Yes that is exactly what it means. The FCC only has jurisdiction to regulate the transmitters, (broadcasters), not the recievers. The hardware manufacturers that make your set top boxes, and tvtuner cards, are making receivers. Therefore, if the set top box maker wants to ignore the BCF, it is in his will to do so.
Congress would have to pass a law expanding the scope of the FCC's responsibilities to empower them to enforce the BCF on the receivers for the MPAA to get their wants.
There is one fallacy in your argument, just because a law is written, doesn't mean it is legal. If that were true, the court system would not be able to invalidate laws.
Well, there are lots of theories being spouted off here, but let's try to rationalize a few.
First off, was this just a rumor? Well, most likely not, considering how much the MPAA has gone after the BCF in the last several years, it would be pretty damn asinine to think they are not wanting to get this signed into law. Orrin Hatch has been sucking the c**k of the RIAA and MPAA to such an extent, it's hard to remember he is from Utah. (Yes, I know OH wasn't the one involved here, but he has been the assmonkey behind most of the BS from them)
Did the EFF campaign trump the alledged attempt? Well, unless you get an admittance from a congressman, it will be very hard to ever no the answer to this question.
A shift in congress? Well, there have been more and more congressman lately standing up and admitting that the DCMA is a bastardized screw up that needs major overhauling. Wired even had an interview in the last few days with a congressman who openly admitts he will stand up to anyone in Hollywood. Not too mention, the courts have recently weighed in and staunchly shot down the current attempts. Yes, they stated that it would be up to congress to make the provisions for allowing the BCF.
The fourth option not discussed yet, that the tech companies, have finally gotten off their butts, and realized that only they will watch their butts in congress. The article I mentioned from Wired, the congressman involved discusses how the tech companies are no longer trusting congress to do what is right, and have finally started lobbying their positions in congress.
The fifth option, imho, is that the public outcrying from the court challenge over the BCF was heard in congress, and is being taken into consideration.
In your own posting, read carefully, the word "KNOWINGLY" is used repeadedly. This is the same as intent. If you did not knowingly grad kiddie porn, than their is a reasonable expectation to not be found guilty.
You should care. Even if you are not breaking the law. At what point does it stop? Would you feel comfortable with a cop randomly coming into your house and searching it from top to bottom at their will just to make sure they can't find anything on you? This is an exact equivalent to where this is leading. Electronically, that is what this administration has been pushing for. While that might not scare you yet, I have a feeling you are a bit younger, it will later in life. (this is not meant as an insult in any way) Not too mention that kind of behavior is EXACTLY what America was setup to get away from. People left that kind of totalrian rule in Europe and came here to get away from that. We have a history of maintaining that freedom in this country, and when freedoms are taken, it is even harder to get them back.
I will reply to my own post, since it was pretty short and major flamebait. I was raised by two parents of two completely different faiths, (except in that they were both christian based). Our founding father's wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights guaranteeing us the freedom of and from religion. The government has ZERO right to take a religious influence in deciding what is best for us. Your christian beliefs don't apply to a muslim. Your juddahism has no meaning to a buddhist. Therefore in being fair to everyone laws have to be based on ethics and morals, and contrary to many beliefs, those two are mutually exclusive to religion.
Uhm, you don't understand the power of the court. Power of the people, by the people, for the people. What does this mean? It means all choices made by the court HAVE to be public record. The court's power only exists because we the public grant it. There is no way secrecy can exist in this system. That is the problem with the so called "secret law" that allows them to require ID checks to board a plane. But in our system, a secret law carries no weight. But I digress.
If the information is not public, and is not well known, then the jury of your peers can not accurately decide your fate in a court of law.
Like a previous poster said here, our government is setup that the citizen is the highest level of authority, in theory, now try to get preident gumby to believe that.
Well, things have gotten fast enough now, that changes are smaller and smaller. Not a big reason too. I follow everything, but I haven't seen a product that made me say, "WOW OMFG I HAVE TO BUY THAT YESTERDAY!!!" in a few years. Well, not in the computer field at least.:D
Need some new thinking in the design teams.
What you are forgetting here is the President is the Chief EXECUTIVE officer. He is the Police. Is NOT the job of the President to write laws, that is what Congress is for. It IS the job of the President to execute and enforce the law.
The POTUS has taken on more and more the job of writing laws and submitting them to Congress, while this is completely legal, and allowed, it is NOT the main function of that office. Sadly, most POTUS's can't remember that. It gets lost, when all they think about is getting their name in the history books.
I read the first two lines of your post, and thought to myself, "Oh god, not another Bushinite," then I read the third line of you post, and fell out of my chair laughing.
