I suspect that Kerry would at least have supported our own troops, rather than sending the off to battle without weapons and defenses. And would have prevented them from being fed slop while the contractors charged for restaurant grade meals.
I wish that I could disagree with you on other fronts...but I think we were set up, and not by the Iraqis. The evidence seems to point to a plot internal to the government. (Look at how quickly the PATRIOT bill was presented and passed. Notice where the anthrax came from, and who the targets were...and contemplate that the ineptitude in it's delivery may have been intentional. That may have been a public warning. Notice that the target has since died. [Damn...my memory's spotty here. I haven't been paying attention because there wasn't anything I could do and it just depresses me. What was his name? Did he die of "natural causes" or an airplane crash?])
Caution: IANAL As I understand it, what they would need to do is unbundle the warranty, and sell it separate from the software (or hardware, if the software is embedded). In this way the indemnification would not be a part of the GPL licensed work, but would be a separate option.
You parsed that incorrectly. Instead of reading it as: "Is someone copying music illegally on the college campus?" you should have read it as "Is the person charged with copying music illegally actually doing so?"
I don't know what the odds are for a student chosen at random, but judging from the evidence available so far, those would be the odds wouldn't be made any higher by the additional knowledge that the RIAA had filed suit against them. They seem to be picking names at random.
a) It's not stealing. b) This is the law that the RIAA wrote, and bought. I may fear it, but I won't respect it.
OTOH, this kind of protest is totally silly. It doesn't hurt them at all. If you want to hurt them, push an independent musician or write your congressman (my senators are both thoroughly bought, so writing them does no good..maybe yours is different).
[Wry humor] Or hire an assassin... but who should be the target is a difficult question. Probably the record company accountants... but it's hard to be CERTAIN that they're crooked. If, however, as I believe the books have been cooked, then replacing an accountant might be more difficult than replacing a director. And they'd probably be easier targets. [/Wry humor]
Unfortunately, that does them no harm at all. In fact I can't think of any legal action that will harm them. I'm boycotting them, but that's for my benefit, not because I feel it will do them any harm.
I take that back. I have thought of a legal strategy that would harm the RIAA. Set up a fund for musicians that want to have an accountant go over the bookkeeping of the company that they are signed with. Every time this has been forced, the record company has been found to be underpaying the musicians. (This may be a biased sample, of course, but it can't be cheap and must be embarrassing for them to allow outside accountants to go over their books. And the bad publicity would deter other musicians with talent from signing.
They're making money as long as they can convince the record companies to pay their dues.
The RIAA doesn't need to make money on law suits. Any profits there are just a way of minimizing their expenses. Where they make their money is from the dues that they collect from the member companies. You know, Vanguard, Sony, etc.
Calling them a gang of racketeers isn't that far wrong, though, and may be technically accurate. But somehow you don't see these people being assaulted with RICO. Are they technically guilty? They haven't been convicted. Should they be? I don't know. But the cute thing about RICO is that your money and property are confiscated BEFORE you are found guilty. They you get to try to find a lawyer to take your case. For some reason it seems to be frequently applied to persons of modest means and with few political connections.
He's probably just using an older version of the software. Such complaints were common around here a few years ago...and if that's when your CDs date from, the problem will still exist on them.
My MS CDs date from 1995-98, and *I* sure wouldn't install them while attached to a network! (Where Debian potato, of a somewhat later vintage, would give me no qualms. But there was a time when Linux installs were also wide-open not only during installation, but until fixed by a knowledgeable user.)
I think you're neglecting the need for a good genetic match. That's pretty much going to limit it to people who are pretty much like the patient. Either that, or the patient will be on immunosuppressants for the rest of his life, which isn't going to make for a popular treatment.
That's one way of putting it. It's perhaps true as far as it goes.
OTOH, the US colludes with companies that want to suppress unpleasant results. By this I mean results internal to the company that have shown a treatment that a company is proposing is dangerous.
So, yes, there's more red-tape in the US. But it doesn't necessarily help the end-user. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. Combine this with SLAPP lawsuits, and you have a system that tilted significantly against the average end-user (not necessarily against the average citizen...that would require a different analysis...but SLAPP lawsuits would definitely weigh significantly against both the end-user and the citizen).
