For this issue the legal counsel would be part of the decision making. "Gee, how do we follow the example of the Olympics themselves and maximize our IP in the worst ways possible, Rick?"
Rick -- "We delay everything till Prime Time and then start to stream on Silverlight just like we have in the past. Here's the playbook from Beijing just follow everything in it!"
ALL politicans like censorship. In fact, all of them love it. Not just American ones. The Brits just love any chance to censor anything remotely dealing with sex between adults much less what is being discussed here, for example.
In the end it's all backed, in cases like this, with the infamous "what about the children?" slogan and on it soldiers on.
We Canadians have politicians over fond of censorship as well, too. At least until it gets slapped down as unconstitutional.
I didn't know you were still out there selling your peculiar brand of "motivation" snake oil to the gullible who haven't worked out that you motivate them to send you thier hard earned cash which you then proceed to stuff in your mattress. A mattress growing in size due to the magic of compound interest!
You do realize, I hope, that courses teaching how to do that trick of walking across hot coals don't suggest a slow march across the coals but a delightful gait more akin to running and never ever putting all your weight on a foot at any particular time before moving it off. In short, get off there as fast as you can while looking like you were enjoying it!
There's an old Mythbusters episode that dealt with this walking over hot coals stuff and if all of that bunch can get across without third degree burns then surely, if you'd spent 10 minutes with them how this illusion, which is what it is, works.
Tony, you really ought to fire whoever did the research of this stunt and if it was you I'd suggest retirement.
After all, all this has done is to strongly motivate 21 people to sue you for negligence at the very least. And maybe a class action or two started by your former marks, I mean customers, for selling a particularly odious form of snake oil without a license.
You're rich enough now Tony, to drop off the face of the earth into some gorgeous Pacific paradise where you can't be found. Of course, in these days of GPS everywhere and anywhere you may be motivated into being careful.
Unlike the marks...customers...I shouldn't keep saying that..you motivated..ahh..conned into walking across hot coals without so much as even a suggestion that this might hurt if not done properly. And for a mere $157.95 plus federal and state taxes you'd be more than happy to motivate them to give you that money as you motivate yourself to squirrel it away.
That ever growing mattress, remember Tony?
Even better you'll be able to motivate yourself and your mattress to be the first mattress inflated and powered by the miracle of compound interest alone to orbit the earth before sailing off to motivate Venus into washing its hair so that it won't have that greasy old greenhouse effect any longer.
We trust we have been of service Tony, please find our bill attached for $275,000, federal and state taxes included.
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Just what did she get for her son bumping his grades up from a 98 to a 99? The teacher pressing harder on the report card when he wrote "A" there?
Her daughter's retroactive excuse suddenly appeared in the data base.
The felony charges are about her being in the computer without authorization in the first place. But, just a second here? Did the school board involved shut her account down, as any half decent network admin with a head to shove up his behind should have done as she left the building on the her last day of work.
I doubt she had the skill required to actually crack into a system so we're left with the network admin who didn't shut her access off is now madly covering his ass, the one he can no longer shove his head into, to shift the blame onto a mother who doesn't seem all that bright to start with.
Strikes me that if her account was still valid that she wasn't breaking in as much as doing a days work for no pay.
Granted changing the upper 0.5 percentile of a bell curve student from a 98 to a 99 is going to be noticed but she doesn't seem to have figured that one out.
And that someone might have noticed her daughter really was at school when she changed things to a medical exception. Not a complete Darwin fail but certainly not a success.
But felony? Cracker? I don't think so.
Like I said its looking more and more like the school and it's network type covering each other's butts, particularly the one in charge of alleged security. They never shut her employee ID and password
Previous to this I'm sure she was reading the comic strip User Friendly. :-)
They'll show up saying this will cripple the Canadian arts scene with is quite lively particularly on the music side, even for the labels.
Then we'll have another dull, ignorant discussion of CanCon which, outside of network television seems to have outlived its usefulness.
Then all the labels and other Big Hollywood companies fleeing back to California.
And so it predictably goes :)
Oh yeah, and how Bill C-11 will negate the rulings of the SCC which, for the most part it won't do. Where that does look like that I can see the PMOs gnomes in my head madly writing regulations pursuant to the act that will reduce that effect and writing up a bill to amend C-11 so it falls into line.
The best thing though is that the SCC made it clear that fair dealing is a right of the consumer not a privilege that can be turned on and off like a tap. :)
Now, if I could only turn off the IP extremists with a tap :)
Then it has to be concern for all those people whose hair turns purple if they stand in front of their smart meter for a few seconds while they cut the lawn and there's irrefutable evidence in DNA damage.
Then they go sit in their office with their N Wifi router and antennas on every computer in there and it's the fountain of youth. Sadly their sperm count quadruples and shimmers with health and life.
