Despite the raw emotions, however, the issue is clear: do you support copyrights and ownership of intellectual property as envisioned by our elected officials in Congress and the European Union, or do you support "free" - as in free from ownership - intellectual property envisioned by the Free Software Foundation, Red Hat and others? There really is no middle ground.
There sure is middle ground! It's what we have today: each producer (in theory) gets to choose whether their work will be copyrighted or open. (I say 'in theory' because so much of what individuals produce today is legally 'owned' by corporations.)
>...the article...gives no reasons for the anicent Egyptians to be aware of how or why that method would have worked.
I had the same thought after I read the article. Then I thought a little about it. Once you had noticed that all the stars rotated about a common center, it would be fairly easy to find the two that pointed toward that common center (i.e. true North) by observation.
At sunset, find a place to sit or stand where a building corner or tree branch or some such object is silhouetted against the sky where one of the stars that seems to be pretty close to true North is located. Then, sitting or standing in exactly the same spot at sunrise (approximately 12 hours later), see if there's another star in the same position or close to it. Find a number of candidate pairs of stars and settle on the pair that comes closest to being in the same position at sunrise and sunset during an equinox. When vertically lined up, these two stars should pretty nearly point North.
I might try this myself and see if I can identify the two we would be using if Polaris went nova in the near future!
> Of course, I'm also sure that MAPS doesnt wana get sued again
Au contraire! See How to Sue MAPS on their website, where they say "It's our hope that MAPS can help bring about a similar landmark case and carry it all the way to the Supreme Court where federal case law can result." They want to be sued!
There really is an ICANNt. It's by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility's for people who tried and failed to become ICANN Members-at-large due to the ICANN's failure to provide adequate servers. But if you're interested, the ICANN CANNOT - WE CAN site has signed more people up and is probably a better bet.
I just looked in PGP Help. Here's what the item on 'additional decryption keys' says:
About Additional Decryption Keys
Additional Decryption Keys are keys that allow the security officers of an organization to decrypt messages that have been sent to or from people within your organization. There are two types of keys: incoming additional decryption keys and outgoing additional decryption keys.
Note
Although the security officer should not ordinarily use the Additional Decryption keys, there may be circumstances when it is necessary to recover someone's email. For example, if someone is injured and out of work for some time or if email records are subpoenaed by a law enforcement agency and the corporation must decrypt mail as evidence for a court case.
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The letter says in part:
There sure is middle ground! It's what we have today: each producer (in theory) gets to choose whether their work will be copyrighted or open. (I say 'in theory' because so much of what individuals produce today is legally 'owned' by corporations.)
I had the same thought after I read the article. Then I thought a little about it. Once you had noticed that all the stars rotated about a common center, it would be fairly easy to find the two that pointed toward that common center (i.e. true North) by observation.
At sunset, find a place to sit or stand where a building corner or tree branch or some such object is silhouetted against the sky where one of the stars that seems to be pretty close to true North is located. Then, sitting or standing in exactly the same spot at sunrise (approximately 12 hours later), see if there's another star in the same position or close to it. Find a number of candidate pairs of stars and settle on the pair that comes closest to being in the same position at sunrise and sunset during an equinox. When vertically lined up, these two stars should pretty nearly point North.
I might try this myself and see if I can identify the two we would be using if Polaris went nova in the near future!
Here are a few facts I dug up:
I've collected some information on computer recycling (the link to documentation of lead's effect on children's brains is bad; here is a better one).
> Of course, I'm also sure that MAPS doesnt wana get sued again
Au contraire! See How to Sue MAPS on their website, where they say "It's our hope that MAPS can help bring about a similar landmark case and carry it all the way to the Supreme Court where federal case law can result." They want to be sued!
There really is an ICANNt. It's by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility's for people who tried and failed to become ICANN Members-at-large due to the ICANN's failure to provide adequate servers. But if you're interested, the ICANN CANNOT - WE CAN site has signed more people up and is probably a better bet.
I just looked in PGP Help. Here's what the item on 'additional decryption keys' says:
Almost anyone can require your SSN. Your employer, is an obvious example of someone other than the IRS who can do so. See What to do when they ask for your Social Security Number for a wealth of info.