Got weird looks from my cubineighbors.
Obviously you are not a big overclocker. I have been overclocking machines since P5's were still that ugly gray clay. When done properly, without trying to achieve astronimcal results, you can quite safely and sanely increase your system 10-15% with no adverse effects. Should you do it on a mission critical server? If you even think you should, really, you shouldn't have that job, that is where you want rock solid stability, that is why server motherboards are so expensive. Other than that, take baby steps, if you start getting lockups or crashes, back off a touch.
This is my biggest argument as to why exactly that storing nuclear "waste" is a non issue. As we finally get over our asinine fears of nuclear power, and understand that it is probably the best near term solution for power. (Crap digressed too far again:) )
Historically, as we use these "new" technologies, they spin off offshoot tech's the often find use for the original byproducts. I fully believe as we truely start to embrace nuclear energy, we will find more and more useful ways to recycle the current "waste" into other fuel sources.
Censorship is stopping someone from speaking their opinion. It is not censorship to stop someone from spouting off information that can and will lead to harm to another human being. In fact what this stupid bitch did falls under several grounds of being grey if not completely breaking the law. That in and of itself makes it NOT be censorship.
Uhm, do a little more research, a search for "burning graphite" on google, comes up with lots of information, mostly academic about burning graphite. Yes, graphite burns, yes, it takes a tremendous amount of heat to cause this. But, alas, it WILL burn.
bring bring, clue phone, its for you
security through obscurity != security, never has, never will. gee maybe that is why apple made the jackass who put up the big "bet you can't write a virus" contest a couple months ago take it down the next day.
I'm glad to see Apple supporting their products. I am glad to see they finally have a real operating system, something to match the excellent hardware they have always produced. I am just shocked that all you mac fanboys are so quick to buy a service pack, and not demand this stuff for free. Win XP's SP 2 was this big of an overhaul. Win XP64 is this big of an overhaul, it's free, if you already have XP32.
For the record, I use XP, Linux, HP UX, AIX, and VMS daily.
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If fox news is how you get your view of the world, I feel really sorry for you.
Yes that is exactly what it means. The FCC only has jurisdiction to regulate the transmitters, (broadcasters), not the recievers. The hardware manufacturers that make your set top boxes, and tvtuner cards, are making receivers. Therefore, if the set top box maker wants to ignore the BCF, it is in his will to do so. Congress would have to pass a law expanding the scope of the FCC's responsibilities to empower them to enforce the BCF on the receivers for the MPAA to get their wants.
There is one fallacy in your argument, just because a law is written, doesn't mean it is legal. If that were true, the court system would not be able to invalidate laws.
First off, was this just a rumor? Well, most likely not, considering how much the MPAA has gone after the BCF in the last several years, it would be pretty damn asinine to think they are not wanting to get this signed into law. Orrin Hatch has been sucking the c**k of the RIAA and MPAA to such an extent, it's hard to remember he is from Utah. (Yes, I know OH wasn't the one involved here, but he has been the assmonkey behind most of the BS from them)
Did the EFF campaign trump the alledged attempt? Well, unless you get an admittance from a congressman, it will be very hard to ever no the answer to this question.
A shift in congress? Well, there have been more and more congressman lately standing up and admitting that the DCMA is a bastardized screw up that needs major overhauling. Wired even had an interview in the last few days with a congressman who openly admitts he will stand up to anyone in Hollywood. Not too mention, the courts have recently weighed in and staunchly shot down the current attempts. Yes, they stated that it would be up to congress to make the provisions for allowing the BCF.
The fourth option not discussed yet, that the tech companies, have finally gotten off their butts, and realized that only they will watch their butts in congress. The article I mentioned from Wired, the congressman involved discusses how the tech companies are no longer trusting congress to do what is right, and have finally started lobbying their positions in congress.
The fifth option, imho, is that the public outcrying from the court challenge over the BCF was heard in congress, and is being taken into consideration.
That's my five cents worth.
Thanks for enlightening us, now with a little restraint and control, you can come off as educational and convincing.
why be an asshole?
In your own posting, read carefully, the word "KNOWINGLY" is used repeadedly. This is the same as intent. If you did not knowingly grad kiddie porn, than their is a reasonable expectation to not be found guilty.
You should care. Even if you are not breaking the law. At what point does it stop? Would you feel comfortable with a cop randomly coming into your house and searching it from top to bottom at their will just to make sure they can't find anything on you? This is an exact equivalent to where this is leading. Electronically, that is what this administration has been pushing for. While that might not scare you yet, I have a feeling you are a bit younger, it will later in life. (this is not meant as an insult in any way) Not too mention that kind of behavior is EXACTLY what America was setup to get away from. People left that kind of totalrian rule in Europe and came here to get away from that. We have a history of maintaining that freedom in this country, and when freedoms are taken, it is even harder to get them back.
