People killing other people is not natural. It's largest form, war, is incited by government and religious establishments. Usually due to a disagreement that none of those involved actually give a damn about. I grew up in Texas in a town where the military steadily recruited tons of my friends... to what end?
To quote System of a Down: "Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?".
No one but the mentally ill kills because they want to. The functionally mentally ill get others to do it for them.
I have no problem with nudity. Violence is another matter. I do understand everyone's arguments against "government censorship" and what not, but the argument about jail time is silly. The only people that will end up thrown in jail would be those who willfully continue to make violent things after the law is passed.
I know how to teach my children, and I help them to discern these things every day.... but who needs it, seriously? Are we really entertained by the blood and gore? Obviously... but it's sad. Sounds hippy and tree-hugger I'm sure. But violence isn't entertaining to me, it's crass.
If you read the article, it says things that "incite violence and hate". Sorry, but over the years I've grown tired of the military writing war simulators to train my kids. I've played these games, I know what they are. Child or adult, it just glorifies violence. If the US were more focused on deterring violence instead of sexual explicitness we'd be far better off. Sex is natural, killing other humans is not.
As a gamer this saddens me. As a parent I applaud the effort. However, seizing the consoles seems overboard. Many non-violent games exist. Seize the games, not the consoles.
Once I enjoyed the life of developing software that helped Mesothelioma victims get what they justly deserved, their day in court, dead or alive. Once I knew of a wonderful little place in West Texas that, unlike California courts, allowed video and technology in their court rooms. The court saw the tremendous benefit it provided to both presenting cases and to expediting the process, and so brought on more.
I grew to know a city government run over by tech vendors, which, realizing a very real and honest opportunity to present technology to legislative America, let the salesmen loose and forgot to teach their customers how to use products.
I now know a city that legislates shady tech patents in order to pay for all the pretty toys that they continually need new versions of. This little town became Silicon Valley to the legal world, and if they let that escape, the town will bust.
I bear no sympathy for them, even the judges know what they are doing is wrong. The fruitage of the tech industry's loins, prior art, will arise to take it's place. In the mean time the court, the vendors, and the lawyers, win or lose, will all rape the industry of much needed R&D funds from creative people by telling those creative people exactly what they want to hear:
"You're absolutely right, we should sue them!"
Patent trolls are a leach on our way of life. Bleed your clients, your employers, the judicial system, and the rights of all those who worked to get their product out, and it won't mean a thing. In the end you still can't come up with your own ideas, and trying to buy them all will get you no where. History does not remember the first man who bought the cotton gin.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, it would appear to be a buffer overflow attack against the "style" element. Seeing that IE6-7 are the only current browsers that handle CSS behaviors (basically javascript in CSS) I'm going to make an educated guess and say it stems from the validation (and execution of) Javascript in CSS.
Was this feature was purchased with the phone? I see a class action looming if so. Manufacturers do not hold the right to downgrade product after purchase.
All persons whom understand encryption also understand that there is no such thing as perfect encryption. Anonymizing(sp?) data works using roughly the same methods as encryption, and there is no such thing as an unbreakable encryption. We can only hope for "acceptable". I'd assume the most acceptable means of anonymizing data would be to allow the user to first choose what gets scrubbed out, followed by a sort of data "blacklist" compiled by experts. The real problem here is that companies selling this data have a vested interest in never getting it quite right.
This is wonderful news. Ideas like these are the kind of things that turn energy into a free for all. Remember the water cycle? Any American was taught this process by at least middle school. IMHO creating an "Energy Cycle" is our ultimate goal here. Who knew a septic tank would end up back in style? Hook up a few power cables and whammo! Instant power station.
Yes, I'm full of shit. I have the power.
Coming from an era when even education versions of Microsoft's software would cost a bit of scratch, I can only applaud this move. Course/Project Management software needs to be flexible and accessible. I believe this meets both criteria.
Ah, and here is the true paradox (at least by Texas law).
1) Around the time this offense occurred, any user can attest to the unreliability of media on KaZaA. File names didn't even match their titles.
