runs on the old gauge of track (old application) you can keep using that and the old tracks whilst still using your TGV (IE8) on modern track (web pages). Or you could upgrade to maglev (FF/Op/Saf/Konq).
In the UK, and I'm sure this is the case in the US, even if you live by barter you're due taxes according to the value of the services or goods you exchange.
If you pay me 250 chickens a month instead of £1000 UKP then I still owe the tax man about £400 despite not having received any money. And sadly I can't pay him in chickens.
The only way to save is by illegally providing a false tax declaration and hoping no one notices you're working for barter rather than money. Ignorance of the need to declare such things is not a defence either.
If Google don't publish a work you want to see then buy a copy.
You could even publish it if you want, provided you've got the relevant rights or can claim (in the US) a fair-use exception.
As it is the information contained in the book that is being hidden by true censorship (rather than just curtailing artistic freedom) then just publish a synopsis of that information. There is a specific allowance to publish a review of a book within copyright law.
Your rights under copyright law come entirely from the government and legal system: [...] so it can choose to arbitrarily take copyright rights away from other people (such as you). If you didn't want that to happen, you should have bribed some politicians.
I know it seems unfair, but that seems to be the way it works.
The US is a signatory to the Berne Convention so they should ensure that local rules are consistent with the requirements of Berne. So, in that sense they can't arbitrarily choose to take copyrights away from you without breaching international law. You'd have a case against the US Government I think. IANACL.
[*** HELP *** anyone know of a way for non-premium members to download a geocities site quickly? I can get most of it with wget but have some older pages that aren't linked in. Cheers!]
My page was in Research Triangle, IIRC, I stopped using it in about '99 (again IIRC) though I backported some info to it and used it for testing and ultimately updated it to do a redirect to my privately hosted pages on http://alicious.com/ which is now my blog.
Amazingly nedstatbasic isn't that anymore it's some other company but still has stats and reports 6000 page views since 2003 (which must be when motigo took over?).
This second one has a frame-breaker, webring adverts but is missing the "under construction" gif that would of completed the set... C..C..C..Combo-BREAKER!
It really preserves the assonitic complexity and quality of the packets when they move from your wall to your router. Cheaper cables let noisy bits through that go all wobbly and clog your connection. I hear their new wifi cables are hella expensive but totally worth it.
Make sure you get the rubidium shielded platinum connectors though these will give you the best skin-tones in your images and preserve even the high low level nuance of the most demanding acoustics.
It's better to say "What a great idea boss!" and buy the cable. If it works, great. If it doesn't work, don't rub it in. Besides, do you really want to crimp your own cables?
You're not a BOFH are you. You say "Great idea, Boss!" then make your own - find the most expensive cable prices to charge the boss for. Pocket the money AND get to blame the cable maker...
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A web page is a creative work of the author(s). Modifying that work without their permission is a copyright infringement which is tortuous. Most people use "illegal" for things that are contrary to criminal or civil law - hence "illegally".
The law may be an ass but I think the GP is correct here in his synopsis.
If an author chooses to place ads in their page that is their prerogative - they are not obliged to give away their work for free, even on teh internetz. You have no legal remedy to remove the ads in order to view the content without annoyance.
This is embodied in the Berne Convention (which has about 160 signatories IIRC), from the summary ( http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/summary_berne.html ):
(2) The minimum standards of protection relate to the works and rights to be protected, and the duration of the protection:
(a) As to works, the protection must include "every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression" (Article 2(1) of the Convention).
(b) Subject to certain permitted reservations, limitations or exceptions, the following are among the rights which must be recognized as exclusive rights of authorization:
* the right to translate,
* the right to make adaptations and arrangements of the work,
[...]
* the right to make reproductions in any manner or form (with the possibility of a contracting State to permit, in certain special cases, reproduction without authorization provided that the reproduction does not conflict with the normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author, and with the possibility of a contracting State to provide, in the case of sound recordings of musical works, for a right to equitable remuneration),
[...] /IANA Copyright Lawyer, but I pretend to be one on Slashdot. This is not legal advice. /
What are those organizations going to do when technology allows virtually anyone to covertly record what they see through their eyes (organic or cybernetic)? They should start thinking about that now, because in the not-too-distant future they will have no choice but to allow it.
Blindfolds are cheap, they'll need foil linings to avoid people have IR (or other non-visible spectrum receiver) eyes though.
I'm shocked nobody has capitalized on this to release "Cam-less mods" for those Blackberrys where the cam can be hidden and crippled by changing the user removable back panel for one without the lens opening.
If the cam is simply hidden then how hard is it really to whip the back off to take a covert photo? I'd have thought some sort of whitelist of the devices that are allowed in the court is best, like calculators allowed in maths exams (in the UK). Still abusable by switching the innards of a device.
<tinfoilhat>
So does high lithium rate correspond to high rates of installation of water meters by the water companies??
But for some reason few people seem to be aware of it, or choose to use it. I mean I've seen logic analyzers running standard OEM Windows XP.
$1000 [per seat presumably] for the tools. $90 per device, but you only pay it when you ship the device. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2004/12/22/331034.aspx )
It might be the 5MB minimum build size too it seems.
Don't show them this http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hackers-can-steal-from-reflections about using reflections viewed with a telescope to see screen images.
Nor about the gathering of keypress data from radio signals of keyboards or from indirectly viewing a CRT monitor on a dull surface.
No windows and Faraday cubicles is the only way to go ...
I use it in the vernacular British English sense of "you are due [to pay]" as in - in the future you must pay. There is an expression "pay your dues" which means to pay what you owe (specifically in membership fees, but it's used more broadly too).
Isn't English language awesome.
Apologies for the confusion.
