I know size doesn't count for everything, but still; it's there, it's significantly better than the OEM MS Office manual, and it is accompanied by fantastic community support, including developer feedback.
Teach Linux for a select series of tasks is no big deal.
"Click on "
"This is your analysis program. We'll spend the next 2 days going over it, and after that we begin our experiments/writing/math/whatever"
This is a _school_, after all. KDE and GNOME (and OS X, for that matter) are similar enough that the basic GUI elements (Menus, buttons, scroll bars) are easy to figure out, and either you'll be working with OpenOffice.org (which is very similar to Office), MS Office (which runs in Wine), or a custom app for the class (native or running under Wine), which you would have to teach anyways.
Linux excels in "closed" environments like this. It's only on the home front, where people want to run the gamut of Windows applications out there that you run into problems.
Regarding A: Don't scoff at it out of hand. Obviously, its not the type of thing where you would show up tomorrow with Ubuntu CDs and hope for the best, but it *is* the type of thing that can be done after some consideration.
Regarding B: I've heard good things about Faronics "Deep Freeze" product. Schedule your systems to automatically shutdown at some point (preferably via BIOS, otherwise kill the power via power-strip.) Set the systems to not power up automatically when power is restored, and set the systems to powerup 1-2 hours before the lab opens. Tada! Fresh systems everything moring from your image, and it makes updating system software a breeze.
In the lines of the parent post, here's a quote from a North Korea official regarding the 1997 famine:
Representative Porter Goss (R-Florida), chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, went on a fact finding mission to North Korea in August 1997 and was told by one official "Look, we're not going to beg too hard. We are not going to change and have openness. If those people die, they die"
Actually, North Korea seems to be better off in terms of mineral/industrial resoucres than South Korea. North Korea _does_ have less agricultural land, but an industrialized nation with significant mineral resources should be able to trade for food.
North Korea is a failed state because Kim Jong-Il is a moron. That's really the long and short of it. Kim Jong-Il is a tyrannical dictator who chooses to micromanage his economy, employing few/no autonomous buercrats. Even an genius would have significant problems micromanaging a command economy, and Kim Jong-Il is no genius; rather, he's a spoiled rotten brat with a tough secret police.
In otherwords, he doesn't care if his people starve to death, as long as they don't blame him.
That's why OS X runs on vastly inferior hardware, while XGL/AIGLX outperform Vista (by a large margin), with more "bling" and on vastly slower GPUs to boot.
Vista is a dog; both in terms of resources, and the UI "bling". OS X is far more polished, and Compiz/Beryl do five times as much with 1/5 the hardware.
Screws literally fell out if it on their own. At one point, it wouldn't turn on; one month out of the (factory) warranty. I called Dell; they suggested taking it apart (completely) and then putting it back together.
I removed all of the (remaining) screws, separated all the layers, and put it back together.
It worked.
I hated that thing. It was an ugly, poorly made brick, it froze a lot, and was generally underwhelming.
When is Apple going to offer a proper corporate service option? I don't want priority for booking meetings with geniuses. I want a real service plan that means I don't have a computer I paid $2000 down for two weeks.
Hear Hear!
I'm a HUGE Apple fan, and an even bigger Windows hater; but Apple's lack of on-site service is crap.
Are security costs an external cost related to running Windows?
If security costs had to be borne by Windows users, would we live in a different computing world?
Hold users accountable for the damaged caused by botnets. If I leave dangerous crap on my lawn, it's my fault. If I leave a gun on my porch, and someone uses it to rob a bank, I'm accountable. If my company runs an open SMTP relay, and people get spammed, it's my fault.
Why should an insecure computer be any different?
It's not like you don't have a choice. De facto, purchasing a Mac or Linux computer renders you 100% invulnerable to this kind of crap, with only theoretical vulnerabilities out there.
Use a Windows computer, don't secure it? Pay the price. If you don't want to risk your system becoming a bot, run something that doesn't get rooted.
It doesn't matter if they are ultimately right; what matters is that it is not 100% clear cut, and as such, a judge will give a plaintiff a great deal of leeway in a default situation.
I believe that we should be paralysed by relativism, because the alternative is terrible IMHO. We don't need to impose our views on others, no matter how much you believe in them. How many wars would have been prevented if everyone were content to agree to disagree? And how do these disagreements benefit others? These systems never last for ever. There will always be someone else ready to pile their views on these people. On one hand, you want to make people happy in the short term, on the other, someone wants to sacrifice that in order to make the country great. All the shifts cause rifts, unrest, possibly war. Is perpetuating this pendulum swing going to benefit anyone?
