1 Hoarders: These are the guys (gals?) who just want to fill up disc space with media they never look at, just to be able to brag on Slashdot about their gigs and gigs of DVD rips. They would never purchase the media, as that defeats their Virtual Dick Length.
I'm a hoarder and my VDL is average-sized. I hoard HDTV versions of movies from satellite, cable and OTA.
Why do I waste money on terabytes of hard disks holding data that I rarely watch? As a hedge against a future where the MPAA's wettest dreams have come true and all legal entertainment is tied-up, tied-down and pay-per-view.
The day that BLU-HD-RAY-DVD is permanently cracked is the day that I buy a player and toss my hoarded HDTV content. Until then I'll continue to pay for rippable DVDs (I own over 1,000 legit copies and maybe 2 bootlegs - both of out-of-print titles) and hoard any good quality HDTV that comes my way.
If that day never comes and our society's culture becomes 100% corporate 0wned, then I'll do what I can to share my hoard. Me and my average VDL will be a robin-hood of hi-def. I am not alone in this either.
Yes, it's an actual law that says you never infringed in the first place. No, it's not a get-out-of-jail-free card that you can use once you show up in court.
You are misinterpreting, or perhaps just selectively quoting becausee right after your quotation comes this part:
In
determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case
is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
the purpose and character of the use, including whether
such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit
educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in
relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or
value of the copyrighted work.
Which is all about defending your use as being fair, and not a whit about the copyright owner violating your right to fair use.
And just what "sort" of society "we" want to build?
Whatever sort they want it to be.
The net, more than anything in meatspace, enables specific communities to develop as connected to, or as indepent of, any other community on the net.
They can range from the extremely insular to the extremely open and they can all do it however they want without having to dictate how other communities ought to organize and behave.
You want to be a car-freak? Fine, lots of places on the net. You want to be ferrari snob, fine there is a place for you too. You want to be hong-kong rom-com movie fanatic? Lots of places for you too. Whatever floats your boat, you can find or build a group of like-minded people on the net and you don't have to step on anyone else's group to do so.
He specifically mentions that Canada has similar per-capita gun ownership and less strict gun control laws yet mysteriously does not suffer from the same gun-crime rates the US does.
And we all know that the only reason he said that is because Michael Moore hates America!
Unfortunately, "moderation" is out, and "extremism" is in. It's as if people don't even care what side they chose -- they just want to chose an extreme side be it left or right so that they can have an adversary to which to hurl insults and mistruths like they are opposing sides of a football team. And you can forget having an opinion that deviates from the platform you're in -- the rest of your party will ostracise you.
1) From the picture sets posted, it is obviously the same mobo in the same computer, take a look at the whole image and you'll see that's really hard to fake. If it was surely someone would have dismissed the image by now.
The only picture I've seen posted doesn't say Apple on it anywhere. In fact, it looks a lot like a bog-standard Intel-manufactured motherboard. Such motherboards have been shipping for a year or more with that very same infineon TPM 1.1 chip.
Perhaps Apple is just using such a standard Intel motherboard for their dev kits because it is available off the shelf with no extra work required.
2) Well, the second point is mute.
You mean moot. Points have no volume.
Another element is the fact that shipping out some dev kits with the chip and others without is fantastically stupid. Dev kits are supposed to simulate a users machine. What's a dev supposed to do if his kit has a bug that others aren't experiencing? Just suck it up and continue on? Not for $1500.
Actually, if some have it and some don't, then that suggests that the presence of a TPM chip is a big DON'T CARE for Apple. If you don't use the chip, it doesn't matter if it is in some systems and not others - as long as the Apple software universally ignores it, system behaviour will be identical.
The point of anonymous sources is that they are not anonymous to the reporter and editor -- only to those who would do harm to the source for coming forward. The validity of an anonymous source is determined, in great part, by who they are.
If the reporter can't tell the difference between some paranoid fantasy from jimbo who works at mcdonalds and the inside scoop from one of the cabinet members, then at best the anonymous source is just a hint at where to look for actual proof/evidence and probably just random noise that will waste the time of the reporter.
As long as the reporter knows who the source is, he can be legally ordered to reveal the source's identity. So that's the catch-22, and all the technobabble about cryptographically secure anonymous communication won't do a thing to fix the underlying problem.
