Consider the analogous case of DVD pirating. Sure, it is not possible to prevent all DVD pirating but there is a big different to the level of DVD piracy that occurs in the U.S. compared with what happens in the 3rd world (e.g. Russian, China).
The point of legislating slingbox out of existence is that many fewer people will be doing space shifting than would if the slingbox appliance was available to the purchasing public at large.
If outlawing activity X reduces the occurence of activity X by 50% and the media companies don't have to bear much of the cost of enforcing the law then this is a win for them even if 10 million people are still doing activity X.
By your reasoning there is no point in existing laws making murder illegal since these laws have not reduced the incidence of murder to 0 occurences a year.
When they came for the gypsies, I did not speak, for I am not a gypsy. When they came for the jews,I did not speak, because I wasn't a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I did not speak, for I am not a Catholic. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak.
Sure, I don't watch TV either -- I watch DVDs of TV shows I want to see. None the less, letting the media companies rape and pillage the TV watching public sets a bad precedent for preserving the other fair use provisions that you might be interested in.
It was only after I installed password safe that I began using strong passwords on more than just a few accounts.
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wikipedia only does a poor job if you expect your recent news to be served up in well digested, carefully edited textbook fashion.
If, as others have said again and again, you look at the discussion page and read with a skeptical viewpoint (should you ever read news without a skeptical view!?) then wikipedia is a great starting place to find links to other sources and information.
For example, where else on the internet can you find so much cited information about Haditha? Sure, trolls will edit congressional representative's, Donald Rumsfeld's or Ken Lay's page but still, assuming you view it with a skeptical eye, where else will you find so much good information on the subject you want to see in one place?
For controversial articles there will be lots of people discussing bad edits and the poorly vetted stuff is soon excised. HINT: if you look at the page history and see massive edits every day then perhaps there is not a concensus about which information is accurate and which is bogus!
Encyclopedia Brittanica and other carefully edited works are not a substitute for using your own brain!
The fact that the Judge sanctioned SCO for "willful disobedience" rather than "bad faith" is analogous to Scooter Libby being charged with obstruction of justice rather than treason or some other more serious crime. In both cases the judge/procecutor/investigator knows the party is guilty as hell but life is easier by going with the easier to prove charge.
The judge is simply trying to avoid wasting appellate judges time by not giving SCO anything they can reasonably dispute (i.e. "it wasn't bad faith because she can't read our mind").
You know, the ones that like to say "PJ over at groklaw is an SCO hater that only presents one side of the story. SCO is going to win". LOL. How often have these bozos been wrong about this case? How often has PJ been wrong? Aside from Groklaw I don't see any reporting on this;^)
Finally, after IBM received SCO's interim alleged misappropriated submissions, IBM informed SCO that the submissions were not specific enough. IBM warned SCO that if the final submissions were of the same level of specificity court intervention would be sought. Tellingly, SCO did not seek court guidance as to the required level of specificity after IBM disagreed with SCO's interpretation of the court's orders.
Of course they didn't because their whole game is to stall stall stall.
I use PPTP to connect to the work LAN when I'm telecommuting.
I want a wireless router that will do simple strict priority CoS. I want to set my PPTP traffic as high priority so that I do not experience telecommuting lag when someone else in our house is uploading pictures to flickr or downloading music.
Can this router + the aforementioned linux software do CoS/QoS based on the type of traffic (PPTP)?
What do you mean? We've always been at war with Eurasia. Oh, by the way did you hear? Choco rations are up! Double plus good, eh?
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We are not at fucking WAR, unless by war you mean "I, as president, would like to have emergency powers until the end of time of when ever I declare that this 'war' against an invisible enemy has come to an end".
on topic, while harper was able to fly, it is rather telling that the other members of the panel were too afraid to try and even harper didn't have the guts to actually go to the airport without his I.D.
Neither the cited article nor wikipedia have a bill number (e.g. HR 1234) which makes me wonder if this is all just a hoax. If the Bill is going to be put before congress it has to have a bill number...
The big difference between Sony and Apple is Apple didn't try to force iPod users to convert all their music to AAC.
I own an iPod because it is well engineered AND because I can play MP3s on it. When I first got my iPod I bought some music from iTMS but after listening to if for a while I decided 128kbps just doesn't cut it for me. If iTMS had offered different encoding rates (160kbps, 192kbps) I might have overlooked the AAC + UnFairPlay stuff.
The other thing Apple and RIAA don't get is that when music is priced cheaply (e.g. AllOfMP3 prices) I'm willing to buy crappier music. With AllOfMP3 I frequently buy an album and only end up listening to it a few times. I also buy music from AllOfMP3 that I own on CD but have had trouble ripping (the CD plays fine in the CD player but the MP3 always come out with glitches). Back when iTMS was the only game in town that I knew of I would never buy music from iTMS that I already owned on CD -- I would spend time polishing that CD, searching for better ripping software etc.
