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However, knowing the people in Congress, such a "Corporation Control Act" would not serve to control corporations. Instead it would give ultimate control of the country to corporations. It's all in how you read the title.

Actually, it doesn't matter what the original intent was, the end result would be as you describe. See regulatory capture.

The french... a bus company is suing some commuters for car. pooling.

The world is badly, badly b0rken.
err!
jak.
Making food for useful people since 1972.

They are low key about some of their updates though, I was online tonight with my apple laptop and the software updater didnt flag it. Also, didnt see it prominently displayed on the Apple startup page as of 8 PM EDT.
http://www.joseandkris.blogspot.com/
What I do when I'm not on slashdot

Actually it was called:
"Association of Television Viewing During Childhood With Poor Educational Achievement"

BTW, I write tongue-in-cheek. See my commentary on these studies....

Keep the air flowing! I use oil you insesitive clod!

He did it to show that even theoretical attacks, which have never been seen in the wild, can be effectively mitigated out of existence.

Never forget that the Open Source development community have been working towards providing more secure environments, whether you make use what is available is up to you.

maow.

Remember when the news appeared that self-esteem isn't necessarily good for you? That bullies and bad people have high self-esteem? Yeah.

--grendel drago

My sociology class was probably one of the best opportunities I've had to critically consider educational issues. I have private and public high school teachers among my friends, as well as professors at some good universities, and many of our conversations seem to involve several points:

* Lack of parent participation in the child's learning process
* Lack of learning resources for teachers to draw on
* Overburdened teachers
* Teacher's unions protecting bad teachers, and providing no incentives for good performance
* Emphasis on rote learning (especially with standardized testing, instead of taking the backgrounds of the students into consideration, and developing critical thinking abilities

Good books I read for this class:

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
--Discussed about how a lack of funding, and perhaps more importantly, a lack of consideration for a multicultural classroom setting, is hampering the learning abilities of lower socioeconomic status students.

The Freedom Writers Diary
--An aggregation of diary entries from a teacher and students of mixed socioeconomic status, and how literature motivated all of them to rise to the challenge of varying personal problems and go beyond the expectations of parents and school administrators. Of note: an interesting mention of support for the Freedom Writers program by John Tu, one of the founders of Kingston Technology.

I'd be amiss not to mention John Dewey, an American educational reformer who was seen as quite the rebel in his day. Much of his work we take for granted as good educational practice now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

I ended up writing two essays for this class:
Why the NCLB won't work:
http://petelee.blogspot.com/2005/02/no-child-left- behind-or-so-wed-like-to.html

Education & The War on Poverty
http://petelee.blogspot.com/2005/03/education-and- community-war-on-poverty.html

My sociology class was probably one of the best opportunities I've had to critically consider educational issues. I have private and public high school teachers among my friends, as well as professors at some good universities, and many of our conversations seem to involve several points:

* Lack of parent participation in the child's learning process
* Lack of learning resources for teachers to draw on
* Overburdened teachers
* Teacher's unions protecting bad teachers, and providing no incentives for good performance
* Emphasis on rote learning (especially with standardized testing, instead of taking the backgrounds of the students into consideration, and developing critical thinking abilities

Good books I read for this class:

Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
--Discussed about how a lack of funding, and perhaps more importantly, a lack of consideration for a multicultural classroom setting, is hampering the learning abilities of lower socioeconomic status students.

The Freedom Writers Diary
--An aggregation of diary entries from a teacher and students of mixed socioeconomic status, and how literature motivated all of them to rise to the challenge of varying personal problems and go beyond the expectations of parents and school administrators. Of note: an interesting mention of support for the Freedom Writers program by John Tu, one of the founders of Kingston Technology.

I'd be amiss not to mention John Dewey, an American educational reformer who was seen as quite the rebel in his day. Much of his work we take for granted as good educational practice now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

I ended up writing two essays for this class:
Why the NCLB won't work:
http://petelee.blogspot.com/2005/02/no-child-left- behind-or-so-wed-like-to.html

Education & The War on Poverty
http://petelee.blogspot.com/2005/03/education-and- community-war-on-poverty.html

Try Right on Games.

