Since Apple is so eager to endorse Sunsung as a superior hardware alternative, sounds like it needs to be my next phone purchase.
When my old iPhone 3 (combined with a terrible data rate on my provider at the time) started really looking like it needed an upgrade, I decided to buy the Samsung Galaxy II S. Now, I get that the hardware is a few generations apart, but let me say, Wow, Wow, WOW. I have never looked back, and never will. I could not recommend it more.
It's not a threat of terrorism if you threaten to kill a bad ideal is it?
That depends on whose ideal it is. Sadly, the way it is going, if you try to quash an ideal raised in parliament, more and more it is deemed terrorism if any part of the protests fall into the grey area of what is acceptable. Politicians are wonderful at grouping what they don't like by the actions of the worst segment and getting that soundbyte into the news.
For all those of us who keep saying that this sort of technology will be abused, and all the folks that keep saying it won't - I guess it is our turn to say "I told you so."
My prediction, sales of this SatNav will plummet if people know that they will be monitored constantly.
In short, fuck the public experience. It stopped working when the "it's all about me" crowd arrived.
That crowd doesn't go to see an Ingmar Bergman film from several years prior. You should expand your cinematic horizons and stop watching the newest teen vampire movie as it comes out.
Going to a cinema like this is like going to a jazz club. You won't get the usual crowd of idiots, but likely have a great opportunity to meet some interesting people and have an intelligent conversation.
Same is true for a number of good movies and TV series that were never released on VHS. You want to watch the original Batman '66? Be prepared for some TV Land logos in your mp4s.
I listen to and love live DJ mixes. One of the broadcasts that I have been enjoying for a number of years now is A State of Trance. Now, while the current episodes are filled with people sharing, finding older sets is down right impossible. However, once I do manage to get them, I let them seed. No point in sharing what everyone else has out there, but for the folks that really do want to hear what was being played years ago (or perhaps the poor sods with OCD and the "Got to get them all" mentality) I think it is a nice thing to do.
Some contain advertising from the radio station that they were recorded off (though not many) and I think it is hilarious. It makes me wonder whether those shops or companies are even still around or whether the advertising I am hearing is just a memory of what once was.
or smart phones with [choose any operating system] on them
But this is exactly like that. The PC can run any number of operating systems. The customer is being forced to purchase software with the hardware when he already has other options for an operating system. The EU has fairly strict rules about what you can and can't do in trade and a good part of them are actually about protecting the consumer.
If your any-operating-system-phone was real, then in the EU you couldn't force a customer to buy the phone with an operating system on it and charge them the extra for it. It is these strict consumer laws in the EU that made Microsoft offer Windows 7 N in the EU as well as the whole "Browser Picker" thingy.
Then again, Australia has never had a terrorist attack on its soil and ASIO is doing a bang up job getting those who are plotting, so why aren't we giving them this money?
ASIO doesn't have lobbyists with the potential to make some serious kickback cash when whatEverCompany sells the government these $30 million dollar machines.
As for the idea of blowing up on a plane or airport lounge, of course, it is utterly farcical. The only reason I could see for someone wanting to take over a plane is to use it a a missle. Otherwise, I don't see it as a logical target, it doesn't make sense. There are loads of potentially much more devastating targets in Australia. Sadly, this sort of action makes many people "safe". I have actually discussed it with a few colleagues. It is simply stunning how the masses gobble this crud up and ask for seconds.
Australia was fairly high on my list of places to visit. I just marked it off the list.
Ditto. Joined the list of countries I won't visit over privacy concerns, right after US and UK.
Dammit, let's keep the big picture in focus here! Now, I am no longer able to be all smug about those stuipd US privacy nuts failing to properly protest getting these into the US and mocking them in patronizing tones. Now I have the idignity of being in the same bucket down here in Australia.
What amazes me thoughis how well this was kept under the radar. I normally think that I am quite abreast of these sort of issues, but now and again they just pop up out of nowhere.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity or whatever the expression is.
Hanlon's Razor is a nice idea, but I think that you think rather naively. The US went into Iraq with three real agenda's. 1) Make headlines in the press which was going to cause the United States public to ignore the fact that their economy was going down the gurgler and that their banking sector was in dire woes. 2) Seize some semblance of control over Iraq's oilfields with the intention of trying to rebuild the infrastructure by US corporations even though it was destroyed by US soldiers and 3) Cause instability in the Middle East which will provide further opportunities for "western interests" centered in the US and it's allies to rebuild and profit from industry that is destroyed in the following turmoil.
