Will the makers ensure it won't suffer from alien hand syndrome and go nuts knocking things over or from doing things the owner simply didn't intend it to do ^-^?
So to some extent violating NDAs and spies giving up info to their sponsors would be legal now under this interpretation of Free Speech since those can be interpreted as free, truthful speech, eh? Maybe they won't go for this because it would elevate many other less savory conduct to legal status.
That might mean that unless Xerox licese this tech, only they could use it --meaning no-one else could harvest information this way. Hurrah! Here's for hoping, anyway...
The old saying "live by the sword die by the sword" may hold some relevance:
Here these bloggers are being attacked by anonymous agents because these particular bloggers are _NOT_ anonymous while posters can be. The solution to some of this may lie in *everyone* becoming anonymous and not the opposite (that everyone be a registered poster -auth issues). Thus no-one would have any axes to grind against a known party. Moreover, no one, even these technorati or whatever they indulgently call themselves, would have any seniority or rank on anyone. They'd be as anonymous and rankless as anyone else. Yes, accountability would dissipate but also this want for notoriety that is rife in online fora. "True" democracy.
2ch works in this fashion, why can't online fora work that way too?
Perspective:
"They" have not banned gambling outright. "They" have banned "online" gambling, as it were. All vice has not been banned or outlawed either.
Moreover, as evidenced by other countries' content filtering abilities (not infallible, but quite good) it is feasible to control online activities to a given extent, then a negligeable amount over that cannot effciently be controlled. "They", it would appear, would be satisfied with similar results.
Of course people are predicatable. Life is generally quite routine and quotidian. There should be no surprise in that. However, what is not predictable are those extraordinary things in life. Can one predict when a person might take the scenic way home? Can it be predicted when (or even why) someone might cheat on their lover or business partner? It's the extraordinary things that are almost by definition unpredictable without psychological insight.
That kind of asymmetric warfare is what citizens would do against a repressive state regime.
What does that explain? Repressive governments use any and all tools and methodologies to repress their populace. By your logic, you should be alarmed at the existence of the military because in their armory they have a set of weapons that matches that which repressive regimes have in their armories.
It's not the existence of weapons and methodologies that are cause for alarm, it's the application and usage and the willingness to make use of them in non-martial times.
So it well seems it's intended for military deployment to combat assymetric (and urban) warfare. That is to say to enable the military to seek out the offending insurgent/combatant after a martial event.
When your local constable gets interested in this technology then it'll be time for you to worry.
In the meantime keep an eye on the developments, but don't be alarmed just yet.
Doing homework is not all about rote memorization. It's limited by the teachers' imagination. So , I don't see how homework turns students into drones. No homework, however, can condition them into a life of little exertion, mentally.
Children in other counries attend cram (make-up classes) schools as standard practice (not extraordinary) They do that day-in day-out six days a week. Could we have become so weak and decrepit mentally that we cannot put up with some additional studying? This is ridiculous.
People are begininng to treat kinds (and themselves) as if they were fragile. We are not damned fragile as a species. If we had been so mentally fragile we would have not survied so long --we would have curled up and died many millenia ago.
What people can be is lazy, and the attitude is simply promoted futher by such thinking. We as a society will only suffer if this kind of thinking comes to prevail --the thinking that humans are tender fragile beings that need kind nurturing and the most basic incremental demands of one as a being.
This attitude is not the real world one encounters after high-school. Why the kid gloves?
So, in some cases they'll pay a station to play their music, other times they want to be paid to for the priviledge/right(if given) of playing their music. If you go by the logic of payola : exposure=more popularity tranlates to more sales. However, in this case, they want their exposure diminished for what exactly?
Yes, some day it will all come to naught. But, still, AFAIK we have not achieved that "New World Order" as yet. So why are they all over Germany's interests?
It's no wonder that some countries are not joining the EU.
Obviously the headline writers here aren't bowing to
SEOs...
No, it's not a recently discovered drug... A known drug has been found to be effective in fighting cancer.
And the reason it won't get any funding to study whether or not it's a real cure for cancer is because there's no money in it! If it's a cheap solution and it magically cures cancer... where's the profit in that?