Kingda Ka is the copy cat (never been in New Jersey, for what it's worth). It was built a year after Top Thrill Dragster.

Top Thrill Dragster specifications: 120 miles per hour, 420 feet
Kingda Ka specifications: 130 miles per hour (if I recall correctly), 450 feet, with a rise and fall on the return that Top Thrill Dragster doesn't have, but otherwise identical layout

If you've ridden Top Thrill Dragster, you've pretty much ridden Kingda Ka, even if you've never been there. In my opinion, Top Thrill Dragster is a waste of time - Kingda Ka would be about as much of a waste.

For what it's worth, go here to see why (roller coaster) overclocking is bad ;-)

KK is the copy cat (never been in NJ, FWIW). It was built a year after TTD.

TTD specs: 120 MPH, 420 ft.
KK specs: 130 MPH (IIRC), 450 ft., with a rise and fall on the return that TTD doesn't have, but otherwise identical layout

If you've ridden TTD, you've pretty much ridden KK, even if you've never been there. IMO, TTD is a waste of time - KK would be about as much of a waste.

FWIW, go here to see why (roller coaster) overclocking is bad ;-)

Following the link to the original story on the status change leads to this page detailing the list of software that has been downgraded. Screenshots included for the doubtful.

...including certain WhenU adware programs, WebHancer and Ezula Toptext. So the Claria downgrade is quite likely part of a bigger picture regarding Microsoft's listing criteria for adware.

Christianity has always been expressed through the culture it lives in. It should be no suprise that some churches have visions and mission statements -- they want to succeed, and one model for success in America is the corporation.

However, there is a backlash against this strict hierarchical structure, and as many traditional structures are being circumvented by new ways of doing things (blogs vs. old media, P2P vs. old music distribution, network vs. hierarchy, etc.), many churches will change to reflect this. This can already be seen in the Emergent conversation, and in the writings of Brian McLaren, Johnny Baker, Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, and others...

There's some really excellent analysis on this by Ed Bott.

Compare and contrast to the lies and misdirection spread (as is normal), by Microsoft's resident spin doctor Robert Scoble. See his Ballmer interview, aka, The Idiots Guide to Brownnosing, to see his true colors.

Lots of Gator-bashing is rightly occurring all over the MSDNosphere, see here for a funny example. Remember, even Microsoft employees (commenting anonymously, of course) hate this idea.

I'm guessing that Microsoft will somehow integrate Claria's obnoxious 'personal marketing' tactics into Internet Explorer 7 or the new RSS functions to get a chunk of the targeted intarweb ad market which Adsense has completely sewn up for normal web pages. We should go and tell them what we think about Claria and Gator, not to mention their general business ethics. Don't let Scoble's lies deceive you, and don't hold back.

Asshole Open Source, with funny illustration.

When I bought the Treo 300, I stopped using my PocketPC. After that Treos have kept me from touching a PocketPC again. If M$ had emulated the Treo model I would have never gone with Palm. It's sad that a Linux-based alternative hasn't come around: Treo-like, but with Linux.
http://212pix.blogspot.com/

There are other valid reasons for doing open source (both Free Software or Open Source) development. I live in a remote area and need to attract consulting work. Although I enjoy sharing my open source and open content works with others, to be frank, I am also motivated to spend perhaps 300 hours a year writing "free" stuff to attract people to my web site and thus attract consulting work.

There is another side to open source software: as a consultant, it is a huge win having free platforms like Jakarta Tomcat, JBoss, Ruby on Rails, etc. for building applications for customers. Money not spent on infrastructure software is money that businesses can use for hiring consultants, hiring more internal staff, etc.

I wrote a web blog a couple of weeks ago, poking a little fun at Mark Fleury because of his comments on the open sourcing of the GlueCode J2EE stack (which is very nice, BTW).

-Mark

Heh, what a liberal whiner.

You should read this.

I've met with and interfaced with a couple hundred employees from Microsoft over the past decade and I'd say 90% of them have been more passionate, smarter, and more 'innovative' than the average

BTW, you forgot the obligatory cs_office screenshot. (With the rest of the motivational poster parodies here

Unless they port to Linux it's nothing special. How about it Bill? When are you and Stevie gonna bite the bullet and let your developers port it?