As to what The Secrets were... judging by what archaeologists have dug up The Secrets were contracts and tax bills. Theology is later, and literature is MUCH later (and mixed with Theology).
Actually, they exist in the US also. They're quite common: You drive up to a gas pump, insert your credit card, and pump out gas instead of money (though an automatic translator ensures that your bank is dispensing money).
One of the ways that the current system is broken is not allowing publication on web-searchable pages to be considered prior art. Perhaps they NOW consider publication in SourceForge to be prior art, but they didn't last year, and since that's an administrative decision, it may be reversed at any time. FWIW, I suspect that even if they now consider publication in SourceForge to be prior are, they probably don't consider CodeHaus, and almost certainly don't consider the Linux Kernel Mailing List.
In some ways this is because the current model is based around isolated inventors working in secret (counting a corporation as one inventor), so it's merely inertia. In other ways, however, it feels more like "Money Talks".
So...what's prior art? Is it defined in the law, or is it an administrative decision?
Caution: IANAL...and especially not a patent lawyer.
WOW!! I can understand why some of those run suid....but why all those games?
Well, ok. when they run they run with the permission of whoever is running them. And then it's surprising just how many games are installed as root.root (rather than root.games)
I *presume* that, say, falconseye, which I installed from the repository, isn't doing anything reprehensible, but why does it need suid when, say, ace_canfield doesn't?
That's almost enough to cause me to brush up on my C.
It's possible -- not saying it's ever happened, but it could -- for a truly evil corporation knowingly to release defective software under the assumption that nobody would ever find out about it.
OK, you don't have to. I'll say it for you. And name the corporation. Sony knowingly to released defective software under the assumption that nobody would ever find out about it. When it was discovered an official spokesman said that it didn't matter because most people didn't know what a rootkit was.
It's not clear to me that it's improper to give the blame to "the Window's ways of doing things.". Good arguments have been made that attribute the cause to that, and no significant responses have countered them.
Some manager should...but probably the HR manager rather than an IT manager.
OK, it's unfair to fire the HR manager because he can't judge programming skills...but by that same criteria he shouldn't be able to pass on hiring programmers. If he gets the power, he should get the blame.
It will be interesting to see how quickly Samsung fixes this blunder. THAT'S how one should judge the company...this time.
They may well be keeping track of that information...but practical considerations convince me that they aren't storing it on the card, which was the question asked.
1) I've seen evidence that the basic information is available from the card, and I've heard that it's stored in clear. This is things like name, phone number. 1a) I almost never hand over the card...it's easier to give them my phone number, and have them retrieve the information. So the card isn't where the information is stored.
2) Some stores issue the same person multiple cards, so if they were to store the information on the card they would get very partial retrievals. Again the logical inference is that the information is stored elsewhere, and only an access key is stored on the card.
I'll grant that this isn't proof, but it's evidence regarding the question that was asked: "How much information do they store on that card?"(paraphrased)
Difficult access isn't sufficient to create a frontier. It also has to be realistically available. If the people living there don't want immigrants, and have approximately equivalent weapons technology, then it's not a meaningful frontier.
(Approximately equivalent has a lot of give in it too, as any "homesteaders" would be competing with an dense population in almost any place. And a very hostile population in the rest of places.)
N.B.: I didn't consider Antarctica. It's a plausible frontier given current and soon to be expected technologies, but it's too small. Britain was a small island, and expanded via sail into the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The US was a small seaboard, and expanded via ox cart along a broad front headed west. (I count the California gold rush as a fluke, a chaotic elaboration on the basic scheme.)
But notice that sailing ships were sufficient to allow this expansion to occur...when coupled with lands that were lightly populated, or populated by people without effective means of resistance. (Also notice that the first settlements in the US that were successful depended upon the cooperation of the local peoples, even though the weapons were stone-pointed arrows against flint-locks, with no iron-working skills at all on the native side.)
I really doubt that energy will become so expensive that sailing ships will be prohibitive.
My final conspiracy question is whether supermarket loyalty-card programs allow real employees to see names and shopping lists, in the small-scale aggregate. My guess is "No".
