it just wanted to avoid the costs of complying with the (many) subpoenas it will now receive.
Great. It isn't enough that RIAA taxes blank media, now they are taxing ISP's by increasing the ISP's costs, and thus the price we pay for internet service.
It's starting to look like RIAA is a world wide government. I wonder if if RIAA has nukes, and if Blix is going to inspect them. Oh wait. They do have a nuke. It's called DMCA.
puts on a tinfoil hat on to protect themself from the programming rays
This used to be funny. Then one of my friends became mentally ill, and really thinks they need to do this. Now it's not funny anymore, just very, very, sad. If one were to be exposed to the plight of the mentally ill, one wouldn't make so many jokes about it. It is depressing to see one so bright, promising, and fun spiral down.
I think that (yawn) this is the most (Yawn) unfair ruling in the (YAWN) history of (YAWWWWNNN) of the country. (YAAAAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNN). Excuse me. I think I'll take a nap for the next few years....
Liberty's comment on Eldred v. Ashcroft SCotUS decision
In other news, "The Three men I admire most" took the last train for the coast. AmTrak funding was discontinued shortly thereafter. Turning to our final item, Lady Liberty, long asleep in our nation, passed away quietly in the early morning hours. She was preceeded in death by her sister "Fair Trial", brothers "rights of the people", and "Free Press". An uncle, "Bill", of Rights, Iowa, passed away late last year.
Her step children, Church and State, were reconciled after a long seperation.
That's the news. Further announcements will be sent to you via e-mail from the government, as a press corps is deemed to waste vital national resources needed in our distressed markets and had been discontinued by order of the Whore^h^h^h^h^h White House. Good bye.
I predict this is another "Boat Tax". Remember that one? It killed a whole industry, moved it to other countries, and cost more to collect and enforce the tax than they made from it*.
First off, some are saying they will force retailers to pay the tax to their state, others say they want to force the retailer to pay the tax to the buyers state. Bwaaa hahahha!
Second, the federal exemption for internet sales tax doesn't run out until 2004. I admit, they can speed that one up if they pull for it.
Third, and last, is that this crosses state lines. Do you think states are going to sit down and divide the pie fairly?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
*gasp* *gulp* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* *choke* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
*gasp* *choke* *chortle* *THUD!*
Quick, some one show Michael Powell how to use e-bay!
If it turns out, however, that SCO only wants to target Microsoft
And hoist MS on their own petard. Microsoft gave^h^h^h^h loaned money to Caldera to buy SCO to kill SCO. MS used to have a chair on SCO's board, and SCO had to use code done on Xenix coded by MS (when MS was the developer of Xenix) in all versions of SCO.
The EU made MS back off of that, then MS bailed out of SCO, then sent money Calderia's way. MS denied they did so for Caldera to buy SCO, but it didn't take long between Caldera getting the money and gobbling up SCO.
I can see your point here. It's just that I didn't vote for 'em, don't approve of what they are doing, and can't do anything to stop it. I talk to a friend of mine, trying to tell him why what's going on is so bad, and the reaction I get is "You're just a liberal democrat", like that's a real answer to an arguement. (Yes, I am liberal, but I don't always vote for a Democrat. I vote for the person I think will do the best job.)
So be angry with the government if you wish, and I'll agree with you. But don't call me part of the problem. I'm doing my part.
More thought to how a problem is solved BEFORE coding would solve a lot of debugging problems. I've seen too many programmers start coding first thing when they are given a problem. Sometimes the answer isn't code per se, but how you think about the problem.
Good example is a damaged database. If you say "You have a damaged record", the customer says, "Well, fix the record and get all my data back!". If you say, "All your data is lost, but I think I can get most of it back if I get rid of this one record.", the customer says "DELETE that record!".
NAI could force us to call the Open Source project something else!"
A Pink Meat Eater by any other name doth smell as sweet.
Interesting trend here. OS projects getting bought out by private industry. While lots to be said about that, and the quality of OS vs. Closed Source, I don't see that this could change anything other than the name.
Yes, it is terrible to see the three original authors go, but there are many in the OS community that are willing to pick up and carry on. And once OS, always OS, right?
SpamAssassin code seems fairly stable. All that's really needed at this point are updates to the matching rules IMO. At some point, yes, the code will need a bit of work, but it's not the same level of job to maintain code as it is to create it. I'm not saying it's easy...
