Nope, gets me a (suppressed) interstitial ad, then after a delay redirects me the registration page. Same with searching for "tyranny of copyright" with Google News.
And those who say use "noregister" as username and password, that doesn't work for those of us who also choose to deny NYT from being able to set cookies. (The lack of cookies is also probably why I can't follow a link from Google News to read the story. They also retain no cached page.)
I will not enable cookies so they can track me uniquely when I bypass their registration. Thus the NYTimes website has just gone dark for me.
That google cache link was very helpful to me as for some reason page 5 on of the PDF came through as blank pages, save for the occasional table lines, rule lines, and images. Even the onepage summary PDF came out blank in xpdf. (I so wish stories would offer text-only versions of PDF links more often.)
And now I can do a search and see they have no mention of my method for labelling these disks: a black wax pencil purchased at an art store. Well, apart from their general advice to not use pencils, though I'm not confident they've tested all kinds of pencils.
4 hours to make a custom bezel?! My god man. I think a paraplegic could do it faster.
Better would have been to use a slot-loading DVD drive and taken the time to carefully grind the 3.5" floppy drive opening 1 1/8" wider to accomodate it while maintaining the recessed look of the 3.5" floppy drive. Now that would be impressive.
They'll probably just claim that there was a manufacturing error and that the samples same from a bad batch.
Now, if they are claiming they have silver in their product, surely their business records would reflect their acquisition of silver for use in the manufacturing of the product. If the product has no silver, what happened to it? Was it ever acquired, or was it embezzled?
Making false claims regarding precious metal content should raise some really big flags.
You call it A&E? So when you are about to die, they have to say "get this man to the A and E, stat!". That's a whole extra syllable! That's the difference between life and DEATH!
They make up for the syllable by taking people "to hospital" instead of "to the hospital".
I'm in the US and have four Region 2 DVDs ordered online:
They Live because it was out-of-print in the US (it came out soon after and I have purchased a Region 1 copy)
Flash Gordon because it is long out-of-print in the US, still with no sign of a reissue
The War of the Worlds because I wanted to compare it to my Region 1 version, maybe even merge the language tracks into a new combined edition (the disks' capacities are underutilized), especially as the UK version has a stereo English track only available on Laserdisc in the US, and
Doctor Who, the Fox TV movie still not available in the US in any format!
I have many more Region 0 UK imports that aren't available in the US, and more on the way today. My DVD player can handle the PAL to NTSC conversion.
Amazon UK will ship to the US, and others may as well. I'd put in an order for another movie from Germany if only I had a VCR that could handle PAL-to-NTSC conversions. I might as well just keep an eye on the pay movie channels to see if one airs it again, subscribe for a month, TiVo it, import it to the computer and burn my own damn DVD.
They may have to bring a motion to a judge to vacate the injunction first. (An easy way to get it before a judge is to violate the injunction, but it is also risky.)
Even at an extremely high velocity the penny would not even break the skin strangely enough, I believe at the speed of a bullet but I can't be sure.
Assuming it was a US penny, do you happen to know if it was an all-copper penny or a copper-coated zinc penny (easily determined by its minting year)? And was there any control over whether it would strike face-on or edge-on?
There are some that believe that John 10:14-16 ("
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.") refers to other religons. But "other folds" may just as well refer to life on other planets.
And it could just be saying, "I know it, you know it, everyone knows it, and it is this: I own the patent to life. And other life, that I have not created: that life is also mine as it illegally infringes on my patent, so give it up to me or I'll sue; and so all life will belong to me, the one true monopolist."
Scientific theories to the contrary are thus searches for prior art.
Time is part of the Creation, so asking what came before the Big Bang is like asking "What is south of the south pole?". When you are at the south pole, every direction you look is north.
What, even if you look down?
Is the south magnetic pole of the Earth really at the surface of the South Pole, or is it below the surface and you only have the effects (field lines) of the south magnetic pole leaving the surface?
What if you're 10 feet above/below the surface? Half a lunar distance above the surface?
Come to that, is looking up from a pole really looking away from both poles towards something else?
Just some thoughts. Perhaps one should ask what else came at the same time as the Big Bang.
Firstly, as mentioned, the DMCA does not apply to Canada.
But may apply to Americans taking part in the challenge.
Secondly, the DMCA does not apply to mechanisms not used to protect copyrighted data.
I understood from the article that they are already using this method to encrypt data like faxes, and that anything fixed in a medium automatically gets an implied copyright by the Berne Convention.
Thirdly, the DMCA does not apply if you've been invited to try to break an encryption mechanism.
Did we forget about the SDMI Challenge (April 21st, 2001)? I felt the chill.
Anyway, a failure to meet this challenge only says that you need to spend more than "one meellion dollars" to break the encryption. That doesn't make me feel too secure.