Well, yes and no. I've seen a clerk pull up identifying information at the cash-register screen. FWIW, I've heard, don't know how reliably, that the basic info is stored on those cards in clear. This isn't, however, shopping lists. Don't know how that's kept. (Do know that clerks often put things that customers buy on their own cards. Must do interesting things to any advertising data.)
P.S.: Consider things like the places which issue more than one card to a person. Transient information on the card wouldn't be very useful, as next time it's likely to be a different card.
You *have* noticed what kind of oversight is being provided these days? When ANY is provided...
Oversight essentially means they run back to the office and time-stamp a preprinted form. There's a little more involved than that, but not much. They get to choose the most pliable judge available...and there are some who are pretty pliable.
The bizarre thing is that even THAT much oversight is seen as too much by those in charge of the snooping agencies. And it's not usually because of urgency. (As I recall they can get special exemptions for planting a bug on a target of opportunity...retroactive permission.)
The current moral corruption of the police appears to extend all the way from the local level to the federal. (I hope your local police are still honest. If so, count yourself lucky...or uninformed.)
This current level of corruption probably reaches back to Nixon's Imperial Presidency, and before him to FDR's centralization of the government. And before him, also. (Notice that it's not specific to any one party. What one party does, the other party rarely repeals.) With the removal of habeas corpus it's barely disguised any more. This *IS* a police state. So far it's a more humane one than most of it's predecessors, but it has the diagnostic features. Britain is, or appears to be headed, the same way.
Probably this is because of two basic features: 1) Population density makes it more difficult to control people, and 2) The removal of a frontier means that if the powers that be get mad at you, there's no place to escape to. Ostensibly these two factors pull in opposite directions, but actually the freedom of the frontier had a back-transference that lead to greater liberty in the sessile population.
What can be done? Solutions seem either difficult or undesirable. Either drastically decrease the population (H5N1 may attempt this solution), or create a new frontier (which must be reachable at least by the middle class, if not by the impoverished). Space travel appears too expensive for the foreseeable future. Ditto for under-sea colonies. And it has to be a meat-space frontier. Virtual realities don't have the same "getting out from under the thumb of an oppressive government" effect (except in fantasy...which isn't sufficient).
Probably the government approved SELinux. If you set the permissions correctly, then no program who doesn't need to should be able to detect what another program is doing.
Of course, setting the permissions correctly is a PITA...and so is using a system so configured. But it's probably as secure as you can get, bar a disconnect from the internet.
This is like winning a game because the other team didn't show up.
What I mean it, tech magazines basically AREN'T tech magazines. Some are interesting gossip sheets, but none are the kind of thing that are technically useful. When I want to find out how to do something, I never check through old tech magazines, not even the ones that are searchable on CD. The information not only isn't findable, it isn't there. The information may or may not be on the web, and what you can find may or may not be reliable...but there's a CHANCE!
In a way this is like what happened to our local library recently. They decided to go to RFID chips for tracking the books...but because of the cost of the chips they discarded all books that hadn't had sufficient use recently. This nicely stripped the collection of all historic materials. Also of all materials that were of permanent rather then current interest. I don't bother to research in that library anymore, as I know that I won't find what I'm looking for. (And I muse frequently on 1984 and the job of re-writing history.)
But if the traditional media default on their job, then even an inferior replacement is better than what they offer. Dr. Dobbs used to be a good place to go to learn how computers work. Not anymore. Perhaps it's still useful for learning C or C++. Those aren't languages that I like, so I can't speak to that. But my guess would be not. Java magazines have drastically curtailed the amount of code that they include, and seem to rarely include a complete program. (Something to read on the bus, without an internet connection available.)
Tech magazines have abandoned their audience, so naturally their audience looks elsewhere. One of a magazine's key attributes was that it was self-contained (possibly with external references, but these not necessary to the understanding of the contents). When this is abandoned, then the advantage of the magazine format is abandoned. If you need to be web-connected anyway, then magazines don't have any advantage, and have numerous drawbacks.
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I suspect that Kerry would at least have supported our own troops, rather than sending the off to battle without weapons and defenses. And would have prevented them from being fed slop while the contractors charged for restaurant grade meals.