2) Where I'm from, we have this notion that a officer of the law cannot be performing an illegal act while performing their civil duty. In memory this applied to police officers illegally parked in medians to create speed traps. If Media Sentry ever did download these files, they would have been in violation.
3) Let's say that MS knew it was the right file because they first seeded it onto the network, this wreaks of entrapment.
I bring these things up because I sense a bit of smugness from Thomas, she's up to something.
The HD manufacturing date could be argued out. Those understanding HD recovery also understand that there are scenarios where she could meet her legal requirements and provide a different drive, or she could have been giving the failure date, not the replacement date. We must also take into consideration that a) maybe she isn't the one who swapped it and b) this is a sticker, not digital info from the drive.
All that aside I agree she has her work cut out for her. On firs tread it seems both sides may be pushing the law a bit. I do have a couple questions though:
Has the question of which Kazaa client was installed been answered? There were malware versions of the client, so I would assume these would need to be ruled out.
Has the possibility of the Windows XP "at hack" been resolved? I know this is a real stretch, but those understanding this fairly simple exploit could get around her password. If the computer had been exploited in anyway, it's completely reasonable that the username on Kazaa would match the machine username.
It is obvious the RIAA has set out to make an example of Thomas. If she's guilty then it's understandable that they had to choose -someone-. However, Americans have proven our disregard for our credit scores. All this will prove is that they can hold a big slot on your report, and my assumption is most creditors would begin to glance over them like medical debts if the RIAA makes them common.
Poster has purposefully written flame bait. The article expresses that this will not answer a creationism vs. ape evolution debate, and that the fossils discovered could be an ancestor of lemurs, monkeys, and humans. Forget your opinions on this matter and mod the post as such.
The unfortunate side affect off decentralization is degradation of initial ramp up time for downloads. While the "hunt for a participating IP" system does work, it has historically been a last-ditch approach for networks which were slowly dieing. This is in no way meant to insult BT's trackerless system. It works beautifully. However, in the end it really exists as a support to the swarms, not as the backbone.
Forgive the crudeness, but this is bull. Bit Torrent has survived a major tracker shutdown before (Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprnova.org). Traffic will redirect, other trackers will open in their place, and things will return to normal within a week.
Some biblical scholars believe that the Earth was once surrounded by a water canopy. This later came down during the great flood. One could think of this as basically a super-humid environment, with the majority lying on the outskirts of our atmosphere. That science would find returning the atmosphere to that state beneficial is no surprise.
I was using my religious views simply to offer a comparison of like subjects. The work to find the Grand Unified Theory / Theory of Everything is not unlike to search for God. Contrary to what most is Christendom would have you believe, science and physics sits just fine with the Bible.
If you're going to flame me on my religion, please take the time to do so accurately. We don't believe in rapture. It's a silly idea primarily promoted by John Nelson Darby.
And to those Modding comments: C'mon, seriously, modding an obvious flame higher than an honest attempt at discussion? Shame.
Both popular science and popular religion seem to be pushing towards the "every answer is right in some form" conclusion. IMO this is just a failed attempt at the truth, and here's why:
I studied most of the world's religions for many years before settling on the congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't believe that everyone has got it right. Whether we like or not, somebody does have it right. Popular religion has fallen into this pattern in order to promote tolerance. Just because they all have certain principals in common is no proof they are all talking about the same god.
I have also studied physics for many years, and have a decent grasp on String and M-Theory. While the 11th dimension is a convenient mathematical model to explain every POSSIBILITY, to bastardize the Jedi: "This is not the solution you were looking for". It seems like a cop-out. Allowing for every possibility "somewhere else" just leaves us in the same boat theoretically, and will leave this branch science in the same boat as evolution: claiming a unproven theory is fact before it has proven factual.
I urge these scientists: If you must continue down this path, it would seem prudent to find the "Grand Unified Theory" for our own universe before you tumble into an infinitely-recursive dimensional discovery.
