At common law, defamation covers any communication that tends to lower the esteem of the subject in the minds of ordinary members of the public.[1] The perspective measuring the esteem is highly contextual, and depends on the view of the potential audience of the communication and their degree of background knowledge. Probably true statements are not excluded, nor are political opinions. Intent is always presumed, and it is not necessary to prove that the defendant intended to defame.
Kudos to Slashdot for their moderation system, that allows trolls to be modded out of sight for most users.
Conversely, an unrepentant troll can post something insightful (by accident, no doubt) and it can be modded up to be seen by most users.
Salon.com letters section suffers from severe trollery, hence the (shameless plug follows:) Salon KillFile (http://salon.maow.net), which blocks spammers by their web site names, regardless of this week's user names. It also bans trolls by name with a single button click, and highlights a user's favourite authors with a click of a button. Finally, it also automatically highlights Salon staff letters.
Anyway, it's not as good as a moderation system, but Salon is too stupid/lazy/uncaring to bother upgrading their comment system, so users had to make their own GreaseMonkey script to do it for them.
How would this apply to VoIP phone records? Skype calls? MSN Live calls? There are international calls which get switched via US carriers. Are those subject to this privacy grab?
For example, I've got Canadian customers who use US VoIP carriers to place overseas calls. I've got Canadian customers whose Canadian customer may choose to use a US route for least-cost-routing, unbeknownst to them.
Is this just for PSTN or cell calls?
By extension, all data packets going through the US will wind up getting monitored.
You've explained one reason why Canadians, from BC in particular, were upset with the gov't out-sourcing medical coverage payments to an American company. All our data is possibly monitored in transit, and added to data-mining profiles of us.
And, my monthly payments for 2 adults went from $92 to $190 for the privilege.
Anyway, savvy Canadians are more and more unhappy to see our critical data transferred over any American-controlled networks.
[107] The Governor in Council has in many respects adhered to and acknowledged the Canadian telecommunication policy objectives as set out in section 7 of the Act.
However, the Governor in Council has stepped outside those provisions by inserting a previously unknown policy objective into section 7; namely, that of ensuring access to foreign capital, technology and experience. Secondly it erred by limiting its Decision to Globalive only.
And this:
[113] A decision-maker such as the Governor in Council is not only required to take into consideration the relevant statutory criteria, but also to exclude irrelevant criteria
[118] In the second of the above “Whereas” clauses, the Governor in Council acted outside the legal parameters of the
Act in stating that its Decision impacts only on Globalive. The Governor in Council cannot restrict its interpretation to one individual and not to others who may find themselves in a similar circumstance.
[119] These improper considerations were fundamental to the determination of the Governor in Council to reverse the Decision of the CRTC. Therefore, the Decision of the Governor in Council must be quashed.
Unless the service is refreshing the image data every single day with a new key, in which case: (a) they will run out of bandwidth and CPU in a week, (b) they will hit facebook's limits very very soon, and (c) I still have copies of yesterday's encrypted data and yesterday's key.
Valid points, but thinking out loud here: if they serve up the image with image-magick, they could re-encrypt on a daily or weekly basis and only store the keys, dates valid, and of course the original image.
May have to customise image-magick with an encryption plugin.
If only they followed Roland Piquepaille's lead... TO THE GRAVE!!!
If I recall, Roland changed his ways after the outcries of Slashdotters, and towards the end of his life he posted stories with links to the original source, not just his blog.
Give the guy a break, he did post thoughtful stuff (if I recall correctly), oh, and also, he's dead.
The Daily Mail is a right wing propaganda machine. It is not to be trusted as a source of unbiased information.
If you want the flip side of the coin, go read The Guardian articles.
I'm on the other side of "the pond", and I'm aware that The Daily Mail is a disgrace. I hesitated to click on link posted way above.
However, neither The Guardian nor any other paper has any details to compare with and, in *this* case, it's a well researched & written story. Shocking, I know, but I encourage you (and others) to read just this *one* story.
Unless someone can point us to a Guardian article with the same depth?
Maybe this is an announcement concerning the recent meta-studies of Viking landers' data from 1976 that showed off-gassing of Martian soil (non-sterilized samples only), following a 26 hour period (i.e. Martian circadian cycle).
