That's an easy one to answer. Roogle is based on RSS, which comes from the XMLRPC 'designer', Dave Winer [userland.com]. Dave loves to draw attention to himself like a whore at a convention in Vegas... He *knows* he'll get shut down, but what he's *hoping* for is that Google (or someone) will pick up on his Roogle idea.
The other option is that he may have filed a patten on it, and is useing this as a way to insure google or another search engine doesn't pick up on his idea without paying him for it. A demand letter from google proves they know about him and the service.
The most effective ways to communicate with those elected to congress:
1. Visit and speak directly with them either at their DC office, or home office. When you are standing in front of them, you are the most difficult to ignore.
2. Write a letter. Mailed letters are the second most powerful tool the average person has to try and change a vote in DC.
3. Send a fax. A fax has less of an impact than a letter does, but its still counted as a yes or no on an issue.
4. Call them. Calls from voters still count. Polite calls are even included in the yes/no tally.
5. Email them. Emails are still not always counted in the yes/no tally, but a lot of email from typically does get counted. Printing it out and mailing it is usually best.
6. Open letters to the press can work, however they can also be completely ignored. If you write an open letter in the press, encourage others to write directly.
And before you start all this letter writing, make sure to read this guide to letter writing to support your rights online.
Then, you get all pissed when your water bill comes and 5,000 gallons show up when the circus comes to town and all the clowns have used your water fountain to fill all their water baloons.:-)
A single bull might be able go through that in a day. But the clowns? It would take a troupe of whitefaces to throw that many water bloons. But take heart, circus folk are good people. If this happens to you, you can be sure that any reputable circus would at least give you an Annie Oakley as well as paying for the water they use:)
This is a bill, a proposal for a new law, not a law. I would encourage every Oregon resident reading this to write your state senitors/reps and encourage them to support this bill. Letters from out of state can also be helpful, even if they are not counted as highly.
We/.ers are one of, if not the most connected community on earth. We have, what, 375,000 people who read/. every day and come from just about every nation in the world? Why then do we not take a page from actual grass roots groups and become a proactive in writing to law makers to change this garbage?
For now take a look at this letter writing guide. Over the weekend I will post a new one specific to the/. community. Maybe we can stop just complaining and start trying to fix these laws.
Academic universe IS avalible to libraries, and not just school libraries.
Before we get all pissy over this, we may wish to read about the services that are avalible from Lexis to libraries. Pricing for a non school library requiers you to contact a lexis rep, but I would guess they price it based on number of terminals that can access it at once, and the products that a library selects.
I do know that very few opt for the entire Academic Universe set, and I would guess that the rep she talked to had never priced it before or didn't know how to price it, so just said it was not avalible. Next time ask to speak with a manager.
Assuming software patents are legal, and assuming that patent law trumps copyright law (big assumption, but stick with me for a minute) then cant the patents on the software be used to invalidate the (c) when the patents expire?
Hey! We are already working on this! Ok, its essentually GPLed not PD (blame the lawyers), and its for circus arts not general education, but we have our first ready to be released this weekend!
The GNU is actually starting to have real effects outside of the free software world. circusnews is in the process of releasing a series of circus arts textbooks (used to teach kids things like acrobatic tumbling, stilting, juggling, fire twirling, clowning, etc), circus act scripts (the acts and routines performed), and other material for the circus an related performing arts community under a liceance inspired by the GPL. This circus-gpl is being adopted by a number of groups within the circus community much as the GPL has in the free software community.
You're really dealing with two intertwined issues here. The RIAA member companies price fixing / lack of sampling alternitives will ensure that P2P lasts for years to come reguardless of anything else.
Will it make a dent in Kazaa? You bet it will. Remove all of the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's (ok, removing music from the 70's won't make much of a dent, you can't pay people to listen to disco...) and you have just removed a HUGE chunk of what people download, and with it a very large audiance (those over 30) from p2p. So, yes, I think it will have a major effect.