I wish that I could disagree with you on other fronts...but I think we were set up, and not by the Iraqis. The evidence seems to point to a plot internal to the government. (Look at how quickly the PATRIOT bill was presented and passed. Notice where the anthrax came from, and who the targets were...and contemplate that the ineptitude in it's delivery may have been intentional. That may have been a public warning. Notice that the target has since died. [Damn...my memory's spotty here. I haven't been paying attention because there wasn't anything I could do and it just depresses me. What was his name? Did he die of "natural causes" or an airplane crash?])
If there were people living there at the time the arson was committed, then it's an "atrocious felony", which is worse than just an ordinary felony.
Misdemeanor? To burn down the place where someone else is living? I don't want to live in your town.
Caution: IANAL
As I understand it, what they would need to do is unbundle the warranty, and sell it separate from the software (or hardware, if the software is embedded). In this way the indemnification would not be a part of the GPL licensed work, but would be a separate option.
You parsed that incorrectly. Instead of reading it as:
"Is someone copying music illegally on the college campus?"
you should have read it as
"Is the person charged with copying music illegally actually doing so?"
I don't know what the odds are for a student chosen at random, but judging from the evidence available so far, those would be the odds wouldn't be made any higher by the additional knowledge that the RIAA had filed suit against them. They seem to be picking names at random.
a) It's not stealing.
... but who should be the target is a difficult question. Probably the record company accountants ... but it's hard to be CERTAIN that they're crooked. If, however, as I believe the books have been cooked, then replacing an accountant might be more difficult than replacing a director. And they'd probably be easier targets.
b) This is the law that the RIAA wrote, and bought. I may fear it, but I won't respect it.
OTOH, this kind of protest is totally silly. It doesn't hurt them at all. If you want to hurt them, push an independent musician or write your congressman (my senators are both thoroughly bought, so writing them does no good..maybe yours is different).
[Wry humor]
Or hire an assassin
[/Wry humor]
Unfortunately, that does them no harm at all. In fact I can't think of any legal action that will harm them. I'm boycotting them, but that's for my benefit, not because I feel it will do them any harm.
I take that back. I have thought of a legal strategy that would harm the RIAA. Set up a fund for musicians that want to have an accountant go over the bookkeeping of the company that they are signed with. Every time this has been forced, the record company has been found to be underpaying the musicians. (This may be a biased sample, of course, but it can't be cheap and must be embarrassing for them to allow outside accountants to go over their books. And the bad publicity would deter other musicians with talent from signing.
They're making money as long as they can convince the record companies to pay their dues.
The RIAA doesn't need to make money on law suits. Any profits there are just a way of minimizing their expenses. Where they make their money is from the dues that they collect from the member companies. You know, Vanguard, Sony, etc.
Calling them a gang of racketeers isn't that far wrong, though, and may be technically accurate. But somehow you don't see these people being assaulted with RICO. Are they technically guilty? They haven't been convicted. Should they be? I don't know. But the cute thing about RICO is that your money and property are confiscated BEFORE you are found guilty. They you get to try to find a lawyer to take your case. For some reason it seems to be frequently applied to persons of modest means and with few political connections.
He's probably just using an older version of the software. Such complaints were common around here a few years ago...and if that's when your CDs date from, the problem will still exist on them.
My MS CDs date from 1995-98, and *I* sure wouldn't install them while attached to a network! (Where Debian potato, of a somewhat later vintage, would give me no qualms. But there was a time when Linux installs were also wide-open not only during installation, but until fixed by a knowledgeable user.)
I think you're neglecting the need for a good genetic match. That's pretty much going to limit it to people who are pretty much like the patient. Either that, or the patient will be on immunosuppressants for the rest of his life, which isn't going to make for a popular treatment.
That's one way of putting it. It's perhaps true as far as it goes.
OTOH, the US colludes with companies that want to suppress unpleasant results. By this I mean results internal to the company that have shown a treatment that a company is proposing is dangerous.
So, yes, there's more red-tape in the US. But it doesn't necessarily help the end-user. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. Combine this with SLAPP lawsuits, and you have a system that tilted significantly against the average end-user (not necessarily against the average citizen...that would require a different analysis...but SLAPP lawsuits would definitely weigh significantly against both the end-user and the citizen).
