Since the DMCA is already a law in the U.S., I think the only thing we could do is to chellenge it all the way to the Supreme Court of U.S. Until the Court declares DMCA unconstitutional (against free speech?), we will always under the threat from the big corporations.
Me and my family all use the free mail accounts at yahoo. I used for about a year and so far has no (yes, none) spam messages. On the other hand, my hotmail account average 10 or more spam mails per day.
Why bother creating another free OS when we already have FreeDOS? FreeDOS is free, open source and has the huge advantage of able to use (most) DOS applications and development tools.
Some people seem to think the new cheaper space probe is root of the failure. However, space explorer is always a risky business. There is no guarantee that we will have more successful with a more expensive spacecraft. For the price of an expensive Mars Observer (~1 billion US$), you could have built 6 Mars Polar Landers. Considering the current success rate for Mars is 33%, using multiple cheaper models could spread the risk rather than putting all eggs in one basket.
why the hell aren't these int'l labour groups helping them to organize
That's exactly why the people are protesting at the WTO right now. Under WTO rules (or presuure), the participating countries lost or are discuraged to enact certain labour protection laws. Without proper and enforcable laws, outside labour groups are useless. As a matter of fact, some of these countries routinely expel labour activists from the country (e.g. China) or even resort to murder to silent the critics (e.g. Mexico). Rememeber, a lot of the developing countries are run by dictatorship or corrupted government. They too would benefit from the harsh WTO rules through bribes from big corporations or actual exploitation of their own people. That's why the protesters asked the WTO delegates should consider human right issues as well.
nobody would take the jobs and the company would have to leave but face it, people take the jobs because its better than what was there before
The WTO (throught enforcing of harsh trade rules) has helped big corporations to essentially control the labour market in the third world countries. People can either take the ultra-low-paid jobs or starve to death. Since starve to death is hardly an option so of course they have to work in the sweat shops and turn themselves into the modern day salves. However, the main issue is whether with a better WTO, we could give the people in these countries better protection and hence better working condition. We should put peope well-being ahead of outragous corporation profit.
This is not necessarily true. Look at Mexico after NAFTA. Free trade means that more American business can build sweat shops there to maximize their profits. Does it make living standard in Mexico better? I don't think so. Does it help big corporations get more probit. Definitely!
The Mars Polar Lander also has its own antenna. Althought it is less powerful, it can still communicate directly to earth in a slower speed. Moreover, NASA said that they could reconfigurate the Mars Global Surveyor to act as the relay although we have yet heard the definited words about that.
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Surprise (Not)! The Terraserver only has USGS topograhical maps for Area 51. Sorry, no photos.
Since the DMCA is already a law in the U.S., I think the only thing we could do is to chellenge it all the way to the Supreme Court of U.S. Until the Court declares DMCA unconstitutional (against free speech?), we will always under the threat from the big corporations.
According to the EE Times acticle,
Barthel (of LuraTech) said all involved companies have signed agreements that give developers royalty-free rights to part one of JPEG2000.
So it means that the respectively patent holders would still keep their patents but allow developers to them royalty-free.
Me and my family all use the free mail accounts at yahoo. I used for about a year and so far has no (yes, none) spam messages. On the other hand, my hotmail account average 10 or more spam mails per day.
Why bother creating another free OS when we already have FreeDOS? FreeDOS is free, open source and has the huge advantage of able to use (most) DOS applications and development tools.
At its highest resolution, MGS can resolute about 1.4m/pixel. So the MPL would probably occupy a couple of pixels in the image.
Because it is essential to all the life forms we know.
Some people seem to think the new cheaper space probe is root of the failure. However, space explorer is always a risky business. There is no guarantee that we will have more successful with a more expensive spacecraft. For the price of an expensive Mars Observer (~1 billion US$), you could have built 6 Mars Polar Landers. Considering the current success rate for Mars is 33%, using multiple cheaper models could spread the risk rather than putting all eggs in one basket.
The micorprobes use the Mars Global Surveyor as the relay of its communication to earth.
why the hell aren't these int'l labour groups helping them to organize
That's exactly why the people are protesting at the WTO right now. Under WTO rules (or presuure), the participating countries lost or are discuraged to enact certain labour protection laws. Without proper and enforcable laws, outside labour groups are useless. As a matter of fact, some of these countries routinely expel labour activists from the country (e.g. China) or even resort to murder to silent the critics (e.g. Mexico). Rememeber, a lot of the developing countries are run by dictatorship or corrupted government. They too would benefit from the harsh WTO rules through bribes from big corporations or actual exploitation of their own people. That's why the protesters asked the WTO delegates should consider human right issues as well.
nobody would take the jobs and the company would have to leave but face it, people take the jobs because its better than what was there before
The WTO (throught enforcing of harsh trade rules) has helped big corporations to essentially control the labour market in the third world countries. People can either take the ultra-low-paid jobs or starve to death. Since starve to death is hardly an option so of course they have to work in the sweat shops and turn themselves into the modern day salves. However, the main issue is whether with a better WTO, we could give the people in these countries better protection and hence better working condition. We should put peope well-being ahead of outragous corporation profit.
Incidently, according to CBC, some of the pepper-spray victims at APAC is protesting in Seattle.
free trade is good for developing countries
This is not necessarily true. Look at Mexico after NAFTA. Free trade means that more American business can build sweat shops there to maximize their profits. Does it make living standard in Mexico better? I don't think so. Does it help big corporations get more probit. Definitely!
The Mars Polar Lander also has its own antenna. Althought it is less powerful, it can still communicate directly to earth in a slower speed. Moreover, NASA said that they could reconfigurate the Mars Global Surveyor to act as the relay although we have yet heard the definited words about that.