June 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Slashdot | When Should File Formats Be Placed in the Public Domain?
by Jim Choate 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/02/157208.shtml?tid=155 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Slashdot | The Illusion of Spectrum Scarcity
by Jim Choate 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/02/1251233.shtml?tid=95 -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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One to One The client's Perspective June 3, 2002 13652
by One to One The client's Perspective 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

One to one The Client's Perspective Recruiters and corporate HR execs are on the same team?but do they know it? Find out if these matchmakers are all-for-one or going one-on-one in Part I this Multi-part feature. by Lisa Micali In a perfect world, recruiters and HR executives would have shared goals, mutual respect and a completely trusting relationship with the company's short- and long-term objectives in mind. Yet, the perception that recruiters are merely commission-hungry sales people still exists, despite solid gains in professional advancement, training and development. In order to better understand how changes throughout the industry are impacting this symbiotic relationship, Recruiter.com asked HR professionals to share their views and forecasts. The Interviewees Steven A. Blau, Second Vice President, Human Resources at Travelers Insurance. David Meyer, Director of human resources at Neurogen Corporation Audrey Blauner Vice President of human resources at 24/7 Real Media Terry Dyckman Vice President of human resources at Saba Software Meet the Interviewees ( click here <http://www.recruiter.com/magazineonline/050602_feature_121_3.cfm> ) The Questions What impact have the job boards played in the recruitment process? How do you choose recruiters? What are the key hurdles or stumbling blocks that can come up during the recruitment process? Describe a brief success or horror story in working with a recruiter. How do you see talent acquisition evolving over the next 3-5 years? For the answers ( click here <http://www.recruiter.com/060302_121.cfm> ) To unsubscribe ( click here <http://www.recruiter.com/AY/plum_bem/asp/bp_remove.asp?myemail=[myemail ]> ) customer service 973-691-2000

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One to One The client's Perspective June 3, 2002 13650
by One to One The client's Perspective 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

One to one The Client's Perspective Recruiters and corporate HR execs are on the same team?but do they know it? Find out if these matchmakers are all-for-one or going one-on-one in Part I this Multi-part feature. by Lisa Micali In a perfect world, recruiters and HR executives would have shared goals, mutual respect and a completely trusting relationship with the company's short- and long-term objectives in mind. Yet, the perception that recruiters are merely commission-hungry sales people still exists, despite solid gains in professional advancement, training and development. In order to better understand how changes throughout the industry are impacting this symbiotic relationship, Recruiter.com asked HR professionals to share their views and forecasts. The Interviewees Steven A. Blau, Second Vice President, Human Resources at Travelers Insurance. David Meyer, Director of human resources at Neurogen Corporation Audrey Blauner Vice President of human resources at 24/7 Real Media Terry Dyckman Vice President of human resources at Saba Software Meet the Interviewees ( click here <http://www.recruiter.com/magazineonline/050602_feature_121_3.cfm> ) The Questions What impact have the job boards played in the recruitment process? How do you choose recruiters? What are the key hurdles or stumbling blocks that can come up during the recruitment process? Describe a brief success or horror story in working with a recruiter. How do you see talent acquisition evolving over the next 3-5 years? For the answers ( click here <http://www.recruiter.com/060302_121.cfm> ) To unsubscribe ( click here <http://www.recruiter.com/AY/plum_bem/asp/bp_remove.asp?myemail=[myemail ]> ) customer service 973-691-2000

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by IQ - Infinty Schools 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

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Another questionable decision from SCOTUS
by Steve Schear 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