While I often find the actions of many western governments inept, especially those of the recent US government, I would be very much a fool if I did not think that they did indeed have a very purposeful goal. They may indeed be acting stupidly and seemingly against their own interests in the resulting outcomes, but I would certainly not put it down to a lack of malice. These people act according to their own interests and have utterly no care in the world for the outcomes of others.
they are the consumers that use the internet and we are the technicians that make the internet work. In essence these people are our food, we are the top of the food chain
You can't be further from the mark there mate. Big Media isn't a consumer of the internet. Big Media's customers are consumers of the internet. Big media makes a movie and wants to sell it at the cinema, or on a Blu-Ray or DVD. They couldn't be happier if the entire internet vanished. Then they could go back to charging thirty bucks for a CD and fifteen bucks for a CD single. DVDs would be back up to full price and a Blu-Ray would probably be sixty or seventy dollars.
They won't move aside in favour of you. While I applaud your verve, you mistake your place on the chessboard. Until the chessboard changes, and politicians start working for their constituents, constituents start to look forward further then the next one or two pay cycles - "us" in your words will remain in the middle paying jobs, taking orders from bosses who you think you are smarter than, and not seeing the utopian freedom that you want.
Don't hate the player. Hate the game. Or better yet, learn to play the game better than those who keep beating you at it.
Why the hell do these morons keep tabling impossible and/or extremely EXPENSIVE (compute-wise) proposals without talking to someone who knows ANYTHING about IT and technology FIRST?
2000's: We're going to collapse because of the threat of people sharing media online!
Fuck off, chicken little!
Chicken Little has learned that if it shouts, throws a tantrum and pays enough money to the lobbyists, then it gets what it wants. You get to sleep in the bed you make, and the bed that the US has made with Big Media has left it a very comfortable bed for Big Media. Big Media doesn't want to consult with IT people who will tell them that what they want can't be done realistically. They don't even care how it will affect anything else - they only look at what it will let them do. Why let someone who knows what they are talking about get in the way of that - lets face it, politicians have no clue technically - but they are willing to pass asinine laws and then see them fail, after all, they did what they promised to do.
Right. Previously Romney has called a moon base ridiculous (I don't know if those where his exact words). More recently he's said that space research would be an important priority if he were elected, and now he's accepting an endorsement from a group of engineers who are promoting a moon base.
Heh, American politics. You poor sods really don't get much of what would be considered "the best of the lot". The more I pay attention, the more it seems like you are scraping the bottom of the bottom of the barrel.
No president wants to go into history as the guy that cut living standards by half only to have debt resolved a few decades later. And you'd need several presidents in a row in order to pull this off.
Interesting. Going with this mentality, either the US will slowly trickle down into lower and lower standards and more and more cutbacks are done, or it will simply default on repayments. While I do see that there are a LOT of defaults happening in the US, and that fifteen trillion debt is American personal debt, not how much the US owes other countries, I still can't really see how the US will be able to maintain the standard of living that it has - no matter what the presidents want to do. Bush was able to get away with the stupid levels of spending in a large part due to the fact that everyone still wanted to buy US bonds. That market isn't as open anymore, China is about full up on what it wants to buy, the European Union has likely learned its lesson already in the shit that it bought before the crash - and even if they hadn't, they have more than enough of their own problems to clean up to have surplus cash lying around.
Whatever the outcome, I think that this whole global economy is going to get a whole lot more interesting over the next five to ten years. While I live in a country that has terrible money management (mainly due to a slipperly slope that was started in the 80's, but we started running down it in the last ten years), at least I can be somewhat relieved that we are a massive exporter of minerals. I do seriusly wonder what will happen to economies like the US where the only things that they seem to export these days are intangible.
Yes, because Australia is a backwater nation that encodes all data in incompatible and undocumented formats of our own design.
Actually, if you have ever tried to do anything in Australia regarding a log of phone calls or the like, it would seem that we do INDEED use incompatible and undocumented formats of our own design. This comes from many hours spent the phone with Telstra, Optus and worst of all Vodafone.
Oh, and by the way, I work for an Australian employer of over 200,000 employees. The data formats and accuracy that we have is utterly appalling. Even we can't read much of our data to any useful degree or match it with anything that makes it useful. I wouldn't expect much more of our phone companies.
You can argue whether or not the contractors fully understand the risks that they are taking and the likely outcomes, but at the end of the day it's a free market system and if they are willing to put their lives and future on the line, then let them do it.