Here's a little primer of what I think is useful or at least interesting to know about the issue:
HD-DVD has somewhat less raw data capacity than blu-ray
HD-DVD media is physically less prone to damage than blu-ray
DVI + HDCP (HD copy-prevention) is 99% of HDMI
Two different formats means two different on-disc copy-prevention schemes which means twice as much opportunity to find a fatal-flaw in at least one scheme and get some of our fair-use defensible rights back
Today we have unified CD/DVD/DVD+R/DVD-R/SACD players, if both blu-ray and HD-DVD get any sort of marketshare, we will see unified CD/DVD/DVD+R/DVD-R/SACD/HD-DVD/BLU-RAY players within a year or so for little-to-no marginal price difference.
There is at least one product already on the market that will convert DVI+HDCP/HDMI to an analog RGB signal suitable for use with a non-HDMI tv set, I'm not posting a link because I don't want to draw too much attention to it incase the MPAA has a hissy fit.
Good high-def video can look simply stunning on a good display, but even a regular DVD can be made to look substantially better if you have a good video-scaler in your DVD player or in the display itself - if the studios don't put out absolutely stellar high-def titles (BETTER than the best broadcast-HDTV quality), joe six-pack will never even notice the difference, given their track record of half-assed releases on DVD, I don't expect them to do much better on BLU-HD-RAY.
They need some big-time exposure to change the normal cow-like brainless mob of AOL users into intelligent thinkers.
It will never happen. The best we can hope for is to herd the cow-like brainless mob in the right direction, maybe even cause a stamped to knock down some of the walls of stupidity that have been put up recently, but regardless, they will never become intelligent thinkers.
The USPS relies 100% on the money it collects from the sale of postage and is appropriated no money from congress..therefore non users don't pay for the USPS to operate.
Why do you keep asserting this? It is totally false. Just go google on "federal budget USPS" you will see thousands of hits, describing the millions of dollars that the USPS receives as part of the federal budget. For example, in FY'02 the USPS received almost $600M and in FY'03 over $76M, the Fed has funded USPS since its inception.
Also, there are people that have died from using the net. Let's see, those that have met others in chat rooms and have been murdered by someone that has lured them
They did not die from the act of using the net. They died from being murdered. Same rational for all of your other examples. The thousands of traffic fatalities are just that, TRAFFIC fatalities. There is no such thing as an INTERNET fatality.
I can get in a car and let someone else drive it now can't I?
Perhaps a friend?
Are you seriously trying to argue that requiring a friend be ready and willing to drive you somewhere means you have the freedom to travel anonymously? So people without friends don't deserve the right to travel anonymously?
unless you are suspected of breaking the law, you don't have to show your ID to anyone in the car you are driving
Hello? You can not legally drive without an ID. You are already IN the system, you have already lost your anonymity. Never mind that a) you ARE legally required to provide your driver's license if asked by an officer if you are driving b) the recent SCOTUS ruling in the Hiibel case where an officer is allowed to require identification of anyone anytime as long as they are simply, "investigating and investigation."
Clearly you are completely out of sync with reality if you believe even a quarter of the things you have posted in this thread.
You have completely failed to rationalize why government provided anonymous wifi is "bad" in comparison to either privately provided anonymous wifi or all the other forms of goverment subsidized communications.
You are so wrong in all of your responses that I judge you to be insane and living in your own fantasy land.
Mail is provided by a private institution. The USPS receives ZERO funding from the government.
NEVER been true, NEVER will be true. Not only is the USPS part of the federal government, there are federal laws that protect their market - it is illegal for certain kinds of mail to be carried by a private carrier like UPS or FedEx.
A CB radio is not a function of government and isn't provided by the government.
The frequencies on which CB radios operate are regulated by the government. The manufacture and sale of CB radios is also regulated by the government.
Pay phones are provided by the phone companies.. again... private.
Pay phones are provided by heavily regulated public utilities. Due to nature of the beast known as "regulatory capture" these companies operate like departments of both the state and federal government. Taxes like the universal service fund and federal line subscriber fees should make this fact absolutely clear.
Public notices aren't able to spread kiddy porn or viruses all over the world.
Finally we get down to an actual justification for the claim. But its a really weak swiss-cheese kind of reason. Just because some infinitesimly small portion of users create bad speech, that somehow makes public communication services a bad thing? I tell you what, ten-thousand times more crimes are committed with the aid of the federally funded highway system than are with the Internet and yet you don't hear ANYONE claiming that is a reason to shut down the highway system. Hell, each year thousands of people DIE on these publicly funded roads, no one has died from using the net.
Besides, if someone was motivated enough to do so, they could post kiddy-porn all over the place. The posting would be illegal, but no one would seriously call for the end of all public postings because of it.
You're last one makes no sense at all. Try using cash.
You can not fly on airplane without an ID. You can not travel via long-distance bus without an ID. You can ride on a train without an ID. You can not drive a car without an ID.
