> What have you lost? Nothing! -- If the works are available online, then nothing has changed with regard to you pirates, only to law-abiding people.
That's kind of the *point*, silly boy. Law-abiding people aren't going to be able to get the lesser-known works (not enough market for the jackass company) and, even more critically, law-abiding people won't be able to use those works to create new ones (like we've done for... just about all of human history).
As we've seen with the NSA apparently weakening some encryption standards, they evidently don't care so much - as long as they get the info, they don't mind if everyone else does...
Could Godaddy demand sworn statements from other service providers and revoke their keys if they can not rule out that their keys have been handed over to a third party?
Presumably, even secret court orders can not force service providers to commit perjury?
Well now... This could be quite interesting...
In regards to the article, GoDaddy did the correct thing (besides, it's not like Lavabit is going to be using that cert any more). In addition, this could perhaps assist future businesses hit with a similar order (those that wish to resist it, that is). I'm not entirely sure to the extent a federal agency can force a business to act as a baffle (effectively that's what using a business' cert is; not unlike forcing a store to employ an undercover cop as a cashier), but "this will cause my business to be unable to function" surely should strengthen a defense.
I have automatic bill pay set up for a couple regular bills, but that's my *bank* sending a specified amount of money to the *provider* - which means the provider cannot get any additional money.
Pretty sure unions have nothing to do with it - every single story like this (almost without exception) always involves the administrators and/or school boards... and those aren't unionized.
In fact, in a way you can consider them to be management, the age-old enemy of unions in the legends of eras past...
Re: HA, HA, HA! You right, "S. T. Stone": it's HILARIOUS!
Actually, yes it *is* empirical research; or, at least, it could be.
NULL HYPOTHESIS 1: The amount of a potential reward has no impact on the willingness to create.
Then you go about offering people different reward levels to create a small creative work (and haikus were probably chosen because it's not difficult to make something that technically qualifies). You determine rate of acceptance at each reward level and compare.
Assuming you have a sample size that is large enough to be considered properly representational of the population as a whole, it's most definitely a possible bit of empirical research.
NULL HYPOTHESIS 2: The likelihood of a potential reward has no impact on the willingness to create.
See above, except change the number of rewards instead of the amounts.
NULL HYPOTHESIS 3: The amount of a reward has no impact on the quality of a creative work.
As for 1, except for the need for some measure of quality of the haikus. The easiest way is to either try and get a small group of 'experts' in the form, or to take another group of participants and ask them to compare pairs of haikus (and choose one as better than the other) repeatedly.
- someone who *is* reading about and performing empirical research.
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Re: You pirates aren't paying and won't pay!
That's kind of the *point*, silly boy. Law-abiding people aren't going to be able to get the lesser-known works (not enough market for the jackass company) and, even more critically, law-abiding people won't be able to use those works to create new ones (like we've done for... just about all of human history).
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Re: interesting
Wouldn't that be a fine "fuck you" - either governments axe investor-state dispute resolution nonsense or they get smacked for being naughty.
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Re: Re: Wrong both ways
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Voyeur sex-sites, of course.
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So... nothing wrong with hidden camera stalking?
... Mike Rogers, you're a creep.
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As everyone knows, breaking laws is fine... but evading taxes results in bad things happening to you.
C'mon IRS!
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Well now... This could be quite interesting...
In regards to the article, GoDaddy did the correct thing (besides, it's not like Lavabit is going to be using that cert any more). In addition, this could perhaps assist future businesses hit with a similar order (those that wish to resist it, that is). I'm not entirely sure to the extent a federal agency can force a business to act as a baffle (effectively that's what using a business' cert is; not unlike forcing a store to employ an undercover cop as a cashier), but "this will cause my business to be unable to function" surely should strengthen a defense.
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And then there's a bunch of crappy ones, of course.
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Re: Re: The anti gun zealots...
In fact, in a way you can consider them to be management, the age-old enemy of unions in the legends of eras past...
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Re: HA, HA, HA! You right, "S. T. Stone": it's HILARIOUS!
NULL HYPOTHESIS 1: The amount of a potential reward has no impact on the willingness to create.
Then you go about offering people different reward levels to create a small creative work (and haikus were probably chosen because it's not difficult to make something that technically qualifies). You determine rate of acceptance at each reward level and compare.
Assuming you have a sample size that is large enough to be considered properly representational of the population as a whole, it's most definitely a possible bit of empirical research.
NULL HYPOTHESIS 2: The likelihood of a potential reward has no impact on the willingness to create.
See above, except change the number of rewards instead of the amounts.
NULL HYPOTHESIS 3: The amount of a reward has no impact on the quality of a creative work.
As for 1, except for the need for some measure of quality of the haikus. The easiest way is to either try and get a small group of 'experts' in the form, or to take another group of participants and ask them to compare pairs of haikus (and choose one as better than the other) repeatedly.
- someone who *is* reading about and performing empirical research.
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Which they are quite likely to win (free money!).
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Screw you, General Hayden.
Oh, fuck you, general. Fuck. You.
First of all, no, we don't have to "choose". We can have both just fine, thank you.
Second, speaking as a member of "American society", I choose liberty.
Third, what's security for? Protecting our lives and our principles. If we don't have liberty, then what's the fucking point of security.
North Korea is pretty secure (especially considering their craptastic economy, leadership... everything, really). Not a lot of liberty, is there?
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