"......We're talking not about the intent of TJ, or the intent of slashdot readers -- we're talking about the intent of Congress....."
Um. In the US Congress MUST act within the boundaries laid out by the constitution. Thus is seems reasonable to delve into the mondeset of those who were involved in the framing of the constitution. Politicians ( i.e. congress ) are always passing short term laws that are....wait for it.....unconstitutional.
Copryright extension is one of those that is clear even to an idiot that the laws do not mesh with the intent of the constitution.
Congress should represent You, Me and the RIAA. Congress in passing laws MUST comply with the constitution. However defacto congress represents not me but the RIAA.
".....DJ Jazzy Jeff's "Hip Hop Forever" series as recent examples of successful, non-copyright-infringing releases in the genre........"
What plaent are you people on? Can you imagine that very few artisits have the clout and budget of Jazzy Jeff.......? Can you imagine that most people do not have access to the large legal team that Jazzy Jeff has via his label?
You meant to say that Mixtapes can exist if you are already rich and successful and have a large legal team.
".....That might have meant that he cleared less profit on each sale, so I suppose it's his greed that got in the way......"
Go try getting clearance from 20 copyright holders all at once. Impossible Would take a year at least. Do you not get it? The licensing process is effectively broken. The copyright holders want 100% of everything. If there were a license in place, he would possibly pay 5-10 cents per track as a fee. He is not greedy cause I guarantee he would pay it if he COULD. Big corporates like Coke have huge legal departments that can go to work to get licences but even so their advertising is often delayed by the process.
Lets look at the the economic scenario. he has 80K CD's = 800K gross revenue. That would be...say 80K payable in licensing fees. yet the COST of attainting this license might be 150K and take 12 months. This is yet another case of how MONOPOLIES are bad.
"......There are plenty of ways that he could have engaged in the mixtape or promo CD business while respecting the rights of the performers and the record labels....."
Perhaps your obvious grasp of this can explain to me and others who cannot afford the process of licensing, either in raw time or gross legall fees what are these PLENTY ways.
this is a real point here. There is compulsory licensing of the song in the US, but to license the actual recorded music is a nightmare. My opinion is if there was a compulsory license WORLDWIDE on both the lyrics music and the recorded version of the music, we would have a better and more lucerative world.
For small people it is a F...ing mightmare to get licenses. You need big bucks and time.
I have started a small record label for local artsists and I wanted to produce ringtone covers of tradionial and modern Jazz/Funk/Soul using local musicians to cover them. Being in Europe I need to license ( i.e. GET A LECENSE ) in each country. What a mess.
You cannot have it both ways: the Recording industry moans about bootlegs, but them makes the process effectively impossible to get a license.
Digitial music is GLOBAL - the process for licensing is back in the 18th century.
All forms of licensing should be compulsory because copyright is a MONOPOLY. Under compulsory licensing, the label/copyright owner gets paid, there is no lag..
The reality is that the makers of Mixtapes would be very happy to pay a compulsory fee that is payable on tapes/vinyl/CD's that get sold.
In the end this about making sure the owner of copyright gets paid. But this is not about this. This is about makiing sure that the sitting tennants keep their effective monpoly stranglehold on music and it's distribution.
The RIAA and major labels could give a fuck if their musicians starved. I mean really - Universal is releasing a large back catalogue to download - the cost of production was written off years ago but if you believe that the performing artist gets any real and meaningful share of these tracks is smoking a crack pipe.
I actually ( as a musican and well as a struggling startup label ) believe copyright is stupid now.
If the earth suddenly lost all oxygen there is no sense bleating and demanding that you need oxygen - you have to deal with the new reality and figure out how you are going to breath.
Same with digital music. No matter what people are going to copy it. For free. So shut up and figure out how to make money - like...maybe....go out and play tothe public for money.
The stupidity is that acts like U2 now make wannabe stars believe that some how musicians should be able to make a billion from one song. Um......no. That model is finished.
People have to work for a living. So go and work. Compose, create, play, make money. people are happy to pay to see you.
Something like the top earning 34 bands in the world, only 4 now make more from recorded music, The other make it from performing.
Recorded music is becoming an EXTRA, a BONUS to what you do.