That's goofy.
The problem is, how do you define "others". Why do you draw arbitrary lines between yourself and a human in a different country, but not between yourself and the guy next door.
If your neighbor was being beaten up on the street, would you do something? Would you call the cops? Would you intercede to help?
If so, why are you totally indifferent to suffering in, say, North Korea, where 10% of the population has starved to death in the last decade.
I hate to invoke Godwin's law, but what about the Nazis? Killing Jews was just what they did. Similar to Mao's Great Cultural Revolution, or Stalin's purges. At the same time, there are radical Arabs who believe in wiping out Israelis, and radical Israelis who believe in wiping out Arabs. Are you seriously suggesting we shouldn't get involved on either side? That we should permit the warlords to win out, cause a major war, allow it to spill over into our interests (and our homeland), against the will of the majority in those countries?
Moral relativism, like everything else, should be limited. I do believe that countries should be permitted to have varying value systems. I'm not certain that the Universal Decleration of Human Rights makes sense for everyone.
But abolishing the very notion of evil? Pol Pot exterminated 25% of Cambodia's population. But hey, I guess that's the just the moral system the Cambodians just collectively (Collective values > Individual values) choose to operate under; and not "evil".
It's stupid to label everything one disagrees with as "evil". Denying the very existence of the concept, however, and arguing that different national groups operate under entirely separate moral structures is amazingly stupid. Either you are incredibly naive, or incredibly stupid, and I, for one, am pleased that you are not an international policy maker.
I'm not strictly saying they should be under U.S. jurisdiction.
However, I was raising a series of arguments as to why they might be perceived as being under U.S. jurisidiction. The thing is, I believe that it is unreasonable to expect the judge to come up with the answers you just provided. Why should the judge research on his own whether or not Spamhaus mirrors are related to Spamhaus? Worse; a causal reading of the website might suggest that they _are_.
Furthermore, although I also agree with you that working with law enforcement doesn't prove anything, it's just another piece of evidence that slightly supports e360s case.
All I'm saying is that these issues are not ones that a judge can de facto reject, like "The Sky is Green", or "The U.S.'s primary currency is the sterling". These are a little bit more complicated issues, and they require Spamhaus to actively defend themselves in court; but only regarding jurisdiction.
Guys, I know that everyone (oddly enough, especially Europeans) want to make this into a Europe v. U.S. issue, but it isn't.
A. First, Spamhaus argued that this case belongs in U.S. Federal Court. That's mistake number one; you don't tell a judge that your case belongs in a certain court, and then refuse to show up. Even odder, they say this, "But, to ensure this doesn't happen we are working with lawyers to find a way to both appeal/contest the ruling and stop further nonsense by this spammer." The question is, why didn't you guys work with lawyers before hand?
Take a look at http://www.spamhaus.org/legal/answer.lasso?ref=3 . Spamhaus makes a compelling case there as to why the court should not have jurisidction over them. So why would you _not_ present this evidence in court; especially after you've already told a court that they DO have jurisidiction over you.
B. Look at Spamhaus.org (or a mirror, if you can now). What logos does Spamhaus display on their "About Spamhaus" page. I'll cut and paste the organization names, about whom Spamhaus says, "Spamhaus works with many Law Enforcement agencies and cyber-crimes teams worldwide, assisting investigations and compiling evidence on illegal spam operations. Our main working partners are:"
1. Federal Bureau of Investigation 2. National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance 3. United States Postal Inspection Service 4. National White Collar Crime Center 5. Internet Crime Complaint Center 6. Department of the Treasury 7. Internal Revenue Service
When you work with this group of U.S. government services, and claim that they are your first line of working partners, it's difficult to argue that U.S. courts should have no standing over you.
C. Spamhaus does business in the U.S.!:
Spamhaus makes this claim, which I do think is one that would require discussion in court: " Claim: An Illinois court has jurisdiction over Spamhaus in the United Kingdom because Spamhaus does business in the State of Illinois.
This statement is false. Spamhaus does no business in the State of Illinois. Spamhaus has no office or agent in the State of Illinois nor any affiliation with any Illinois resident or entity. Spamhaus is a British organization and is not subject to Illinois County Court jurisdiction. Spamhaus advises Mr. Linhardt to re-file his case in the proper venue, a law court in the United Kingdom. "
Consider that Spamhaus has a public mirror (perhaps several) in the U.S., over which Spamhaus has tight control. Furthermore, consider that Spamhaus sells a Datafeed service to U.S. residents. On http://www.spamhaus.org/datafeed/pricecalculator.l asso , prices are listed in Dollars, not Euros.
