Sure it is, and that's why I'm using Windows98 and viewing your post in...Opera. Right now, despite the edge IE has on compliance, I'm using Opera because it has a superior interface and better options. Except for some shockwave and java applets, I almost never open IE. You may have tried Netscape, but did you try Opera before you decided which was the best?
...is that one of the reasons this was done is because of the relatively small body size of an infant.
Had this child been much older, would the operation been possible? I'm under the impression that even full grown people don't have lots of extra nerves to spare...
Scenario: Microsoft's Web browser keeps becoming more and more popular and with most computers running windows, this is a very very serious thing...Here's why:
Censorware could easily be built in without a feature to turn it off...and as microsoft integrates windows and IE more and more, it can only get worse...
The greater reprocussion is the division of the internet between sources which will cater to microsoft/macintosh(who I remember microsoft gave money to...and there is an IE version for macs...) and those catering to open source...while open source has the advantage of trying to match standards of IE, steps could always be taken by microsoft to thwart this
In general, this gives microsoft WAY too much leverage, to have control over internet shopping, file transfer, etc.
Please feel free to add to my list, as I need to go vote, and I'm sure this is a lot deeper than I have made it out to be...
I'm one of the people who uses microsoft not by choice, but because although I've tried about 20 times to get linux completely installed and running (gotten pretty far mind you, main trouble as of late has been getting on the net), and I've tried different distrobutions (slackware, redhat5,redhat6, suse)...but there's always *some* problem I run into that I cannot figure out on my own and cannot find any information on until I scrap the partitions and happen to be browsing the web months later... For me, linux is still a pipe dream, I could install windows98 with my eyes shut at this point...And no, I haven't given up on linux, it is inevitable that I will try to install it or a opensource os until I get one running.
..it was being written by a bunch of hackers all along, of course they'd throw as many backdoors and exploitable "bugs" that they could fit in.. and of course the more code there is, the more bugs...
Hobo
Okay, so the US Government, somehow pulls a miracle off and totally stops drugs from coming into the country, one less thing to worry about right? Wrong, for the bigger picture you have to ask yourself the MAIN reason they don't want drugs in this country, and it has to do with a person's right to kill/harm themself...Both political parties have this crazy notion that people should not be allowed to harm themselves, not by smoking, not by drinking, not by eating the wrong things, hell, if thinking caused cancer it would be somewhere on the list of things they'd like to make illegal to protect life. It makes me sick, if I can die for the war pigs whenever they decide to stick their nose in some other country's business (*cough*Vietnam*cough) then I should sure as shit be able to take my own life, be it quick, slow, painless, painful...and I shouldn't have to ask permission or fill out any forms to do so either.
Hobo
Their web address is Here.
The site gives a feedback contact for the VP of Electronic Content Developments, but I doubt that's the appropriate person to be talking to about this matter as the page states it is for questions/comments regarding their webpage, here's that link: here.
They also have a Rights and Permissions page where people can obtain permission to use their material, and that includes a link if you have any questions regarding that: here.
...so that when they finally get out from under our wings, they get run over by the big bad wolf and the boogyman and all...the problem is this, as we continue to add more and more rules and regulations and restrictions and conditions to our society's childrens developments, the farther from reality we push their lives. They wake up to a world that is nothing like the teletubbie world they are used to and it will take them longer to adjust...but don't get me wrong, there are areas where children live in very poor environments, where they get a huge dose of the real world from day one, and they too are dammaged from the bombardment of the cruelties of life, the thing we should aim for is a happy medium...and what is that medium? I'm not sure, but I do know one thing, while music, video games, movies, and now even television has maturity ratings, books don't, so that's the safest answer I can come up with, make kids read a lot. Make them read cookbooks...so when we're all old and hungry, they'll be able to cook some good food, preferably not too crunchy because we wont have our teeth to chew with...
Napster is just keeping a public database, nothing illegal about that, freedom of speech. You aren't transfering mp3s over their server..I really don't see how the RIAA has any sort of case at all...
In my state we have a very idiotic system that decides who gets on our supreme court...it isn't anything as smart and helpful as appointment either...it's election, that's right, we vote for our supreme court here in this backwards state of the union. I'm sure you're thinking this doesn't sound that bad, but when you consider that this allows for a campaign budget, and therefore bias from donations. The pendulum swings from business having the alabama supreme court, to lawyers having it, and so forth. But Alabama's political system is much more fractured than that. Our state constitution leads the country (and possibly the world) as the most amended constitution, with somewhere over 500 amendments...While I have before me the US constitution amendments in all, in a small convenient pamphlet, the alabama state constitution would take up a whole bookshelf. Please help my state, write to your congressman and request that this state be bombed back into the stoneage!
For the Bush way it would only work in the case of federally funded computers.
As for Gore's 'one click history' I doubt it would be hard to institute a system whereby webaddresses migrate around without warning so that if little Jenny looks up birth control today, the page would give a 404 tomorrow.
Personally, I think that Bush was right about one thing (and that's scary) the parents have a very very powerful tool already, its called the "off-on button" and the internet and television are not appropriate baby sitters.
