This is technically true but grossly misleading: England also already has Jewish courts. They have exactly the same standing, which is they have no standing in law.
In this case, rabbinical courts have more standing in law in Morocco than in England, since Morocco explicitly grants them autonomy in matters of civilian family matters.
Thank you YouTube for leaving this on, and the US should embrace it as a symbol of free speech, and use it as a rallying point to get support for more war.
If that silly movie was to become the symbol of free speech, it would be a testimony to the intellectual and cultural void in the West. If you really hope that this flick will motivate anybody to go to war with those rioting barbarians, considering that the wars already in progress (Iraq, Afghanistan,...) are not exactly going well, I'd like some of the stuff you're smoking.;-)
Seriously: forget it. All this is a tempest in a tea pot. The only benefit of this episode is that it has the potential to open the eyes of the West. I hope that we'll finally realize that turning our backs on Arab modernists while embracing Arab Islamists was a tremendous and strategic mistake. It may be too late to undo the damage cause by this misguided policy, but now at least, we could hit the reset button and reconsider those decisions.
That's the point here. To the US (Google/Youtube), Copyright is holy and untouchable. To the Muslims, it's the same for their prophet. And since Youtube/Google is a US company, they have to abide by the taboos of US society to the letter, and happily shun the taboos of other societies.
Well, I'm half joking here, and I'm half sarcastic. But let's face it: there's a blatant double standard going on here. On one hand, lives are being threatened and people have been killed, and this silly video causing this stays on... because it doesn't violate some copyright. On the other hand, a couple of fat cats from the MAFIAA lose a couple of dollars and Youtube jumps proactively to their rescue with massive take downs or country-wide censorships (think GEMA). It's as if peoples' lives, US Citizens' lives, are less important than the bottom line of the copyright holders. THIS is disgusting, IMHO. Just as disgusting as those Muslim riots. Both sides are deeply entrenched in their ideologies, and are totally lacking reason and responsibility.
In fact, many things (and more are appearing) cannot even be taken apart without breaking some laws (...)
So what? Just because some sordid law forbids something doesn't mean it can't and shouldn't be done! Just look at all the laws that the Catholic Church imposed on Europe in the Dark Middle Ages. Do they still exist today? No. Why not? Because Enlightenment happened, and people started thinking: "That's a silly law. Let's ignore it." In a couple of decades, our children and their children will look back at our time, and will laugh about the Great Copyright Prohibition and will wonder how much time it took to get rid of it.
If linking to copyrighted content is prohibited in NL, links to everything not in the public domain would be illegal; including links to content licensed under CC, BSD, GFDL, [L]GPL, etc... This is by all means the whole Internet. Should this ruling be enforced, the Dutch internet is about to disappear in a puff of logic; destroyed by incompetent lawyers and lawmakers. This is amazing, considering that the Netherlands were pioneers, connecting Europe to the (early) Internet. How deep the fall.
Perhaps *we* as a society should take those rights away, or at the very least severely curb them to avoid this utter nonsense.
Absolutely! But how is that supposed to happen, considering that we as a society are already brain washed by the very news and entertainment media conglomerates that have everything to lose with saner copyright laws? Those conglomerates will NEVER permit society to change its stance on copyright, and every politician or grass roots movement that tries to emerge here will be cut off by the media (i.e. character-assassinated beyond redemption). I'm afraid we'll remain trapped in this spider's web of copyright for a couple of generations at least.
Industry shills are constantly trying to convince the public that piracy = theft, but punishments like this make it seem more like piracy = murder.
Actually, piracy IS theft, but copyright infringement isn't piracy. Piracy is what happens on the High Seas, e.g. near the coast of Somalia. The concept of copying files (instead of stealing them) should constitute piracy is flawed from the get go.
Her paying absurdly high fines wasn't the point from the very beginning. It was about making an example of her to intimidate others. By throwing her to the wolves, the MAFIAA effectively says: "don't mess with us, or we'll break your kneecaps and you'll never recover." These statutory damages are legal bullying at its best, brought to you by your elected representatives.
So what you're implying is that she has only herself to blame that the "legal" system is biased against the poor and common people, and in favor of the rich and corporations? Should she have taken the abuse of the MAFIAA bully without putting up a fight, or at least trying to defend herself -- no matter how inept and poor her strategy? If that's the case, why bother with laws anymore? Let the powerful reign unhindered and the common people bow and accept their fate and absorb the abuse that comes their way?
Sure, go ahead... if you have deeper pockets than the MAFIAA. If you don't, lobbying against the excesses of Copyright Law could put you on a terrorist list or something like that. At least that's my impression of the US political system: they consider the so called "intellectual property" as the new Oil of the 21st century. Their oil, to monetize to the max and beyond. And as in every Oil war so far, people get killed, in real life or symbolically/figuratively. In this particular case, Jammie Thomas is the sacrificial lamb, financially executed on the altar of the Holy Copyright. Absurd, of course, but preventing the free flow of ideas with red tape is the current state of Homo Sapiens in all its wisdom and glory, right?
