That's because you're not very smart. The fact is yes, Bush/Cheney DID order MANY illegal acts, and nobody with half a brain questions that. However, by stating only 'super-high-ranking officials' know precisely what is going on is absolutely incorrect.
Bush/Cheney did illegally wiretap many people without any cause (not 'just cause') ANY cause. Bush/ Cheney DID tell the intel community to 'find reasons to justify invading Iraq' --- maybe you don't know this, I forgive you if you don't it's not common knowledge. However, an ANALYST is one of the most important positions in the intelligence community. For your information, intelligence goes just a bit like this:
1. gather intel 2. analyze it 3. provide the facts to people who need it 4. move along
Guess who the people do steps 2,3, and 4?
I'll give you a hint, it's not high-ranking officials. High-ranking officials are either dickheads like Bush/Cheney, or someone they have ordered to act in proxy.
I wouldn't want to manage 1,000,000,000 beta testers reports. After the 1,000th report of feature x breaking, the point is taken.
Lol.... but this is MICROSOFT. It's like the old question "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop"...except in this case it's 'How many times does a bug report need to be filed before Microsoft thinks it needs to be fixed?'.
Disgruntled ex-employee makes accusations with zero evidence. News at 11 I guess.
This guy was just an analyst, not some super high ranking official. The type of data he was privy too was low level and generic.
You have no clue what an analyst is, do you?
High ranking officials often make it a point to *NOT* know, or be informed of, things that may jeopardize themselves politically and legally. Analysts on the other hand, are the people who ACTUALLY DO the Top Secret work the public never hears about.... unless an analyst blows the whistle on illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts ordered by (in this case) Bush and Cheney.
Assuming that major hardware manufacturers don't fuck it up with bad drivers again, anyways. In my experience, that's largely what killed Vista. We're going on two years now I think, and I still can't get a proper not-broken Vista driver from nVidia, on a then-new GPU.
Uh, you DO realize that the drivers were never released because Microsoft refused to allow developers access to the codebase so they could CREATE drivers, right?
Microsoft wanted A LOT of money, and all kinds of crazy agreements that only benefitted Microsoft. The developers did all they could to work around MS.
Ultimately, it was Microsoft that shot themselves in the foot, in addition to Vista being crap.
Rest assured that 3rd molars do not grow beneath any other teeth, they non-succedaneous teeth. This means that first, second, and third molars NEVER follow baby teeth.
My educated guess is that this dentist did not look at recent radiographs prior to removing the tooth. Any dentist would be able to know if another tooth exists by looking at radiographs, but only if those radiographs were recent.
So, for diagnostic purposes a 12 year old would need a panograph within a few years to be worth anything. To properly identify wisdom teeth = 3rd molars, I would need to see a radiograph within the last year. Anything beyond 3 years prior to their development wouldn't show me anything.
This is not to suggest the dentist did anything wrong, more likely he just didn't have up-to-date radiographs, and that is why he was surprised.
backup only what you want to keep is something everybody who uses a computer to store/ retrieve data should do; be it files on their personal computers, or their website.
Like it or not, we are each responsible for our own files.
If this was a report about Ubuntu brainstorm, pretty much the same thing, it would be a glowing review? Why can a for profit company not employ the same techniques?
They can. However, if they end up profiting from an idea shouldn't the inventor be compensated?
Personally, I see nothing wrong with what Google is doing, and if I had an idea I would suggest something, just so others could develop it for my use.
But just imagine: If you developed and submitted a concept to them, and then they turn around and become the next Microsoft off of your idea and generate millions in profits.... wouldn't you want even a little slice of that pie? Or more accurately, think you deserve some?
This is more a comment about people not wanting to pay significant sums of money on an annual basis to the antivirus companies.
Quite honestly, I never had a concern about this until I had to install AV software on 7 computers.
It's bad enough they nail you for $30 to $90 for software, but then next year they want you to fork it over again.
We would all be better served if free antivirus software became the mainstream, and costly software for corporate use. Sure, AVG is alright, but with Windows being so crappy, why isn't serious antivirus/anti-trojan software distributed with it instead of trial-ware Symantec?
I understand the argument you're making, it's the old 'if it's a horse, it's a horse; not a zebra' argument. However, physicists are not willy-nilly declaring stuff dark matter because that's what they want to find. There is actually a lot of hard-core science to support what you call
outlandish conclusions(black holes, wormholes, dark matter, dark energy, big bang, parallel universes, etc.)
The fact that YOU don't understand it is more a statement about yourself, not the science.
I am a long time Mac fanboy, but I will not purchase an operating system with GENERALIZED built-in DRM. If this is limited to iTunes crap that's fine -- only my kids buy their songs through iTunes when necessary, but I don't.