It may be the case in North America and in some other Industrialized countries, but this would not be the case in Africa, India, and other countries where the cost of most drugs put them out of the reach or range of affordability for most people. This would be welcome news to health instititions in those countries, I would think.
Yes... so encryption in conjuction with illegal activities can be contrued as illegal....
but... what happens when encrytion is pervassive... then it will not be an exception, it will be the norm --and if it become the norm then it cannot be seen as an abnormal and obfuscating tactic or tool; it would be just another everyday hurdle for the forensics team.
This kind of attempt to brible people to peddle an agenda should carry consequences similar to that of obstruction of justice like tampering with a witness. This situation is tampering with science -as best understood. And the "scientists" who support or "cherry-pick" their data should be held to the same standards as front-people are held accountable if they (mis)-represent a product they know to be short of what is claimed --as it is in some states.
If these people get paid to mis-represent data (differing from soomeone who is simply on the misguided path in their scientific quest), the scientists in question if paid to support only a particular (biased) outcome, should be held to some account. With fines and depending on severity disqualification from their profession.
Conglomerates? MS is nothing compared to conglomerates with disparate businesses. look at the Hyundai, Samsung, Siemens, BASF, 3M, Misubishi, Hitachi chæbol/keiretsu and where they have their grubby hands in.. their tenatcles ^Whands are not virtually in everything they really are in everything from software, snacks, cars, machinery, computers, 3C electronics, etc.
Compared to those and the likes of GE and such, MS is merely tip-toeing beyond it core business.
I mean, remember where HP was? Printers, computers, calculators, hard drives, scientific equipment, toner, CPU design, OS development, etc....
But the real problem isn't with Microsoft itself. His opinion is that Microsoft has stopped focusing on end users. They 'now seemingly make many decisions based on these two things: 1. Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality) 2. Making sure the largest enterprise customers are happy.'"
How can Microsoft simultaneously focus on their large enterprise customers (who have hundreds of thousands of end users) and simultaneously stop focusing on end users?
Second: why would it be a negative to fucus on security and SW quality? Were these not the things MS was criticised the most for --for not focusing on security and quality enough --now this is their bane? What??? Make a straight argument. Or is he trying to say that MS is only pretending to address the issues and their main strategy is really a public relations strategy on security and SW quality?
I get his gist, but he's just not explaining himself clearly. In critizing MS he's using odd logic.
One ought to recall that not only was the American economy "built" on slavery but any other economy in the 18 and 19th century as well. Slavery be it the "indentured type", outright imported-people racial slavery (today's while slavery notwithstanding). All of Spain's and Portugal's colonies had massive amounts of slaves --see the the ratio of non-native people of African descent in Latin America. In addition, look at the situation as it was in Russia and India --sure the underclass weren't labelled slaves, but they were simply nominally not slaves. In practice they were and many were worse off than _some_ imported slaves in the Americas --I'm not trying to minimize the harship imported slaves went through, I'm pointing out that they were not the only ones exploited whose lives were "ruined" so-to-speak and whose lives had no outlook but stark misery and penury.
So, in the sense of lack of mobility, and liberty, and self-determination, economic viability many, many nations of today had "slave-based" economies back inthe days of yore.
Necessarily no DRM in this in order for the information to be made esily decrypted (no as in it having been encrypted but as in being analyzed and then interpreted correctly in the future.)
This (the problem with constantly evolving systems) is a problem which needs to be addressed in order that information or data created today can be accessible in the far future. That's not to say that everything and all information should be available to be stored (and retrievable) in this manner, but in the least public information.
with these kinds of powers.... nor more stonewalling from any parties in government.
I mean, so long as they are government and as such they have checks and balances and thus have jurusdiction over each other and in special circumstances if they suspect sonewalling or lack or cooperation they could invoke these powers... imagine corruption in government going down (or in the least be exposed)...
But given that the laws here are different and that agencies most of the time -except for egregious offences- kind of don't see, ask or tell.
Imagine the juicy bits the executive might have (altho I susoect the legislative to have much more but not as tantalizing......
While from the article I can gather there is merit to probiotic food, let's hope it does not become another coöpted marketing fad whereby anything and everything is labelled probiotic just for the sake of riding the coattails of the success of producs where such bacteria do make health sense and is important.