However, simply changing copywright law to requier 'comercial profit' or 'intent to comercially profit' to the laws defining copyright violations will solve more problems than any solution I have yet seen. It removes the teeth of these laws to go after individuals, and forces the focus back to comercial copyright issues, and off the casual violator.
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You have never worked for an ambulance system that has used these. They very quickly become a central part of the medics care. They allow medics to administer meds under medical control that they otherwise could not, not under standing orders, and not on there own authority. For any one further than 10 minutes from a trauma center, this is critical.
Why couldn't a DSL provider find a way to agree to this, then offer an enhansed napster-like service to its customers? The ISP could charge a premium to its users for this service, including its own repository or catch, or simply use it as a major marketing advantage over other DSL/cable providers. The ISP and its users would be suit proof - they are paying for for it directly after all.
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I can just see it now:
1. you drive with this jammer on in your car. 2. paramedic unit is online to the cardioligist at the trauma center. 3. medic unit comes within range of your jammer. 4. medic unit looses both if its data connections to the hospital as well as its cellphone based medical control all at once. 5. in the 2 or 3 minutes the data phones take to reestablish a connection the medics do not administer a drug that requiers them be online. 6. Patiant dies that may not have due to you jammer.
Still a good idea? The bottom line is that we never know why some one is on a cell phone. While the majority may be just chatter, the fact is that it can also be a major crisis with major repercussions.
I used to work in the pest control industry. While there are exceptions to this (aka large operation with high turnover rates), by and large in this industry management tends to take personal responcibility for the issues that come up. If a worker under a manager (aka the webmaster running this fourm) can not solve a problem (eg this pesky user), the manager will step in and take it upon themselves to solve.
My guess is that: 1. PCTOnline received complaints about this user. 2. Those complaints reached who ever was over the web guy. 3. Manager asked web guy how long he had worked on the issue, and what technical options were still avalible. 4. web guy was unsure, or presented possibilities that made the managers eyes glaze over. 5. Manager took the issue upon himself and contacted his companies lawyers. 6. Lawyers sugested that filing suit may scare this pest off, and allow the online fourm to become productive tool again. 7. Manager OK's suit, likely knowing that they will never collect on this. 8. The lawyer is likely authorized to drop the suit if the troll in question signs a contract agreeing to stop troling this website.
The pest control industry is not an industry I would associate with being sue happy. Notice that they did not invoke a number of much harsher laws that could have been swung (DCMA for example).
I really wish the RIAA would go back to selling used cars or snake oil.
Used cars, OK. Any one can sell used cars. But snake oil is an artform. It takes real talent for a joey to do the pitchman act and sell snake oil. Even for a Whiteface to learn and perfect the pitchman act it takes YEARS and a LOT of HARD WORK! You really think these guys at the RIAA have what it takes to survive that kind of pressure in a real circus?
They will go broke and hopefully go back to loan sharking or selling snake oil.
Loan sharking, OK, but selling snake oil is an artform, man. It takes years for a Joey, even a Whiteface to learn and perfect the pitchman act. You really think these guys have what it takes to survive that kind of pressure?
I am assuming that you are not useing roming profiles. At each workstation map the 'My Documents' folder to the H: drive, the users home directory on the server. Make sure that your OOo or SO installs are set to use the H: drive as the default save location and then all should be good with the world. Good luck!
Anyone got the cell phone number of the spam king or his lawyer?
Oh, wait, this is completely off topic, and is something that any reasonable person knows is wrong. As a reasonable person I could not condone, nor would I ever want to see the spam king or his lawyer get spammed via his cell phone. Slashdot moderators please mod this down to -1 Offtopic.
This would be a really good thing IMHO. The big problem would come when those in the whitehouse and congress pass new arbitrary laws with little basis in the real world. You see, they would be forced to either specify that the FBI enforce a law, or appropreate $$ and ask the states to enforce it (remember, they can't order the states to comply with any law that costs the state money. They can only offer to pay the states to enforce it). They will no longer be able to just say "Federal Law Enforcement" and figure out whos mess it is later. So while I agree this would be a very good solution, its not one we will ever see.
