I'd suggest maybe replacing ND with "No Censorship", where the content can be edited to add value or context but not to excise undesirable parts.
I disagree. ND is not only about preventing deletion (a.k.a. censorship), it is also needed to prevent vandalism or malicious or outright bad changes in derivations. Suppose for the sake of an example that I wrote a collection of poems and I had some talent in that department (I didn't and I haven't: it's purely theoretical). I would be hugely pissed if some amateur took those poems and transmogrified them into some horrible high school poetry... and released the changed text under my name. Imagine what this would do to my reputation. The same holds true for translations: what if I wanted to double-check those translations just to be sure they got the meaning right as a form of quality control? That's what ND is for: you may still create derivatives, but I'd like to have a say in the matter. If I didn't care, I would rather release that into the Public Domain.
Example #2 is stealing too: you'd have stolen electricity that was not free in the first place. However, if you had used your own (charged) PC to do the copying, it wouldn't have been stealing at all.
Say, I publish a book under my own name. I don't care if people reproduce it on their websites, and I don't care if commercial enterprises included it into their own collections. Hey, it's not the money I'm after, so they can sell it too, if they want. What I do care about however, is that nobody comes and starts modifying (adding to, modifying or deleting from) that text... because my name and reputation are associated with it. That's what ND is for. Even if CC removed ND from its list of options, nothing prevents me from releasing said book under an ND-like condition nonetheless.
Fabbing the CPU is the easiest part of the game. Designing it is what is really expensive. Fortunately, we have the source code for a good CPU to get started, should we ever need to re-bootstrap the IT industry.
Same here. Moving through most of the classic Unix line starting in the mid 1970-ies, then happily using SunOS, HP-UX, Irix, Sinix, ConvexOS, Domain/OS... in the mid to late Eighties (throw in some non-Unix OS like BS2000 as well but I was not proficient in that); and then moved to Jolitz' 386BSD, then FreeBSD, and still with FreeBSD today. Of course I used Linux too from an early stage, but when it comes to professional career, I'm still a mostly BSD guy.
This could be due to the way Win7 and Linux use memory internally. Bad bits in uncritical parts of the kernel memory could very well remain harmless, but one bad bit in a critical data structure could wreak havoc.
I'm not defending Win7 by any means, but I know quite a lot about systems programming and how kernels work. I've done some simulations in virtual machines, randomly flipping bits in various parts of kernel memory, and the OSes may or may not crash.
Having said that, I think that most (but not all!) crashes on Windows are due to flaky drivers, when it's not bad memory or bad PSU.
Speaking from experience with huge number of machines running all kinds of OS here: most spontaneous reboots are due to bad non-ECC DRAM. It doesn't matter what OS the machine runs. With bad (cheap consumer-grade) DRAM, it's only a matter of time until some important kernel data structure gets corrupted, and then it's "undefined behavior land." With ECC-RAM, stuff like Win7, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris are pretty stable (excluding buggy third party drivers, of course).
That all depends on his role. Stealing the cables is illegal, but publishing them isn't. That, in short, is why Bradley Manning is in jail, and the editor of the New York Times is not.
Maybe the problem is that the USG doesn't recognize Assange/Wikileaks as a registered US Newspaper/Media. And as a not officially recognized media, it doesn't get the protection of the US law. And in a perverse way, it even makes sense: US media is bound by US laws, and therefore controllable by the US Government -- within some bounds. They are no danger to the USG. Foreign organizations like Wikileaks are by definition free of US Government control, and that makes them truly independent... and at the same time a target to kill for a government hat has dirty laundry to hide.
Well, being the 800lb bully on the world stage is easier, because while Police is bound by laws, the US government can essentially do as it pleases (outside the US), and doesn't have to care about (non-US) laws.
The spy (or rather: whistle blower) here is Pfc. Manning. Assange is the one who published the news. But I'm also surprised that Obama/Clinton didn't send some kill team against Assange. It's not like it would be totally out-of-character for both of them.
The threat of communism put the Fear Of God(TM) into the rich and forced them to share the wealth, which in turn improved everyone's lives. Now it's all slipping away.
I don't think it's a matter or wealth distribution. IMHO, it's more a matter of the pendulum swinging (back) towards authoritarianism. And, by the way, this happens on a worldwide scale right now: US, EU, Russia, Arab States (the "Arab Spring" is really an ultraconservative authoritarian "Islamist Winter")... Wherever we look, governments are increasingly ignoring Citizens' rights, and what's worse: the new generation doesn't seem to bother, and may not even notice the difference (how could it anyway?).
Jefferson is still right. Separation of church and state, it's the only reasonable way to ensure our freedom. That includes keeping creationism in churches where it belongs and out of our schools.
