Hell, you can effectively DoS someone and run their bill to astronomical levels by texting them repeatedly. It is quite easy using the SMS functionality of Pidgin or other IM programs.
Sure, you can get the charges removed if it's an obvious case (thousands of sequential messages from the same sender), but you'll be on the phone for awhile talking to a CSR (probably using your minutes). If someone really wanted to screw with you, they could set up a bunch of sock puppet accounts on any IM service and rotate between several of them.
And I think you're missing the major advantage of SMS - it's not that it's discreet, it's that it's asynchronous.
If only someone designed a service where you could do voice communication asynchronously, a sort of voice message service. Maybe an enterprising lad will figure out a way to encapsulate VOIP data in SMS packets. Until then, I'll just have to send text messages to people who aren't at their phone or call them back every 10 or 15 minutes until they answer.
The Internet Dating Safety Act would require dating web sites that interact with customers in New Jersey to indicate whether they do criminal background checks and if people who fail such checks are still allowed to register with the site.
That is patently unenforceable. If it was, any state could simply pass a law criminalizing websites and then start collecting money. They can require sites operated in New Jersey to abide by these laws and maybe even residents of New Jersey who operate such sites (but I doubt it), but no one else.
This is just feel-good, do-nothing legislation that politicians can point to when they run for re-election.
Imagine if you were treated poorly in a restaurant, just because you might never be driving back through that part of the world and eating there again?
That's pretty much how every restaurant in my hometown (Sandusky, OH -- think Cedar Point) operates. The prices are raised during the summer tourist season, and I've yet to get the service I'm accustomed to. Simply trying to get a beverage refill is tantamount to pulling teeth. The sad thing is that I've not seen any improvement during the fall and winter months.
Don't ever live in a tourist trap. There aren't any jobs outside of the service industry and the food sucks.
Seeing as CIA staff regularly break the Constitution by inflicting cruel and unusual punishments on suspected terrorists, I don't have much respect for agency brass who order these punishments or the people who carry them out.
Yeah, there are a lot of good guys there, I'm sure, but even the RIAA does some good some of the time.
Yes, "actual damages" means just that. The copyright holders, in this case, would have to prove they suffered economic injury of more than $150,000 to get more than that, though.
So it makes sense to ask for actual damages when you think you can get more than the statutory limits and for statutory damages when you don't have much proof of actual damages. Think of the RIAA. They always ask for statutory damages because their actual damages are likely very low.
And if I don't have my private key handy? Well I still get thrown in the pokey.
I've sent emails encrypted with GPG. Those emails were encrypted under a key that I no longer have access to. I forgot to back up my key when I did a reinstall. I can't really prove I don't have it since proving a negative is damn hard, so it looks like I'm going to jail for not backing up my private keys.
Yeah, that's the stated reason. Who in their right mind says "Hmm, I was thinking about writing this music, but I'll only have control over it for 70 years after I'm dead. I'll pass."?
The real reason is that we're propping up a business model. A 5 year term with a 5 year extension is more than enough incentive to get people to produce.
How long until someone writes a p2p app that uses port 80 and http?
Then the universities will start putting their students behind a firewall that doesn't allow any incoming connections. Yeah, I suppose you could connect to them, but it'd kill speeds at least.
ISPs aren't and have never been common carriers. The confusion is due to the fact that AT&T the phone company is a common carrier, but AT&T the DSL company isn't. AT&T only has to comply with any DMCA takedown notices to avoid liability.
AT&T the phone company is a common carrier. AT&T the ISP isn't. The ISP can do pretty much whatever it wants with "it's" network without any repercussions from the government. They never had a neutral status to begin with, so I don't see how this changes anything. AT&T has to abide by the DMCA at a minimum. This is just them being nice to the RI/MPAA and other such groups.
So after the primaries we have a Very Republican Republican and a Very Democrat Democrat
If that were true, Dennis Kucinich and Tom Tancredo would have sewn up the nominations for their respective parties a long time ago.
Politicians like to show their liberal/conservative stripes in the primaries and then their moderate/centrist stripes in the general. Hillary Clinton was almost positive she had the Democratic nomination in the bag, so she was already staking out moderate positions (read: sitting on the fence on just about every issue). Obama has been coming up strong lately, so watch for her to tack left just enough to win her New Hampshire.
