which is another way of saying they seized things they did not have a warrant to seize, excluding the possibility that they had a good reason to grab everything.
My father was a prosecutor for 20+ years. He told me he never has seen a judge not sign a request for a warrant, accept when he had directly told the judge not to sign because he believed it to be a bogus request by the police. They are almost always rubber stamp operations, especially early in any investigation. Police need to produce very little by way of explanation, or proof of what they are telling the judge is true.
There is some fairly important elements missing from this to be able to claim the robot made a scientific discovery.
Among many others, that it could have done otherwise. As if, it could have cracked a beer and sat in front of the TV, rather than done "scientific research". Essentially it does not mean anything to the robot / AI. Google "discovers" all kinds of crap every ms, but it is not front page on slashdot because of it and it does not MEAN anything to Google (the computers, not the people).
All they did was automate some lab test. I will say bravo in the potential usefulness of it, but it is not any grand breakthrough in AI research.
My father was a criminal defense attorney / prosecutor. His most effective defense in front of a jury, "the sucker had it coming". Seemed to work especially well when the client was obviously guilty such as bar room fights with 100+ witnesses.
Many of his acquittals and jury nullifications he got in his carrier where some variation on that very simple theme. This argument is not that much different. Everyone likes fairness, even if it is not fair.
Just about anything the RIAA might come up with will look more complex, confusing, and simply unfair.
try getting Bill Gates to respond at MS help desk
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When was the last time Bill Gates, or any developer at MS or Apple, to respond to your problems when you call. At least in Open Source land, you have a fairly good chance of really talking to someone that built the software you are complaining about.
Yea, linux is not perfect, and neither are the communities that support it. Anyone that has been around though say over the last 5 to 10 years will appreciate just how far it has come in such a short while.
It took MS 30+ years to reach the crappy state of its software. Linux has come up almost neck and neck in about 3-5 years (or less, depending on how you count)
We are not allowed to dismiss the idea with it is either deductively or probabilistically false, but are instead forced to rationalize it by other means rather than simply eliminate the belief as say we might in the course of evaluating a scientific assertion. You have freedom of religion, but you are not given freedom FROM religion.
Yea, with the nature of easy duplication we get the benefit of sort weeding out the unimportant things at least to us. The more something is duplicated, the more likly to survive. The BS will kind of fall by the way side. At least it does in my archives.
I think it is lack of an imaginative buisness model. The economic downturn will sort a lot of this out very naturally. Many of the old guard companies will be gone (not red hat), but I think we as yet to see the KILLER BUSINESS MODEL FOR OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS. I suspect right now, in some basement, there is that KILLER BUSINESS MODEL being born.
By the time this recession is over, no one will even be having these sorts of conversations about open source. Everyone will assume software is free, like we assume air will be free (that might not be true by then).
Chile, and it is Best described as Semi-developed. Almost all are located in Santiago.
MS has a serious strangle hold on the country, but the IT education system does not produce sufficiently high quality IT people in sufficient numbers that I would let most touch my desktop let alone roll the dice on my servers. For what would in most places you would need only need one person, here you would need three to get any reliability. I could hire a bunch of "computer science" graduates here likly for around $40,000 US each or less, or I could hire a a good one for around $80,000. Those "good ones" are expensive, because they are busy and hard to find.
No way I can give you a full accounting here, but just and idea.
Again, where I operate in Latin America either it simply does not exist or it will cost 2 to 10 times what it does in the States. I am sure there is a lot of the developing World in a similar situation. Thus, all the screaming about all the pirated software in the developing World (they can't afford it).
Most of the savings is in deploying servers and office infrastructure mostly. Web server (3 servers), PBX phone system (asterisks), mail servers (3), databases (not even sure how many), a bunch of other stuff I am sure I overlooked. FOSS web sites and databases are a big one as I run about a dozen different sites for promotion. If I had to run those on say a.NET framework, each would likly cost me $5,000 US a pop on the low end. Likely more around $10,000 a year or more with hiring people to build and maintain them.
