But mandating that any new technology work exactly like the old technology it replaces should have a chilling effect on innovation
You don't always want innovation. Sometimes it makes more sense to expand and develop a system that everyone uses and is known to work. The american system is pragmatic not libertarian.
Another example of idiots expecting people do to everything for them.
You need to spend time with a first responder. I had a brush with carbon monoxide poisoning. Thought I was thinking coherently. Learned later that I was pretty much out of it.
When will legislators learn not to hurriedly pass new laws right after terrible things happen? We all know it's not a good idea
...like the new rules governing safety at sea which followed the sinking of the Titanic?
What "we all know" is often wrong.
In any event, 911 and its predecessors have been around for quite some time now. The first 999 emergency call was made in Britain in 1937, the first 999 call in North America, in Winnepeg, in 1959, the first 911 call in the U.S. in 1968. The History of 911
You have be close to fifty years old to clearly remember a time when 911 did not exist.
Microsoft has a 90% stranglehold on marketshare, would you say that we benefit in quality, cost and inovation in their one-player-sytem?
well, yes. strip out the commodity hardware designed and sold for the mass-market Windows platform and what is left of your Linux PC? probably an empty box.
The NY Times lost its credibility years ago and there is nothing that separates them from the rest of the pack. So bon voyage on your trip towards internet obscurity
The NY Times and the WSJ are essential reading for decision-makers. You'll find both being read in any town big enough to rate a single traffic light. The Time's core audience, like that of the WSJ, is at a level where subscription fees are the norm.
The lawsuits are for PR purposes, they'd be fscked if someone with the resources to hire the right lawyers ended up fighting until a real precedent was set.
In your dreams. Without a license to distribute you have no defense and your case will be decided by a judge as a matter of law.
If I am reading it correctly, the Yahoo music service allows you to send downloaded tracks to friends that also have the service. Therefore, your $5/month does buy you the right to upload in a very limited sense.
Y! Unlimited is a rental library. You can share playlists with other subscribers.
Go after actual acts, actual things. Not thought-crimes.
Perhaps only Orwell could properly appreciate so "Orwellian" a distortion of language and ideas.
But in the world of the federal criminal courts you cannot record, distribute or possess videos of a rape and claim freedom of thought as your defense.
The destinction between giving somone a picture and abusing a child is artificial to you?
How would you react if your seven year old daughter was raped and videos of the assault were posted to the net? There is criminal abuse of the child in both the sexual assualt and in the distribution of the video.
The node isnt creating child porn, its just distributing it.
Distribution is illegal. It doesn't matter if the files exist only in encrypted, fragmented form on your hard drive, the traffic can still bring the FBI to your door.
The pictures arent abusing the children, the abuser is abusing the children
Possesion is not thought crime. You have been caught collecting pictures of the rape of a child and applauding from the sidelines in the hope of more to come.
We cannot allow filtering Freenet nodes without compromising anonymity, which is our number one priority. Sorry, but if you don't like it, don't run a Freenet node."
The problem here is that anoymnity (and performance) requires a critical mass of users. From a coldly logical point of view, Freenet's association with hard-core pornography is a guarantee of failure.
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I think the point is that every government draws the line somewhere else. In some places a naked 16 year old is child porn.
There is broad international agreement on the definition of child pornography:
The sexual exploitation of a child for the amusement of others or commercial gain is not an exercise in free speech, but a silencing and corruption of the innocent.
This model fails when there is nearly unlimited product (all film titles from the past 50 years) on DVD or unlimited view openings. What happens in this type of market is that the consumers get to bid on what they will pay and the terms that they will pay for the product
Disney has sold about 23 million copies of "The Incredibles" in two months. Most studios would be estatic if a backlist title sold 200,000 copies in ten years.
But it won't work. What will happen if the MPAA companies actually get DRM to work is that the market for film product will shrink to a small percentage of what it is today.
No one will give a damn about DRM so long as pristine digital transfers, feature-rich, reference-standard, DVDs like The Incredibles sell at retail for under $20.
