I totally understand the fear of identity theft but people have their priorities way out of wack.
You don't see people up in arms over the fact that 'whois' domain searches tend to reveal peoples names, addresses and phone numbers, nor do you hear about people complaining that the local government are sending out passwords in the mail to e-government sites with 6 digit numeric passwords.
My point is, blogs are a small threat, if any threat at all. There are far more and serious flagrant breaches of personal security out there that people should be worried about.
I agree, slapping peoples personal details on a blog is wrong - but so is slapping an upskirt shot of some 17 year old tennis player on the front page of your newspaper or telling people on the front page what street a *suspected* peodophile lives in.
Blogs are a forum for free speech and we need that.
We need 'terms and conditions' not 'censorship' - there's a difference.
"Eighty percent of the 2,500 respondents did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private citizens."
Newspapers do this all the time! Nobody censors them! Nobody slaps a restraining order on the Paparazzi, do they? Hell, they take naked pictures of celebrities and slap them on the front page of the gutter press! Yet these peasants are worried about their precious name and address getting stuck on some kids blog with a readership of all of 3 people a day?
I think this is a typical technophobe reaction - censor everything! Fear the unkown.
Like sombody's going to hunt you down and kill your first born in front of you because I told them to on my Blog? You stand more chance of being mugged randomly on the street by a cross-dressing nun.
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I agree, increasing the cost of filing each subsequent patent would be a good idea (if not just to get some extra tax revenue) but it still won't stop patent abuse unless the charge was proportional to company profits or something - which would be difficult if not impossible to properly enforce.
'it's just left up to the courts to decide if it's valid or not.'
Hmm, never underestimate the power of the threat of legal action by the large companies against the small. My problem with patents is it potentially forces out the small fish from the industry - because they can't afford the legal insurance and advice they'd need. That, and the fact that code is langauge and so should be covered by copywrite laws, not patents.
1. Never quit without another job lined up or enough money saved up to take a 'sebatical'.
2. Never put your employer in a situation where they have to let you go, e.g. 'let me do this or i'll leave' - just put up with the crap while you look around for another job.
3. Never post your mobile phone number on your CV on Jobsite - unless you're really, really desperate for work.
European politicians are just a little bit more subtle about selling their souls to satan whereas the American politicians just don't give a crap who knows and don't even try to hide it anymore.
To quote Buffy: 'where do i start with the bad?'
Source code is langauge, language and text should be covered by copywrite, not patents.
Patent laws are being abused by large industries lobying law makers for the sake of trying to corner the market and make more money.
Now they're trying to get the EU law to comply to the american law and make the patents global - huh, good look trying to enforce those patents in China.
If they're enforced, the only thing IT patents will do is stifle technical innovation. If they're enforced: remember the fuss a while back about GIFs? That died out pretty quickly.
The point he's making is these protocols provide the means to break the law in exactly the same way as the P2P software does, with exactly the same absence of any kind of anti-piracy provision.
Are you saying P2P should be banned because it's mostly used for piracy? Whereas the underlying protocols themselves aren't, so they're ok? Couldn't you just as easily say that the Internet should be banned entirely at work and in schools because it's mostly used for porn rather than educational/business purposes.
How exactly would one go about adapting the Internet protocols or P2P software to ban piracy anyway?! Sounds like a machine learning problem to me.
This law is ridiculous and typical of ignorant corporate America: when they see a threat to massive empire, their first reaction is to make stupid laws wihtout understanding the subject matter and try to sue everybody!
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Why don't they go all the way an put V-Chips in all of our heads so we can't think unclean thoughts wihtout getting an electric shock?
So... after a crash the only thing that's left is a black box?
Why don't they make the space shuttle out of the same material as the black box?
I totally understand the fear of identity theft but people have their priorities way out of wack.
You don't see people up in arms over the fact that 'whois' domain searches tend to reveal peoples names, addresses and phone numbers, nor do you hear about people complaining that the local government are sending out passwords in the mail to e-government sites with 6 digit numeric passwords.
My point is, blogs are a small threat, if any threat at all. There are far more and serious flagrant breaches of personal security out there that people should be worried about.
