If they have a warrant to collect emails to/from a specific person, fine. If they don't have a warrant, any evidence collected is inadmissible in court.
then they shouldn't whine when they don't get the techie geek jobs and the bucks that go with them. Its a shame that women accept the stereotype of geekhood as being unfeminine.
Don't get me wrong! I think that there is definitely a place in geek-dom for women. I married a geek gal, and in a lot of ways she's sharper than me.
At the current time, there is to obvious economic benifit to going beyond geosyncronous orbit. Yet all of these organizations believe that we should so proceed. Why? Because there are abundant resources available on the moon, Mars, and asteroids. No, they are not in the forms that we are used to using them, but they are the same 100 odd elements of which everything here on Earth is made. I will not repeat the cases for going to the various bodies in our solar system... the different organizations which I listed above, and others like them, make a better case that I have time or space for here.
Currently, the chief restriction to executing any of these exploration and development programs is the high cost of getting materials into orbit. Face it, the space shuttle is overpriced, and alternative launch vehicles are not much better. However, several private firms (in addition to several government contractors) are in a race to develope low cost launch systems. Will they succeed? Almost certainly so within the next five years.
And once we have low cost (relative term) launch systems, I expect we will see a space tourism market begin. That will probably be the early economic force in the development of space.
And beyond that? As Robert Heinlein said in his writing, "Once you reach Low Earth Orbit, you are half way to anywhere in the Solar System."
Judge Jackson and DOJ aren't going to be satisfied with much less than a breakup of MS. Competitors (Apple, etc.) would like to see total liquidation and confiscation of MS assets. MS wishes it could get off with a slap on the wrist.
He has not provided details beyond the fact that NetPD's software "works like 5,000 humans sitting in a room doing Web searches" to identify thousands of user names very quickly. He insists that to say more would enable Napster and other MP3 programs to block the software.
So what will happen when this program results are submitted as evidence in court? How can it be without saying how it works (at least in general terms)? NetPD will have to, and then Napster, etc. will be able to block it.
it will be illegal to play to your CDs, because listening to them may allow someone else to hear the music without having paid a licensing fee to the record companies.
One of these days, someone is going to figure out a storage scheme comparable to MP3, and work out a deal directly with the artists. Then, the recording companies, and those few artists who are siding with them (hear us Metallica?) will be left out in the cold as the rest of us get on with our lives.
At least it is if you don't ask it to do anything too complicated. However, for a simple branched logic program such as might be implemented for this judiciary system, it would be perfectly adequate, and easily implemented. There won't be that many possible paths that they wouldn't be quickly debugged as problems are reported from the field.
For that matter, a program written in Perl, or C, or Java isn't necessarily going to do the job any better than one written in VB. It might be more robust, but if the logic is wrong, its wrong.
Even if space-time is flat across the entire universe, it is curved when there is a large amount of matter involved. This has been observed by astronomical observation, where light from distant objects is distorted by closer objects. So if space is flat, it is a pimpled surface, rather than smooth.
No argument about the need to be educated and informed. But by that logic, kids should be blocked from ALL political sites.
On the other hand, the kids have got to learn sometime. I think it would be better to let 'em look, and then discuss it with them so they can become educated and informed and learn to make their own decisions.
The Democratic, Green, and Reform party? Gun Safety groups? If this kind of thing can be shown to continue, I suspect that some powerful groups will be looking to bring a class action suit against AOL.
I don't use AOL, and this is just one more reason not to. The one time Cyber Patrol got loaded on my home computer (as part of another program's install), I couldn't get it off soon enough. I don't let my kids (9 & 2) look at certain things on the net, but _I_ decide what is appropriate!
I am about to become a test subject for trial HDTV broadcasting later this month. Of course rather than just issuing us a box, they are providing a computer board to do the same thing (and a high-end graphics card if we don't have one), so that we have the HDTV signal pumped directly into the computer, from where we can route it to the TV. Best of all, after the test is over, we get to keep the goodies for free. =7)
On the set side, I was in a Circuit City store a couple of months ago looking at big screen TVs. I wasn't really considering one of the grainy beasts very seriously until I saw a 61" HDTV. WOW! The only question is, how long do I have to wait until I can pony up the $8k the thing costs? Definitely no later than the end of this year, and depending on the stock market (and my stock options), it may be considerably sooner.
