Making fraudulent DMCA claims is ALSO against the law.
No, it is not. When you make a DMCA claim, you swear, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright holder, or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright holder, of the work that you claim is being infringed. That is the only claim that, if false, can result in penalties. See example.
For example, say you upload to youtube a video of your CongressCritter shagging a hamster. Said CS gets wind of it, realizes that this may harm their reelection plans, and submit a DMCA notice stating that your video infringes on their PhD thesis "Hamsters as an Alternative Fuel Source". They swear under penalty of perjury that they are the copyright holder of HaaAFS, which is true, but face no penalties for falsely claiming that your video infringes on it.
This is exactly what the content distributors wanted and it is one of the things that make the DMCA such a bad law.
I bet you also descriminate job applicants based on their skin color too.
People usually have little control over their skin color (over-tanning and Michael Jackson are exceptions). An email address, on the other hand, can be chosen by you and indicates the image that you want to project.
Having the option to use "developer@mydomain.example" costs me less than US$10/year in registration fees and requires practically zero maintenance.
They are bound by traffic laws, even during an emergency, but they have the ability to use their judgement and training if they choose to break those traffic laws in order to fulfil their job (for example, not wearing a seatbelt just before a sting, going through red traffic lights with sirens on, breaking the speed limit, overtaking in otherwise dangerous places).
You are wrong on two counts:
Firstly, police cannot "use their judgment and training" to "break those traffic laws". The laws have explicit exceptions for specific situations. For example, emergency vehicle drivers are exempt from wearing seat belts, speed limits and red lights do not apply to emergency vehicle that have their lights and sirens on, etc. Look it up in the traffic acts that apply in your jurisdiction.
Secondly, even though a policeman speeding without lights and sirens is breaking the law, almost 99 times out of 99 they will get away with it. Who will ticket them? A fellow cop? Not likely. Who will prosecute? The DA will likely drop the case. Welcome to the wonderful world of selective enforcement.
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Can I have that with a Snapdragon CPU and a keyboard?
I believe people in positions of public trust should be held to a HIGHER standard, not a lower one, and the penalties for abuse under the color of authority should carry higher penalties than mere black hat crackers would receive.
My biggest regret so far this year is having posted to this topic before seeing the above and having a chance to moderate it up.
If you, or I, or Joe Sixpack accessed those records, we would be facing a prison sentence. So, what you're asking is, "Had he been properly convicted, and served his time, would he be fit for the job today?"
Think about it. Do you want a convict running a high profile security agency
An emphatic YES! Otherwise we're encouraging corruption.
protecting you, your special other, your kids, your parents?
The moment he misuses his authority he is proven to be unfit to protect me, or anyone else for that matter.
Think. A convict may have "paid his debt to society", but he remains a convict.
And a corrupt official remains a corrupt official. What's your point?
Every couple of days there's another slashdot discussion bemoaning the evils of the current copyright scheme and advocating changes.
Get it through your thick skulls: the only changes that you are likely to see will be either for the worse or purely cosmetic, because the only people able to effect a change are the ones that benefit most from the current system and there is nothing, *NOTHING* you can do about it.
Democracy? Bah! As if the ability to choose between Kang and Kodos counts.
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Budapest?
No, it is not.
When you make a DMCA claim, you swear, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright holder, or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright holder, of the work that you claim is being infringed. That is the only claim that, if false, can result in penalties. See example.
For example, say you upload to youtube a video of your CongressCritter shagging a hamster. Said CS gets wind of it, realizes that this may harm their reelection plans, and submit a DMCA notice stating that your video infringes on their PhD thesis "Hamsters as an Alternative Fuel Source". They swear under penalty of perjury that they are the copyright holder of HaaAFS, which is true, but face no penalties for falsely claiming that your video infringes on it.
This is exactly what the content distributors wanted and it is one of the things that make the DMCA such a bad law.
Disclaimer: IANAUSCitizen, IANEvenAUSResident.
No matter how sane and responsible you are, it only takes one distracted driver.
Can you point me to a study showing that wearing a helmet in a car is safer (in a statistically significant way) than wearing a seatbelt?
People usually have little control over their skin color (over-tanning and Michael Jackson are exceptions).
An email address, on the other hand, can be chosen by you and indicates the image that you want to project.
Having the option to use "developer@mydomain.example" costs me less than US$10/year in registration fees and requires practically zero maintenance.
No, he means 594.22 K and 1,811 K.
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
-- Edsger Dijkstra
I would say that having a "natural" birth (i.e., not a C-section) pretty much destroys your chances of keeping your hymen intact.
I agree completely!
As long as I am the one who gets to define "obscene"...
You are wrong on two counts:
Firstly, police cannot "use their judgment and training" to "break those traffic laws". The laws have explicit exceptions for specific situations. For example, emergency vehicle drivers are exempt from wearing seat belts, speed limits and red lights do not apply to emergency vehicle that have their lights and sirens on, etc. Look it up in the traffic acts that apply in your jurisdiction.
Secondly, even though a policeman speeding without lights and sirens is breaking the law, almost 99 times out of 99 they will get away with it. Who will ticket them? A fellow cop? Not likely. Who will prosecute? The DA will likely drop the case.
Welcome to the wonderful world of selective enforcement.
Well... 132 to you!
So are "Virgin" and "Mother".
Prove irrefutably that an Invisible Pink Unicorn didn't.
The ruling class protects its own.
Motorola droid does not have a Snapdragon CPU. It uses an OMAP3430 chip downclocked to 550MHz.
Can I have that with a Snapdragon CPU and a keyboard?
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My biggest regret so far this year is having posted to this topic before seeing the above and having a chance to moderate it up.
An emphatic YES!
Otherwise we're encouraging corruption.
The moment he misuses his authority he is proven to be unfit to protect me, or anyone else for that matter.
And a corrupt official remains a corrupt official. What's your point?
Every couple of days there's another slashdot discussion bemoaning the evils of the current copyright scheme and advocating changes.
Get it through your thick skulls: the only changes that you are likely to see will be either for the worse or purely cosmetic, because the only people able to effect a change are the ones that benefit most from the current system and there is nothing, *NOTHING* you can do about it.
Democracy? Bah! As if the ability to choose between Kang and Kodos counts.
A view commonly expressed by the occasional fossil who forgot that email stopped being a text-only medium almost two decades ago.
The next version of Nethack?
As an added bonus, it will be easier to debug.
Just a man
With a man's courage
He knows nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No one but the pure in heart
May find the golden grail