A friend of mine is a police officer and he made a very interesting point. Tickets for speed cameras are not the driver's responsibility to pay. It's the owner of the car's. If the vehicle in question is your standard Government issued police car, the officer shouldn't be paying the ticket. The very government that's making money off the tickets should have to pay.
Like a lot of things in the news paper, I'm pretty sure this story is not entirely true. The real reason is because there are 160 bytes left in the messages that get sent to towers to determine signal strength.
Hey, it's our right as right as Americans to blame Canada for everything. Isn't it?
And Americans wonder why people in other countries think us Americans think we're better than everyone. Next time someone wants to make a statement blaming Canada for something, can we just blame the French Canadians, at least then most of the world may agree with us. (I kid, I kid)
Great presentation Mike, never been a NIN or Trent Reznor fan but just watched that presentation and had to download the music. Good stuff. They just got themselves another fan the next time they are in DC.
Unfortunately I can't point to the exact comment. Like I said bad site. But it's on page 4. Just search for Zaven. It's not like it's too common a name.
Living in the DC area I regularly read the Washington Post (online). Their website sucks but nonetheless it's how I get my local news. The point of the article was things our nation should get rid of. I read this article on Sunday and at the end it asks readers to write in suggestions for other things our nation should get rid of. The top suggestions are supposed to get posted this Sunday in the paper.
Anyways, I suggested that we toss out traditional print media and the notion that it's the only way we can actually get the news. Please go on there and recommend my idea. Maybe if I get enough they'll have to print it. My username if you can actually find your way to the comments section of the article is cougar65. It's on page 4.
And like Mike likes to point out, bring the issue to people's attention who otherwise would not have known about piratebay at all.
And to answer this question "At what point do people realize that any such demand to "block" certain types of content will overblock and harm perfectly legitimate sites and technologies?"
- We all know that's a trick question. The day people in charge realize they need to give themselves less control is the day the sky falls and hell freezes over.
Getting government out of the way was kinda my point. If a group of undergraduates from any CS or IS department wrote 20 questions. Let's say the average college student could get a 80% (I'd like to think most college students are a bit tech savvy but the point is to give a general idea of the difficulty of the questions). I'd be willing to bet the average score for the same test given to our congress would be less than 50%.
I'm aware that this could never ACTUALLY happen but it's just the idea. I'm basically saying that we need an official way to get every politician that comes up with an idea like this to say STFU.
Um... Can I now reference a comment I made on a previous article. We should strongly consider forcing politicians to be certified by some kind of test before letting them legislate on any tech related things. If we did that, then no one would be dumb enough to propose such stupid new laws.
Things like computers and computer security evolve way too fast for the government to actually attempt to force people to be "Government Certified Security Consultants". When you say "There's no reason to think the Department of Commerce has any special expertise in certifying security professionals." This is true on so many levels. In fact the government employed "tech know-it-alls" are usually the least knowledgeable. If they were any good, they'd likely be in the private sector making 10 times as much at their job.
"No one I know is thinking that bad business models are causing harm when they are file sharing. They just don't care." Actually, it's probably the entire reason I pirated music in college. I had no issue buying DVDs but I found CD's way too expensive. And there was no way in hell I was supporting DRM-ed music, so I downloaded it. Now that there are drm free places to get music, I buy it.
That Samuelson paper is great. It was either this paper or another one but I remember citing a few Samuelson works for papers I had to write in college. Funny to see all the foresight as a lot of these predictions have come true.
Digital goods really aren't goods at all. Especially if they have DRM. I can't resell them, I can't do what I want with them. I can't convert them into something else (well I can but it's usually illegal).
I can understand taxing online physical purchases but digital goods should be a no no.
I propose a new law. Government officials should have to pass a test of some kind which certifies them to legislate things of a tech nature. We computer people usually have to be certified for all kinds of things. Why not the guys making our laws?
There's no way to avoid red light camera's in Montgomery county. They're on every light just about. And almost nothing in Maryland is on the city level. Just about everything is either County government or state government (We're special like that)
I live in Montgomery County, MD and I personally gotta say I don't have much of an issue with the cameras. In my area there's been red light cameras for a long time and I'm just kinda used to them by now. As for the speeding camera's, they seem to put all the one's I see in more rural areas (if you can call anywhere in Montgomery County rural). That is, areas where there are long stretches without lights. They're strictly for revenue as I know me and most of the people I know don't alter our behavior a bit. Personally I drive even faster on these roads since I know exactly where I have to slow down, and have no worries of being pulled over.
Wouldn't anonymized data just be giving the data to Viacom without giving them the ip addresses. i.e. The sheet with information would have columns for various things, and the ip address column would be blanked out.
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Even Better...
Rules are rules right?
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American Right
And Americans wonder why people in other countries think us Americans think we're better than everyone. Next time someone wants to make a statement blaming Canada for something, can we just blame the French Canadians, at least then most of the world may agree with us. (I kid, I kid)
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Re: Re: Read this on Sunday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041701887_Comments.ht ml#
Unfortunately I can't point to the exact comment. Like I said bad site. But it's on page 4. Just search for Zaven. It's not like it's too common a name.
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Read this on Sunday
Anyways, I suggested that we toss out traditional print media and the notion that it's the only way we can actually get the news. Please go on there and recommend my idea. Maybe if I get enough they'll have to print it. My username if you can actually find your way to the comments section of the article is cougar65. It's on page 4.
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And to answer this question "At what point do people realize that any such demand to "block" certain types of content will overblock and harm perfectly legitimate sites and technologies?"
- We all know that's a trick question. The day people in charge realize they need to give themselves less control is the day the sky falls and hell freezes over.
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Re: Re: Regulating the Regulators
I'm aware that this could never ACTUALLY happen but it's just the idea. I'm basically saying that we need an official way to get every politician that comes up with an idea like this to say STFU.
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Regulating the Regulators
Things like computers and computer security evolve way too fast for the government to actually attempt to force people to be "Government Certified Security Consultants". When you say "There's no reason to think the Department of Commerce has any special expertise in certifying security professionals." This is true on so many levels. In fact the government employed "tech know-it-alls" are usually the least knowledgeable. If they were any good, they'd likely be in the private sector making 10 times as much at their job.
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Re: the origiin of morals
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By funny I mean a crying shame.
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They Aren't Goods at all
I can understand taxing online physical purchases but digital goods should be a no no.
I propose a new law. Government officials should have to pass a test of some kind which certifies them to legislate things of a tech nature. We computer people usually have to be certified for all kinds of things. Why not the guys making our laws?
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Re: Maybe I'm crazy
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Love 'em
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Confused by your statement
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