Given that they sell this service, and given that they manage servers in the U.S., it is difficult to argue that they don't do business in the U.S., and certainly is an issue for substantive debate. Not something you can win by default, and certainly something that a non-technical Judge would (fairly) decide without a defense.
Summary: The Judge, in this case, made a good decision. A company brought forth a fairly legitimate looking claim, one which may be somewhat feeble but had some legal grounding. The defense argured that it was not within Illinois's jurisidction, which *is* true, and then argued that it belonged in Federal court. The illinois judge said, "fine". Spamhaus then proceeded to ignore the federal court.
What did they expect?
They should have argued from the begining that this did not belong in U.S. courts at all, and the proper jurisidiction would be Britain. That *might* have been a lengthy discussion, because Spamhaus does, indeed, offer services within the U.S. for pay, as well as free listing services; and being listed on a spam list may or may not interact with libel laws.
As long as you have sufficent bandwidth, you can do just about anything over remote X. X is completely network transparent. Notably, GLX (for OpenGL applications) works great over networks. I would not, however, want to edit HiDef video over anything but Internet2 or something else suitably huge.
Audio, images, 3D; these are all a reality right now via Thin Client.
When we stop reading articles about radical revolutions at Microsoft, in addition to the series of articles about Microsoft ruthlessly crushing competitors based on FUD, anti-competitive semi-legal tactics, monopoly powers, or anything not based on technical merit, the icon can change.
Till that point, the borg icon succintly describes Microsoft's business practices.
I would not be comfortable with this type of teleportation -- it's possible I would simply die, and cease to exist, and the "teleported me" would be a newly-created copy. Oh, it would swear it was the real me, and that it just used to exist right over there, but there's no way to tell the difference from his point of view or a 3rd person's. But I might know, or never know, as the case may be.
This is a concern of mine, as well.
At the same time, however, how can you know that this process does not occur when you go to sleep? That the "I", the "ego", is merely the current incarantion of "you" in the RAM of your biological hardware, to be replaced at the next boot (sleep) cycle, by a copy from longer-term storage. People tend to be incoherent at the borders of sleep (before and after), and dreams DO significantly affect your outlook/thought process.....
Think of "you" as the current boot of your OS. There exists a) the active, in-RAM (brainwaves) copy, b) the non-volatile copy, on-disk (brain chemical storage), and c) the hardware framework (neurons).
Unfortunately, none of this can be prooved any which way;-) Perhaps, however, the Zen types are correct, and the "I" copy is merely a lie; it doesn't really exist, and all that is important is that non-volatile information remain intact. In that viewpoint, as long as you copy everything identically, and do not allow the patterns to "diverge", you would remain you. This idea has some merit, in that we, as beings, have a great deal of continuity between periods of unconsciousness, voluntary or otherwise.
Tricky stuff to figure out, and nothing we'll really be able to resolve, ever.
Area
- Total 377,873 km (62nd)
(145,883 sq mi)
- Water (%) 0.8% Population
- 2005 est. 128,085,000 (10th)
Versus Britain:
Area
- Total 244,820 km (79th)
(94,526 sq mi)
- Water (%) 1.34% Population
- 2005 est. 60,209,500 6 (21st)
And Japan has quite a bit of empty land, as well.
The thing is, we need more efficent farming programs. We need more food per acre, and fewer acres used, with sustainable technology. We need to become more efficent at sustainable aquaculture. These are the issues at hand; not population.
The U.S. fits into the range of Colombia, Iran, Guinea, The Bahamas, and Brazil. None of these places are particularly overcrowded.
I, for one, believe the U.S. should have open borders (with security checks, of course), and an open immigration policy. You cannot hope to hold an economic leadership position without the population base to support it, and given that the U.S. is mostly empty space, and _wealthy_, we should welcome the unwashed hordes into our nation.
We've got the resources, the government, and the organization to integrate huge population influxes into sustainable communities around the U.S. It would not be a tangled mess like India and China are currently digging themselves out of; rather, we could do it right from the beginning, instead of trying like hell to organize the population.