Broadcasters, the cells on wheels stuff and a host of others take a large bite out of the 2.5 gig range at events like this anyway so I'm not buying it.
The range got noisy in Vancouver but not unusably so. Adaptive filters are wonderful things.
It wasn't in the rules in Vancouver to say no tethering so at some of the more popular events and sites people did without interfering with the event(s).
They did cause a minor problem in that the operator of this "hotspot" often missed half the event they came to see.
That and that some of the buildings aren't suitable for antennas in the 2.5 gig range particularly those with more powerful attennas in place operating on a harmonic bandwidth and built with grounded rebar.
Like many other things Olympic I suspect that this has more to do with some silly notion of trade mark protection and protection of the "world class" sponsors such as Coke.
The other tethering that happened in Vancouver was from news gathering operations who could and sometimes did seem to be in numbers there resembling an invading army.
I can't imagine the IOC trying to stop that but then the IOC is so corrupt and divorced from reality that they probably still think we use the old clunky rotary dial phones tied to a land line. :)
Scratch the surface of this and you'll catch the not to wafting scent of Genuine IOC topsoil made from the bodies and output of IOC members who died in office or only seem to be dead now.
MONEY
The athletes dominated the Vancouver Winter Games, it was thier show through and through. The IOC simply raked in the cash on the backs of the athetes as they always have.
I suspect you mean a liking of the public domain classics when you say literacy.
Never mind that the broad story lines of Romeo & Juliet, Henry V, The Scottish Play, Taming of the Shrew among others have been copied and reproduced countless times on Prime Time TV and in the movies. Twelfth Night is probably a bit to risqué for them :) It's a good thing copyright didn't exist then. Some cases would probably still be in the courts some 600 years later. :)
To get back to what Amazon itself has done. Let's just call it what it is. Damned stupid to wipe out an entire shelving sector, artificial though it is. Even if it was an accident, which I'm far from saying it is.
It's one of these good will things. Something that will aggrivate people more and more until it becomes something mythological where people will text one another saying that if they did it to some of the world's greatest literature then what's next? Stephen King? That doesn't need any facts just boiling aggrivation.
No, it makes them another clueless UN agency or commission kinda like the UN Human Rights Commission who clug Gadhafi to their warm, fat bosum for about 12 years as everyone else looked on in dumbfounded amazement.
And the same commission that even beat Amnesty International to the microphones to denounce Gadhafi's death as a violation of his human rights, even if it was by mere nanoseconds.
Both organizations silent, most importantly Amnesty, as Gadhafi tortured, murdered, raped and pillaged his own population at will.
I've long been getting more and more convinced that Amnesty International has been for sale to the most heinous of dictators for the right price. The more that kind of crap goes on the more convinced I become of it.
What do you expect from Mike near quitting time of Friday. All of us shut down the grey matter around 2, the inner spell checker around 4 and all knowledge gained about grammar since the end of Grade 2 by 4:10
That includes myself and most of the posters here who aren't AC's, they turn all that on at 6:00am, boot up the computer and by the time the Windows login screen comes on and they've signed in and waited for everything to load they can safely turn it off again by 6:04am and it stays off till 11am when they go to bed, congratulate themselves on a productive day and slip into dreamland. :)
Just remember that it's all for the children and to protect the world from terrorism. If protection from terrorism is as good as it's been for the citizens of Syria lately then it will work wonderfully for the children too.
It's starting to become clear that the ONLY things governments do will that effectively fall under the umbrella of repression.
Sorry, they do one other thing well, they pay the debts of bankers, don't haul their asses in to court when they should be and protect them from themselves, and us. when they do idiot things like Barclays has the past couple of weeks.
And then toss more repression in when people question the wisdom of all of that by occupying a concrete square New York City calls a park.
I'll have to agree with you on that. Even after discounting the damage they can and often do do in office once their free ride is over there are things like high paying corporate directorships for the rest of their unnatural lives, ambassadorial appointment,junkets to all the best resorts on the planet because of their expertise as legislators and parliamentarians on something or other, far too many sucking on the public teat.
And isn't it interesting how many of them as holding directorships in banks, insurance, defense, transportation and hollywood companies? Along with universities with close ties to them and to governments?
And then a few more in the same industries in the UK and universities there. After all, the US and the UK sell some of the shiniest high tech, expensive military toys to be found anywhere. Which need banks, insurance companies and all the rest, too.
One dirty little secret is that a lot of companies who can't or don't trust MS servers (a good thing to do for a number of reasons). If they're backroom is run and controlled on Linux servers they have native tools that can read and write Active Directory so that Windows servers further down the server food chain simply accept is as active directory.
As you say Netware runs natively on Linux as well so the dirty little secret which isn't so secret, is that Windows servers down the line just accept that what they're getting is coming from Exchange, a major dogs breakfast, or from Active Directory or what.