However, if you let them know that you're smarter than they were, you were always "hacking".
I agree, that's a problem, and one I hate to see.
Personally, I applaud this x-windows project. Personally, I would love to see it happen where I work. Personally, what I want doesn't matter. Professonally, I condem placing nodes doing unapproved projects on the network. Get it approved as a proof of concept, and I'll be behind it 1000 percent. I'll make sure techs are sent that understand what it is you want to do.
Until then, the only thing you would get from me is techs with orders to wipe the drives and load approved and properly licensed and tracked software.
I don't have time to deal with projects, no matter how much sense they make, that are not approved and are considered rouge installations. To keep my job my duty is clear. Protect the network for other users, preserve the integerty and security of the systems, and prevent and report unauthorized applications. I don't like it, but that's the deal.
You see your small portion of the problem. I deal with the network, systems, and people as a whole. Help me to make things work, I'll be your best friend. Work against me, I'll do my job and no more than that.
Excuse me, I've got to go check on patchs I loaded last week, to make sure the systems are up and available for Monday.
OK, so I did vent a bit, and your post shows you do know something. I'll back off.
However, I do know what I'm talking about. I used to teach college, then went private sector for 20 years before admining at a school.
And no, I don't have an MCSE, nor will I hire anyone with one listed as their primary qualification. And no, I don't admin windows, I do Unix. Several different flavors. And no, you STILL don't get it. The fact that you may be a genius has nothing to do with what software gets installed. The fact is that if it can't be supported, it makes no sense to put it out. You said it: and it worked flawlessly, got hammered day after day, and never crashed until may when the district technidiots pulled the plug and f***ed the whole thing up.
I don't care what you teach. You are not a technician. You are a teacher. It matters not if you can leave me in the dirt technically or not. The point is that doing technical functions is not your job, and not what you are paid to do.
The point is that your district has a way of doing things with computers. Change that, if you can, because that's what matters. If you pull a cowbow move and improve everyone's life, it's p*ssing in the wind if it isn't offically blessed. That should be self evident from your experience with the the techs pulling the plug on your project.
Another thing that shows that you care little or nothing about what havoc you propagate is using Samba. If you have Novell, and you are doing file services on Samba, then you are defenately part of the problem. Your district has chosen a standard for file services, and you are violating that standard. If you've ever put a sniffer on a network and looked at the traffic, you'd know why.
Use the system. It works badly, and slowly, but it's a system. What you are doing is injecting chaos and wondering why people get upset.
he said no, primarily because he wouldn't control it. we would spend school funds, and we'd run it.
Hate to burst your bubble here, but there's a lot more at stake than who runs it.
When you quit and move on to another job, who's going to run it then? Unless the district starts spending money to train the techs on how to deal with this setup, then it's a case of "Get a forklift, we got boxes to throw away!".
From personal experience I can tell you 90% of the techs at a school district won't be able to deal, even WITH training. I know.
Sooner or later, it's gonna fail, and unless plans are in place to deal with the failure, job action isn't likely, it's a fricken forgone conclusion. Dosen't matter one whit that the same failure in a Windows enviroment might happen too. After all, it's windows. (Doesn't make sense, I know it, you know it.)
E-rate says those machines must do what the grant specified. That means they must be in the school assigned, with the software assigned, doing the functions the grant said they would do. They don't CARE about Linux or what ever, if it's not in the grant, you are breaking the terms of the grant, period.
YOUR job is to teach. OUR job is to make the technology work. Please do YOUR job, because I CAN'T DO IT FOR YOU. If you wanted to be a technician, then I suggest you take a 1,000 dollar a month cut in pay and come work on machines that get screwed up daily by TEACHERS trying to be TECHNICIANS or KIDS whose TEACHERS ARN'T WATCHING THEM try to be 3l337 hax0rs.
There is a very nice system to deal with suggestions from below. It's even encouraged that new thinking be tried. I know it takes forever for anything to bubble to the top of the heap, but please use the system. IT WILL get a look see. IT WILL NOT be shot down because it's new and different. IT WILL BE shot down if there is NO MERIT to it.
In the mean time, please go back to teaching your kids. You may experiment all you want at home, but at school you are expected to teach. I am expected to work on computers. I'll teach at home. Thank you.
was in the Army during Clinton's presidency. He didn't appoint a secretary of the Army for over a year, and he couldn't salute.
