That's Katz's motto apparently. Corporations don't own popular culture. Anybody can easily make their music available for free on the Internet. Lots of people do it already. But Katz doesn't want that -- he needs his free Brittney Spears MP3s.
Just like CmdrTaco and others bitching about Open Source and then firing up DiabloII on their Windoze machines.
Fine, I'm just going to copy everything on slashdot.org, put it up on slashdott.org and I'm sure andover won't care because after all according to this yahoo you haven't contributed anything at all to the idea of Slashdot and are just exploiting me if you try to stop me. It is interesting that idiots like this always think IP is exploitative because ideas are supposedly a dime a dozen and patenting them exploits the third world -- if this were true, then why don't we see a ton of patents from third world nations. Couldn't it be that IP protection spurs the development of new ideas?
The government was getting nowhere fast in dilineating the human genome (while spending billions of dollars), and then Celeron comes along with a new technique that gets it all done in record time. People like me who have fatal genetic diseases in our family stand up and cheer, but to the Katz's of the world this just means disaster -- a comparison to Bill Gates pretty much seels Hunkapiller's fate in Katz's mind. I guess it's wrong for jocks to pick on geeks, but okay for Katz to engage in ad hominems against businessmen revolutionizing their field.
Although they sometimes go overboard (see the Jovanovic case for a nightmare in progress), they solved this problem in cases of rape by limiting the extent to which previous consensual sexual encounters by the alleged victim can be introduced as evidence. The obvious thing to do would be to extend this to alleged prepetrators of sexual harassment and stop turning such cases into fishing expeditions for every factoid about a person's sex life.
BTW, don't feel too bad for Clinton since he explicitly supported the laws that got him into so much trouble (and has said almost nothing about reforming that broken legal process).
If cell phone manufacturers have been cowed into releasing radiation data, then how long before the computer industry does as well since my monitor and PC are both giving off radiation (and I'd bet a significant amount more than my cell phone is). Remember all the radiation scares re: computers in the 1980s? Same thing all over again with cell phones.
This is inaccurate. The total cost of taxes on automobile transportation are more than enough to pay for interstates and highways. The only reason that doesn't happen is becuase people come up with hairbrained schemes like your proposal to transfer income from people who drive cars to people who take buses.
It is public transportation after all, not private, which requires exorbitant subsidies. At the college I work at the local Greens talked the college into subsidizing free bus passes for all students to cut down on automobile use, the only problem being that some like half a percent of all students actually use the service. Even when it doesn't cost money, the opportunity cost of public transportation is extremely high.
"That's still going on, right? And wasn't it already decided that Microsoft should cease such activities within 90 days."
You need to get out and read the news sometime. Microsoft filed an appeal and Judge Jackson issued a stay on that order until the appeal is heard, which is likely many months off (probably not until 2001).
True, but that still accomplishes the purpose of stopping copyright violations because it makes it easier to identify individuals who are most active in distributing illegally copied files (since they will likely bubble to the top as the most trusted).
Saying it's just about young vs. old makes about as much sense as saying its white vs. black (after all most of the stuff Katz is raving about is the domain largely of young white males).
I guess Katz does have a point, though, about the nature of work. I work about 50 hours a week at a techie job that is realtively stressful. I'd be much better off working 60 hours a week in a mine, or maybe working 80+ hours a week trying to make a living on a farm as my great grandparents did at the turn of the century. Now *those* were some healthy, non-stressful jobs compared to sitting in front of a computer 10 hours a day.
Why complain about the increase in work hours for women since 1979? I thought the whole point was that it was a Good Thing(TM) for women to have better opportunities in the work place. What's next? Are you going to complain about the evils of child care keeping women from taking care of their children at home, Mr. Katz?
The interesting thing about the increase in work hours is *why* people work longer. Consider, for example, professional people who work more than one job. When you ask them *why* the answer is not "because I need the money, etc." but on average because they want the job to fulfill some personal or professional goal.
It's been known for a long time that Scott wanted to end the movie with the replicant ending. As someone else pointed out, Harrison Ford has gone on record long ago that he hated the idea.
True, I was talking about the U.S. I'm curious whether or not the sort of "hidden camera" techniques used by American journalists would be legal in Europe with its privacy laws (for example if I were a European journalist, could I apply for a job at a supermarket and then surreptitiously videotape my fellow employees going about their business?)
As the story indicates, the leading suspect here for gathering this information is the independent news television station. You might have noticed that journalists and network news shows also believe thy are allowed to committ fraud to secretly tape private conversations.
This is just unbelievable. A few months ago JonKatz was complaining that chat rooms and online discussion forums are too hostile and here he is celebrating a man whose form of protest is to destroy the property of those he disagrees with.
I wonder if Katz will feel the same way when they come to smash his home.
Unfortunately, COPA makes complying with it extremely expensive, and the risk of a lawsuit is just too high. I run a small web site and have also been forced to post "please don't use this service if you're under 13" on certain places that collect personal information, such as discussion group forums which collect e-mail ID, etc. for verfication purposes.
