Ask them for a linux client. The SW they use is probably some off the shelf turnkey solution and won't have one.
I suppose you could set up a VM running windows 95 or something and let them play with that. At the least it would be entertaining.
World history shows that countries that make/grow stuff people need have something to fall back on during bad times while those that don't collapse. It happened with banking and trade, it'll happen with IP stuff too. Clearly devoting your country to any -single- industry is dangerous, and one that people can afford to live without is more so.
Copywrite is like your neighbour offering to build a car from all those car parts sitting in your garage. (all IP is drawn from the works that have gone before) And in exchange for building you a car, he gets to drive it for a while. In a fair trade you get a car instead of parts, and he gets the free use of one for a limited time. But what happens if he decides to keep the car until it is worn out? (until the songs are so dated that nobody cares). Is that still a good deal? Maybe for him, but to you it's just theft.
I wonder if you could look at the report from the other side: the list of countries more free than the USA. Countries that could teach you a thing or two...
Maybe it's time to "Harmonize" some laws with the prevailing (common) values?
the democracy of Iraq, the democracy of Panama, the democracy of Iran... yes, there does appear to be a pattern there.
Of course the Military dictatorships of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are friendly to USA interests...
cloud computing will fail because hardware is cheaper than bandwidth. Until network neutrality turns bandwidth into a commodity that won't change. You can argue about the latest buzzwords till the cows come home, but economics rules all.
I've seen no evidence to support this myth. Many (most) drugs in use were developed elsewhere (not subsidized). Many countries (like canada) subsidize useful medical research directly instead of letting drug companies fund viagra and such.
electronic storage "in transit". The key part of the phrase is in transit. after you read it, it's already delivered. Like sitting in your mailbox delivered. This is like the gov demanding the postman tell him what was written on your postcards after you get them. We have laws governing the mail system for a reason, to prevent this. Just because the gov thinks it's convenient to spy on you is no reason to treat email and snail mail different. History repeats itself, those who are ignorant of it get burned. If the government taxes tea you have a tea party. If the gov spies on honest people then honest people adopt encryption.
The Hobbit was definitely written for a younger crowd. Of course once Hollywood gets through with it you won't know that- are they going for a younger crowd or what?
I was under the impression that -all- email was directly captured by the government. Are you suggesting that they actually need a warrant now?
Couldn't the NSA simply send them a copy or something? Or do they actually need a warrant to use it in public court? (as opposed to the secret court where political prisoners er terrorists are convicted in after they've served their entire sentence.)
I think the way to go is a bluetooth earpiece containing a microphone and speaker, with a ipod sized cpu module to handle the math.
The high power cpu part can use AA batteries while the low power earpiece gets watch batteries or rechargables.
Might be possible to use transmitted power to run the earpiece, it would save a lot on batteries- especially if the main unit is rechargable.
With the way things are going you might even get away with special earphones (on cords), but with the microphones built in as well.
I suggest that to obtain a copyright, you must submit a (non DRM encumbered) copy to a central government department.
And that department would be legally required to keep it forever. And when the copyright ends you could legally download it, for free.
We've lost far too much already, and not just obscure stuff. The entire Parry Mason book series is crumbling to dust as we speak, to be lost forever.
I know nothing about European politics. How often does the European parliament stand for public elections? (Clearly people who believe in human rights and democracy wouldn't allow themselves to be ruled by dictators). Could this be election propaganda to sway the voters?
they tried this in California, i believe they got 30 cent per kwh electricity and rolling blackouts. History has clearly shown that economics is a very poor guide for large scale essential services. Things like highways, the police, and utilities just work better when controlled by the people (government).
when some big company comes out with something that's obviously wrong, it's usually paid advertising.
the sad thing is they actually think we're too stupid to see it. The sadder thing is for many average CEO's they're right.
government run health care seems to work well everywhere it's been tried. I get to vote for the idiot who appoints the moron who denies me medical care.