Should it be supplemented like roads, buses, trains and run by the government?
Yes, in that the government builds the roads and then allows private entities to provide services on the roads. The government should own the infrastructure and nothing more.
I know people who bought an HDTV and were bragging about the picture quality even though they were using standard analog cable service. There are a surprising amount of people who don't understand that you need HD programming to actually get an HD picture.
Learn to speak English and use parts of speech properly.
There is no such thing as a "Democrat Party". It's called the Democratic Party. This is due to the fact that Democrat is a noun and Democratic is an adjective.
I know it's hard to remember because Republican is both a noun and an adjective, but I have faith that you can do it.
To review:
John Kerry is a Democrat. There are 49 Democrats in the Senate. The Democratic Senate is lead by Harry Reid.
This is coming from someone who is actually an advocate of open source and has been a voice for it.
Then there is no doubt that you wouldn't get along with Stallman. Stallman doesn't do "open source"; he does "free software". Open source emphasizes the business and practical aspects of being able to see, reuse, and redistribute code. Free software is about ethics.
RMS has a nice quote relating open source and free software:
"The GNU GPL makes sense in terms of its purpose: freedom and social solidarity. Trying to understand it in terms of the goals and values of open source is like trying understand a CD drive's retractable drawer as a cupholder. You can use it for that, but that is not what it was designed for."
By accident, GPLv2 ended up being a popular license for open source projects. It was meant to be as ideologically driven, crazy, etc. as GPLv3 was. RMS didn't foresee some ways to break the spirit of GPLv2, so he revised it and made it GPLv3. Had he been aware of Tivoization or patent covenants in the early 90s, you can bet that GPLv2 would have had similar clauses as does GPLv3. Essentially, he hasn't become more ideological, he's just lacked the words by which to express his ideology until now.
I don't know why you think v2 wasn't part of some moral crusade; it was. Stallman has always been about free software since day one. You're free not to follow his ideology, but don't think that v2 was somehow uncontaminated. That is what the poster was trying to get across to you.
GPLv2 is a good free software license as well as a good open source license. GPLv3 seems to be an even better free software license, but a less-than-popular open source license.
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Hell, you can effectively DoS someone and run their bill to astronomical levels by texting them repeatedly. It is quite easy using the SMS functionality of Pidgin or other IM programs.
Sure, you can get the charges removed if it's an obvious case (thousands of sequential messages from the same sender), but you'll be on the phone for awhile talking to a CSR (probably using your minutes). If someone really wanted to screw with you, they could set up a bunch of sock puppet accounts on any IM service and rotate between several of them.
That is patently unenforceable. If it was, any state could simply pass a law criminalizing websites and then start collecting money. They can require sites operated in New Jersey to abide by these laws and maybe even residents of New Jersey who operate such sites (but I doubt it), but no one else.
This is just feel-good, do-nothing legislation that politicians can point to when they run for re-election.
That's pretty much how every restaurant in my hometown (Sandusky, OH -- think Cedar Point) operates. The prices are raised during the summer tourist season, and I've yet to get the service I'm accustomed to. Simply trying to get a beverage refill is tantamount to pulling teeth. The sad thing is that I've not seen any improvement during the fall and winter months.
Don't ever live in a tourist trap. There aren't any jobs outside of the service industry and the food sucks.
Seeing as CIA staff regularly break the Constitution by inflicting cruel and unusual punishments on suspected terrorists, I don't have much respect for agency brass who order these punishments or the people who carry them out.
Yeah, there are a lot of good guys there, I'm sure, but even the RIAA does some good some of the time.
Yes, "actual damages" means just that. The copyright holders, in this case, would have to prove they suffered economic injury of more than $150,000 to get more than that, though.
So it makes sense to ask for actual damages when you think you can get more than the statutory limits and for statutory damages when you don't have much proof of actual damages. Think of the RIAA. They always ask for statutory damages because their actual damages are likely very low.
As long as no one but you has your private key, you'll be fine.
I'm not familiar with Mail.app, but I have to believe they'd have some sort of integration with PGP/GPG.
