Congress shall have Power... [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
It doesn't even matter what the constitution says. Laws can be ruled unconstitutional, licenses cannot.
The constitution provides for free speech. Yet it is perfectly legal for me to enter into a non-disclosure agreement which prohibits talking about certain things.
The GPL is not unconsitutional because it is a license; a contract. A contract can be ruled unenforceable if it violates some law, but I do not believe there is any way for a license or contract to be ruled unconstitutional.
Hey I love HDTV and I will definately look forward to HD-DVDs, but I realize that for some people it's just not what floats their boat. Not everybody has the same interests, and that's fine. Just because someone doesn't *care* about image quality doesn't mean they don't appreciate it. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that a person might walk by a nice HDTV set at a store, look at it and say "wow" and be amazed by the picture quality, and yet still have no particular interest in buying one. Life is full of choices.
You must have really bad UPS and FedEx drivers. I get DVD's via US Mail all the time (usually from Netflix in an unpadded envelope) and they are never damaged. I've received some pretty scratched up DVDs from Netflix but that's not a result of shipping.
Although Blockbuster does make a nice gross profit, they have been losing money for the past three years after all other costs (such as overhead including your fiancee's paycheck) are taken into account. Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=BBI&annual That is a $1.6 billion loss they posted in '02. So far this year they seem to be making a profit, but it's significantly less that what your math suggests.
I still recommend Yahoo. Pretty decent spam filters, easy access from anywhere, filtering capability, and you can't beat the price. If you want POP access you can pay their yearly price (something like $14/year, pretty cheap) to get POP access along with more storage, etc.
Yes you can setup your own mail server (I used to run one using qmail). It gives you the ultimate flexibility if you're willing to spend the time to set it up and maintain it. Any decent mailserver will deny relaying by default these days, so you don't really have to worry about that. One nice thing about qmail is that you can use an infinite number of extensions to your username. gunzour-slashdot@yahoo.com could be the email address I give out on slashdot; gunzour-nytimes@yahoo.com coule be the one I give when I register at nytimes.com. That way if I ever get spam, I know exactly who they got my email from. And it makes it easy to filter. I believe Yahoo is getting ready to offer this functionality to paying users, since they use qmail themselves.
Slashdot folks sure like to get all worked up about perceived injustices. But nothing has been done wrong here. Despite the submitter's allegation, Yahoo did not reset anybody's "no" preference to "yes" (as far as I know), nor have they sold anybody's personal information. If there is evidence to the contrary, fine, let's hear it. But don't jump to that conclusion just because Yahoo is doing the Right Thing by notifying us of their intentions. If their email is to be believed -- and so far I see no reason not to believe it -- they are fully intending to honor the preferences Yahoo users have set.
Hmm, when I got this email I went back and checked all of my preferences and they all still said no. Yahoo hasn't reset anything, no still means no, so I don't see what the issue is here.
And this is the problem I have with amber alerts. Every single time it's been activated that I've seen, it turned out to be some domestic dispute or some other nonsense that had absolutely nothing to do with a missing child. The last one I remember it turned out the kids had been with their father for 6 months, attending school, etc. when all of the sudden the mother got mad at him about something and told the cops the kids had been kidnapped.
There are several ways to disable this. One is to start recording whatever you are watching at 1AM -- if it is already recording, Tivo will not try to change the channel to record something else. I'm not certain that turning off suggestions will disable the enhanced content, but I suppose you could try it. You can also remove the channel the enhanced content is broadcast over from your "Channels I receive" list. And finally, I believe you can call Tivo and opt-out entirely.
The burden of evidence would be on the person filing the lawsuit. So, in order to win a lawsuit accusing someone of libel, you must prove that their statements are false. So, I can apparently call someone a criminal without evidence; they would seem to need evidence to the contrary.
That's especially true with after-hours trades. The volume of trades during after-hours trading is so small that a 4% drop could just be due to some unaware guy in Montana saying "You know what, I've had these 100 shares long enough, I think I'm gonna take my profits now".
I drive through an intersection every day near a fire station on my way to work. The traffic light appears to be wired in such a way that *any* vehicle waiting to leave the fire station triggers everyone else to get a red light. One day I had to wait through 3 cycles while a car, a pickup truck, and another car one-by-one interupted the normal cycle to leave the fire station. Talk about "Grr"!
Instead of trying to condition people's behavior by establishing punishments for bad behavior, how about giving people a solid foundation for ethical behavior?
I've never murdered anyone. Whether or not I would get caught if I did doesn't matter to me. The reason I don't murder people is because I believe it is wrong to do so.
I do exceed the speed limit on a regular basis. Yes, I know I might get caught, but I don't believe it is wrong for me to maintain the same speed as other drivers, even though it is usually about 10 mph over the speed limit.
Criminal law should be the last resort for handling people who are a threat to others. It is not effective as a deterrent, and shouldn't be treated as one.
How do you know which car in the intersection, out of dozens, is the one with the device? Light turns green, two dozen cars proceed through including the one guy who turned the light green. Are you saying everyone should get the ticket?
