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« Last post by Tinman57 on May 23, 2013, 07:14 PM »I hope this isn't a sign that something foul is happening with the forum software.
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Monday morning:-Giampy (May 22, 2013, 06:31 PM)
I have - but a lot more malicious activity has occurred since.
FWIW I have lost total confidence in nativespace.co.uk - I have been using them for a number of years and am paying a premium price because they are doing daily backups offsite. Now turns out they take the money and don't do the backups.
Up shit creek in a big way.-Carol Haynes (May 21, 2013, 02:29 AM)
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I dunno. It's difficult, at best, to set up such guidelines. It requires either a didactic attitude or a degree of prescience that few of us are lucky enough to possess. It's easy to say, for instance, no politics or no religion, but what seems political to others may not seem political to me. Religion is even worse, since that can vary within particular religious groups, much less from culture to culture. At best, be polite might be specified, but other folk have a different idea of what polite might be than my interpretation. Maybe don't be confrontational? But that would pretty much ban significant areas of discussion. Other than very broad/general suggestions - which I thimk exist, at least in the general Living Room, Basement and like designations, hard and fast rules tend to limit conversation and chase folk away.
Just my opinion, of course. I've been castigated (to my mind, at least at the time) a time or three, but I'm still here because this forum is one (1) of the very few that allows expression of differences without personal bias or discrimination.
-barney (May 20, 2013, 08:26 PM)
I agree we could use a "Forum Guidelines" topic somewhere.. Though there is so much info scattered everywhere on the forum and so much to read, i'm not sure we would benefit from yet another sticky post that people need to read before getting started.
Still, it's an excellent idea to have a thread somewhere where we can point people to when a question arises, that summarizes all guidelines..
I've started one here: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=34981-mouser (May 20, 2013, 08:25 PM)
Did you know DonationCoder has a Wikipedia article?
We're all just figuring out this stuff as we go I'm afraid..
No one's saying you're the bad guy -- we're all the guinea pigs here making mistakes and trying to come up with better ways to do things.-mouser (May 19, 2013, 06:52 PM)
I have to agree with the comments against link shortening on the forum:
Shortented links should not be used on this forum.
Because a shortened link hides the destination, it should be considered a security risk and inappropriate in all cases except where you have a VERY good reason to be concerned with the length of the text (like in a twitter post).
No one should be using shortened links (or any kind of link proxies) on the forum.
ps. how is it that this thread is still alive?
-mouser (May 19, 2013, 05:50 PM)
but it got me wondering what it does taste like-tomos (May 19, 2013, 04:55 PM)
@tinman, I'm pretty sure interactions are nasty, so I have reduced the active drivers to a mininum. But if nvidia/hp didn't test this, there's little else we can do.-urlwolf (May 19, 2013, 02:42 PM)
There's a nifty thing called hyperlinks that allow people to see the entire URL without having to actually display the whole thing. (c:-Deozaan (May 17, 2013, 10:19 PM)
Not in the age of blog posting! Only medum-savvy users know to roll over a link!
See my rant elsewhere about "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here" and "here".-TaoPhoenix (May 17, 2013, 11:54 PM)
Back to silly humor:
http://gizmodo.com/w...d-internet-508240224
Warning: Don't Drink and Internet
I don't think so. 'Nuff Said : )-TaoPhoenix (May 18, 2013, 12:00 AM)
There's no better bushy-tailed tree rat than a dead bushy-tailed tree rat.-Tinman57 (May 17, 2013, 08:51 PM)
Yes there is
-4wd (May 18, 2013, 09:10 PM)
TinyURL is bad form. . .-Deozaan (May 17, 2013, 07:34 PM)
Though the exact cause of death has not been formally determined, I am quite
sure that death came as a relief to this poor guy.
There is something about being male that I think bonds us all together. That
is, as males, regardless of species, I think when you see the attached (or
below) picture(s) you'll have the same reaction I did...
ouch.-kyrathaba (May 09, 2013, 05:51 PM)
As Heritage President Jim DeMint has said, this violates the classic American principle of “no taxation without representation.” Retailers would be forced to act as tax collectors for states in which they have no voice.
Such online sales tax proposals are taxation without representation. The proposed federal law tells businesses that there is no escape from the clutches of tax-hungry politicians. That concept is antithetical to our federalist system, which promotes competition among our states for the best economic policies.
Call me a skeptic, but all these missing details just screams "Hoax" or "Fake news" a la WWN. It would be pretty cool to be proven wrong, though.-Edvard (May 16, 2013, 09:44 PM)
DPC latency-urlwolf (May 16, 2013, 12:05 AM)
Aw jeez, it's the Weekly World News, the folks who brought us "Bat Boy" and "Aliens meeting with Bill Clinton".-Edvard (May 16, 2013, 12:22 AM)
How about dielectric grease? A thin smear on the sides of the rectangular plunger of each key to make it go more smoothly? The keyboard was balky from day one.
By the way, why don't they build them out of Teflon, or Teflon-S? Anyways, what about the dielectric grease? Or do you really like silicon spray better?-bit (May 15, 2013, 11:28 PM)
We're opening a new front against secret IP treaties
In most issues of EFFector, we give an overview of all the work we're doing at EFF right now. This week, we’re taking a deep dive into a single issue: the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the role the United States Trade Representative plays in spearheading abusive copyright laws in the U.S. and around the world.