That leaves you with walking or bicycling, neither of which are feasible for long distance. Or you can hire a car and driver and pay with cash which is only feasible for the very rich. Well, I guess you could hitch-hike, but all and all that's a far cry from freedom to travel.
All law enforcement officers must have every form of nonlethal control they wield used on them during training.
Used, but not misused which is the problem. They don't understand the damage they can do when they misuse their non-lethal weapons, they tend to think that it is just more of the same non-lethalness when that is rarely the case.
A bean-bag bullet hit to the torso will bruise, a bean-bag bullet hit to the throat can cause tracheal collapse and death. Those officers that have been hit with bean-bag bullets during their training were hit in the torso and not the throat.
Would you prefer the cops just rode in on horses and trampled or shot anyone that so much as looked like they were breaking the law, like it was before we had these inventions?
Yes, because good cops don't indiscriminately maim and kill. Or are you suggesting that the police force does not employ good cops?
And NOW some politico-corporate lackey wants to change things just for business
Seeing as how DST was implemented FOR business to begin with, so what?
There's no reason for this...and the cost for changing everything will make the costs of Y2K seem like a pittance.
Nonsense.
Y2K included all kinds of subtle problems in code. DST is primarily implemented in the OS's time-keeping functions. For systems where the application does the DST calculations, it is going to generally be a well-defined area that can be reasonably easily modified without much worry about surprising side-effects.
On top of everything, the hardware architecture was much faster than contemporary computers due to its LISP oriented design.
That's contemporary with Symbolics not contemporary with today.
Their performance lead was unsustainable, as the wikipedia entry says, "Rapid evolution in mass-market microprocessor technology... severely diminished the commercial advantages of purpose-built Lisp machine" - in other words, they did not scale well, and were dirt-slow compared to the next generation of systems.
Carnegie Mellon wrote a highly layered version of UNIX called the Mach microkernel. Conventional UNIX was sinking under weight of trying to do to much in the kernel.
Ironically, Mach sank under the weight of trying to do too much outside of the kernel (for example, a "no-op" system call would take on the order of 50us with a traditional kernel, while the same on Mach would take on the order of 500us). Things are better now, mainly because most of the layers have been stripped away.
Anonymous speech is protected under the first amendment. You can send mail anonymously. You can use a CB radio anonymously. You can use a pay phone anonymously. You can post public notices anonymously. You used to be able to travel anonymously.
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IANAL but after looking at the website it strikes me that on this scale the effort and pictures can almost be considered artistic.
Oddly enough, the first thing I thought of on viewing his site was that it is a modern take on the Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Can.
So Google isn't standing up to asshole reporting...Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is pissed and he is in a position to do something about it.
You misspelled,"embarass himself publicly." An alternative spelling is, "make a mountain out of a molehill."
1 Hoarders: These are the guys (gals?) who just want to fill up disc space with media they never look at, just to be able to brag on Slashdot about their gigs and gigs of DVD rips. They would never purchase the media, as that defeats their Virtual Dick Length.
I'm a hoarder and my VDL is average-sized. I hoard HDTV versions of movies from satellite, cable and OTA.
Why do I waste money on terabytes of hard disks holding data that I rarely watch? As a hedge against a future where the MPAA's wettest dreams have come true and all legal entertainment is tied-up, tied-down and pay-per-view.
The day that BLU-HD-RAY-DVD is permanently cracked is the day that I buy a player and toss my hoarded HDTV content. Until then I'll continue to pay for rippable DVDs (I own over 1,000 legit copies and maybe 2 bootlegs - both of out-of-print titles) and hoard any good quality HDTV that comes my way.
If that day never comes and our society's culture becomes 100% corporate 0wned, then I'll do what I can to share my hoard. Me and my average VDL will be a robin-hood of hi-def. I am not alone in this either.
You are misinterpreting, or perhaps just selectively quoting becausee right after your quotation comes this part:
Which is all about defending your use as being fair, and not a whit about the copyright owner violating your right to fair use.And just who is "we" then?
Any group of like-minded people.
And just what "sort" of society "we" want to build?
Whatever sort they want it to be.
The net, more than anything in meatspace, enables specific communities to develop as connected to, or as indepent of, any other community on the net.
They can range from the extremely insular to the extremely open and they can all do it however they want without having to dictate how other communities ought to organize and behave.
You want to be a car-freak? Fine, lots of places on the net. You want to be ferrari snob, fine there is a place for you too. You want to be hong-kong rom-com movie fanatic? Lots of places for you too. Whatever floats your boat, you can find or build a group of like-minded people on the net and you don't have to step on anyone else's group to do so.
He specifically mentions that Canada has similar per-capita gun ownership and less strict gun control laws yet mysteriously does not suffer from the same gun-crime rates the US does.