Actually, I think a lot of consertives ripped Clinton up for saluting at all, even badly. And while I don't often agree with consertives, I agree that he shouldn't salute. A salute is a millitary recognition of rank. The President, while (s)he is the Commander in Cheif, is not in the millitary. That is the essance of civilan control of the millitary, and why the US isn't a banana republic.
This is pretty damning on both the domestic and foreign policy sides.
As for your points on Al Queda, I submit to you that Clinton could have done little more than he did. At the time, the public would not have supported millitary patrols in airports, FBI survalance & searches without a warrant, CIA spying on american citizens, and assissanations by presidental order. If they were such glaring errors, then GW Bush should have acted to tighten security on cockpit doors in the seven and a half months he had before 9-11.
Here is the central idea, and what I beleive in: In this country, a person (Not just citizens, but people!) have rights (and duties too, but now is not the time for that speach). These rights are so precious to me that I will willingly lay down my life to preseve them. Even if it means that some terrorist can use those same rights to commit attacks against me.
I fail to see how making our own government the instrument of terror will stop terrorism. It hasn't worked elsewhere, I suspect it won't work for the US.
I may be wrong, but I feel that freedom is for everyone. Even if your last name is spelt funny, and your customs are not my customs. Even if you don't speak English well, or at all. Even if you are poor, uneducated, and hungry.
Freedom is for everyone, or it isn't freedom, it's privilege.
McCarthy once told a person under investigation "This committy will decide what rights you have and what rights you do not have!"
Personally, I think your views are shortsighted and, sorry to be so frank, wrong.
It's true that 9-11 was a terrible thing to happen. It's also true that the US has done more damage to itself in the name of "Protecting the Homeland" than any terrorist could ever do. We have restricted the very freedoms that make this country great. We have violated the rights of people because they MIGHT be someone who knows someone who's dangerous. We have detained citizens without trial or charges and forbiden them to speak with anyone, even an attorney, even a government appointed attorney. We strip search grandmothers, and detain people that have funny last names. We listen to the quisling, reporting people that don't leave tips in greasy spoons.
"Those that would trade liberity for security deserve [and will get] neither." - B. Franklin.
As for your assertion that no one thought flight school students could be terrorists, you have your facts wrong. Remember the conflab at the FBI? That's what that's about. Someone DID think there might be terrorists being trained at flight schools.
To protect ourselves from terrorist requires a scalpel, not the howtizer that's being used. The true cancer of a free society are those that would render freedom impossible. The true terrorists are they that wage war on the rights of the people. The real terror is the loosing of the dogs of a police state.
"we need to save pay phones for 911 use" is a mute argument"
Hate to nit pick, but this one really grates on my nerves. The word you want here is moot, not mute. Mute means unable to speek, moot means without significance. My wife does this and it drives me stright up the wall.
Interesting though, how often the cannard gets repeated (even by me), and how it appears not be be completely true. Look how that fire in the tunnel in the N.E. slowed down MAE East and connections through them. It should have re-routed (and did, but not very well according to reports I read) and folk shouldn't have noticed. They did notice. Point being that perhaps re-routing around major damage isn't working as well as could be hoped?
I was listening to NPR a few days ago (YES, I am a libral. That means I don't want to see your kids starve just because you are a crack head or kick the bucket.) and they were talking about centerlizing main internet exchanges to "protect them from terrorists." Now, I thought that odd, because the Internet was originally designed decenteralized to avoid any one node being knocked out (by nuke) and cutting off those not vaporized.
So I asked myself, how can centerlizing the internet prevent terrorists from taking out large chunks of the system? Answer: It can't, and in fact makes it easier to do so. But it does make intercepting e-mail much easier.... Ahh. That's the REAL answer.
So now stealing "customers and prospective customers" is a crime for a competitor to commit?
It is if you, through contracts, IP sharing, and business ties, do so to the detriment of the owner of the information.
It's one thing if you and I are in the consulting business in competition, and I get some of your customers by calling around and offering them a better price. It's quite another matter if I bribe your accountant and get a list of all your customers.
What Sendio is saying is that MS invested in the company, signed contracts to develop and market cell phones. In exchange, MS promised Sendio that Sendio would make the phone and software, clear it with the cell system operators (no small task that), in exchange Sendio would get a partnership with MS and profits. Sendio says that instead of honoring that contract, MS gave all the work to Sendio's competitor, MS took a larger slice of the profits, and left Sendio to die because all their hard work was given away.