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It looks like its time once again to become proactive. read this then write in to your senitors and congressional reps and oppose this.
The other option is that he may have filed a patten on it, and is useing this as a way to insure google or another search engine doesn't pick up on his idea without paying him for it. A demand letter from google proves they know about him and the service.
The most effective ways to communicate with those elected to congress:
1. Visit and speak directly with them either at their DC office, or home office. When you are standing in front of them, you are the most difficult to ignore.
2. Write a letter. Mailed letters are the second most powerful tool the average person has to try and change a vote in DC.
3. Send a fax. A fax has less of an impact than a letter does, but its still counted as a yes or no on an issue.
4. Call them. Calls from voters still count. Polite calls are even included in the yes/no tally.
5. Email them. Emails are still not always counted in the yes/no tally, but a lot of email from typically does get counted. Printing it out and mailing it is usually best.
6. Open letters to the press can work, however they can also be completely ignored. If you write an open letter in the press, encourage others to write directly.
And before you start all this letter writing, make sure to read this guide to letter writing to support your rights online.
I think they are looking at it as if it was more akin to mail fraud, which IIRC is also a felony, not not unlike most spam.
I just assumed it was either porn or spam, although since its at Stanford University, I am sure the MPAA/RIAA will have some thoughts on it...
This is a bill, a proposal for a new law, not a law. I would encourage every Oregon resident reading this to write your state senitors/reps and encourage them to support this bill. Letters from out of state can also be helpful, even if they are not counted as highly.
Then I would encourage you to do something about it. Start here, and make your voice count.
We /.ers are one of, if not the most connected community on earth. We have, what, 375,000 people who read /. every day and come from just about every nation in the world? Why then do we not take a page from actual grass roots groups and become a proactive in writing to law makers to change this garbage?
/. community. Maybe we can stop just complaining and start trying to fix these laws.
For now take a look at this letter writing guide. Over the weekend I will post a new one specific to the
Academic universe IS avalible to libraries, and not just school libraries.
Before we get all pissy over this, we may wish to read about the services that are avalible from Lexis to libraries. Pricing for a non school library requiers you to contact a lexis rep, but I would guess they price it based on number of terminals that can access it at once, and the products that a library selects.
I do know that very few opt for the entire Academic Universe set, and I would guess that the rep she talked to had never priced it before or didn't know how to price it, so just said it was not avalible. Next time ask to speak with a manager.
Assuming software patents are legal, and assuming that patent law trumps copyright law (big assumption, but stick with me for a minute) then cant the patents on the software be used to invalidate the (c) when the patents expire?
Hey! We are already working on this! Ok, its essentually GPLed not PD (blame the lawyers), and its for circus arts not general education, but we have our first ready to be released this weekend!
For those without email they recomend that you use this template
The GNU is actually starting to have real effects outside of the free software world. circusnews is in the process of releasing a series of circus arts textbooks (used to teach kids things like acrobatic tumbling, stilting, juggling, fire twirling, clowning, etc), circus act scripts (the acts and routines performed), and other material for the circus an related performing arts community under a liceance inspired by the GPL. This circus-gpl is being adopted by a number of groups within the circus community much as the GPL has in the free software community.
You're really dealing with two intertwined issues here. The RIAA member companies price fixing / lack of sampling alternitives will ensure that P2P lasts for years to come reguardless of anything else.
Will it make a dent in Kazaa? You bet it will. Remove all of the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's (ok, removing music from the 70's won't make much of a dent, you can't pay people to listen to disco...) and you have just removed a HUGE chunk of what people download, and with it a very large audiance (those over 30) from p2p. So, yes, I think it will have a major effect.
However, simply changing copywright law to requier 'comercial profit' or 'intent to comercially profit' to the laws defining copyright violations will solve more problems than any solution I have yet seen. It removes the teeth of these laws to go after individuals, and forces the focus back to comercial copyright issues, and off the casual violator.