And we all know that the only reason he said that is because Michael Moore hates America!
Unfortunately, "moderation" is out, and "extremism" is in. It's as if people don't even care what side they chose -- they just want to chose an extreme side be it left or right so that they can have an adversary to which to hurl insults and mistruths like they are opposing sides of a football team. And you can forget having an opinion that deviates from the platform you're in -- the rest of your party will ostracise you.
Only an idiot would say that!
1) From the picture sets posted, it is obviously the same mobo in the same computer, take a look at the whole image and you'll see that's really hard to fake. If it was surely someone would have dismissed the image by now.
The only picture I've seen posted doesn't say Apple on it anywhere. In fact, it looks a lot like a bog-standard Intel-manufactured motherboard. Such motherboards have been shipping for a year or more with that very same infineon TPM 1.1 chip.
Perhaps Apple is just using such a standard Intel motherboard for their dev kits because it is available off the shelf with no extra work required.
2) Well, the second point is mute.
You mean moot. Points have no volume.
Another element is the fact that shipping out some dev kits with the chip and others without is fantastically stupid. Dev kits are supposed to simulate a users machine. What's a dev supposed to do if his kit has a bug that others aren't experiencing? Just suck it up and continue on? Not for $1500.
Actually, if some have it and some don't, then that suggests that the presence of a TPM chip is a big DON'T CARE for Apple. If you don't use the chip, it doesn't matter if it is in some systems and not others - as long as the Apple software universally ignores it, system behaviour will be identical.
We all know damn well why the *AA folks do what they do.
Because it is easier than actually implementing a business
plan that co-opts people's natural desire to share good stuff
instead of fighting it?
to let you know that the stove was turned off and the iron unplugged I'd be able to relax when I left the house.
There are irons with timers in them, they turn themselves off if they don't move for X minutes. Can't help you with the stove though.
The point of anonymous sources is that they are not anonymous to the reporter and editor -- only to those who would do harm to the source for coming forward. The validity of an anonymous source is determined, in great part, by who they are.
If the reporter can't tell the difference between some paranoid fantasy from jimbo who works at mcdonalds and the inside scoop from one of the cabinet members, then at best the anonymous source is just a hint at where to look for actual proof/evidence and probably just random noise that will waste the time of the reporter.
As long as the reporter knows who the source is, he can be legally ordered to reveal the source's identity. So that's the catch-22, and all the technobabble about cryptographically secure anonymous communication won't do a thing to fix the underlying problem.
But aren't Libraries still required to obtain the license (e.g. buying a book)
If downloading information specifically made public for the purpose of downloading isn't "obtaining the license" then I don't know what could be.
I lost my home a few years back
You should have tried harder to find it, whenever you lose something, it is always in the last place you look.
As a result, anything short of fearing for safety, isn't sufficient to maintain a boycott.
That's easy then - just tell everyone that, "If you buy HD-BLU-DVDs then the terrorists have won!"
I bought one manual and two electric typewriters during the cold war, and was never asked for a sample.
In the USSR? Because that's where the OP was talking about.
When did the Greenpeace become something other than a criminal eco-terrorist cult?
Too much Rush, not enough critical thinking.
Greenpeace has always been about non-violent direct action.
They need some big-time exposure to change the normal cow-like brainless mob of AOL users into intelligent thinkers.
It will never happen. The best we can hope for is to herd the cow-like brainless mob in the right direction, maybe even cause a stamped to knock down some of the walls of stupidity that have been put up recently, but regardless, they will never become intelligent thinkers.
The USPS relies 100% on the money it collects from the sale of postage and is appropriated no money from congress..therefore non users don't pay for the USPS to operate.
Why do you keep asserting this? It is totally false. Just go google on "federal budget USPS" you will see thousands of hits, describing the millions of dollars that the USPS receives as part of the federal budget. For example, in FY'02 the USPS received almost $600M and in FY'03 over $76M, the Fed has funded USPS since its inception.
Also, there are people that have died from using the net. Let's see, those that have met others in chat rooms and have been murdered by someone that has lured them
They did not die from the act of using the net. They died from being murdered. Same rational for all of your other examples. The thousands of traffic fatalities are just that, TRAFFIC fatalities. There is no such thing as an INTERNET fatality.
I can get in a car and let someone else drive it now can't I?
Perhaps a friend?
