And that is wonderful
Making science accessable and afforable for both producers and consumers is just the kind of thing that the web should be doing
I hope scientists will switch, then again when faced with $800 per page fees for publishing in print form it is hard to see why they whould not.
Even if Kennedy is right (despite convincing evidance to the contrary) thimerosal is now out of the US vaccine supply.
I doubt most readers of this article will notice that point. They are probably only going to notice the "vaccines make your kids sick" argument.
This might lead to more people who are susceptable to serious diseases, the kind of contagious diseases that we have not often seen in my lifetime.
When I was a teen my city had a minor flare up with Measles, largely among older teen and college kids whose immunity from childhood vaccines had atrophyed. Measels sounds benign, but "as many as 1 out of 20 children with measles gets pneumonia. About 1 child in every 1,000 who get measles will get encephalitis. (This is an inflammation of the brain that can lead to convulsions, and can leave your child deaf or mentally retarded.) For every 1,000 children who get measles, 1 or 2 will die from it."
Vaccines have a failure rate, it is not a concern as long as the general population is well protected so the disease cannot spread. Discouraging people from getting vaccinated puts innocent lives at risk.
My grandmother died from Hep B, something that a vaccine would have prevented. I wonder how many people might die from preventable diseases due to this article.
what are the legal implications? Your still getting around a copy protection scheme, presumably Sony couldn't sue you, but what about potential criminal penelties?
I was raised on free municipal internet. http://www.tfn.net/ It was not seen as a problem because it was actully a seperate orgnization that just got grants from the city and county.
If your looking for clear your only choice is http://www.apollodiamond.com/ they don't make it clear where you can buy their diamonds and I have not been able to find a source.
If you can deal with color- yello blue or pink then you can use Gemesis http://www.gemesis.com/ You can buy loose gemesis stones online from http://www.diamondscultured.com/ and get it monuted by a local jewler.
on trying to genetically engineer the perfect linebacker
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A lack of history is an invention of big city. Anyone who has lived in a small town knows what it means to have your history (and that of your neighbors) known.
In some ways this is an example of techonlogy bringing us full circle.
Why make people find the money and apply. Good community projects are known in the community.
Use it to create a computer version of the MacArther prize- use geeks who remain secret but use stuff to nominate people. You could even let the card holders vote on the finalists.
The problem seems to be that this was structured to have way more adminstrative overhead then it needs.
I don't know how things work in Denmark, but in the case of a copyright issue with a big open source project like the Linux Kernal I imanage that they would just file as a class action, get a few named plantiffs, clarify the class defintion and advertise vola and entiy that can unambigous enforce all copyrighted materals in the source.
Of course you would have to meet the Rule 23 requirements and the judge would have to approve, but I don't think that would be a big issue.
Classes have been appoved in copyright suits before, the New York Times archive case comes to mind
Visual Artist do have a limited form of moral rights accoridng to this article.
Under VARA, moral rights automatically vest in the author of a "work of visual art." For the purposes of VARA, visual art includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and photographs, existing in a single copy or a limited edition of 200 signed and numbered copies or fewer. In order to be protected, a photograph must have been taken for exhibition purposes only. VARA only protects works of "recognized stature;" posters, maps, globes, motion pictures, electronic publications, and applied art are among the categories of visual works explicitly excluded from VARA protection.
The language of the Copyright Act excludes works-for-hire from the definition of "works of visual art," thereby excluding such works from VARA protection. (For a discussion of issues surrounding the moral rights of works made for hire, see Colleen Creamer Fielkow, Clashing Rights under United States Copyright Law: Harmonizing an Employer's Economic Right with the Artist-Employee's Moral Rights in a Work Made For Hire, 7 DePaul-LCA J. Art & Ent. L. 218 (Spring 1997).)
Moral rights are not transferrable, and end only with the life of the author. Even if the author has conveyed away a work or her copyright in it, she retains the moral rghts to the work under VARA. Authors may, however, waive their moral rights if do so in writing.
Of course making them transferable sort of moots the point.
