I forgot one thing -
you[big business filing lawsuits] wouldn't need to be suing people left and right if your product already provided all the neccessary functionality and insight that it currently:obviously: lacks =)
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John Perry Barlow: There are three things at stake. The first is, extending a monopoly to a few large organizations about what people can or cannot know and express. This is really about the control of information and it has the potential to become over time a kind of private totalitarianism. That is not an exaggeration since it has already happened in the United States. The reason that the U.S. is behaving in the completely irrational and dangerous way that it is, is because we have erected private totalitarianism and are suffering a reality distortion field that is as dangerous as the one erupted in Germany in the 1930s. But not being driven by the government, but being driven by the media. Being driven by ourselves. I fear erecting a system which highly advantages a very few corporate channels for human intellectual exchange
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Amen. It seems in the past 1 1/2 years more and more proposed legislation has gotten to the point where I wonder if half my representatives can even turn on a computer or work a CD player.
Look at some of the preposterous things we have been inundated with and will continue to be until we speak up to our representatives and provide them the proper information and insight into IT laws. Right now the basis of most of it is to hinder competition and prosper monopolies ala the garage door opener lawsuit[universal remotes].
I thought a decent portion of the page ranking statistics came from stats collected from the google toolbar ?
anyhow from what I've seen if you take a site like slashdot that has thousands of outgoing links, your page ranking is going to bloat possibly higher than what it actually is from the referrers that end up being logged.
thank God they didn't get rid of the wavy WordArt. I don't know how half the briefings I have to sit through would survive!!
Obivously you can't form an intelligent opinion from the screenshots but I don't think there's been much incentive to upgrade since office 2000. There's already 2000+ features I have absolutely no need for, or companies disallow use of anyhow. And as someone else mentioned OpenOffice is completely free and almost complimentary.
more importantly can/will they enforce a statue of limitation anywhere - when the RIAA rules the world - and fine me for each copy of 'Barry Manilow live in Taipei' that I burn and sell;)
so let's say half of this legislation the RIAA wants passed or intiated goes through, then anyone selling bootlegs would be violating something or other most likely. Now it is indeed a police matter.
Just because the RIAA initiates doesn't mean they wouldn't be using the police as their middleman or lapdog.
Say the RIAA comes knocking on Ebay's door and wants a list of everyone who sold, bought, traded, anything with live boots, records, vinyl, cd's etc etc of any major label artist. Or what if the label themselves gets involved.
I think some people would have different opinions on this privacy issue, although I agree when it comes to the scam artists a heightened police interventention level would be welcome.
"well we've isolated the non buyers..... now how can we screw ourselves out of responsible purchaser's money... hmmm"
If I hear a crappy assed song I download then I would never buy the album if it showed the mp3 was encoded at >= 128. I'm a pretty responsible purchaser so now you're just going to lose my business as well.
eh well maybe the Cheeky Twins CD will make up for it all.......
haha that's what I first thought. I mean the first line says
"arb writes "The Age has an interview with Shawn Gordon, president of theKompany.com "
I got it, and I have the attention span of a 11yr old and the patience of a gnat.;)
Given their support of the berman bill wouldn't it make sense they would be having a system similar to this being developed for immediate rollout as soon as the bill is passed - which of course with shady deals and backroom politics will probably sneak in one day.
That being said however the fact that gobbles would mention the RIAA in his msg so many times given that if they had contracted them to do it they would have NDA's up the ying and just mentioning the RIAA in this before the bill is passed would most likely violate the NDA. simply put the bill is not passed if the RIAA hired them to do this and implement it before the bill passes then they could be sued be everyone under the sun. that alone makes me think it is a setup for some bad publicity to the RIAA while latching good publicity to gobbles et al.
And btw I haven't seen it mentioned but Winamp just had a patch less than a month ago to fix a buffer overflow for id3 tags which could lead to malicious code being run on your machine. IT says right on www.winamp.com all the details. If you're winamp is older than dec 17, 2002 you should upgrade =)
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as long as they let me keep my sanford and son and diff'rent strokes ring tones I'll be a happy man!