You want Office on Linux? Here's what you have to do:

Step 1: Create a Distro that captures more than 1% of the market share. (Shameless plug for that part.)

Step 2: Find some way in which Microsoft's anti-competitive practices are hurting your business, then sue.

Step 3: Settle out of court with the requirement that Microsoft produce a version of MS Office for your distro.

Then, voila! MS Office on Linux.

I have done my own mini-review of KUbuntu, also an analysis of why I think Ubuntu will succeed where commercial distros have failed.

I have done my own mini-review of KUbuntu, also an analysis of why I think Ubuntu will succeed where commercial distros have failed.

I wonder if they've read my essay on content licensing. I'd be happy to ... uh ... license it to them. :-D

My family's experience has been good--they've recieved their CDs rather quickly. You might want to encourage your local library to get a Freedom Toaster (http://www.freedomtoaster.org/ ). My mother-in-law was thrilled to see her small-town, South African library get one recently (http://charlvn.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_charlvn_ar chive.html ).
It's a great help for getting installation CDs since few people there have high-speed internet yet.

Done and done. Tried it out when I first read the entry on Ben Edelman's blog a few days ago (and submitted a story here). Downloaded and installed DeskBar, Gator eWallet, WeatherScope, and PrecisionTime from www.claria.com. Downloaded MS AntiSpyware Beta 1.0.614. Ran a scan and, sure enough, all products were marked "Ignore". The folks over at Sunbelt Blog have more info and are certainly a more reputable source than some random poster on Slashdot.

Read this you moron and any of you that think the French aint doing much to fight the war on terrorism. CIA and the US goverment thinks otherwise.

US and France have secret anti-terrorism centre.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. and France set up a top-secret anti- terrorism centre in Paris that does not gather information, but plans covert operations against terrorists, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed U.S. and foreign secret service specialists.
http://fpiarticle.blogspot.com/2005/07/us-and-fran ce-have-secret-anti.html

And BTW, I am not french. Now go and fsck off.

Gee, what an insightful statement. Idiot.

AlQ has and will continue to hate us, immaterial of whether we attack Iraq, or whether we act like Ms. Goody-two-shoes.

Like someone on another board said,

"So well done to the fundamentalists today! The 8 most powerful men in the world were meeting to sort out issues on climate change and poverty to benefit the people of the world and the terrorists have managed to throw a spanner in the works."

Like this guy said, what the liberals forget is that no amount of appeasement or accomodation is going to make some asshat of a fundamentalist who receives his orders from a voice in the sky.

Civilization and Islamic terror cannot coexist, one has to go.

Not my analysis but love him or loathe his viewpoint Wretchard makes valid points.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2005/07/blitz- comes-to-london.html

I'm going to reprint one of your classics for everyone's benefit, ok?

I have a buddy of mine who has a simple principle that he goes by. He says "I am a Leader, not a follower." He does not care what everyone around him says. In many ways this is how the US is and should be.

Many out spoken people around the world bash the US for not doing things their way. I can understand if they don't like how we do things but we are a leader not a follower.

There have been many people in the music industry or the movie industry to bash the way the US does things because we aren't making the rest of the world happy. The music industry and movie industry is filled with people who want to be the center of attention and liked by all. This is the mentality of many, especially those out spoken ones about this. They want to be liked by all, but sometimes making the right decision isn't the popular one. This is where their character failing is with leading.

As far as the rest of the world, over 1 billion in Indian and over 1 billion in China. How many of then know or care what the US is doing here and abroad? (they are 1/3 of the world population) How about Africa? How many of them even have a clue as to what the US is doing?

There are many out spoken people around the world who may not like the US way of doing things but they are not a majority. The loud few are herd over the murmer of the croud.

Not saying the US is perfect but neither are the critics. The US is a leader, not a follower.

Just curious, are you an ESL student? Because "I have a friend of mine" and "Has a simple principle that he goes by" are just hilarious.

Look at this to see the view of someone from the other side. We're "well meaning but deeply mislead" apparently...

"Today we - you! - saved patentability of computer implemented inventions. Nothing that was patentable yesterday will be unpatentable tomorrow and vice versa.

