While I don't have a problem with this satire website, they are clearly cyber squatting. When you pick a domain that is one character off from the official site, and your site mimics design, then there is a problem.
It's a very underhanded approach to getting your message out, and is completely inappropriate, regardless of legality.
It's called 'Safe Harbor Hours', and during them, radio stations can pretty much play whatever they want.
However, stations do have to take into account local obscenity laws all of the time.
The trick is, and this is what keeps stations from being fined, is that the people that actually listen to these shows repeatedly don't mind hearing vularity, so they don't complain. And most people who are just flipping through stations just don't care enough; so even if stations are indecent during the day, it's rare that anyone gets a fine. (That is, unless your station regularly broadcasts Howard Stern... in which case... well, thats another story for another day.)
Obscenity and Indecency are also 2 different things. The FCC regulates indecency (which is the lesser), and local governments regulate obscenity. It's very strange... because where does one draw the line.
Then again, sometimes laws and regulations are convoluted for a reason to allow for some legroom.
This is not likely to happen, as essentially the judge rulled that the law violated due process, which is a portion of the constitution. It would be rather difficult to pass teh same law twice.
This company is amazing. If you read their corporate history, it's littered with stories of litigation. My favorite entry:
Feb. 2003: Optima partners with the Lava Group www.lavagroup.net to enforce Optima patents, trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property
Do they really think that their customers particuarlly care that they hired new lawyers?
Sounds like EOLAS 2: Electric Bugaloo, but the dates on the patent are gonna be hard to match.
I'm not a troll, but the main advertisement on this story page is a picture of G.W. and the tag line 'top gun' and then something about buying a G.W. action figure. I'll raise you your 'fair and balanced' and throw in a 'but the children!.'
Anyhoo, everyone else will make (bad) comments about lame RIAA/GUNS jokes, just wanted to throw in something a little different.
Why do the record companies hate this so much?
Because the underlings have undermined their authority.
Think all the way back, changes in the recording industry, all the way to Thomas Edison, have resulted because a few people with a lot of money made changes. Magnetic Reel to Vinyl, Vinyl to Cassette, Cassette to CD (With the bastard child DAT in there somewhere), these changes all came about as a result of music industry exectives decreeing it.
They hate downloading music because they didn't come up with it first. It's superior to their physical distribution mechanisms, but because they didn't think of it; first they tried to crush it, then they tried to crush it again, with insane DRM.
It takes (I can't believe I'm going to say this, but) normal people like Jobs to put them in their place.
I think it says alot about the music industry when Steve Jobs becomes the straight man.
Yea, the only problem with harddrives is they inevitably fail. CD's and DVD's fail also, but if one of them dies, you've lost that one DVD, if your HD dies, you've lost everything.
I backup frequently for just this purpose, and low and behold, I would also like a better method of storage than putting CD's back on empty spindles.
While I recognize that they work in dos... being as to the fact that these all seem confined to one geographic area... there might have been some sort of a weird ass power surge. Just my 3.14 cents.
My question is, is the RIAA specifically avoiding sueing slashdotters? I find it amazing that we have yet to hear of a case actually going to court, and by the tone of everyone on/. (myself included), it would seem that droves of these cases would be going to actual court, and would in turn attract lots of media attention.
I've done this before, although entirely by accident. Didn't notice where my hands were on the keyboard so I setup an account with my fingers one set of keys to the left and up from what I intended. It created a few problems when I attempted to login again....
Digital TV is a wonderful idea, crystal clear picture and all, but the real question is, will anyone really notice a difference. Do I really need to be able to count all of the wrinkles on Ted Koppel's face?
I'm currently working on a degree in Broadcasting, and the US mandated transition to digital is not going to happen in 2006, no matter what the FCC says. I'll be impressed if it happens by 2016.
At home, I still use a 11 year old television and an 18 year old television. I'm not going to replace then until they break, and I'll be damned if I'm going to buy (or rent, if the cable company gets its way) a digital converter box to watch tv.