The off-gasing of Martian soil was detected daily for something like 9 *weeks*!
Too busy to find all links in/. archive, but maybe others can recall the story here before...
I encourage you to rethink at least the spirit of Thaetius's contributions to the dialogue.
He's a sophisticated shill. I'm sorry you fell for his act.
Insofar as the evidence you have posted on Slashdot in the two recent threads I've read, you've failed to prove your allegation that he's a shill.
Further, you seemed to have purposely neglected to address in a way that could help the Judges (i.e./. readers) expand our understanding of the concept of distribution, i.e. a simple, polite rebuttal of Thaetetus(?)'s allegation that Tannenbaum admitted distribution.
Seriously, if Theatatus(?) is full o' crap, help us understand why. Is it a colloquialism vs defined legal term when he used "distribution"?
But as of this evening, within Slashdot's court-of-opinion, he's gaining credibility and you're apparently, shockingly, losing it.
Yay, NewYorkCountryLawyer has finally catched the slashdot-groupthink: if you don't agree with what I say, you are an idiot, Welcome Mr. Beckerman.
On a slightly different note, I guess the RIAA has thrown a wave of minions and apologists to slashdot, my question would be, how much did they pay for such low slashdot IDs??
It should be their new "internet strategy" to try to reduce file sharing. Welcome to slashdot RIAA!
I get it - that's good. Ridicule Slashdot Groupthink, then display an example of it. Clever, as I like humour / sarcasm.
Or, are you accusing someone of being an RIAA shill? If so, can I ask who? And, why? Thanks.
Let me be clear, my sympathy's are on NYCL's side in these cases, but he had to be called out on his groupthink, er, name calling.
Since the "distribution troll" is working this thread, I'll make this statement once
Sheesh, Ray, that "troll" has been very thoughtful in his posts about distribution - not trollish at all.
I read his posts quite carefully after you snarked at him in a previous thread and I thought (IANAL) that he made very good (not implying correct) points about distribution. While IANAL, as a disinterested observer I felt he made very interesting points. I did *not* feel he was pro-RIAA.
I felt you owed Thaetius(?), the self-proclaimed law student, an apology after that previous thread and I feel you owe him even more after this post.
Really, I very much appreciate your input to Slashdot, but these troll-accusation posts? Not so much.
I encourage you to rethink at least the spirit of Thaetius's contributions to the dialogue.
Brown says if the hospital had first asked her permission to test Isabel, now 10 months old, she might have chosen to pay for it out of pocket so the results wouldn't be known to the insurance company."
If the solenoid is electrically driven, is it really an engine by the definition above (reciprocating)?
I mean sure, the piston reciprocates, but not as part of power generation like in an ICE. I suppose the object being physically acted upon would see the solenoid piston as the source of power.
It seems that viewing a solenoid as an engine means that electricity is the fuel, and my mind is choking on that.
Is electricity as "fuel" to a solenoid as electric engine a valid analogy?
Am I on the right track here, or simply out to lunch?
Somehow "heat engine" directly translates into "internal combustion engine" for me.
My first thought was Stirling Engine...
As a side note, the difference between a motor and an engine is that a motor rotates, an engine reciprocates. You can indeed have an electric engine (theyre usually called "solenoids") and a gasoline motor (Mazda had "rotary engines" back in the '70s; they were actually gasoline motors.)
Interesting, I've often wondered about that.
Could you kindly expand on how reciprocation happens in relation to a solenoid? I'm a bit clueless there, as I'm envisioning a solenoid working like a relay and that's probably incorrect.
Slashdot Mirror
One of the most important parts of libel, and one that you overlooked, is that libelous statements have to be believable.
Depends on jurisdiction. For Canadians, and likely many other Commonwealth nations, this is decidedly NOT true.
From https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Canadian_defamation_law:
At common law, defamation covers any communication that tends to lower the esteem of the subject in the minds of ordinary members of the public.[1] The perspective measuring the esteem is highly contextual, and depends on the view of the potential audience of the communication and their degree of background knowledge. Probably true statements are not excluded, nor are political opinions. Intent is always presumed, and it is not necessary to prove that the defendant intended to defame.