Now, if only the US government stopped supporting the Islamist takeover of Syria, Egypt etc..., if only the Russian government stopped supporting the oppressive Orthodox Church of Russia against a couple of harmless girls... Separation of Church and State isn't very much en vogue nowadays; no matter where you look. That's really depressing, IMHO.
I'm sorry my country has used back room deals to convince your country to make a terroristic threat because it was too cowardly to make.
You're not responsible for the actions of a government that represents corporations instead of its people's will. And even IF this bullying was what the American people really wanted (and who knows, maybe they do?), if YOU think it's wrong, you STILL don't have to apologize, because that's not what YOU want. But thanks anyway. Highly appreciated.
All this supposition that Assange is being extradited to Sweden only for them to extradite him to USA his nothing short of a conspiracy theory.
According to Ecuador's Foreign Minister, Sweden would NOT give Ecuador guarantees NOT to extradite Assange to the US. In other words, there are STRONG reasons to believe that the Swedish government is in the pockets of Obama/Clinton. Which, by the way, wouldn't surprise me, considering how they are handling The Pirate Bay case as well.
Yup, that would be funny. Too bad that the Pirate Bay didn't broadcast anything... except for the torrents that pointed to the individual broadcasters. On the other hand, MegaUpload and other cyber lockers did and do broadcast a lot of stuff. Under the new regime, they would be filthy rich in terms of broadcasted IP portfolio.
We need a Bill of Digital Rights, one that underlies all of our national and international laws and keeps rights for citizens.
We already have that, and it's called the Berne Convention
for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. It says in a nutshell that Big Content has the right to extort huge amounts of money by artificially restricting distribution, and that Citizens have the right to get fleeced and the right to pay through the nose each time they want to read or hear and watch something, LONG after the content creator died. Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit, and that's essentially what it is. Your Bill of Digital Rights won't help here, because ratified international treaties have precedence of national laws. And the probability that the US would get out of the Berne Convention is literally zero.
Well, in this particular case, it's the UN acting on behalf of the US-MAFIAA and US-Government to export the US-brand of "copyright" to the rest of the world. And I'm saying "US-brand" because it's the kind of copyright that is obviously and clearly designed to protect the distribution cartel, instead of the original content creators.
First of all, rights of unlimited duration would be unconstitutional in the United States since the Article I Section 8 of the Constitution specifically calls for limited rights.
"Limited" includes perpetual minus 1 day, i.e. up to the End of the Universe^W United States, minus 1 day.
As countless verdicts around the civilized world has ruled, the owner of the connection is not defakto responsible or liable for abuse.
In Germany, it doesn't matter, because they apply the principle of Stoererhaftung. Which means: if someone abusing your IP connection does something wrong with it, you as the holder of that connection are responsible. Basically, you as the connection holder are responsible for whatever is being done with it.
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I disagree. ND is not only about preventing deletion (a.k.a. censorship), it is also needed to prevent vandalism or malicious or outright bad changes in derivations. Suppose for the sake of an example that I wrote a collection of poems and I had some talent in that department (I didn't and I haven't: it's purely theoretical). I would be hugely pissed if some amateur took those poems and transmogrified them into some horrible high school poetry... and released the changed text under my name. Imagine what this would do to my reputation. The same holds true for translations: what if I wanted to double-check those translations just to be sure they got the meaning right as a form of quality control? That's what ND is for: you may still create derivatives, but I'd like to have a say in the matter. If I didn't care, I would rather release that into the Public Domain.
Of course, it would have been stealing only if I didn't authorize your using of my house's power grid. ;-)
Example #2 is stealing too: you'd have stolen electricity that was not free in the first place. However, if you had used your own (charged) PC to do the copying, it wouldn't have been stealing at all.
Say, I publish a book under my own name. I don't care if people reproduce it on their websites, and I don't care if commercial enterprises included it into their own collections. Hey, it's not the money I'm after, so they can sell it too, if they want. What I do care about however, is that nobody comes and starts modifying (adding to, modifying or deleting from) that text... because my name and reputation are associated with it. That's what ND is for. Even if CC removed ND from its list of options, nothing prevents me from releasing said book under an ND-like condition nonetheless.
That's right. Piracy off the coast of Somalia is plain wrong.
Fabbing the CPU is the easiest part of the game. Designing it is what is really expensive. Fortunately, we have the source code for a good CPU to get started, should we ever need to re-bootstrap the IT industry.
Same here. Moving through most of the classic Unix line starting in the mid 1970-ies, then happily using SunOS, HP-UX, Irix, Sinix, ConvexOS, Domain/OS... in the mid to late Eighties (throw in some non-Unix OS like BS2000 as well but I was not proficient in that); and then moved to Jolitz' 386BSD, then FreeBSD, and still with FreeBSD today. Of course I used Linux too from an early stage, but when it comes to professional career, I'm still a mostly BSD guy.