It's downright selfish to make nationalistic decisions regarding how gets to come in and who doesn't; and it's downright selfish to squander our position as #1 world economic power when we could have the possibility to improve the lives of millions, who would then, in turn, improve OUR lives. If you call yourself a liberal, you should be ashamed of yourself, and if you call your self conservative (economically), you're an idiot.
This, Last time I checked, just about everything in America is made in China. However, I take issue with.
We're an American manufacturer. We take great pride in building all of our products here, in the U.S., and we do it at competive pricing. And we don't do any foofy kind of artsy entertainment/culture kinds of things; we build industrial equipment and chemicals (environmentally friendly), as well as other sorts of "real" industry (canning, bottling).
I also know for a fact that we would have fewer problems competing with Chinese products if the Chinese currency was not tied to the American currency. Even so, we've won quite a few of our clients from Chinese factories doing manufacturing in Hong Kong and Shanghai. We don't believe we should sit back and whine about it; we're going to win this battle, even thought Chinese goods are artificiallly cheap.
I don't have any problems with foreign goods in general. I don't mind foreign cars (I love Japanese cars), and I do firmly believe in the tenants of international trade, that countries should specialize in what they do best. I do know, however, that the currency imbalance between the U.S./China hurts my business's ability to compete, and that we would do even better if the yuan floated. This makes me somewhat resentful.
. . ..is like securing a system from "real-life" hardware access.
It makes little to no sense.
Root-level "hacks" are an oxymoron. Once you're root, the skies the limit. Why bother just tinkering with kernel modules when you can just replace the whole kit-n-kaboodle?
1. Some of us are opposed to Window usage in all its forms. I hate Microsoft, and choose not to support their business practices, because I do earnestly believe they conduct bad business. 2. Native Hardware access. Wine'd applications can directly access interfaces, while Virtualized applications can only access virtual interfaces. This has implications when it comes to Network Performance and OpenGL/Direct 3D software. Half Life 2 will never work as well in Parallels as in Wine. 3. Environmental integration. Wine applications come a great deal closer to "native" than running inside a Parallels window.
There is a fair amount of material that is not DRM'd.
If you look at the past of human history, you see societies that we know lots about, and societies we know little about.
The societies we know lots about wrote material down in not particularly difficult to translate media. The societies we know little about wrote down little, and what they did write was indicperiable. They remain a mystery.
Phish, for example, will last for a long time, regardless of whether or not people like it. It's DRM free for copying, so it can remain alive forever.
Metallica, on the other hand, will vanish in the sands of history, because no one will bother with a player that can run the discs, and after the last encryption code vanishes, no one will bother to decrypt it, except as a potential academic product in the annals of some obscure journal.
We won't see the whole 20th century go into the darkness. We will see GPL code that lives in the future as library/museum type stuff, while Windows will only live on in pictures/videos.
Exactly! People bitch if MS doesn't pop up a notification and people will bitch if MS does pop up a notification. MS tries to make everyone happy by making everything customizable (IE: local/group policies for everything under the sun it seems)..... however, the extra code to accomodate the configurable options adds to bloat. So people will bitch about the bloat and the higher machine requirements.
You will never be able to make everyone happy. Particularly certain linux crowds that will complain over any little thing MS does.
That's because certain linux crowds (like me) think the focus is wrong.
These days, a Linux or OS X virus would make huge waves, and people are working on such a beast. Especially in the server relm, a Linux virus would be national news overnight.
I don't care whether Vista or XP has a "your antivirus is outdated" notification or not. As far as I'm concerned, once your system is compromised, you cannot return it to a "known good" state without a great deal of work, including having all the binaries on your system (including macros) checked by signature from a read-only boot media.
Most Microsofties cannot see the forest through the trees. The issue is not whether or not anti-virus displays a notification. The issue is whether or viruses are a problem on the platform, and currently all indications for Vista indicate it will be.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, actually.
x /user_guide2_draft.pdf
5 b1f-53bc-47c3-bf6f-ac6d67cf9766/Office2003Guide_WP .doc .
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.
At a svelt 587 pages, it is exactly 496 pages longer than the Office 2003 Manual, located here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/1/0f1d
I know size doesn't count for everything, but still; it's there, it's significantly better than the OEM MS Office manual, and it is accompanied by fantastic community support, including developer feedback.
Teach Linux for a select series of tasks is no big deal.
"Click on "
"This is your analysis program. We'll spend the next 2 days going over it, and after that we begin our experiments/writing/math/whatever"
This is a _school_, after all. KDE and GNOME (and OS X, for that matter) are similar enough that the basic GUI elements (Menus, buttons, scroll bars) are easy to figure out, and either you'll be working with OpenOffice.org (which is very similar to Office), MS Office (which runs in Wine), or a custom app for the class (native or running under Wine), which you would have to teach anyways.
