They want the best of both worlds. They want to be able to use cheap third world labor and slack third world environmental laws to cheaply create products that they can sell in different parts of the world, for the maximum price that that part of the world will pay.
They want to stop us from importing electronics, movies, CD's and such from parts of the world where they sell the exact same items for 1/2 the price.
Free trade is not something the common man is supposed to be able to take advantage of. It is supposed to be something the corps can use to increase their profits.
On the advice of an old ask slashdot I bought the $500CAD Kinesis contoured keyboard. The price is very steep, however it has been well worth it. If the keyboard starts to act funny after spilling coke in it, just send it back and they will fix it up for about $50usd.
I no longer have pains in my wrists.
The keyboard switches between dvorak and qwerty with ease. It took a little while to learn dvorak, but again, it is well worth it. If you are ever stuck at a qwerty keyboard it will slow you down a bit, however you can always just look at the letters on the keyboard to figure out where you should be putting your fingers. If you are using a windows machine it is very easy to map a qwerty keyboard to a dvorak layout - just go into control panel/keyboard and change the language to us dvorak.
I also use a Wacom graphire tablet instead of a mouse. This also has greatly reduced repetive stress.
If I want to read a joke, I'll read the posts and look for one rated "Funny," thankyouverymuch.
Speaking of which, when will I be able view posts by how they were moderated? Two things I often want to be able to do are "Show me all the posts moderated as funny." And, "Show me all the posts that have been moderated up, because the default moderation level 2 post is often abused."
look at that computer that's the way to do it
you play your music on the mp3
that ain't stealin', everybody's doin it
get your music for nothing and your hits for free
maybe it's stealin, but everybody's doin it
let me tell you them kids ain't dumb
they don't give a rip about their favorite singer
they just keep on ripping off their songs
we got to install mp3 players
labels bitchin their losin royalties
we got to download then maybe later
we gonna burn a dozen cd's
Lets suppose I am a large successful multinational corporation and have spent one thousand dollars creating a widget that allows people to block banner advertising on slashdot.
After successfully creating the slashdot banner ad blocker I finnaly start marketing it. I spend many hundreds of dollars marketing it and people finally start buying my product.
After a few years of having the product on the market, trying to sell it for $4 per copy I realize that I am still in debt. In fact, I have only sold one copy to an AOL user.
After I tally up the numbers, it turns out I have lost over one thousand dollars!! In response to this loss I spend the next three years petitioning congress and donating hundreds of dollars to them until I finally convince them that they should protect my mistake by creating a government granted monopoly for me.
Now, because I have a monopoly on the slashdot banner ad blocker no one else can sell a product that does the same thing. No one else can take my product and improve it. People are even scared of creating similar products like the internet banner ad blocker
Over the next three years, I continue to try to sell my product for $4 per copy. After a total of ten years on sale I have only sold 20 copies.
When I create future products, I take this loss into account and consider that the products that I make in the future should bear the cost of this loss.
Next time I create a product, I decide to sell it for $5 dollars per copy and try to make up my past loss. After that product fails I sell another one and decide to sell it for $6 dollars. This trend continues until I am finally selling my products for $20 each.
It turns out that at the price of $20 per copy, I can create 10 failed products and make a fortune off my one successful product. However, I would not be able to do this if not for my government granted monopoly
My question is this: Should a company that continues to make crap that nobody wants be able to use the cost of creating the crap to justify the high prices of products that people really do what?
But wait--in 5 years, the test for prostate cancer becomes 'technically reliable', and your genetic test is still on file somewhere. Lets just double check that real quick, shall we? Ooops, you just got denied coverage.
Speaking of things being on file, what about blood samples? How long does the hospital keep blood samples they take? What are the chances that the insurance company doesn't even ask if doing a genetic test is ok. They may already have the material they need... just run it through a quick test....