It's not happening here in the US, why does Japan think that it's going to happen there?
Really, is there a reason to archive everything in the world? Sure, your 4 year old has some pretty drawings, but should they be put in a library someplace?
100 years from now, should anyone be forced to accidentally stumble over goatse? (which is very disturbingly archived on archive.org)
What about people who are missing digits? I have an professor that is missing is ring finger completely. Now, I imagine this would be more focused on thumb prints or you index finger, but I'm sure that there are more than a few people who are missing the fingers of choice for a project like this.
My question is, if you're Gary Kasparov, what's the point anymore? You will beat all human players, hands down, so you're stuck playing machines, which is incredibly antisocial. It would seem that it's time to hang up your chess hat and move on.
Although... he probably gets paid shitloads of money, so nevermind.
Is it better for security researchers to avoid publicly criticizing e-voting flaws? Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?"
Is this a trick question? Is Slashdot being controlled by e-voting Nazi's who hope to find out those that are skeptical so they can come to their houses and force feed them e-voting propaganda?
Oh well, the answer is NO!!! Security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK!!!
Having used Fedora (for roughly 3 minutes before fleeing); I must say it is completely unimpressive. Perhaps I haven't kept up with redhat as much as I should have, but I expected it to be a bit more intuitive.
As a slack user I wasn't expecting the world, hell, I wasn't even expecting North America... but I wanted a little more than the Canadian province of Ontario.
Slashdot Mirror
While I don't have a problem with this satire website, they are clearly cyber squatting. When you pick a domain that is one character off from the official site, and your site mimics design, then there is a problem.
It's a very underhanded approach to getting your message out, and is completely inappropriate, regardless of legality.
It's called 'Safe Harbor Hours', and during them, radio stations can pretty much play whatever they want.
However, stations do have to take into account local obscenity laws all of the time.
The trick is, and this is what keeps stations from being fined, is that the people that actually listen to these shows repeatedly don't mind hearing vularity, so they don't complain. And most people who are just flipping through stations just don't care enough; so even if stations are indecent during the day, it's rare that anyone gets a fine. (That is, unless your station regularly broadcasts Howard Stern... in which case... well, thats another story for another day.)
Obscenity and Indecency are also 2 different things. The FCC regulates indecency (which is the lesser), and local governments regulate obscenity. It's very strange... because where does one draw the line.
Then again, sometimes laws and regulations are convoluted for a reason to allow for some legroom.
This is not likely to happen, as essentially the judge rulled that the law violated due process, which is a portion of the constitution. It would be rather difficult to pass teh same law twice.
Ummm, last time I checked, procreation worked fine without marriage.
The master would not approve.
This company is amazing. If you read their corporate history, it's littered with stories of litigation. My favorite entry:
Feb. 2003: Optima partners with the Lava Group www.lavagroup.net to enforce Optima patents, trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property
Do they really think that their customers particuarlly care that they hired new lawyers?
Sounds like EOLAS 2: Electric Bugaloo, but the dates on the patent are gonna be hard to match.
Is it really that hard for you to convert your tin foil hat into a tin foil wallet that you need to someone else to make one for you?
What sort of graphical interfaces run/come with Solaris?
Ditto, I'm thinking, "What did, did Dr. Evil kidnap him and he wants us to give into his demands or the muppet gets shot out an airlock!?!?!"
I'm not a troll, but the main advertisement on this story page is a picture of G.W. and the tag line 'top gun' and then something about buying a G.W. action figure. I'll raise you your 'fair and balanced' and throw in a 'but the children!.'
Anyhoo, everyone else will make (bad) comments about lame RIAA/GUNS jokes, just wanted to throw in something a little different.
Why do the record companies hate this so much?
Because the underlings have undermined their authority.