Once that happens and you have the true URL and/or IP, block their IP block at the firwall/router. Problem solved.
That's only good if you never want to go to any pages related to that site again. Which isn't altogether unlikely.
Now if there was a distributed method to share the true page URLs beyond such an interstitial ad link, then those using special software could get around the ads just by having one of the users see it, discover the true destination, and share it with everyone else. For every link, compute a hash of that link, look it up in a hash table containing the ad and page URLs, compare the ad to the link, and remap it to the right page.
Next task: defeat the problems of links tied to expiring sessions and/or cookies and referer-locking.
I don't have the plug-in installed and this suppresses even the alert.
However, they can easily code sites such that you can't find out the real link destination until the flash movie completes and redirects the main browser there. To bypass this with Mozilla, it would need to be able to decode the Flash movie (or whatever they use) and find the redirection. Assuming they haven't obfuscated it amongst many false leads or made the ad too interactive.
The arcade version also suffered by having the so-called "Pleasure Dome" being unattainable in the early ROM versions (it simply didn't exist no matter how many keys you grabbed), and when finally introduced, was a big disappointment.
Likewise with the Sims. It's their presses (their servers... same thing). If they don't want to print something (read: if they don't want you to use their forum to spout off in any way they don't like)... well, it's their hardware... their presses, and it is THEIR right... THEIR freedom of speech... that is protected.
Except, from my reading of the story, they officially banned him not for the content of his virtual newspaper, but rather the content of websites he did not control referenced in his virtual newspaper.
He's being punished officially for what others said outside the virtual world, not for what he said inside it. I'm not familiar with The Sims Online's TOS, but such a rule that makes a user responsible for the content of others beyond his control seems unreasonably onerous.
How would you like it if your ISP yanked your account because one of the sites your personal web pages linked to had its domain expire and was bought up by another who turned it into a porn site? (Assuming of course that such linkages is against your ISP's TOS/AUP.)
(until some technology comes along that can automagically censor the world to your individual liking...)
Which we won't get to see either, as there are those who demand that they should always be heard, and would like to make it illegal for any individual to censor them from being heard by that individual, specifically corporate and government interests, if there will be/is such a distinction.
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Nope, gets me a (suppressed) interstitial ad, then after a delay redirects me the registration page. Same with searching for "tyranny of copyright" with Google News.
And those who say use "noregister" as username and password, that doesn't work for those of us who also choose to deny NYT from being able to set cookies. (The lack of cookies is also probably why I can't follow a link from Google News to read the story. They also retain no cached page.)
I will not enable cookies so they can track me uniquely when I bypass their registration. Thus the NYTimes website has just gone dark for me.
That google cache link was very helpful to me as for some reason page 5 on of the PDF came through as blank pages, save for the occasional table lines, rule lines, and images. Even the onepage summary PDF came out blank in xpdf. (I so wish stories would offer text-only versions of PDF links more often.)
And now I can do a search and see they have no mention of my method for labelling these disks: a black wax pencil purchased at an art store. Well, apart from their general advice to not use pencils, though I'm not confident they've tested all kinds of pencils.
4 hours to make a custom bezel?! My god man. I think a paraplegic could do it faster.
Better would have been to use a slot-loading DVD drive and taken the time to carefully grind the 3.5" floppy drive opening 1 1/8" wider to accomodate it while maintaining the recessed look of the 3.5" floppy drive. Now that would be impressive.
I'd hate to have to figure out how to report virtual income on my tax return.
So, how does one publically protest/demonstrate against this law? By burning telephone books?
Download music, get caught, get famous in a Super Bowl ad.
Not just famous, get infamous!
As for the "mischevious gamers," I don't even *want* to think of what kinda "heads" they would appropriate in a game of SOCOM!
Are you sure you wouldn't want to play as Chairface Chippendale?
Reading further into page 2 reveals this post which is about OCZ's announcement of a recall.
They'll probably just claim that there was a manufacturing error and that the samples same from a bad batch.
Now, if they are claiming they have silver in their product, surely their business records would reflect their acquisition of silver for use in the manufacturing of the product. If the product has no silver, what happened to it? Was it ever acquired, or was it embezzled?
Making false claims regarding precious metal content should raise some really big flags.
You call it A&E? So when you are about to die, they have to say "get this man to the A and E, stat!". That's a whole extra syllable! That's the difference between life and DEATH!
They make up for the syllable by taking people "to hospital" instead of "to the hospital".
- They Live because it was out-of-print in the US (it came out soon after and I have purchased a Region 1 copy)
- Flash Gordon because it is long out-of-print in the US, still with no sign of a reissue
- The War of the Worlds because I wanted to compare it to my Region 1 version, maybe even merge the language tracks into a new combined edition (the disks' capacities are underutilized), especially as the UK version has a stereo English track only available on Laserdisc in the US, and
- Doctor Who , the Fox TV movie still not available in the US in any format!