Did anyone mention HP POD, appears to be an off-the-shelf containerised server farm like Google's except that you can buy them - http://www.hp.com/go/pod.
One big shelf, electric and cold water.
... Scientists build a camera faster than the world's fastest camera!
I always thought it was engineers that built stuff (or at least that instructed machines and peons to build stuff).
it'll probably emerge that quantum mechanics is behind the survival of these select few dinosaurs.
Quantum Mechanics can't save the dinosaurs. For a job this big, we need String Theory.
Pah, those strings are just coincidences of sub-Planck micro-branes.
[...] in fact whole books of the christian bible consist of apologia/revision of older books. [...]
Examples?
Bottom line, though, is that there are a LOT of dinosaur fossils below the iridium-enriched layer and VERY few, and those not for very long, above it.
How many. I've been trying to find numbers on dinosaur fossils found globally and the dates ascribed to those fossils - do you know where I can get those details?
How many samples do you have covering that 10 million year period? Assuming they are related to modern Coleoidea then there numbers are likely to fluctuate in similar ways - ie sometime change vastly from year to year by location.
I really can't see you'd have enough samples, even of Ammonoidea, with verified dates (with a narrow enough error range) from diverse regions to show anything about the trend in global numbers at all.
How many species then did you use that were declining and were not declining? How many samples of each of these were used?
Hence "they could download it from the 'net". I've used IEs4linux but I prefer to run "Multiple IEs" ( http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE ) on a VirtualBox with the license of XP I have from my stolen laptop.
I'm not a train buff but I know of 3 gauges used for steam in the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow_gauge#Gauges_used
The maglev thing was a poor afterthought, perhaps the japanese bullet?
What's the geographical location of the future stock price of Google?
The Geographical location of the company, fair enough, it has several. You can locate the transaction, sure, but if it's just about the location of the transaction then a MMORPG transaction is just as much located geographically as a gamble on a stock price fluctuation.
What if the transaction is actuated on a computer on a ship in international waters? Futures to my mind are equally tangible as MMORPG monies.
Interesting, in all future posts on gambling on arbitrary fluctuations of intangibles I'll consider running investments from Papua New Guinea.
Corporate users wont be switching away from IE6 anytime soon. Not whilst PHBs continue to be worried about some tiny little funky feature that no-one uses on some corporate intranet site breaks as a result of the switch.
Couldn't Microsoft release an official standalone version of IE6 or IE8 too (they could download it from the 'net if they don't know how ;0)>
Then corporate users could use IE6 internally as long as they want (either as the OS segment or simply as a browser) and connect to the WWW with IE8.
Is that really that hard to do?
Train analogy: Rather than scrapping your inefficient steam engine (IE6) that runs on the old gauge of track (old application) you can keep using that and the old tracks whilst still using your TGV (IE8) on modern track (web pages). Or you could upgrade to maglev (FF/Op/Saf/Konq).
So if I use a North American bank to execute my futures investments I can run a ponzi^w investment bank in the UK and not pay taxes. Sounds good.
Ha ha ha, riiiight.
In the UK, and I'm sure this is the case in the US, even if you live by barter you're due taxes according to the value of the services or goods you exchange.
If you pay me 250 chickens a month instead of £1000 UKP then I still owe the tax man about £400 despite not having received any money. And sadly I can't pay him in chickens.
The only way to save is by illegally providing a false tax declaration and hoping no one notices you're working for barter rather than money. Ignorance of the need to declare such things is not a defence either.
If Google don't publish a work you want to see then buy a copy.
You could even publish it if you want, provided you've got the relevant rights or can claim (in the US) a fair-use exception.
As it is the information contained in the book that is being hidden by true censorship (rather than just curtailing artistic freedom) then just publish a synopsis of that information. There is a specific allowance to publish a review of a book within copyright law.
Your rights under copyright law come entirely from the government and legal system: [...] so it can choose to arbitrarily take copyright rights away from other people (such as you). If you didn't want that to happen, you should have bribed some politicians.
I know it seems unfair, but that seems to be the way it works.
The US is a signatory to the Berne Convention so they should ensure that local rules are consistent with the requirements of Berne. So, in that sense they can't arbitrarily choose to take copyrights away from you without breaching international law. You'd have a case against the US Government I think. IANACL.
[*** HELP *** anyone know of a way for non-premium members to download a geocities site quickly? I can get most of it with wget but have some older pages that aren't linked in. Cheers!]
My page was in Research Triangle, IIRC, I stopped using it in about '99 (again IIRC) though I backported some info to it and used it for testing and ultimately updated it to do a redirect to my privately hosted pages on http://alicious.com/ which is now my blog.
Amazingly nedstatbasic isn't that anymore it's some other company but still has stats and reports 6000 page views since 2003 (which must be when motigo took over?).
6 visitors in 2009,
98 visitors in 2008,
On motigo.com they have lots of geocities pages in their stats listing, this is a pretty good example of the type of thing:
* http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/trails/3543/ a horse page
* http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/9209/ electronics page
This second one has a frame-breaker, webring adverts but is missing the "under construction" gif that would of completed the set ... C..C..C..Combo-BREAKER!
It really preserves the assonitic complexity and quality of the packets when they move from your wall to your router. Cheaper cables let noisy bits through that go all wobbly and clog your connection. I hear their new wifi cables are hella expensive but totally worth it.
Make sure you get the rubidium shielded platinum connectors though these will give you the best skin-tones in your images and preserve even the high low level nuance of the most demanding acoustics.
It's better to say "What a great idea boss!" and buy the cable. If it works, great. If it doesn't work, don't rub it in. Besides, do you really want to crimp your own cables?
You're not a BOFH are you. You say "Great idea, Boss!" then make your own - find the most expensive cable prices to charge the boss for. Pocket the money AND get to blame the cable maker ...