In this land of greed, they'll take him to the top of the Tower of Commerce and throw him down, Ferengi-style.
Damn... have they found those stolen MP3s files again, or are they lost forever?
This could be due to the way Win7 and Linux use memory internally. Bad bits in uncritical parts of the kernel memory could very well remain harmless, but one bad bit in a critical data structure could wreak havoc.
I'm not defending Win7 by any means, but I know quite a lot about systems programming and how kernels work. I've done some simulations in virtual machines, randomly flipping bits in various parts of kernel memory, and the OSes may or may not crash.
Having said that, I think that most (but not all!) crashes on Windows are due to flaky drivers, when it's not bad memory or bad PSU.
Speaking from experience with huge number of machines running all kinds of OS here: most spontaneous reboots are due to bad non-ECC DRAM. It doesn't matter what OS the machine runs. With bad (cheap consumer-grade) DRAM, it's only a matter of time until some important kernel data structure gets corrupted, and then it's "undefined behavior land." With ECC-RAM, stuff like Win7, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris are pretty stable (excluding buggy third party drivers, of course).
Maybe the problem is that the USG doesn't recognize Assange/Wikileaks as a registered US Newspaper/Media. And as a not officially recognized media, it doesn't get the protection of the US law. And in a perverse way, it even makes sense: US media is bound by US laws, and therefore controllable by the US Government -- within some bounds. They are no danger to the USG. Foreign organizations like Wikileaks are by definition free of US Government control, and that makes them truly independent... and at the same time a target to kill for a government hat has dirty laundry to hide.
Well, being the 800lb bully on the world stage is easier, because while Police is bound by laws, the US government can essentially do as it pleases (outside the US), and doesn't have to care about (non-US) laws.
The spy (or rather: whistle blower) here is Pfc. Manning. Assange is the one who published the news. But I'm also surprised that Obama/Clinton didn't send some kill team against Assange. It's not like it would be totally out-of-character for both of them.
I don't think it's a matter or wealth distribution. IMHO, it's more a matter of the pendulum swinging (back) towards authoritarianism. And, by the way, this happens on a worldwide scale right now: US, EU, Russia, Arab States (the "Arab Spring" is really an ultraconservative authoritarian "Islamist Winter")... Wherever we look, governments are increasingly ignoring Citizens' rights, and what's worse: the new generation doesn't seem to bother, and may not even notice the difference (how could it anyway?).
Yes. Just look at the former illegal raids against The Pirate Bay.
Now, if only the US government stopped supporting the Islamist takeover of Syria, Egypt etc..., if only the Russian government stopped supporting the oppressive Orthodox Church of Russia against a couple of harmless girls... Separation of Church and State isn't very much en vogue nowadays; no matter where you look. That's really depressing, IMHO.
You're not responsible for the actions of a government that represents corporations instead of its people's will. And even IF this bullying was what the American people really wanted (and who knows, maybe they do?), if YOU think it's wrong, you STILL don't have to apologize, because that's not what YOU want. But thanks anyway. Highly appreciated.
According to Ecuador's Foreign Minister, Sweden would NOT give Ecuador guarantees NOT to extradite Assange to the US. In other words, there are STRONG reasons to believe that the Swedish government is in the pockets of Obama/Clinton. Which, by the way, wouldn't surprise me, considering how they are handling The Pirate Bay case as well.
Yup, that would be funny. Too bad that the Pirate Bay didn't broadcast anything... except for the torrents that pointed to the individual broadcasters. On the other hand, MegaUpload and other cyber lockers did and do broadcast a lot of stuff. Under the new regime, they would be filthy rich in terms of broadcasted IP portfolio.
We already have that, and it's called the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. It says in a nutshell that Big Content has the right to extort huge amounts of money by artificially restricting distribution, and that Citizens have the right to get fleeced and the right to pay through the nose each time they want to read or hear and watch something, LONG after the content creator died. Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit, and that's essentially what it is. Your Bill of Digital Rights won't help here, because ratified international treaties have precedence of national laws. And the probability that the US would get out of the Berne Convention is literally zero.
Well, in this particular case, it's the UN acting on behalf of the US-MAFIAA and US-Government to export the US-brand of "copyright" to the rest of the world. And I'm saying "US-brand" because it's the kind of copyright that is obviously and clearly designed to protect the distribution cartel, instead of the original content creators.
"Limited" includes perpetual minus 1 day, i.e. up to the End of the Universe^W United States, minus 1 day.
In Germany, it doesn't matter, because they apply the principle of Stoererhaftung. Which means: if someone abusing your IP connection does something wrong with it, you as the holder of that connection are responsible. Basically, you as the connection holder are responsible for whatever is being done with it.