These sorts of things should have never been left to the hands of the business sector. I would never champion F/OSS as the answer to every problem, but in this case it seems quite clear that a transparent SIMPLE solution will be the answer.
I'd also like to point out that the problems that keep creeping up with these machines are just straight up ridiculous. Let's look at a few:
Open USB ports: Seriously? It's not exactly difficult to disable them, like many IT offices do and have done for years.
Poor touch screen arrangement/responsiveness: This technology is far from new. My grandmother knows how to understand a touchscreen, and so does yours, no matter what you want to believe. If the ballot looks confusing, it was intentional.
Rouge software: This one is my favorite. Voting "technology" is not a crazy science; it's a bunch of people re-inventing "check the box". The machines most likely won't (or wouldn't if done right) need software upgrades. The most external "programming" they should ever need is to update the candidates on them. Why are these things running full pc hardware/software? The simplest answer is usually the best.
While I don't find it hard to believe that an elitist group would seek to control elections this way, my gut tells me it really comes down to is Corporate America selling the Y2K fix for democracy. Just like then it's mostly unnecessary, and for what we'll pay we should have just bought a better ballot.
As a developer who primarily works with C#/.Net, with a little PHP on the side, IMO this addition is long overdue. It would be nice to have a more standard separator, but when I RTFA they seem to have a just reason for it, and it's using semantics that PHP coders are used to. I will happily adjust myself in this ONE manor in order to reap the MANY benefits of namespaces.
While am very much delighted with the fact that Congress has loosened the reigns a little, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 (WSA) does not seem to go the direction I expected.
For those who didn't RTFA regarding WSA or just don't understand, it, the important part is this:
"This subparagraph shall not apply to the extent that the receiving agent and a webcaster that is party to an agreement entered into pursuant to subparagraph (A) expressly authorize the submission of the agreement in a proceeding under this subsection"
In short: Webcasters may now attempt to negotiate pricing with the "recieving agent" (ie SoundExchange aka RIAA), but leaves Webcasters in the same boat if an agreement isn't reached. Companies will usually go for some money instead of none, but the RIAA plays by different rules. All this legislation will do is give the RIAA the ability to pick and choose which small webcasters get to survive.
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You've completely missed the point of the comment, and at the same time validated it. Thanks.
People killing other people is not natural. It's largest form, war, is incited by government and religious establishments. Usually due to a disagreement that none of those involved actually give a damn about. I grew up in Texas in a town where the military steadily recruited tons of my friends... to what end? To quote System of a Down: "Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?". No one but the mentally ill kills because they want to. The functionally mentally ill get others to do it for them.
I have no problem with nudity. Violence is another matter. I do understand everyone's arguments against "government censorship" and what not, but the argument about jail time is silly. The only people that will end up thrown in jail would be those who willfully continue to make violent things after the law is passed. I know how to teach my children, and I help them to discern these things every day.... but who needs it, seriously? Are we really entertained by the blood and gore? Obviously... but it's sad. Sounds hippy and tree-hugger I'm sure. But violence isn't entertaining to me, it's crass.
If you read the article, it says things that "incite violence and hate". Sorry, but over the years I've grown tired of the military writing war simulators to train my kids. I've played these games, I know what they are. Child or adult, it just glorifies violence. If the US were more focused on deterring violence instead of sexual explicitness we'd be far better off. Sex is natural, killing other humans is not.
As a gamer this saddens me. As a parent I applaud the effort. However, seizing the consoles seems overboard. Many non-violent games exist. Seize the games, not the consoles.
Once I enjoyed the life of developing software that helped Mesothelioma victims get what they justly deserved, their day in court, dead or alive. Once I knew of a wonderful little place in West Texas that, unlike California courts, allowed video and technology in their court rooms. The court saw the tremendous benefit it provided to both presenting cases and to expediting the process, and so brought on more.
I grew to know a city government run over by tech vendors, which, realizing a very real and honest opportunity to present technology to legislative America, let the salesmen loose and forgot to teach their customers how to use products.