I forgot one thing - you[big business filing lawsuits] wouldn't need to be suing people left and right if your product already provided all the neccessary functionality and insight that it currently :obviously: lacks =)
>>> John Perry Barlow: There are three things at stake. The first is, extending a monopoly to a few large organizations about what people can or cannot know and express. This is really about the control of information and it has the potential to become over time a kind of private totalitarianism. That is not an exaggeration since it has already happened in the United States. The reason that the U.S. is behaving in the completely irrational and dangerous way that it is, is because we have erected private totalitarianism and are suffering a reality distortion field that is as dangerous as the one erupted in Germany in the 1930s. But not being driven by the government, but being driven by the media. Being driven by ourselves. I fear erecting a system which highly advantages a very few corporate channels for human intellectual exchange >>>
Amen. It seems in the past 1 1/2 years more and more proposed legislation has gotten to the point where I wonder if half my representatives can even turn on a computer or work a CD player.
Look at some of the preposterous things we have been inundated with and will continue to be until we speak up to our representatives and provide them the proper information and insight into IT laws. Right now the basis of most of it is to hinder competition and prosper monopolies ala the garage door opener lawsuit[universal remotes].
I thought a decent portion of the page ranking statistics came from stats collected from the google toolbar ?
anyhow from what I've seen if you take a site like slashdot that has thousands of outgoing links, your page ranking is going to bloat possibly higher than what it actually is from the referrers that end up being logged.
All Hugh Loebner wanted to do was become world famous, eliminate all human toil, and get laid a lot.
does this mean we're all considered entrepeneurs ?
thank God they didn't get rid of the wavy WordArt. I don't know how half the briefings I have to sit through would survive!!
Obivously you can't form an intelligent opinion from the screenshots but I don't think there's been much incentive to upgrade since office 2000. There's already 2000+ features I have absolutely no need for, or companies disallow use of anyhow. And as someone else mentioned OpenOffice is completely free and almost complimentary.
more importantly can/will they enforce a statue of limitation anywhere - when the RIAA rules the world - and fine me for each copy of 'Barry Manilow live in Taipei' that I burn and sell ;)
so let's say half of this legislation the RIAA wants passed or intiated goes through, then anyone selling bootlegs would be violating something or other most likely. Now it is indeed a police matter.
Just because the RIAA initiates doesn't mean they wouldn't be using the police as their middleman or lapdog.
Say the RIAA comes knocking on Ebay's door and wants a list of everyone who sold, bought, traded, anything with live boots, records, vinyl, cd's etc etc of any major label artist. Or what if the label themselves gets involved.
I think some people would have different opinions on this privacy issue, although I agree when it comes to the scam artists a heightened police interventention level would be welcome.
"well we've isolated the non buyers ..... now how can we screw ourselves out of responsible purchaser's money... hmmm"
If I hear a crappy assed song I download then I would never buy the album if it showed the mp3 was encoded at >= 128. I'm a pretty responsible purchaser so now you're just going to lose my business as well.
eh well maybe the Cheeky Twins CD will make up for it all .......
haha that's what I first thought. I mean the first line says "arb writes "The Age has an interview with Shawn Gordon, president of theKompany.com " I got it, and I have the attention span of a 11yr old and the patience of a gnat. ;)
someone should just tell him not to worry so much....... the internet is just a fad anyway.
Given their support of the berman bill wouldn't it make sense they would be having a system similar to this being developed for immediate rollout as soon as the bill is passed - which of course with shady deals and backroom politics will probably sneak in one day.
That being said however the fact that gobbles would mention the RIAA in his msg so many times given that if they had contracted them to do it they would have NDA's up the ying and just mentioning the RIAA in this before the bill is passed would most likely violate the NDA. simply put the bill is not passed if the RIAA hired them to do this and implement it before the bill passes then they could be sued be everyone under the sun. that alone makes me think it is a setup for some bad publicity to the RIAA while latching good publicity to gobbles et al.
And btw I haven't seen it mentioned but Winamp just had a patch less than a month ago to fix a buffer overflow for id3 tags which could lead to malicious code being run on your machine. IT says right on www.winamp.com all the details. If you're winamp is older than dec 17, 2002 you should upgrade =)