The USA does have freedom of speech, and freedom from libel & slander, it's a wonderful system where if someone publishes a lot of rubbish about you can defend your reputation in court.
1) It's not a fine, it's a judgement, the money goes to the plaintif.
2) If he had provided deep insight they might have had a real case against him, as the article indicates, simple troll is not actionable in many states. The other issue here is living in a state where the law protects you vs an action in another state where there is no statutory protection. Online flames aside there are individual protections to protect individuals against getting sued remotely like this.
3) As for the letter, it's too late, he'll have to hire a lawyer to even raise the issue, but now he has no opportunity for a pretrial dismissal, this will get really expensive. He has to appeal this. If he ignored the letter it was the dumbest thing he ever did.
You have to love these researchers and their conjecture.
Similar studies of fish can't explain their speed and conclude that they have insufficient muscle mass to explain their locomotion. This is known as Gray's Paradox. The following URL explains this and how Scientists might only recently be approaching an explanation. It also provides insight into how these 'studies' are done and the kinds of crazy assumptions that can often be made.
http://www.mbl.edu/publications/LABNOTES/4.1/scu p. html
So, forgive me if I run rather than walk away the next time I see a T-Rex approaching me.
Some of the motivation for the design elements that Chris objects to is the desire to exploit very sophisticated hardware. Ideally you develop to one API and the application exploits very different hardware on heterogeneous systems. Mainstream PC cards are only just starting to get sophisticated about video so it doesn't on the face of things need some of this, but if you don't abstract then you are stuck with applications that either can never exploit better hardware or need to be ported by hand to use it.
This indicates the cardinal danger of non Open Source licenses. In pulling the mother of all bait and switches Sun has sapped resources and attention from projects like Open Office.
You are confusing TV hardware and manufacturers with broadcasters and content. I expect the manufacturers don't want this change but the broadcasters could force the issue to increase their stranglehold on the content. There may also be some move here to monopolize the standard. Encrypting the signal kicks in extra DMCA protections and gives someone a chance to charge increased royalties on broadcast equipment & players and even lock out the competition from making that equipment.
Clearly this is not good for consumers, and if broadcasters weren't so paranoid about their content they might see that this is bad for them too.
This needs to stop. Why isn't congress defending us against this? There are forces working here that seek to strip us of fair use rights and our elected representatives are giving them all the ammunition to do it. It's time they started turning the tide on this stuff.
My information is that there are so many manufacturers of these things that the quality if highly variable and tends to lead to poor rifling and barrel quality, but you sound like you know more about this than me.
Support of the/. community? What support? Are you going to write him a cheque? Words of sympathy and outrage are not going to pay his legal bills and will not 'support' him.
No, I'm thinking of the AK-47 which is prevalent throughout the world, my point was that this is the weapon which spits out the most destructive rounds in terms of tumblers and it's the one almost all our enemies use. This is what makes the debate over the M-16 so crazy. Where are the critics when almost every other nation on earth tools up with AK-47s? Too busy criticizing the US to notice. The irony in all of this of course is that the point of a rifle as its name indicates, is to produce nice spiraling rounds because they stay on target. As soon as you get a tumbler it's more likely to miss at any kind of range. You WANT your enemy to miss you, you WANT your enemy to have a piece of crap assault rifle that spits tumblers. If your gun is throwing out tumblers then you should go swap it for a better one because you are much more likely to lose a firefight if you have any kind of skill with your weapon.
He wasn't singing a song at the time, you missed the part where he asserted that he was serious about this. He is not the victim, this guys in so much shit whcause he was as confused as you w.r.t. protected speech. Earnest threats of violence are not free speech, they are crimes.
He get's to decide who the innocent are you idiot. i.e. he get's to kill anyone he disagrees with. You seem to think it's OK to kill people just because they are in government, a government WE VITED FOR. Needless to say I disagree bit both him and you.
Here's a quote from this little darling, read by the judge:
"Yeah, motherfucker, I'm a terrorist to the U.S. Government. I'm a terrorist to capitalism, not to innocent people. I'm a terrorist to the evil system that's terrorizing all of us. Fuck the Government.
I hope they burn in fucking hell right back where they came from, motherfuckers. You can't fool all the people. We know your fucking style."
Here is another quote read by the prosecutor:
"We don't gather weapons, plan extreme operation, and risk our lives for nothing. This is real."