I now know a city that legislates shady tech patents in order to pay for all the pretty toys that they continually need new versions of. This little town became Silicon Valley to the legal world, and if they let that escape, the town will bust.
I bear no sympathy for them, even the judges know what they are doing is wrong. The fruitage of the tech industry's loins, prior art, will arise to take it's place. In the mean time the court, the vendors, and the lawyers, win or lose, will all rape the industry of much needed R&D funds from creative people by telling those creative people exactly what they want to hear:
"You're absolutely right, we should sue them!"
Patent trolls are a leach on our way of life. Bleed your clients, your employers, the judicial system, and the rights of all those who worked to get their product out, and it won't mean a thing. In the end you still can't come up with your own ideas, and trying to buy them all will get you no where. History does not remember the first man who bought the cotton gin.
If I'm interpreting this correctly, it would appear to be a buffer overflow attack against the "style" element. Seeing that IE6-7 are the only current browsers that handle CSS behaviors (basically javascript in CSS) I'm going to make an educated guess and say it stems from the validation (and execution of) Javascript in CSS.
What to hide your stash? Apparently fresh fruit does an awesome job of throwing off dogs, or so it would seem.
Was this feature was purchased with the phone? I see a class action looming if so. Manufacturers do not hold the right to downgrade product after purchase.
All persons whom understand encryption also understand that there is no such thing as perfect encryption. Anonymizing(sp?) data works using roughly the same methods as encryption, and there is no such thing as an unbreakable encryption. We can only hope for "acceptable". I'd assume the most acceptable means of anonymizing data would be to allow the user to first choose what gets scrubbed out, followed by a sort of data "blacklist" compiled by experts. The real problem here is that companies selling this data have a vested interest in never getting it quite right.
This is wonderful news. Ideas like these are the kind of things that turn energy into a free for all. Remember the water cycle? Any American was taught this process by at least middle school. IMHO creating an "Energy Cycle" is our ultimate goal here. Who knew a septic tank would end up back in style? Hook up a few power cables and whammo! Instant power station. Yes, I'm full of shit. I have the power.
Coming from an era when even education versions of Microsoft's software would cost a bit of scratch, I can only applaud this move. Course/Project Management software needs to be flexible and accessible. I believe this meets both criteria.
Ah, and here is the true paradox (at least by Texas law).
1) Around the time this offense occurred, any user can attest to the unreliability of media on KaZaA. File names didn't even match their titles.
2) Where I'm from, we have this notion that a officer of the law cannot be performing an illegal act while performing their civil duty. In memory this applied to police officers illegally parked in medians to create speed traps. If Media Sentry ever did download these files, they would have been in violation.
3) Let's say that MS knew it was the right file because they first seeded it onto the network, this wreaks of entrapment.
I bring these things up because I sense a bit of smugness from Thomas, she's up to something.
The HD manufacturing date could be argued out. Those understanding HD recovery also understand that there are scenarios where she could meet her legal requirements and provide a different drive, or she could have been giving the failure date, not the replacement date. We must also take into consideration that a) maybe she isn't the one who swapped it and b) this is a sticker, not digital info from the drive.
All that aside I agree she has her work cut out for her. On firs tread it seems both sides may be pushing the law a bit. I do have a couple questions though:
Has the question of which Kazaa client was installed been answered? There were malware versions of the client, so I would assume these would need to be ruled out.
Has the possibility of the Windows XP "at hack" been resolved? I know this is a real stretch, but those understanding this fairly simple exploit could get around her password. If the computer had been exploited in anyway, it's completely reasonable that the username on Kazaa would match the machine username.
It is obvious the RIAA has set out to make an example of Thomas. If she's guilty then it's understandable that they had to choose -someone-. However, Americans have proven our disregard for our credit scores. All this will prove is that they can hold a big slot on your report, and my assumption is most creditors would begin to glance over them like medical debts if the RIAA makes them common.