Despite Apple's short comings I'm happy with my iPod and would buy another one BECAUSE it supports MP3 (the community standard) in addition to its proprietary format. If Apple decides to ATRAC me I'll move on to a different brand of music player.
I've never even looked at Sony's ATRAC music players and Memory Stick cameras.
He said that in the Netherlands, communications intercept capabilities are advanced and well established, and yet, in practice, less problematic than in many other countries. "Our legal system is more transparent," he said, "so we can do what we need to do without controversy. Transparency makes law enforcement easier, not more difficult."
Perhaps they still have the rule of law there...
--jfc
terrorism is the root password for the constitution
> Speech will still be protected if it is truly whistleblowing, and not just bitching.
What a load of crap. Go over to the memory hole and read about how the FBI fired her because she called bullshit on some blatant problems where she worked. In response to here wrongful termination lawsuit the government claimed "this can't go to trial because it would expose state secrets".
This is why we need more consolidation in the telecom business -- so there is less chance that a rogue company like QWest will fail to bow down before King George.
What the hell is a matter with QWest? Don't they know "everything changed" after 9/11? Don't they know we are at "war" with Al Qaeda, or is it Eurasia we've always been at war with?
"Oh Well, I Wasn't Using My Civil Liberties Anyway!"
What I find most interesting about Linus' statement is when you look at Microsoft's Singularity project it twists the statement in knots:
(1) it is about sharing memory spaces
-- like a monolithic design, Singularity shares memory space
(2) it is about the callee changing the caller's state as if it was
his own
-- singlularity uses a variety of mechanisms (primarily
compiler and shared memory messaging primatives) to prevent this.
Singularity is quite revolutionary in that it attempts to adhere to the true microkernel principle (2) while discarding the traditional way of acheiving that principle (1).
Damn, I hate the academic world for letting Microsoft create and patent Singularity! Why didn't MIT, CMU or Berkeley do this research first and put the results in the public domain!
Companies (countries, races, etc.) are not "evil" or "good", and they do not have "intentions." Star Trek is science fiction -- there is no Borg mind. Companies, countries, races, and other groups are made up of individuals like you and me, who make individual decisions that determine the group's direction. People who speak of companies (or countries, or races, or other groups) as being good or evil are at best ignorant, and at worst bigots.
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
When evil individuals use the shield of corporate law to avoid being held accountable for rape, murder and torture (Unocal) only an ignorant fool quibbles over whether the company or the individual is evil.
Microsoft the corporation is legally responsible for the actions of its individual leaders so it makes perfect sense to label them good or evil based on their leader's actions just as it makes sense to label the International Red Cross as good or evil based on the actions of its members.
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"Brown also sees the chips ultimately replacing batteries altogether."
If all you've got is a hammer then everything looks like a nail...
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Bruce is plus un-sane. We have always been at war with Eurasia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Terrorist.
By the way did you hear that choco rations are up? Double plus good eh?
The Memory Hole is da bomb! http://www.thememoryhole.org/
Your argument is naive.
Consider the analogous case of DVD pirating. Sure, it is not possible to prevent all DVD pirating but there is a big different to the level of DVD piracy that occurs in the U.S. compared with what happens in the 3rd world (e.g. Russian, China).
The point of legislating slingbox out of existence is that many fewer people will be doing space shifting than would if the slingbox appliance was available to the purchasing public at large.
If outlawing activity X reduces the occurence of activity X by 50% and the media companies don't have to bear much of the cost of enforcing the law then this is a win for them even if 10 million people are still doing activity X.
By your reasoning there is no point in existing laws making murder illegal since these laws have not reduced the incidence of murder to 0 occurences a year.
Sure, I don't watch TV either -- I watch DVDs of TV shows I want to see. None the less, letting the media companies rape and pillage the TV watching public sets a bad precedent for preserving the other fair use provisions that you might be interested in.
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It was only after I installed password safe that I began using strong passwords on more than just a few accounts.
wikipedia only does a poor job if you expect your recent news to be served up in well digested, carefully edited textbook fashion.
If, as others have said again and again, you look at the discussion page and read with a skeptical viewpoint (should you ever read news without a skeptical view!?) then wikipedia is a great starting place to find links to other sources and information.
For example, where else on the internet can you find so much cited information about Haditha? Sure, trolls will edit congressional representative's, Donald Rumsfeld's or Ken Lay's page but still, assuming you view it with a skeptical eye, where else will you find so much good information on the subject you want to see in one place?
For controversial articles there will be lots of people discussing bad edits and the poorly vetted stuff is soon excised. HINT: if you look at the page history and see massive edits every day then perhaps there is not a concensus about which information is accurate and which is bogus!
Encyclopedia Brittanica and other carefully edited works are not a substitute for using your own brain!
... am I allowed to have an open access point?