I might only have a small chance to fix the problem, but the guy in office remembers me when he makes his choices.
how about in a free system? Oh right, only the rich (shareholders) get a vote.
no. the shipping cost is greater than the value of the (semi-precious) gems you'd get.
also the debeers would get upset, and the (highly controlled) diamond market would collapse.
all successful religions use taboo's as a form of mind control of the faithful. with Christianity it's sex. so something you need is only available with their permission (marriage), or you've done something bad. so naturally they have to yell at you and call you evil if you do/use/look at anything associated with that thing. and that's why female body parts are "bad".
yes, cellphone price fixing is bad. but consumers -chose- to pay sky high cellphone rates. no one made them...
It's easier to see the crime in relation to products you think about as over priced.
The USA isn't showing any sign of clinging to manufacturing. I'd rather say they want to dump the lot and move to banking and IP industries. Unfortunately, history has shown that "Virtual" wealth is subject to cyclic trends, with the occasional catastrophic drop. At this time, the USA clearly has nothing to gain from further investments in manned space flight, and I suggest they drop the lot immediately. Yes this hurts the pride, but third world countries have to live with that- and the USA is clearly headed in that direction. Financial priorities for the USA should be social programs/universal healthcare, good government, good relations with your trading partners, and have a diverse economy that is less subject to single industry shocks.
And definitely avoid putting too much of your economy in the IP industries. Like banking, it tends to boom and bust.
based on the ability of the Russians to design and build reliable and cheap rockets, i think the best thing the USA could do would be to outsource nasa to the Russians. assuming proper controls are done (watch the money) this should put the usa back on the road to stellar exploration and maybe interplanetary colonization. as a bonus, this would keep Russian rocket scientists off the market for years to come. (just look what was done with German rocket scientists).
Even after all these years, the Soyuz is still the best (cheap/reliable) manned rocket in existence.
this is why many complicated programs have "express" and "expert" install menu trees.
those who know what they are doing get the choice, your mom gets the "click ok to install" button.
i've seen this before, an endless line of "custom" ie installs, one for each isp.
apparently it's very easy for ms to make special deals with isp's, to ensure they only use ie.
if you want to eliminate ie exploits in your system, you've got to remove it.
having ie get called by some os function from word/firefox/whatever is still bad.
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Ask them for a linux client. The SW they use is probably some off the shelf turnkey solution and won't have one. I suppose you could set up a VM running windows 95 or something and let them play with that. At the least it would be entertaining.
If Shakespeare didn't need copywrite, then why do you?
World history shows that countries that make/grow stuff people need have something to fall back on during bad times while those that don't collapse. It happened with banking and trade, it'll happen with IP stuff too. Clearly devoting your country to any -single- industry is dangerous, and one that people can afford to live without is more so.
Copywrite is like your neighbour offering to build a car from all those car parts sitting in your garage. (all IP is drawn from the works that have gone before) And in exchange for building you a car, he gets to drive it for a while. In a fair trade you get a car instead of parts, and he gets the free use of one for a limited time. But what happens if he decides to keep the car until it is worn out? (until the songs are so dated that nobody cares). Is that still a good deal? Maybe for him, but to you it's just theft.
I wonder if you could look at the report from the other side: the list of countries more free than the USA. Countries that could teach you a thing or two... Maybe it's time to "Harmonize" some laws with the prevailing (common) values?
the democracy of Iraq, the democracy of Panama, the democracy of Iran... yes, there does appear to be a pattern there. Of course the Military dictatorships of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are friendly to USA interests...
cloud computing will fail because hardware is cheaper than bandwidth. Until network neutrality turns bandwidth into a commodity that won't change. You can argue about the latest buzzwords till the cows come home, but economics rules all.
I've seen no evidence to support this myth. Many (most) drugs in use were developed elsewhere (not subsidized). Many countries (like canada) subsidize useful medical research directly instead of letting drug companies fund viagra and such.
electronic storage "in transit". The key part of the phrase is in transit. after you read it, it's already delivered. Like sitting in your mailbox delivered. This is like the gov demanding the postman tell him what was written on your postcards after you get them. We have laws governing the mail system for a reason, to prevent this. Just because the gov thinks it's convenient to spy on you is no reason to treat email and snail mail different. History repeats itself, those who are ignorant of it get burned. If the government taxes tea you have a tea party. If the gov spies on honest people then honest people adopt encryption.
