> I still hope that SCOTUS slams them hard on > this one.
Hard enough to suit me would involve removing the judges from the bench who made this ruling, and disbarring any attorney who was arguing for it.
Attempting to create laws which are in fundamental opposition to the Constitution should carry severe consequences for those who participate in such treason.
You need to understand that for a revolutionary movement to be anything but squashed, you need a military force in the revolutionary camp. That means, you need an issue so divisive that you get, let's say, National Guard units turning their offensive power towards their command. You'd need regular army and air force divisions refusing to follow orders from Washington.
How about "tied to a brick and hurled through your window?" That gets more to the point of whether or not harm is done by spam.
At least with the menu, I'd have grounds for a court claim against the restaurant for the damage done and my expenses. With spam, I'm without such recourse.
I'm of the impression that the tyranny is a direct result of the will of the voters. In other words, I believe the government really is representing the will of the people. I'm not just scared of the government, I'm scared of the people for whom the government has become an extension of their will.
The replacements won't be elected, because people really do want, i.e., Bush. That's what scares me.
A 1GHZ C3 isn't even close to the capability needed for audio production, either soft synths and effects or multitrack recording, let alone doing both at the same time.
The processor in a Nehemiah board performs about like a K6-300, in my experience with them. It does have the silent factor solved. I've already tried the mini-itx approach and have been thorougly disappointed with the performance of the C3 processors.
Any noise at all on a pro studio floor is unacceptable. That makes the PC you need for a soft synth or effects quite expensive. Even my Shuttle SN41G2 is too loud to use live in the studio. I wish I could modify it to be fanless, without it costing a lot.
The alternative is to put the PC in the control room, which means long cables, or else an enclosure, which will also be expensive.
I could mitigate the problem by putting the PC in a rack case, but 1-u rack cases tend to be too deep for the typical musician's rack, and again, it's an expensive solution.
>Eisenhower was never told that the CIA rather >than Tudeh (the Iranian communist party was >behind it).
I think it's more likely that Eisenhower managed to take what he did and did not know to the grave, whereas the CIA's ability to keep secrets broke down over time.
There really isn't an opportunity to offer the price for freedom in this case.
Last time I checked there was approximately zero support for a revolutionary movement in the US.
Get a couple of military divisions willing to turn against the command because the government is out of control, and then we can start talking about "paying the price of freedom."
At the moment, it's either live under the tyranny, or leave the country. Things are not bad enough for people to start thinking in terms of the more ugly alternatives.
>Somehow the PhD program elevates the undergrad >program?
Yes it does, absolutely.
If you want to go further, you're going to have a much easier time getting accepted into a grad program when your undergrad is from the same institution.
This is especially true of med school.
I didn't look for my school, U of Arizona, but it better have made the cut!
Far, far easier to get accepted to the UofA med school if your premed was there.
There are so MANY of us that the top 1/10th percent bracket fills up the schools. The rest are there on subsidies. Almost everybody takes loans to do it. The loans are pretty much guaranteed.
What's really hard is being older, say late 30's, having a good job, and still trying to go to college. One thing like a mandatory week long meeting in another town can force you to decide between ending your college career or your work career. (University classes don't have lax attendance policies these days).
If you were researching a sensitive topic, say, a personal matter, at the library, and you suddenly started receiving all kinds of marketing information related to that subject, even though you have kept it private, you'd start to call it "very" invasive I think.
If you were researching a political system that was not compatable with the US system, and agents of the law started to take interest in you because of your choice of reading material, I think you'd really change your tune.
I suspect this is a weak variant of the halting problem -- the software has a difficult time to really know that it's been cracked. I'm not saying it's impossible like the halting problem, but it does fall in similar territory. I suspect that it makes a connection for all installations. Further, I suspect that the origin of the cracked version will turn out to be none other than its publisher.
The people who do the cracking are pretty clever. They'd work around the activation/phoning home as part of the job. The fact that a piece of software phones home would be pretty obvious, and pretty easy to trace, and stupidly easy to either disable or make it talk to a proxy so it thinks it's called home.
If the publisher was smart, they'd put some real crypto on that phone-home protocol, and they'd make it so you had to actually acquire a license that was only for you, by calling in your registration. Or even go as far as a personalized dongle. Inconvenient as hell, but it would work. Make the license agreement so that if your key is ever found in the wild, you forfeit it.
Microsoft is pretty close to this with Activation. If they made it so that every copy of Windows is individual serialized, and the serial is tied to the customer directly before it can even be used -- with some hard crypto on the activation and maybe even a hardware component -- they could accomplish zero piracy, or at least achieve an enforcement of zero tolerance.
Even MSDN has to activate these days, and I doubt that there will be the "corporate edition" loophole with Server 2003.
That's what you get for creating disgruntled employees...
Still, unless you have a prosecutor willing to prosecute a crime, (a *CRIME*, not a civil matter), and unless you have a magistrate willing to hear the case, there should never be a search warrant issued for anything!
I hear about "BSA" raids, but they are really government raids with the BSA acting as a witness for the prosecution. The prosecutor is never named in these articles. Neither is the judge who signed the order.
If you get hard precedent that asserts that distribution under the GPL automatically surrenders your copyright and casts your work into the public domain, then you can use the same argument to severely weaken, say, the Microsoft EULA.
Distributing a creative work under a clearly articulated license does not equal surrendering your rights to copyright, or any other rights. You have articulated a distribution agreement. It is your copyright that secures that agreement. But the agreement itself is not a surrender of your copyright, and if you want to claim it as such, you will need to arrange a hearing with each and every individual copyright holder to settle the question of law.
If you manage to get a court decision that invalidates the GPL fully and puts all GPL work into the public domain, it would have to be so broadly worded as to threaten anyone else who distributes software or anything else licensed like software.
If copyright cannot back our distribution license, then it cannot back yours either. You think Microsoft would allow this for Media Player? Or Oracle for the database server? They distribute software freely with a license that is backed by copyright as well.
>copyrights are only good if someone is "actively >trying to enforce them"
You are completely wrong about that. You fully misunderstand how copyright works in the US. You seem to have copyright confused with trademark dilution disputes.
You don't lose your copyrights just because you aren't suing people. Although certain corporations would love it if it were so... and they love it that people like you believe it.
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> I still hope that SCOTUS slams them hard on
> this one.
Hard enough to suit me would involve removing the judges from the bench who made this ruling, and disbarring any attorney who was arguing for it.
Attempting to create laws which are in fundamental opposition to the Constitution should carry severe consequences for those who participate in such treason.
>My C3 at 600 MHz running WinXP plays DVD's and
>divXs just fine.
Playing dvd's and recording multitrack audio are wildly different tasks.
Try running Cubase and recording 10 tracks of 24 bit audio, then get back to me about the great power of your C3.
"approximately zero"
You need to understand that for a revolutionary movement to be anything but squashed, you need a military force in the revolutionary camp. That means, you need an issue so divisive that you get, let's say, National Guard units turning their offensive power towards their command. You'd need regular army and air force divisions refusing to follow orders from Washington.
Anything short of that is just spray paint...
>always appearing at your door
How about "tied to a brick and hurled through your window?" That gets more to the point of whether or not harm is done by spam.
At least with the menu, I'd have grounds for a court claim against the restaurant for the damage done and my expenses. With spam, I'm without such recourse.
I'm of the impression that the tyranny is a direct result of the will of the voters.
In other words, I believe the government really is representing the will of the people. I'm not
just scared of the government, I'm scared of the people for whom the government has become an extension of their will.
The replacements won't be elected, because people really do want, i.e., Bush. That's what scares me.
A 1GHZ C3 isn't even close to the capability needed for audio production, either soft synths and effects or multitrack recording, let alone doing both at the same time.
The processor in a Nehemiah board performs about like a K6-300, in my experience with them. It does have the silent factor solved. I've already tried the mini-itx approach and have been thorougly disappointed with the performance of the C3 processors.
Any noise at all on a pro studio floor is unacceptable. That makes the PC you need for a soft synth or effects quite expensive. Even my Shuttle SN41G2 is too loud to use live in the studio. I wish I could modify it to be fanless, without it costing a lot.
The alternative is to put the PC in the control room, which means long cables, or else an enclosure, which will also be expensive.
I could mitigate the problem by putting the PC in a rack case, but 1-u rack cases tend to be too deep for the typical musician's rack, and again, it's an expensive solution.
> They do not mention that the disturbances were
>created by the CIA.
Let me put that another way...
You're President Eisenhower. Your advisers are talking to you about highly sensitive stuff. There's a secretary in the room taking notes.
Do you talk about the stuff in sufficient detail to get you impeached or start a war if the details get loose?
>Eisenhower was never told that the CIA rather
>than Tudeh (the Iranian communist party was
>behind it).
I think it's more likely that Eisenhower managed to take what he did and did not know to the grave, whereas the CIA's ability to keep secrets broke down over time.
There really isn't an opportunity to offer the price for freedom in this case.
Last time I checked there was approximately zero support for a revolutionary movement in the US.
Get a couple of military divisions willing to turn against the command because the government is out of control, and then we can start talking about "paying the price of freedom."
At the moment, it's either live under the tyranny, or leave the country. Things are not bad enough for people to start thinking in terms of the more ugly alternatives.
Is this a case where someone is suppressing speech, or is this simply a case where someone has chosen not to finance the venue for certain speech?
The "mission of the WIPO" is to provide hotel rooms, food and tee times for a bunch of suits.