And if I don't have my private key handy? Well I still get thrown in the pokey.
I've sent emails encrypted with GPG. Those emails were encrypted under a key that I no longer have access to. I forgot to back up my key when I did a reinstall. I can't really prove I don't have it since proving a negative is damn hard, so it looks like I'm going to jail for not backing up my private keys.
Yeah, that's the mark of fascism.
Only as a tool to ensure works are created with the final objective an enrichment of the public domain.
Yeah, that's the stated reason. Who in their right mind says "Hmm, I was thinking about writing this music, but I'll only have control over it for 70 years after I'm dead. I'll pass."?
The real reason is that we're propping up a business model. A 5 year term with a 5 year extension is more than enough incentive to get people to produce.
Then the universities will start putting their students behind a firewall that doesn't allow any incoming connections. Yeah, I suppose you could connect to them, but it'd kill speeds at least.
ISPs aren't and have never been common carriers. The confusion is due to the fact that AT&T the phone company is a common carrier, but AT&T the DSL company isn't. AT&T only has to comply with any DMCA takedown notices to avoid liability.
AT&T the phone company is a common carrier. AT&T the ISP isn't. The ISP can do pretty much whatever it wants with "it's" network without any repercussions from the government. They never had a neutral status to begin with, so I don't see how this changes anything. AT&T has to abide by the DMCA at a minimum. This is just them being nice to the RI/MPAA and other such groups.
Yeah, they don't add anything to the discussion. They're just a way to post an opinion to the front page.
The fuck you are. I'll bet less than .1% of voters vote based on copyright policy. This stuff isn't anywhere near the radar of John Q. Public
Even then, your representative is an incumbent who hasn't been caught soliciting gay sex. Chance are he'll be there until he retires.
Politicians like to show their liberal/conservative stripes in the primaries and then their moderate/centrist stripes in the general. Hillary Clinton was almost positive she had the Democratic nomination in the bag, so she was already staking out moderate positions (read: sitting on the fence on just about every issue). Obama has been coming up strong lately, so watch for her to tack left just enough to win her New Hampshire.
Yeah, I'm aware it's pejorative.
In the case you use, it isn't a meaningful idea. It's a childish ad hominem designed to obfuscate issues.
I support HD-DVD as a standard for that exact reason. It makes my obsessive-compulsiveness go away.
You give them too much credit already.
I know people who bought an HDTV and were bragging about the picture quality even though they were using standard analog cable service. There are a surprising amount of people who don't understand that you need HD programming to actually get an HD picture.
And my state had Republicans and Democrats. Be thankful you live somewhere that has sane ballot access rules.
In this case the SCDP is paying for the elections, so your objection isn't valid. I agree that if the state pays, then it's a different story.
Learn to speak English and use parts of speech properly.
There is no such thing as a "Democrat Party". It's called the Democratic Party. This is due to the fact that Democrat is a noun and Democratic is an adjective.
I know it's hard to remember because Republican is both a noun and an adjective, but I have faith that you can do it.
To review:
John Kerry is a Democrat.
There are 49 Democrats in the Senate.
The Democratic Senate is lead by Harry Reid.
RMS has a nice quote relating open source and free software:
"The GNU GPL makes sense in terms of its purpose: freedom and social solidarity. Trying to understand it in terms of the goals and values of open source is like trying understand a CD drive's retractable drawer as a cupholder. You can use it for that, but that is not what it was designed for."
By accident, GPLv2 ended up being a popular license for open source projects. It was meant to be as ideologically driven, crazy, etc. as GPLv3 was. RMS didn't foresee some ways to break the spirit of GPLv2, so he revised it and made it GPLv3. Had he been aware of Tivoization or patent covenants in the early 90s, you can bet that GPLv2 would have had similar clauses as does GPLv3. Essentially, he hasn't become more ideological, he's just lacked the words by which to express his ideology until now.
I don't know why you think v2 wasn't part of some moral crusade; it was. Stallman has always been about free software since day one. You're free not to follow his ideology, but don't think that v2 was somehow uncontaminated. That is what the poster was trying to get across to you.
GPLv2 is a good free software license as well as a good open source license. GPLv3 seems to be an even better free software license, but a less-than-popular open source license.