I agree, slapping peoples personal details on a blog is wrong - but so is slapping an upskirt shot of some 17 year old tennis player on the front page of your newspaper or telling people on the front page what street a *suspected* peodophile lives in.
Blogs are a forum for free speech and we need that.
We need 'terms and conditions' not 'censorship' - there's a difference.
"Eighty percent of the 2,500 respondents did not believe that bloggers should be allowed to publish home addresses and other personal information about private citizens."
Newspapers do this all the time! Nobody censors them! Nobody slaps a restraining order on the Paparazzi, do they? Hell, they take naked pictures of celebrities and slap them on the front page of the gutter press! Yet these peasants are worried about their precious name and address getting stuck on some kids blog with a readership of all of 3 people a day?
I think this is a typical technophobe reaction - censor everything! Fear the unkown.
Like sombody's going to hunt you down and kill your first born in front of you because I told them to on my Blog? You stand more chance of being mugged randomly on the street by a cross-dressing nun.
Al Gore is so damn 1337!
First he invents the interweb, now this.
Next... he's going to cure cancer bring about world peace and make it so that toast falls butter side up when you drop it.
Awesome.
I can imagine it now:
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Fighter pilots have head tracking on HMD (helmet mounted displays) that make it easier for them to target enemy aricraft.
They're available commercially too (for flight sims, etc), bit pricey though...
http://www.vrealities.com/logitech.html
"Feel the power of the dark side!" /shoots out force lightening and fries anoying american kid playing Starwars Jedi Knight II.
Still missing the 'unistall' option though.
You know what... Plumbers in the UK can earn upwards of 30k a year - that's slightly more than me and I've been in the software industry for 8 years!
Maybe I should go get a plumbing 'degree' - how hard can it be?
Plus... you get to use words like 'stopcock'.
I agree, increasing the cost of filing each subsequent patent would be a good idea (if not just to get some extra tax revenue) but it still won't stop patent abuse unless the charge was proportional to company profits or something - which would be difficult if not impossible to properly enforce.
'it's just left up to the courts to decide if it's valid or not.'
Hmm, never underestimate the power of the threat of legal action by the large companies against the small. My problem with patents is it potentially forces out the small fish from the industry - because they can't afford the legal insurance and advice they'd need. That, and the fact that code is langauge and so should be covered by copywrite laws, not patents.
Hehe....
'Can't sleep, clown will eat me....!'
1. Never quit without another job lined up or enough money saved up to take a 'sebatical'.
2. Never put your employer in a situation where they have to let you go, e.g. 'let me do this or i'll leave' - just put up with the crap while you look around for another job.
3. Never post your mobile phone number on your CV on Jobsite - unless you're really, really desperate for work.
European politicians are just a little bit more subtle about selling their souls to satan whereas the American politicians just don't give a crap who knows and don't even try to hide it anymore.
Where was it the last time you had it?
Have you tried looking under the bed - that's where most of the stuff I loose ends up.
No?
Bugger it then, must be an accounting issue.
but I bet Windows still runs slow on it.
To quote Buffy: 'where do i start with the bad?' Source code is langauge, language and text should be covered by copywrite, not patents. Patent laws are being abused by large industries lobying law makers for the sake of trying to corner the market and make more money. Now they're trying to get the EU law to comply to the american law and make the patents global - huh, good look trying to enforce those patents in China. If they're enforced, the only thing IT patents will do is stifle technical innovation. If they're enforced: remember the fuss a while back about GIFs? That died out pretty quickly.
Sorry, I don't see your point.
P2P runs over these protocols.
The point he's making is these protocols provide the means to break the law in exactly the same way as the P2P software does, with exactly the same absence of any kind of anti-piracy provision.
Are you saying P2P should be banned because it's mostly used for piracy? Whereas the underlying protocols themselves aren't, so they're ok? Couldn't you just as easily say that the Internet should be banned entirely at work and in schools because it's mostly used for porn rather than educational/business purposes.
How exactly would one go about adapting the Internet protocols or P2P software to ban piracy anyway?! Sounds like a machine learning problem to me.
This law is ridiculous and typical of ignorant corporate America: when they see a threat to massive empire, their first reaction is to make stupid laws wihtout understanding the subject matter and try to sue everybody!