I have many more Region 0 UK imports that aren't available in the US, and more on the way today. My DVD player can handle the PAL to NTSC conversion.Amazon UK will ship to the US, and others may as well. I'd put in an order for another movie from Germany if only I had a VCR that could handle PAL-to-NTSC conversions. I might as well just keep an eye on the pay movie channels to see if one airs it again, subscribe for a month, TiVo it, import it to the computer and burn my own damn DVD.
Well, if it is no longer a trade secret, is it still an effective control by the statute?
They may have to bring a motion to a judge to vacate the injunction first. (An easy way to get it before a judge is to violate the injunction, but it is also risky.)
Even at an extremely high velocity the penny would not even break the skin strangely enough, I believe at the speed of a bullet but I can't be sure.
Assuming it was a US penny, do you happen to know if it was an all-copper penny or a copper-coated zinc penny (easily determined by its minting year)? And was there any control over whether it would strike face-on or edge-on?
Hell, why not just sue 255.255.255.255 and get everyone at once?
So nice of the RIAA to give us a big list of IP addresses to go to to download free music!
Scientific theories to the contrary are thus searches for prior art.
Time is part of the Creation, so asking what came before the Big Bang is like asking "What is south of the south pole?". When you are at the south pole, every direction you look is north.
What, even if you look down?
Is the south magnetic pole of the Earth really at the surface of the South Pole, or is it below the surface and you only have the effects (field lines) of the south magnetic pole leaving the surface?
What if you're 10 feet above/below the surface? Half a lunar distance above the surface?
Come to that, is looking up from a pole really looking away from both poles towards something else?
Just some thoughts. Perhaps one should ask what else came at the same time as the Big Bang.
Firstly, as mentioned, the DMCA does not apply to Canada.
But may apply to Americans taking part in the challenge.
Secondly, the DMCA does not apply to mechanisms not used to protect copyrighted data.
I understood from the article that they are already using this method to encrypt data like faxes, and that anything fixed in a medium automatically gets an implied copyright by the Berne Convention.
Thirdly, the DMCA does not apply if you've been invited to try to break an encryption mechanism.
Did we forget about the SDMI Challenge (April 21st, 2001)? I felt the chill.
Anyway, a failure to meet this challenge only says that you need to spend more than "one meellion dollars" to break the encryption. That doesn't make me feel too secure.
Once that happens and you have the true URL and/or IP, block their IP block at the firwall/router. Problem solved.
That's only good if you never want to go to any pages related to that site again. Which isn't altogether unlikely.
Now if there was a distributed method to share the true page URLs beyond such an interstitial ad link, then those using special software could get around the ads just by having one of the users see it, discover the true destination, and share it with everyone else. For every link, compute a hash of that link, look it up in a hash table containing the ad and page URLs, compare the ad to the link, and remap it to the right page.
Next task: defeat the problems of links tied to expiring sessions and/or cookies and referer-locking.
And my userContent.css will suppress even that: I don't have the plug-in installed and this suppresses even the alert.
However, they can easily code sites such that you can't find out the real link destination until the flash movie completes and redirects the main browser there. To bypass this with Mozilla, it would need to be able to decode the Flash movie (or whatever they use) and find the redirection. Assuming they haven't obfuscated it amongst many false leads or made the ad too interactive.
The arcade version also suffered by having the so-called "Pleasure Dome" being unattainable in the early ROM versions (it simply didn't exist no matter how many keys you grabbed), and when finally introduced, was a big disappointment.
Likewise with the Sims. It's their presses (their servers... same thing). If they don't want to print something (read: if they don't want you to use their forum to spout off in any way they don't like)... well, it's their hardware... their presses, and it is THEIR right... THEIR freedom of speech... that is protected.
Except, from my reading of the story, they officially banned him not for the content of his virtual newspaper, but rather the content of websites he did not control referenced in his virtual newspaper.
He's being punished officially for what others said outside the virtual world, not for what he said inside it. I'm not familiar with The Sims Online's TOS, but such a rule that makes a user responsible for the content of others beyond his control seems unreasonably onerous.
How would you like it if your ISP yanked your account because one of the sites your personal web pages linked to had its domain expire and was bought up by another who turned it into a porn site? (Assuming of course that such linkages is against your ISP's TOS/AUP.)
(until some technology comes along that can automagically censor the world to your individual liking...)
Which we won't get to see either, as there are those who demand that they should always be heard, and would like to make it illegal for any individual to censor them from being heard by that individual, specifically corporate and government interests, if there will be/is such a distinction.
Today's landfill is tomorrow's valuable mining resource.
More like tomorrow's archeology site. The future can learn a lot about our ancient society from studying our waste.