If this DRM respects multiple companies protection schemes then I will happily ditch my Apple computers and OSX for Linux; at least Linux respects its userbase more than the recording industry.
I already have several computers that use Linux, but truly prefer OSX for work/graphics/design needs.
Didn't cost me any lawyer fees in the US to create a LLC, but I guess I was just smart enough not to use the douche-bag scum of the earth (ie. 'lawyer') to set everything up; I just bought a book for $12.00......and by the way, it works for other stuff too, things such as; wills, power of attorney, contracts (yeah, you think they actually review them?), and other stuff...
Ok, so based on my experience with the Air Force the rules will be as follows:
1. kiss you superiors butts, even when they tell you to do something wrong
2. do crappy work - and bitch about it a lot
3. work sloooow
4. after steps 1-3 your superiors will tell you that you've been doing it wrong (nevermind the fact that they told you to do it that way), and you need to start over
5. Thank you boss for the opportunity to do it 'the right way' this time
6. start again, then someone else gets tasked with the project despite your objections
7. you tell the new guy to go to step 1, and continue until project completed
Why should someone accused of copyright infringement have it any easier (cheaper), than someone accused of running a red light, or breaking a contract, or committing a felony (tort, civil, and criminal examples mixed here deliberately)?
The judge is part of the Judiciary, that slowly made litigation a very expensive option — heal thyself, and consider awarding legal expenses to the winners, whoever they are, by default (rather than by special request, as happens now).
It's all fine and dandy to take that position, unless you realize that innocent people actually become bankrupted as well. I am 100% certain that if you, or your children (provided you're not too much of a douche to find a live woman) ever were unjustly targeted by the RIAA you would be the first one on/. crying about it like a little girl.
There is nothing just about what the RIAA is doing, and to suggest otherwise is insane.
A quote from the famous "Real programmers don't use Pascal" article written in 1983.
Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation-- hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter.
The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/- 3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances.
If you have never read it, it's still a great read (at least for us old-timers).
I read a book several months ago by Michio Kaku in which he suggested that there are mathematical formulas that suggest a minimum of 10 dimensions, but possibly 13.
Of course, these are MATHEMATICAL formulas to describe those dimensions FWIW.
Admittedly people may decide to make their own as a challenge, but there is just as much to be gained knowledge-wise working with on devs on an existing project that are similar to your needs.
Heck, it is even more logical to take an existing CMS and tailor it to suit your needs.
Not to plug names, but Xaraya, Zikula (formerly Postnuke), and even Xoops are fun to play with.
However, nothing really matches the learning experience of trying to build one from the ground up. But it's best to skip that step and play with a 'working model' so to speak.
The discussion is about REAL artists, not the Disney and Nickelodeon created/marketed/forced down our kids throats 'artists'.
When bands like the Foo Fighters, or even Radiohead chime in, their opinion is important because they actually have spent considerable time developing their talents and 'making it'. They were not hand-picked by Disney because they are popular with the age 9-13 female viewers of the Disney channel. They had to perform and record for next to nothing, for years. In the end it was their talent, and musicianship that made them famous.
Isn't McCain 'fundamentally' a 'de-regulator'. Surely, if the Republicans spent as much time 'worried' over the corrupt American banking system as they do about record execs and 'piracy', we would not be in an economic 'downfall'.
I am not particularly pro-politician, but it has been my experience that when the constituents make the effort to send a letter or email to their congressmen, they will receive a response.
In most cases the response may be written by an employee of the congressman, but the answer comes from them at some level.
In this bailout vote, almost all of the politicians who were in jeopardy of losing their seat because of the upcoming election listened to the messages as whole, and voted against this crazy bailout; although it was for reasons of self-preservation, instead of public interest.
Sure, their email system is not capable of handling mass emails from the 300,000,000 people in the U.S. that are pissed off about the proposed bailout, but seriously... how many systems could handle even 50% of that kind of traffic?
It should also be noted that as Reuters is claiming only breach of contract this suit will not prevent anyone not affiliated with the defendants from distributing and/or using the software. The project can continue if anyone is interested in continuing it even if GMU loses or gives up. I hope lots of people have downloaded the source.
You do realize that GMU has a law school, and they're not afraid to use it. Reuters will get pwned.
I didn't know Wal-Mart had an online music store, let alone one that was using DRM technology. Oh well, I suppose I'll have to keep downloading my music for free...
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That's because you're not very smart. The fact is yes, Bush/Cheney DID order MANY illegal acts, and nobody with half a brain questions that. However, by stating only 'super-high-ranking officials' know precisely what is going on is absolutely incorrect.