As far as misuse of airwaves as described in this article, these things have a way of catching up with the misusers. Meanwhile, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the picture.
I'll accept the concept of outfitting troops with high tech interfaces suitable for the modern battlefield. But I'm wondering about some things. The enemy (presuming we're fighting a war against a modern army) will have radio detection capabilities. One of the things you didn't do when I was in the army was use your radio for long transmissions, or it might invite artillary fire on your coordinates (even back then! and the detectors are faster now). I hope they have a way to avoid detection of their electronics transmissions. Gonzo
While it is true that the energy gathering capability of the smaller dishes is much less than the large antenna at Arecibo, the resolution of the signal is not a factor of the gathering area so much as the position of the antenna. 100 12' dishes scattered over 1000 miles would act like a 1000 mile dish, except that the actally intensity of the signal would not be as great.
that this kind of service will have a place in the world... perhaps for mobile computing? I wouldn't want to use it for standard service from my desktop if DSL or Cable Modem is available. Not sure about telephone modem... it would depend on how badly I need the higher throughput.
I also live in an area where Time Warner has the Cable TV monopoly. Last year they started announcing the coming availability of Cable Modems, which we were really looking forward to, after waiting on our modem too many times. The original word was that the new service would be available in mid-winter.
It is now mid-spring, and we are no closer to seeing cable modem service. In addition, we don't expect to see it in this area anytime soon, since if TW is as service oriented in their Cable Modem line as they are with their Cable TV, then I don't want any part of it. (Cable rates go up almost monthly, and available channels always seem to decrease.)
When Mindspring began offering ADSL in our area, we grabbed that immediately. (Their service is good, and they DO support all platforms). Not as fast as cable, but fast enough.
We also discontinued ALL cable TV service with Time Warner (except for minimum basic service, for local channels), and installed a satellite.
AOL has always had a bad reputation with the computer knowledgable. But at least they provide an honest service (no matter how masses oriented). Time Warner is dishonest.
While lots of us are cheering the results of yesterday's court ruling, it almost seems to me that it is like the case of a bunch of kids who finally realize they can beat up the school yard bully when they gang up on him.
Microsoft is no longer a dominating factor in the new online community. Its still a factor, but it isn't the only one. There are going to be lots of other things that will concern me more. Things like the the DMCA.
is here. Unfotunately, I didn't see anything in it that actually stated what the two sides' positions were... just that they were still far apart.
Does anyone have a good take on what MS's latest settlement offering was? What I've been reading is that the one thing they wouldn't consider was a breakup. If that was the only thing they wouldn't consider, it implies that this was they only thing that DOJ, et al would consider adequate.
I just took time out to actually read the DMCA. First, let me say, I agree that it is a bad law just because of the intent of the chief backer's, the music industry. That said, I would like to state that the first thing I see is a glaring hole that will allow the decryption technology that it is aimed at to be continued to be available:
Paragraph 1, and its subparagraphs, tells us that "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title". Right. This is the part that we're all up in arms about. But read on to paragraph 2: "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that... has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title..."
Isn't one of our chief complaints that DMCA will lock up an otherwise useful technology? Doesn't this part of the law open the door right back up? I read it as saying that decryption technologies that might be used to decrypt music files are still OK, as long as that is not what you use them for.
Okay, this may be radical, but could NASA have intentially designed the lander to fail? Lets say that their intent was to have an inexpensive failure to point to so that they could go to Congress and say "See what happens when we don't spend enough money? Good thing it wasn't a manned craft!"
... the movie industry invoked a section of the copyright law that provides that no person shall offer "any technology, product, service, device, component or part thereof [that is] produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to" a copyrighted work.
So if the deCSS includes a quicksort routine, that quicksort, by virtue of being a part of a technology used for the purpose of circuventing the copyright, is now illegal.
What will they claim next? That the law of gravity is illegal?
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If they have a warrant to collect emails to/from a specific person, fine. If they don't have a warrant, any evidence collected is inadmissible in court.
Gonzo
then they shouldn't whine when they don't get the techie geek jobs and the bucks that go with them. Its a shame that women accept the stereotype of geekhood as being unfeminine.
Don't get me wrong! I think that there is definitely a place in geek-dom for women. I married a geek gal, and in a lot of ways she's sharper than me.
