Support for the TSA and the general increase in surveillance powers at the Federal level is one of the few bipartisan issues in the US. I fail to see how to construe the timing of this as a partisan action, either by tsacomments.com or by Mike, when both candidates agree on the issue.
Unless you are saying that any challenge to government action during an election cycle is inherently partisan, which would leave us perilously few times during the year when we /can/ challenge government programs.
The actual leak for the working copy has never been found according to http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/x-men-wolverine-pirate-sentenced-hugh-jackman-275453, which has more details about this case than any of the other reports I have seen.
The man being sentenced to a year in federal prison and a year of supervised release just bought a DVD off the street corner near his house, thought it was interesting, and shared it online.
Patents are anachronistic as a tool of government intervention in much the same way that dunking would be an anachronistic punishment for filesharing.
A 20 year blanket monopoly on all use of a particular invention, where "invention" is quite broadly defined, with no attempt to judge the social value of granting such a monopoly or the appropriate monopoly term to grant in each case. These are simply not modern tools.
Right before the supreme court handed down the Bilski decision, Eben Moglen gave a speech summarizing the historical reasons for patent law and explaining how patents, as an instrument of government intervention in the economy, are lacking any of the modern structures and controls we expect, like a process for weighing the costs and benefits of such an intervention.
A full transcript of the speech is available here: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2009/Moglen_Cardozo/CardozoBilskiSpeechTranscript11-2-09.html
There are already some great technologies to avoid the central point of failure we're seeing with trusted ssl certs. One I found out about recently is called Monkey Sphere and it replaces ssl certs with openpgp keys.
So you can choose to trust all of today's default certification issuers, and therefore the sites they sign, or you could remove some of those issuers from your keyring and manually verify any of their signed sites that you do business with.
It would also allow sites to get certifications from any number of organizations and people on the same key rather than using ssl certs where the specification mandates a single certifying authority per certificate.
It's very interesting stuff and they have some tools ready for you to deploy.
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Support for the TSA and the general increase in surveillance powers at the Federal level is one of the few bipartisan issues in the US. I fail to see how to construe the timing of this as a partisan action, either by tsacomments.com or by Mike, when both candidates agree on the issue.
Unless you are saying that any challenge to government action during an election cycle is inherently partisan, which would leave us perilously few times during the year when we /can/ challenge government programs.
Man in jail uploaded but didn't leak the film
The actual leak for the working copy has never been found according to http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/x-men-wolverine-pirate-sentenced-hugh-jackman-275453, which has more details about this case than any of the other reports I have seen.
The man being sentenced to a year in federal prison and a year of supervised release just bought a DVD off the street corner near his house, thought it was interesting, and shared it online.
On the appropriateness of "Anachronistic"
Patents are anachronistic as a tool of government intervention in much the same way that dunking would be an anachronistic punishment for filesharing.
A 20 year blanket monopoly on all use of a particular invention, where "invention" is quite broadly defined, with no attempt to judge the social value of granting such a monopoly or the appropriate monopoly term to grant in each case. These are simply not modern tools.
Right before the supreme court handed down the Bilski decision, Eben Moglen gave a speech summarizing the historical reasons for patent law and explaining how patents, as an instrument of government intervention in the economy, are lacking any of the modern structures and controls we expect, like a process for weighing the costs and benefits of such an intervention.
A full transcript of the speech is available here: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2009/Moglen_Cardozo/CardozoBilskiSpeechTranscript11-2-09.html
Central Point of Failure
There are already some great technologies to avoid the central point of failure we're seeing with trusted ssl certs. One I found out about recently is called Monkey Sphere and it replaces ssl certs with openpgp keys.
So you can choose to trust all of today's default certification issuers, and therefore the sites they sign, or you could remove some of those issuers from your keyring and manually verify any of their signed sites that you do business with.
It would also allow sites to get certifications from any number of organizations and people on the same key rather than using ssl certs where the specification mandates a single certifying authority per certificate.
It's very interesting stuff and they have some tools ready for you to deploy.