Think all the way back, changes in the recording industry, all the way to Thomas Edison, have resulted because a few people with a lot of money made changes. Magnetic Reel to Vinyl, Vinyl to Cassette, Cassette to CD (With the bastard child DAT in there somewhere), these changes all came about as a result of music industry exectives decreeing it.
They hate downloading music because they didn't come up with it first. It's superior to their physical distribution mechanisms, but because they didn't think of it; first they tried to crush it, then they tried to crush it again, with insane DRM.
It takes (I can't believe I'm going to say this, but) normal people like Jobs to put them in their place.
I think it says alot about the music industry when Steve Jobs becomes the straight man.
Darl: Oh yea, well.... uhhhh..... ummmm, I declare ITWorld.com unconstitutional. Prepare to be sued suckas!
Yea, the only problem with harddrives is they inevitably fail. CD's and DVD's fail also, but if one of them dies, you've lost that one DVD, if your HD dies, you've lost everything.
I backup frequently for just this purpose, and low and behold, I would also like a better method of storage than putting CD's back on empty spindles.
While I recognize that they work in dos... being as to the fact that these all seem confined to one geographic area... there might have been some sort of a weird ass power surge. Just my 3.14 cents.
My question is, is the RIAA specifically avoiding sueing slashdotters? I find it amazing that we have yet to hear of a case actually going to court, and by the tone of everyone on /. (myself included), it would seem that droves of these cases would be going to actual court, and would in turn attract lots of media attention.
Something is fishy here...
I thought that the Scarlet Letter was just a really bad old book, not reality...
I've done this before, although entirely by accident. Didn't notice where my hands were on the keyboard so I setup an account with my fingers one set of keys to the left and up from what I intended. It created a few problems when I attempted to login again....
Digital TV is a wonderful idea, crystal clear picture and all, but the real question is, will anyone really notice a difference. Do I really need to be able to count all of the wrinkles on Ted Koppel's face?
I'm currently working on a degree in Broadcasting, and the US mandated transition to digital is not going to happen in 2006, no matter what the FCC says. I'll be impressed if it happens by 2016.
At home, I still use a 11 year old television and an 18 year old television. I'm not going to replace then until they break, and I'll be damned if I'm going to buy (or rent, if the cable company gets its way) a digital converter box to watch tv.
It's not happening here in the US, why does Japan think that it's going to happen there?
Really, is there a reason to archive everything in the world? Sure, your 4 year old has some pretty drawings, but should they be put in a library someplace?
100 years from now, should anyone be forced to accidentally stumble over goatse? (which is very disturbingly archived on archive.org)
I question whether Wal-Mart won't become the next target of a government anti-trust violation.
What about people who are missing digits? I have an professor that is missing is ring finger completely. Now, I imagine this would be more focused on thumb prints or you index finger, but I'm sure that there are more than a few people who are missing the fingers of choice for a project like this.
This is why thumb-snatchers would do all their dirty work at anonymous places... like at an ATM, where they can cover up the camera.
Attack of the Thumb Snatchers, coming soon to a B-movie theater near you!
My question is, if you're Gary Kasparov, what's the point anymore? You will beat all human players, hands down, so you're stuck playing machines, which is incredibly antisocial. It would seem that it's time to hang up your chess hat and move on.
Although... he probably gets paid shitloads of money, so nevermind.
Is it better for security researchers to avoid publicly criticizing e-voting flaws? Is public faith in the system more important than overall system security?"
Is this a trick question? Is Slashdot being controlled by e-voting Nazi's who hope to find out those that are skeptical so they can come to their houses and force feed them e-voting propaganda?
Oh well, the answer is NO!!! Security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK!!!
Having used Fedora (for roughly 3 minutes before fleeing); I must say it is completely unimpressive. Perhaps I haven't kept up with redhat as much as I should have, but I expected it to be a bit more intuitive.
As a slack user I wasn't expecting the world, hell, I wasn't even expecting North America... but I wanted a little more than the Canadian province of Ontario.