Gonzo
There are a number of organizations who are interested in developing space for its commercial applications. These include (but are not limited to):
At the current time, there is to obvious economic benifit to going beyond geosyncronous orbit. Yet all of these organizations believe that we should so proceed. Why? Because there are abundant resources available on the moon, Mars, and asteroids. No, they are not in the forms that we are used to using them, but they are the same 100 odd elements of which everything here on Earth is made. I will not repeat the cases for going to the various bodies in our solar system... the different organizations which I listed above, and others like them, make a better case that I have time or space for here.
Currently, the chief restriction to executing any of these exploration and development programs is the high cost of getting materials into orbit. Face it, the space shuttle is overpriced, and alternative launch vehicles are not much better. However, several private firms (in addition to several government contractors) are in a race to develope low cost launch systems. Will they succeed? Almost certainly so within the next five years.
And once we have low cost (relative term) launch systems, I expect we will see a space tourism market begin. That will probably be the early economic force in the development of space.
And beyond that? As Robert Heinlein said in his writing, "Once you reach Low Earth Orbit, you are half way to anywhere in the Solar System."
Gonzo
Oops, that right. The Cassi uses WinCE. And has 32MB. Still a sucky interface, but no worse than the Palms.
Gonzo
Judge Jackson and DOJ aren't going to be satisfied with much less than a breakup of MS. Competitors (Apple, etc.) would like to see total liquidation and confiscation of MS assets. MS wishes it could get off with a slap on the wrist.
Gonzo
He has not provided details beyond the fact that NetPD's software "works like 5,000 humans sitting in a room doing Web searches" to identify thousands of user names very quickly. He insists that to say more would enable Napster and other MP3 programs to block the software.
So what will happen when this program results are submitted as evidence in court? How can it be without saying how it works (at least in general terms)? NetPD will have to, and then Napster, etc. will be able to block it.
Gonzo
it will be illegal to play to your CDs, because listening to them may allow someone else to hear the music without having paid a licensing fee to the record companies.
One of these days, someone is going to figure out a storage scheme comparable to MP3, and work out a deal directly with the artists. Then, the recording companies, and those few artists who are siding with them (hear us Metallica?) will be left out in the cold as the rest of us get on with our lives.
Gonzo
At least it is if you don't ask it to do anything too complicated. However, for a simple branched logic program such as might be implemented for this judiciary system, it would be perfectly adequate, and easily implemented. There won't be that many possible paths that they wouldn't be quickly debugged as problems are reported from the field.
For that matter, a program written in Perl, or C, or Java isn't necessarily going to do the job any better than one written in VB. It might be more robust, but if the logic is wrong, its wrong.
Gonzo
Even if space-time is flat across the entire universe, it is curved when there is a large amount of matter involved. This has been observed by astronomical observation, where light from distant objects is distorted by closer objects. So if space is flat, it is a pimpled surface, rather than smooth.
Gonzo
No argument about the need to be educated and informed. But by that logic, kids should be blocked from ALL political sites.
On the other hand, the kids have got to learn sometime. I think it would be better to let 'em look, and then discuss it with them so they can become educated and informed and learn to make their own decisions.
Gonzo
The Democratic, Green, and Reform party? Gun Safety groups? If this kind of thing can be shown to continue, I suspect that some powerful groups will be looking to bring a class action suit against AOL.
I don't use AOL, and this is just one more reason not to. The one time Cyber Patrol got loaded on my home computer (as part of another program's install), I couldn't get it off soon enough. I don't let my kids (9 & 2) look at certain things on the net, but _I_ decide what is appropriate!
Gonzo
such places as Washington, DC must be very polluted, with the effects being apparent even in some of the adults.
Gonzo
Its slow coming, but its coming.
I am about to become a test subject for trial HDTV broadcasting later this month. Of course rather than just issuing us a box, they are providing a computer board to do the same thing (and a high-end graphics card if we don't have one), so that we have the HDTV signal pumped directly into the computer, from where we can route it to the TV. Best of all, after the test is over, we get to keep the goodies for free. =7)
On the set side, I was in a Circuit City store a couple of months ago looking at big screen TVs. I wasn't really considering one of the grainy beasts very seriously until I saw a 61" HDTV. WOW! The only question is, how long do I have to wait until I can pony up the $8k the thing costs? Definitely no later than the end of this year, and depending on the stock market (and my stock options), it may be considerably sooner.