If this is true, (and I don't know if it is or isn't), then MS has a big problem. If the court gets nasty, they could award Sendio millions and millions, list the phone as pirate technology (and WTO treaty partners would have to forbid importation of the phone), and other things that wouldn't make God Gates happy. In fact, if the court really got vendictive, they can say CE copyrights are null/void, and order MS to release the source code to CE. (Not that it will happen or that anyone would want it anyway.)
As always, IANAL. IDEPOOTV. (I don't even play one on TV).
Just my two cents worth. At some point this whole issue will be so lopsided that it will kill the IP industry pigoplists. Revenge would be so sweet by giving them everything they want, then watching them circle the bowl on their way to the sewer.
Perhaps at that point we can get some sane IP laws on the books, mostly by taking away those laws.
Remeber, it's never too late to reclaim rights lost to those that would seek to eradicate them. It's just that for a time, our lives will be worse off before they get better.
resulting in your addy being taken off their list (hopefully)
I admin a 22K+/day e-mail server. I see bounces for accounts that were closed more than three years ago. So the addage that "Enough bounces, and it'll stop" is bogus.
I'm looking for something like teergrube, but instead of running on port 25, I was looking for one that worked on a different port and would send 400's until someone at the remote end deleted the queued mail. I run IPTABLES so instead of a REJECT or DROP, I could do a FORWARD to the port running this program. I don't care if I get 20 or 30K connections running at once, I have another box to put this on if needed.
I want to hit the spammer where it hurts. I want to tie up their server until it smokes. I want it to be so busy talking to my server that they never even get a chance to think about talking to another server. I can set up a box just for the known spammers, and let them talk to that all week if they want to.
still don't get why people get their panties all in a bunch about a few emails
Try this on for size: If your received just one e-mail from every business in the US, you would get 1,200 per day.
Say it with me. Just hit delete. 1,200 times. Oops! Just deleted the e-mail from your (mother/father/brother/sister/spouce/SO/boss/once in a life time confidential offer).
would like to have a touch screen with a 1-10 score for each song. That way I - the customer can express what I feel for each song so the Record Companies may actually see that they publish Bad Stuff (tm).
They know when they publish Bad Stuff. It's called "Sales in the crapper". Oops. Sorry! I forgot. It's called "No one is buying our overpriced^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h valuable product because they are stealing it with the Internet.
Quick question for all you music downloaders: How often do you d/l music that you like, but haven't ever bought?
As for me, I always end up buying it second hand or given to me as a gift. (I don't buy IP where the IP monopoly makes a buck on it.) Since I'm an old fart, I like older music. Good second hand market there.
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Great. It isn't enough that RIAA taxes blank media, now they are taxing ISP's by increasing the ISP's costs, and thus the price we pay for internet service.
It's starting to look like RIAA is a world wide government. I wonder if if RIAA has nukes, and if Blix is going to inspect them.
Oh wait. They do have a nuke. It's called DMCA.
What steps will you be taking to make sure you aren't railroaded again? I ask because I suspect that they are going to be out to get you again.
This used to be funny. Then one of my friends became mentally ill, and really thinks they need to do this. Now it's not funny anymore, just very, very, sad. If one were to be exposed to the plight of the mentally ill, one wouldn't make so many jokes about it. It is depressing to see one so bright, promising, and fun spiral down.
Write congress critter check
Donate to EFF check
Call congress critter check
boycott movies check
boycott RIAA music check
write paper check
tell friends check
write polite letter to RIAA & MPAA telling them they are full of it.
post sticker on bumper "RIAA STINKS
And not filling out the form with @127.0.0.1 as their E-mail address?
And doesn't list themselves as under 13?
And doesn't list their country as Uganda?
COME ON. Everyone knows how spammish Real is. That's why when someone says "get real!" I say, "I'd rather not, thank you."
Liberty, January 21st, 2001.
(YAAAAAWWWWWWWWNNNNNN!!!!! *Smack* *samck*) Ngh ngh ngh.....zzzzzzzz.
Liberty's comment on the USA "Patriot" act.
