Then maybe you should report some people to the Privacy Commissioner, because Ministers, not even real ones, are allowed to do that. Whenever a government agency requests a Tax File number, the transaction is supposed to be recorded.
Breaches of the Privacy Act can give you a pleasant 6 year stay in a government hotel with a large, tattoed man aching to introduce you to the pleasures of sodomy.
I think a few objectors (DoJ springs to mind) had want to be careful what they say about this. As you, and MS, say, it's not the OS that requires Passport, but peripherals such as MSN Explorer and Messenger. They wouldn't want to go about complaining that the OS requires Passport too strentuously, because MS could then turn around and use that to suggest even the government believe that IM clients and browsers are an integral part of the OS rather than a bundled application.
I never suggested they were, merely that they only need to persuade a tiny percentage of voters to get what they want.
Politicos do NOT have to "pander" to the middle of the mall, mainstream
Really? is that why George W. Bush and Al Gore are so much the same, why the two major parties are so bland, so much the same. That 20% of swing voters that decides elections, they're not 'loons', not 'knee-jerk, right-wing crazies'. They're normal, average people who want a paycheque, a nice house and sport on the weekend. They live in their suburbs, go to work, mow the lawn and every four years a pair of clones try and out jones the other to woe these normal, average, middle of the mall people.
48% of Americans didn't vote because they felt disenfranchised? But its because they don't vote that politicians only need to pander to the middle of the mall, mainstream of society, which disenfranchises more of the rest of us which sets up a rather neat little vicious cycle.
So at least if 100% of the people are voting, or at least being involved in the process, politicians have to persuade 50% of the people rather than 26%. Wasn't it US fundamentalist christians who worked out they only needed to persuade 7% of the American population that they were right in order for their views to be dominant?
And then, you get the people who aren't voting simply because they can't be bothered. Compulsory voting at least involves them in the process, and how knows, they might even actively participate in what we laughingly call a democracy.
Remember...if you don't vote, you have no right to whine.
Fine, show me even one browser implementation where Javascript cannot be used to steal the user's files, to pop up an endless series of windows so that the user has to kill his browser or X11 to recover, and to implement spyware.
So because some people use javascript to do things you don't particularly like, it is wrong and evil. Think about that one, because I bet you don't particularly like the MPAA and RIAA and some other acronyms.
Wow, this thread is making me see just how much I have in common with Mr Heston
Let me clarify (having lived there). You CAN "donkey" vote. Its still anonymous, and entries incorrectly marked (all ones), or using ticks and crosses etc etc will invalidate your vote. You *can* (in essence) vote for "nobody".
Hey, hey, careful there. It's illegal in this country to tell people they can vote for no one. You just watch out, or on your next visit Adobe will have the Federal Police arrest you under the Electoral Act.
> Between letting the broadcasters use digital TV to not deliver HDTV
Counterpoint: In Australia, the greatest controversy is that the government mandated that digital television must be transmitted in HDTV format, thus forcing consumers to spend several thousand dollars to buy HDTV capable sets. Presently, the situation is alleviated by the existance of set top boxes that translate the digital signal into analog format for use with existing sets. Is that the situation in the US?
A compiler/interpreter translates english-esque source code to a form understandable by the machine, no? Does this mean English and French should be treated differently?
Is mathematics considered speech in this regard? Serious question, because I honesty don't know.
The relevance of my question is that source code, whether it is compiled or not, is really just an mathematical expression. So the litmus test should be, is mathematics protected by the first amendment?
Somebody mentioned the idea already, but I'll repeat it anyway. Use Freenet as the database for a news service. The story content is on Freenet, distributed and encrypted making censoring the data itself somewhat difficult. Then a front-end application that accesses Freenet, searches for the stories and presents them to the reader.
Sketchy, I know, but the basics are there. There are significant issues involved with response times and data loss, but I think the advantage of keeping the data liberated is important.
Imagine political dissidents in Myanmar or Indonesia or China or elsewhere having a news feed that is obtuse enough to make censorship extremely dificult.