Although it would probably be illegal, I don't think that would stop them from doing it. Then they would just have to find another reason to deny you... (like reviewing your Saveway Club Card purchases.... you're not eating too healthy. No insurance)
So now Microsoft has finally gotten in on the presumption-of-guilt game?
It is funny how this works. Consumers are assumed to be guilty, whereas the Company is assumed to be "perfect"
The other day my wife and I walked to the store to pick up some groceries. To make it easier we brought a back pack with us. When we entered the store, the doorman told us that we had to leave our pack at the front door. They have bins that you can put it in. However, right on the bin it said they were not responsible for lost or stolen packs.
I refused to leave my backpack there... I told the doorman that I could not leave it there because they are not responsible if it is stolen. I told him if he has a problem with it he can search me on the way out.
He then let me enter the store with my pack on my back, and I had no problems leaving the store without being searched:)
Don't let them screw you around. Stick up for your rights.
Investors are taking bigger risks than arguably ever before," said Irah Donner, patent attorney and senior partner at Hale and Dorr. "It seems very appropriate to protect these risky investments if we're going to encourage future growth in the e-commerce area."
Investors are taking big risks without using Government Granted Monopolies (aka Patents). The internet and internet commerce has been growing at an enormouse rate and will continue to do so without the help of government.
Based on this, isn't there a way to get patents covering anything internet thrown out?
while they are running an expensive PR campaign to bolster support for them in the anti-trust trial
The basic problem with our society is exactly this. M$ is spending tons of money on advertisers. TV Networks/News Papers etc are unlikely to want to bite the hand that feeds them.
It will be very hard to get media outlets who are being handed microsoft $$'s to run negative stories about them.
This implies that Netscape was a potential competitor for Windows, because it could serve interchangeably as a platform for running applications, which would remove the "applications barrier to entry" upon which Jackson bases so much of his decision. But Netscape is not a PC Operating System. Therefore, the market cannot have been well defined, within the legal bounds above. A better definition of the market would be "application platforms", and I don't think even Slashdot can argue we have a monopoly there. Unless I'm missing something (quite possible) I think the Appeals Court will overthrow this also.
It's been a while since I read the Findings Of Fact, but...
If I remember correctly netscape was a risk to the application barrier to entry in that it made the operating system LESS important. ie: If people develop applications that run in Java under Netscape then they could be run in any operating system that supports Netscape and Java. At the time Sun and Netscape were both dedicated to cross platform development. Allowing this development to continue would have caused windows to become less important and the stranglehold on the market would be loosened.
Netscape doesn't have to be an Operating System to put windows at risk. It just has to redifine computing so that we are no longer tied to a single operating system.
Microsoft to Slashdot to illegally posted copyright kerberos spec.
Wait a minute. Did I just actually see the entire Internet unravel? Microsoft wants slashdot to remove the LINKS to the kerberos spec. Yet Microsoft itself links to the kerberos spec! in under 5 steps!.
This either means links to illegal information that is found in under 5 steps is illegal, or Microsoft will have to take its website down in case it accidently links to what it wants no one to link to.
I still have to use metacrawler every once in a while though for phrases...
Not long ago I noticed that sometimes when searching on google the pages are returned in different orders even though I used the same search terms. After investigating a bit I realized that I was using the same terms but in different orders. I emailed google to ask about this, and they said that the default search is a phrase search. If that doesn't work they then try and AND search.
Further, if you check out googles search tips regarding phrase searching you will find that if you use quatation marks around your search terms you will be doing a phrase search.
Now IANAL, but i dont think that you can retroactivly remove the license from a product, so the people who have it get the GPL, the others,,, sucks to be you
Of course, once you have GPLd software, you have the right to redistribute it...
Wasn't Gnutella created by AOL/TimeWarner employees during work hours? Didn't they GPL the code for a project they worked on at work but weren't even supposed to be doing? Does anyone know what happened to those employees and the state of the code?
If you GPL stolen code can the GPL be removed by the copyright holder?