Contractors understand the risks, they just pretend not to if things later don't work out to be the way they want. The contractors I have dealth with are either perfectly capable and wonderful to work with, or useless - and they pull every single excuse possible to prove how it is not their fault and how they were working exactly as they were supposed to.
it is a free market, let them put their life on the line. If they are there to do the right thing, then their families will have honour for all eternity, if they are there to make a quick buck and and do nothing but screw things up - then theirs is coming to them and the thirty silver coins they are paid will not go as far as they had hoped it would.
Google ads aren't generally splashed over the entire top of the intial screen loaded page. While I don't want to sound like a google shill here, I really don't get how they make their money - aren't google ads generally little text areas with "Advertisement" written above them? I am not one to click on ads, but I know that I have clicked on a few by mistake - but never Google ones that I knew of - they really seem to make their ads be known as ads.
The government is not a citizen's equal. It is a force which always has vastly greater power than a citizen, and that power is often abused, as is the case with censoring digital communications.
No, I disagree with that statement in this context. In the real world, yes, the government is more powerful than most people, but not in the cyber world. The fact that governments are so inneffective at getting what they want across is proof of this. If you asked me today who has more clout online, the US government or Anon, then I say it is Anon that holds the power. They might be hamstrung by outside influences, and they certainly don't have much ability to lobby for government etc, but in the wild, small animals who pack a big enough sting are left alone.
The only thing that I think is stopping Anon really show how much of a stinger they have is a lack of organisation.
If anything, I think that this whole thing will just create even more darknets.
Now, if you get your hands at the detail reports, the audit result may actually tell you something, at least if the auditors are good. But the certifications pretty much only ensure minimal standards low enough to be meaningless.
It depends on the purpose of the audit. If the purpose is to appease middle managers and the like, then the auditors (good or bad) will be able to read the request "We need to ensure we are certified for [insert current buzzword]." and see that this is nothing short of an easy way to make a costly fee. If on the other hand, the request is to find ways to break into the systems and comes from sysadmins or the like, then it is much more likely that the company wants to patch vulnerabilities.
Business is business. If a sales person sees easy money walking into the office, they will probably sell them overpriced and needless goods/services. If they see someone who knows exactly what it is they want, they will more likely give them exactly what they ask for and for a reasonable price.
I wonder if this is going to be the first of many instant responses to actions like this.
I wonder the effectiveness of these actions. I mean, how long can a DDOS be sustained? If they started really hosing systems in these retaliatory attacks, would the net effect be in their favour or against it? I mean, to me, this retaliation smirks of "Stop messing up our playground!" but the actions are merely name calling, I wonder the outcome if bloodied noses were created in the counterattack.
Mod up, that's the actual link. It might be a good idea to snag a copy of the speech and seed it. Chances are decent that it might get DCMAed into oblivion.
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How can it be though that there isn't one recording of his speech that's been released in the public domain?
I was thinking that exact same thought as I read it to start with, but then I got to thinking about when the speech was made. It's not like there were cellphones that recorded video, it's not like there were handycams that fit into your hand - or on your shoulder for that matter. The number of people recording that speech was probably indeed just one or two. If that is the case, then it is quite likely that while the speech itself is not copyright, the only available footage of the speech is locked down in copyright as tight as tight can be.
On that note, seeing as plants cross polinate out in the wold, I wonder who gets to sue the poor farmer whose normal crops are pollinated by both Monsanto's and BASF's genetically modified strands.
I just am a bit more hesitant about releasing GM plants into all the biosphere we have.
Hey! Think about it from the point of the scientist! It's no longer "I drive down to the lab and work for eleven hours a day..." soon, it can be "*Maniacal Laughter* The entire WORLD IS MY LABORATORY, bow before me peasant!".
I mean, what next, the gene splicing scientists get the power to revoke the designation of a planet to a dwarf planet? Wait, what? Sorry, that's for another thread.
Hey McGrew, My Karma has been excellent for a good many years now, not sure if there is some secret little flag or if it is constantly being topped up. On that note though, I don't care about my Karma if I am right - just don't take away my 15 mod points!
I do really wonder though the value in these shills, especially on sites like/. I mean, people here generally have very defined opinions and are rather quick to point out that it is walking like a duck and quacking like a duck if they think it is. I find it difficult to imagine how they might go to their manager and show what it is that they have accomplished through the week. Surely "Hey, I made all these good points in an online forum..." doesn't cut it?
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Since Apple is so eager to endorse Sunsung as a superior hardware alternative, sounds like it needs to be my next phone purchase.