I think the most important thing to remember is that you are not using Freenet to facilitate SQL, but SQL to realise part of Freenet's potential.
html, or.rtf for Word documents.
html or.csv for Excel documents.
Access? Who cares, just access the mdb file from ADO.
html files for Powerpoint presentations.
Gates controls a company named Corbis (sp?) that charges a fee to access digital versions of a range of Da Vinci works. But before Gates bought out Corbis (what, 5 years ago now?) they were public domain. Conceivably, if someone had made copies of these digital versions while they were still public domain, then all of Bill Gate's money would have been poorly spent. The copies would be *yours*, not Bill's. You could do with them as you please. Say, put them up on a free access website...
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In an educational environment, I can't see this being a big problem. If Microsoft chooses to release source "under glass" to a university/educational institution for the purposes of education, then they can hardly turn around and accuse anyone who uses this education of being a pirate. The release of the code to demonstrate implementation of a particular software concept implies the belief that the programmer X plans to use it to implement this software concept elsewhere.
This of course assumes that programmer X isn't just copying the MS code line for line.
Its only really when MS code gets into the wild via illegal methods e.g. when that MS server was cracked. That's when it becomes a problem.
> Most casual gamers (to whom Blizzard sells most
> of their games) would never have even heard
> about something like this, since they don't
> closely follow the industry.
what planet are you living on? This story was on msnbc.com, not exactly what i'd call the most hardcore of gaming publications.
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Then maybe you should report some people to the Privacy Commissioner, because Ministers, not even real ones, are allowed to do that. Whenever a government agency requests a Tax File number, the transaction is supposed to be recorded.
Breaches of the Privacy Act can give you a pleasant 6 year stay in a government hotel with a large, tattoed man aching to introduce you to the pleasures of sodomy.
I think a few objectors (DoJ springs to mind) had want to be careful what they say about this. As you, and MS, say, it's not the OS that requires Passport, but peripherals such as MSN Explorer and Messenger. They wouldn't want to go about complaining that the OS requires Passport too strentuously, because MS could then turn around and use that to suggest even the government believe that IM clients and browsers are an integral part of the OS rather than a bundled application.
I never suggested they were, merely that they only need to persuade a tiny percentage of voters to get what they want.
Politicos do NOT have to "pander" to the middle of the mall, mainstream
Really? is that why George W. Bush and Al Gore are so much the same, why the two major parties are so bland, so much the same. That 20% of swing voters that decides elections, they're not 'loons', not 'knee-jerk, right-wing crazies'. They're normal, average people who want a paycheque, a nice house and sport on the weekend. They live in their suburbs, go to work, mow the lawn and every four years a pair of clones try and out jones the other to woe these normal, average, middle of the mall people.
48% of Americans didn't vote because they felt disenfranchised? But its because they don't vote that politicians only need to pander to the middle of the mall, mainstream of society, which disenfranchises more of the rest of us which sets up a rather neat little vicious cycle.
So at least if 100% of the people are voting, or at least being involved in the process, politicians have to persuade 50% of the people rather than 26%. Wasn't it US fundamentalist christians who worked out they only needed to persuade 7% of the American population that they were right in order for their views to be dominant?
And then, you get the people who aren't voting simply because they can't be bothered. Compulsory voting at least involves them in the process, and how knows, they might even actively participate in what we laughingly call a democracy.
Remember...if you don't vote, you have no right to whine.
wasn't it decided by 7 votes?
AOL
Fine, show me even one browser implementation where Javascript cannot be used to steal the user's files, to pop up an endless series of windows so that the user has to kill his browser or X11 to recover, and to implement spyware.
So because some people use javascript to do things you don't particularly like, it is wrong and evil. Think about that one, because I bet you don't particularly like the MPAA and RIAA and some other acronyms.
Wow, this thread is making me see just how much I have in common with Mr Heston
Yet still, people write shopping carts that calculate totals and shipping charges in javascript, then trust the client to send back accurate data.