Kudos to Slashdot for their moderation system, that allows trolls to be modded out of sight for most users.
Conversely, an unrepentant troll can post something insightful (by accident, no doubt) and it can be modded up to be seen by most users.
Salon.com letters section suffers from severe trollery, hence the (shameless plug follows:) Salon KillFile (http://salon.maow.net), which blocks spammers by their web site names, regardless of this week's user names. It also bans trolls by name with a single button click, and highlights a user's favourite authors with a click of a button. Finally, it also automatically highlights Salon staff letters.
Anyway, it's not as good as a moderation system, but Salon is too stupid/lazy/uncaring to bother upgrading their comment system, so users had to make their own GreaseMonkey script to do it for them.
Again, kudos to Slashdot!
I do hope that their royalty cheques stop flowing due to this.
Publisher: "Sorry, Junior, cannot use the word 'Tolkien' anymore, so your royalty cheques are being put in escrow."
One can dream...
How would this apply to VoIP phone records? Skype calls? MSN Live calls? There are international calls which get switched via US carriers. Are those subject to this privacy grab?
For example, I've got Canadian customers who use US VoIP carriers to place overseas calls. I've got Canadian customers whose Canadian customer may choose to use a US route for least-cost-routing, unbeknownst to them.
Is this just for PSTN or cell calls?
By extension, all data packets going through the US will wind up getting monitored.
You've explained one reason why Canadians, from BC in particular, were upset with the gov't out-sourcing medical coverage payments to an American company. All our data is possibly monitored in transit, and added to data-mining profiles of us.
And, my monthly payments for 2 adults went from $92 to $190 for the privilege.
Anyway, savvy Canadians are more and more unhappy to see our critical data transferred over any American-controlled networks.
I'm a Wind customer: $40 / month, unlimited talk & text Canada & US wide, unlimited internet (possibly throttled after 5 gigs).
I looked at the decision and summarized it here: http://android.maow.net./ The errors in law were:
I'd mod you up but moderation is broken on opera
I'd mod him up, but reading is broken on Firefox.
Valid points, but thinking out loud here: if they serve up the image with image-magick, they could re-encrypt on a daily or weekly basis and only store the keys, dates valid, and of course the original image.
May have to customise image-magick with an encryption plugin.
Over all ... yeah, no this seems dumb.
If only they followed Roland Piquepaille's lead... TO THE GRAVE!!!
If I recall, Roland changed his ways after the outcries of Slashdotters, and towards the end of his life he posted stories with links to the original source, not just his blog.
Give the guy a break, he did post thoughtful stuff (if I recall correctly), oh, and also, he's dead.
The Daily Mail is a right wing propaganda machine. It is not to be trusted as a source of unbiased information.
If you want the flip side of the coin, go read The Guardian articles.
I'm on the other side of "the pond", and I'm aware that The Daily Mail is a disgrace. I hesitated to click on link posted way above.
However, neither The Guardian nor any other paper has any details to compare with and, in *this* case, it's a well researched & written story. Shocking, I know, but I encourage you (and others) to read just this *one* story.
Unless someone can point us to a Guardian article with the same depth?
Maybe this is an announcement concerning the recent meta-studies of Viking landers' data from 1976 that showed off-gassing of Martian soil (non-sterilized samples only), following a 26 hour period (i.e. Martian circadian cycle).
The off-gasing of Martian soil was detected daily for something like 9 *weeks*!
Too busy to find all links in /. archive, but maybe others can recall the story here before...
2+2=5 for sufficiently big values of 2.
or for sufficiently small values of 5.
+5 Funny, but thanks to the content of your post, I no longer know if that's good.
I use an HP "Media Center" PC, running Ubuntu with MythTV
I have an HP Media Centre but have been utterly unable to use built-in TV tuner(s) within Ubuntu.
lspci says it's this
> Multimedia controller: ViXS Systems, Inc. XCode 2100 Series
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 48b0
Is either of your analogue tuners this model?
If so, could you please share some guidance on just how you managed to get this device recognised!?!
Thanks in advance.
I encourage you to rethink at least the spirit of Thaetius's contributions to the dialogue.