I will reply to my own post, since it was pretty short and major flamebait. I was raised by two parents of two completely different faiths, (except in that they were both christian based). Our founding father's wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights guaranteeing us the freedom of and from religion. The government has ZERO right to take a religious influence in deciding what is best for us. Your christian beliefs don't apply to a muslim. Your juddahism has no meaning to a buddhist. Therefore in being fair to everyone laws have to be based on ethics and morals, and contrary to many beliefs, those two are mutually exclusive to religion.
Freedom from religion is a Constitional right you stupid twit!!!!
the funny ass post gets a mod off topic and this stupid post gets a mod score +1 WTF? crap i am going to get modded troll/flamebait
Uhm, you don't understand the power of the court. Power of the people, by the people, for the people. What does this mean? It means all choices made by the court HAVE to be public record. The court's power only exists because we the public grant it. There is no way secrecy can exist in this system. That is the problem with the so called "secret law" that allows them to require ID checks to board a plane. But in our system, a secret law carries no weight. But I digress. If the information is not public, and is not well known, then the jury of your peers can not accurately decide your fate in a court of law. Like a previous poster said here, our government is setup that the citizen is the highest level of authority, in theory, now try to get preident gumby to believe that.
Well, things have gotten fast enough now, that changes are smaller and smaller. Not a big reason too. I follow everything, but I haven't seen a product that made me say, "WOW OMFG I HAVE TO BUY THAT YESTERDAY!!!" in a few years. Well, not in the computer field at least. :D
Need some new thinking in the design teams.
What you are forgetting here is the President is the Chief EXECUTIVE officer. He is the Police. Is NOT the job of the President to write laws, that is what Congress is for. It IS the job of the President to execute and enforce the law. The POTUS has taken on more and more the job of writing laws and submitting them to Congress, while this is completely legal, and allowed, it is NOT the main function of that office. Sadly, most POTUS's can't remember that. It gets lost, when all they think about is getting their name in the history books.
I read the first two lines of your post, and thought to myself, "Oh god, not another Bushinite," then I read the third line of you post, and fell out of my chair laughing. Got weird looks from my cubineighbors.
The FX was designed to allow overclocking. You missed something in your settings.
Obviously you are not a big overclocker. I have been overclocking machines since P5's were still that ugly gray clay. When done properly, without trying to achieve astronimcal results, you can quite safely and sanely increase your system 10-15% with no adverse effects. Should you do it on a mission critical server? If you even think you should, really, you shouldn't have that job, that is where you want rock solid stability, that is why server motherboards are so expensive. Other than that, take baby steps, if you start getting lockups or crashes, back off a touch.
If that didn't sell, how in the hell do they think they can force this s***t down our throats?
AMEN BROTHER!!!
This is my biggest argument as to why exactly that storing nuclear "waste" is a non issue. As we finally get over our asinine fears of nuclear power, and understand that it is probably the best near term solution for power. (Crap digressed too far again :) )
Historically, as we use these "new" technologies, they spin off offshoot tech's the often find use for the original byproducts. I fully believe as we truely start to embrace nuclear energy, we will find more and more useful ways to recycle the current "waste" into other fuel sources.
Censorship is stopping someone from speaking their opinion. It is not censorship to stop someone from spouting off information that can and will lead to harm to another human being. In fact what this stupid bitch did falls under several grounds of being grey if not completely breaking the law. That in and of itself makes it NOT be censorship.
This is of no concern to IBM, when IBM wins the case, they have an open and shut lawsuit against SCO for legal bills.
Uhm, do a little more research, a search for "burning graphite" on google, comes up with lots of information, mostly academic about burning graphite. Yes, graphite burns, yes, it takes a tremendous amount of heat to cause this. But, alas, it WILL burn.
bring bring, clue phone, its for you security through obscurity != security, never has, never will. gee maybe that is why apple made the jackass who put up the big "bet you can't write a virus" contest a couple months ago take it down the next day.
I'm glad to see Apple supporting their products. I am glad to see they finally have a real operating system, something to match the excellent hardware they have always produced. I am just shocked that all you mac fanboys are so quick to buy a service pack, and not demand this stuff for free. Win XP's SP 2 was this big of an overhaul. Win XP64 is this big of an overhaul, it's free, if you already have XP32. For the record, I use XP, Linux, HP UX, AIX, and VMS daily.