No one is owed a living. Get over it. So lets at least change the laws supporting this stupid monopoly and allow people to work and get paid but to allow MORE people to work and get paid.
Earning a living does not mean automatically someone deserves a billion.
The demographic is now over Thirty in age I read somewhere. People perhaps do not realize that MySpace band space is killing the recording studios.
I am launching a tiny record label because my A and R man is MySpace. I can find all the talent I need and I can see who might be a success by seeing do they post their gigs ( i.e. they actual play gigs ) and how many people they have as fans and how often people listen to the posted tracks.
The reality is that bands might not actual need a label - they can self publish but that takes energy which a lot only put into music.
The other reality is lots of little band makeing 100K smooths out the business away from the 100 bands pulling 99% of the income to a more equitaable world where more musicians can actually make a living.
My theory is that recorded music is going to be more a teaser for live acts than a main source of income.
I am working with 4 unknowns to try and get something out this year. Thanks to MySpace.
".....The day an open Linux-based phone with decent screen/input model comes out,....."
My opinion? I am watching Access in Japan - they have a Linux based OS for phones. Today the market is hammering their share price ( my brother in law the fund manager things I am insane because they are showing a loss today) but I see that something good is going to pop out soon.
"... It's not all about money sometimes control is a good thing....."
Ummm.....no
The reality is the mobile internet has been held back by this sort of control. Mobile Operators are sitting on declining revenues and none of them has ever got near what they projected years ago for data reveneue ( in 2000 both Orange and Vodafone claimed they would reach 25% of revenue from data - they never got close and the only data revenue in reality is from SMS ).
They see two worlds: one where they are a dumb pipe ( which makes them scream in terror ) and the other is they are Nazi's with attack dogs controlling your life and mobile experience.
So far most mobile handset makers toe the line - Nokia scares them as they see the desire from Nokia to circumvent the ancient dead world of mobile operators.
Apple had the chance to smash a hammer in the face of all that - instead there strategy seems to be to try to sell a shiney expensve toy to fashionistas.
I was ready to buy during his keynote ( I am a long time mac user ) but I will stick to my p900 with gasp - lots of extra applications....
As a Mobile Architect with many years of experience with all the major European operators - this crashing the network is bollocks.
This phone is just a tack in the evolution of phones - it is no revolution. A revolution would have involved the end to end revamping of the handset as well as the bacjend systems that assist in the creation of phone services.
Jobs has no idea of how to revolutionize the mobile world.
This is a trinket phone.
He also made a contemptuous mistake to ignore HUGE operators like Orange and Vodafone for the launch. The key indicator is that Apple has no internal integration resource required to strap things like his voice mail app onto existing operators networks. I would suspect it takes minimum of 9 months to integrate the phone to a networtk.
This action will be repeated for every network launch - this is a resource sucking exercise. Look how hard it is for Sony Networks to resource rolling out their full track music download infrastructure - they are telling operators to piss off due to lack of resource.
If it were a revolution he would have had to gone MVNO and built ONCE all the stuff at the backend to connect to multiple operators. IP is the future for mobiles - not circuit switched.
I suspect that Linux will be the real deal to launch a revolution - if Linux and it's proponents can see that the handset is only half the equation to a wonderful user experience. Mobile applications can call on stuff that do not exist universally in the IP world - location - presence - context.
Me - I think context in the killer thing for mobiles. Voice mail? I get my voice mail as email and read it in the order I wish for 2 years now. The phone is incremental....
The laugh is that Jobs is famous for his reality distortion field. His "crashing network" statement shows he has been sucked into the mobile operators reality distortion.
They have no real clue to make money outside of voice. They are sinking and they are an impediment to real mobile progress. And Jobs is now a part of this impediment.
IF is a big word. Your statement does not decribe to us why this system cannot be abused. My knowledge tells me abuse will come. Tell us why it CANNOT.
So the problem is the camera operator makes a mistake or calls you nigger or whatever. A cop on the scene has a badge and knows he can be identified. The fact is that anonymous people in power invariably abuse that power. It is a trade off. Yes maybe you can lower crime, but you also VASTLY increase the power of the state to abuse, and also you train citizens to obey a "faceless" master, making it easier in the event of abuse of power to control citizens.