If the GPL was removed, what would be the status of the people who had already downloaded it and implemented it? What if by the time the GPL was removed, the code was already a crucial part of a major website and they would loose millions of dollars if they had to take it down for a few days while it was re-created by their own programmers?
Being from Canada I'm not up on US gun registration rules. My understanding is that guns don't have to be registered at all. (In Canada I'm pretty sure they don't)
A good reason for not registering guns, is to protect the people who have them in times of civil war. During times of civil war or civil unrest gun owners have the ability to protect themselves from totalitarian governments. They have the resources needed to fight for our freedom. Now, if the governments know who has all the guns, then they can just go out to all the gun owners and collect them.
Doing a background check before selling a gun seems like a good idea to me. Wouldn't want to be handing guns to known criminals. (although I'm sure criminals could get guns anyway) With the FBI doing a background check on every gun purchase, then guns don't need to be registered to know where they are. The FBI will have massive lists of everyone who has ever bought a gun. If the government ever wants to, they can march around and take those guns away with little or no resistance.
The right to bare arms is all about protecting yourself from the government. I don't see how you can do this if the government knows how well you are armed.
So I propose the following: If Slashdot removes the comments without having been forced to by an actual court ruling, we boycott Slashdot. Hopefully that will provide the needed reverse financial pressure.
That was my first thought also. But then I got to thinking: How many large corporations would love for slashdot to die? If we boycot slashdot then we loose our voice and they win.
I would be seething with anger if slashdot removed the posts without a court order, however if that's what they have to do to stay in buisness then I am all for it.
By the time any comments can be removed from slashdot they'll be mirrored all over the place. So long as linking to it isn't illegal we'll still be able to click through to the information. And so long as reporting isn't illegal we'll be able to see the URL where we can get at the information. So long as we have google and deja we'll be able to search for archives of the information.
Fight it. We have to fight it. But if we loose, slashdot has to take it down. Slashdot must survive at all costs. We'll still have our copies, and we'll still have it in our head and they cannot take that.
While there could probably be legitimate uses, it is obviously intended to block advertising. This is not right. Some content on the internet is free, but some content you must pay for. Viewing advertisements it paying with your time. If you can block out advertisements, you are no longer paying. You are essentially stealing.
So, you're watching tv. You have to go to the bathroom. You wait until a commercial comes on, then you get up and go. You missed the commercial. Are you stealing?
Slashdot Mirror
They want the best of both worlds. They want to be able to use cheap third world labor and slack third world environmental laws to cheaply create products that they can sell in different parts of the world, for the maximum price that that part of the world will pay.
They want to stop us from importing electronics, movies, CD's and such from parts of the world where they sell the exact same items for 1/2 the price.
Free trade is not something the common man is supposed to be able to take advantage of. It is supposed to be something the corps can use to increase their profits.
Against intellectual property chapter three of Information Liberation
On the advice of an old ask slashdot I bought the $500CAD Kinesis contoured keyboard. The price is very steep, however it has been well worth it. If the keyboard starts to act funny after spilling coke in it, just send it back and they will fix it up for about $50usd.
I no longer have pains in my wrists.
The keyboard switches between dvorak and qwerty with ease. It took a little while to learn dvorak, but again, it is well worth it. If you are ever stuck at a qwerty keyboard it will slow you down a bit, however you can always just look at the letters on the keyboard to figure out where you should be putting your fingers. If you are using a windows machine it is very easy to map a qwerty keyboard to a dvorak layout - just go into control panel/keyboard and change the language to us dvorak.
I also use a Wacom graphire tablet instead of a mouse. This also has greatly reduced repetive stress.
If I want to read a joke, I'll read the posts and look for one rated "Funny," thankyouverymuch.
Speaking of which, when will I be able view posts by how they were moderated? Two things I often want to be able to do are "Show me all the posts moderated as funny." And, "Show me all the posts that have been moderated up, because the default moderation level 2 post is often abused."