As to what The Secrets were... judging by what archaeologists have dug up The Secrets were contracts and tax bills. Theology is later, and literature is MUCH later (and mixed with Theology).
Sounds like a definite improvement. I hope you're right.
Actually, they exist in the US also. They're quite common:
You drive up to a gas pump, insert your credit card, and pump out gas instead of money (though an automatic translator ensures that your bank is dispensing money).
Does it define prior art?
One of the ways that the current system is broken is not allowing publication on web-searchable pages to be considered prior art. Perhaps they NOW consider publication in SourceForge to be prior art, but they didn't last year, and since that's an administrative decision, it may be reversed at any time. FWIW, I suspect that even if they now consider publication in SourceForge to be prior are, they probably don't consider CodeHaus, and almost certainly don't consider the Linux Kernel Mailing List.
In some ways this is because the current model is based around isolated inventors working in secret (counting a corporation as one inventor), so it's merely inertia. In other ways, however, it feels more like "Money Talks".
So...what's prior art? Is it defined in the law, or is it an administrative decision?
Caution: IANAL...and especially not a patent lawyer.
WOW!!
I can understand why some of those run suid....but why all those games?
Well, ok. when they run they run with the permission of whoever is running them. And then it's surprising just how many games are installed as root.root (rather than root.games)
I *presume* that, say, falconseye, which I installed from the repository, isn't doing anything reprehensible, but why does it need suid when, say, ace_canfield doesn't?
That's almost enough to cause me to brush up on my C.
It's possible -- not saying it's ever happened, but it could -- for a truly evil corporation knowingly to release defective software under the assumption that nobody would ever find out about it.
OK, you don't have to. I'll say it for you. And name the corporation.
Sony knowingly to released defective software under the assumption that nobody would ever find out about it. When it was discovered an official spokesman said that it didn't matter because most people didn't know what a rootkit was.
It's not clear to me that it's improper to give the blame to "the Window's ways of doing things.". Good arguments have been made that attribute the cause to that, and no significant responses have countered them.
Some manager should...but probably the HR manager rather than an IT manager.
OK, it's unfair to fire the HR manager because he can't judge programming skills...but by that same criteria he shouldn't be able to pass on hiring programmers. If he gets the power, he should get the blame.
It will be interesting to see how quickly Samsung fixes this blunder. THAT'S how one should judge the company...this time.
They may well be keeping track of that information...but practical considerations convince me that they aren't storing it on the card, which was the question asked.
1) I've seen evidence that the basic information is available from the card, and I've heard that it's stored in clear. This is things like name, phone number.
1a) I almost never hand over the card...it's easier to give them my phone number, and have them retrieve the information. So the card isn't where the information is stored.
2) Some stores issue the same person multiple cards, so if they were to store the information on the card they would get very partial retrievals. Again the logical inference is that the information is stored elsewhere, and only an access key is stored on the card.
I'll grant that this isn't proof, but it's evidence regarding the question that was asked:
"How much information do they store on that card?"(paraphrased)
Difficult access isn't sufficient to create a frontier. It also has to be realistically available. If the people living there don't want immigrants, and have approximately equivalent weapons technology, then it's not a meaningful frontier.
(Approximately equivalent has a lot of give in it too, as any "homesteaders" would be competing with an dense population in almost any place. And a very hostile population in the rest of places.)
N.B.: I didn't consider Antarctica. It's a plausible frontier given current and soon to be expected technologies, but it's too small. Britain was a small island, and expanded via sail into the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The US was a small seaboard, and expanded via ox cart along a broad front headed west. (I count the California gold rush as a fluke, a chaotic elaboration on the basic scheme.)
But notice that sailing ships were sufficient to allow this expansion to occur...when coupled with lands that were lightly populated, or populated by people without effective means of resistance. (Also notice that the first settlements in the US that were successful depended upon the cooperation of the local peoples, even though the weapons were stone-pointed arrows against flint-locks, with no iron-working skills at all on the native side.)
I really doubt that energy will become so expensive that sailing ships will be prohibitive.