As far as misuse of airwaves as described in this article, these things have a way of catching up with the misusers. Meanwhile, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the picture.
Gonzo
I'll accept the concept of outfitting troops with high tech interfaces suitable for the modern battlefield. But I'm wondering about some things. The enemy (presuming we're fighting a war against a modern army) will have radio detection capabilities. One of the things you didn't do when I was in the army was use your radio for long transmissions, or it might invite artillary fire on your coordinates (even back then! and the detectors are faster now). I hope they have a way to avoid detection of their electronics transmissions.
Gonzo
While it is true that the energy gathering capability of the smaller dishes is much less than the large antenna at Arecibo, the resolution of the signal is not a factor of the gathering area so much as the position of the antenna. 100 12' dishes scattered over 1000 miles would act like a 1000 mile dish, except that the actally intensity of the signal would not be as great.
Gonzo
that this kind of service will have a place in the world... perhaps for mobile computing? I wouldn't want to use it for standard service from my desktop if DSL or Cable Modem is available. Not sure about telephone modem... it would depend on how badly I need the higher throughput.
Gonzo
that if your electronics glitch, your engine won't run poorly... it just won't run.
Then there will be the car running on an MS O/S. Needs to be rebooted at least once a day.
Gonzo
I'm sure that there are plenty of Credit Card thieves out there who would be overjoyed to hear this attitude from their victims... er, clients.
I don't know about you, but I would be just as happy if certain information is not publicly available for anyone who wants to view it.
Gonzo
I also live in an area where Time Warner has the Cable TV monopoly. Last year they started announcing the coming availability of Cable Modems, which we were really looking forward to, after waiting on our modem too many times. The original word was that the new service would be available in mid-winter.
It is now mid-spring, and we are no closer to seeing cable modem service. In addition, we don't expect to see it in this area anytime soon, since if TW is as service oriented in their Cable Modem line as they are with their Cable TV, then I don't want any part of it. (Cable rates go up almost monthly, and available channels always seem to decrease.)
When Mindspring began offering ADSL in our area, we grabbed that immediately. (Their service is good, and they DO support all platforms). Not as fast as cable, but fast enough.
We also discontinued ALL cable TV service with Time Warner (except for minimum basic service, for local channels), and installed a satellite.
AOL has always had a bad reputation with the computer knowledgable. But at least they provide an honest service (no matter how masses oriented). Time Warner is dishonest.
Just my opinion
Gonzo
While lots of us are cheering the results of yesterday's court ruling, it almost seems to me that it is like the case of a bunch of kids who finally realize they can beat up the school yard bully when they gang up on him.
Microsoft is no longer a dominating factor in the new online community. Its still a factor, but it isn't the only one. There are going to be lots of other things that will concern me more. Things like the the DMCA.
Gonzo
is here. Unfotunately, I didn't see anything in it that actually stated what the two sides' positions were... just that they were still far apart.
Does anyone have a good take on what MS's latest settlement offering was? What I've been reading is that the one thing they wouldn't consider was a breakup. If that was the only thing they wouldn't consider, it implies that this was they only thing that DOJ, et al would consider adequate.
Gonzo
And when they come out with a marketable version, it will be called HAL.
Gonzo
I just took time out to actually read the DMCA. First, let me say, I agree that it is a bad law just because of the intent of the chief backer's, the music industry. That said, I would like to state that the first thing I see is a glaring hole that will allow the decryption technology that it is aimed at to be continued to be available:
Paragraph 1, and its subparagraphs, tells us that "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title". Right. This is the part that we're all up in arms about. But read on to paragraph 2: "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that... has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title..."
Isn't one of our chief complaints that DMCA will lock up an otherwise useful technology? Doesn't this part of the law open the door right back up? I read it as saying that decryption technologies that might be used to decrypt music files are still OK, as long as that is not what you use them for.Just my take.
Gonzo
Okay, this may be radical, but could NASA have intentially designed the lander to fail? Lets say that their intent was to have an inexpensive failure to point to so that they could go to Congress and say "See what happens when we don't spend enough money? Good thing it wasn't a manned craft!"
Gonzo
So if the deCSS includes a quicksort routine, that quicksort, by virtue of being a part of a technology used for the purpose of circuventing the copyright, is now illegal.
What will they claim next? That the law of gravity is illegal?
Gonzo