At TwistedTunes.com
Listen to the mp3 on a fat pipe or a small pipe
Full Lyrics
I Want My MP3
music for nothin (i want my mp3)
look at that computer that's the way to do it
you play your music on the mp3
that ain't stealin', everybody's doin it
get your music for nothing and your hits for free
maybe it's stealin, but everybody's doin it
let me tell you them kids ain't dumb
they don't give a rip about their favorite singer
they just keep on ripping off their songs
we got to install mp3 players
labels bitchin their losin royalties
we got to download then maybe later
we gonna burn a dozen cd's
Try using safeweb. It is a secure and encrypted proxy like system. It even runs the images through safeweb site.
I think the best plan is to allow unlimited downloading for a fee of (apprx) $15/mo. This fee would include one free cd of your choice every month.
then go with e-mail.
Lets suppose I am a large successful multinational corporation and have spent one thousand dollars creating a widget that allows people to block banner advertising on slashdot.
After successfully creating the slashdot banner ad blocker I finnaly start marketing it. I spend many hundreds of dollars marketing it and people finally start buying my product.
After a few years of having the product on the market, trying to sell it for $4 per copy I realize that I am still in debt. In fact, I have only sold one copy to an AOL user.
After I tally up the numbers, it turns out I have lost over one thousand dollars!! In response to this loss I spend the next three years petitioning congress and donating hundreds of dollars to them until I finally convince them that they should protect my mistake by creating a government granted monopoly for me.
Now, because I have a monopoly on the slashdot banner ad blocker no one else can sell a product that does the same thing. No one else can take my product and improve it. People are even scared of creating similar products like the internet banner ad blocker
Over the next three years, I continue to try to sell my product for $4 per copy. After a total of ten years on sale I have only sold 20 copies.
When I create future products, I take this loss into account and consider that the products that I make in the future should bear the cost of this loss.
Next time I create a product, I decide to sell it for $5 dollars per copy and try to make up my past loss. After that product fails I sell another one and decide to sell it for $6 dollars. This trend continues until I am finally selling my products for $20 each.
It turns out that at the price of $20 per copy, I can create 10 failed products and make a fortune off my one successful product. However, I would not be able to do this if not for my government granted monopoly
My question is this: Should a company that continues to make crap that nobody wants be able to use the cost of creating the crap to justify the high prices of products that people really do what?
My favorite part of the translation: I program and read a quantity of enamel
Speaking of things being on file, what about blood samples? How long does the hospital keep blood samples they take? What are the chances that the insurance company doesn't even ask if doing a genetic test is ok. They may already have the material they need... just run it through a quick test....
Although it would probably be illegal, I don't think that would stop them from doing it. Then they would just have to find another reason to deny you... (like reviewing your Saveway Club Card purchases.... you're not eating too healthy. No insurance)
So now Microsoft has finally gotten in on the presumption-of-guilt game?
:)
It is funny how this works. Consumers are assumed to be guilty, whereas the Company is assumed to be "perfect"
The other day my wife and I walked to the store to pick up some groceries. To make it easier we brought a back pack with us. When we entered the store, the doorman told us that we had to leave our pack at the front door. They have bins that you can put it in. However, right on the bin it said they were not responsible for lost or stolen packs.
I refused to leave my backpack there... I told the doorman that I could not leave it there because they are not responsible if it is stolen. I told him if he has a problem with it he can search me on the way out.
He then let me enter the store with my pack on my back, and I had no problems leaving the store without being searched
Don't let them screw you around. Stick up for your rights.
Investors are taking bigger risks than arguably ever before," said Irah Donner, patent attorney and senior partner at Hale and Dorr. "It seems very appropriate to protect these risky investments if we're going to encourage future growth in the e-commerce area."
Investors are taking big risks without using Government Granted Monopolies (aka Patents). The internet and internet commerce has been growing at an enormouse rate and will continue to do so without the help of government.
