the US and its "allies" are doing this because they "won" the Cold War. What happens to all that power and money that these nations invested in their old war/intel programs? they find new places to use those resources and new jobs for all those government employees and contractors to keep the employment figures up. what's sad is that the current US administration feels that they have the right to police the world and to impose their "moral authority" onto citizens of other nations.
Additional point: If use of this app is against policy why did IT leave it on the image? If is wasn't there is wouldn't be used.
mod parent up. this observation is spot on. if there is a policy and it states "no games" then the systems admin should be fired for not locking down stations correctly. if there's no policy or it does not say "no games" the guy deserves a big fat paycheque for wrongful dismissal.
posession of copyrighted works is only an infringment in canada if it is for the purpose of a) selling or renting, b) distribution so as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright, c) by way of trade: distribution, exposure or offering for sale or rental, or exhibition in public.
it seems then, that if you're placing copyrighted files on your computer for your personal use in a shared folder you must also be doing one of the above to be infringing on copyright. one of the points in the case was that exposing the materials by way of a P2P network made it a copyright infringement. this, however, is not the case (as the Justice saw it) since the file sharer did not provide explicit authorization to download the files (by way of advertisement or other means). the Justice related this case to a library that has materials available, but also a photocopier which can be used to copy the works. personally, i don't think the Justice did enough to justify his interpretation because the analogy breaks down and the details of the referenced case are more complicated than mere authorization to copy.
yep, had one of them fetching cats here too. It used to chase those little balls with holes in them and little bells inside. we had (at my old place, where the cat stayed, and i didn't) a tile floor from the front door all the way to the back of this loooong house. we'd toss the ball all the way from the back (kitchen) to the front door and the bugger would chase it down, swerve all over the floor as it caught the ball (knocking itself into the door occasionally) and come running back with the ball in his mouth, ready for more. strange cat. she also did this crazy thing when we shone a light at the cieling - imagine a cat spastically meowing at something, but with the mute button on. didn't make a peep, but it sure looked strange. silly cat.
if you want to get amazing deals in canada check out canadacomputers.com - i don't think they do purchasing online, but you can do mail-order. i've looked very hard all over the web and other local shops and i've very rarely found better prices on any of the equipment they sell.
... about all pro-microsoft testimony i've heard is how all the 'witnesses' claim how 'most server os's require specialized cpus', or 'this will break standards', and all other kinds of balleyhoo. these idiots don't see how the point of the operating system is to adapt to the hardware, not the other way around. standards are meant to be set and used in an unfettered way, not ebraced and locked up. it bothers me most how most of these mentalities focus on what the new settlement will mean for their current businesses and they miss entirely the proper way for the industry to function. set an open, unencumbered standard and have hardware and software manufacturers STICK to it regardless of how big they are. if they want to stretch the API's or standards then it shows that the standard was probably improperly designed and should be fixed using the same process that it was written with. there should not be a proprietary extension that becomes a so called 'standard' just because some idiots didn't know how to implement an RFC. *grrrr* okay, i'm done venting.:)
Don't try this bullshit about what is "tangible" or not. The simple fact is, the result of my thinking is MY property, and I have a right to control what happens to it, be it placing it into the public domain, or selling copies of it to make money.
contrary to popular belief, the result of your thinking is not property unless it is tangible. you have merely been granted special priveleges, not rights, by your government to copy and distribute this result. copyrights are designed to balance your priveleges with other people's priveleges. this is why copyrights expire and why we have fair-use provisions.
You can't sign a contract agreeing to something that is illegal though. Sort of like the mafia trying to sue me because I agreed to whack someone for them and didn't follow through.
IANAL, but i've been told that this is not the case in the USA - you can sign a contract to agree to something which is illegal and it will be enforced (within limits, i'm sure). this does not appear to be the case in other countries, particularly Canada.
there does not appear to be any clause anywhere for software to have a CLOSED and secret protection mechanism. so, open source implementors will create open source DRM mechanisms. having access to the source will make the process of disabling the silly copy protection devices on all software licenced with the GPL next to trivial!:)
Small correction, in windows the low level video driver runs in kernel mode (mostly for performance reasons). The rest lives in user land just as in UNIX. When under unix your xserver barfs you lose your data just like when the similar thing happens in windows. In windows you reboot, the user friendly but slow and annoying way of reinitializing properly, in linux you are left to fix things manually (and usually you can).
i believe you are incorrect. linux has low level video drivers in the kernel also - does DRI ring a bell?
if you do, then you're dead wrong. we've been paying a LOWER levy since 2000! this whole debate is about INCREASING the levy from the previous rates (which have already been increased once for 2001/2002):
Audio Cassettes (40 minutes or more in length): 29 CD-R or CD-RW: 21 CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc: 77
so go complain, but make sure you know what the actual issues are before you do.
the whole issue with movie88 getting shut down by their isp should not really revolve aruond the copyright issue. we can be pretty sure that movie88 signed some sort of contract when they signed up with their isp. if the isp violated this contract, movie88 just has to sue the crap out of 'em. if the contract wasn't violated by the isp, then they should have been smarter about their choice of isps. i really don't see any other issues in this circumstance.