-rant over-
Poster has purposefully written flame bait. The article expresses that this will not answer a creationism vs. ape evolution debate, and that the fossils discovered could be an ancestor of lemurs, monkeys, and humans. Forget your opinions on this matter and mod the post as such.
The unfortunate side affect off decentralization is degradation of initial ramp up time for downloads. While the "hunt for a participating IP" system does work, it has historically been a last-ditch approach for networks which were slowly dieing. This is in no way meant to insult BT's trackerless system. It works beautifully. However, in the end it really exists as a support to the swarms, not as the backbone.
Forgive the crudeness, but this is bull. Bit Torrent has survived a major tracker shutdown before (Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprnova.org). Traffic will redirect, other trackers will open in their place, and things will return to normal within a week.
Some biblical scholars believe that the Earth was once surrounded by a water canopy. This later came down during the great flood. One could think of this as basically a super-humid environment, with the majority lying on the outskirts of our atmosphere. That science would find returning the atmosphere to that state beneficial is no surprise.
I was using my religious views simply to offer a comparison of like subjects. The work to find the Grand Unified Theory / Theory of Everything is not unlike to search for God. Contrary to what most is Christendom would have you believe, science and physics sits just fine with the Bible.
If you're going to flame me on my religion, please take the time to do so accurately. We don't believe in rapture. It's a silly idea primarily promoted by John Nelson Darby.
And to those Modding comments: C'mon, seriously, modding an obvious flame higher than an honest attempt at discussion? Shame.
Both popular science and popular religion seem to be pushing towards the "every answer is right in some form" conclusion. IMO this is just a failed attempt at the truth, and here's why:
I studied most of the world's religions for many years before settling on the congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't believe that everyone has got it right. Whether we like or not, somebody does have it right. Popular religion has fallen into this pattern in order to promote tolerance. Just because they all have certain principals in common is no proof they are all talking about the same god.
I have also studied physics for many years, and have a decent grasp on String and M-Theory. While the 11th dimension is a convenient mathematical model to explain every POSSIBILITY, to bastardize the Jedi: "This is not the solution you were looking for". It seems like a cop-out. Allowing for every possibility "somewhere else" just leaves us in the same boat theoretically, and will leave this branch science in the same boat as evolution: claiming a unproven theory is fact before it has proven factual.
I urge these scientists: If you must continue down this path, it would seem prudent to find the "Grand Unified Theory" for our own universe before you tumble into an infinitely-recursive dimensional discovery.
While I don't find it hard to believe that an elitist group would seek to control elections this way, my gut tells me it really comes down to is Corporate America selling the Y2K fix for democracy. Just like then it's mostly unnecessary, and for what we'll pay we should have just bought a better ballot.
As a developer who primarily works with C#/.Net, with a little PHP on the side, IMO this addition is long overdue. It would be nice to have a more standard separator, but when I RTFA they seem to have a just reason for it, and it's using semantics that PHP coders are used to. I will happily adjust myself in this ONE manor in order to reap the MANY benefits of namespaces.
Just my 2 cents.
The ability of anyone to suggest changes, managed and seconded by those who maintain the project on a day to day basis.
Man was not meant to rule himself. Some men are natural leaders, but no man is meant to rule.
Note: My wife is brilliant, and realized this....
..Such as a webcaster of their own creation, with uncompetitivly low rates.
While am very much delighted with the fact that Congress has loosened the reigns a little, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 (WSA) does not seem to go the direction I expected.
For those who didn't RTFA regarding WSA or just don't understand, it, the important part is this:
"This subparagraph shall not apply to the extent that the receiving agent and a webcaster that is party to an agreement entered into pursuant to subparagraph (A) expressly authorize the submission of the agreement in a proceeding under this subsection"
In short: Webcasters may now attempt to negotiate pricing with the "recieving agent" (ie SoundExchange aka RIAA), but leaves Webcasters in the same boat if an agreement isn't reached. Companies will usually go for some money instead of none, but the RIAA plays by different rules. All this legislation will do is give the RIAA the ability to pick and choose which small webcasters get to survive.