They probably thought they could get away with it because only California has a law requiring them to notify people about unauthorized access to their files.
I support everything he's saying, but he's leaking credibility at an alarming rate.
Blanket statements like that don't help your credibility either. I've read his book, and he's a darling of the left wing media because he has by far heaped the most criticism on the Bush II administration. However, his praise and criticism of others did come off as fair and even-handed, and he names names everywhere. For example, praise for George HW Bush for the delicate diplomatic balancing act of holding together a coalition (a real one) containing many Arab countries in Gulf War I, and jeers to former FBI director Louis Freeh for incompetent micromanagement particularly in the '96 Atlanta Olympics bombing investigation. No way you'd ever see any right wing pundit criticize one of their own. Never.
This guy is a career Fed (I mean it in a positive way) who started in the State Dept. He's no liberal hippie. Given his background, some of his ideas on security may seem too authoritarian to many Slashdotters, but at least he's able to make reasonable arguments for their necessity. From his writing style he sounds like a reasonable, no-nonsense kind of guy who values competence over loyalty. These kinds of people tend to piss off other people who have the opposite priorities (loyalty over competence).
"I don't use WINE to run Windows(c) OS, I run it to run some (work required) Office apps and some games."
That part is clear. If you're a paying customer who bought Office they should supply bugfixes and updates regardless of your OS.
What gets unclear is OS updates, and specifically in the case of Wine, Internet Explorer updates (remember IE is a part of the OS). Now take a look at the EULA for the KB834707 update for IE6.0sp1 (Microsoft's caps):
NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY LICENSED COPY OF ANY VERSION OR EDITION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS NT 4.0 WINDOWS 2000 OPERATING SYSTEM OR ANY MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM THAT IS A SUCCESSOR TO ANY OF THOSE OPERATING SYSTEMS (each an "OS Product"), YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
That 30 mi range is the max over open terrain. With buildings and hills it'll be a lot less. So a 30 mi radius in a rural area with 35Mbps shared isn't so bad. Also, in a city you could always have more cells with lower power to give more capacity.
Maybe they're proposing a horrible plan like this so a higher gas tax doesn't look so bad in comparison. California's gasoline market is so screwed up already. Demand is always going up. Refinery capacity is pretty tight, and nobody is building more (a NIMBY thing). We already pay $.30-.40 more per gallon than the national average, and if just one refinery has a problem, the price shoots up a quarter the next day. People complain about the price of gas, but for most it's not expensive enough to make them buy less gas. The last thing we need is eliminate other reason to reduce consumption.
At 512MB it would compete with the $99 iPod shuffle except you'd have to buy your own 512MB flash card for an unknown price (website says TransFlash, sounds proprietary). If this phone is compatible with the iTunes music store it would have to sync with iTunes on a PC or Mac just like an iPod shuffle. This is a do-it-all combo device to save you from carrying 4 or 5 separate gadgets. There's a flash MP3 player, a 1.3M pixel digital camera (nothing special but better than most camera phones), a VGA camera for videoconferencing (not one! two cameras!), a streaming audio/video player, and probably enough calendar and phonebook features to save you from carrying a PDA.
Not just that. Bono and The Edge from U2 have both supported fans trading their music as long as it was not for profit.
...U2 frontman BONO says,"THE EDGE is basically pro-NAPSTER. He feels that as long as people are using computers for music and not playing mindless games, that's good. My own feeling is that it's cool for people to share our music - as long as no one is making money from the process. We tell people who come to our concerts that they can tape the show if they wantto."
Financially the Xbox is a bust. Microsoft threw tons of money at marketing and lining up developers, and the Xbox division finally made a small profit last year. Game consoles are a tough market with some strong players. Microsoft had the luxury of all that cash to subsidize its money-losing console until it got a foothold in the market. Sega and the other flops lost out because they were financial lightweights.
"Don't let inkjet printers in the office AT ALL. They are a constant headache and steal more in support costs than ink."
This is part of a bigger problem of obscure software and gadgets that are big time wasters in terms of support. Every office has its high maintenance users who insist on having their PDAs or whatever. There's a lot of old or kludgy software out there that doesn't play well with user profiles and NTFS permissions.
In my experience, the biggest time wasters are SCSI scanners, PDAs and junky printers pushed past their prime.
The 30 fatalities from coal mine accidents are just the tip of the iceberg. There's risk in any industrial activity. We're very safety-conscious in the U.S., but there were still over 5000 work related fatalities in 2003 (and plenty more stats here. Trucking is probably the most deadly to civilians because of traffic accidents, but no one would ever suggest stopping food deliveries to the supermarkets.