The per desktop cost is big here. Stock windows vista home edition computers (just about all that is sold) will start at around $1000 to $1200 US, with no software (add office, adobe, etc). Hardware will be at least 12 to 24 months behind what is sold in the States, single core processors are still common. I am not even sure where I would find a licensed copy of windows server, let alone any other common advanced server apps. I even have PIII IBM T21 I just took out of service in my office. Cost $600 three years ago factory recertified with win98, and it was already 8 years old. Got Three years out of it with Linux, and I still could use it if needed.
This is all aside from labor cost (competent IT labor also does not exist). The real savings is in my time, if you are looking for an easy way to justify that number. One competent full time IT person to do all the above (chances I would need way more) if I could find them, would run me an easy $80,000 US to start per year.
Don't forget total virus infections in my company ever: 0.00000000
Just now I am starting to really cash in, because the big upfront cost are done (especially in terms of my time to do homework). I can cheaply scale from 30 to 300 employees in IT terms with very little new investment and likly well beyond. Someday, with a little luck, I really will need to hire someone like Red Hat. That is how they will make their money off of me.
You can run the numbers in a bunch of different ways, depending on where you shop for prices; but there is still a big savings over going all closed source equivalents. There is simply no way to recalculate all that in a way that closed source equivalent functionality / capabilities comes out cheaper, without using pirated software.
I don't expect to pay for a lot of things, that does not mean they are not popular or have no future. Just because some company can not make money, does not mean it is going away anytime soon. What we are eventually going to see is the desktop (likly before it goes away completely), will simply be free value added bonus to a product.
Right now, when you buy a computer off the shelf, you do not get hit directly with license fee from MS. Dell, HP or whatever is simply passing a cost from MS on to you. Same exact principle. Now companies have found a cheaper way to lower their cost like in the EEE by loading up a linux distro on it, rather than windows. As that improves, those companies will be able to sell cheaper computers.
I do not even see how the desktop in Mac, MS, or Linux land has ever made any middle ware server company any real money anyway, beyond back office support for it. IBM found out a long time ago that was a lost cause. There is no more money for them to make off supporting a Linux desktop than there is off of supporting a windows desktop in a company. There is however an increased cost savings the customer, and therefore Linux has an advantage in that respect.
Ask a company when selling a server solution, would you like us to deploy $300,000 worth of windows vista desktops and new computers, or upgrade your existing computers with Linux for $30,000 in IT support?
yea, that is one place that still needs a full solution.
I have used GNUcash for about a year, but my accounting requirements are fairly simple because I have an outside accountant. It does the job however. I am currently testing some invoicing solutions that integrate with some different web based project management software now that we are growing beyond what GNUcash does.
Even Quickbooks would not do what I needed. So, likly will simply customize something specifically for our biz. That also means, I can likly just find a FOSS project and throw a few hundred dollars reward at someone to write a module. Everyone benefits. I have also found, that half the time things get written for the challenge, and people never ask me for the money (totally willing to pay).
You can always run windows on virtuelbox for those few remaining applications. You don't need to go all FOSS, but cut some cost with going FOSS where possible.
First, I am not in the IT industry. I run small law firm.
My entire buisness, two offices, 30 computers, routers, servers, all Linux (PClos 2009 is my flavor). Not a single copy of anything else in my office, all running free or open source software legally. I save over $250,000 a year and climbing over what I would have needed to pay for the equivalent (and most is not equivalent). Since I started my biz about 4 years ago, that could be seen as something around $1 million dollars. In real money, that is something likly closer to $400,000 in cash, because I likly simply would have had to do without most of the stuff I take for granted (e.g. loading up a backup mail server on an old computer, rather than forking out $2,000+ for new one ). Thus, my buisness likly would be much smaller.
The savings is even greater on the desktop. Somewhere in neighborhood of $1,000 per seat or more. Hardware alone, as I live in a country with expensive outdated hardware, is 50% over walking in to a store to buy a new computer because I run Linux.
I would likly not be able to afford to be in biz without Linux.
Making money comes in two basic forms. You either raise the price, or reduce your cost. I am making more money using linux and OS, because I reduced my cost. I can afford not to raise prices on clients, I get more clients, and make more money.
Not my problem the old guard IT industry can not figure out how to make money with Linux, because I am sure I am not the only small buisness out there that is making money on Open Source.