Are you seriously trying to argue that requiring a friend be ready and willing to drive you somewhere means you have the freedom to travel anonymously? So people without friends don't deserve the right to travel anonymously?
unless you are suspected of breaking the law, you don't have to show your ID to anyone in the car you are driving
Hello? You can not legally drive without an ID. You are already IN the system, you have already lost your anonymity. Never mind that
a) you ARE legally required to provide your driver's license if asked by an officer if you are driving
b) the recent SCOTUS ruling in the Hiibel case where an officer is allowed to require identification of anyone anytime as long as they are simply, "investigating and investigation."
Clearly you are completely out of sync with reality if you believe even a quarter of the things you have posted in this thread.
You have completely failed to rationalize why government provided anonymous wifi is "bad" in comparison to either privately provided anonymous wifi or all the other forms of goverment subsidized communications.
You are so wrong in all of your responses that I judge you to be insane and living in your own fantasy land.
Mail is provided by a private institution. The USPS receives ZERO funding from the government.
NEVER been true, NEVER will be true. Not only is the USPS part of the federal government, there are federal laws that protect their market - it is illegal for certain kinds of mail to be carried by a private carrier like UPS or FedEx.
A CB radio is not a function of government and isn't provided by the government.
The frequencies on which CB radios operate are regulated by the government. The manufacture and sale of CB radios is also regulated by the government.
Pay phones are provided by the phone companies.. again... private.
Pay phones are provided by heavily regulated public utilities. Due to nature of the beast known as "regulatory capture" these companies operate like departments of both the state and federal government. Taxes like the universal service fund and federal line subscriber fees should make this fact absolutely clear.
Public notices aren't able to spread kiddy porn or viruses all over the world.
Finally we get down to an actual justification for the claim. But its a really weak swiss-cheese kind of reason. Just because some infinitesimly small portion of users create bad speech, that somehow makes public communication services a bad thing? I tell you what, ten-thousand times more crimes are committed with the aid of the federally funded highway system than are with the Internet and yet you don't hear ANYONE claiming that is a reason to shut down the highway system. Hell, each year thousands of people DIE on these publicly funded roads, no one has died from using the net.
Besides, if someone was motivated enough to do so, they could post kiddy-porn all over the place. The posting would be illegal, but no one would seriously call for the end of all public postings because of it.
You're last one makes no sense at all. Try using cash.
You can not fly on airplane without an ID.
You can not travel via long-distance bus without an ID.
You can ride on a train without an ID.
You can not drive a car without an ID.
That leaves you with walking or bicycling, neither of which are feasible for long distance. Or you can hire a car and driver and pay with cash which is only feasible for the very rich. Well, I guess you could hitch-hike, but all and all that's a far cry from freedom to travel.
All law enforcement officers must have every form of nonlethal control they wield used on them during training.
Used, but not misused which is the problem. They don't understand the damage they can do when they misuse their non-lethal weapons, they tend to think that it is just more of the same non-lethalness when that is rarely the case.
A bean-bag bullet hit to the torso will bruise, a bean-bag bullet hit to the throat can cause tracheal collapse and death. Those officers that have been hit with bean-bag bullets during their training were hit in the torso and not the throat.
Would you prefer the cops just rode in on horses and trampled or shot anyone that so much as looked like they were breaking the law, like it was before we had these inventions?
Yes, because good cops don't indiscriminately maim and kill. Or are you suggesting that the police force does not employ good cops?
And NOW some politico-corporate lackey wants to change things just for business
Seeing as how DST was implemented FOR business to begin with, so what?
There's no reason for this...and the cost for changing everything will make the costs of Y2K seem like a pittance.
Nonsense.
Y2K included all kinds of subtle problems in code. DST is primarily implemented in the OS's time-keeping functions. For systems where the application does the DST calculations, it is going to generally be a well-defined area that can be reasonably easily modified without much worry about surprising side-effects.
On top of everything, the hardware architecture was much faster than contemporary computers due to its LISP oriented design.
... severely diminished the commercial advantages of purpose-built Lisp machine" - in other words, they did not scale well, and were dirt-slow compared to the next generation of systems.
That's contemporary with Symbolics not contemporary with today.
Their performance lead was unsustainable, as the wikipedia entry says, "Rapid evolution in mass-market microprocessor technology
Carnegie Mellon wrote a highly layered version of UNIX called the Mach microkernel. Conventional UNIX was sinking under weight of trying to do to much in the kernel.
Ironically, Mach sank under the weight of trying to do too much outside of the kernel (for example, a "no-op" system call would take on the order of 50us with a traditional kernel, while the same on Mach would take on the order of 500us). Things are better now, mainly because most of the layers have been stripped away.
Why not?
Anonymous speech is protected under the first amendment.
You can send mail anonymously.
You can use a CB radio anonymously.
You can use a pay phone anonymously.
You can post public notices anonymously.
You used to be able to travel anonymously.