Based on this, isn't there a way to get patents covering anything internet thrown out?
I combined this list with a pervious one posted here. There are now 96 unique values.
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The basic problem with our society is exactly this. M$ is spending tons of money on advertisers. TV Networks/News Papers etc are unlikely to want to bite the hand that feeds them.
It will be very hard to get media outlets who are being handed microsoft $$'s to run negative stories about them.
It's been a while since I read the Findings Of Fact, but...
If I remember correctly netscape was a risk to the application barrier to entry in that it made the operating system LESS important. ie: If people develop applications that run in Java under Netscape then they could be run in any operating system that supports Netscape and Java. At the time Sun and Netscape were both dedicated to cross platform development. Allowing this development to continue would have caused windows to become less important and the stranglehold on the market would be loosened.
Netscape doesn't have to be an Operating System to put windows at risk. It just has to redifine computing so that we are no longer tied to a single operating system.
Wait a minute. Did I just actually see the entire Internet unravel? Microsoft wants slashdot to remove the LINKS to the kerberos spec. Yet Microsoft itself links to the kerberos spec! in under 5 steps!.
This either means links to illegal information that is found in under 5 steps is illegal, or Microsoft will have to take its website down in case it accidently links to what it wants no one to link to.
Microsoft could save us all alot of hassle if they just disabled outlook as an automation object.
I wonder how andover feels about it?
Not long ago I noticed that sometimes when searching on google the pages are returned in different orders even though I used the same search terms. After investigating a bit I realized that I was using the same terms but in different orders. I emailed google to ask about this, and they said that the default search is a phrase search. If that doesn't work they then try and AND search.
Further, if you check out googles search tips regarding phrase searching you will find that if you use quatation marks around your search terms you will be doing a phrase search.
No more metacrawler
Of course, once you have GPLd software, you have the right to redistribute it...
If you GPL stolen code can the GPL be removed by the copyright holder?
If the GPL was removed, what would be the status of the people who had already downloaded it and implemented it? What if by the time the GPL was removed, the code was already a crucial part of a major website and they would loose millions of dollars if they had to take it down for a few days while it was re-created by their own programmers?
In Canada we don't want the right to bare arms. It's much to cold.
Not even cut-n-pasting into (*gasp*) M$ word saved me from that typo.
A good reason for not registering guns, is to protect the people who have them in times of civil war. During times of civil war or civil unrest gun owners have the ability to protect themselves from totalitarian governments. They have the resources needed to fight for our freedom. Now, if the governments know who has all the guns, then they can just go out to all the gun owners and collect them.
Doing a background check before selling a gun seems like a good idea to me. Wouldn't want to be handing guns to known criminals. (although I'm sure criminals could get guns anyway) With the FBI doing a background check on every gun purchase, then guns don't need to be registered to know where they are. The FBI will have massive lists of everyone who has ever bought a gun. If the government ever wants to, they can march around and take those guns away with little or no resistance.
The right to bare arms is all about protecting yourself from the government. I don't see how you can do this if the government knows how well you are armed.
That was my first thought also. But then I got to thinking: How many large corporations would love for slashdot to die? If we boycot slashdot then we loose our voice and they win.
I would be seething with anger if slashdot removed the posts without a court order, however if that's what they have to do to stay in buisness then I am all for it.
By the time any comments can be removed from slashdot they'll be mirrored all over the place. So long as linking to it isn't illegal we'll still be able to click through to the information. And so long as reporting isn't illegal we'll be able to see the URL where we can get at the information. So long as we have google and deja we'll be able to search for archives of the information.
Fight it. We have to fight it. But if we loose, slashdot has to take it down. Slashdot must survive at all costs. We'll still have our copies, and we'll still have it in our head and they cannot take that.
So, you're watching tv. You have to go to the bathroom. You wait until a commercial comes on, then you get up and go. You missed the commercial. Are you stealing?