Yeah, I like spending $50 for a game and then constantly getting an "insert CD message" just because the assholes who make the game hate their customers so much that they use a subchannel protection scheme that screws over a significant portion of users.
And once I finally got a hacked version that didn't have this problem, I'm playing it for a few hours thinking "this is what they spent the last three years working on?"
They should have called it Diablo 1.5 and released it a year and a half ago. Then it would have been a good game. I'm returning my copy and checking out IWD.
What a jerk. It's very convenient for ignoramuses like Katz to simply dismiss my desire not to pass a genetic disease on to my child, but maybe if he spent a few weeks taking care of my aunt who is doomed to an early, slow death thanks to a genetic disease he might change his mind. Absolutely I want a perfect baby. As for Gattaca it was an interesting movie but completely unrealistic, mainly in that it vastly overemphasizes the role that genetics plays in personal achievement. It would have made more sense if the society of Gattaca had been backwards and economically impoverished because of its bigoted exclusion of the genetically "imperfect," whatever that means.
See: http://www.animalrights.net/16 In 1998, while it was whining about how wrong it was for someone else to register peta.org, PETA went out and registered ringlingbrothers.com and put up a site ripping on the circus. Ringling Brothers filed suit against PETA and PETA reached an agreement to give back the domain name. Complete hypocrisy on PETA's part.
Exactly, which is probably the best reason for the SC *not* to take the case. The entire motive for appealing to the SC is clearly not because of any importance of this particular case (as if the SC is going to be able to resolve this faster than an appellate court), but simply because the judge and DOJ fear a negative outcome in the appellate court. Regardless of what you think about MS, this is still a pretty straightforward antitrust lawsuit. The only reason it seem so earth shattering is because there have been so few such actions over the past couple decades.
That sort of politicking is unworthy of second rate lawyers looking for friendly judges, much less the Supreme Court.
You have to wonder how these slashdotters would feel if say Napster loses its case and the judge and plaintiffs attorneys tried to skip over the next level of appellate courts because of its past sympathy for Napster-style IP arguments, in favor of a higher court suspected of being far tougher on those who challenge the corporate hegemony. People would be having fits about how unfair the system is, but because it's the evil Microsoft, it's considered the only way to fly.
The state I live in has DNA samples on file they took without my consent at birth. I can't *wait* until the government has efficient online access to those files.
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The main reason they're ahead of us on cellphone is because their landline phone service is such crap (and so expensive).
That's Katz's motto apparently. Corporations don't own popular culture. Anybody can easily make their music available for free on the Internet. Lots of people do it already. But Katz doesn't want that -- he needs his free Brittney Spears MP3s.
Just like CmdrTaco and others bitching about Open Source and then firing up DiabloII on their Windoze machines.
Fine, I'm just going to copy everything on slashdot.org, put it up on slashdott.org and I'm sure andover won't care because after all according to this yahoo you haven't contributed anything at all to the idea of Slashdot and are just exploiting me if you try to stop me. It is interesting that idiots like this always think IP is exploitative because ideas are supposedly a dime a dozen and patenting them exploits the third world -- if this were true, then why don't we see a ton of patents from third world nations. Couldn't it be that IP protection spurs the development of new ideas?
The government was getting nowhere fast in dilineating the human genome (while spending billions of dollars), and then Celeron comes along with a new technique that gets it all done in record time. People like me who have fatal genetic diseases in our family stand up and cheer, but to the Katz's of the world this just means disaster -- a comparison to Bill Gates pretty much seels Hunkapiller's fate in Katz's mind. I guess it's wrong for jocks to pick on geeks, but okay for Katz to engage in ad hominems against businessmen revolutionizing their field.
Although they sometimes go overboard (see the Jovanovic case for a nightmare in progress), they solved this problem in cases of rape by limiting the extent to which previous consensual sexual encounters by the alleged victim can be introduced as evidence. The obvious thing to do would be to extend this to alleged prepetrators of sexual harassment and stop turning such cases into fishing expeditions for every factoid about a person's sex life.
BTW, don't feel too bad for Clinton since he explicitly supported the laws that got him into so much trouble (and has said almost nothing about reforming that broken legal process).
Brian Carnell
http://www.equityfeminism.com/
If cell phone manufacturers have been cowed into releasing radiation data, then how long before the computer industry does as well since my monitor and PC are both giving off radiation (and I'd bet a significant amount more than my cell phone is). Remember all the radiation scares re: computers in the 1980s? Same thing all over again with cell phones.
This is inaccurate. The total cost of taxes on automobile transportation are more than enough to pay for interstates and highways. The only reason that doesn't happen is becuase people come up with hairbrained schemes like your proposal to transfer income from people who drive cars to people who take buses.
It is public transportation after all, not private, which requires exorbitant subsidies. At the college I work at the local Greens talked the college into subsidizing free bus passes for all students to cut down on automobile use, the only problem being that some like half a percent of all students actually use the service. Even when it doesn't cost money, the opportunity cost of public transportation is extremely high.
"That's still going on, right? And wasn't it already decided that Microsoft should cease such activities within 90 days."