In an obscure tax case decided this term, United States v. Craft, http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-1831.ZS.html a husband owed money to the I.R.S. and the I.R.S. put a lien on some of his property. Michigan, like a number of states, has a concept called "tenancy by the entireties," in which property can be owned by "the marriage" as a separate entity and, when it is, the husband and wife have no individual interest in it. The husband transferred the property to "the marriage," and then told the I.R.S. "Look, I don't own this stuff anymore, 'the marriage' does." The District Court found the transfer was not fraudulent and that the I.R.S. could not touch the property. The 6th Circuit affirmed. The Supreme Court noted that the legitimacy of the transfer was not disputed on appeal. The Court held that Michigan's concept of a marriage as a separate entity from its individual participants was nothing more than a legal fiction and, as a mere fiction, the I.R.S. could ignore it. O'Conner held that if the husband and wife didn't individually own the property, that meant no-one owned it, a result she found absurd. I am gravely troubled by this reasoning. As pointed out in Alexis de Tocqueville's truly brilliant analysis of the foundations of our American government (e.g., http://www2.bc.edu/~lynchtq/toc.html) "The government of the Union rests almost entirely on legal fictions. The Union is an ideal nation which exists, so to say, only in men's minds and whose extent and limits can only be discerned by the understanding. Everything in such a government depends on artificially contrived conventions, and it is only suited to a people long accustomed to manage its affairs, and one in which even the lowest ranks of society have an appreciation of political science." Of all the legal fictions in American government, one of the hardest to swallow is the fiction of a Supreme Court. Under this fiction, when certain individuals express opinions on various issues under certain conditions, we are to regard these opinions as, not merely the separate individual opinions of these few separate and individual persons, but the single opinion of something called a Court, which is said to have powers and responsibilities wholly separate from the individuals of whom it is comprised. These powers and responsibilities are said to flow from something other than, and more than, the mere composite or sum of those individuals. All the sources of these powers and responsibilities -- constitutions, laws, governments, social compacts written and unwritten -- all are themselves legal fictions, wholly made-up conventions. Indeed, law itself is the supreme legal fiction. The Justices should think long and hard before adopting a theory which disses the respect the citizenry has traditionally reposed in corporate entities and institutions that serve social purposes thought valuable. For as de Tocqueville rightly noted, that respect is essential to our republican form of government. The philosophy the Court espoused was so general that it cannot fail to encompass the Court itself -- and for that matter the Union -- in its generality. Every question the court asked of marriage can be asked of both the Union and the Court. If public land cannot be apportioned out to individual citizens, who owns it? And if judicial opinions do not represent the private opinions of individual justices -- if we get rid of this "Court" legal fiction -- can they be said to be the opinions of anyone? These are questions well worth asking. If their answers prove not to be wholly absurd, then neither is the question Justice O'Conner asked about who owns property in a marriage. If they are wholly absurd, then so is our form of government. steve

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Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders
by Fearghas McKay 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

At 3:08 pm -0700 1/6/02, jet wrote: > >However, the show didn't take up any user space, but was stored in >reserved system space that's kept around for use during software upgrades >and whatnot. And adult material available to children before the watershed? And whilst the programme was being recorded the instant live replay facility was lost as the machine was recording spam. f

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02 Jun '02

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Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders
by Tim May 02 Jun '02

02 Jun '02

On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 03:08 PM, jet wrote: >> They were even more surprised to find that they won't be allowed to >> delete the programme for one week, and that more sponsored recordings >> are on the way. >> ... >> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25436.html> > > However, the show didn't take up any user space, but was stored in > reserved system space that's kept around for use during software > upgrades and whatnot. If TiVO works the same basic way my UltimateTV (Sony/DirectTV) works, having "Bubba and Ram Dass," or whatever, always in my list of recorded shows for a week would be a massive annoyance. You said you worked for TiVo, as I recall. I suggest you point out to your corporate bosses the Law of Unintended Consequences. I foresee growing irritation, hacks to permanently interfere with TIVo's spam recordings, the "Bubba and Doss" show being unfavorably smeared by angry TiVO customers, and even a grass roots campaign to monkeywrench TiVO in general. By the way, so far my Ultimate TV hasn't tried any such Big Brother tricks on me. Though they may have their own corporate clowns looking for revenue enhancement. Downloaded ads that play before every recorded show can be viewed. Schemes to disable fast-forwarding through commercials. --Tim May "The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." -- Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789

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02 Jun '02

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