Kudos to you for replying gracefully after my 'correction'.:) By the way, the only reason I noticed the 'persecute' thing is because President Bush has made the same mistake. Only he did it on camera.:)
If you're a programmer, it might help to think of the DMCA (or any law) as a piece of code.
Usually a public law will have a section of definitions for specific terms used within that law. Those definitions override any dictionary definitions of the same word, but only have scope within the section of law for which the words are defined. I don't have the DMCA in front of me so I don't know what words are defined or how they are defined, but anyone so inclined can easily look them up.
Laws and contracts often have certain words capitalized to indicate they have special meaning (i.e. that they have a specific definition). This isn't a requirement, though, just a convention, as far as I know. For example, if a law says "recording using a Home Recording Device is permitted," the capitalization of Home Recording Device is a hint to look for a definition of that term somewhere in the legal code.
I am not a lawyer either, but anyone who has enough logic to write computer code can interpret legal code. Laws have lots of ANDs IFs ORs and NOTs and they are parsed by lawyers very much the same way we (and computers) parse code. The difference is there are no compiler errors with laws -- a badly written (ambiguous) law can easily be put into "production" despite being filled with bugs.
As I understand it, the DMCA makes it illegal to even try to circumvent any security system on a digital device.
The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent a security system in order to access copyrighted material.
I define digital security systems (and I don't think I am alone) as...
It doesn't matter how you define it. It matters how the DMCA defines it.
any spammer that adds random characters, hides words in images or any other techniques to get through my blocking software is then intentionally circumventing my security software
He is, but not in any way that related to copyrights or the DMCA. The spammer is not trying to access any copyrighted material, so the DMCA does not apply.
can't we persecute spammers
I suppose you can persecute them all you want , but it doesn't look like you can use the DMCA to prosecute them.
Oh, hang on, perhaps _that's_ what palladium is all about - lawsuit avoidance.
You're not that far off. If you remember, palladium showed up shortly after the entertainment industry called on the U.S. congress to mandate that DRM technology be embedded in all computing devices.
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Congress shall have Power ... [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
It doesn't even matter what the constitution says. Laws can be ruled unconstitutional, licenses cannot.
The constitution provides for free speech. Yet it is perfectly legal for me to enter into a non-disclosure agreement which prohibits talking about certain things.
The GPL is not unconsitutional because it is a license; a contract. A contract can be ruled unenforceable if it violates some law, but I do not believe there is any way for a license or contract to be ruled unconstitutional.
'tis true... after all, 640K should be enough for anybody, right? :)
To save shipping costs they don't even ship the DVD in a case, they just send the plain old DVD in a flat paper envelope.
My guess is that it will follow the existing HDTV standard for broadcast TV, which is mpeg2 format, but I don't believe it is the same codec as DVD.
Hey I love HDTV and I will definately look forward to HD-DVDs, but I realize that for some people it's just not what floats their boat. Not everybody has the same interests, and that's fine. Just because someone doesn't *care* about image quality doesn't mean they don't appreciate it. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that a person might walk by a nice HDTV set at a store, look at it and say "wow" and be amazed by the picture quality, and yet still have no particular interest in buying one. Life is full of choices.
You must have really bad UPS and FedEx drivers. I get DVD's via US Mail all the time (usually from Netflix in an unpadded envelope) and they are never damaged. I've received some pretty scratched up DVDs from Netflix but that's not a result of shipping.
Although Blockbuster does make a nice gross profit, they have been losing money for the past three years after all other costs (such as overhead including your fiancee's paycheck) are taken into account. Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=BBI&annual That is a $1.6 billion loss they posted in '02. So far this year they seem to be making a profit, but it's significantly less that what your math suggests.
Many words, like "hacker", have more than one meaning. Just because you don't like one of its meanings doesn't make it wrong.
hacker
gratuitously
No more pop access, constant attempts to spam me
Name one time Yahoo has ever sent you spam.
What E-mail Service do YOU use/recommend?
I still recommend Yahoo. Pretty decent spam filters, easy access from anywhere, filtering capability, and you can't beat the price. If you want POP access you can pay their yearly price (something like $14/year, pretty cheap) to get POP access along with more storage, etc.
Yes you can setup your own mail server (I used to run one using qmail). It gives you the ultimate flexibility if you're willing to spend the time to set it up and maintain it. Any decent mailserver will deny relaying by default these days, so you don't really have to worry about that. One nice thing about qmail is that you can use an infinite number of extensions to your username. gunzour-slashdot@yahoo.com could be the email address I give out on slashdot; gunzour-nytimes@yahoo.com coule be the one I give when I register at nytimes.com. That way if I ever get spam, I know exactly who they got my email from. And it makes it easy to filter. I believe Yahoo is getting ready to offer this functionality to paying users, since they use qmail themselves.
Slashdot folks sure like to get all worked up about perceived injustices. But nothing has been done wrong here. Despite the submitter's allegation, Yahoo did not reset anybody's "no" preference to "yes" (as far as I know), nor have they sold anybody's personal information. If there is evidence to the contrary, fine, let's hear it. But don't jump to that conclusion just because Yahoo is doing the Right Thing by notifying us of their intentions. If their email is to be believed -- and so far I see no reason not to believe it -- they are fully intending to honor the preferences Yahoo users have set.