You need to get out and read the news sometime. Microsoft filed an appeal and Judge Jackson issued a stay on that order until the appeal is heard, which is likely many months off (probably not until 2001).
True, but that still accomplishes the purpose of stopping copyright violations because it makes it easier to identify individuals who are most active in distributing illegally copied files (since they will likely bubble to the top as the most trusted).
Saying it's just about young vs. old makes about as much sense as saying its white vs. black (after all most of the stuff Katz is raving about is the domain largely of young white males).
Sure, and you take your DVD drive everywhere, eh? Hey, my HD and WinAmp can do what MPTRIP does to -- I guess it does suck.
I'd like to see you take that thing for a jog and see how long it lasts.
I guess Katz does have a point, though, about the nature of work. I work about 50 hours a week at a techie job that is realtively stressful. I'd be much better off working 60 hours a week in a mine, or maybe working 80+ hours a week trying to make a living on a farm as my great grandparents did at the turn of the century. Now *those* were some healthy, non-stressful jobs compared to sitting in front of a computer 10 hours a day.
Help me, I'm being oppressed by The Man.
Why complain about the increase in work hours for women since 1979? I thought the whole point was that it was a Good Thing(TM) for women to have better opportunities in the work place. What's next? Are you going to complain about the evils of child care keeping women from taking care of their children at home, Mr. Katz?
The interesting thing about the increase in work hours is *why* people work longer. Consider, for example, professional people who work more than one job. When you ask them *why* the answer is not "because I need the money, etc." but on average because they want the job to fulfill some personal or professional goal.
It's been known for a long time that Scott wanted to end the movie with the replicant ending. As someone else pointed out, Harrison Ford has gone on record long ago that he hated the idea.
True, I was talking about the U.S. I'm curious whether or not the sort of "hidden camera" techniques used by American journalists would be legal in Europe with its privacy laws (for example if I were a European journalist, could I apply for a job at a supermarket and then surreptitiously videotape my fellow employees going about their business?)
The major networks already use an army of hidden cameras and microphones to broadcast conversations that participants are led to believe are private.
As the story indicates, the leading suspect here for gathering this information is the independent news television station. You might have noticed that journalists and network news shows also believe thy are allowed to committ fraud to secretly tape private conversations.
This is news?
This is just unbelievable. A few months ago JonKatz was complaining that chat rooms and online discussion forums are too hostile and here he is celebrating a man whose form of protest is to destroy the property of those he disagrees with.
I wonder if Katz will feel the same way when they come to smash his home.
Unfortunately, COPA makes complying with it extremely expensive, and the risk of a lawsuit is just too high. I run a small web site and have also been forced to post "please don't use this service if you're under 13" on certain places that collect personal information, such as discussion group forums which collect e-mail ID, etc. for verfication purposes.
Yeah, I like spending $50 for a game and then constantly getting an "insert CD message" just because the assholes who make the game hate their customers so much that they use a subchannel protection scheme that screws over a significant portion of users.
And once I finally got a hacked version that didn't have this problem, I'm playing it for a few hours thinking "this is what they spent the last three years working on?"
They should have called it Diablo 1.5 and released it a year and a half ago. Then it would have been a good game. I'm returning my copy and checking out IWD.
What a jerk. It's very convenient for ignoramuses like Katz to simply dismiss my desire not to pass a genetic disease on to my child, but maybe if he spent a few weeks taking care of my aunt who is doomed to an early, slow death thanks to a genetic disease he might change his mind. Absolutely I want a perfect baby. As for Gattaca it was an interesting movie but completely unrealistic, mainly in that it vastly overemphasizes the role that genetics plays in personal achievement. It would have made more sense if the society of Gattaca had been backwards and economically impoverished because of its bigoted exclusion of the genetically "imperfect," whatever that means.
See: http://www.animalrights.net/16 In 1998, while it was whining about how wrong it was for someone else to register peta.org, PETA went out and registered ringlingbrothers.com and put up a site ripping on the circus. Ringling Brothers filed suit against PETA and PETA reached an agreement to give back the domain name. Complete hypocrisy on PETA's part.
Exactly, which is probably the best reason for the SC *not* to take the case. The entire motive for appealing to the SC is clearly not because of any importance of this particular case (as if the SC is going to be able to resolve this faster than an appellate court), but simply because the judge and DOJ fear a negative outcome in the appellate court. Regardless of what you think about MS, this is still a pretty straightforward antitrust lawsuit. The only reason it seem so earth shattering is because there have been so few such actions over the past couple decades.
That sort of politicking is unworthy of second rate lawyers looking for friendly judges, much less the Supreme Court.
You have to wonder how these slashdotters would feel if say Napster loses its case and the judge and plaintiffs attorneys tried to skip over the next level of appellate courts because of its past sympathy for Napster-style IP arguments, in favor of a higher court suspected of being far tougher on those who challenge the corporate hegemony. People would be having fits about how unfair the system is, but because it's the evil Microsoft, it's considered the only way to fly.
The state I live in has DNA samples on file they took without my consent at birth. I can't *wait* until the government has efficient online access to those files.