Not sure about this one, but as far as I know at least in most states, even the police need authorization from the parents to search or question a minor (yea, there is bunch of exceptions not getting in to). The minor alone can not give consent.
Hard drive, with USB cable that passes through the back of a safe, and is bolted to the concrete floor next to the server. Very simple, very inexpensive. Additionally I swap two large capacity hot swap drives and place one in my second office about every 15 days. Once a month, I place copy in removable drive and mail it out of the region.
I run a relocation biz in Chile. Chile is one of the most wired countries in South America.
Quality of life trumps connection in my experience.
I have a large pool of clients that are serious IT people that left the rest of the crazy world. They simple would prefer an o.k. connection, and a safe stable quiet place to work and for their families to live.
There is very little going on inside Chile as far as the IT industry is concerned, but it is a nice place to work compared to the rest of the World. They are progressively moving in bigger numbers for the lifestyle, not the connection.
In the last conference call for SourceForge, inc (LNUX, they bring you slashdot if you did not know), mentioned a big push to raise the profile of open source and related markets that source forge covers, to better educate advertisers on the nature of the IT market they can reach. They mentioned that they have a direct pipe to the core of the IT community, but mainstream advertisers really don't understand what that means.
Part of that I bet, is raising the public profile of linux and open source in general. Thus, the linux.com partnership with the Linux Foundation, and so on recently.
I say, well done if that is what is happening. No one has done more to promote open source, than the guys at SourceForge. They are basically in the open source and related projects promotion buisness, and have found a way to make it commercially viable to help people give shit away for free.
That is my pet theory of what this is all about. Either way, hope it works.
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which is another way of saying they seized things they did not have a warrant to seize, excluding the possibility that they had a good reason to grab everything.
My father was a prosecutor for 20+ years. He told me he never has seen a judge not sign a request for a warrant, accept when he had directly told the judge not to sign because he believed it to be a bogus request by the police. They are almost always rubber stamp operations, especially early in any investigation. Police need to produce very little by way of explanation, or proof of what they are telling the judge is true.
There is some fairly important elements missing from this to be able to claim the robot made a scientific discovery.
Among many others, that it could have done otherwise. As if, it could have cracked a beer and sat in front of the TV, rather than done "scientific research". Essentially it does not mean anything to the robot / AI. Google "discovers" all kinds of crap every ms, but it is not front page on slashdot because of it and it does not MEAN anything to Google (the computers, not the people).
All they did was automate some lab test. I will say bravo in the potential usefulness of it, but it is not any grand breakthrough in AI research.
My father was a criminal defense attorney / prosecutor. His most effective defense in front of a jury, "the sucker had it coming". Seemed to work especially well when the client was obviously guilty such as bar room fights with 100+ witnesses.
Many of his acquittals and jury nullifications he got in his carrier where some variation on that very simple theme. This argument is not that much different. Everyone likes fairness, even if it is not fair.
Just about anything the RIAA might come up with will look more complex, confusing, and simply unfair.
When was the last time Bill Gates, or any developer at MS or Apple, to respond to your problems when you call. At least in Open Source land, you have a fairly good chance of really talking to someone that built the software you are complaining about.
Yea, linux is not perfect, and neither are the communities that support it. Anyone that has been around though say over the last 5 to 10 years will appreciate just how far it has come in such a short while.
It took MS 30+ years to reach the crappy state of its software. Linux has come up almost neck and neck in about 3-5 years (or less, depending on how you count)
Happy April Fools day.
You have not been paying much attention to the American courts in recent years.
The point is FREEDOM FROM RELIGION.
We are not allowed to dismiss the idea with it is either deductively or probabilistically false, but are instead forced to rationalize it by other means rather than simply eliminate the belief as say we might in the course of evaluating a scientific assertion. You have freedom of religion, but you are not given freedom FROM religion.
Yea, with the nature of easy duplication we get the benefit of sort weeding out the unimportant things at least to us. The more something is duplicated, the more likly to survive. The BS will kind of fall by the way side. At least it does in my archives.
Why is this problem and solution different from say EMP's from nuclear blasts?