...How long has the earth avoided all of these catastrophies? Call me crazy, but even if our species is wiped away, I don't think that the earth is in much danger for awhile... and who cares if everyone dies, it's not like we do anything important anyway...
Wouldn't DNA identifying people allow someone to steal someone elses id by simply having their dna? and isn't dna present in things such as hair?
Sounds like a bad idea...
What impact (if any) would result if audio only dvds won out over other standards (like this one)?
Will it cause any trouble like regular DVDs have (eg. regional encoding, not able to copy ala DeCSS case)?
...I mean with all the hype it gets on comedy central you'd expect that the battlebots would actually do something, but with only 3 fights per episode and all the extra commentary, it is really depressing when the bots hardly even dent each other I'll admit I've only seen the show 3 times, but as far as television goes, if 3 shows isn't enough to see something cool, you can bet I won't watch it unless it's a last resort.
...evil, a method by which certain humans can do horrible things without feeling guilty, I should end up makeing a ton of money off of licensing to folks like: microsoft, politicians, many world governments, lawyers, doctors, satan, mcdonalds managers, and the mafia...
You've got to be kidding me, how greedy can they really be? Oh well, time for the consumer to step in and tell them where to stick that highspeed pipe...
Where I live there's quite a few illegal immigrants who easily get jobs, I don't understand how they find work so easily, but college students cannot. They've been to college, they should be smart enough to figure it out on their own...
-HobophobE
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...to simply download a file off the net and print a copy of the new metallica cd?!
...which make it very easy to cheat in video games (their drivers allow driver level transparency of textures so there is no need to hack a game's files to cheat), I'm sure it would be possible to get some colorful sound card drivers which could easily circumvent any system of music protection...
...to respect others? Do they not realize that doing things like this are seen by anyone who has eyes and may be punished (economically) for disregard to morality? Here are some companies which should be punished:
The Microsoft Empire
Napster (no, I don't think napster is a bad thing, or immoral, but censoring users usage of the service based upon language is VERY naughty...)
Sun
Yahoo/Geocities
Amazon.com
Ebay.com (at some point there will not be a middleman in internet auctions, they can either be the site that starts this or be the site that dies because of this)...probably many more, feel free to add some in replies to this!
hobo
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In the future, George W. Bush shall be referred to as George Bush II in recognition of the naming system used for the demagogues of the past.
-HobophobE
Good and bad are like up and down
What goes good must come bad? Sounds good to me!
-HobophobE
MSIE is the best browser out there.
Sure it is, and that's why I'm using Windows98 and viewing your post in...Opera. Right now, despite the edge IE has on compliance, I'm using Opera because it has a superior interface and better options. Except for some shockwave and java applets, I almost never open IE. You may have tried Netscape, but did you try Opera before you decided which was the best?
-HobophobE
...is that one of the reasons this was done is because of the relatively small body size of an infant. Had this child been much older, would the operation been possible? I'm under the impression that even full grown people don't have lots of extra nerves to spare...
-HobophobE
...it's there in black and white, bush will win the election...
-HobophobE
Scenario: Microsoft's Web browser keeps becoming more and more popular and with most computers running windows, this is a very very serious thing...Here's why:
Censorware could easily be built in without a feature to turn it off...and as microsoft integrates windows and IE more and more, it can only get worse...
The greater reprocussion is the division of the internet between sources which will cater to microsoft/macintosh(who I remember microsoft gave money to...and there is an IE version for macs...) and those catering to open source...while open source has the advantage of trying to match standards of IE, steps could always be taken by microsoft to thwart this
In general, this gives microsoft WAY too much leverage, to have control over internet shopping, file transfer, etc.
Please feel free to add to my list, as I need to go vote, and I'm sure this is a lot deeper than I have made it out to be...
-HobophobE
I'm one of the people who uses microsoft not by choice, but because although I've tried about 20 times to get linux completely installed and running (gotten pretty far mind you, main trouble as of late has been getting on the net), and I've tried different distrobutions (slackware, redhat5,redhat6, suse)...but there's always *some* problem I run into that I cannot figure out on my own and cannot find any information on until I scrap the partitions and happen to be browsing the web months later... For me, linux is still a pipe dream, I could install windows98 with my eyes shut at this point...And no, I haven't given up on linux, it is inevitable that I will try to install it or a opensource os until I get one running.
-HobophobE
..it was being written by a bunch of hackers all along, of course they'd throw as many backdoors and exploitable "bugs" that they could fit in.. and of course the more code there is, the more bugs... Hobo
-HobophobE
Okay, so the US Government, somehow pulls a miracle off and totally stops drugs from coming into the country, one less thing to worry about right? Wrong, for the bigger picture you have to ask yourself the MAIN reason they don't want drugs in this country, and it has to do with a person's right to kill/harm themself...Both political parties have this crazy notion that people should not be allowed to harm themselves, not by smoking, not by drinking, not by eating the wrong things, hell, if thinking caused cancer it would be somewhere on the list of things they'd like to make illegal to protect life. It makes me sick, if I can die for the war pigs whenever they decide to stick their nose in some other country's business (*cough*Vietnam*cough) then I should sure as shit be able to take my own life, be it quick, slow, painless, painful...and I shouldn't have to ask permission or fill out any forms to do so either. Hobo
-HobophobE
Their web address is Here.