When my old iPhone 3 (combined with a terrible data rate on my provider at the time) started really looking like it needed an upgrade, I decided to buy the Samsung Galaxy II S. Now, I get that the hardware is a few generations apart, but let me say, Wow, Wow, WOW. I have never looked back, and never will. I could not recommend it more.
It's not a threat of terrorism if you threaten to kill a bad ideal is it?
That depends on whose ideal it is. Sadly, the way it is going, if you try to quash an ideal raised in parliament, more and more it is deemed terrorism if any part of the protests fall into the grey area of what is acceptable. Politicians are wonderful at grouping what they don't like by the actions of the worst segment and getting that soundbyte into the news.
For all those of us who keep saying that this sort of technology will be abused, and all the folks that keep saying it won't - I guess it is our turn to say "I told you so."
My prediction, sales of this SatNav will plummet if people know that they will be monitored constantly.
In short, fuck the public experience. It stopped working when the "it's all about me" crowd arrived.
That crowd doesn't go to see an Ingmar Bergman film from several years prior. You should expand your cinematic horizons and stop watching the newest teen vampire movie as it comes out.
Going to a cinema like this is like going to a jazz club. You won't get the usual crowd of idiots, but likely have a great opportunity to meet some interesting people and have an intelligent conversation.
Same is true for a number of good movies and TV series that were never released on VHS. You want to watch the original Batman '66? Be prepared for some TV Land logos in your mp4s.
I listen to and love live DJ mixes. One of the broadcasts that I have been enjoying for a number of years now is A State of Trance. Now, while the current episodes are filled with people sharing, finding older sets is down right impossible. However, once I do manage to get them, I let them seed. No point in sharing what everyone else has out there, but for the folks that really do want to hear what was being played years ago (or perhaps the poor sods with OCD and the "Got to get them all" mentality) I think it is a nice thing to do.
Some contain advertising from the radio station that they were recorded off (though not many) and I think it is hilarious. It makes me wonder whether those shops or companies are even still around or whether the advertising I am hearing is just a memory of what once was.
or smart phones with [choose any operating system] on them
But this is exactly like that. The PC can run any number of operating systems. The customer is being forced to purchase software with the hardware when he already has other options for an operating system. The EU has fairly strict rules about what you can and can't do in trade and a good part of them are actually about protecting the consumer.
If your any-operating-system-phone was real, then in the EU you couldn't force a customer to buy the phone with an operating system on it and charge them the extra for it. It is these strict consumer laws in the EU that made Microsoft offer Windows 7 N in the EU as well as the whole "Browser Picker" thingy.
Then again, Australia has never had a terrorist attack on its soil and ASIO is doing a bang up job getting those who are plotting, so why aren't we giving them this money?
ASIO doesn't have lobbyists with the potential to make some serious kickback cash when whatEverCompany sells the government these $30 million dollar machines.
As for the idea of blowing up on a plane or airport lounge, of course, it is utterly farcical. The only reason I could see for someone wanting to take over a plane is to use it a a missle. Otherwise, I don't see it as a logical target, it doesn't make sense. There are loads of potentially much more devastating targets in Australia. Sadly, this sort of action makes many people "safe". I have actually discussed it with a few colleagues. It is simply stunning how the masses gobble this crud up and ask for seconds.
Australia was fairly high on my list of places to visit. I just marked it off the list.
Ditto. Joined the list of countries I won't visit over privacy concerns, right after US and UK.
Dammit, let's keep the big picture in focus here! Now, I am no longer able to be all smug about those stuipd US privacy nuts failing to properly protest getting these into the US and mocking them in patronizing tones. Now I have the idignity of being in the same bucket down here in Australia.
What amazes me thoughis how well this was kept under the radar. I normally think that I am quite abreast of these sort of issues, but now and again they just pop up out of nowhere.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity or whatever the expression is.
Hanlon's Razor is a nice idea, but I think that you think rather naively. The US went into Iraq with three real agenda's. 1) Make headlines in the press which was going to cause the United States public to ignore the fact that their economy was going down the gurgler and that their banking sector was in dire woes. 2) Seize some semblance of control over Iraq's oilfields with the intention of trying to rebuild the infrastructure by US corporations even though it was destroyed by US soldiers and 3) Cause instability in the Middle East which will provide further opportunities for "western interests" centered in the US and it's allies to rebuild and profit from industry that is destroyed in the following turmoil.