THey make a distinction between economic rights and "moral rights". Creators can only sell the economic rights, so they maintain the moral rights which often include the abilty to stop bad uses
The one place where you can libel and slander with impunity is the floor of a legislative chamber. I don't know that this extends to trademark violations, but I would suspect it does. I also suspect that a congress-person could read the DeCSS code there and be immune from DCMA, but I don't know for sure. It would be an intersting test case if anyone knows a lame-duck congressman.
and just didn't serch them after their primary servers were destroyed. I think the problem was in not turing over what they had. Or to but it in lawyer terms the e-mails were "discoverable" (that is avilable in some form and relevant) and were not "produced" (turned over to the other side)
http://litsupportguy.typepad.com/litigation_suppor t_guy/2005/05/the_woodshed_re.html
Consumer Electronics Rebates should be one of the topics. I have had more trouble over 30 and 50 dollar rebates then I ever have had with my cell phone provider.
Well Eben is seen as a bit radical, but if you checked you would see that the Software Freedom law center INCLUDES Lessig and others. Also Moglen is a prof. at Columbia which is not something that someone who is not good could have on his resume.
While I have never taken a class on anti-trust a pretty good summary of what is required is at http://law.wustl.edu/Organizations/SBA/Outlines/Up per%20Level%20Outlines/Antitrust/Drobak/Antitrust% 20(Drobak1).htm
I can see several problems, first of all he has to allege that the scheme harmed him- he is alleging that the GPL has driven down the job market for computer programmers, something that seems hard to prove.
He has to show that there is an "anti-competive activity" he is alleging that this is the GPL itself. In order to do this he is charcterizing this as an "adhesion contract", that is a contract that one party has no real choice but to accept. This seems laughable given that the acts that invoke the GPL requirements are completely voluntary, I personaly have never accepted the GPL because I am not a programmer and don't distribute softweare. Yet I use GPLed softweare extensively. This is very much in oppstion to the licesne agreements that came with my proprotaty stuff.
Well it is not clearly illegal. While distributing calssified documents is criminal, it is only criminal for people without security clearances if it could reasonably be seen as esponage. I don't think anyone thinks/. is a spy hangout.
In addition courts tend to allow infromation released, even unintenionally, to be reported. In http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/ cox.html Cox Broadcasting v Cohn the supreme court found that the first admendment protected the publication of the name of a rape victum, even when state law forbit it, when the name was inculded in a publically available police report.
This seems like a similar incident of a falure to redact.
According to Anthony Downs any loss of congestion from Mass Transit is quickly eaten by by triple converance. The problem is that we live to far away from where we work and at low density and that is hard to fix.
http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/stillstuckint raffic.htm
You have to remember that there is such a thing as a traffic engineer. Most potental accident locations have alternate routes pre-plotted. The detours may take you on lower capacity roads, but if you have the ability to filter over a wider area you could overcome this problem by directing people to different alternates. This could really help in some cases.
Actually this is a good thing. If you can get someone to design an interface using whatever crude tools are available then designing the database to feed it is much easier.
What people are really doing is meeting you halfway in the design process by trying to show you what their needs are. If you respect what they have done and treat it as a partnership you look like a hero. You can make "their spreadsheet" really work.
The state of washingtion has a tort of action for invastion of privicy. The Washingiton Supreme Court says so:"So that no further confusion exists, we explicitly hold the common law right of privacy exists in this state and that individuals may bring a cause of action for invasion of that right." Reid v. Pierce County, 136 Wn.2d 195, 961 P.2d 333, (1998).This includes intrusion in to seclusion and public disclosure of privite facts. Neither theroy is a great fit here, but either could be strached a bit.
The reason you don't see many lawsuits for invasion of privicy (even though it is in the restament) is that it is usually had to show economic damages. In this case she has that part covered. The issue is likely to center on the question of duity, did comcast have a duity to protect her personal infromation.
It looks like non-native populations can contribute only thorugh buying an testing kit and the samples will be sent in ananomously.
Kits sold to the public contain cheek swabs used to scrape the inside of the mouth for a DNA sample. The swabs can then be mailed to a central laboratory for analysis. After four to six weeks, the results of the analysis will appear on the website behind an anonymous password contained in the kit.
I would do this, but their is a low limit to how much I would pay for it. It seems like the use is going to be pure population biology
we are very clear about not trying to exploit their genetic diversity for medical uses
There is a key difference. You have a fee type interest in the real property involved in the car and its parts (subject to liens, perhaps, but you own it). Software is sold with a license. This is a very different kind of property right.
A fee interest gives you the full rights of ownership, including the ability to exclude. To give you a fee interest the previous owner has to give up their fee ownership.
A license simply give you permission to do something, in this case use the software. The person who sold it to you retains all their rights. All their rights, include the ability to exclude you, because in common law licenses were freely revocable.
When you sell a neighbor your lawnmower you give them a fee interest, when you let them borrow it, you give them a license.