I can forsee this parallelling the fat-free craze where they'd (food companies) label things which always were naturally fat free labelled as being-100% fat free (implying that competing products not labelled so did have fat.) I'm surprised no-one ever went so far as labelling water as fat-free.
Call it bootlegging and call it a day.
Well, it's what the hippies called it when they made unauthorized copies of music. So kind of borrow the term and extend its meaning.
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Also try to make it a place where they don't use IS08559 Wesrern character encoding.
Will the makers ensure it won't suffer from alien hand syndrome and go nuts knocking things over or from doing things the owner simply didn't intend it to do ^-^?
So to some extent violating NDAs and spies giving up info to their sponsors would be legal now under this interpretation of Free Speech since those can be interpreted as free, truthful speech, eh? Maybe they won't go for this because it would elevate many other less savory conduct to legal status.
That might mean that unless Xerox licese this tech, only they could use it --meaning no-one else could harvest information this way. Hurrah! Here's for hoping, anyway...
The old saying "live by the sword die by the sword" may hold some relevance: Here these bloggers are being attacked by anonymous agents because these particular bloggers are _NOT_ anonymous while posters can be. The solution to some of this may lie in *everyone* becoming anonymous and not the opposite (that everyone be a registered poster -auth issues). Thus no-one would have any axes to grind against a known party. Moreover, no one, even these technorati or whatever they indulgently call themselves, would have any seniority or rank on anyone. They'd be as anonymous and rankless as anyone else. Yes, accountability would dissipate but also this want for notoriety that is rife in online fora. "True" democracy. 2ch works in this fashion, why can't online fora work that way too?
Perspective:
"They" have not banned gambling outright. "They" have banned "online" gambling, as it were. All vice has not been banned or outlawed either. Moreover, as evidenced by other countries' content filtering abilities (not infallible, but quite good) it is feasible to control online activities to a given extent, then a negligeable amount over that cannot effciently be controlled. "They", it would appear, would be satisfied with similar results.
Of course people are predicatable. Life is generally quite routine and quotidian. There should be no surprise in that. However, what is not predictable are those extraordinary things in life. Can one predict when a person might take the scenic way home? Can it be predicted when (or even why) someone might cheat on their lover or business partner? It's the extraordinary things that are almost by definition unpredictable without psychological insight.
It's not the existence of weapons and methodologies that are cause for alarm, it's the application and usage and the willingness to make use of them in non-martial times.
So it well seems it's intended for military deployment to combat assymetric (and urban) warfare. That is to say to enable the military to seek out the offending insurgent/combatant after a martial event. When your local constable gets interested in this technology then it'll be time for you to worry. In the meantime keep an eye on the developments, but don't be alarmed just yet.
Doing homework is not all about rote memorization. It's limited by the teachers' imagination. So , I don't see how homework turns students into drones. No homework, however, can condition them into a life of little exertion, mentally.
Children in other counries attend cram (make-up classes) schools as standard practice (not extraordinary) They do that day-in day-out six days a week. Could we have become so weak and decrepit mentally that we cannot put up with some additional studying? This is ridiculous.
People are begininng to treat kinds (and themselves) as if they were fragile. We are not damned fragile as a species. If we had been so mentally fragile we would have not survied so long --we would have curled up and died many millenia ago. What people can be is lazy, and the attitude is simply promoted futher by such thinking. We as a society will only suffer if this kind of thinking comes to prevail --the thinking that humans are tender fragile beings that need kind nurturing and the most basic incremental demands of one as a being. This attitude is not the real world one encounters after high-school. Why the kid gloves?
So, in some cases they'll pay a station to play their music, other times they want to be paid to for the priviledge/right(if given) of playing their music. If you go by the logic of payola : exposure=more popularity tranlates to more sales. However, in this case, they want their exposure diminished for what exactly?
Yes, some day it will all come to naught. But, still, AFAIK we have not achieved that "New World Order" as yet. So why are they all over Germany's interests? It's no wonder that some countries are not joining the EU.
So, I hope that we don't begin to see inumerable amounts of bot-generated Gmail accountslike one finds in other web-based email services.