If Hollywood would stop using celebrity actors and actresses to sell movies, instead relying on scripts and directors and the like, I think they would save a lot of money.
since the silent era, starpower has been something you could take to the bank. try imagining "White Heat" with anyone but Jimmy Cagney as Cody Jarett
This story is nothing but a single piece of anecdotal evidence.
Battlestar Galactica has had substantial, positive, coverage in the mainstream media. a strong lead-in and perfect placement on Sci-Fi Channel's Friday night schedule. The top rated non sports cable program in prime time among men age 25-54, Galactica is well written, well cast, and takes a minimalist approach to the use of special effects. I very much doubt that bit torrent has been the slightest factor in its success.
Who wants the hassle of connecting multiple video players, game consoles, set-top boxes and other devices to every TV in the house? The kid's bedroom, the basement playroom, and so on. If I can free up some space, and untangle another rat's nest of cables, it's all to the better.
Rogers & Hammerstein produced a musical version of Cinderella for television in 1957, Jim Henson, with The Muppets, in 1969. Talent learns from the past, it does not recreate it.
You want to be out there with the big dogs, become the next Brad Bird? Then write your own damn story, and make it richer, funnier, and more thrilling than anything in James Bond or The Fantastic Four.
The Marx Brothers...suppress distribution
The Marx Brothers films are available in two wonderful boxed sets released last year.
Nonsense. Microsoft had zero market power when PCs first appeared. In fact, they were the underdog, as CP/M was the established, serious, OS for businesses, and all MS had ever done was some toy BASIC interpreter.
Microsoft entered the market for microcomputer languages with the introduction of the Altair in 1975. Fortran and COBOL for CP/M would follow in 1977 and 1978. By 1980, MBASIC would be everywhere.
Fist, I never heard about a product that failed because everyone said it would dominate.
It happens all the time when the rah-rah chorus of a cheerleader is all you really want to hear.
I came across a small item, little more than a filler, in the tech news the other day, mentioning a commitment from Dell to purchase 300,000 laptops a month in a 14" wide-screen format from a single Chinese supplier, all of which, of course, will be re-sold pre-loaded with Windows.
Didn't OS/2 Warp have internet capabilities out of the box before Windows 95?
"In the fall of 1994, IBM released Warp (OS/2 3.0)..IBM had a product out ten months before Windows 95...OS/2 was technically a better system than Windows 95...with real program integrity, priorities, and server-quality I/O. None of this was discussed in any of the IBM ads or announcements. Instead, IBM concentrated on a "one button connection to the Internet" through IBM's expensive public network. It would be six months before IBM released a version..for corporate and campus use (with LAN support) and IBM never succeeded in capturing market share...among home...users."
Maybe, but whoever can trick a large computer manufacturer into bundling their PCs with your OS, and asking a small license fee for every copy sold, also owns the market
and when that "trick" makes you as rich as Michael Dell, what then? mass market acceptance of the PC began with the pre-install of a servceable O/S.
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You don't always want innovation.
Sometimes it makes more sense to expand and develop a system that everyone uses and is known to work.
The american system is pragmatic not libertarian.
You need to spend time with a first responder. I had a brush with carbon monoxide poisoning. Thought I was thinking coherently. Learned later that I was pretty much out of it.
What "we all know" is often wrong.
In any event, 911 and its predecessors have been around for quite some time now. The first 999 emergency call was made in Britain in 1937, the first 999 call in North America, in Winnepeg, in 1959, the first 911 call in the U.S. in 1968. The History of 911
You have be close to fifty years old to clearly remember a time when 911 did not exist.
well, yes. strip out the commodity hardware designed and sold for the mass-market Windows platform and what is left of your Linux PC? probably an empty box.
Internet users (per 10,000 people) 106.8 (2002 est) Personal computer users (per 100 people) 3.2 (2002 est)Cuba
The NY Times and the WSJ are essential reading for decision-makers. You'll find both being read in any town big enough to rate a single traffic light. The Time's core audience, like that of the WSJ, is at a level where subscription fees are the norm.
In your dreams.
Without a license to distribute you have no defense and your case will be decided by a judge as a matter of law.
Y! Unlimited is a rental library. You can share playlists with other subscribers.