Bush/Cheney did illegally wiretap many people without any cause (not 'just cause') ANY cause. Bush/ Cheney DID tell the intel community to 'find reasons to justify invading Iraq' --- maybe you don't know this, I forgive you if you don't it's not common knowledge. However, an ANALYST is one of the most important positions in the intelligence community. For your information, intelligence goes just a bit like this:
1. gather intel
2. analyze it
3. provide the facts to people who need it
4. move along
Guess who the people do steps 2,3, and 4?
I'll give you a hint, it's not high-ranking officials. High-ranking officials are either dickheads like Bush/Cheney, or someone they have ordered to act in proxy.
I wouldn't want to manage 1,000,000,000 beta testers reports. After the 1,000th report of feature x breaking, the point is taken.
Lol.... but this is MICROSOFT. It's like the old question "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop" ...except in this case it's 'How many times does a bug report need to be filed before Microsoft thinks it needs to be fixed?'.
Disgruntled ex-employee makes accusations with zero evidence. News at 11 I guess.
This guy was just an analyst, not some super high ranking official. The type of data he was privy too was low level and generic.
You have no clue what an analyst is, do you?
High ranking officials often make it a point to *NOT* know, or be informed of, things that may jeopardize themselves politically and legally. Analysts on the other hand, are the people who ACTUALLY DO the Top Secret work the public never hears about.... unless an analyst blows the whistle on illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts ordered by (in this case) Bush and Cheney.
Read a book or something....sheesh.
Assuming that major hardware manufacturers don't fuck it up with bad drivers again, anyways. In my experience, that's largely what killed Vista. We're going on two years now I think, and I still can't get a proper not-broken Vista driver from nVidia, on a then-new GPU.
Uh, you DO realize that the drivers were never released because Microsoft refused to allow developers access to the codebase so they could CREATE drivers, right?
Microsoft wanted A LOT of money, and all kinds of crazy agreements that only benefitted Microsoft. The developers did all they could to work around MS.
Ultimately, it was Microsoft that shot themselves in the foot, in addition to Vista being crap.
Rest assured that 3rd molars do not grow beneath any other teeth, they non-succedaneous teeth. This means that first, second, and third molars NEVER follow baby teeth.
My educated guess is that this dentist did not look at recent radiographs prior to removing the tooth. Any dentist would be able to know if another tooth exists by looking at radiographs, but only if those radiographs were recent.
So, for diagnostic purposes a 12 year old would need a panograph within a few years to be worth anything. To properly identify wisdom teeth = 3rd molars, I would need to see a radiograph within the last year. Anything beyond 3 years prior to their development wouldn't show me anything.
This is not to suggest the dentist did anything wrong, more likely he just didn't have up-to-date radiographs, and that is why he was surprised.
backup only what you want to keep is something everybody who uses a computer to store/ retrieve data should do; be it files on their personal computers, or their website.
Like it or not, we are each responsible for our own files.
did they submit it to Google?
If this was a report about Ubuntu brainstorm, pretty much the same thing, it would be a glowing review? Why can a for profit company not employ the same techniques?
They can. However, if they end up profiting from an idea shouldn't the inventor be compensated?
Personally, I see nothing wrong with what Google is doing, and if I had an idea I would suggest something, just so others could develop it for my use.
But just imagine: If you developed and submitted a concept to them, and then they turn around and become the next Microsoft off of your idea and generate millions in profits.... wouldn't you want even a little slice of that pie? Or more accurately, think you deserve some?
Ultimately, there is nothing we can do but warn people. ...and wait....
This is more a comment about people not wanting to pay significant sums of money on an annual basis to the antivirus companies.
Quite honestly, I never had a concern about this until I had to install AV software on 7 computers.
It's bad enough they nail you for $30 to $90 for software, but then next year they want you to fork it over again.
We would all be better served if free antivirus software became the mainstream, and costly software for corporate use. Sure, AVG is alright, but with Windows being so crappy, why isn't serious antivirus/anti-trojan software distributed with it instead of trial-ware Symantec?
I bet you believe in creationism too, huh?
I understand the argument you're making, it's the old 'if it's a horse, it's a horse; not a zebra' argument. However, physicists are not willy-nilly declaring stuff dark matter because that's what they want to find. There is actually a lot of hard-core science to support what you call
outlandish conclusions(black holes, wormholes, dark matter, dark energy, big bang, parallel universes, etc.)
The fact that YOU don't understand it is more a statement about yourself, not the science.
I am a long time Mac fanboy, but I will not purchase an operating system with GENERALIZED built-in DRM. If this is limited to iTunes crap that's fine -- only my kids buy their songs through iTunes when necessary, but I don't.
If this DRM respects multiple companies protection schemes then I will happily ditch my Apple computers and OSX for Linux; at least Linux respects its userbase more than the recording industry.