The Hobbit was definitely written for a younger crowd. Of course once Hollywood gets through with it you won't know that- are they going for a younger crowd or what?
I was under the impression that -all- email was directly captured by the government. Are you suggesting that they actually need a warrant now? Couldn't the NSA simply send them a copy or something? Or do they actually need a warrant to use it in public court? (as opposed to the secret court where political prisoners er terrorists are convicted in after they've served their entire sentence.)
I think the way to go is a bluetooth earpiece containing a microphone and speaker, with a ipod sized cpu module to handle the math. The high power cpu part can use AA batteries while the low power earpiece gets watch batteries or rechargables. Might be possible to use transmitted power to run the earpiece, it would save a lot on batteries- especially if the main unit is rechargable. With the way things are going you might even get away with special earphones (on cords), but with the microphones built in as well.
I suggest that to obtain a copyright, you must submit a (non DRM encumbered) copy to a central government department. And that department would be legally required to keep it forever. And when the copyright ends you could legally download it, for free. We've lost far too much already, and not just obscure stuff. The entire Parry Mason book series is crumbling to dust as we speak, to be lost forever.
I know nothing about European politics. How often does the European parliament stand for public elections? (Clearly people who believe in human rights and democracy wouldn't allow themselves to be ruled by dictators). Could this be election propaganda to sway the voters?
they tried this in California, i believe they got 30 cent per kwh electricity and rolling blackouts. History has clearly shown that economics is a very poor guide for large scale essential services. Things like highways, the police, and utilities just work better when controlled by the people (government).
when some big company comes out with something that's obviously wrong, it's usually paid advertising. the sad thing is they actually think we're too stupid to see it. The sadder thing is for many average CEO's they're right.
government run health care seems to work well everywhere it's been tried. I get to vote for the idiot who appoints the moron who denies me medical care. I might only have a small chance to fix the problem, but the guy in office remembers me when he makes his choices. how about in a free system? Oh right, only the rich (shareholders) get a vote.
no. the shipping cost is greater than the value of the (semi-precious) gems you'd get. also the debeers would get upset, and the (highly controlled) diamond market would collapse.
all successful religions use taboo's as a form of mind control of the faithful. with Christianity it's sex. so something you need is only available with their permission (marriage), or you've done something bad. so naturally they have to yell at you and call you evil if you do/use/look at anything associated with that thing. and that's why female body parts are "bad".
yes, cellphone price fixing is bad. but consumers -chose- to pay sky high cellphone rates. no one made them... It's easier to see the crime in relation to products you think about as over priced.
The USA isn't showing any sign of clinging to manufacturing. I'd rather say they want to dump the lot and move to banking and IP industries. Unfortunately, history has shown that "Virtual" wealth is subject to cyclic trends, with the occasional catastrophic drop. At this time, the USA clearly has nothing to gain from further investments in manned space flight, and I suggest they drop the lot immediately. Yes this hurts the pride, but third world countries have to live with that- and the USA is clearly headed in that direction. Financial priorities for the USA should be social programs/universal healthcare, good government, good relations with your trading partners, and have a diverse economy that is less subject to single industry shocks. And definitely avoid putting too much of your economy in the IP industries. Like banking, it tends to boom and bust.
based on the ability of the Russians to design and build reliable and cheap rockets, i think the best thing the USA could do would be to outsource nasa to the Russians. assuming proper controls are done (watch the money) this should put the usa back on the road to stellar exploration and maybe interplanetary colonization. as a bonus, this would keep Russian rocket scientists off the market for years to come. (just look what was done with German rocket scientists). Even after all these years, the Soyuz is still the best (cheap/reliable) manned rocket in existence.
this is why many complicated programs have "express" and "expert" install menu trees. those who know what they are doing get the choice, your mom gets the "click ok to install" button.
i've seen this before, an endless line of "custom" ie installs, one for each isp. apparently it's very easy for ms to make special deals with isp's, to ensure they only use ie.
if you want to eliminate ie exploits in your system, you've got to remove it. having ie get called by some os function from word/firefox/whatever is still bad.