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Liberty's comment on Eldred v. Ashcroft SCotUS decision
In other news, "The Three men I admire most" took the last train for the coast. AmTrak funding was discontinued shortly thereafter. Turning to our final item, Lady Liberty, long asleep in our nation, passed away quietly in the early morning hours. She was preceeded in death by her sister "Fair Trial", brothers "rights of the people", and "Free Press". An uncle, "Bill", of Rights, Iowa, passed away late last year. Her step children, Church and State, were reconciled after a long seperation.
That's the news. Further announcements will be sent to you via e-mail from the government, as a press corps is deemed to waste vital national resources needed in our distressed markets and had been discontinued by order of the Whore^h^h^h^h^h White House. Good bye.
First off, some are saying they will force retailers to pay the tax to their state, others say they want to force the retailer to pay the tax to the buyers state. Bwaaa hahahha!
Second, the federal exemption for internet sales tax doesn't run out until 2004. I admit, they can speed that one up if they pull for it.
Third, and last, is that this crosses state lines. Do you think states are going to sit down and divide the pie fairly?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! *gasp* *gulp*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* *choke*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! *gasp* *choke* *chortle* *THUD!*
Quick, some one show Michael Powell how to use e-bay!
*Boat tax, 6th paragraph
And hoist MS on their own petard. Microsoft gave^h^h^h^h loaned money to Caldera to buy SCO to kill SCO. MS used to have a chair on SCO's board, and SCO had to use code done on Xenix coded by MS (when MS was the developer of Xenix) in all versions of SCO.
The EU made MS back off of that, then MS bailed out of SCO, then sent money Calderia's way. MS denied they did so for Caldera to buy SCO, but it didn't take long between Caldera getting the money and gobbling up SCO.
I can see your point here. It's just that I didn't vote for 'em, don't approve of what they are doing, and can't do anything to stop it. I talk to a friend of mine, trying to tell him why what's going on is so bad, and the reaction I get is "You're just a liberal democrat", like that's a real answer to an arguement. (Yes, I am liberal, but I don't always vote for a Democrat. I vote for the person I think will do the best job.)
So be angry with the government if you wish, and I'll agree with you. But don't call me part of the problem. I'm doing my part.
Good example is a damaged database. If you say "You have a damaged record", the customer says, "Well, fix the record and get all my data back!". If you say, "All your data is lost, but I think I can get most of it back if I get rid of this one record.", the customer says "DELETE that record!".
A Pink Meat Eater by any other name doth smell as sweet.
Interesting trend here. OS projects getting bought out by private industry. While lots to be said about that, and the quality of OS vs. Closed Source, I don't see that this could change anything other than the name.
Yes, it is terrible to see the three original authors go, but there are many in the OS community that are willing to pick up and carry on. And once OS, always OS, right?
SpamAssassin code seems fairly stable. All that's really needed at this point are updates to the matching rules IMO. At some point, yes, the code will need a bit of work, but it's not the same level of job to maintain code as it is to create it. I'm not saying it's easy...
I agree, that's a problem, and one I hate to see.
Personally, I applaud this x-windows project. Personally, I would love to see it happen where I work. Personally, what I want doesn't matter. Professonally, I condem placing nodes doing unapproved projects on the network. Get it approved as a proof of concept, and I'll be behind it 1000 percent. I'll make sure techs are sent that understand what it is you want to do.
Until then, the only thing you would get from me is techs with orders to wipe the drives and load approved and properly licensed and tracked software.
I don't have time to deal with projects, no matter how much sense they make, that are not approved and are considered rouge installations. To keep my job my duty is clear. Protect the network for other users, preserve the integerty and security of the systems, and prevent and report unauthorized applications. I don't like it, but that's the deal.
You see your small portion of the problem. I deal with the network, systems, and people as a whole. Help me to make things work, I'll be your best friend. Work against me, I'll do my job and no more than that.
Excuse me, I've got to go check on patchs I loaded last week, to make sure the systems are up and available for Monday.
However, I do know what I'm talking about. I used to teach college, then went private sector for 20 years before admining at a school.
And no, I don't have an MCSE, nor will I hire anyone with one listed as their primary qualification. And no, I don't admin windows, I do Unix. Several different flavors. And no, you STILL don't get it. The fact that you may be a genius has nothing to do with what software gets installed. The fact is that if it can't be supported, it makes no sense to put it out. You said it: and it worked flawlessly, got hammered day after day, and never crashed until may when the district technidiots pulled the plug and f***ed the whole thing up.