Lighthouses don't light up the whole coast. They'd be more like trail markers and signposts, which they *do* have in national parks. Just like with hiking, navigating with a chart and compass is something every sailor *should* know how to do. GPS should really be tconsidered a convenience, not a necessity.
"For example, say there was a video of you having sex with your partner. I copied this video onto my computer and burned it to a cd. Is this video tangible?"
It's a tangible copy of a video on your CD. The blank media is your property. You don't have the right to copy the video.
He didn't take the database servers themselves. That would be stolen property. Assuming he copied the database to his own CD-R, there was no property removed from the premises of AOL. This falls under the umbrella of intellectual property. In aggregate, a list of millions of customers' info is a trade secret. It's not patented and not copyrighted (although companies have lobbied before to copyright databases).
I like PC games too, but I see consoles catching up to PCs pretty soon. They have steering wheels for driving games, online play with voice chat that's easy to set up. They don't commonly have mouse or trackball controllers which are much better for shooter or strategy games. In cost and convenience they blow PCs away. A whole game console costs less than a midrange video card. When Xbox2 and PS3 come out, they'll still cost less than a high end video card. There's no messing with drivers or patches. Just turn it on and play. I think part of it is that console games are debugged to a higher standard than PC games before release (can't patch a DVD-ROM).
Bill Gates was somewhat indirectly involved. The antitrust trial judgement to split Microsoft was the trigger that burst the stock market bubble. It was inevitable anyway. If it wasn't the Microsoft verdict it would have been something else, but if you can point to one time that everyone started selling off in panic, that would be it.
OK I was aware of the arrangements Dell and HP have with contract laptop manufacturers. So allow me to rephrase. It's not like Dell or HP can't pay an ODM to make a keyboardless and screenless laptop.
Yes, because Dell and HP have no experience building small, powerful, tightly packed computers like say... laptops? The Mac Mini is built like a laptop minus the screen and keyboard. Apple did score a coup with the $499 pricepoint.
At a given level of politeness, black and brown drivers just get hassled more. It's not purely a race thing either. If you're white and look like a parolee or a long haired hippie you'd get hassled too.
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They probably thought they could get away with it because only California has a law requiring them to notify people about unauthorized access to their files.
I suppose you care nothing about the privacy of your voicemail, text messages or account info?
I support everything he's saying, but he's leaking credibility at an alarming rate.
Blanket statements like that don't help your credibility either. I've read his book, and he's a darling of the left wing media because he has by far heaped the most criticism on the Bush II administration. However, his praise and criticism of others did come off as fair and even-handed, and he names names everywhere. For example, praise for George HW Bush for the delicate diplomatic balancing act of holding together a coalition (a real one) containing many Arab countries in Gulf War I, and jeers to former FBI director Louis Freeh for incompetent micromanagement particularly in the '96 Atlanta Olympics bombing investigation. No way you'd ever see any right wing pundit criticize one of their own. Never.
This guy is a career Fed (I mean it in a positive way) who started in the State Dept. He's no liberal hippie. Given his background, some of his ideas on security may seem too authoritarian to many Slashdotters, but at least he's able to make reasonable arguments for their necessity. From his writing style he sounds like a reasonable, no-nonsense kind of guy who values competence over loyalty. These kinds of people tend to piss off other people who have the opposite priorities (loyalty over competence).
No, that quote was from the supplemental EULA for an Internet Explorer update.
"I don't use WINE to run Windows(c) OS, I run it to run some (work required) Office apps and some games."
That part is clear. If you're a paying customer who bought Office they should supply bugfixes and updates regardless of your OS.
What gets unclear is OS updates, and specifically in the case of Wine, Internet Explorer updates (remember IE is a part of the OS). Now take a look at the EULA for the KB834707 update for IE6.0sp1 (Microsoft's caps):
NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY LICENSED COPY OF ANY VERSION OR EDITION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS NT 4.0 WINDOWS 2000 OPERATING SYSTEM OR ANY MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM THAT IS A SUCCESSOR TO ANY OF THOSE OPERATING SYSTEMS (each an "OS Product"), YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
That 30 mi range is the max over open terrain. With buildings and hills it'll be a lot less. So a 30 mi radius in a rural area with 35Mbps shared isn't so bad. Also, in a city you could always have more cells with lower power to give more capacity.
Maybe they're proposing a horrible plan like this so a higher gas tax doesn't look so bad in comparison. California's gasoline market is so screwed up already. Demand is always going up. Refinery capacity is pretty tight, and nobody is building more (a NIMBY thing). We already pay $.30-.40 more per gallon than the national average, and if just one refinery has a problem, the price shoots up a quarter the next day. People complain about the price of gas, but for most it's not expensive enough to make them buy less gas. The last thing we need is eliminate other reason to reduce consumption.