We in the English speaking west have some fantasy going that ONLY Nazi Germany or ONLY Russia can invoke vast state abuse.
This is not so, any of us are capable of this.
First tell me how you are contraining this systems so that they are not open to abuse and then use. Not before.
Who knows.......the fact is that all the people on the "block" of IP's are business customers with static IP's. France Telecom in whois describe the block not as Dynamic but as ADSL.
In this day and age, it gives me a fuck pain in the face that a business DSL is shat upon relative to a T1 regarding spam.
Blocking like this is just lazy. The worst aspect of that creeps like Spamhaus and AOL will NEVER unblock you. Yes they are shit lazy creeps who let MOST of the good stuff through.
They just black list idiots like us who find a DSL link is perfectly fine for a small business email server. I mean - I pay Wanadoo/Orange/FT business rates - Wanadoo Pro......PLUS a fuck extra stupid fee for a static IP. But the world is full of lazy idiots who seem to have automated tools that troll whois and equate ALL DSL lwith spam......
Oh.......say the spam haters.........fuck you..... get a T1 with a real static IP. Well.......fuck that.......I just refuse to bother with anyone with AOL or with gormless spam blacking shit that is worthless. They think they have email, but they have retreated to some semi closed world........
France Telecom? Forget it. Service Client ( Customer Service ) is not a known attribute in France. I have had the same IP for 5 years.......I have a comercial/business DSL account. Not a chance.
Meanwhile as an innocent bystander, I am labelled as SPAM by these lazy blocking services. Sure I should have a reverse mapping. Sure this , sure that, sure we should live in a perfect world. All my mail gets blocked by AOL. I never bother now with people with AOL accounts.
If I use a France Telecom SMTP server rumour has it from time to time they filter emails in and out with nasty words in it. I cannot verify this but I know people who swear it is true.
In any case my Mac is an SMTP server and a lot of times on guest networks I get legitimate mail blacked because I am on a commercial WIFI network marked a SPAM by this illustrious services.
The reality is that irrespective of places like SPAMHAUS they are virtually useless - spam is not stoppable. IMHO.
But when their data is false? I have a static IP. For whatever reason, it is listed as a Dynamic IP. For again whatever reason, LOADS of people seem to block dynamic IP's even ones not implicated in Spam. This leads to Net Balkanization.
It is a real pain in the Ass. If DNS fragmented like Spam sites like this we would be in real pain.
I say we should treat all IP's as innocent until proven guilty.
If you work for Orange in France you get 9 weeks ( at least they did 2 years ago ) plus a bewildering array of allowed days off for illness etc etc family emergencies.....And the company makes money....
The example given did not tell the full story for the Lufthansa Crash. There were reports of wnd shear and according to Lufthansa procedure the pilots did not go around but continued to land but at a higher speed (20 knots above)and later. The culprit was the "squat switch" which was programmed in software to engage the brakes when x number of tons was on the wheels. I believe the figure was closer to the weight of the aircraft than closer to zero. It had nothing to do with what wheel touched, it was purely a miscalculation on the required weight to engage the brakes. If the wind had not shifted then the problem would have not been seen. if they had landed a few knots slower the same. It was a combintion of circumstances.
I believe the reverse thrust had no bearing, they never had a hope of stopping in time with the delay in braking. Th pilots did engage the brakes manualy but it was too late. I do not recall the reverse thrust aspect. The pilot was the only fatality when they hit a bank of earth. The reverse thrust did kick in but too late. The pilot also attempted a smooth landing rather than a high speed bang down. This "smooth" landing in a sense was the problem. Come is high and fast? Get the plane down fast......
The interest in this story was a programmer who did not fully understand flight dynamics. All accidents are always a chain of human and machine events.
You say: " patents DO play an extremely important role in creating the incentives"
The fact is there is no real scientific evidence to this matter. A Patent is a granted monpoly. It is interesting that irrespective, a good idea will be built and sold. Companies do not stop competing once the patent expires. It seems to me that the patent does not function to ensure the production of beneficial ideas, it exists and is used to exploit the excessive profit potenital of a monpoly.
Most ideas, where good and viable, will be funded and built. To say otherwise is just a guess....or an idea. There is no offered proof to your assertion.
I work as a consultant in the Mobile Portal space. The amount of times La La people walk in the door and try to have a love fest with marketing about hot hot hot stuff, yet with ZERO facts of figures to back it up makes me....gag.
Having grilled vendors before, I can imagine that he was harsh but fair. The fair bit stems from the fact that obviously they ( Amazon ) took time to arrange and attend a meeting. If I attend a meeting I want to be INFORMED. Not entertained by personal "opinion". I have plenty of unsubstanciated opinions of my own. Why would I want any more from other people. Tell me something I do not know, but be able to prove what you say is true.
mainwhile the marketing people are having group hug and dreaming of the YAF segment....
Do you REALLY believe that a terrorist ( as a general operations principle) depends upon open meetings to source the intelligence for some attack or other?
Say a Nuke Plant - next door to YOU. Well the location of this plant will NOT be a secret. That this is a good target is not a secret. The Nuke plant is located in a free and oen society so the terrorist can observe external security at will. Do you really think that enough data is going to be discussed in public at one sitting that they would take the risk of attending such a meeting?
It will be valuable for you however living next door that this meeting discusses that the security is inadequate. Now you join the terrorist ( who already knew through direct observation ) and the plant operator and the governement is knowing that security is inadequate. You can now campaign to have security tightened.
The reality is that one will never stop a determined terror attack......full stop.
In the most plasible scenario in todays world a terrorist wants to know if he can get a truck bomb within x.xx feet of a building. He needs very little data to decide this. he does not need detailed nuclear plans, schematics, codes yadayada. He needs a heavy truck and a way to get that through the gate - OR an airplane.
If the meeting decides publilcy how to stop truck bombers either the terrorists observe the new activity without having attended the meeting and moves on, or he tries and fails ( if indeed the new method is useful).
There is NOTHING that might be discussed that would deter or stop a determined bomber or even aid him. You ignore how EASY it is to whack a target.
We live in a terget rich environment. Our protection IS our open sense of freedom. If you believe that terrorists are waiting for some public meeting for that one ELUSIVE fact that will make the "mission" come together you have been watching too many reruns of mission impossible.
Or.....hey.....lets declare the whole nation a miltary secret and take the approriate steps and voila..... tell me how you know you are in LA and not in North Korea?
Open society entails certain risks but overall they are WORTH it. Because Joe terrorists is going to whack you if he decides to. Nothing you can do will really stop him. As the IRA said after trying to whack Margaret Thatcher - we were unlucky today but we only need to be lucky once.
I must have missed it, when did congress declare war? And on who?
What you might have meant is that when terrorist get hold of "stuff" it is a bad thing. Well terrorists are criminals, and we have plenty of laws to lock up criminals.
In Columbia the drug lords get what they need in co-operation despite any laws. They want drugs on a plane? A baggage handler who makes SFA is told here is a 1000 USD bill. Take it and do what we want or we will kill you and your family.
This would not work for a terrorist who wants data? Here US data worker, here is a pile of cash ( choose the amount) give us the plans or we will kill you and your family. They would not do this because we are......white western nice people? Hah!
Closed meetings are a crock. They will be misused. Governments hate accountability. They are always looking for ways to use FEAR as a tool to dinimish how accountable they are.
Meanwhile ruthless terrorists/criminals/etc get what they need by tried and tested methods - burgle and steal the files, coerce and threaten and get the files, kidnap and get the files, pay large sums and get the files.
Meanwhile Joe D. Soap ( D is for Duh!) stays more and more in the dark, wondering if he fears his government or the terrorists more.
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"......We're talking not about the intent of TJ, or the intent of slashdot readers -- we're talking about the intent of Congress....."
....wait for it.....unconstitutional.
Um. In the US Congress MUST act within the boundaries laid out by the constitution. Thus is seems reasonable to delve into the mondeset of those who were involved in the framing of the constitution. Politicians ( i.e. congress ) are always passing short term laws that are
Copryright extension is one of those that is clear even to an idiot that the laws do not mesh with the intent of the constitution.
Congress should represent You, Me and the RIAA. Congress in passing laws MUST comply with the constitution. However defacto congress represents not me but the RIAA.
".....DJ Jazzy Jeff's "Hip Hop Forever" series as recent examples of successful, non-copyright-infringing releases in the genre........"
What plaent are you people on? Can you imagine that very few artisits have the clout and budget of Jazzy Jeff.......? Can you imagine that most people do not have access to the large legal team that Jazzy Jeff has via his label?
You meant to say that Mixtapes can exist if you are already rich and successful and have a large legal team.
Monoplies mean lack of diviersity.
".....That might have meant that he cleared less profit on each sale, so I suppose it's his greed that got in the way......"
...say 80K payable in licensing fees. yet the COST of attainting this license might be 150K and take 12 months. This is yet another case of how MONOPOLIES are bad.
Go try getting clearance from 20 copyright holders all at once. Impossible Would take a year at least. Do you not get it? The licensing process is effectively broken. The copyright holders want 100% of everything. If there were a license in place, he would possibly pay 5-10 cents per track as a fee. He is not greedy cause I guarantee he would pay it if he COULD. Big corporates like Coke have huge legal departments that can go to work to get licences but even so their advertising is often delayed by the process.
Lets look at the the economic scenario. he has 80K CD's = 800K gross revenue. That would be
"......There are plenty of ways that he could have engaged in the mixtape or promo CD business while respecting the rights of the performers and the record labels....."
Perhaps your obvious grasp of this can explain to me and others who cannot afford the process of licensing, either in raw time or gross legall fees what are these PLENTY ways.
this is a real point here. There is compulsory licensing of the song in the US, but to license the actual recorded music is a nightmare. My opinion is if there was a compulsory license WORLDWIDE on both the lyrics music and the recorded version of the music, we would have a better and more lucerative world.
...maybe....go out and play tothe public for money.
For small people it is a F...ing mightmare to get licenses. You need big bucks and time.
I have started a small record label for local artsists and I wanted to produce ringtone covers of tradionial and modern Jazz/Funk/Soul using local musicians to cover them. Being in Europe I need to license ( i.e. GET A LECENSE ) in each country. What a mess.
You cannot have it both ways: the Recording industry moans about bootlegs, but them makes the process effectively impossible to get a license.
Digitial music is GLOBAL - the process for licensing is back in the 18th century.
All forms of licensing should be compulsory because copyright is a MONOPOLY. Under compulsory licensing, the label/copyright owner gets paid, there is no lag..
The reality is that the makers of Mixtapes would be very happy to pay a compulsory fee that is payable on tapes/vinyl/CD's that get sold.
In the end this about making sure the owner of copyright gets paid. But this is not about this. This is about makiing sure that the sitting tennants keep their effective monpoly stranglehold on music and it's distribution.
The RIAA and major labels could give a fuck if their musicians starved. I mean really - Universal is releasing a large back catalogue to download - the cost of production was written off years ago but if you believe that the performing artist gets any real and meaningful share of these tracks is smoking a crack pipe.
I actually ( as a musican and well as a struggling startup label ) believe copyright is stupid now.
If the earth suddenly lost all oxygen there is no sense bleating and demanding that you need oxygen - you have to deal with the new reality and figure out how you are going to breath.
Same with digital music. No matter what people are going to copy it. For free. So shut up and figure out how to make money - like
The stupidity is that acts like U2 now make wannabe stars believe that some how musicians should be able to make a billion from one song. Um......no. That model is finished.
People have to work for a living. So go and work. Compose, create, play, make money. people are happy to pay to see you.
Something like the top earning 34 bands in the world, only 4 now make more from recorded music, The other make it from performing.
Recorded music is becoming an EXTRA, a BONUS to what you do.
No one is owed a living. Get over it. So lets at least change the laws supporting this stupid monopoly and allow people to work and get paid but to allow MORE people to work and get paid.
Earning a living does not mean automatically someone deserves a billion.
The demographic is now over Thirty in age I read somewhere. People perhaps do not realize that MySpace band space is killing the recording studios.
I am launching a tiny record label because my A and R man is MySpace. I can find all the talent I need and I can see who might be a success by seeing do they post their gigs ( i.e. they actual play gigs ) and how many people they have as fans and how often people listen to the posted tracks.
The reality is that bands might not actual need a label - they can self publish but that takes energy which a lot only put into music.
The other reality is lots of little band makeing 100K smooths out the business away from the 100 bands pulling 99% of the income to a more equitaable world where more musicians can actually make a living.