So even if the guy isn't a terrorist, he is spectacularly foolish, why would anyone expect to write this and be ignored. It is a testament to his coddled spoiled existence that he thinks that this is acceptable behaviour.
He doesn't need protected from the FBI, we need protected from him. He's a NUT, with aspirations to acts of extreme violence, including grandiose fantasies of using weapons of mass destruction against governments. I don't care if he meant what he said, I don't need to waste time worrying about it, if someone says this kind of crazy thing they should go to one of two places, jail or the nut house. I don't care which, but this isn't about speach, it's about unbridled threats of violence.
Why do you insist on following this up with the same misrepresentations given in the earlier story? This guy's criminal misconduct has been pointed out repeatedly, but you still post selective information implying that this is abuse of power curtailing his freedom of speech. Surely it is incumbent upon you to take note of all those (5 Insightfull) moded posts in the earlier article which gently inform you that he fully deserved what he got, and probably then some. Maybe this time you can take note of all the posts in response to this article telling you that the guy is a criminal and monumentally stupid with it. Aside from hacking web pages it is not legal to advocate the violent overthrow of the government. More to the point this government is a DEMOCRACY, if this guy wants to overthrow anyone he can take it to the ballot box. He gets one vote just like the rest of us.
That's real intelligent. I know they claim to by virtue of patents you idiot, but then you're ananymous so you already make it clear you don't want to be associated with your own comments. You're the fool because you see no problem letting corporations confiscate publications and works of art because thay own the media and have an contrived monopoly over it.
It's obvious that Eternal Darkness skated much better than Half Life2 and that tripple Lutz was obviously a mess. I blame the judges they made their mind up way before the competition. Blame the French.
The point is these DVDs are impounded because of patent claims on the media, not copyright claims on the work it contains.
You can happily march off into the chains of these people, but my analogy is entirely appropriate. These companies are crating an artificial monopoly on the media itself that is entirely different to copyright protections on content.
I don't support BT, but the escape key sequence has at best a tenuous connection to hyperlinks. Just because you need some kind of keyword sequence to embed a link in text does not mean that this embodies the whole idea of a hyperlink, infact it has almost nothing to do with hyperlinking. The REAL prior art has already been discovered, we don't need to claim unrelated art defeats the BT patent claims, this will only distract and strengthen BT's invalid claim.
Don't you realize this is about the Monica Lewinski - Clinton affair and checking gifts exchanged between them right?
It's not about checking what she read at all, it's about establishing an exchange of gifts to reinforce a charge of perjury or even uncover her possible deception, this was about checking out her story. It could have been a ham sandwitch allegedly purchased, it had nothing to do with the content of what she was reading.
The displacement argument is bogus. You could make the same case for having no police force, because to patrol an area displaces crime to other areas. Ultimately extra enforcement has some effect at reducing crime. You may think that when you measure the overall crime that reduced crime in one area is insignificant, but that's an equally foolish argument. The effect of cameras on the area of coverage is the relevant metric to measure. If you want wider effects put cameras over a wider area. To erect cameras in a city center, then see a huge drop in crime then divide that drop over a larger area with no coverage is an exercise is analytical stupidity. Glasgow used to be plagued by razor gangs in the sixties with pseudo intellectual thugs like Jimmy Boyle mutilating innocent strangers. A few years ago there was a resurgance of 'neds' who made double bladed razors with 1mm separation between the blades so that when they slashed you the facial tissue between the cuts would necrotize leaving you even more horribly disfigured than simply being slashed. If these thugs are caught, discouraged, or even kept the heck away from the business and social centers of a city and confined to the depraved cliques which nurtured them by cameras then it's a good thing. This is not some lab experiment, we're talking about the certainty of lives being saved and ruined lives being avoided through these cameras.
This is a civil dispute between the manufacturers and those who claim patent rights. Surely it should not be the business of customs to close down manufacturers of DVDs without some kind of civil decision in a court.
Note that the customs officials have not only been asked to impound players thay are also impounding disks. The disks are not being impounded because the content is copyright, they are being impounded because the media is owned by these corporations.
This is an outrage. It's like impounding books because someone claims they own the patent on the printing press. We need some protection against companies claiming to own and control the information medium in common use today.
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The USA does have freedom of speech, and freedom from libel & slander, it's a wonderful system where if someone publishes a lot of rubbish about you can defend your reputation in court.
1) It's not a fine, it's a judgement, the money goes to the plaintif.