In order to SELL a license you have to make it valuable. Something that is freely revocable is not all that valuable. The solution is the license agreement. This is a contract that limits the granter of the license's ability to revoke it.
When you buy a copy of Windows you buy a license to use it, but you also buy a contract with the company that limits their ability to revoke the license. The problem is that contracts must be made by mutual agreement. If you don't agree to the contract you have "bought" a license that is freely revocable, and thus probably worthless.
This is why there is a return clause in the license. If all they are selling is a license without an agreement they have a serious issue with a potential fraud claim, they would end up selling something that, at the time of sale might be so uncertain as to be worthess.
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And that is wonderful
Making science accessable and afforable for both producers and consumers is just the kind of thing that the web should be doing
I hope scientists will switch, then again when faced with $800 per page fees for publishing in print form it is hard to see why they whould not.
I doubt most readers of this article will notice that point. They are probably only going to notice the "vaccines make your kids sick" argument.
This might lead to more people who are susceptable to serious diseases, the kind of contagious diseases that we have not often seen in my lifetime.
When I was a teen my city had a minor flare up with Measles, largely among older teen and college kids whose immunity from childhood vaccines had atrophyed. Measels sounds benign, but "as many as 1 out of 20 children with measles gets pneumonia. About 1 child in every 1,000 who get measles will get encephalitis. (This is an inflammation of the brain that can lead to convulsions, and can leave your child deaf or mentally retarded.) For every 1,000 children who get measles, 1 or 2 will die from it."
Vaccines have a failure rate, it is not a concern as long as the general population is well protected so the disease cannot spread. Discouraging people from getting vaccinated puts innocent lives at risk.My grandmother died from Hep B, something that a vaccine would have prevented. I wonder how many people might die from preventable diseases due to this article.
what are the legal implications? Your still getting around a copy protection scheme, presumably Sony couldn't sue you, but what about potential criminal penelties?
I was raised on free municipal internet. http://www.tfn.net/ It was not seen as a problem because it was actully a seperate orgnization that just got grants from the city and county.
I gave my beloved two choices- no rings at all or we both get gold tattos around the proper finger. He choice the ring free option.
If your looking for clear your only choice is http://www.apollodiamond.com/ they don't make it clear where you can buy their diamonds and I have not been able to find a source. If you can deal with color- yello blue or pink then you can use Gemesis http://www.gemesis.com/ You can buy loose gemesis stones online from http://www.diamondscultured.com/ and get it monuted by a local jewler.
on trying to genetically engineer the perfect linebacker
A lack of history is an invention of big city. Anyone who has lived in a small town knows what it means to have your history (and that of your neighbors) known.
In some ways this is an example of techonlogy bringing us full circle.
Why make people find the money and apply. Good community projects are known in the community. Use it to create a computer version of the MacArther prize- use geeks who remain secret but use stuff to nominate people. You could even let the card holders vote on the finalists. The problem seems to be that this was structured to have way more adminstrative overhead then it needs.
I don't know how things work in Denmark, but in the case of a copyright issue with a big open source project like the Linux Kernal I imanage that they would just file as a class action, get a few named plantiffs, clarify the class defintion and advertise vola and entiy that can unambigous enforce all copyrighted materals in the source.
Of course you would have to meet the Rule 23 requirements and the judge would have to approve, but I don't think that would be a big issue.
Classes have been appoved in copyright suits before, the New York Times archive case comes to mind
THey make a distinction between economic rights and "moral rights". Creators can only sell the economic rights, so they maintain the moral rights which often include the abilty to stop bad uses
Frogpad does this with a most used letter format http://www.frogpad.com/ And then there are cording keyborads like the BAT Keyboard http://www.onehandkeyboard.com/product_view.asp?Re cordNumber=12&sbcolor=%23FF9966&option=keyboard&su bcategory=&CatTxt=&optiontxt=Keyboard
These do make a lot more sense in a world where one hand is on a mouse and they adapt to smaller form factors more gracefully
The one place where you can libel and slander with impunity is the floor of a legislative chamber. I don't know that this extends to trademark violations, but I would suspect it does. I also suspect that a congress-person could read the DeCSS code there and be immune from DCMA, but I don't know for sure. It would be an intersting test case if anyone knows a lame-duck congressman.
and just didn't serch them after their primary servers were destroyed. I think the problem was in not turing over what they had. Or to but it in lawyer terms the e-mails were "discoverable" (that is avilable in some form and relevant) and were not "produced" (turned over to the other side) http://litsupportguy.typepad.com/litigation_suppor t_guy/2005/05/the_woodshed_re.html
Consumer Electronics Rebates should be one of the topics. I have had more trouble over 30 and 50 dollar rebates then I ever have had with my cell phone provider.
Well Eben is seen as a bit radical, but if you checked you would see that the Software Freedom law center INCLUDES Lessig and others. Also Moglen is a prof. at Columbia which is not something that someone who is not good could have on his resume.
While I have never taken a class on anti-trust a pretty good summary of what is required is at http://law.wustl.edu/Organizations/SBA/Outlines/Up per%20Level%20Outlines/Antitrust/Drobak/Antitrust% 20(Drobak1).htm
I can see several problems, first of all he has to allege that the scheme harmed him- he is alleging that the GPL has driven down the job market for computer programmers, something that seems hard to prove.
He has to show that there is an "anti-competive activity" he is alleging that this is the GPL itself. In order to do this he is charcterizing this as an "adhesion contract", that is a contract that one party has no real choice but to accept. This seems laughable given that the acts that invoke the GPL requirements are completely voluntary, I personaly have never accepted the GPL because I am not a programmer and don't distribute softweare. Yet I use GPLed softweare extensively. This is very much in oppstion to the licesne agreements that came with my proprotaty stuff.
Well it is not clearly illegal. While distributing calssified documents is criminal, it is only criminal for people without security clearances if it could reasonably be seen as esponage. I don't think anyone thinks /. is a spy hangout.
In addition courts tend to allow infromation released, even unintenionally, to be reported. In http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/ cox.html Cox Broadcasting v Cohn the supreme court found that the first admendment protected the publication of the name of a rape victum, even when state law forbit it, when the name was inculded in a publically available police report.
This seems like a similar incident of a falure to redact.
According to Anthony Downs any loss of congestion from Mass Transit is quickly eaten by by triple converance. The problem is that we live to far away from where we work and at low density and that is hard to fix. http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/stillstuckint raffic.htm
You have to remember that there is such a thing as a traffic engineer. Most potental accident locations have alternate routes pre-plotted. The detours may take you on lower capacity roads, but if you have the ability to filter over a wider area you could overcome this problem by directing people to different alternates. This could really help in some cases.
What people are really doing is meeting you halfway in the design process by trying to show you what their needs are. If you respect what they have done and treat it as a partnership you look like a hero. You can make "their spreadsheet" really work.
The state of washingtion has a tort of action for invastion of privicy. The Washingiton Supreme Court says so :"So that no further confusion exists, we explicitly hold the common law right of privacy exists in this state and that individuals may bring a cause of action for invasion of that right." Reid v. Pierce County, 136 Wn.2d 195, 961 P.2d 333, (1998).This includes intrusion in to seclusion and public disclosure of privite facts. Neither theroy is a great fit here, but either could be strached a bit.
The reason you don't see many lawsuits for invasion of privicy (even though it is in the restament) is that it is usually had to show economic damages. In this case she has that part covered. The issue is likely to center on the question of duity, did comcast have a duity to protect her personal infromation.
I would do this, but their is a low limit to how much I would pay for it. It seems like the use is going to be pure population biology and I happen to like population biology.
There is a key difference. You have a fee type interest in the real property involved in the car and its parts (subject to liens, perhaps, but you own it). Software is sold with a license. This is a very different kind of property right.
A fee interest gives you the full rights of ownership, including the ability to exclude. To give you a fee interest the previous owner has to give up their fee ownership.
A license simply give you permission to do something, in this case use the software. The person who sold it to you retains all their rights. All their rights, include the ability to exclude you, because in common law licenses were freely revocable.
When you sell a neighbor your lawnmower you give them a fee interest, when you let them borrow it, you give them a license.
In order to SELL a license you have to make it valuable. Something that is freely revocable is not all that valuable. The solution is the license agreement. This is a contract that limits the granter of the license's ability to revoke it.
When you buy a copy of Windows you buy a license to use it, but you also buy a contract with the company that limits their ability to revoke the license. The problem is that contracts must be made by mutual agreement. If you don't agree to the contract you have "bought" a license that is freely revocable, and thus probably worthless.
This is why there is a return clause in the license. If all they are selling is a license without an agreement they have a serious issue with a potential fraud claim, they would end up selling something that, at the time of sale might be so uncertain as to be worthess.