Linux excels in "closed" environments like this. It's only on the home front, where people want to run the gamut of Windows applications out there that you run into problems.
Don't even bother.
Either:
A) Switch to Linux, or
B) Reimage daily.
Regarding A: Don't scoff at it out of hand. Obviously, its not the type of thing where you would show up tomorrow with Ubuntu CDs and hope for the best, but it *is* the type of thing that can be done after some consideration.
Regarding B: I've heard good things about Faronics "Deep Freeze" product. Schedule your systems to automatically shutdown at some point (preferably via BIOS, otherwise kill the power via power-strip.) Set the systems to not power up automatically when power is restored, and set the systems to powerup 1-2 hours before the lab opens. Tada! Fresh systems everything moring from your image, and it makes updating system software a breeze.
In the lines of the parent post, here's a quote from a North Korea official regarding the 1997 famine:
Representative Porter Goss (R-Florida), chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, went on a fact finding mission to North Korea in August 1997 and was told by one official "Look, we're not going to beg too hard. We are not going to change and have openness. If those people die, they die"
Actually, North Korea seems to be better off in terms of mineral/industrial resoucres than South Korea. North Korea _does_ have less agricultural land, but an industrialized nation with significant mineral resources should be able to trade for food.
North Korea is a failed state because Kim Jong-Il is a moron. That's really the long and short of it. Kim Jong-Il is a tyrannical dictator who chooses to micromanage his economy, employing few/no autonomous buercrats. Even an genius would have significant problems micromanaging a command economy, and Kim Jong-Il is no genius; rather, he's a spoiled rotten brat with a tough secret police.
In otherwords, he doesn't care if his people starve to death, as long as they don't blame him.
Dear Leader has a son who looks just like him. Coincedence? I think not.
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Anyways, there are actually 3 heirs to Kim Jong-Il, and it's not clear which one he has picked, yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-chul_(polit
Huh?
That's why OS X runs on vastly inferior hardware, while XGL/AIGLX outperform Vista (by a large margin), with more "bling" and on vastly slower GPUs to boot.
Vista is a dog; both in terms of resources, and the UI "bling". OS X is far more polished, and Compiz/Beryl do five times as much with 1/5 the hardware.
I had an Inspiron 8200. It sucked, really bad.
Screws literally fell out if it on their own. At one point, it wouldn't turn on; one month out of the (factory) warranty. I called Dell; they suggested taking it apart (completely) and then putting it back together.
I removed all of the (remaining) screws, separated all the layers, and put it back together.
It worked.
I hated that thing. It was an ugly, poorly made brick, it froze a lot, and was generally underwhelming.
When is Apple going to offer a proper corporate service option? I don't want priority for booking meetings with geniuses. I want a real service plan that means I don't have a computer I paid $2000 down for two weeks.
Hear Hear!
I'm a HUGE Apple fan, and an even bigger Windows hater; but Apple's lack of on-site service is crap.
Are security costs an external cost related to running Windows?
If security costs had to be borne by Windows users, would we live in a different computing world?
Hold users accountable for the damaged caused by botnets. If I leave dangerous crap on my lawn, it's my fault. If I leave a gun on my porch, and someone uses it to rob a bank, I'm accountable. If my company runs an open SMTP relay, and people get spammed, it's my fault.
Why should an insecure computer be any different?
It's not like you don't have a choice. De facto, purchasing a Mac or Linux computer renders you 100% invulnerable to this kind of crap, with only theoretical vulnerabilities out there.
Use a Windows computer, don't secure it? Pay the price. If you don't want to risk your system becoming a bot, run something that doesn't get rooted.
. . . by threatening judges with impending doom.
Really. It doesn't work, unless, of course, you are the President, warning judges about terrorists.
Still, I've argued this point before; there's at least a few points of dispute regarding jurisidiction, and spamhaus should have showed up in court.
It doesn't matter if they are ultimately right; what matters is that it is not 100% clear cut, and as such, a judge will give a plaintiff a great deal of leeway in a default situation.