Hardly. We need more of this. As long as Microsoft does not get any illegal favors in return, I love the idea of the government making money from corporations instead of taxpayers.
ooooh, right - corporations grow their money on trees... sorry, i forgot.
couldn't you somehow enable the talkback feature for kernels that are running on top of another linux kernel? that way, they can dump their contents to the base kernel and it can handle the talkback..
first, Mr. Ballmer says: "The last three years, the period of the lawsuits, people ask us what we've learned. From the lawsuit itself, I don't know exactly how to answer that question from time to time..."
and shortly afterwards: "We need to expand the range of companies, bigger companies, established companies that we have relationships with, in the telecommunications industry, in the media industry..."
i thought that if they were a monopoly that they were not allowed to do precisely this type of thing. indeed, it would appear that Mr. Ballmer hasn't learned anything from the law suits.
Did anyone else notice this in the linked CNN article?
Microsoft has launched its new Windows XP operation system. The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive. (emphasis added).
The hijackings were pulled off with the use of box cutters, or similar small-bladed instruments, which were permitted under general security rules at almost every airport. I doubt you could have found very many people who would have thought they should be banned, pre-9/11. No one thought such a thing was possible.
it shows that you do not travel internationally very much. if you did, you would know that airport security in the USofA is about the most lax in the world. go to europe, the middle east or asia and you will see how much tougher it is to get anything like 'mere' box cutters or other implements on board. these other countries DID think those kinds of things were possible and have for some time been prepared for such events. they have tougher regulations for their airlines and it shows.
The problem is, if digital property just becomes public domain the minute it's released, then the whole incentive model for distributing that property goes away.
i think that is the most telling remark about the attitudes and models that this company is trying to support and nurture. it's a real shame that this mindset is still so strong in the industry.
suppose i am rolling out frontpage for my company. the hypothetical company makes web sites of sorts for clients. i've installed frontpage on several computers which our employees use. none of them have agreed to the EULA. they are merely users of the product. does the EULA apply to any user of the installed product, or just the person who installed/purchased it?
i don't see how i could be responsible, as an IT guy, for the actions of the staff in the company when they use the product, but have not themselves agreed to the license.
can microsoft really be demanding that their license apply to anyone that uses their product? what about children that are not old enough to be bound by these contracts?
It'd be nice if someone created some software to check for dDoS worms on servers. All you need is a packet sniffer to track incoming and outgoing packets and hunt for millions of outgoing packets that werent originally to an IP that hasn't requested anything.
someone has created this software. it's called SNORT. http://www.snort.org - it runs on windows too!
you don't appear to have read the article at all, and clearly don't understand what these contracts are about. if the parties cannot agree on a fee, then an arbiter decides it for them. end of story.
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the US and its "allies" are doing this because they "won" the Cold War. What happens to all that power and money that these nations invested in their old war/intel programs? they find new places to use those resources and new jobs for all those government employees and contractors to keep the employment figures up. what's sad is that the current US administration feels that they have the right to police the world and to impose their "moral authority" onto citizens of other nations.
Additional point: If use of this app is against policy why did IT leave it on the image? If is wasn't there is wouldn't be used.
mod parent up. this observation is spot on. if there is a policy and it states "no games" then the systems admin should be fired for not locking down stations correctly. if there's no policy or it does not say "no games" the guy deserves a big fat paycheque for wrongful dismissal.
posession of copyrighted works is only an infringment in canada if it is for the purpose of a) selling or renting, b) distribution so as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright, c) by way of trade: distribution, exposure or offering for sale or rental, or exhibition in public.
it seems then, that if you're placing copyrighted files on your computer for your personal use in a shared folder you must also be doing one of the above to be infringing on copyright. one of the points in the case was that exposing the materials by way of a P2P network made it a copyright infringement. this, however, is not the case (as the Justice saw it) since the file sharer did not provide explicit authorization to download the files (by way of advertisement or other means). the Justice related this case to a library that has materials available, but also a photocopier which can be used to copy the works. personally, i don't think the Justice did enough to justify his interpretation because the analogy breaks down and the details of the referenced case are more complicated than mere authorization to copy.
the customer who's IP was "24.84.179.98" (see page 11 of the court order).
yep, had one of them fetching cats here too. It used to chase those little balls with holes in them and little bells inside. we had (at my old place, where the cat stayed, and i didn't) a tile floor from the front door all the way to the back of this loooong house. we'd toss the ball all the way from the back (kitchen) to the front door and the bugger would chase it down, swerve all over the floor as it caught the ball (knocking itself into the door occasionally) and come running back with the ball in his mouth, ready for more. strange cat. she also did this crazy thing when we shone a light at the cieling - imagine a cat spastically meowing at something, but with the mute button on. didn't make a peep, but it sure looked strange. silly cat.
that's my fetching cat story.
if you want to get amazing deals in canada check out canadacomputers.com - i don't think they do purchasing online, but you can do mail-order. i've looked very hard all over the web and other local shops and i've very rarely found better prices on any of the equipment they sell.
i get the noise out of my system once in a while also, but it magically disappears when i mute the line input on my sound card.
if i didn't know better i'd say you were arguing for the DMCA.
whoa.
