"Has not been used" is relative - a number of UK and Canadian businessmen and others have been declared as undesirables and refused admission to the US as a result of Helms-Burton...
If he wins, it basically means that citizens of one country can be held accountable to laws from any country in the world!
The US already implements laws, particularly relating to third country trade with Cuba, which result in the conviction of non-US nationals in US courts for acts illegal under US law only and which were carried out wholly outside the US.
Dan's point therefore is a little late...
Okay, it wasn't Graham Hancock (who believes that there is evidence of a "technological" civilization on Earth upwards of 10,000 years ago) but Erich von Daniken.
The plateau was Nazca.
But yep, the scale and size is important. Even NASA tend to forget this useful piece of information...
Okay, I'm not a Napster user but I do have directory full of mp3's which are, I estimate, probably 80% copyrighted material. There is a problem here but I feel that Colin Greenwood of Radiohead may offer a possible route forward. Bootlegs of live gigs are generally tolerated by both bands and record companies (we could all name some bands which have actively encouraged bootlegging...). Why not decide that mp3s of live gigs/tracks are free from copyright as they have been "broadcast" and paid for, and allow record companies to slap down hard anyone distributing or "aiding the distribution" of studio processed tracks available as mp3s unless specifically released by the artist? This would also have the advantage of removing those heavily doctored "greatest hits live" albums that some groups have taken to using as contractual obligation fillers and the "live" shows in which divas mime to a vocal track over a backing track. It would allow new bands to come into the market with live material or studio tracks as they wish, artists and companies to release sampler studio tracks if they wanted to. It should also improve quality control at live gigs as the band would know that there was every chance that their crap playing and appalling sound would almost certainly be available to their fans the next day.
Oh yeah, I forgot, I also stuck FreeBSD 3.1 on a newly built PII350/Gigabyte AT format motherboard with two Adaptec 2940U and one 1542 cards, three Seagate 4GB SCSI disks, a 100MHz 64M DIMM, and ATI AGP card and an old four speed toshiba CDROM. RedHAt Linux barfed when I tried to put it on that and FreeBSD went on first time, so what's all this about up to date hardware?
I'd suggest you consider sticking with (I assume Free)BSD 3.1 and consider moving applications. For example, if you want to deliver POP accounts rather than SMTP why not look at Fetchmail rather than Sendmail? There is also a hardware question - BSD is better at handling the sort of SCSI based disks that you are going to need for speed and reliability than Linux, especially if you are shoving a number of SCSI interfaces in. We've got a FreeBSD 2.2.8 box that has been trundling along quite happily for eighteen months now providing (admittedly *very*) basic services to a number of users. I've restarted it once in that time and only because I started messing around with it and screwed up...
On the basis of a (subjective) recent trawl around the net for info the capabilities of both Linux and FreeBSD over the past few months I would suggest that Linux is walking away with desktop stuff but FreeBSD is still the OS of choice for server end stuff (where hardware is usually more carefully spec'ed and the device support issue disappears). I've used it, or seen it run, for mail, dns, web and ftp servers in a number of places with minimal effort but it has been a bitch to get going as a desktop. Usually a FreeBSD server means a long time UNIX hacker has put it in as a cheap fix and it has stayed on a "ain't broke, don't fix it" basis.
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...which if this goes ahead, they won't be able to find anyone to fix in a few years.
Or at least we can hope that.
"Has not been used" is relative - a number of UK and Canadian businessmen and others have been declared as undesirables and refused admission to the US as a result of Helms-Burton...
If he wins, it basically means that citizens of one country can be held accountable to laws from any country in the world!
The US already implements laws, particularly relating to third country trade with Cuba, which result in the conviction of non-US nationals in US courts for acts illegal under US law only and which were carried out wholly outside the US.
Dan's point therefore is a little late...
It's scary to say it, but there is another well designed and useful Microsoft web site for their typography stuff at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.asp. (Lets be upfront about the URL and avoid goat fear)
Do you think there are some independent groups in there doing their own thing?
Okay, it wasn't Graham Hancock (who believes that there is evidence of a "technological" civilization on Earth upwards of 10,000 years ago) but Erich von Daniken. The plateau was Nazca. But yep, the scale and size is important. Even NASA tend to forget this useful piece of information...
"At the moment, Sri Lanka lies between 6 and 10 degrees north" Do they intend to move it or just wait till precession moves the equator closer?
Okay, I'm not a Napster user but I do have directory full of mp3's which are, I estimate, probably 80% copyrighted material. There is a problem here but I feel that Colin Greenwood of Radiohead may offer a possible route forward. Bootlegs of live gigs are generally tolerated by both bands and record companies (we could all name some bands which have actively encouraged bootlegging...). Why not decide that mp3s of live gigs/tracks are free from copyright as they have been "broadcast" and paid for, and allow record companies to slap down hard anyone distributing or "aiding the distribution" of studio processed tracks available as mp3s unless specifically released by the artist? This would also have the advantage of removing those heavily doctored "greatest hits live" albums that some groups have taken to using as contractual obligation fillers and the "live" shows in which divas mime to a vocal track over a backing track. It would allow new bands to come into the market with live material or studio tracks as they wish, artists and companies to release sampler studio tracks if they wanted to. It should also improve quality control at live gigs as the band would know that there was every chance that their crap playing and appalling sound would almost certainly be available to their fans the next day.
Give the prize to: 404 File Not Found The requested URL (foobar.htm) is not found. Possibly the most popular web page in the world
Oh yeah, I forgot, I also stuck FreeBSD 3.1 on a newly built PII350/Gigabyte AT format motherboard with two Adaptec 2940U and one 1542 cards, three Seagate 4GB SCSI disks, a 100MHz 64M DIMM, and ATI AGP card and an old four speed toshiba CDROM. RedHAt Linux barfed when I tried to put it on that and FreeBSD went on first time, so what's all this about up to date hardware?
I'd suggest you consider sticking with (I assume Free)BSD 3.1 and consider moving applications. For example, if you want to deliver POP accounts rather than SMTP why not look at Fetchmail rather than Sendmail? There is also a hardware question - BSD is better at handling the sort of SCSI based disks that you are going to need for speed and reliability than Linux, especially if you are shoving a number of SCSI interfaces in. We've got a FreeBSD 2.2.8 box that has been trundling along quite happily for eighteen months now providing (admittedly *very*) basic services to a number of users. I've restarted it once in that time and only because I started messing around with it and screwed up...
On the basis of a (subjective) recent trawl around the net for info the capabilities of both Linux and FreeBSD over the past few months I would suggest that Linux is walking away with desktop stuff but FreeBSD is still the OS of choice for server end stuff (where hardware is usually more carefully spec'ed and the device support issue disappears). I've used it, or seen it run, for mail, dns, web and ftp servers in a number of places with minimal effort but it has been a bitch to get going as a desktop. Usually a FreeBSD server means a long time UNIX hacker has put it in as a cheap fix and it has stayed on a "ain't broke, don't fix it" basis.