While I often find the actions of many western governments inept, especially those of the recent US government, I would be very much a fool if I did not think that they did indeed have a very purposeful goal. They may indeed be acting stupidly and seemingly against their own interests in the resulting outcomes, but I would certainly not put it down to a lack of malice. These people act according to their own interests and have utterly no care in the world for the outcomes of others.
they are the consumers that use the internet and we are the technicians that make the internet work. In essence these people are our food, we are the top of the food chain
You can't be further from the mark there mate. Big Media isn't a consumer of the internet. Big Media's customers are consumers of the internet. Big media makes a movie and wants to sell it at the cinema, or on a Blu-Ray or DVD. They couldn't be happier if the entire internet vanished. Then they could go back to charging thirty bucks for a CD and fifteen bucks for a CD single. DVDs would be back up to full price and a Blu-Ray would probably be sixty or seventy dollars.
They won't move aside in favour of you. While I applaud your verve, you mistake your place on the chessboard. Until the chessboard changes, and politicians start working for their constituents, constituents start to look forward further then the next one or two pay cycles - "us" in your words will remain in the middle paying jobs, taking orders from bosses who you think you are smarter than, and not seeing the utopian freedom that you want.
Don't hate the player. Hate the game. Or better yet, learn to play the game better than those who keep beating you at it.
Why the hell do these morons keep tabling impossible and/or extremely EXPENSIVE (compute-wise) proposals without talking to someone who knows ANYTHING about IT and technology FIRST?
2000's: We're going to collapse because of the threat of people sharing media online!
Fuck off, chicken little!
Chicken Little has learned that if it shouts, throws a tantrum and pays enough money to the lobbyists, then it gets what it wants. You get to sleep in the bed you make, and the bed that the US has made with Big Media has left it a very comfortable bed for Big Media. Big Media doesn't want to consult with IT people who will tell them that what they want can't be done realistically. They don't even care how it will affect anything else - they only look at what it will let them do. Why let someone who knows what they are talking about get in the way of that - lets face it, politicians have no clue technically - but they are willing to pass asinine laws and then see them fail, after all, they did what they promised to do.
Right. Previously Romney has called a moon base ridiculous (I don't know if those where his exact words). More recently he's said that space research would be an important priority if he were elected, and now he's accepting an endorsement from a group of engineers who are promoting a moon base.
Heh, American politics. You poor sods really don't get much of what would be considered "the best of the lot". The more I pay attention, the more it seems like you are scraping the bottom of the bottom of the barrel.
No president wants to go into history as the guy that cut living standards by half only to have debt resolved a few decades later. And you'd need several presidents in a row in order to pull this off.
Interesting. Going with this mentality, either the US will slowly trickle down into lower and lower standards and more and more cutbacks are done, or it will simply default on repayments. While I do see that there are a LOT of defaults happening in the US, and that fifteen trillion debt is American personal debt, not how much the US owes other countries, I still can't really see how the US will be able to maintain the standard of living that it has - no matter what the presidents want to do. Bush was able to get away with the stupid levels of spending in a large part due to the fact that everyone still wanted to buy US bonds. That market isn't as open anymore, China is about full up on what it wants to buy, the European Union has likely learned its lesson already in the shit that it bought before the crash - and even if they hadn't, they have more than enough of their own problems to clean up to have surplus cash lying around.
Whatever the outcome, I think that this whole global economy is going to get a whole lot more interesting over the next five to ten years. While I live in a country that has terrible money management (mainly due to a slipperly slope that was started in the 80's, but we started running down it in the last ten years), at least I can be somewhat relieved that we are a massive exporter of minerals. I do seriusly wonder what will happen to economies like the US where the only things that they seem to export these days are intangible.
Yes, because Australia is a backwater nation that encodes all data in incompatible and undocumented formats of our own design.
Actually, if you have ever tried to do anything in Australia regarding a log of phone calls or the like, it would seem that we do INDEED use incompatible and undocumented formats of our own design. This comes from many hours spent the phone with Telstra, Optus and worst of all Vodafone.
Oh, and by the way, I work for an Australian employer of over 200,000 employees. The data formats and accuracy that we have is utterly appalling. Even we can't read much of our data to any useful degree or match it with anything that makes it useful. I wouldn't expect much more of our phone companies.
You can argue whether or not the contractors fully understand the risks that they are taking and the likely outcomes, but at the end of the day it's a free market system and if they are willing to put their lives and future on the line, then let them do it.