I don't care what you teach. You are not a technician. You are a teacher. It matters not if you can leave me in the dirt technically or not. The point is that doing technical functions is not your job, and not what you are paid to do.
The point is that your district has a way of doing things with computers. Change that, if you can, because that's what matters. If you pull a cowbow move and improve everyone's life, it's p*ssing in the wind if it isn't offically blessed. That should be self evident from your experience with the the techs pulling the plug on your project.
Another thing that shows that you care little or nothing about what havoc you propagate is using Samba. If you have Novell, and you are doing file services on Samba, then you are defenately part of the problem. Your district has chosen a standard for file services, and you are violating that standard. If you've ever put a sniffer on a network and looked at the traffic, you'd know why.
Use the system. It works badly, and slowly, but it's a system. What you are doing is injecting chaos and wondering why people get upset.
Hate to burst your bubble here, but there's a lot more at stake than who runs it.
When you quit and move on to another job, who's going to run it then? Unless the district starts spending money to train the techs on how to deal with this setup, then it's a case of "Get a forklift, we got boxes to throw away!".
From personal experience I can tell you 90% of the techs at a school district won't be able to deal, even WITH training. I know.
Sooner or later, it's gonna fail, and unless plans are in place to deal with the failure, job action isn't likely, it's a fricken forgone conclusion. Dosen't matter one whit that the same failure in a Windows enviroment might happen too. After all, it's windows. (Doesn't make sense, I know it, you know it.)
E-rate says those machines must do what the grant specified. That means they must be in the school assigned, with the software assigned, doing the functions the grant said they would do. They don't CARE about Linux or what ever, if it's not in the grant, you are breaking the terms of the grant, period.
YOUR job is to teach. OUR job is to make the technology work. Please do YOUR job, because I CAN'T DO IT FOR YOU. If you wanted to be a technician, then I suggest you take a 1,000 dollar a month cut in pay and come work on machines that get screwed up daily by TEACHERS trying to be TECHNICIANS or KIDS whose TEACHERS ARN'T WATCHING THEM try to be 3l337 hax0rs.
There is a very nice system to deal with suggestions from below. It's even encouraged that new thinking be tried. I know it takes forever for anything to bubble to the top of the heap, but please use the system. IT WILL get a look see. IT WILL NOT be shot down because it's new and different. IT WILL BE shot down if there is NO MERIT to it.
In the mean time, please go back to teaching your kids. You may experiment all you want at home, but at school you are expected to teach. I am expected to work on computers. I'll teach at home. Thank you.
Actually, I think a lot of consertives ripped Clinton up for saluting at all, even badly. And while I don't often agree with consertives, I agree that he shouldn't salute. A salute is a millitary recognition of rank. The President, while (s)he is the Commander in Cheif, is not in the millitary. That is the essance of civilan control of the millitary, and why the US isn't a banana republic.
This is pretty damning on both the domestic and foreign policy sides.
As for your points on Al Queda, I submit to you that Clinton could have done little more than he did. At the time, the public would not have supported millitary patrols in airports, FBI survalance & searches without a warrant, CIA spying on american citizens, and assissanations by presidental order. If they were such glaring errors, then GW Bush should have acted to tighten security on cockpit doors in the seven and a half months he had before 9-11.
Here is the central idea, and what I beleive in: In this country, a person (Not just citizens, but people!) have rights (and duties too, but now is not the time for that speach). These rights are so precious to me that I will willingly lay down my life to preseve them. Even if it means that some terrorist can use those same rights to commit attacks against me.
I fail to see how making our own government the instrument of terror will stop terrorism. It hasn't worked elsewhere, I suspect it won't work for the US.
I may be wrong, but I feel that freedom is for everyone. Even if your last name is spelt funny, and your customs are not my customs. Even if you don't speak English well, or at all. Even if you are poor, uneducated, and hungry.
Freedom is for everyone, or it isn't freedom, it's privilege.
Personally, I think your views are shortsighted and, sorry to be so frank, wrong.
It's true that 9-11 was a terrible thing to happen. It's also true that the US has done more damage to itself in the name of "Protecting the Homeland" than any terrorist could ever do. We have restricted the very freedoms that make this country great. We have violated the rights of people because they MIGHT be someone who knows someone who's dangerous. We have detained citizens without trial or charges and forbiden them to speak with anyone, even an attorney, even a government appointed attorney. We strip search grandmothers, and detain people that have funny last names. We listen to the quisling, reporting people that don't leave tips in greasy spoons.
