"Entertainingly, in support for your argument, you included a version of 701 in which you removed the very phrases that subject the statute to ejusdem generis analysis. While we appreciate your desire to revise the statute to reflect your expansive vision of it, the fact is that we must work with the actual language of the statute, not the aspirational version of Section 701 that you forwarded to us.
In your letter, you assert that an image of an FBI seal included in a Wikipedia article is "problematic" because "it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting violations" of 18 U.S.C. 701. I hope you will agree that the adjective "problematic," even if it were truly applicable here, is not semantically identical to "unlawful." Even if it could be proved that someone, somewhere, found a way to use a Wikipedia article illustration to facilitate a fraudulent representation, that would not render the illustration itself unlawful under the statute. As the leading case interpreting Section 701 points out, "The enactment of 701 was intended to protect the public against the use of a recognizable assertion of authority with intent to deceive."... Our inclusion of an image of the FBI Seal is in no way evidence of any "intent to deceive," nor is it an "assertion of authority," recognizable or otherwise."
that's not a problem, it's called reality. The cost the ebook itself is zero.
The issue is that price and value are separate entities, and while the price might be zero, finding ways to increase the value of the ebook might make the price more acceptable. Have publishers done this for 99.9% of the books that are out there? Hell no.
this has nothing to do with what's going on at all. FBI has no legal standing on this anyway, so unless wikipedia backs down for whatever illogical reason, this would end up being a whole lot of nothing.
uh, people will start debating logically (which probably won't happen in our lifetime), before they start realizing privacy issues are a big deal.
Slowly a small amount of people wisen up to everything each year aka start using logic, but I wouldn't call it a consistent majority or even heading near it.
Honestly, until windows loses it's majority (reality is like 60-70% of the world is on windows and 30% is on linux, while every internet user does something that involves both every single day), people are not going to understand what it means about privacy until they first get their privacy *back* in the first place.
again, it's not like I care about FCC regulations. In the worst case what would they do if I could even figure out how to do this, tell me to stop? It's not like I'm going to start a bitter personal battle with the government here.
However, it'd be nice to know if it can be done as that would give people easy options other than the not even remotely adequate ones that our cellular providers have been offering.
I mean have computer + wireless + internet connection = you should have 90% of the capability right there. So it's a question of what you need to intercept your own signal and femtocell it for probably close to no cost.
almost everything on your list has DRM. However, lets take too it.
Netflix Watch Instantly DRM and legal constraints enforced by Netflix. You know, silverlight? You can also thank MS for that one. Adobe Photoshop, including those high-end features that distinguish it from GIMP mods such as GIMPshop Adobe Flash CS3 Adobe products have equivalents on open source but not necessarily free software - I'd consider gimp equivalent for development, mostly. Don't sit and try to tell me professionals prefer photoshop over gimp or vice versa. It's an even split and up to personal preference.
TurboTax - you kidding me? there are free open source programs that do what turbotax does. Kmoney comes to mind. Stone Edge Order Manager I don't know what this is. Sorry, skipping. Sonic 3 & Knuckles Diablo II Starcraft Street Fighter IV Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
These are all a: games which b: haven't been ported via opengl and c: depending on console, etc, have many forms of DRM with them. especially CODMW2. So you can play them, under wine, but you're really doing the same as running windows.
I wouldn't call that failing to deliver by anyone other than the companies who made the games. They'd have a bigger market if they made the games linux/free software compatible as that can equate to android as well as open source. All of these companies are very slowly moving towards free software friendly, but it's probably going to be a few more years.
I would also blame microsoft again for this, since DX11 and free software do not go together any more than silverlight or moonlight does.
it has more to do with catering to legacy companies who think that they can somehow combat piracy. In reality, costs go down significantly over time for ongoing software development, so even if a small subset of the folks pirating slowly convert over time you're only going to continue to make more and more money.
Also, a lot of people disagree with paying for apps as that goes against the purpose and concept of free software (and associated benefits/gains).
uh, facebook had intertia. note the word. should a new site start grabbing people's interest and show that they aren't abusive of people's rights like facebook, facebook will be dropped as quickly as myspace was/is.
i do agree with your concept, and I agree with what you say about dota. However, it should be noted as to what dota isn't: it isn't difficult. It is , however, competitive. So it's more of a sport with it's respective pros and veterans than a matter of difficulty.
this is pretty much incorrect. Just because something dies out doesn't mean it was not worth saving or not relevant.
example: (please forgive the godwin): tons of stuff from the holocaust was destroyed, and a lot of families can't trace back to lineage who basically had their data destroyed as well, perhaps in order to save their lives. Does that mean the information wasn't worth saving?
There is almost nothing that doesn't have some kind of historical value. It doesn't have to be monetary but there isn't anything that either a: isn't relevant or b: isn't worth documenting and saving.
to compare, even the littlest shit like that recent "oldest caveman"'s digested remains tell us a fuckton about ancient history. To disregard our own history is to disregard our own future, as well.
We can save a whole lot, thats what digitization and standardization are for. The only limitation we have is physical space, really.
Slashdot Mirror
maybe you might want to look at what the real issue is here.
that it has nothing to do with safety of civilians at all.
it has to do with the gov't not releasing something they would have anyway. or you could, you know, not read my link.
Look, you either have a: freedom of the press, or b: you give it up for "safety of civilians". There isn't an imbetween.
However, this would never be an issue in the first place had the gov't released the information via FOIA. It wouldn't have had this much coverage. Read that and you'll understand why Amnesty International attacking Wikileaks is avoiding the real problems entirely.
I hope they get around to hard drive price fixing too. It's been going on for 10 years now.
nah, just shows how sophos can make a misleading study.
who said facebook = online chat?
facebook is a ton of things, another of which is a blatant privacy risk, among others.
however, they're not just about chat, or lack of some form of social contact for sure.
360x480 is lower than phones from 2+ years ago. I guess it's a start?
no, actually I don't think I'd be surprised.. Let me quick copy and paste the most important part, wikipedia's reply.
shocking.
that's not a problem, it's called reality. The cost the ebook itself is zero.
The issue is that price and value are separate entities, and while the price might be zero, finding ways to increase the value of the ebook might make the price more acceptable. Have publishers done this for 99.9% of the books that are out there? Hell no.
this has nothing to do with what's going on at all. FBI has no legal standing on this anyway, so unless wikipedia backs down for whatever illogical reason, this would end up being a whole lot of nothing.
Sadly, there aren't many phones that do voip over wifi. RIM products are about the only ones that do, via UMA.
I do agree though.
microsoft's modus operandi has been the same from day one. cut off one's nose to spite the face, even internally.
uh, people will start debating logically (which probably won't happen in our lifetime), before they start realizing privacy issues are a big deal.
Slowly a small amount of people wisen up to everything each year aka start using logic, but I wouldn't call it a consistent majority or even heading near it.
Honestly, until windows loses it's majority (reality is like 60-70% of the world is on windows and 30% is on linux, while every internet user does something that involves both every single day), people are not going to understand what it means about privacy until they first get their privacy *back* in the first place.
again, it's not like I care about FCC regulations. In the worst case what would they do if I could even figure out how to do this, tell me to stop? It's not like I'm going to start a bitter personal battle with the government here.
However, it'd be nice to know if it can be done as that would give people easy options other than the not even remotely adequate ones that our cellular providers have been offering.
I mean have computer + wireless + internet connection = you should have 90% of the capability right there. So it's a question of what you need to intercept your own signal and femtocell it for probably close to no cost.
hahaha. and/or the fact that they, you know, own the router so of course they have access.
actually, what about the prospect of intercepting our own phone calls?
As noted if you can do this on a laptop and then voip a call, couldn't people do this at home as a pseudo-femtocell?
almost everything on your list has DRM. However, lets take too it.
Netflix Watch Instantly
DRM and legal constraints enforced by Netflix. You know, silverlight? You can also thank MS for that one.
Adobe Photoshop, including those high-end features that distinguish it from GIMP mods such as GIMPshop
Adobe Flash CS3
Adobe products have equivalents on open source but not necessarily free software - I'd consider gimp equivalent for development, mostly. Don't sit and try to tell me professionals prefer photoshop over gimp or vice versa. It's an even split and up to personal preference.
TurboTax - you kidding me? there are free open source programs that do what turbotax does. Kmoney comes to mind.
Stone Edge Order Manager I don't know what this is. Sorry, skipping.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Diablo II
Starcraft
Street Fighter IV
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
These are all a: games which b: haven't been ported via opengl and c: depending on console, etc, have many forms of DRM with them. especially CODMW2. So you can play them, under wine, but you're really doing the same as running windows.
I wouldn't call that failing to deliver by anyone other than the companies who made the games. They'd have a bigger market if they made the games linux/free software compatible as that can equate to android as well as open source. All of these companies are very slowly moving towards free software friendly, but it's probably going to be a few more years.
I would also blame microsoft again for this, since DX11 and free software do not go together any more than silverlight or moonlight does.
just because you fail to find a value for this information doesn't mean there isn't one to someone. this is the ignorance of it all.
if anything, it shows that things haven't changed a whole lot since pompeii.
really? lots of people care about their civil liberties but do you see them drawing attention to them or even doing anything about it? no.
what was the stealth? I said please forgive the godwin. It was to make a reference to the statement, not to distract the debate.
it has more to do with catering to legacy companies who think that they can somehow combat piracy. In reality, costs go down significantly over time for ongoing software development, so even if a small subset of the folks pirating slowly convert over time you're only going to continue to make more and more money.
Also, a lot of people disagree with paying for apps as that goes against the purpose and concept of free software (and associated benefits/gains).
uh, facebook had intertia. note the word. should a new site start grabbing people's interest and show that they aren't abusive of people's rights like facebook, facebook will be dropped as quickly as myspace was/is.
what, no capacitors or flux capacitors??
i do agree with your concept, and I agree with what you say about dota. However, it should be noted as to what dota isn't: it isn't difficult. It is , however, competitive. So it's more of a sport with it's respective pros and veterans than a matter of difficulty.
this is pretty much incorrect. Just because something dies out doesn't mean it was not worth saving or not relevant.
example: (please forgive the godwin): tons of stuff from the holocaust was destroyed, and a lot of families can't trace back to lineage who basically had their data destroyed as well, perhaps in order to save their lives. Does that mean the information wasn't worth saving?
There is almost nothing that doesn't have some kind of historical value. It doesn't have to be monetary but there isn't anything that either a: isn't relevant or b: isn't worth documenting and saving.
to compare, even the littlest shit like that recent "oldest caveman"'s digested remains tell us a fuckton about ancient history. To disregard our own history is to disregard our own future, as well.
We can save a whole lot, thats what digitization and standardization are for. The only limitation we have is physical space, really.