Paying with cash comes under numerous "you might be a terrorist if" lists.
Glad that cash is still widely used in Europe and in the rest of the world. It would be a sad day when you can't buy something without giving up your privacy or when you can't buy something with cash and immediately being flagged as a terrorist suspect. Frankly, wtf?
Well, there's a choice between hand counting paper ballots on one side xor letting computers decide the elections (while still permitting a human factor of uncertainty).
Why take so long? In Germany (population 80 millions), where they manually count the votes like in Canada using a highly distributed system, it usually takes less than 6 to 10 hours to _complete_ the counting for the federal elections. In practice though, exit polls and the first intermediary results (Hochrechnungen) are usually very close to the final result, so it is seldom a cliffhanger that lasts deep into election night.
When children are involved, people shut off their brains.
When children are involved, most animal species shut off their brains; why should homo sapiens be an exception? This is pure instinct at work, instinct that developed in millions years of evolution. Without it, we wouldn't belong to the survivors of Nature, and wouldn't even be here. Of course, this deeply rooted instinct is easy prey for populist politicians and a prime tool of political manipulative scare tactics. It has always be, it will always be.
I'm really wondering that the creationism debate infected South Korea at all. Up until now, I thought that the debate of creationism in textbooks and education was a typical Americanism, strictly confined to the USA (or maybe just to its Bible Belt). Is South Korea's educational system such a carbon-copy of the US's system that it is just as vulnerable to the same memes? Anyone from South Korea caring to shed some light on this?
To use HTTPS, you need a certificate from a CA. What kind of CA that is recognized by the browser vendors do you suggest for small website owners, whose certificates don't cost an arm and a leg, year after year after year?
Let me guess (correct me if I'm wrong: I didn't check out Qubes yet...): Qubes may be something like a Dom0 platform with its own hypervisor, and isn't supposed to run in DomU environments, i.e. in yet another virtual machine. Try it on the bare metal, and it may work. Joanna Rutkowska is a well-known master in Hypervisor-related "black magic." I wouldn't expect anything less than a hypervisor-based OS (or Meta-OS?) from her. And this means always that it MUST run on the bare metal.
This stuff is dangerous - atomic bomb dangerous if it gets a proper engineering.
It may sound old-fashioned to reiterate, but this stuff is only dangerous for operating systems that don't properly separate privileges and don't properly isolate and contain processes/tasks.
Yes, the hierarchical nature of DNS invites exactly this kind of abuse. However, to be fair: designers of the DNS never expected this kind of lawfare. They thought about cities being nuked etc..., not about a rogue government controlling the top-level of the DNS hierarchy.
As to countries going offline when a submarine cable is being cut, it's their problem: they were supposed to provide some levels of redundancy by connecting to multiple international backbones in the first place.
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In this case, rabbinical courts have more standing in law in Morocco than in England, since Morocco explicitly grants them autonomy in matters of civilian family matters.
Or, said otherwise: file sharing is blasphemy 2.0
If that silly movie was to become the symbol of free speech, it would be a testimony to the intellectual and cultural void in the West. If you really hope that this flick will motivate anybody to go to war with those rioting barbarians, considering that the wars already in progress (Iraq, Afghanistan, ...) are not exactly going well, I'd like some of the stuff you're smoking. ;-)
Seriously: forget it. All this is a tempest in a tea pot. The only benefit of this episode is that it has the potential to open the eyes of the West. I hope that we'll finally realize that turning our backs on Arab modernists while embracing Arab Islamists was a tremendous and strategic mistake. It may be too late to undo the damage cause by this misguided policy, but now at least, we could hit the reset button and reconsider those decisions.
Well, I'm half joking here, and I'm half sarcastic. But let's face it: there's a blatant double standard going on here. On one hand, lives are being threatened and people have been killed, and this silly video causing this stays on... because it doesn't violate some copyright. On the other hand, a couple of fat cats from the MAFIAA lose a couple of dollars and Youtube jumps proactively to their rescue with massive take downs or country-wide censorships (think GEMA). It's as if peoples' lives, US Citizens' lives, are less important than the bottom line of the copyright holders. THIS is disgusting, IMHO. Just as disgusting as those Muslim riots. Both sides are deeply entrenched in their ideologies, and are totally lacking reason and responsibility.
So what? Just because some sordid law forbids something doesn't mean it can't and shouldn't be done! Just look at all the laws that the Catholic Church imposed on Europe in the Dark Middle Ages. Do they still exist today? No. Why not? Because Enlightenment happened, and people started thinking: "That's a silly law. Let's ignore it." In a couple of decades, our children and their children will look back at our time, and will laugh about the Great Copyright Prohibition and will wonder how much time it took to get rid of it.
If linking to copyrighted content is prohibited in NL, links to everything not in the public domain would be illegal; including links to content licensed under CC, BSD, GFDL, [L]GPL, etc... This is by all means the whole Internet. Should this ruling be enforced, the Dutch internet is about to disappear in a puff of logic; destroyed by incompetent lawyers and lawmakers. This is amazing, considering that the Netherlands were pioneers, connecting Europe to the (early) Internet. How deep the fall.
Absolutely! But how is that supposed to happen, considering that we as a society are already brain washed by the very news and entertainment media conglomerates that have everything to lose with saner copyright laws? Those conglomerates will NEVER permit society to change its stance on copyright, and every politician or grass roots movement that tries to emerge here will be cut off by the media (i.e. character-assassinated beyond redemption). I'm afraid we'll remain trapped in this spider's web of copyright for a couple of generations at least.
Actually, piracy IS theft, but copyright infringement isn't piracy. Piracy is what happens on the High Seas, e.g. near the coast of Somalia. The concept of copying files (instead of stealing them) should constitute piracy is flawed from the get go.
Her paying absurdly high fines wasn't the point from the very beginning. It was about making an example of her to intimidate others. By throwing her to the wolves, the MAFIAA effectively says: "don't mess with us, or we'll break your kneecaps and you'll never recover." These statutory damages are legal bullying at its best, brought to you by your elected representatives.
So what you're implying is that she has only herself to blame that the "legal" system is biased against the poor and common people, and in favor of the rich and corporations? Should she have taken the abuse of the MAFIAA bully without putting up a fight, or at least trying to defend herself -- no matter how inept and poor her strategy? If that's the case, why bother with laws anymore? Let the powerful reign unhindered and the common people bow and accept their fate and absorb the abuse that comes their way?
Sure, go ahead... if you have deeper pockets than the MAFIAA. If you don't, lobbying against the excesses of Copyright Law could put you on a terrorist list or something like that. At least that's my impression of the US political system: they consider the so called "intellectual property" as the new Oil of the 21st century. Their oil, to monetize to the max and beyond. And as in every Oil war so far, people get killed, in real life or symbolically/figuratively. In this particular case, Jammie Thomas is the sacrificial lamb, financially executed on the altar of the Holy Copyright. Absurd, of course, but preventing the free flow of ideas with red tape is the current state of Homo Sapiens in all its wisdom and glory, right?
Will 640kb of ratram be enough for everybody?
Glad that cash is still widely used in Europe and in the rest of the world. It would be a sad day when you can't buy something without giving up your privacy or when you can't buy something with cash and immediately being flagged as a terrorist suspect. Frankly, wtf?
Even though it was a myth, the idea is great. Once everyone ends on this list, it becomes meaningless.
Well, there's a choice between hand counting paper ballots on one side xor letting computers decide the elections (while still permitting a human factor of uncertainty).
Why take so long? In Germany (population 80 millions), where they manually count the votes like in Canada using a highly distributed system, it usually takes less than 6 to 10 hours to _complete_ the counting for the federal elections. In practice though, exit polls and the first intermediary results (Hochrechnungen) are usually very close to the final result, so it is seldom a cliffhanger that lasts deep into election night.
When children are involved, most animal species shut off their brains; why should homo sapiens be an exception? This is pure instinct at work, instinct that developed in millions years of evolution. Without it, we wouldn't belong to the survivors of Nature, and wouldn't even be here. Of course, this deeply rooted instinct is easy prey for populist politicians and a prime tool of political manipulative scare tactics. It has always be, it will always be.
I'm really wondering that the creationism debate infected South Korea at all. Up until now, I thought that the debate of creationism in textbooks and education was a typical Americanism, strictly confined to the USA (or maybe just to its Bible Belt). Is South Korea's educational system such a carbon-copy of the US's system that it is just as vulnerable to the same memes? Anyone from South Korea caring to shed some light on this?
George Orwell of 1984 fame was British. It was not a coincidence, you know?
To use HTTPS, you need a certificate from a CA. What kind of CA that is recognized by the browser vendors do you suggest for small website owners, whose certificates don't cost an arm and a leg, year after year after year?
Let me guess (correct me if I'm wrong: I didn't check out Qubes yet...): Qubes may be something like a Dom0 platform with its own hypervisor, and isn't supposed to run in DomU environments, i.e. in yet another virtual machine. Try it on the bare metal, and it may work. Joanna Rutkowska is a well-known master in Hypervisor-related "black magic." I wouldn't expect anything less than a hypervisor-based OS (or Meta-OS?) from her. And this means always that it MUST run on the bare metal.
If you live in a fucked up police state where this is considered possible, you have more problems to care for than merely encrypting data.
On Unix systems, a small utility named samefile does wonders to de-dup after the fact. It should be portable enough to run on Windows as well...
It may sound old-fashioned to reiterate, but this stuff is only dangerous for operating systems that don't properly separate privileges and don't properly isolate and contain processes/tasks.
As to countries going offline when a submarine cable is being cut, it's their problem: they were supposed to provide some levels of redundancy by connecting to multiple international backbones in the first place.