Nothing to see here.
>Somehow the PhD program elevates the undergrad
>program?
Yes it does, absolutely.
If you want to go further, you're going to have a much easier time getting accepted into a grad program when your undergrad is from the same institution.
This is especially true of med school.
I didn't look for my school, U of Arizona, but it better have made the cut!
Far, far easier to get accepted to the UofA med school if your premed was there.
We can't.
There are so MANY of us that the top 1/10th percent bracket fills up the schools. The rest are there on subsidies. Almost everybody takes loans to do it. The loans are pretty much guaranteed.
What's really hard is being older, say late 30's, having a good job, and still trying to go to college. One thing like a mandatory week long meeting in another town can force you to decide between ending your college career or your work career. (University classes don't have lax attendance policies these days).
> So in other words, not very invasive at all
If you were researching a sensitive topic, say, a personal matter, at the library, and you suddenly started receiving all kinds of marketing information related to that subject, even though you have kept it private, you'd start to call it "very" invasive I think.
If you were researching a political system that was not compatable with the US system, and agents of the law started to take interest in you because of your choice of reading material, I think you'd really change your tune.
>"YOU ARE A PIRATE".
That wasn't one of the Monkey Island titles was it? Maybe it meant the other kind of pirate?
There are a few L7 projects going on.
Actaully, the titles you mentioned have quite reasonable academic pricing.
I'm with you on the overpriced stuff, but, consider student pricing before you get carried away.
check out studica or torcomp.
I suspect this is a weak variant of the halting problem -- the software has a difficult time to really know that it's been cracked. I'm not saying it's impossible like the halting problem, but it does fall in similar territory. I suspect that it makes a connection for all installations.
Further, I suspect that the origin of the cracked version will turn out to be none other than its publisher.
The people who do the cracking are pretty clever. They'd work around the activation/phoning home as part of the job. The fact that a piece of software phones home would be pretty obvious, and pretty easy to trace, and stupidly easy to either disable or make it talk to a proxy so it thinks it's called home.
If the publisher was smart, they'd put some real crypto on that phone-home protocol, and they'd make it so you had to actually acquire a license that was only for you, by calling in your registration. Or even go as far as a personalized dongle. Inconvenient as hell, but it would work. Make the license agreement so that if your key is ever found in the wild, you forfeit it.
Microsoft is pretty close to this with Activation.
If they made it so that every copy of Windows is individual serialized, and the serial is tied to the customer directly before it can even be used -- with some hard crypto on the activation and maybe even a hardware component -- they could accomplish zero piracy, or at least achieve an enforcement of zero tolerance.
Even MSDN has to activate these days, and I doubt that there will be the "corporate edition" loophole with Server 2003.
That's what you get for creating disgruntled employees...
Still, unless you have a prosecutor willing to prosecute a crime, (a *CRIME*, not a civil matter), and unless you have a magistrate willing to hear the case, there should never be a search warrant issued for anything!
I hear about "BSA" raids, but they are really government raids with the BSA acting as a witness for the prosecution. The prosecutor is never named in these articles. Neither is the judge who signed the order.
I'm talking about the right to not be hounded at every step you take by agents of the state and their machines, not the right to entitlements.
Unless *EVERYBODY* is tracked in this system, then there is a serious civil rights issue with the selection process of who DOES get tracked.
>Take a stand, go short on 20 shares of SCOX
Can you explain that in language a blacksmith can understand?
If you get hard precedent that asserts that distribution under the GPL automatically surrenders your copyright and casts your work into the public domain, then you can use the same argument to severely weaken, say, the Microsoft EULA.
Distributing a creative work under a clearly articulated license does not equal surrendering your rights to copyright, or any other rights.
You have articulated a distribution agreement. It is your copyright that secures that agreement.
But the agreement itself is not a surrender of your copyright, and if you want to claim it as such, you will need to arrange a hearing with each and every individual copyright holder to settle the question of law.
If you manage to get a court decision that invalidates the GPL fully and puts all GPL work into the public domain, it would have to be so broadly worded as to threaten anyone else who distributes software or anything else licensed like software.
If copyright cannot back our distribution license, then it cannot back yours either. You think Microsoft would allow this for Media Player? Or Oracle for the database server? They distribute software freely with a license that is backed by copyright as well.
>copyrights are only good if someone is "actively
>trying to enforce them"
You are completely wrong about that. You fully misunderstand how copyright works in the US. You seem to have copyright confused with trademark dilution disputes.
You don't lose your copyrights just because you aren't suing people. Although certain corporations would love it if it were so... and they love it that people like you believe it.
There wasn't much powerline or RF interference during this particular event...
If you are doing something with computers that involves security concerns, you don't need to be automatically installing anything.
If you aren't yourself 100% on top of all security issues of your software, host OS, or network, you have already missed the security boat.