How are the solutions and protection different also? Would things like Faraday cages protect critical infrastructure?
http://www.aussurvivalist.com/nuclear/empprotection.htm
http://www.endtimesreport.com/faraday_cages.html
Yea, but do they have a wife that will kill them if her torrents quits working?
In fact I would like to conduct a survey of how many of those Google engineers switched their wife's connection to IPv6.
I think it is lack of an imaginative buisness model. The economic downturn will sort a lot of this out very naturally. Many of the old guard companies will be gone (not red hat), but I think we as yet to see the KILLER BUSINESS MODEL FOR OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS. I suspect right now, in some basement, there is that KILLER BUSINESS MODEL being born.
By the time this recession is over, no one will even be having these sorts of conversations about open source. Everyone will assume software is free, like we assume air will be free (that might not be true by then).
Chile, and it is Best described as Semi-developed. Almost all are located in Santiago.
MS has a serious strangle hold on the country, but the IT education system does not produce sufficiently high quality IT people in sufficient numbers that I would let most touch my desktop let alone roll the dice on my servers. For what would in most places you would need only need one person, here you would need three to get any reliability. I could hire a bunch of "computer science" graduates here likly for around $40,000 US each or less, or I could hire a a good one for around $80,000. Those "good ones" are expensive, because they are busy and hard to find.
No way I can give you a full accounting here, but just and idea.
Again, where I operate in Latin America either it simply does not exist or it will cost 2 to 10 times what it does in the States. I am sure there is a lot of the developing World in a similar situation. Thus, all the screaming about all the pirated software in the developing World (they can't afford it).
Most of the savings is in deploying servers and office infrastructure mostly. Web server (3 servers), PBX phone system (asterisks), mail servers (3), databases (not even sure how many), a bunch of other stuff I am sure I overlooked. FOSS web sites and databases are a big one as I run about a dozen different sites for promotion. If I had to run those on say a .NET framework, each would likly cost me $5,000 US a pop on the low end. Likely more around $10,000 a year or more with hiring people to build and maintain them.
The per desktop cost is big here. Stock windows vista home edition computers (just about all that is sold) will start at around $1000 to $1200 US, with no software (add office, adobe, etc). Hardware will be at least 12 to 24 months behind what is sold in the States, single core processors are still common. I am not even sure where I would find a licensed copy of windows server, let alone any other common advanced server apps. I even have PIII IBM T21 I just took out of service in my office. Cost $600 three years ago factory recertified with win98, and it was already 8 years old. Got Three years out of it with Linux, and I still could use it if needed.
This is all aside from labor cost (competent IT labor also does not exist). The real savings is in my time, if you are looking for an easy way to justify that number. One competent full time IT person to do all the above (chances I would need way more) if I could find them, would run me an easy $80,000 US to start per year.
Don't forget total virus infections in my company ever: 0.00000000
Just now I am starting to really cash in, because the big upfront cost are done (especially in terms of my time to do homework). I can cheaply scale from 30 to 300 employees in IT terms with very little new investment and likly well beyond. Someday, with a little luck, I really will need to hire someone like Red Hat. That is how they will make their money off of me.
You can run the numbers in a bunch of different ways, depending on where you shop for prices; but there is still a big savings over going all closed source equivalents. There is simply no way to recalculate all that in a way that closed source equivalent functionality / capabilities comes out cheaper, without using pirated software.
I don't expect to pay for a lot of things, that does not mean they are not popular or have no future. Just because some company can not make money, does not mean it is going away anytime soon. What we are eventually going to see is the desktop (likly before it goes away completely), will simply be free value added bonus to a product.
Right now, when you buy a computer off the shelf, you do not get hit directly with license fee from MS. Dell, HP or whatever is simply passing a cost from MS on to you. Same exact principle. Now companies have found a cheaper way to lower their cost like in the EEE by loading up a linux distro on it, rather than windows. As that improves, those companies will be able to sell cheaper computers.
I do not even see how the desktop in Mac, MS, or Linux land has ever made any middle ware server company any real money anyway, beyond back office support for it. IBM found out a long time ago that was a lost cause. There is no more money for them to make off supporting a Linux desktop than there is off of supporting a windows desktop in a company. There is however an increased cost savings the customer, and therefore Linux has an advantage in that respect.