He's a sophisticated shill. I'm sorry you fell for his act.
Insofar as the evidence you have posted on Slashdot in the two recent threads I've read, you've failed to prove your allegation that he's a shill.
Further, you seemed to have purposely neglected to address in a way that could help the Judges (i.e. /. readers) expand our understanding of the concept of distribution, i.e. a simple, polite rebuttal of Thaetetus(?)'s allegation that Tannenbaum admitted distribution.
Seriously, if Theatatus(?) is full o' crap, help us understand why. Is it a colloquialism vs defined legal term when he used "distribution"?
But as of this evening, within Slashdot's court-of-opinion, he's gaining credibility and you're apparently, shockingly, losing it.
Yay, NewYorkCountryLawyer has finally catched the slashdot-groupthink: if you don't agree with what I say, you are an idiot, Welcome Mr. Beckerman.
On a slightly different note, I guess the RIAA has thrown a wave of minions and apologists to slashdot, my question would be, how much did they pay for such low slashdot IDs??
It should be their new "internet strategy" to try to reduce file sharing. Welcome to slashdot RIAA!
I get it - that's good. Ridicule Slashdot Groupthink, then display an example of it. Clever, as I like humour / sarcasm.
Or, are you accusing someone of being an RIAA shill? If so, can I ask who? And, why? Thanks.
Let me be clear, my sympathy's are on NYCL's side in these cases, but he had to be called out on his groupthink, er, name calling.
Sheesh, Ray, that "troll" has been very thoughtful in his posts about distribution - not trollish at all.
I read his posts quite carefully after you snarked at him in a previous thread and I thought (IANAL) that he made very good (not implying correct) points about distribution. While IANAL, as a disinterested observer I felt he made very interesting points. I did *not* feel he was pro-RIAA.
I felt you owed Thaetius(?), the self-proclaimed law student, an apology after that previous thread and I feel you owe him even more after this post.
Really, I very much appreciate your input to Slashdot, but these troll-accusation posts? Not so much.
I encourage you to rethink at least the spirit of Thaetius's contributions to the dialogue.
Original text: "Bjork Bjork Bjork."
Are you sure you don't mean "Björk Björk Björk"?
Actually, I *did* mean that, but didn't think SlashDot supported those characters.
I see from a follow up reply that both of us appear wrong, it's "Bjørk Bjørk Bjørk".
I guess THAT was the BEFORE translation text...
Plus hopefully the Norwegian government has produced a document explaining their position, that will be quotable for reference.
Newsflash from Oslo. In a press conference today, the Norwegian Gov't said, "Bjork Bjork Bjork."
And that's *after* translation.
Original text: "Bjork Bjork Bjork."
Brown says if the hospital had first asked her permission to test Isabel, now 10 months old, she might have chosen to pay for it out of pocket so the results wouldn't be known to the insurance company."
Isn't this a breach of informed consent?
How many Libraries Of Congress will the source code amount to?
Or is it easier to measure it in VW Bugs? Football field lengths?
I'm confused.
If the solenoid is electrically driven, is it really an engine by the definition above (reciprocating)?
I mean sure, the piston reciprocates, but not as part of power generation like in an ICE. I suppose the object being physically acted upon would see the solenoid piston as the source of power.
It seems that viewing a solenoid as an engine means that electricity is the fuel, and my mind is choking on that.
Is electricity as "fuel" to a solenoid as electric engine a valid analogy?
Am I on the right track here, or simply out to lunch?
My first thought was Stirling Engine...
Interesting, I've often wondered about that.
Could you kindly expand on how reciprocation happens in relation to a solenoid? I'm a bit clueless there, as I'm envisioning a solenoid working like a relay and that's probably incorrect.
Thanks!
Yes, I believe its called the "Placebo Effect."
That would require the wife to *expect* an *improvement* from a diagnostic test.
While that might be the case, it seems unlikely.
I hope someone looks into this further (bring it up with neurologist again Frans, or with another one!)
Can only reiterate what's been said before:
I've learned more from +5 comments than anywhere else.
His problems compound exponentially...
Now the poor bastard will never work again. /humour
500+ comments and this was the first one dealing with the facts in the case.