Let's not get too snarky here. In the early days of the all the lawsuits flying about in the SCO stupidity it was Novell who stood pretty much alone until IBM decided to join in, or SCO got stupid enough to add IBM to the endless list of Linux users, producers they'd got.
You might just want to look a the history of all of this and better analysis than I, or most, could give you have a look here.
PJ isn't often wrong about the things surrounding cases even if her predictions aren't 100%. They're somewhere in the 80% range which is a whole lot better than either you or I could do.
Unless, of course, you're a SCO/Microsoft fanboi and you're still as mad as Microsoft is that their attack dog SCO spent all that money of theirs and still managed to lose. And lose badly at that.
At a guess, I'd say Novell will probably do very well on appeal. As they should.
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Re: you're talking out of your ass
Rick -- "We delay everything till Prime Time and then start to stream on Silverlight just like we have in the past. Here's the playbook from Beijing just follow everything in it!"
(Rick passes the playbook to Programming"
Porgramming -- "Hey, cool! Thanks!"
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Nor do Yanks who know Mike's trick!
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Re: Politicians Love Censorship
In the end it's all backed, in cases like this, with the infamous "what about the children?" slogan and on it soldiers on.
We Canadians have politicians over fond of censorship as well, too. At least until it gets slapped down as unconstitutional.
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Guild by disassociation, it seems. :-)
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Care to explain that dichotomy?
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A note to Tony Robbins
I didn't know you were still out there selling your peculiar brand of "motivation" snake oil to the gullible who haven't worked out that you motivate them to send you thier hard earned cash which you then proceed to stuff in your mattress. A mattress growing in size due to the magic of compound interest!
You do realize, I hope, that courses teaching how to do that trick of walking across hot coals don't suggest a slow march across the coals but a delightful gait more akin to running and never ever putting all your weight on a foot at any particular time before moving it off. In short, get off there as fast as you can while looking like you were enjoying it!
There's an old Mythbusters episode that dealt with this walking over hot coals stuff and if all of that bunch can get across without third degree burns then surely, if you'd spent 10 minutes with them how this illusion, which is what it is, works.
Tony, you really ought to fire whoever did the research of this stunt and if it was you I'd suggest retirement.
After all, all this has done is to strongly motivate 21 people to sue you for negligence at the very least. And maybe a class action or two started by your former marks, I mean customers, for selling a particularly odious form of snake oil without a license.
You're rich enough now Tony, to drop off the face of the earth into some gorgeous Pacific paradise where you can't be found. Of course, in these days of GPS everywhere and anywhere you may be motivated into being careful.
Unlike the marks...customers...I shouldn't keep saying that..you motivated..ahh..conned into walking across hot coals without so much as even a suggestion that this might hurt if not done properly. And for a mere $157.95 plus federal and state taxes you'd be more than happy to motivate them to give you that money as you motivate yourself to squirrel it away.
That ever growing mattress, remember Tony?
Even better you'll be able to motivate yourself and your mattress to be the first mattress inflated and powered by the miracle of compound interest alone to orbit the earth before sailing off to motivate Venus into washing its hair so that it won't have that greasy old greenhouse effect any longer.
We trust we have been of service Tony, please find our bill attached for $275,000, federal and state taxes included.
Movin' To Bermuda, Attorneys at Law
1-999-867-5309
We motivate people to sue, even sue or clients!!
Call today!
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Mom not so bright...
Her daughter's retroactive excuse suddenly appeared in the data base.
The felony charges are about her being in the computer without authorization in the first place. But, just a second here? Did the school board involved shut her account down, as any half decent network admin with a head to shove up his behind should have done as she left the building on the her last day of work.
I doubt she had the skill required to actually crack into a system so we're left with the network admin who didn't shut her access off is now madly covering his ass, the one he can no longer shove his head into, to shift the blame onto a mother who doesn't seem all that bright to start with.
Strikes me that if her account was still valid that she wasn't breaking in as much as doing a days work for no pay.
Granted changing the upper 0.5 percentile of a bell curve student from a 98 to a 99 is going to be noticed but she doesn't seem to have figured that one out.
And that someone might have noticed her daughter really was at school when she changed things to a medical exception. Not a complete Darwin fail but certainly not a success.
But felony? Cracker? I don't think so.
Like I said its looking more and more like the school and it's network type covering each other's butts, particularly the one in charge of alleged security. They never shut her employee ID and password
Previous to this I'm sure she was reading the comic strip User Friendly. :-)
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Patiently awaits the trolls
They'll show up saying this will cripple the Canadian arts scene with is quite lively particularly on the music side, even for the labels.
Then we'll have another dull, ignorant discussion of CanCon which, outside of network television seems to have outlived its usefulness.
Then all the labels and other Big Hollywood companies fleeing back to California.