The site gives a feedback contact for the VP of Electronic Content Developments, but I doubt that's the appropriate person to be talking to about this matter as the page states it is for questions/comments regarding their webpage, here's that link: here.
They also have a Rights and Permissions page where people can obtain permission to use their material, and that includes a link if you have any questions regarding that: here.
-HobophobE
...so that when they finally get out from under our wings, they get run over by the big bad wolf and the boogyman and all...the problem is this, as we continue to add more and more rules and regulations and restrictions and conditions to our society's childrens developments, the farther from reality we push their lives. They wake up to a world that is nothing like the teletubbie world they are used to and it will take them longer to adjust...but don't get me wrong, there are areas where children live in very poor environments, where they get a huge dose of the real world from day one, and they too are dammaged from the bombardment of the cruelties of life, the thing we should aim for is a happy medium...and what is that medium? I'm not sure, but I do know one thing, while music, video games, movies, and now even television has maturity ratings, books don't, so that's the safest answer I can come up with, make kids read a lot. Make them read cookbooks...so when we're all old and hungry, they'll be able to cook some good food, preferably not too crunchy because we wont have our teeth to chew with...
-HobophobE
Napster is just keeping a public database, nothing illegal about that, freedom of speech. You aren't transfering mp3s over their server..I really don't see how the RIAA has any sort of case at all...
-HobophobE
In my state we have a very idiotic system that decides who gets on our supreme court...it isn't anything as smart and helpful as appointment either...it's election, that's right, we vote for our supreme court here in this backwards state of the union. I'm sure you're thinking this doesn't sound that bad, but when you consider that this allows for a campaign budget, and therefore bias from donations. The pendulum swings from business having the alabama supreme court, to lawyers having it, and so forth. But Alabama's political system is much more fractured than that. Our state constitution leads the country (and possibly the world) as the most amended constitution, with somewhere over 500 amendments...While I have before me the US constitution amendments in all, in a small convenient pamphlet, the alabama state constitution would take up a whole bookshelf. Please help my state, write to your congressman and request that this state be bombed back into the stoneage!
-HobophobE
For the Bush way it would only work in the case of federally funded computers. As for Gore's 'one click history' I doubt it would be hard to institute a system whereby webaddresses migrate around without warning so that if little Jenny looks up birth control today, the page would give a 404 tomorrow. Personally, I think that Bush was right about one thing (and that's scary) the parents have a very very powerful tool already, its called the "off-on button" and the internet and television are not appropriate baby sitters.
-HobophobE
...How long has the earth avoided all of these catastrophies? Call me crazy, but even if our species is wiped away, I don't think that the earth is in much danger for awhile... and who cares if everyone dies, it's not like we do anything important anyway...
-HobophobE
Wouldn't DNA identifying people allow someone to steal someone elses id by simply having their dna? and isn't dna present in things such as hair? Sounds like a bad idea...
-HobophobE
What impact (if any) would result if audio only dvds won out over other standards (like this one)? Will it cause any trouble like regular DVDs have (eg. regional encoding, not able to copy ala DeCSS case)?
-HobophobE
...I mean with all the hype it gets on comedy central you'd expect that the battlebots would actually do something, but with only 3 fights per episode and all the extra commentary, it is really depressing when the bots hardly even dent each other I'll admit I've only seen the show 3 times, but as far as television goes, if 3 shows isn't enough to see something cool, you can bet I won't watch it unless it's a last resort.
-HobophobE
...evil, a method by which certain humans can do horrible things without feeling guilty, I should end up makeing a ton of money off of licensing to folks like: microsoft, politicians, many world governments, lawyers, doctors, satan, mcdonalds managers, and the mafia...
-HobophobE
You've got to be kidding me, how greedy can they really be? Oh well, time for the consumer to step in and tell them where to stick that highspeed pipe...
-HobophobE
Where I live there's quite a few illegal immigrants who easily get jobs, I don't understand how they find work so easily, but college students cannot. They've been to college, they should be smart enough to figure it out on their own...
-HobophobE
...to simply download a file off the net and print a copy of the new metallica cd?!
-HobophobE
Doesn't everyone who uses a computer have a interest of one sort or another in this case? So therefore this case should go to the amish court!
-HobophobE
...which make it very easy to cheat in video games (their drivers allow driver level transparency of textures so there is no need to hack a game's files to cheat), I'm sure it would be possible to get some colorful sound card drivers which could easily circumvent any system of music protection...
-HobophobE
...to respect others? Do they not realize that doing things like this are seen by anyone who has eyes and may be punished (economically) for disregard to morality? Here are some companies which should be punished: The Microsoft Empire Napster (no, I don't think napster is a bad thing, or immoral, but censoring users usage of the service based upon language is VERY naughty...) Sun Yahoo/Geocities Amazon.com Ebay.com (at some point there will not be a middleman in internet auctions, they can either be the site that starts this or be the site that dies because of this) ...probably many more, feel free to add some in replies to this!
hobo
-HobophobE