2) If he had provided deep insight they might have had a real case against him, as the article indicates, simple troll is not actionable in many states. The other issue here is living in a state where the law protects you vs an action in another state where there is no statutory protection. Online flames aside there are individual protections to protect individuals against getting sued remotely like this.
3) As for the letter, it's too late, he'll have to hire a lawyer to even raise the issue, but now he has no opportunity for a pretrial dismissal, this will get really expensive. He has to appeal this. If he ignored the letter it was the dumbest thing he ever did.
You have to love these researchers and their conjecture.
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Similar studies of fish can't explain their speed and conclude that they have insufficient muscle mass to explain their locomotion. This is known as Gray's Paradox. The following URL explains this and how Scientists might only recently be approaching an explanation. It also provides insight into how these 'studies' are done and the kinds of crazy assumptions that can often be made.
http://www.mbl.edu/publications/LABNOTES/4.1/sc
So, forgive me if I run rather than walk away the next time I see a T-Rex approaching me.
Some of the motivation for the design elements that Chris objects to is the desire to exploit very sophisticated hardware. Ideally you develop to one API and the application exploits very different hardware on heterogeneous systems. Mainstream PC cards are only just starting to get sophisticated about video so it doesn't on the face of things need some of this, but if you don't abstract then you are stuck with applications that either can never exploit better hardware or need to be ported by hand to use it.
This indicates the cardinal danger of non Open Source licenses. In pulling the mother of all bait and switches Sun has sapped resources and attention from projects like Open Office.
You are confusing TV hardware and manufacturers with broadcasters and content. I expect the manufacturers don't want this change but the broadcasters could force the issue to increase their stranglehold on the content. There may also be some move here to monopolize the standard. Encrypting the signal kicks in extra DMCA protections and gives someone a chance to charge increased royalties on broadcast equipment & players and even lock out the competition from making that equipment.
Clearly this is not good for consumers, and if broadcasters weren't so paranoid about their content they might see that this is bad for them too.
This needs to stop. Why isn't congress defending us against this? There are forces working here that seek to strip us of fair use rights and our elected representatives are giving them all the ammunition to do it. It's time they started turning the tide on this stuff.
So put the battery INSIDE the jacket. It'll be snug as a bug in there and be operating at ideal temperatures.
My information is that there are so many manufacturers of these things that the quality if highly variable and tends to lead to poor rifling and barrel quality, but you sound like you know more about this than me.
Support of the /. community? What support? Are you going to write him a cheque? Words of sympathy and outrage are not going to pay his legal bills and will not 'support' him.
No, I'm thinking of the AK-47 which is prevalent throughout the world, my point was that this is the weapon which spits out the most destructive rounds in terms of tumblers and it's the one almost all our enemies use. This is what makes the debate over the M-16 so crazy. Where are the critics when almost every other nation on earth tools up with AK-47s? Too busy criticizing the US to notice. The irony in all of this of course is that the point of a rifle as its name indicates, is to produce nice spiraling rounds because they stay on target. As soon as you get a tumbler it's more likely to miss at any kind of range. You WANT your enemy to miss you, you WANT your enemy to have a piece of crap assault rifle that spits tumblers. If your gun is throwing out tumblers then you should go swap it for a better one because you are much more likely to lose a firefight if you have any kind of skill with your weapon.
Two xscreensaver critical bugs, xgammon critical bug, all three about marking files as conffiles. They have a strange definition of a critical bug.
Hmm... you must be thinking of the AK-47, which spits out more tumblers than any other assault rifle.
He wasn't singing a song at the time, you missed the part where he asserted that he was serious about this. He is not the victim, this guys in so much shit whcause he was as confused as you w.r.t. protected speech. Earnest threats of violence are not free speech, they are crimes.
He get's to decide who the innocent are you idiot. i.e. he get's to kill anyone he disagrees with. You seem to think it's OK to kill people just because they are in government, a government WE VITED FOR. Needless to say I disagree bit both him and you.
This guy wasn't advicating anything but murder. You can play semantics all you like but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Here's a quote from this little darling, read by the judge:
"Yeah, motherfucker, I'm a terrorist to the U.S. Government. I'm a terrorist to capitalism, not to innocent people. I'm a terrorist to the evil system that's terrorizing all of us. Fuck the Government.
I hope they burn in fucking hell right back where they came from, motherfuckers. You can't fool all the people. We know your fucking style."