I believe that we should be paralysed by relativism, because the alternative is terrible IMHO. We don't need to impose our views on others, no matter how much you believe in them. How many wars would have been prevented if everyone were content to agree to disagree? And how do these disagreements benefit others? These systems never last for ever. There will always be someone else ready to pile their views on these people. On one hand, you want to make people happy in the short term, on the other, someone wants to sacrifice that in order to make the country great. All the shifts cause rifts, unrest, possibly war. Is perpetuating this pendulum swing going to benefit anyone?
That's goofy.
The problem is, how do you define "others". Why do you draw arbitrary lines between yourself and a human in a different country, but not between yourself and the guy next door.
If your neighbor was being beaten up on the street, would you do something? Would you call the cops? Would you intercede to help?
If so, why are you totally indifferent to suffering in, say, North Korea, where 10% of the population has starved to death in the last decade.
I hate to invoke Godwin's law, but what about the Nazis? Killing Jews was just what they did. Similar to Mao's Great Cultural Revolution, or Stalin's purges. At the same time, there are radical Arabs who believe in wiping out Israelis, and radical Israelis who believe in wiping out Arabs. Are you seriously suggesting we shouldn't get involved on either side? That we should permit the warlords to win out, cause a major war, allow it to spill over into our interests (and our homeland), against the will of the majority in those countries?
Moral relativism, like everything else, should be limited. I do believe that countries should be permitted to have varying value systems. I'm not certain that the Universal Decleration of Human Rights makes sense for everyone.
But abolishing the very notion of evil? Pol Pot exterminated 25% of Cambodia's population. But hey, I guess that's the just the moral system the Cambodians just collectively (Collective values > Individual values) choose to operate under; and not "evil".
It's stupid to label everything one disagrees with as "evil". Denying the very existence of the concept, however, and arguing that different national groups operate under entirely separate moral structures is amazingly stupid. Either you are incredibly naive, or incredibly stupid, and I, for one, am pleased that you are not an international policy maker.
I'm not strictly saying they should be under U.S. jurisdiction.
However, I was raising a series of arguments as to why they might be perceived as being under U.S. jurisidiction. The thing is, I believe that it is unreasonable to expect the judge to come up with the answers you just provided. Why should the judge research on his own whether or not Spamhaus mirrors are related to Spamhaus? Worse; a causal reading of the website might suggest that they _are_.
Furthermore, although I also agree with you that working with law enforcement doesn't prove anything, it's just another piece of evidence that slightly supports e360s case.
All I'm saying is that these issues are not ones that a judge can de facto reject, like "The Sky is Green", or "The U.S.'s primary currency is the sterling". These are a little bit more complicated issues, and they require Spamhaus to actively defend themselves in court; but only regarding jurisdiction.
That was the sound of electromagnetism going over the heads of lawmakers worldwide.
I love it.
Guys, I know that everyone (oddly enough, especially Europeans) want to make this into a Europe v. U.S. issue, but it isn't.
:
A. First, Spamhaus argued that this case belongs in U.S. Federal Court. That's mistake number one; you don't tell a judge that your case belongs in a certain court, and then refuse to show up. Even odder, they say this, "But, to ensure this doesn't happen we are working with lawyers to find a way to both appeal/contest the ruling and stop further nonsense by this spammer." The question is, why didn't you guys work with lawyers before hand?
Take a look at http://www.spamhaus.org/legal/answer.lasso?ref=3 . Spamhaus makes a compelling case there as to why the court should not have jurisidction over them. So why would you _not_ present this evidence in court; especially after you've already told a court that they DO have jurisidiction over you.
B. Look at Spamhaus.org (or a mirror, if you can now). What logos does Spamhaus display on their "About Spamhaus" page. I'll cut and paste the organization names, about whom Spamhaus says, "Spamhaus works with many Law Enforcement agencies and cyber-crimes teams worldwide, assisting investigations and compiling evidence on illegal spam operations. Our main working partners are:"
1. Federal Bureau of Investigation
2. National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance
3. United States Postal Inspection Service
4. National White Collar Crime Center
5. Internet Crime Complaint Center
6. Department of the Treasury
7. Internal Revenue Service
When you work with this group of U.S. government services, and claim that they are your first line of working partners, it's difficult to argue that U.S. courts should have no standing over you.
C. Spamhaus does business in the U.S.!
Spamhaus makes this claim, which I do think is one that would require discussion in court:
"
Claim: An Illinois court has jurisdiction over Spamhaus in the United Kingdom because Spamhaus does business in the State of Illinois.