Contractors understand the risks, they just pretend not to if things later don't work out to be the way they want. The contractors I have dealth with are either perfectly capable and wonderful to work with, or useless - and they pull every single excuse possible to prove how it is not their fault and how they were working exactly as they were supposed to.
it is a free market, let them put their life on the line. If they are there to do the right thing, then their families will have honour for all eternity, if they are there to make a quick buck and and do nothing but screw things up - then theirs is coming to them and the thirty silver coins they are paid will not go as far as they had hoped it would.
Presumably not punishing google ads(ducks)
Google ads aren't generally splashed over the entire top of the intial screen loaded page. While I don't want to sound like a google shill here, I really don't get how they make their money - aren't google ads generally little text areas with "Advertisement" written above them? I am not one to click on ads, but I know that I have clicked on a few by mistake - but never Google ones that I knew of - they really seem to make their ads be known as ads.
The government is not a citizen's equal. It is a force which always has vastly greater power than a citizen, and that power is often abused, as is the case with censoring digital communications.
No, I disagree with that statement in this context. In the real world, yes, the government is more powerful than most people, but not in the cyber world. The fact that governments are so inneffective at getting what they want across is proof of this. If you asked me today who has more clout online, the US government or Anon, then I say it is Anon that holds the power. They might be hamstrung by outside influences, and they certainly don't have much ability to lobby for government etc, but in the wild, small animals who pack a big enough sting are left alone.
The only thing that I think is stopping Anon really show how much of a stinger they have is a lack of organisation.
If anything, I think that this whole thing will just create even more darknets.
Now, if you get your hands at the detail reports, the audit result may actually tell you something, at least if the auditors are good. But the certifications pretty much only ensure minimal standards low enough to be meaningless.
It depends on the purpose of the audit. If the purpose is to appease middle managers and the like, then the auditors (good or bad) will be able to read the request "We need to ensure we are certified for [insert current buzzword]." and see that this is nothing short of an easy way to make a costly fee. If on the other hand, the request is to find ways to break into the systems and comes from sysadmins or the like, then it is much more likely that the company wants to patch vulnerabilities.
Business is business. If a sales person sees easy money walking into the office, they will probably sell them overpriced and needless goods/services. If they see someone who knows exactly what it is they want, they will more likely give them exactly what they ask for and for a reasonable price.
I wonder if this is going to be the first of many instant responses to actions like this.
I wonder the effectiveness of these actions. I mean, how long can a DDOS be sustained? If they started really hosing systems in these retaliatory attacks, would the net effect be in their favour or against it? I mean, to me, this retaliation smirks of "Stop messing up our playground!" but the actions are merely name calling, I wonder the outcome if bloodied noses were created in the counterattack.
Mod up, that's the actual link. It might be a good idea to snag a copy of the speech and seed it. Chances are decent that it might get DCMAed into oblivion.
How can it be though that there isn't one recording of his speech that's been released in the public domain?
I was thinking that exact same thought as I read it to start with, but then I got to thinking about when the speech was made. It's not like there were cellphones that recorded video, it's not like there were handycams that fit into your hand - or on your shoulder for that matter. The number of people recording that speech was probably indeed just one or two. If that is the case, then it is quite likely that while the speech itself is not copyright, the only available footage of the speech is locked down in copyright as tight as tight can be.
Sue, Crush. They are so interchangable in the US.
On that note, seeing as plants cross polinate out in the wold, I wonder who gets to sue the poor farmer whose normal crops are pollinated by both Monsanto's and BASF's genetically modified strands.
I just am a bit more hesitant about releasing GM plants into all the biosphere we have.
Hey! Think about it from the point of the scientist! It's no longer "I drive down to the lab and work for eleven hours a day..." soon, it can be "*Maniacal Laughter* The entire WORLD IS MY LABORATORY, bow before me peasant!".
I mean, what next, the gene splicing scientists get the power to revoke the designation of a planet to a dwarf planet? Wait, what? Sorry, that's for another thread.
Well, my ID is almost double yours, but I (and likely a lot more folks) wouldn't consider myself a newcomer here :)
Hey McGrew, My Karma has been excellent for a good many years now, not sure if there is some secret little flag or if it is constantly being topped up. On that note though, I don't care about my Karma if I am right - just don't take away my 15 mod points!
I do really wonder though the value in these shills, especially on sites like /. I mean, people here generally have very defined opinions and are rather quick to point out that it is walking like a duck and quacking like a duck if they think it is. I find it difficult to imagine how they might go to their manager and show what it is that they have accomplished through the week. Surely "Hey, I made all these good points in an online forum..." doesn't cut it?