That's poor implementation by the developer. Shopping carts should be implemented on the server side.
I very rarely agree with the NRA, but guns don't kill people, people kill people.
An Australian should never let the facts get in the way of a one liner.
Let me clarify (having lived there). You CAN "donkey" vote. Its still anonymous, and entries incorrectly marked (all ones), or using ticks and crosses etc etc will invalidate your vote. You *can* (in essence) vote for "nobody".
Hey, hey, careful there. It's illegal in this country to tell people they can vote for no one. You just watch out, or on your next visit Adobe will have the Federal Police arrest you under the Electoral Act.
Crocodiles, snakes, no speed limits on the highway and guys in unusual utes? No, no fruedian slip :-)
one rule if you have a lot of market share, another if you don't? How...unamerican.
The website you are browsing has requested a pop-up window. What would you like to do? ( ) Accept. ( ) Deny... (x) Fire Orbital Particle Cannon
You know, I was just thinking...whatever happened to the days when geeks would look at something like this, useful or otherwise, and say "cool!"
> The proper behavior is to ignore trolls like Mundie and continue along on your merry way.
oh. The irony.
and jewish people aren't allowed to eat pork
> Between letting the broadcasters use digital TV to not deliver HDTV
Counterpoint: In Australia, the greatest controversy is that the government mandated that digital television must be transmitted in HDTV format, thus forcing consumers to spend several thousand dollars to buy HDTV capable sets. Presently, the situation is alleviated by the existance of set top boxes that translate the digital signal into analog format for use with existing sets. Is that the situation in the US?
A compiler/interpreter translates english-esque source code to a form understandable by the machine, no? Does this mean English and French should be treated differently?
Is mathematics considered speech in this regard? Serious question, because I honesty don't know.
The relevance of my question is that source code, whether it is compiled or not, is really just an mathematical expression. So the litmus test should be, is mathematics protected by the first amendment?
Somebody mentioned the idea already, but I'll repeat it anyway. Use Freenet as the database for a news service. The story content is on Freenet, distributed and encrypted making censoring the data itself somewhat difficult. Then a front-end application that accesses Freenet, searches for the stories and presents them to the reader.
Sketchy, I know, but the basics are there. There are significant issues involved with response times and data loss, but I think the advantage of keeping the data liberated is important.
Imagine political dissidents in Myanmar or Indonesia or China or elsewhere having a news feed that is obtuse enough to make censorship extremely dificult.
I think the most important thing to remember is that you are not using Freenet to facilitate SQL, but SQL to realise part of Freenet's potential.
html, or .rtf for Word documents.
html or .csv for Excel documents.
Access? Who cares, just access the mdb file from ADO.
html files for Powerpoint presentations.
Gates controls a company named Corbis (sp?) that charges a fee to access digital versions of a range of Da Vinci works. But before Gates bought out Corbis (what, 5 years ago now?) they were public domain. Conceivably, if someone had made copies of these digital versions while they were still public domain, then all of Bill Gate's money would have been poorly spent. The copies would be *yours*, not Bill's. You could do with them as you please. Say, put them up on a free access website...
In an educational environment, I can't see this being a big problem. If Microsoft chooses to release source "under glass" to a university/educational institution for the purposes of education, then they can hardly turn around and accuse anyone who uses this education of being a pirate. The release of the code to demonstrate implementation of a particular software concept implies the belief that the programmer X plans to use it to implement this software concept elsewhere. This of course assumes that programmer X isn't just copying the MS code line for line. Its only really when MS code gets into the wild via illegal methods e.g. when that MS server was cracked. That's when it becomes a problem.
> Most casual gamers (to whom Blizzard sells most
> of their games) would never have even heard
> about something like this, since they don't
> closely follow the industry.
what planet are you living on? This story was on msnbc.com, not exactly what i'd call the most hardcore of gaming publications.
$30 for each expansion pack...oh yeah, plus the good name they have built up for quality in games. What do you think that goes for these days?