At 03:00 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, Cael Abal wrote:
What *is* a library?
1. A library is legal. A library needn't be licensed by any state
entity.
2. Thus, I can declare my computer a library. The only requirement is
that I own a license to what I lend, and that only 1 user exercise that
license at a
At 02:52 PM 10/24/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
The U.S. had plans
for the contracts to deploy cellphones to go to American companies, but
the local puppets must have had no fear of the Americans, as they went
with a better bribe: mostly Arabic cellphone providers will deploy the
initial system.
Yes,
[Chronic readers can skip this..]
At 12:08 AM 10/25/03 -0400, BillyGOTO wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:11:27PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 02:04 PM, BillyGOTO wrote:
Not really. Libraries have to pay more than we do for their
subscriptions.
Be careful using the
Tim May wrote...
I predict we'll soon be seeing a new thought control campaign with this
theme, that if you use encryption, you help the terrorists win.
Well, I'm dubious. Right now I'm thinking their strategy has been to pull
encryption down off of the social radar, and that's worked better
At 05:27 PM 10/25/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
frontol assault. Also watch carefully for hole-pokers...I'd bet their's
also
been disinfo campaigns to get the public to think that no crypto is
secure
(every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as
effectively
'unbreakable' encryption?
At 07:01 AM 10/25/03 -0400, Sunder wrote:
If you bought an audio DVD and your car doesn't have a DVD player, or
your
only portable stereo system can only play tapes, you're not allowed to
legally copy the music off the DVD onto other media to play in other
devices.
IANAL so I'm not actually sure