The fact that the Judge sanctioned SCO for "willful disobedience" rather than "bad faith" is analogous to Scooter Libby being charged with obstruction of justice rather than treason or some other more serious crime. In both cases the judge/procecutor/investigator knows the party is guilty as hell but life is easier by going with the easier to prove charge.
The judge is simply trying to avoid wasting appellate judges time by not giving SCO anything they can reasonably dispute (i.e. "it wasn't bad faith because she can't read our mind").
You know, the ones that like to say "PJ over at groklaw is an SCO hater that only presents one side of the story. SCO is going to win". LOL. How often have these bozos been wrong about this case? How often has PJ been wrong? Aside from Groklaw I don't see any reporting on this ;^)
Of course they didn't because their whole game is to stall stall stall.
I use PPTP to connect to the work LAN when I'm telecommuting.
I want a wireless router that will do simple strict priority CoS. I want to set my PPTP traffic as high priority so that I do not experience telecommuting lag when someone else in our house is uploading pictures to flickr or downloading music.
Can this router + the aforementioned linux software do CoS/QoS based on the type of traffic (PPTP)?
haven't these folks seen Space 1999? Loosing the moon will be bad for earth ecology...
> but I remember the war ending
What do you mean? We've always been at war with Eurasia. Oh, by the way did you hear? Choco rations are up! Double plus good, eh?
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We are not at fucking WAR, unless by war you mean "I, as president, would like to have emergency powers until the end of time of when ever I declare that this 'war' against an invisible enemy has come to an end".
on topic, while harper was able to fly, it is rather telling that the other members of the panel were too afraid to try and even harper didn't have the guts to actually go to the airport without his I.D.
Microsoft claims european companies are violating their software patents.
Neither the cited article nor wikipedia have a bill number (e.g. HR 1234) which makes me wonder if this is all just a hoax. If the Bill is going to be put before congress it has to have a bill number...
The big difference between Sony and Apple is Apple didn't try to force iPod users to convert all their music to AAC.
I own an iPod because it is well engineered AND because I can play MP3s on it. When I first got my iPod I bought some music from iTMS but after listening to if for a while I decided 128kbps just doesn't cut it for me. If iTMS had offered different encoding rates (160kbps, 192kbps) I might have overlooked the AAC + UnFairPlay stuff.
The other thing Apple and RIAA don't get is that when music is priced cheaply (e.g. AllOfMP3 prices) I'm willing to buy crappier music. With AllOfMP3 I frequently buy an album and only end up listening to it a few times. I also buy music from AllOfMP3 that I own on CD but have had trouble ripping (the CD plays fine in the CD player but the MP3 always come out with glitches). Back when iTMS was the only game in town that I knew of I would never buy music from iTMS that I already owned on CD -- I would spend time polishing that CD, searching for better ripping software etc.
Despite Apple's short comings I'm happy with my iPod and would buy another one BECAUSE it supports MP3 (the community standard) in addition to its proprietary format. If Apple decides to ATRAC me I'll move on to a different brand of music player.
I've never even looked at Sony's ATRAC music players and Memory Stick cameras.
Perhaps they still have the rule of law there...
--jfc
terrorism is the root password for the constitution
> Speech will still be protected if it is truly whistleblowing, and not just bitching.
What a load of crap. Go over to the memory hole and read about how the FBI fired her because she called bullshit on some blatant problems where she worked. In response to here wrongful termination lawsuit the government claimed "this can't go to trial because it would expose state secrets".
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
Speaking of the end of the rule of Law, check out This American Life's Habeus Schmaebeus show.
This is why we need more consolidation in the telecom business -- so there is less chance that a rogue company like QWest will fail to bow down before King George.
What the hell is a matter with QWest? Don't they know "everything changed" after 9/11? Don't they know we are at "war" with Al Qaeda, or is it Eurasia we've always been at war with?
"Oh Well, I Wasn't Using My Civil Liberties Anyway!"
What I find most interesting about Linus' statement is when you look at Microsoft's Singularity project it twists the statement in knots:
(1) it is about sharing memory spaces
-- like a monolithic design, Singularity shares memory space
(2) it is about the callee changing the caller's state as if it was
his own
-- singlularity uses a variety of mechanisms (primarily
compiler and shared memory messaging primatives) to prevent this.
Singularity is quite revolutionary in that it attempts to adhere to the true microkernel principle (2) while discarding the traditional way of acheiving that principle (1).
Damn, I hate the academic world for letting Microsoft create and patent Singularity! Why didn't MIT, CMU or Berkeley do this research first and put the results in the public domain!
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
When evil individuals use the shield of corporate law to avoid being held accountable for rape, murder and torture (Unocal) only an ignorant fool quibbles over whether the company or the individual is evil.
Microsoft the corporation is legally responsible for the actions of its individual leaders so it makes perfect sense to label them good or evil based on their leader's actions just as it makes sense to label the International Red Cross as good or evil based on the actions of its members.