... about all pro-microsoft testimony i've heard is how all the 'witnesses' claim how 'most server os's require specialized cpus', or 'this will break standards', and all other kinds of balleyhoo. these idiots don't see how the point of the operating system is to adapt to the hardware, not the other way around. standards are meant to be set and used in an unfettered way, not ebraced and locked up. it bothers me most how most of these mentalities focus on what the new settlement will mean for their current businesses and they miss entirely the proper way for the industry to function. set an open, unencumbered standard and have hardware and software manufacturers STICK to it regardless of how big they are. if they want to stretch the API's or standards then it shows that the standard was probably improperly designed and should be fixed using the same process that it was written with. there should not be a proprietary extension that becomes a so called 'standard' just because some idiots didn't know how to implement an RFC. *grrrr* okay, i'm done venting. :)
contrary to popular belief, the result of your thinking is not property unless it is tangible. you have merely been granted special priveleges, not rights, by your government to copy and distribute this result. copyrights are designed to balance your priveleges with other people's priveleges. this is why copyrights expire and why we have fair-use provisions.
Jon Lasser is an idiot.
:)
maybe true, but he'd make a great politician in the USA! i say, those chaps have a talent for attacking a problem for the wrong end.
IANAL, but i've been told that this is not the case in the USA - you can sign a contract to agree to something which is illegal and it will be enforced (within limits, i'm sure). this does not appear to be the case in other countries, particularly Canada.
there does not appear to be any clause anywhere for software to have a CLOSED and secret protection mechanism. so, open source implementors will create open source DRM mechanisms. having access to the source will make the process of disabling the silly copy protection devices on all software licenced with the GPL next to trivial! :)
it's not ALL bad, thought it does totally suck.
i believe you are incorrect. linux has low level video drivers in the kernel also - does DRI ring a bell?
if you do, then you're dead wrong. we've been paying a LOWER levy since 2000! this whole debate is about INCREASING the levy from the previous rates (which have already been increased once for 2001/2002):
Audio Cassettes (40 minutes or more in length): 29
CD-R or CD-RW: 21
CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc: 77
so go complain, but make sure you know what the actual issues are before you do.
the whole issue with movie88 getting shut down by their isp should not really revolve aruond the copyright issue. we can be pretty sure that movie88 signed some sort of contract when they signed up with their isp. if the isp violated this contract, movie88 just has to sue the crap out of 'em. if the contract wasn't violated by the isp, then they should have been smarter about their choice of isps. i really don't see any other issues in this circumstance.
ooooh, right - corporations grow their money on trees... sorry, i forgot.
couldn't you somehow enable the talkback feature for kernels that are running on top of another linux kernel? that way, they can dump their contents to the base kernel and it can handle the talkback..
first, Mr. Ballmer says: "The last three years, the period of the lawsuits, people ask us what we've learned. From the lawsuit itself, I don't know exactly how to answer that question from time to time..."
and shortly afterwards: "We need to expand the range of companies, bigger companies, established companies that we have relationships with, in the telecommunications industry, in the media industry..."
i thought that if they were a monopoly that they were not allowed to do precisely this type of thing. indeed, it would appear that Mr. Ballmer hasn't learned anything from the law suits.
Did anyone else notice this in the linked CNN article?
Microsoft has launched its new Windows XP operation system. The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive. (emphasis added).
i nearly split my sides when i read that.. :)
The hijackings were pulled off with the use of box cutters, or similar small-bladed instruments, which were permitted under general security rules at almost every airport. I doubt you could have found very many people who would have thought they should be banned, pre-9/11. No one thought such a thing was possible.
it shows that you do not travel internationally very much. if you did, you would know that airport security in the USofA is about the most lax in the world. go to europe, the middle east or asia and you will see how much tougher it is to get anything like 'mere' box cutters or other implements on board. these other countries DID think those kinds of things were possible and have for some time been prepared for such events. they have tougher regulations for their airlines and it shows.
i think that is the most telling remark about the attitudes and models that this company is trying to support and nurture. it's a real shame that this mindset is still so strong in the industry.
suppose i am rolling out frontpage for my company. the hypothetical company makes web sites of sorts for clients. i've installed frontpage on several computers which our employees use. none of them have agreed to the EULA. they are merely users of the product. does the EULA apply to any user of the installed product, or just the person who installed/purchased it?
i don't see how i could be responsible, as an IT guy, for the actions of the staff in the company when they use the product, but have not themselves agreed to the license.
can microsoft really be demanding that their license apply to anyone that uses their product? what about children that are not old enough to be bound by these contracts?
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It'd be nice if someone created some software to check for dDoS worms on servers. All you need is a packet sniffer to track incoming and outgoing packets and hunt for millions of outgoing packets that werent originally to an IP that hasn't requested anything.
someone has created this software. it's called SNORT. http://www.snort.org - it runs on windows too!
l8ryou don't appear to have read the article at all, and clearly don't understand what these contracts are about. if the parties cannot agree on a fee, then an arbiter decides it for them. end of story.
cheers,
twkonefal