Ask a company when selling a server solution, would you like us to deploy $300,000 worth of windows vista desktops and new computers, or upgrade your existing computers with Linux for $30,000 in IT support?
yea, that is one place that still needs a full solution.
I have used GNUcash for about a year, but my accounting requirements are fairly simple because I have an outside accountant. It does the job however. I am currently testing some invoicing solutions that integrate with some different web based project management software now that we are growing beyond what GNUcash does.
Even Quickbooks would not do what I needed. So, likly will simply customize something specifically for our biz. That also means, I can likly just find a FOSS project and throw a few hundred dollars reward at someone to write a module. Everyone benefits. I have also found, that half the time things get written for the challenge, and people never ask me for the money (totally willing to pay).
You can always run windows on virtuelbox for those few remaining applications. You don't need to go all FOSS, but cut some cost with going FOSS where possible.
First, I am not in the IT industry. I run small law firm.
My entire buisness, two offices, 30 computers, routers, servers, all Linux (PClos 2009 is my flavor). Not a single copy of anything else in my office, all running free or open source software legally. I save over $250,000 a year and climbing over what I would have needed to pay for the equivalent (and most is not equivalent). Since I started my biz about 4 years ago, that could be seen as something around $1 million dollars. In real money, that is something likly closer to $400,000 in cash, because I likly simply would have had to do without most of the stuff I take for granted (e.g. loading up a backup mail server on an old computer, rather than forking out $2,000+ for new one ). Thus, my buisness likly would be much smaller.
The savings is even greater on the desktop. Somewhere in neighborhood of $1,000 per seat or more. Hardware alone, as I live in a country with expensive outdated hardware, is 50% over walking in to a store to buy a new computer because I run Linux.
I would likly not be able to afford to be in biz without Linux.
Making money comes in two basic forms. You either raise the price, or reduce your cost. I am making more money using linux and OS, because I reduced my cost. I can afford not to raise prices on clients, I get more clients, and make more money.
Not my problem the old guard IT industry can not figure out how to make money with Linux, because I am sure I am not the only small buisness out there that is making money on Open Source.
Not sure about this one, but as far as I know at least in most states, even the police need authorization from the parents to search or question a minor (yea, there is bunch of exceptions not getting in to). The minor alone can not give consent.
Why is the school principle any different?
Hard drive, with USB cable that passes through the back of a safe, and is bolted to the concrete floor next to the server. Very simple, very inexpensive. Additionally I swap two large capacity hot swap drives and place one in my second office about every 15 days. Once a month, I place copy in removable drive and mail it out of the region.
My father was a lawyer for 35+ years.
His favorite Philosophy of Law he learned in the Marines:
No one can make you do anything, but they can sure make you wish you had.
Good luck with that.
I run a relocation biz in Chile. Chile is one of the most wired countries in South America.
Quality of life trumps connection in my experience.
I have a large pool of clients that are serious IT people that left the rest of the crazy world. They simple would prefer an o.k. connection, and a safe stable quiet place to work and for their families to live.
There is very little going on inside Chile as far as the IT industry is concerned, but it is a nice place to work compared to the rest of the World. They are progressively moving in bigger numbers for the lifestyle, not the connection.
That is bullshit. IE is not even compatible with itself, or older versions. It is not the designers fault that MS has no idea how to render the web.
In the last conference call for SourceForge, inc (LNUX, they bring you slashdot if you did not know), mentioned a big push to raise the profile of open source and related markets that source forge covers, to better educate advertisers on the nature of the IT market they can reach. They mentioned that they have a direct pipe to the core of the IT community, but mainstream advertisers really don't understand what that means.
Part of that I bet, is raising the public profile of linux and open source in general. Thus, the linux.com partnership with the Linux Foundation, and so on recently.
I say, well done if that is what is happening. No one has done more to promote open source, than the guys at SourceForge. They are basically in the open source and related projects promotion buisness, and have found a way to make it commercially viable to help people give shit away for free.
That is my pet theory of what this is all about. Either way, hope it works.
yea, lets censor Australia for censoring Australia.
I am inclined however to not host anything in Australia ever. Wait, I have no reason to host anything in Australia ever.
any other links?