This statement is false. Spamhaus does no business in the State of Illinois. Spamhaus has no office or agent in the State of Illinois nor any affiliation with any Illinois resident or entity. Spamhaus is a British organization and is not subject to Illinois County Court jurisdiction. Spamhaus advises Mr. Linhardt to re-file his case in the proper venue, a law court in the United Kingdom.
"
Consider that Spamhaus has a public mirror (perhaps several) in the U.S., over which Spamhaus has tight control. Furthermore, consider that Spamhaus sells a Datafeed service to U.S. residents. On http://www.spamhaus.org/datafeed/pricecalculator.l asso , prices are listed in Dollars, not Euros.
Given that they sell this service, and given that they manage servers in the U.S., it is difficult to argue that they don't do business in the U.S., and certainly is an issue for substantive debate. Not something you can win by default, and certainly something that a non-technical Judge would (fairly) decide without a defense.
Summary: The Judge, in this case, made a good decision. A company brought forth a fairly legitimate looking claim, one which may be somewhat feeble but had some legal grounding. The defense argured that it was not within Illinois's jurisidction, which *is* true, and then argued that it belonged in Federal court. The illinois judge said, "fine". Spamhaus then proceeded to ignore the federal court.
What did they expect?
They should have argued from the begining that this did not belong in U.S. courts at all, and the proper jurisidiction would be Britain. That *might* have been a lengthy discussion, because Spamhaus does, indeed, offer services within the U.S. for pay, as well as free listing services; and being listed on a spam list may or may not interact with libel laws.
Either way, I think Spamhau
Thin Client?
Simple. Remote X.
As long as you have sufficent bandwidth, you can do just about anything over remote X. X is completely network transparent. Notably, GLX (for OpenGL applications) works great over networks. I would not, however, want to edit HiDef video over anything but Internet2 or something else suitably huge.
Audio, images, 3D; these are all a reality right now via Thin Client.
When we stop reading articles about radical revolutions at Microsoft, in addition to the series of articles about Microsoft ruthlessly crushing competitors based on FUD, anti-competitive semi-legal tactics, monopoly powers, or anything not based on technical merit, the icon can change.
Till that point, the borg icon succintly describes Microsoft's business practices.
I would not be comfortable with this type of teleportation -- it's possible I would simply die, and cease to exist, and the "teleported me" would be a newly-created copy. Oh, it would swear it was the real me, and that it just used to exist right over there, but there's no way to tell the difference from his point of view or a 3rd person's. But I might know, or never know, as the case may be.
;-) Perhaps, however, the Zen types are correct, and the "I" copy is merely a lie; it doesn't really exist, and all that is important is that non-volatile information remain intact. In that viewpoint, as long as you copy everything identically, and do not allow the patterns to "diverge", you would remain you. This idea has some merit, in that we, as beings, have a great deal of continuity between periods of unconsciousness, voluntary or otherwise.
This is a concern of mine, as well.
At the same time, however, how can you know that this process does not occur when you go to sleep? That the "I", the "ego", is merely the current incarantion of "you" in the RAM of your biological hardware, to be replaced at the next boot (sleep) cycle, by a copy from longer-term storage. People tend to be incoherent at the borders of sleep (before and after), and dreams DO significantly affect your outlook/thought process.....
Think of "you" as the current boot of your OS. There exists a) the active, in-RAM (brainwaves) copy, b) the non-volatile copy, on-disk (brain chemical storage), and c) the hardware framework (neurons).
Unfortunately, none of this can be prooved any which way
Tricky stuff to figure out, and nothing we'll really be able to resolve, ever.
Stick to your guns, mate.
_ population_density
Take a look at Japan:
Area
- Total 377,873 km (62nd)
(145,883 sq mi)
- Water (%) 0.8%
Population
- 2005 est. 128,085,000 (10th)
Versus Britain:
Area
- Total 244,820 km (79th)
(94,526 sq mi)
- Water (%) 1.34%
Population
- 2005 est. 60,209,500 6 (21st)
And Japan has quite a bit of empty land, as well.
The thing is, we need more efficent farming programs. We need more food per acre, and fewer acres used, with sustainable technology. We need to become more efficent at sustainable aquaculture. These are the issues at hand; not population.
And to the rest of you naysayers. Take a look at the density rankings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
The U.S. fits into the range of Colombia, Iran, Guinea, The Bahamas, and Brazil. None of these places are particularly overcrowded.
I, for one, believe the U.S. should have open borders (with security checks, of course), and an open immigration policy. You cannot hope to hold an economic leadership position without the population base to support it, and given that the U.S. is mostly empty space, and _wealthy_, we should welcome the unwashed hordes into our nation.