I already have several computers that use Linux, but truly prefer OSX for work/graphics/design needs.
Please tell me this is limited to iTunes!!
A new scientific study demonstrates that bored people watch more TV, AND they eat more junk food.
In a related study Sexaholics have sex more often, and Alcoholics like to drink!!
More at 11pm on Fox News!!
Didn't cost me any lawyer fees in the US to create a LLC, but I guess I was just smart enough not to use the douche-bag scum of the earth (ie. 'lawyer') to set everything up; I just bought a book for $12.00... ...and by the way, it works for other stuff too, things such as; wills, power of attorney, contracts (yeah, you think they actually review them?), and other stuff...
Ok, so based on my experience with the Air Force the rules will be as follows:
1. kiss you superiors butts, even when they tell you to do something wrong
2. do crappy work - and bitch about it a lot
3. work sloooow
4. after steps 1-3 your superiors will tell you that you've been doing it wrong (nevermind the fact that they told you to do it that way), and you need to start over
5. Thank you boss for the opportunity to do it 'the right way' this time
6. start again, then someone else gets tasked with the project despite your objections
7. you tell the new guy to go to step 1, and continue until project completed
Why should someone accused of copyright infringement have it any easier (cheaper), than someone accused of running a red light, or breaking a contract, or committing a felony (tort, civil, and criminal examples mixed here deliberately)?
The judge is part of the Judiciary, that slowly made litigation a very expensive option — heal thyself, and consider awarding legal expenses to the winners, whoever they are, by default (rather than by special request, as happens now).
It's all fine and dandy to take that position, unless you realize that innocent people actually become bankrupted as well. I am 100% certain that if you, or your children (provided you're not too much of a douche to find a live woman) ever were unjustly targeted by the RIAA you would be the first one on /. crying about it like a little girl.
There is nothing just about what the RIAA is doing, and to suggest otherwise is insane.
A quote from the famous "Real programmers don't use Pascal" article written in 1983.
Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation-- hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter.
The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/- 3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances.
If you have never read it, it's still a great read (at least for us old-timers).
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
Hey - don't forget the folks at the NASA research facility at Langley :(
I read a book several months ago by Michio Kaku in which he suggested that there are mathematical formulas that suggest a minimum of 10 dimensions, but possibly 13.
Of course, these are MATHEMATICAL formulas to describe those dimensions FWIW.
Admittedly people may decide to make their own as a challenge, but there is just as much to be gained knowledge-wise working with on devs on an existing project that are similar to your needs.
Heck, it is even more logical to take an existing CMS and tailor it to suit your needs.
Not to plug names, but Xaraya, Zikula (formerly Postnuke), and even Xoops are fun to play with.
However, nothing really matches the learning experience of trying to build one from the ground up. But it's best to skip that step and play with a 'working model' so to speak.
The discussion is about REAL artists, not the Disney and Nickelodeon created/marketed/forced down our kids throats 'artists'.
When bands like the Foo Fighters, or even Radiohead chime in, their opinion is important because they actually have spent considerable time developing their talents and 'making it'. They were not hand-picked by Disney because they are popular with the age 9-13 female viewers of the Disney channel. They had to perform and record for next to nothing, for years. In the end it was their talent, and musicianship that made them famous.
Hanah Montana.... not so much.
umm.... you DO know that the Republicans were in control of the house and senate for 6 or the last 7 years, right?
You do also know that our 'president' is a Republican? ...and look, I didn't even need to post a link to bogus crap.
Isn't McCain 'fundamentally' a 'de-regulator'. Surely, if the Republicans spent as much time 'worried' over the corrupt American banking system as they do about record execs and 'piracy', we would not be in an economic 'downfall'.
I am not particularly pro-politician, but it has been my experience that when the constituents make the effort to send a letter or email to their congressmen, they will receive a response.
In most cases the response may be written by an employee of the congressman, but the answer comes from them at some level.
In this bailout vote, almost all of the politicians who were in jeopardy of losing their seat because of the upcoming election listened to the messages as whole, and voted against this crazy bailout; although it was for reasons of self-preservation, instead of public interest.
Sure, their email system is not capable of handling mass emails from the 300,000,000 people in the U.S. that are pissed off about the proposed bailout, but seriously... how many systems could handle even 50% of that kind of traffic?
It should also be noted that as Reuters is claiming only breach of contract this suit will not prevent anyone not affiliated with the defendants from distributing and/or using the software. The project can continue if anyone is interested in continuing it even if GMU loses or gives up. I hope lots of people have downloaded the source.
You do realize that GMU has a law school, and they're not afraid to use it. Reuters will get pwned.
I didn't know Wal-Mart had an online music store, let alone one that was using DRM technology. Oh well, I suppose I'll have to keep downloading my music for free...