Read up on Argentina's dirty war. "disappear" was used as a verb to mean kidnapping and killing of political opponents.
At 512MB it would compete with the $99 iPod shuffle except you'd have to buy your own 512MB flash card for an unknown price (website says TransFlash, sounds proprietary). If this phone is compatible with the iTunes music store it would have to sync with iTunes on a PC or Mac just like an iPod shuffle. This is a do-it-all combo device to save you from carrying 4 or 5 separate gadgets. There's a flash MP3 player, a 1.3M pixel digital camera (nothing special but better than most camera phones), a VGA camera for videoconferencing (not one! two cameras!), a streaming audio/video player, and probably enough calendar and phonebook features to save you from carrying a PDA.
Financially the Xbox is a bust. Microsoft threw tons of money at marketing and lining up developers, and the Xbox division finally made a small profit last year. Game consoles are a tough market with some strong players. Microsoft had the luxury of all that cash to subsidize its money-losing console until it got a foothold in the market. Sega and the other flops lost out because they were financial lightweights.
"How will the RIAA remove her from the public eye?"
Two words: Kurt Cobain
The Josie and the Pussycats movie had a spoof of this where they disappeared the goth-punk girl from the record store.
"Don't let inkjet printers in the office AT ALL. They are a constant headache and steal more in support costs than ink."
This is part of a bigger problem of obscure software and gadgets that are big time wasters in terms of support. Every office has its high maintenance users who insist on having their PDAs or whatever. There's a lot of old or kludgy software out there that doesn't play well with user profiles and NTFS permissions.
In my experience, the biggest time wasters are SCSI scanners, PDAs and junky printers pushed past their prime.
The 30 fatalities from coal mine accidents are just the tip of the iceberg. There's risk in any industrial activity. We're very safety-conscious in the U.S., but there were still over 5000 work related fatalities in 2003 (and plenty more stats here. Trucking is probably the most deadly to civilians because of traffic accidents, but no one would ever suggest stopping food deliveries to the supermarkets.
Lighthouses don't light up the whole coast. They'd be more like trail markers and signposts, which they *do* have in national parks. Just like with hiking, navigating with a chart and compass is something every sailor *should* know how to do. GPS should really be tconsidered a convenience, not a necessity.
"For example, say there was a video of you having sex with your partner. I copied this video onto my computer and burned it to a cd. Is this video tangible?"
It's a tangible copy of a video on your CD. The blank media is your property. You don't have the right to copy the video.
He didn't take the database servers themselves. That would be stolen property. Assuming he copied the database to his own CD-R, there was no property removed from the premises of AOL. This falls under the umbrella of intellectual property. In aggregate, a list of millions of customers' info is a trade secret. It's not patented and not copyrighted (although companies have lobbied before to copyright databases).
"that database is AOL's property whether it's printed"
A database isn't tangible property. Shouldn't this be prosecuted instead as theft of trade secrets?
Yes, that's why it's called the Dept. of Corrections. Not that they do much rehabilitation or corrections these days, but that is in the name.
I like PC games too, but I see consoles catching up to PCs pretty soon. They have steering wheels for driving games, online play with voice chat that's easy to set up. They don't commonly have mouse or trackball controllers which are much better for shooter or strategy games. In cost and convenience they blow PCs away. A whole game console costs less than a midrange video card. When Xbox2 and PS3 come out, they'll still cost less than a high end video card. There's no messing with drivers or patches. Just turn it on and play. I think part of it is that console games are debugged to a higher standard than PC games before release (can't patch a DVD-ROM).
Any motorcycle small and light enough to fold into a backpack would be pretty underpowered and slow. Why not a folding bicycle?
Bill Gates was somewhat indirectly involved. The antitrust trial judgement to split Microsoft was the trigger that burst the stock market bubble. It was inevitable anyway. If it wasn't the Microsoft verdict it would have been something else, but if you can point to one time that everyone started selling off in panic, that would be it.
OK I was aware of the arrangements Dell and HP have with contract laptop manufacturers. So allow me to rephrase. It's not like Dell or HP can't pay an ODM to make a keyboardless and screenless laptop.
Yes, because Dell and HP have no experience building small, powerful, tightly packed computers like say... laptops? The Mac Mini is built like a laptop minus the screen and keyboard. Apple did score a coup with the $499 pricepoint.
At a given level of politeness, black and brown drivers just get hassled more. It's not purely a race thing either. If you're white and look like a parolee or a long haired hippie you'd get hassled too.
I liked to play the Gaians and choose a Mind Control, Democratic society.