"Those that would trade liberity for security deserve [and will get] neither." - B. Franklin.
As for your assertion that no one thought flight school students could be terrorists, you have your facts wrong. Remember the conflab at the FBI? That's what that's about. Someone DID think there might be terrorists being trained at flight schools.
To protect ourselves from terrorist requires a scalpel, not the howtizer that's being used. The true cancer of a free society are those that would render freedom impossible. The true terrorists are they that wage war on the rights of the people. The real terror is the loosing of the dogs of a police state.
Fantisy land, I guess. You have a point there.
Hate to nit pick, but this one really grates on my nerves. The word you want here is moot, not mute. Mute means unable to speek, moot means without significance. My wife does this and it drives me stright up the wall.
Interesting though, how often the cannard gets repeated (even by me), and how it appears not be be completely true. Look how that fire in the tunnel in the N.E. slowed down MAE East and connections through them. It should have re-routed (and did, but not very well according to reports I read) and folk shouldn't have noticed. They did notice. Point being that perhaps re-routing around major damage isn't working as well as could be hoped?
So I asked myself, how can centerlizing the internet prevent terrorists from taking out large chunks of the system? Answer: It can't, and in fact makes it easier to do so. But it does make intercepting e-mail much easier.... Ahh. That's the REAL answer.
It is if you, through contracts, IP sharing, and business ties, do so to the detriment of the owner of the information.
It's one thing if you and I are in the consulting business in competition, and I get some of your customers by calling around and offering them a better price. It's quite another matter if I bribe your accountant and get a list of all your customers.
What Sendio is saying is that MS invested in the company, signed contracts to develop and market cell phones. In exchange, MS promised Sendio that Sendio would make the phone and software, clear it with the cell system operators (no small task that), in exchange Sendio would get a partnership with MS and profits. Sendio says that instead of honoring that contract, MS gave all the work to Sendio's competitor, MS took a larger slice of the profits, and left Sendio to die because all their hard work was given away.
If this is true, (and I don't know if it is or isn't), then MS has a big problem. If the court gets nasty, they could award Sendio millions and millions, list the phone as pirate technology (and WTO treaty partners would have to forbid importation of the phone), and other things that wouldn't make God Gates happy. In fact, if the court really got vendictive, they can say CE copyrights are null/void, and order MS to release the source code to CE. (Not that it will happen or that anyone would want it anyway.) As always, IANAL. IDEPOOTV. (I don't even play one on TV).
Perhaps at that point we can get some sane IP laws on the books, mostly by taking away those laws.
Remeber, it's never too late to reclaim rights lost to those that would seek to eradicate them. It's just that for a time, our lives will be worse off before they get better.
I admin a 22K+/day e-mail server. I see bounces for accounts that were closed more than three years ago. So the addage that "Enough bounces, and it'll stop" is bogus.
I'm looking for something like teergrube, but instead of running on port 25, I was looking for one that worked on a different port and would send 400's until someone at the remote end deleted the queued mail. I run IPTABLES so instead of a REJECT or DROP, I could do a FORWARD to the port running this program. I don't care if I get 20 or 30K connections running at once, I have another box to put this on if needed.
I want to hit the spammer where it hurts. I want to tie up their server until it smokes. I want it to be so busy talking to my server that they never even get a chance to think about talking to another server. I can set up a box just for the known spammers, and let them talk to that all week if they want to.
Try this on for size: If your received just one e-mail from every business in the US, you would get 1,200 per day.
Say it with me. Just hit delete. 1,200 times. Oops! Just deleted the e-mail from your (mother/father/brother/sister/spouce/SO/boss/once in a life time confidential offer).
They know when they publish Bad Stuff. It's called "Sales in the crapper". Oops. Sorry! I forgot. It's called "No one is buying our overpriced^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h valuable product because they are stealing it with the Internet.
Quick question for all you music downloaders: How often do you d/l music that you like, but haven't ever bought?
As for me, I always end up buying it second hand or given to me as a gift. (I don't buy IP where the IP monopoly makes a buck on it.) Since I'm an old fart, I like older music. Good second hand market there.