At the 11th hour the European Parliament resoundingly rejected attempts by the anti-patent groups to narrow the scope of patentability for high-tech inventions. Your businesses are safe.

Of course we do not have a harmonised EU-wide system for protecting computer implemented inventions and that is a pity. If we had had our way - and another few months - we would have had just that. However, after five years of intense lobbying by well meaning but deeply mislead programmers, the fact that the Parliament was not ready to accept their arguments is a testament to the hours of hard work put in by people across Europe."

Read more...

Look at this to see the view of someone from the other side. We're "well meaning but deeply mislead" apparently...

"Today we - you! - saved patentability of computer implemented inventions. Nothing that was patentable yesterday will be unpatentable tomorrow and vice versa.

At the 11th hour the European Parliament resoundingly rejected attempts by the anti-patent groups to narrow the scope of patentability for high-tech inventions. Your businesses are safe.

Of course we do not have a harmonised EU-wide system for protecting computer implemented inventions and that is a pity. If we had had our way - and another few months - we would have had just that. However, after five years of intense lobbying by well meaning but deeply mislead programmers, the fact that the Parliament was not ready to accept their arguments is a testament to the hours of hard work put in by people across Europe."

Read more...

I've also posted a couple of tips and tricks on getting Gizmo working with other SIP systems, and also listing some other players in the SIP field.

... on my blog before this article was written

What? You're telling me that my ideas have no monetary value? The shock! The horror! ;-)

Actually, I tend to agree with Abrash on this. The usual pattern is:

1. CompSci invents concept.
2. 10 Years later, everyone uses it.

Situations like Google where the concept is taken directly to the market are very rare. As Honeywell (Multics) and Symbolics can tell you, being ahead of your time can really suck.

That being said, it's not that ideas have no value. The problem is that their value is ethereal and cannot translate directly into dollars. If your ideas are good enough for the market, then you can make money by using them as a form of entertainment and educations. (e.g. Books, Websites with ads, etc.) Alternatively, you can implement them and see if they give you a competitive advantage. (This is what patents are intended for. Things went downhill after the Patent Office stops requiring prototypes.) Either way you do have to do a smidge more than just think up ideas. You must create an actual product out of them and monetize *that*.

Oh, OK, you got me dead to rights! I'm pulling the whole thing out of my ass! That's why:

http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=831 this unbiased review points out many of the same issues I had, and why:

http://eol.init1.nl/content/view/47/2/
this guy seemed to have an issue with it, and why: http://corelands.com/blog/?postid=4
this guy sees a problem, and why:

http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/wxinmfpl/debian. html
This guy hits it on the head with why the whole apt system is screwed, and why:

http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/platforms/branden
this page of politics points to strife and
http://ianmurdock.com/?p=153
YOUR OWN FOUNDER EVEN SAYS THERE'S PROBLEMS COMPARED TO UBUNTU.

I especially like how you keep harping on reporting bugs through the proper channels. What, like you think I haven't tried? Then on that last link, Ian Murdock's weblog, I see: "One major difference between Debian and Ubuntu is that Debian users' imput is mostly ignored, whereas Ubuntu users are heard and respected." -quote, typos and all! So, tell me, "stevey", is that you deleting our input so that the PUBLIC NEVER SEES IT?

I'm hoping to God that this lying weasel I've been arguing with is somebody currently high up in the Debian chain of command. Because, to read Ian Murdock's weblog, this man [Ian] sounds like he originally founded a fantastic, kick-ass distro, which he then trusted to a pack of idiots who fouled it up, and he regrets it.

Until today, I thought somebody just must have been scarfing shrooms - how could a Linux Distro *possibly* be *this* *stinking* *bad*?!?!? But thank you, "stevey" for at last providing me with an explanation that approaches sense: Debian is deliberately being sabotaged from within. And it wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out that that sabotuer(s?) was paid by a commercial software company which views itself to be in competition. This isn't the only possible explanation, but by God it makes the most sense. And I was ready to let it go, before I met you. But I love a good mystery! So, yeah, I think I WILL dig deeper until I get to the bottom of this...lol...pile, whenever I get the free time.