Hmm, when I got this email I went back and checked all of my preferences and they all still said no. Yahoo hasn't reset anything, no still means no, so I don't see what the issue is here.
(off-topic)
And this is the problem I have with amber alerts. Every single time it's been activated that I've seen, it turned out to be some domestic dispute or some other nonsense that had absolutely nothing to do with a missing child. The last one I remember it turned out the kids had been with their father for 6 months, attending school, etc. when all of the sudden the mother got mad at him about something and told the cops the kids had been kidnapped.
There are several ways to disable this. One is to start recording whatever you are watching at 1AM -- if it is already recording, Tivo will not try to change the channel to record something else. I'm not certain that turning off suggestions will disable the enhanced content, but I suppose you could try it. You can also remove the channel the enhanced content is broadcast over from your "Channels I receive" list. And finally, I believe you can call Tivo and opt-out entirely.
The burden of evidence would be on the person filing the lawsuit. So, in order to win a lawsuit accusing someone of libel, you must prove that their statements are false. So, I can apparently call someone a criminal without evidence; they would seem to need evidence to the contrary.
1) it needs color
:)
It has color: black. The official hacker color.
Add color and it would look like a bunch of Skittles
That's especially true with after-hours trades. The volume of trades during after-hours trading is so small that a 4% drop could just be due to some unaware guy in Montana saying "You know what, I've had these 100 shares long enough, I think I'm gonna take my profits now".
I drive through an intersection every day near a fire station on my way to work. The traffic light appears to be wired in such a way that *any* vehicle waiting to leave the fire station triggers everyone else to get a red light. One day I had to wait through 3 cycles while a car, a pickup truck, and another car one-by-one interupted the normal cycle to leave the fire station. Talk about "Grr"!
Instead of trying to condition people's behavior by establishing punishments for bad behavior, how about giving people a solid foundation for ethical behavior?
I've never murdered anyone. Whether or not I would get caught if I did doesn't matter to me. The reason I don't murder people is because I believe it is wrong to do so.
I do exceed the speed limit on a regular basis. Yes, I know I might get caught, but I don't believe it is wrong for me to maintain the same speed as other drivers, even though it is usually about 10 mph over the speed limit.
Criminal law should be the last resort for handling people who are a threat to others. It is not effective as a deterrent, and shouldn't be treated as one.
How do you know which car in the intersection, out of dozens, is the one with the device? Light turns green, two dozen cars proceed through including the one guy who turned the light green. Are you saying everyone should get the ticket?
Kudos to you for replying gracefully after my 'correction'. :) By the way, the only reason I noticed the 'persecute' thing is because President Bush has made the same mistake. Only he did it on camera. :)
If you're a programmer, it might help to think of the DMCA (or any law) as a piece of code.
Usually a public law will have a section of definitions for specific terms used within that law. Those definitions override any dictionary definitions of the same word, but only have scope within the section of law for which the words are defined. I don't have the DMCA in front of me so I don't know what words are defined or how they are defined, but anyone so inclined can easily look them up.
Laws and contracts often have certain words capitalized to indicate they have special meaning (i.e. that they have a specific definition). This isn't a requirement, though, just a convention, as far as I know. For example, if a law says "recording using a Home Recording Device is permitted," the capitalization of Home Recording Device is a hint to look for a definition of that term somewhere in the legal code.
I am not a lawyer either, but anyone who has enough logic to write computer code can interpret legal code. Laws have lots of ANDs IFs ORs and NOTs and they are parsed by lawyers very much the same way we (and computers) parse code. The difference is there are no compiler errors with laws -- a badly written (ambiguous) law can easily be put into "production" despite being filled with bugs.
As I understand it, the DMCA makes it illegal to even try to circumvent any security system on a digital device.
The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent a security system in order to access copyrighted material.
I define digital security systems (and I don't think I am alone) as...
It doesn't matter how you define it. It matters how the DMCA defines it.
any spammer that adds random characters, hides words in images or any other techniques to get through my blocking software is then intentionally circumventing my security software
He is, but not in any way that related to copyrights or the DMCA. The spammer is not trying to access any copyrighted material, so the DMCA does not apply.
can't we persecute spammers
I suppose you can persecute them all you want , but it doesn't look like you can use the DMCA to prosecute them.
There's a guy around here who gives success motivation talks, he's pretty popular on a local level.
Does he live in a van down by the river?
here's this young, tall, white guy who dresses well and has good teeth,
Oh... nevermind.
For what it's worth, Sunncomm never responded to my email.
I have sent Sunncomm a request for a copy their white paper. I will let you know what I find out.
Oh, hang on, perhaps _that's_ what palladium is all about - lawsuit avoidance.
You're not that far off. If you remember, palladium showed up shortly after the entertainment industry called on the U.S. congress to mandate that DRM technology be embedded in all computing devices.