My final conspiracy question is whether supermarket loyalty-card programs allow real employees to see names and shopping lists, in the small-scale aggregate. My guess is "No".
Well, yes and no. I've seen a clerk pull up identifying information at the cash-register screen. FWIW, I've heard, don't know how reliably, that the basic info is stored on those cards in clear. This isn't, however, shopping lists. Don't know how that's kept. (Do know that clerks often put things that customers buy on their own cards. Must do interesting things to any advertising data.)
P.S.: Consider things like the places which issue more than one card to a person. Transient information on the card wouldn't be very useful, as next time it's likely to be a different card.
Besides, if they'll whitelist the police, they'll whitelist Sony...as many did.
You *have* noticed what kind of oversight is being provided these days? When ANY is provided...
Oversight essentially means they run back to the office and time-stamp a preprinted form. There's a little more involved than that, but not much. They get to choose the most pliable judge available...and there are some who are pretty pliable.
The bizarre thing is that even THAT much oversight is seen as too much by those in charge of the snooping agencies. And it's not usually because of urgency. (As I recall they can get special exemptions for planting a bug on a target of opportunity...retroactive permission.)
The current moral corruption of the police appears to extend all the way from the local level to the federal. (I hope your local police are still honest. If so, count yourself lucky...or uninformed.)
This current level of corruption probably reaches back to Nixon's Imperial Presidency, and before him to FDR's centralization of the government. And before him, also. (Notice that it's not specific to any one party. What one party does, the other party rarely repeals.) With the removal of habeas corpus it's barely disguised any more. This *IS* a police state. So far it's a more humane one than most of it's predecessors, but it has the diagnostic features. Britain is, or appears to be headed, the same way.
Probably this is because of two basic features:
1) Population density makes it more difficult to control people, and
2) The removal of a frontier means that if the powers that be get mad at you, there's no place to escape to.
Ostensibly these two factors pull in opposite directions, but actually the freedom of the frontier had a back-transference that lead to greater liberty in the sessile population.
What can be done? Solutions seem either difficult or undesirable. Either drastically decrease the population (H5N1 may attempt this solution), or create a new frontier (which must be reachable at least by the middle class, if not by the impoverished). Space travel appears too expensive for the foreseeable future. Ditto for under-sea colonies. And it has to be a meat-space frontier. Virtual realities don't have the same "getting out from under the thumb of an oppressive government" effect (except in fantasy...which isn't sufficient).
Probably the government approved SELinux. If you set the permissions correctly, then no program who doesn't need to should be able to detect what another program is doing.
Of course, setting the permissions correctly is a PITA...and so is using a system so configured. But it's probably as secure as you can get, bar a disconnect from the internet.
This is like winning a game because the other team didn't show up.
What I mean it, tech magazines basically AREN'T tech magazines. Some are interesting gossip sheets, but none are the kind of thing that are technically useful. When I want to find out how to do something, I never check through old tech magazines, not even the ones that are searchable on CD. The information not only isn't findable, it isn't there. The information may or may not be on the web, and what you can find may or may not be reliable...but there's a CHANCE!
In a way this is like what happened to our local library recently. They decided to go to RFID chips for tracking the books...but because of the cost of the chips they discarded all books that hadn't had sufficient use recently. This nicely stripped the collection of all historic materials. Also of all materials that were of permanent rather then current interest. I don't bother to research in that library anymore, as I know that I won't find what I'm looking for. (And I muse frequently on 1984 and the job of re-writing history.)
But if the traditional media default on their job, then even an inferior replacement is better than what they offer. Dr. Dobbs used to be a good place to go to learn how computers work. Not anymore. Perhaps it's still useful for learning C or C++. Those aren't languages that I like, so I can't speak to that. But my guess would be not. Java magazines have drastically curtailed the amount of code that they include, and seem to rarely include a complete program. (Something to read on the bus, without an internet connection available.)
Tech magazines have abandoned their audience, so naturally their audience looks elsewhere. One of a magazine's key attributes was that it was self-contained (possibly with external references, but these not necessary to the understanding of the contents). When this is abandoned, then the advantage of the magazine format is abandoned. If you need to be web-connected anyway, then magazines don't have any advantage, and have numerous drawbacks.