that instead of having only a minority do the surveillance, allow everyone to have full access to all public camera footage, in real time. Open it all up to public scrutiny, and you're bound to have a thousand times as many eyes watching, plus you get the added benefit of knowing that since everyone is watching everyone else, corruption is less likely to occur in the system.
This is very similar to David Brin's major point in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?. It's an interesting book that I'd highly recommend.
This doesn't take into account that some of those relays may be there on purpose, as in ISPs possibly colluding with, and also possibly profiting from, spam.
This may be a stupid question, but I don't see how the operator of an open relay can profit from it. If it's open, anyone can route through it without authenticating: therefore without subscribing to a service. So how can running an open relay be profitable?
Um... whatever, you want to eliminate all binary drivers? Sorry, but that isn't going to happen. Linux will always be behind if it doesn't allow binary drivers. Companies have to make a living.
There's no legitimate reason for companies that sell hardware not to open up their interfaces and provide source code for drivers. IMHO hardware suppliers should be legally required to do this anyway.
Excellent point. I run an outgoing MTA on my home LAN because my ISPs SMTP server is not consistently reliable and does not warn senders about queued messages until they bounce after 48 hours. I get very annoyed with admins who use these blacklists of all dynamic IP addresses and with the arrogant people who say broadband users should not route their own mail directly but use their ISP's server. Maybe they live on some planet where a number of ISPs compete for their business by providing excellent service, but here in the real world I have one choice for broadband and it does not provide a very good SMTP service.
"From:" address should be your cable-domain address because that's what you're actually sending from. The "Reply-To:" address can be your dial-up address, because that's where you would like any replies to go.
I disagree. Most GUI e-mail clients emphasize the From-header and show that, not the Reply-To address, in the message list pane. So I think I need to send my work e-mails from home using only my work address, to keep things straightforward for work correspondents. (My work mail is copied by ~/.forward to my home ISP account.)
I'm afraid you really won't like this: I also override the Sender address to match From. That way if I send an e-mail in the morning before I go the office and it bounces, the bounce will come to my work mailbox. Otherwise, I wouldn't find out until the evening when checking my home e-mail.
In the state of California, supermarkets are required to give you the option of obtaining an anonymous discount card. I know this because when I was an elected official, I worked with my regional state legislators to draft and pass the legislation.
I haven't tried playing DVDs on my Linux box yet. But I read recently that all new DVD-R drives are region-locked after 5 changes. How do you get around this? Is it still possible to buy region-free DVD-R drives? Or does an improved version of libdvdcss somehow circumvent this?
I realize I'm going to sound like a Luddite here, but I just don't have the overwhelming need to send people emails with lightly shaded text over a really busy background, and I certainly HATE it when people send those to me.
I agree with you 100%. I also detest e-mails with large attachments, especially in proprietary formats.
First of all, there may be no legitimate reason to use a camera in a theatre, but that's not the same thing as having one there. But I think using rather than posessing is what you meant.
My real problem with this law is that it's another one enacted solely to put additional penalties on an offence just for a special interest group. For example, I noticed last year when travelling in the US that in some states driving away from gas stations without paying can be punished with removal of your driving licence -- that's an excessive punishment added just to protect a specific group of retailers. Why should stealing $20 worth of fuel be punished any differently from shoplifting a $20 shirt?
This law is the same thing: an additional penalty for something that is already adequately covered by existing law, solely to pander to a powerful lobby.
Reselling used CDs, books, etc. is legitimate fair use. Authors don't whine about the trade in secondhand books. So I don't think artists have any grounds for complaint.
What I meant was this. I would like to join those who are trying to cut off financial support to the RIAA and punish it for its abuses. Is it OK for me to buy used CDs instead?
Here in the UK (region 2, PAL) average stores sell only region 2 players, but I've heard that almost all of them sold now can be switched with "secret codes". I bought a SCAN 2500 a few years ago from scan.co.uk -- it was the only one I knew of sold as "multiregion". I believe it's a rebadged version of a mainstream model. The instruction manual came with a loose sheet listing the remote control sequences for changing regions!
Does PAL/NTSC on the DVD make a difference? I play DVDs bought in the USA and labelled region 1 and NTSC on my player through a normal UK TV.
Firebird is absolutely brilliant now, especially with a few good extensions (I especially recommend NeedleSearch, Tabbrowser Preferences and User Agent Switcher). I have finally migrated from Opera.
Sorry, I misinterpreted the tone of your post. I thought that when you said "When 50,000 people a day show up in court, they'll have to raise the speed limits, right?" you were supporting the pro-speed/anti-speed-limit lobby.
Best of all, Vinyl can often cost a few pennies to a few dollers, far cheaper than CDs. And guess what, NO DRM!!! and NO extra money going to the RIAA (Assuming you are buying USED)
You can also get a lot of unusual stuff on used records: yodelling, Hammond organ anthologies, etc.
I'm surprised I haven't heard of anyone running an operation to automatically read those addresses and fill in lots of webforms requesting free catalogues!
It's not their concern if private individuals want to use mind-alterting substances or engage in unusual (but consensual) sexual practices in private. It's not their concern to monitor our e-mail, web browsing and library and bookstore records. So when they respect our rights to privacy, and only then, are they entitled to the same respect. And this principle should apply to employers as well as the state.
automated speeding tickets... They just want an excuse to pull over minorities and a nice steady revenue stream.
Automated speed limit enforcement contributes to the second goal but not to the first. If anything, speed cameras (for example) catch speeders objectively regardless of their appearance.