We've got the resources, the government, and the organization to integrate huge population influxes into sustainable communities around the U.S. It would not be a tangled mess like India and China are currently digging themselves out of; rather, we could do it right from the beginning, instead of trying like hell to organize the population.
It's downright selfish to make nationalistic decisions regarding how gets to come in and who doesn't; and it's downright selfish to squander our position as #1 world economic power when we could have the possibility to improve the lives of millions, who would then, in turn, improve OUR lives. If you call yourself a liberal, you should be ashamed of yourself, and if you call your self conservative (economically), you're an idiot.
And I also think a large proportion the US energy is used to power those mobility chairs the morbidly obese people use.
Psah.
We now import Japanese Robotic Powered Exo-skeletons.
This,
Last time I checked, just about everything in America is made in China.
However, I take issue with.
We're an American manufacturer. We take great pride in building all of our products here, in the U.S., and we do it at competive pricing. And we don't do any foofy kind of artsy entertainment/culture kinds of things; we build industrial equipment and chemicals (environmentally friendly), as well as other sorts of "real" industry (canning, bottling).
I also know for a fact that we would have fewer problems competing with Chinese products if the Chinese currency was not tied to the American currency. Even so, we've won quite a few of our clients from Chinese factories doing manufacturing in Hong Kong and Shanghai. We don't believe we should sit back and whine about it; we're going to win this battle, even thought Chinese goods are artificiallly cheap.
I don't have any problems with foreign goods in general. I don't mind foreign cars (I love Japanese cars), and I do firmly believe in the tenants of international trade, that countries should specialize in what they do best. I do know, however, that the currency imbalance between the U.S./China hurts my business's ability to compete, and that we would do even better if the yuan floated. This makes me somewhat resentful.
. . . .is like securing a system from "real-life" hardware access.
It makes little to no sense.
Root-level "hacks" are an oxymoron. Once you're root, the skies the limit. Why bother just tinkering with kernel modules when you can just replace the whole kit-n-kaboodle?
Have you tried the new beta of NeoOffice? It's much, much better. The "Aqua" port.
Here's the reasoning:
1. Some of us are opposed to Window usage in all its forms. I hate Microsoft, and choose not to support their business practices, because I do earnestly believe they conduct bad business.
2. Native Hardware access. Wine'd applications can directly access interfaces, while Virtualized applications can only access virtual interfaces. This has implications when it comes to Network Performance and OpenGL/Direct 3D software. Half Life 2 will never work as well in Parallels as in Wine.
3. Environmental integration. Wine applications come a great deal closer to "native" than running inside a Parallels window.
I disagree.
There is a fair amount of material that is not DRM'd.
If you look at the past of human history, you see societies that we know lots about, and societies we know little about.
The societies we know lots about wrote material down in not particularly difficult to translate media.
The societies we know little about wrote down little, and what they did write was indicperiable. They remain a mystery.
Phish, for example, will last for a long time, regardless of whether or not people like it. It's DRM free for copying, so it can remain alive forever.
Metallica, on the other hand, will vanish in the sands of history, because no one will bother with a player that can run the discs, and after the last encryption code vanishes, no one will bother to decrypt it, except as a potential academic product in the annals of some obscure journal.
We won't see the whole 20th century go into the darkness. We will see GPL code that lives in the future as library/museum type stuff, while Windows will only live on in pictures/videos.
Exactly! People bitch if MS doesn't pop up a notification and people will bitch if MS does pop up a notification. MS tries
to make everyone happy by making everything customizable (IE: local/group policies for everything under the sun it seems).....
however, the extra code to accomodate the configurable options adds to bloat. So people will bitch about the bloat and the
higher machine requirements.
You will never be able to make everyone happy. Particularly certain linux crowds that will complain over any little thing MS
does.
That's because certain linux crowds (like me) think the focus is wrong.
These days, a Linux or OS X virus would make huge waves, and people are working on such a beast. Especially in the server relm, a Linux virus would be national news overnight.
I don't care whether Vista or XP has a "your antivirus is outdated" notification or not. As far as I'm concerned, once your system is compromised, you cannot return it to a "known good" state without a great deal of work, including having all the binaries on your system (including macros) checked by signature from a read-only boot media.
Most Microsofties cannot see the forest through the trees. The issue is not whether or not anti-virus displays a notification. The issue is whether or viruses are a problem on the platform, and currently all indications for Vista indicate it will be.