You have never worked for an ambulance system that has used these. They very quickly become a central part of the medics care. They allow medics to administer meds under medical control that they otherwise could not, not under standing orders, and not on there own authority. For any one further than 10 minutes from a trauma center, this is critical.
Why couldn't a DSL provider find a way to agree to this, then offer an enhansed napster-like service to its customers? The ISP could charge a premium to its users for this service, including its own repository or catch, or simply use it as a major marketing advantage over other DSL/cable providers. The ISP and its users would be suit proof - they are paying for for it directly after all.
I can just see it now:
1. you drive with this jammer on in your car.
2. paramedic unit is online to the cardioligist at the trauma center.
3. medic unit comes within range of your jammer.
4. medic unit looses both if its data connections to the hospital as well as its cellphone based medical control all at once.
5. in the 2 or 3 minutes the data phones take to reestablish a connection the medics do not administer a drug that requiers them be online.
6. Patiant dies that may not have due to you jammer.
Still a good idea? The bottom line is that we never know why some one is on a cell phone. While the majority may be just chatter, the fact is that it can also be a major crisis with major repercussions.
I used to work in the pest control industry. While there are exceptions to this (aka large operation with high turnover rates), by and large in this industry management tends to take personal responcibility for the issues that come up. If a worker under a manager (aka the webmaster running this fourm) can not solve a problem (eg this pesky user), the manager will step in and take it upon themselves to solve.
My guess is that:
1. PCTOnline received complaints about this user.
2. Those complaints reached who ever was over the web guy.
3. Manager asked web guy how long he had worked on the issue, and what technical options were still avalible.
4. web guy was unsure, or presented possibilities that made the managers eyes glaze over.
5. Manager took the issue upon himself and contacted his companies lawyers.
6. Lawyers sugested that filing suit may scare this pest off, and allow the online fourm to become productive tool again.
7. Manager OK's suit, likely knowing that they will never collect on this.
8. The lawyer is likely authorized to drop the suit if the troll in question signs a contract agreeing to stop troling this website.
The pest control industry is not an industry I would associate with being sue happy. Notice that they did not invoke a number of much harsher laws that could have been swung (DCMA for example).
I really wish the RIAA would go back to selling used cars or snake oil.
Used cars, OK. Any one can sell used cars. But snake oil is an artform. It takes real talent for a joey to do the pitchman act and sell snake oil. Even for a Whiteface to learn and perfect the pitchman act it takes YEARS and a LOT of HARD WORK! You really think these guys at the RIAA have what it takes to survive that kind of pressure in a real circus?
Loan sharking, OK, but selling snake oil is an artform, man. It takes years for a Joey, even a Whiteface to learn and perfect the pitchman act. You really think these guys have what it takes to survive that kind of pressure?
Umm, wasn't this kind of agreement prohibited by the anti trust agreement?
I am assuming that you are not useing roming profiles. At each workstation map the 'My Documents' folder to the H: drive, the users home directory on the server. Make sure that your OOo or SO installs are set to use the H: drive as the default save location and then all should be good with the world. Good luck!
Anyone got the cell phone number of the spam king or his lawyer?
Oh, wait, this is completely off topic, and is something that any reasonable person knows is wrong. As a reasonable person I could not condone, nor would I ever want to see the spam king or his lawyer get spammed via his cell phone. Slashdot moderators please mod this down to -1 Offtopic.
This would be a really good thing IMHO. The big problem would come when those in the whitehouse and congress pass new arbitrary laws with little basis in the real world. You see, they would be forced to either specify that the FBI enforce a law, or appropreate $$ and ask the states to enforce it (remember, they can't order the states to comply with any law that costs the state money. They can only offer to pay the states to enforce it). They will no longer be able to just say "Federal Law Enforcement" and figure out whos mess it is later. So while I agree this would be a very good solution, its not one we will ever see.