People who really want to know every detail of what's going on when you stick Debian Sarge disk #1 in your machine and boot it can view all the complaints this guy claims I'm covering up, along with my aborted effort to write some kind of install guide for the home user (heck, I *did* get it installed, after all!), can find my report HERE:
http://aimlesslifehobbies.blogspot.com/

Interesting blog! http://jessikahjarta.blogspot.com/

Back in March, in the week that Microsoft successfully lobbied the EU Council of Ministers to oppose the EU Parliament's version of the directive, and import the US software-patent regime to Europe, guess what else they did.

A mere four days after trying to foist software patents on Europe, they announced that the US system needed to be reformed. Of course what they had in mind is not necessarily what the rest of us want - though they are aware of some of the problems. They suggested:

• lowering the quantity and increasing the quality of tech patents
• minimizing litigation
• "harmonizing" international patent treaties - to recognise their patents, perhaps
• and making it easier for smaller inventors to file patents more easily

But it's interesting that Bill Gates recognised publicly that if the current patent regime had been in place when Microsoft was young, they never would have made it!

Seriously, though, wake up folks. DAs are creative with charging people all the time -- had this guy not been a creepazoid he would be home right now (well, had he not been a creepazoid he would have been at home, rather than parked outside someone's house for hours), but being a creepazoid isn't per-se illegal and loitering, which is per-se illegal, is a devil of a charge to make stick. So the DA went for the low-hanging fruit. Its the same basic principle that got Al Capone for tax evasion and that DAs in Virginia get check-bouncers for "uttering" with. (If you want to know what "uttering" is in this context and why its a very DA friendly crime in Virginia, I recommend the excellent http://crimlaw.blogspot.com/.)

Sorry, I was too terse. What I meant was that some art makes you think about life or a certain subject in a different way, see things in a different light.

Excellent source code might have some insightful things in them that also make you think in a different way but the end-result of the source is a program. That's what I meant by source is not for public consumption.

Hope that satisfies your curiosity.

By the way, please read this if you want a better Linux than we have now. If not, don't :)

• Making it easy for the Layman to use the Semacode based "Virtual GPS"
• How hard is it for the "Common Man" to use the Poor Man's GPS mentioned earlier?
• Using Landline Telephone Numbers for GeoLocation.
• Bringing Global Co-Ordinates Indoors.
• The GeoSpatial Web - RightClick a Photo GoThere!!!
• Prevention of GeoSpatial SPAM - A Solution!!!
• The Poor Man's GPS

two days ago, i'd like to know what do you think about.

This surely is an alternative at less than half the price of the pepper pad ($849.99)?
Mobilis products have already been covered in slashdot.

AT&T.

Read about my experience w/ AT&T here: AT&T VOIP review

Not sure that I understand how the bells aren't 'getting' VOIP - AT&T not only has a rate competitive service w/ standalone VOIP provider Vonage, but they've had the 911 issue resolved for the duration of my coverage with them, much longer than other VOIP providers have.

This time it's an IP lawyer he's trying to threaten, click HERE

I found this when I googled his name:
http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2005/04/defendants- in-chicago-lawsuit-charge.html
There is a picture of his alleged office on that page too.

Also from the same site a post on the Columbia Pictures suit:
http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2005/05/columbia-pi ctures-takes-on-leo-stoller.html
The following qoute from the posting and the linked filing show that he hasn't been successful in enforcing his trademark like the NYT article leads you to believe.
Columbia's complaint includes a handy list of reported federal court cases involving Stoller and/or his companies. Columbia asserts that "No court in any reported opinion has ever found any infringement or dilution of any rights held by Stoller or his companies."

I found this when I googled his name:
http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2005/04/defendants- in-chicago-lawsuit-charge.html
There is a picture of his alleged office on that page too.

Also from the same site a post on the Columbia Pictures suit:
http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2005/05/columbia-pi ctures-takes-on-leo-stoller.html
The following qoute from the posting and the linked filing show that he hasn't been successful in enforcing his trademark like the NYT article leads you to believe.
Columbia's complaint includes a handy list of reported federal court cases involving Stoller and/or his companies. Columbia asserts that "No court in any reported opinion has ever found any infringement or dilution of any rights held by Stoller or his companies."

http://dazza101.blogspot.com/2005/07/deep-impact-h its-comet.html