My theory is that recorded music is going to be more a teaser for live acts than a main source of income.
I am working with 4 unknowns to try and get something out this year. Thanks to MySpace.
".....The day an open Linux-based phone with decent screen/input model comes out,....."
My opinion? I am watching Access in Japan - they have a Linux based OS for phones. Today the market is hammering their share price ( my brother in law the fund manager things I am insane because they are showing a loss today) but I see that something good is going to pop out soon.
"... It's not all about money sometimes control is a good thing....."
Ummm.....no
The reality is the mobile internet has been held back by this sort of control. Mobile Operators are sitting on declining revenues and none of them has ever got near what they projected years ago for data reveneue ( in 2000 both Orange and Vodafone claimed they would reach 25% of revenue from data - they never got close and the only data revenue in reality is from SMS ).
They see two worlds: one where they are a dumb pipe ( which makes them scream in terror ) and the other is they are Nazi's with attack dogs controlling your life and mobile experience.
So far most mobile handset makers toe the line - Nokia scares them as they see the desire from Nokia to circumvent the ancient dead world of mobile operators.
Apple had the chance to smash a hammer in the face of all that - instead there strategy seems to be to try to sell a shiney expensve toy to fashionistas.
I was ready to buy during his keynote ( I am a long time mac user ) but I will stick to my p900 with gasp - lots of extra applications....
As a Mobile Architect with many years of experience with all the major European operators - this crashing the network is bollocks.
This phone is just a tack in the evolution of phones - it is no revolution. A revolution would have involved the end to end revamping of the handset as well as the bacjend systems that assist in the creation of phone services.
Jobs has no idea of how to revolutionize the mobile world.
This is a trinket phone.
He also made a contemptuous mistake to ignore HUGE operators like Orange and Vodafone for the launch. The key indicator is that Apple has no internal integration resource required to strap things like his voice mail app onto existing operators networks. I would suspect it takes minimum of 9 months to integrate the phone to a networtk.
This action will be repeated for every network launch - this is a resource sucking exercise. Look how hard it is for Sony Networks to resource rolling out their full track music download infrastructure - they are telling operators to piss off due to lack of resource.
If it were a revolution he would have had to gone MVNO and built ONCE all the stuff at the backend to connect to multiple operators. IP is the future for mobiles - not circuit switched.
I suspect that Linux will be the real deal to launch a revolution - if Linux and it's proponents can see that the handset is only half the equation to a wonderful user experience. Mobile applications can call on stuff that do not exist universally in the IP world - location - presence - context.
Me - I think context in the killer thing for mobiles. Voice mail? I get my voice mail as email and read it in the order I wish for 2 years now. The phone is incremental....
The laugh is that Jobs is famous for his reality distortion field. His "crashing network" statement shows he has been sucked into the mobile operators reality distortion.
They have no real clue to make money outside of voice. They are sinking and they are an impediment to real mobile progress. And Jobs is now a part of this impediment.
IF is a big word. Your statement does not decribe to us why this system cannot be abused. My knowledge tells me abuse will come. Tell us why it CANNOT.
You use phrases like:
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"... I doubt very much..."
"....I am sure
I would rather use history and human nature as a guide than your personal blinkered opinions.
We all sat back and watched Soviet Russia observe and tape record their citizens. Then they threw them into Gulags.
All to maintain power. Power through fear.
A camera nor more takes away your rights than mace in a shelf. It is how they are used that counts.
It is not so much the police but others who can and will gain access to these tapes to use them in ways you could never imagine.
Because you have no imagination not a perspective on human nature nor on history.
".......Dude someone complained......about you shouting FAGGOT"
"Man.....OK....wasn't me......."
key turns on tape room...
"DUDE! The tape was somehow wiped......"
The watchers will control the tape. People always figure a way to abuse a system.
Perhaps you never heard of the concept of MVNO - Mobile Virtual network Operator?
In any case Apple is not about cheap. Easyjet founder Stelio tried cheap airtime as an MVNO and failed - just shit down.
Apple know people ( some people ) pay for good quality and good service.
But yes maybe it is just a new phone. We will wait and see.
So the problem is the camera operator makes a mistake or calls you nigger or whatever. A cop on the scene has a badge and knows he can be identified. The fact is that anonymous people in power invariably abuse that power. It is a trade off. Yes maybe you can lower crime, but you also VASTLY increase the power of the state to abuse, and also you train citizens to obey a "faceless" master, making it easier in the event of abuse of power to control citizens.
We in the English speaking west have some fantasy going that ONLY Nazi Germany or ONLY Russia can invoke vast state abuse.
This is not so, any of us are capable of this.
First tell me how you are contraining this systems so that they are not open to abuse and then use. Not before.
Who knows.......the fact is that all the people on the "block" of IP's are business customers with static IP's. France Telecom in whois describe the block not as Dynamic but as ADSL.
..... get a T1 with a real static IP. Well.......fuck that.......I just refuse to bother with anyone with AOL or with gormless spam blacking shit that is worthless. They think they have email, but they have retreated to some semi closed world ........
In this day and age, it gives me a fuck pain in the face that a business DSL is shat upon relative to a T1 regarding spam.
Blocking like this is just lazy. The worst aspect of that creeps like Spamhaus and AOL will NEVER unblock you. Yes they are shit lazy creeps who let MOST of the good stuff through.
They just black list idiots like us who find a DSL link is perfectly fine for a small business email server. I mean - I pay Wanadoo/Orange/FT business rates - Wanadoo Pro......PLUS a fuck extra stupid fee for a static IP. But the world is full of lazy idiots who seem to have automated tools that troll whois and equate ALL DSL lwith spam......
Oh.......say the spam haters.........fuck you
France Telecom? Forget it. Service Client ( Customer Service ) is not a known attribute in France. I have had the same IP for 5 years.......I have a comercial/business DSL account. Not a chance.
Meanwhile as an innocent bystander, I am labelled as SPAM by these lazy blocking services. Sure I should have a reverse mapping. Sure this , sure that, sure we should live in a perfect world. All my mail gets blocked by AOL. I never bother now with people with AOL accounts.
If I use a France Telecom SMTP server rumour has it from time to time they filter emails in and out with nasty words in it. I cannot verify this but I know people who swear it is true.
In any case my Mac is an SMTP server and a lot of times on guest networks I get legitimate mail blacked because I am on a commercial WIFI network marked a SPAM by this illustrious services.
The reality is that irrespective of places like SPAMHAUS they are virtually useless - spam is not stoppable. IMHO.
KB
But when their data is false? I have a static IP. For whatever reason, it is listed as a Dynamic IP. For again whatever reason, LOADS of people seem to block dynamic IP's even ones not implicated in Spam. This leads to Net Balkanization.
It is a real pain in the Ass. If DNS fragmented like Spam sites like this we would be in real pain.
I say we should treat all IP's as innocent until proven guilty.
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If you work for Orange in France you get 9 weeks ( at least they did 2 years ago ) plus a bewildering array of allowed days off for illness etc etc family emergencies.....And the company makes money....
The example given did not tell the full story for the Lufthansa Crash. There were reports of wnd shear and according to Lufthansa procedure the pilots did not go around but continued to land but at a higher speed (20 knots above)and later. The culprit was the "squat switch" which was programmed in software to engage the brakes when x number of tons was on the wheels. I believe the figure was closer to the weight of the aircraft than closer to zero. It had nothing to do with what wheel touched, it was purely a miscalculation on the required weight to engage the brakes. If the wind had not shifted then the problem would have not been seen. if they had landed a few knots slower the same. It was a combintion of circumstances.
I believe the reverse thrust had no bearing, they never had a hope of stopping in time with the delay in braking. Th pilots did engage the brakes manualy but it was too late. I do not recall the reverse thrust aspect. The pilot was the only fatality when they hit a bank of earth. The reverse thrust did kick in but too late. The pilot also attempted a smooth landing rather than a high speed bang down. This "smooth" landing in a sense was the problem. Come is high and fast? Get the plane down fast......
The interest in this story was a programmer who did not fully understand flight dynamics. All accidents are always a chain of human and machine events.
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OK. Perhaps the flaw was that once a ticket was purchased it circumvented the PIN requirement. I only read the article. I was never a FF of BA.
The system was updated before the article came out to require a PIN. At the time ( stupidly ) it did not ask for a PIN.
You say: " patents DO play an extremely important role in creating the incentives"
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The fact is there is no real scientific evidence to this matter. A Patent is a granted monpoly. It is interesting that irrespective, a good idea will be built and sold. Companies do not stop competing once the patent expires. It seems to me that the patent does not function to ensure the production of beneficial ideas, it exists and is used to exploit the excessive profit potenital of a monpoly.
Most ideas, where good and viable, will be funded and built. To say otherwise is just a guess....or an idea. There is no offered proof to your assertion.
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I work as a consultant in the Mobile Portal space. The amount of times La La people walk in the door and try to have a love fest with marketing about hot hot hot stuff, yet with ZERO facts of figures to back it up makes me ....gag.
Having grilled vendors before, I can imagine that he was harsh but fair. The fair bit stems from the fact that obviously they ( Amazon ) took time to arrange and attend a meeting. If I attend a meeting I want to be INFORMED. Not entertained by personal "opinion". I have plenty of unsubstanciated opinions of my own. Why would I want any more from other people. Tell me something I do not know, but be able to prove what you say is true.
mainwhile the marketing people are having group hug and dreaming of the YAF segment....
.....or he could have written a song about it but not published it and then let the RIAA attack anyone caught in breach of copyright.
Do you REALLY believe that a terrorist ( as a general operations principle) depends upon open meetings to source the intelligence for some attack or other?
.....hey.....lets declare the whole nation a miltary secret and take the approriate steps and voila ..... tell me how you know you are in LA and not in North Korea?
Say a Nuke Plant - next door to YOU. Well the location of this plant will NOT be a secret. That this is a good target is not a secret. The Nuke plant is located in a free and oen society so the terrorist can observe external security at will. Do you really think that enough data is going to be discussed in public at one sitting that they would take the risk of attending such a meeting?
It will be valuable for you however living next door that this meeting discusses that the security is inadequate. Now you join the terrorist ( who already knew through direct observation ) and the plant operator and the governement is knowing that security is inadequate. You can now campaign to have security tightened.
The reality is that one will never stop a determined terror attack......full stop.
In the most plasible scenario in todays world a terrorist wants to know if he can get a truck bomb within x.xx feet of a building. He needs very little data to decide this. he does not need detailed nuclear plans, schematics, codes yadayada. He needs a heavy truck and a way to get that through the gate - OR an airplane.
If the meeting decides publilcy how to stop truck bombers either the terrorists observe the new activity without having attended the meeting and moves on, or he tries and fails ( if indeed the new method is useful).
There is NOTHING that might be discussed that would deter or stop a determined bomber or even aid him. You ignore how EASY it is to whack a target.
We live in a terget rich environment. Our protection IS our open sense of freedom. If you believe that terrorists are waiting for some public meeting for that one ELUSIVE fact that will make the "mission" come together you have been watching too many reruns of mission impossible.
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Open society entails certain risks but overall they are WORTH it. Because Joe terrorists is going to whack you if he decides to. Nothing you can do will really stop him. As the IRA said after trying to whack Margaret Thatcher - we were unlucky today but we only need to be lucky once.
Quote " in a time of war ".....
I must have missed it, when did congress declare war? And on who?
What you might have meant is that when terrorist get hold of "stuff" it is a bad thing. Well terrorists are criminals, and we have plenty of laws to lock up criminals.
In Columbia the drug lords get what they need in co-operation despite any laws. They want drugs on a plane? A baggage handler who makes SFA is told here is a 1000 USD bill. Take it and do what we want or we will kill you and your family.
This would not work for a terrorist who wants data? Here US data worker, here is a pile of cash ( choose the amount) give us the plans or we will kill you and your family. They would not do this because we are......white western nice people? Hah!
Closed meetings are a crock. They will be misused. Governments hate accountability. They are always looking for ways to use FEAR as a tool to dinimish how accountable they are.
Meanwhile ruthless terrorists/criminals/etc get what they need by tried and tested methods - burgle and steal the files, coerce and threaten and get the files, kidnap and get the files, pay large sums and get the files.
Meanwhile Joe D. Soap ( D is for Duh!) stays more and more in the dark, wondering if he fears his government or the terrorists more.