And so it predictably goes :)
Oh yeah, and how Bill C-11 will negate the rulings of the SCC which, for the most part it won't do. Where that does look like that I can see the PMOs gnomes in my head madly writing regulations pursuant to the act that will reduce that effect and writing up a bill to amend C-11 so it falls into line.
The best thing though is that the SCC made it clear that fair dealing is a right of the consumer not a privilege that can be turned on and off like a tap. :)
Now, if I could only turn off the IP extremists with a tap :)
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Then they go sit in their office with their N Wifi router and antennas on every computer in there and it's the fountain of youth. Sadly their sperm count quadruples and shimmers with health and life.
The Darwin Awards in reverse.
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The range got noisy in Vancouver but not unusably so. Adaptive filters are wonderful things.
It wasn't in the rules in Vancouver to say no tethering so at some of the more popular events and sites people did without interfering with the event(s).
They did cause a minor problem in that the operator of this "hotspot" often missed half the event they came to see.
That and that some of the buildings aren't suitable for antennas in the 2.5 gig range particularly those with more powerful attennas in place operating on a harmonic bandwidth and built with grounded rebar.
Like many other things Olympic I suspect that this has more to do with some silly notion of trade mark protection and protection of the "world class" sponsors such as Coke.
The other tethering that happened in Vancouver was from news gathering operations who could and sometimes did seem to be in numbers there resembling an invading army.
I can't imagine the IOC trying to stop that but then the IOC is so corrupt and divorced from reality that they probably still think we use the old clunky rotary dial phones tied to a land line. :)
Scratch the surface of this and you'll catch the not to wafting scent of Genuine IOC topsoil made from the bodies and output of IOC members who died in office or only seem to be dead now.
MONEY
The athletes dominated the Vancouver Winter Games, it was thier show through and through. The IOC simply raked in the cash on the backs of the athetes as they always have.
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Re: Pirate them
Never mind that the broad story lines of Romeo & Juliet, Henry V, The Scottish Play, Taming of the Shrew among others have been copied and reproduced countless times on Prime Time TV and in the movies. Twelfth Night is probably a bit to risqué for them :) It's a good thing copyright didn't exist then. Some cases would probably still be in the courts some 600 years later. :)
To get back to what Amazon itself has done. Let's just call it what it is. Damned stupid to wipe out an entire shelving sector, artificial though it is. Even if it was an accident, which I'm far from saying it is.
It's one of these good will things. Something that will aggrivate people more and more until it becomes something mythological where people will text one another saying that if they did it to some of the world's greatest literature then what's next? Stephen King? That doesn't need any facts just boiling aggrivation.
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And the same commission that even beat Amnesty International to the microphones to denounce Gadhafi's death as a violation of his human rights, even if it was by mere nanoseconds.
Both organizations silent, most importantly Amnesty, as Gadhafi tortured, murdered, raped and pillaged his own population at will.
I've long been getting more and more convinced that Amnesty International has been for sale to the most heinous of dictators for the right price. The more that kind of crap goes on the more convinced I become of it.
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Re: WIPO needs to go
That includes myself and most of the posters here who aren't AC's, they turn all that on at 6:00am, boot up the computer and by the time the Windows login screen comes on and they've signed in and waited for everything to load they can safely turn it off again by 6:04am and it stays off till 11am when they go to bed, congratulate themselves on a productive day and slip into dreamland. :)
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It's starting to become clear that the ONLY things governments do will that effectively fall under the umbrella of repression.
Sorry, they do one other thing well, they pay the debts of bankers, don't haul their asses in to court when they should be and protect them from themselves, and us. when they do idiot things like Barclays has the past couple of weeks.
And then toss more repression in when people question the wisdom of all of that by occupying a concrete square New York City calls a park.
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Re: You really don't know?
And isn't it interesting how many of them as holding directorships in banks, insurance, defense, transportation and hollywood companies? Along with universities with close ties to them and to governments?
And then a few more in the same industries in the UK and universities there. After all, the US and the UK sell some of the shiniest high tech, expensive military toys to be found anywhere. Which need banks, insurance companies and all the rest, too.
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As you say Netware runs natively on Linux as well so the dirty little secret which isn't so secret, is that Windows servers down the line just accept that what they're getting is coming from Exchange, a major dogs breakfast, or from Active Directory or what.
The end users can't tell the difference either.
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Re: Because Tomorrow is Another Day
You might just want to look a the history of all of this and better analysis than I, or most, could give you have a look here.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120716144156998
PJ isn't often wrong about the things surrounding cases even if her predictions aren't 100%. They're somewhere in the 80% range which is a whole lot better than either you or I could do.
Unless, of course, you're a SCO/Microsoft fanboi and you're still as mad as Microsoft is that their attack dog SCO spent all that money of theirs and still managed to lose. And lose badly at that.
At a guess, I'd say Novell will probably do very well on appeal. As they should.
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