Yes... so encryption in conjuction with illegal activities can be contrued as illegal.... but... what happens when encrytion is pervassive... then it will not be an exception, it will be the norm --and if it become the norm then it cannot be seen as an abnormal and obfuscating tactic or tool; it would be just another everyday hurdle for the forensics team.
This kind of attempt to brible people to peddle an agenda should carry consequences similar to that of obstruction of justice like tampering with a witness. This situation is tampering with science -as best understood. And the "scientists" who support or "cherry-pick" their data should be held to the same standards as front-people are held accountable if they (mis)-represent a product they know to be short of what is claimed --as it is in some states.
If these people get paid to mis-represent data (differing from soomeone who is simply on the misguided path in their scientific quest), the scientists in question if paid to support only a particular (biased) outcome, should be held to some account. With fines and depending on severity disqualification from their profession.
Conglomerates? MS is nothing compared to conglomerates with disparate businesses. look at the Hyundai, Samsung, Siemens, BASF, 3M, Misubishi, Hitachi chæbol/keiretsu and where they have their grubby hands in.. their tenatcles ^Whands are not virtually in everything they really are in everything from software, snacks, cars, machinery, computers, 3C electronics, etc.
Compared to those and the likes of GE and such, MS is merely tip-toeing beyond it core business.
I mean, remember where HP was? Printers, computers, calculators, hard drives, scientific equipment, toner, CPU design, OS development, etc....MS has little on them...
How can Microsoft simultaneously focus on their large enterprise customers (who have hundreds of thousands of end users) and simultaneously stop focusing on end users?
Second: why would it be a negative to fucus on security and SW quality? Were these not the things MS was criticised the most for --for not focusing on security and quality enough --now this is their bane? What??? Make a straight argument. Or is he trying to say that MS is only pretending to address the issues and their main strategy is really a public relations strategy on security and SW quality?
I get his gist, but he's just not explaining himself clearly. In critizing MS he's using odd logic.
throw that boy some coffee
One ought to recall that not only was the American economy "built" on slavery but any other economy in the 18 and 19th century as well. Slavery be it the "indentured type", outright imported-people racial slavery (today's while slavery notwithstanding). All of Spain's and Portugal's colonies had massive amounts of slaves --see the the ratio of non-native people of African descent in Latin America. In addition, look at the situation as it was in Russia and India --sure the underclass weren't labelled slaves, but they were simply nominally not slaves. In practice they were and many were worse off than _some_ imported slaves in the Americas --I'm not trying to minimize the harship imported slaves went through, I'm pointing out that they were not the only ones exploited whose lives were "ruined" so-to-speak and whose lives had no outlook but stark misery and penury.
So, in the sense of lack of mobility, and liberty, and self-determination, economic viability many, many nations of today had "slave-based" economies back inthe days of yore.
SCO should have hired her. She could have told them their scam's chance was slim.
This (the problem with constantly evolving systems) is a problem which needs to be addressed in order that information or data created today can be accessible in the far future. That's not to say that everything and all information should be available to be stored (and retrievable) in this manner, but in the least public information.
with these kinds of powers.... nor more stonewalling from any parties in government. I mean, so long as they are government and as such they have checks and balances and thus have jurusdiction over each other and in special circumstances if they suspect sonewalling or lack or cooperation they could invoke these powers... imagine corruption in government going down (or in the least be exposed)...
But given that the laws here are different and that agencies most of the time -except for egregious offences- kind of don't see, ask or tell.
Imagine the juicy bits the executive might have (altho I susoect the legislative to have much more but not as tantalizing......
While from the article I can gather there is merit to probiotic food, let's hope it does not become another coöpted marketing fad whereby anything and everything is labelled probiotic just for the sake of riding the coattails of the success of producs where such bacteria do make health sense and is important.
I can forsee this parallelling the fat-free craze where they'd (food companies) label things which always were naturally fat free labelled as being-100% fat free (implying that competing products not labelled so did have fat.) I'm surprised no-one ever went so far as labelling water as fat-free.
Call it bootlegging and call it a day. Well, it's what the hippies called it when they made unauthorized copies of music. So kind of borrow the term and extend its meaning.