Here is another quote read by the prosecutor:
"We don't gather weapons, plan extreme operation, and risk our lives for nothing. This is real."
So even if the guy isn't a terrorist, he is spectacularly foolish, why would anyone expect to write this and be ignored. It is a testament to his coddled spoiled existence that he thinks that this is acceptable behaviour.
He doesn't need protected from the FBI, we need protected from him. He's a NUT, with aspirations to acts of extreme violence, including grandiose fantasies of using weapons of mass destruction against governments. I don't care if he meant what he said, I don't need to waste time worrying about it, if someone says this kind of crazy thing they should go to one of two places, jail or the nut house. I don't care which, but this isn't about speach, it's about unbridled threats of violence.
Why do you insist on following this up with the same misrepresentations given in the earlier story? This guy's criminal misconduct has been pointed out repeatedly, but you still post selective information implying that this is abuse of power curtailing his freedom of speech. Surely it is incumbent upon you to take note of all those (5 Insightfull) moded posts in the earlier article which gently inform you that he fully deserved what he got, and probably then some. Maybe this time you can take note of all the posts in response to this article telling you that the guy is a criminal and monumentally stupid with it. Aside from hacking web pages it is not legal to advocate the violent overthrow of the government. More to the point this government is a DEMOCRACY, if this guy wants to overthrow anyone he can take it to the ballot box. He gets one vote just like the rest of us.
That's real intelligent. I know they claim to by virtue of patents you idiot, but then you're ananymous so you already make it clear you don't want to be associated with your own comments. You're the fool because you see no problem letting corporations confiscate publications and works of art because thay own the media and have an contrived monopoly over it.
It's obvious that Eternal Darkness skated much better than Half Life2 and that tripple Lutz was obviously a mess. I blame the judges they made their mind up way before the competition. Blame the French.
The point is these DVDs are impounded because of patent claims on the media, not copyright claims on the work it contains.
You can happily march off into the chains of these people, but my analogy is entirely appropriate. These companies are crating an artificial monopoly on the media itself that is entirely different to copyright protections on content.
I don't support BT, but the escape key sequence has at best a tenuous connection to hyperlinks. Just because you need some kind of keyword sequence to embed a link in text does not mean that this embodies the whole idea of a hyperlink, infact it has almost nothing to do with hyperlinking. The REAL prior art has already been discovered, we don't need to claim unrelated art defeats the BT patent claims, this will only distract and strengthen BT's invalid claim.
Don't you realize this is about the Monica Lewinski - Clinton affair and checking gifts exchanged between them right?
It's not about checking what she read at all, it's about establishing an exchange of gifts to reinforce a charge of perjury or even uncover her possible deception, this was about checking out her story. It could have been a ham sandwitch allegedly purchased, it had nothing to do with the content of what she was reading.
The displacement argument is bogus. You could make the same case for having no police force, because to patrol an area displaces crime to other areas. Ultimately extra enforcement has some effect at reducing crime. You may think that when you measure the overall crime that reduced crime in one area is insignificant, but that's an equally foolish argument. The effect of cameras on the area of coverage is the relevant metric to measure. If you want wider effects put cameras over a wider area. To erect cameras in a city center, then see a huge drop in crime then divide that drop over a larger area with no coverage is an exercise is analytical stupidity. Glasgow used to be plagued by razor gangs in the sixties with pseudo intellectual thugs like Jimmy Boyle mutilating innocent strangers. A few years ago there was a resurgance of 'neds' who made double bladed razors with 1mm separation between the blades so that when they slashed you the facial tissue between the cuts would necrotize leaving you even more horribly disfigured than simply being slashed. If these thugs are caught, discouraged, or even kept the heck away from the business and social centers of a city and confined to the depraved cliques which nurtured them by cameras then it's a good thing. This is not some lab experiment, we're talking about the certainty of lives being saved and ruined lives being avoided through these cameras.
This is a civil dispute between the manufacturers and those who claim patent rights. Surely it should not be the business of customs to close down manufacturers of DVDs without some kind of civil decision in a court.
Note that the customs officials have not only been asked to impound players thay are also impounding disks. The disks are not being impounded because the content is copyright, they are being impounded because the media is owned by these corporations.
This is an outrage. It's like impounding books because someone claims they own the patent on the printing press. We need some protection against companies claiming to own and control the information medium in common use today.