Perhaps only Orwell could properly appreciate so "Orwellian" a distortion of language and ideas.
But in the world of the federal criminal courts you cannot record, distribute or possess videos of a rape and claim freedom of thought as your defense.
How would you react if your seven year old daughter was raped and videos of the assault were posted to the net? There is criminal abuse of the child in both the sexual assualt and in the distribution of the video.
Distribution is illegal. It doesn't matter if the files exist only in encrypted, fragmented form on your hard drive, the traffic can still bring the FBI to your door.
The pictures arent abusing the children, the abuser is abusing the children
Possesion is not thought crime. You have been caught collecting pictures of the rape of a child and applauding from the sidelines in the hope of more to come.
The problem here is that anoymnity (and performance) requires a critical mass of users. From a coldly logical point of view, Freenet's association with hard-core pornography is a guarantee of failure.
There is broad international agreement on the definition of child pornography:
Child pornography means any representation, by whatever means, of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a child for primarily sexual purposes. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. 110 Signatories, 87 Parties
The sexual exploitation of a child for the amusement of others or commercial gain is not an exercise in free speech, but a silencing and corruption of the innocent.
Disney has sold about 23 million copies of "The Incredibles" in two months. Most studios would be estatic if a backlist title sold 200,000 copies in ten years.
But it won't work. What will happen if the MPAA companies actually get DRM to work is that the market for film product will shrink to a small percentage of what it is today.
No one will give a damn about DRM so long as pristine digital transfers, feature-rich, reference-standard, DVDs like The Incredibles sell at retail for under $20.
since the silent era, starpower has been something you could take to the bank. try imagining "White Heat" with anyone but Jimmy Cagney as Cody Jarett
Battlestar Galactica has had substantial, positive, coverage in the mainstream media. a strong lead-in and perfect placement on Sci-Fi Channel's Friday night schedule. The top rated non sports cable program in prime time among men age 25-54, Galactica is well written, well cast, and takes a minimalist approach to the use of special effects. I very much doubt that bit torrent has been the slightest factor in its success.
Who wants the hassle of connecting multiple video players, game consoles, set-top boxes and other devices to every TV in the house? The kid's bedroom, the basement playroom, and so on. If I can free up some space, and untangle another rat's nest of cables, it's all to the better.
Rogers & Hammerstein produced a musical version of Cinderella for television in 1957, Jim Henson, with The Muppets, in 1969. Talent learns from the past, it does not recreate it.
You want to be out there with the big dogs, become the next Brad Bird? Then write your own damn story, and make it richer, funnier, and more thrilling than anything in James Bond or The Fantastic Four.
The Marx Brothers...suppress distribution
The Marx Brothers films are available in two wonderful boxed sets released last year.
Microsoft entered the market for microcomputer languages with the introduction of the Altair in 1975. Fortran and COBOL for CP/M would follow in 1977 and 1978. By 1980, MBASIC would be everywhere.
It happens all the time when the rah-rah chorus of a cheerleader is all you really want to hear.
I came across a small item, little more than a filler, in the tech news the other day, mentioning a commitment from Dell to purchase 300,000 laptops a month in a 14" wide-screen format from a single Chinese supplier, all of which, of course, will be re-sold pre-loaded with Windows.
True enough, but the Mini is marketed as a device that "just works" with whatever you have on hand.
"In the fall of 1994, IBM released Warp (OS/2 3.0)..IBM had a product out ten months before Windows 95...OS/2 was technically a better system than Windows 95...with real program integrity, priorities, and server-quality I/O. None of this was discussed in any of the IBM ads or announcements. Instead, IBM concentrated on a "one button connection to the Internet" through IBM's expensive public network. It would be six months before IBM released a version..for corporate and campus use (with LAN support) and IBM never succeeded in capturing market share...among home...users."
O/S2 Warp
and when that "trick" makes you as rich as Michael Dell, what then? mass market acceptance of the PC began with the pre-install of a servceable O/S.
2.5 billion IMs a day in 26 languages. No one who uses the MSN client gives a damn about bloat.
and the nearest Linux shop to me is run out of the back of a car wash in Toronto.