I think the key would be a) limited times and b) escrow. e.g. software source code
Definitely. The law should not allow anyone to copyright binary software without providing the source code. Remember that the purpose of copyright is to encourage and motivate authors, so that everyone will be able to learn from the subsequently enriched public domain.
Their work was creative but not wholly original. All creative work is to some extent based on the existence of a rich public domain to borrow from and allude to. (Lessig, The Future of Ideas again)
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This is very similar to David Brin's major point in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?. It's an interesting book that I'd highly recommend.
Thanks for that tip. I've sent them my objection too.
This may be a stupid question, but I don't see how the operator of an open relay can profit from it. If it's open, anyone can route through it without authenticating: therefore without subscribing to a service. So how can running an open relay be profitable?
I haven't started trying to play DVDs on my Linux system yet, but I appreciate the useful information.
There's no legitimate reason for companies that sell hardware not to open up their interfaces and provide source code for drivers. IMHO hardware suppliers should be legally required to do this anyway.
Excellent point. I run an outgoing MTA on my home LAN because my ISPs SMTP server is not consistently reliable and does not warn senders about queued messages until they bounce after 48 hours. I get very annoyed with admins who use these blacklists of all dynamic IP addresses and with the arrogant people who say broadband users should not route their own mail directly but use their ISP's server. Maybe they live on some planet where a number of ISPs compete for their business by providing excellent service, but here in the real world I have one choice for broadband and it does not provide a very good SMTP service.
I disagree. Most GUI e-mail clients emphasize the From-header and show that, not the Reply-To address, in the message list pane. So I think I need to send my work e-mails from home using only my work address, to keep things straightforward for work correspondents. (My work mail is copied by ~/.forward to my home ISP account.)
I'm afraid you really won't like this: I also override the Sender address to match From. That way if I send an e-mail in the morning before I go the office and it bounces, the bounce will come to my work mailbox. Otherwise, I wouldn't find out until the evening when checking my home e-mail.
Good for you! This is an excellent law!
I haven't tried playing DVDs on my Linux box yet. But I read recently that all new DVD-R drives are region-locked after 5 changes. How do you get around this? Is it still possible to buy region-free DVD-R drives? Or does an improved version of libdvdcss somehow circumvent this?
Walt Disney hated unions and supported McCarthy's witch-hunts.
I agree with you 100%. I also detest e-mails with large attachments, especially in proprietary formats.
My real problem with this law is that it's another one enacted solely to put additional penalties on an offence just for a special interest group. For example, I noticed last year when travelling in the US that in some states driving away from gas stations without paying can be punished with removal of your driving licence -- that's an excessive punishment added just to protect a specific group of retailers. Why should stealing $20 worth of fuel be punished any differently from shoplifting a $20 shirt?
This law is the same thing: an additional penalty for something that is already adequately covered by existing law, solely to pander to a powerful lobby.
Reselling used CDs, books, etc. is legitimate fair use. Authors don't whine about the trade in secondhand books. So I don't think artists have any grounds for complaint.
What I meant was this. I would like to join those who are trying to cut off financial support to the RIAA and punish it for its abuses. Is it OK for me to buy used CDs instead?
Here in the UK (region 2, PAL) average stores sell only region 2 players, but I've heard that almost all of them sold now can be switched with "secret codes". I bought a SCAN 2500 a few years ago from scan.co.uk -- it was the only one I knew of sold as "multiregion". I believe it's a rebadged version of a mainstream model. The instruction manual came with a loose sheet listing the remote control sequences for changing regions!
Does PAL/NTSC on the DVD make a difference? I play DVDs bought in the USA and labelled region 1 and NTSC on my player through a normal UK TV.
Well, they say that recognising that you have a (whatever) problem is the first step to recovery.
They could easily ban DVDs if they wanted to
I think consumers would kick up a fuss and say what they're getting is better than nothing.
I'm curious: what's the situation in Australia? Is it impossible to import other regions' DVDs, or is the problem getting the players?
Firebird is absolutely brilliant now, especially with a few good extensions (I especially recommend NeedleSearch, Tabbrowser Preferences and User Agent Switcher). I have finally migrated from Opera.
Good riddance. There was never any excuse for them anyway. Region-coding should have been banned as restraint of trade.
Sorry, I misinterpreted the tone of your post. I thought that when you said "When 50,000 people a day show up in court, they'll have to raise the speed limits, right?" you were supporting the pro-speed/anti-speed-limit lobby.
Is it generally considered ethical to buy used CDs too?
You can also get a lot of unusual stuff on used records: yodelling, Hammond organ anthologies, etc.
I'm surprised I haven't heard of anyone running an operation to automatically read those addresses and fill in lots of webforms requesting free catalogues!
It's not their concern if private individuals want to use mind-alterting substances or engage in unusual (but consensual) sexual practices in private. It's not their concern to monitor our e-mail, web browsing and library and bookstore records. So when they respect our rights to privacy, and only then, are they entitled to the same respect. And this principle should apply to employers as well as the state.
Automated speed limit enforcement contributes to the second goal but not to the first. If anything, speed cameras (for example) catch speeders objectively regardless of their appearance.
Definitely. The law should not allow anyone to copyright binary software without providing the source code. Remember that the purpose of copyright is to encourage and motivate authors, so that everyone will be able to learn from the subsequently enriched public domain.
Their work was creative but not wholly original. All creative work is to some extent based on the existence of a rich public domain to borrow from and allude to. (Lessig, The Future of Ideas again)