I’m Danny O’Brien, EFF’s new International Director. Five years ago, I worked on the EFF team that identified the threat of ACTA, a secret global intellectual property treaty we discovered was being used to smuggle Internet control provisions into the laws of over thirty countries. Together with an amazing worldwide coalition of activists from Europe to South Korea, we beat back that threat.
I’m writing to you today to explain what's happening with the new ACTA: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP has been around since the Bush administration, but recently the pace has picked up, with governments saying they want to get the agreement signed and done by the end of this year.
Global activism can stop TPP, but preventing the endless merry-go-round of new IP treaties means tackling the problem at its roots. I'd like to describe what we're doing on both those fronts, and how you can help. But first, I'd like you to meet this gentleman:
Meet Michael Froman: The Most Important Man in Global Copyright:
This is Michael Froman, and barring a scandal, he's about to be the new United States Trade Representative (USTR). The U.S. Trade Representative negotiates international trade agreements on behalf of the United States. Congress has one opportunity to ask him questions at his nomination hearing.
They should take full advantage of it. Right now, the only reason the public knows anything about what the USTR is doing on IP is that whistleblowers participating in the treaty process have leaked what they can. (Congressman Darrell Issa re-published the leaks on his own office site, over the USTR's objections).
Those documents show that the American proposals for the Trans-Pacific Partnership would export the worst of modern U.S. copyright law, and thwart other countries' ability to create laws that best meet their domestic needs:
The proposed rules could prevent individuals from circumventing DRM—the technical barriers put in place to make copying, accessing, and sharing copyrighted content more difficult. This would hinder technical fixes necessary to make content accessible for the blind or to unlock your phone.
It contains provisions that would, by default, regulate "temporary" reproductions of copyrighted files, thereby restricting all kinds of intrinsic functions of your computer.
It increases copyright terms well beyond international standards, adding some 20 years to copyright terms worldwide, potentially robbing the public domain of decades of cultural works.
In many countries, an allegation of infringement is not enough to get material taken offline. TPP’s proposals, by contrast, put in place a system (similar to the one we have in the U.S.) that encourages ISPs to take down content based on nothing but a notice. We’ve seen how that can be abused here—do we really want to export it wholesale?
Treaties like this also help to fossilize existing U.S. law and force other countries to sign up for American missteps. Momentum in D.C. for rolling back copyright terms and DRM law is growing, but opponents of those changes have argued that lawmakers can't undo their own mistakes—because, they say, we've already signed onto IP trade agreements that we supposedly can't undo.
What We're Doing
We're asking U.S. senators to use the nomination process to grill Froman about the USTR’s IP plans, and we’re petitioning him directly to adopt meaningful transparency and stop using trade agreements to push aggressive IP programs worldwide.
Could Froman really reform U.S. trade agreement strategies? Yes, but only if he and the Administration face coordinated pressure from American politicians and citizens plus resistance from other countries pushing back against American demands.
Which brings us to why EFF's Maira Sutton and Katitza Rodriguez are remotely working right now—from Lima, the capital of Peru.
Yara TPP!
Starting today, the U.S. Trade Rep and negotiators from 10 other countries are meeting in Lima to take part in the latest round of negotiations for TPP.
We beat them there. Kat is our International Rights Director. She's also Peruvian. She's spent the last month in Lima working with fellow Peruvian technologists, makers and artists, highlighting how TPP will affect them. She has been working with the other groups fighting TPP on the ground, including Hiperderecho, Peru's own digital rights activism group.
The result? An explosion in information and public debate in Peru about TPP. Kat has written Spanish language editorials, met with Peruvian politicians, journalists, students, free software advocates and filmmakers. Lima's hackerspace, Escuelab, hosted a two-day hackathon that produced memes and microsites that explain TPP to fellow Peruvians and the world. There's even the inevitable Peruvian TPP Downfall video. Other hackerspaces took part around the world, producing sites with titles like http://whythehecksho...careaboutthetpp.com/.
The slogan and hashtag of Peruvians' digital rights activists is "#yaratpp", a slang term which means (roughly) "Warning! TPP!". Peruvians have joined the fight at Nonegociable.pe, asking their President to set clear non-negotiable lines to ensure that Peruvians' fundamental freedoms are respected in the TPP negotiations.
Help Us Stop the TPP – and the IP Treaty Tarpit
The TPP negotiators are on deadline in Lima. They've already said TPP's IP chapter is one of the "more challenging issues that remain." It's more challenging still when the host country is demanding to know why this trade agreement would undermine local entrepreneurs and artists. Meanwhile, politicians back in the U.S. are demanding a closer look at their head negotiator's IP stance.
Like battling ACTA, stopping the TPP and its descendants is going to be a long-term fight that will take a worldwide effort. But you can help us today by taking advantage of the Froman nomination to speak truth to power.
Sign our petition demanding that Froman usher in a new age of transparency as the next U.S. Trade Representative:
Stop USTR Secrecy
https://www.eff.org/stop-ustr-secrecy
If you’re in the U.S., please also send a message to your representative to demand an end to these secret backdoor negotiations:
Don’t Let Them Trade Away Our Internet Freedoms
https://action.eff.o...lic/?action_KEY=8229
And if you're in Peru, join Hiperderecho and tell the Peruvian president that our digital rights are non-negotiable:
Pidamos juntos límites no negociables
http://www.hiperdere...ites-no-negociables/
Stay tuned to the Deeplinks blog for more updates on the fight for sensible global copyright policy.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
Defending your digital rights around the world,
Danny O’Brien
International Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation