And making kids convicted felons who are FOREVER barred from:
1. voting 2. holding public office 3. owning a firearm (18 USC 922(g)(1) and 18 USC 924(a)(2) 4. working in certain jobs a. it is outright illegal to work in some jobs as a felon b. the loss of other rights (e.g. #3 above) makes it impossible to hold a given job (e.g. cop) c. certain gov't jobs (cop, defense) prohibit by law or policy from hiring felons. d. "neligent hiring" - a boss is nice enough to give a felon another chance - the felon commits a crime somehow connected to the job - the boss gets hit with a monetary judgement (which has well exceeded $1 million in a few cases) as a result - wonder why bosses won't hire felons?
You want these penalties even if the kid learns his lesson, right?
What good does screwing up the life of a reformed person do?
Don't say juveniles are exempt - Florida refuses to allow juvenile felons to ever vote - they lose the right before they ever gain it. 18 USC 921(a)(20) provides that people with rights restored can bear arms - but the case law is quite murky on that provision.
If you want to treat juveniles as adults to the point of taking away rights for life - then good kids who are 15 or even 12 should be allowed to vote and drive.
Either their kids, or their not.
One age for
voting unrestricted driving, including interstate commercial driving drinking smoking gun ownership minimum age to run for office being subject to full adult penalties (felony loss of rights, killing by the state (death penalty) age of consent able to enter contracts buy property rent property, including cars and hotel rooms. see any movie
One age for all, either you're adult or not. Kids are going into puberty and getting adult diseases earlier and earlier - we are aging faster evenif we live longer - so perhaps 15 or 16 for the above might be reasonable.
If you are convicted of a felony, you lose the right to bear arms under 18 USC 922(g)(1).
So you can't be a copy, armed guard, armed forces member, etc.
Are juvenile convictions excluded? I didn't see that in the statute.
18 USC 921(a)(20) defines disqualifying convictions to exclude offense for which one has had ones rights restored - but the case law regarding that isn't clear cut.
If indeed they are being so strict for a good reason (extremely valuable corporate or national security information), I sure hope they are using scanning and electronic countermeasures to prevent stuff being smuggled in or out.
Such as strong magnetic fields and electric fields and scanners, etc.
Watermark your data, and if/when something gets stolen, sue them and use discovery processes get at their copy of what was stolen, verify the watermark, and get a windfall judgement in your favor, including back profits, punitive damages, etc.
The DMCA is the real legal backup to the technical DRM.
EULAs mean you can get sued.
DMCA violations can and often are felonies.
Loss of civil rights for life (many states you can't vote or run for office - politicians will ignore you), 5 years in a prison where the average geek will get violated in 5 hours, illegal to work in certain industries, no one will hire you because of "negligent hiring" lawsuits - people have had multi-million dollar judgements against them for hiring the "wrong people".
DRM is like a wooden panel blocking you. EULAs are like a baseball bat which can be used to beat you. the DMCA is a multi-megaton nuclear bomb.
I don't know if I'd trust a wiki to make purchasing decisions, especially a small one with less people to catch mistakes (like Wikipedia).
People aren't sure if something works or not or how well, the people posting to them aren't clear about it, you don't know if it works or fails for them but won't be the same for you because unbeknownst to the both of you, you have a different chipset, etc.
I get this impression from having looked at the printer compatibility wiki. I still don't know what printers (if any) are good for Linux. Well I know the $5000 PostScript laser printers that speak TCP/IP are, but that is too expensive.
The problem with OSS is the last 5% (polishing) never gets done because it requires grunt work and skill sets that many OSS programmer are unwilling and/or unable to do.
Why doesn't it get done EVENTUALLY?
What instead happens is people add more features to the 95% as well, and this means more polishing is needed for those features, so they are adding to the 5% that needs to get done as fast or faster than anybody is working on it.
Eventually people abandon the project for a new one or a rewrite or such a major change that a lot of work on polishing is either lost due to non-use or needs to be majorly reworked or redone.
OSS needs to have a system where a version is freezed and it can only be polished and bug fixed after that point, and at least 50% of the developers time goes into that rather than the next great version.
We need to be sen as providing a professional level solution.
Users and companies don't want to have to deal with bugs, workarounds, weird things needed to get things running, broken features, missing or inaccurate docs, etc.
artsd has some good features, it will be a shame to lose them, but it had some problems too. Ones I've notice is a lag on XMMS of a second or 2 when you start a song and sometimes the connect to it would get hosed and XMMS would just say something like "unable to connect" or somesuch generic error and I'd had to restart KDE sometimes.
There are supposedly other technical problems as well.
The big non-technical problem is that the author abandoned it.
Would you want to evacuate know that everything you own will be flattened or washed away by the storm?
You leave, but there is nothing to ever go back to.
It is hard to leave knowing that you'll never be able to go back or that there will be nothing there but the slab your house was built on (which is the case for many).
At least if you are there you know what is happening.
Cingular's TDMA stuff is the stuff they inherited from AT&T Wireless.
(begin rant):
Things have gone downhill.
I have trouble hearing people. People have trouble hearing me. Calls get dropped often. In some places they get dropped all the time! In other places it is so hard for me or the other party to hear that it is completely worthless. A (likely reconditioned) phone they gave me has a bad # key. Often does nothing or gives you a 9 instead. "No service" error is common. Fast busy signals are common. "Your call cannot be completed" messages are common. 511 calls (traffic info) very often don't get through - fast busys and error messages. Lost text messages are common. Occasionally text messages are duplicated, sometimes multiple times. Sometimes the phone says "Text message not sent" - no idea why - I am in the service area Directory assistance (411 and 555-1212) is redirected to them - they often drop the call, don't know the number for a business which definitely is listed, and often give you the number for some other business instead! 611 would often drop calls Billing is a nightmare - if you got a credit, e.g. for a bad 411 call (see above) the billing computer deducted that from the bill, but not from what it thinks you need to pay. Your next bill says you are deliquent (happened to me twice, also happened to someone else I know) and sometimes they won't believe you until you explain it to the point it gets through their thick skull. One whole city I went to would have constant dropped calls and very hard to hear people at best. People get my voicemail even when my phone is on and it never rings even though the ring is turned on - no missed calls show on the phone. Often they'll get voicemail immediately without even more than one ring - and I am in the service area. To get a GSM phone I'll need to pay money up front and not have it one the bill. Also a 2 year agreement (see above for why that doesn't exactly appeal to me) to get a price which isn't outragious. A 1 year agreement would be less hard to swallow.
You will find people using Microsoft keyboards with Linux; for the reason that it doesn't suck as much as your crappy OS, and dont have to upgrade to a new keyboard after every three years.
Does Microsoft make the keyboards themselves (I doubt it) or do they just outsource the production of them or license their trademark to the company which produces it?
I sure hope the FCC isn't going to allow the circuit switched PSTN to be decommissioned and VoIP to BE the only phone system.
Thats NUTS, sounds like something Michael Powell would do, I am glad he is gone, though is brother Colin was a very good leader, Michael scared the hell out of me.
Few courts will award monetary damages to PORNOGRAPHERS from a reputable company defendant unless the law very clearly says they must and/or there was egregious misconduct on the part of the defendant.
It doesn't look good in the eyes of the public. It is very bad if the judge ever wants to get re-elected, re-appointed or move to a better/higher court.
Google provides a service and an extremely useful one at that.
They are NOT at fault (in a moral, not legal sense - laws are often wrong and/or interpreted wrongly) because their system lets you have access to others infringing content.
Do you think the people who build the roads are wrong because someone drove down a road and then killed someone? Should they be held responsible?
Slashdot Mirror
And making kids convicted felons who are FOREVER barred from:
1. voting
2. holding public office
3. owning a firearm (18 USC 922(g)(1) and 18 USC 924(a)(2)
4. working in certain jobs
a. it is outright illegal to work in some jobs as a felon
b. the loss of other rights (e.g. #3 above) makes it impossible to hold a given job (e.g. cop)
c. certain gov't jobs (cop, defense) prohibit by law or policy from hiring felons.
d. "neligent hiring" - a boss is nice enough to give a felon another chance - the felon commits a crime somehow connected to the job - the boss gets hit with a monetary judgement (which has well exceeded $1 million in a few cases) as a result - wonder why bosses won't hire felons?
You want these penalties even if the kid learns his lesson, right?
What good does screwing up the life of a reformed person do?
Don't say juveniles are exempt - Florida refuses to allow juvenile felons to ever vote - they lose the right before they ever gain it. 18 USC 921(a)(20) provides that people with rights restored can bear arms - but the case law is quite murky on that provision.
If you want to treat juveniles as adults to the point of taking away rights for life - then good kids who are 15 or even 12 should be allowed to vote and drive.
Either their kids, or their not.
One age for
voting
unrestricted driving, including interstate commercial driving
drinking
smoking
gun ownership
minimum age to run for office
being subject to full adult penalties (felony loss of rights, killing by the state (death penalty)
age of consent
able to enter contracts
buy property
rent property, including cars and hotel rooms.
see any movie
One age for all, either you're adult or not. Kids are going into puberty and getting adult diseases earlier and earlier - we are aging faster evenif we live longer - so perhaps 15 or 16 for the above might be reasonable.
If you are convicted of a felony, you lose the right to bear arms under 18 USC 922(g)(1).
So you can't be a copy, armed guard, armed forces member, etc.
Are juvenile convictions excluded? I didn't see that in the statute.
18 USC 921(a)(20) defines disqualifying convictions to exclude offense for which one has had ones rights restored - but the case law regarding that isn't clear cut.
If indeed they are being so strict for a good reason (extremely valuable corporate or national security information), I sure hope they are using scanning and electronic countermeasures to prevent stuff being smuggled in or out.
Such as strong magnetic fields and electric fields and scanners, etc.
Watermark your data, and if/when something gets stolen, sue them and use discovery processes get at their copy of what was stolen, verify the watermark, and get a windfall judgement in your favor, including back profits, punitive damages, etc.
Yet you're allowed to post to Slashdot.
Solaris is just, for lack of a better word, painful to admin.
Remember SSSCA/CBDTPA?
They'll finally pass it and now you'll be a felon.
The DMCA is the real legal backup to the technical DRM.
EULAs mean you can get sued.
DMCA violations can and often are felonies.
Loss of civil rights for life (many states you can't vote or run for office - politicians will ignore you), 5 years in a prison where the average geek will get violated in 5 hours, illegal to work in certain industries, no one will hire you because of "negligent hiring" lawsuits - people have had multi-million dollar judgements against them for hiring the "wrong people".
DRM is like a wooden panel blocking you.
EULAs are like a baseball bat which can be used to beat you.
the DMCA is a multi-megaton nuclear bomb.
I don't know if I'd trust a wiki to make purchasing decisions, especially a small one with less people to catch mistakes (like Wikipedia).
People aren't sure if something works or not or how well, the people posting to them aren't clear about it, you don't know if it works or fails for them but won't be the same for you because unbeknownst to the both of you, you have a different chipset, etc.
I get this impression from having looked at the printer compatibility wiki. I still don't know what printers (if any) are good for Linux. Well I know the $5000 PostScript laser printers that speak TCP/IP are, but that is too expensive.
The problem with OSS is the last 5% (polishing) never gets done because it requires grunt work and skill sets that many OSS programmer are unwilling and/or unable to do.
Why doesn't it get done EVENTUALLY?
What instead happens is people add more features to the 95% as well, and this means more polishing is needed for those features, so they are adding to the 5% that needs to get done as fast or faster than anybody is working on it.
Eventually people abandon the project for a new one or a rewrite or such a major change that a lot of work on polishing is either lost due to non-use or needs to be majorly reworked or redone.
OSS needs to have a system where a version is freezed and it can only be polished and bug fixed after that point, and at least 50% of the developers time goes into that rather than the next great version.
We need to be sen as providing a professional level solution.
Users and companies don't want to have to deal with bugs, workarounds, weird things needed to get things running, broken features, missing or inaccurate docs, etc.
KDE 4 will not have artsd.
It is too big a change to do in the KDE 3 series.
artsd has some good features, it will be a shame to lose them, but it had some problems too. Ones I've notice is a lag on XMMS of a second or 2 when you start a song and sometimes the connect to it would get hosed and XMMS would just say something like "unable to connect" or somesuch generic error and I'd had to restart KDE sometimes.
There are supposedly other technical problems as well.
The big non-technical problem is that the author abandoned it.
Yet one man can write a kernel.
I already in another post mentioned the NCS GETS system:
http://gets.ncs.gov/
(the 710 area code system used for disasters).
As for cell phones there is something called "Overload Class". Emergency personnel have theirs set to 15, which means their calls get priority.
Would you want to evacuate know that everything you own will be flattened or washed away by the storm?
You leave, but there is nothing to ever go back to.
It is hard to leave knowing that you'll never be able to go back or that there will be nothing there but the slab your house was built on (which is the case for many).
At least if you are there you know what is happening.
Cingular's TDMA stuff is the stuff they inherited from AT&T Wireless.
(begin rant):
Things have gone downhill.
I have trouble hearing people.
People have trouble hearing me.
Calls get dropped often.
In some places they get dropped all the time!
In other places it is so hard for me or the other party to hear that it is completely worthless.
A (likely reconditioned) phone they gave me has a bad # key. Often does nothing or gives you a 9 instead.
"No service" error is common.
Fast busy signals are common.
"Your call cannot be completed" messages are common.
511 calls (traffic info) very often don't get through - fast busys and error messages.
Lost text messages are common.
Occasionally text messages are duplicated, sometimes multiple times.
Sometimes the phone says "Text message not sent" - no idea why - I am in the service area
Directory assistance (411 and 555-1212) is redirected to them - they often drop the call, don't know the number for a business which definitely is listed, and often give you the number for some other business instead!
611 would often drop calls
Billing is a nightmare - if you got a credit, e.g. for a bad 411 call (see above) the billing computer deducted that from the bill, but not from what it thinks you need to pay. Your next bill says you are deliquent (happened to me twice, also happened to someone else I know) and sometimes they won't believe you until you explain it to the point it gets through their thick skull.
One whole city I went to would have constant dropped calls and very hard to hear people at best.
People get my voicemail even when my phone is on and it never rings even though the ring is turned on - no missed calls show on the phone. Often they'll get voicemail immediately without even more than one ring - and I am in the service area.
To get a GSM phone I'll need to pay money up front and not have it one the bill. Also a 2 year agreement (see above for why that doesn't exactly appeal to me) to get a price which isn't outragious. A 1 year agreement would be less hard to swallow.
Should I switch and to who?
http://gets.ncs.gov/
This is what the infamous 710 area code is for.
I don't know how well it actually works or if it is being used for this disaster.
Anyone know if it was used on 9/11?
Yeah, and it needs 220 Volt 3 Phase (!) 50 amp power. And uses 9kW.
:)
Of course if you're Enron, that's not a problem.
Do you think that anyone who can't compile a kernel or write an XF86Config is an idiot?
You will find people using Microsoft keyboards with Linux; for the reason that it doesn't suck as much as your crappy OS, and dont have to upgrade to a new keyboard after every three years.
Does Microsoft make the keyboards themselves (I doubt it) or do they just outsource the production of them or license their trademark to the company which produces it?
No one would buy anything knowing it was going to crash.
Oh wait, there is Windows.
...and the wholesale changeover of POTS to VOIP.
I sure hope the FCC isn't going to allow the circuit switched PSTN to be decommissioned and VoIP to BE the only phone system.
Thats NUTS, sounds like something Michael Powell would do, I am glad he is gone, though is brother Colin was a very good leader, Michael scared the hell out of me.
Google should fight.
Few courts will award monetary damages to PORNOGRAPHERS from a reputable company defendant unless the law very clearly says they must and/or there was egregious misconduct on the part of the defendant.
It doesn't look good in the eyes of the public. It is very bad if the judge ever wants to get re-elected, re-appointed or move to a better/higher court.
You're an idiot.
Google provides a service and an extremely useful one at that.
They are NOT at fault (in a moral, not legal sense - laws are often wrong and/or interpreted wrongly) because their system lets you have access to others infringing content.
Do you think the people who build the roads are wrong because someone drove down a road and then killed someone? Should they be held responsible?
how do you expect to stop people from taking copies if they want them?
TCPA.
Including Slashdot?