The problem is that easy access to information is almost assumed to be a right.
The answer is flamebait: either you like capitalism or you prefer a more socialist economy.
Since the US has aspects of both styles of economy built into it, the argument whether this service (the publication of databases of public domain data) should be provided by private industry or if it should be provided by the government.
Both sides of the argument have their strengths and weaknesses: private industry is generally able to create final product more efficiently than a government, but there is a chance that the industry may exercise too much control over their final product (eg: charge too much, or only provide it to certain types of people. If the company providing the service becomes a monopoly, there is almost no limit to how far they can abuse their control.)
government is generally less efficient, but it benefits from being a monopoly that is (indirectly) under control of the people that use its service. No energy is wasted in duplicate efforts to produce the same thing.
If the US Govt. were only interested in money and companies that generate a lot, what about donotcall.gov?
because telemarketers calling during dinner became a problem that affected politicians directly. Problems that don't affect them directly and immediately are largely ignored (eg: microsoft's monopoly, the riaa as acting as a governmen-sanctioned vigilante, air pollution, inner-city crime, etc)
I find it rediculous when companies try to charge for access to their news archives (eg: nytimes). For the most part, the only articles that are of interest to anyone are those that are from the current edition. The current articles are mainly read for pleasure. I can understand paying for that.
However, old articles are only of interest to people doing research. I can think of no single activity that advances civilization faster than research. Research leads to understanding, which leads to improvements on old ideas. I believe that any time someone has the desire to research something, that desire shouldn't be hindered in any way. Access to databases of old news articles should be free.
I like these questions.. who cares if they're on google. The answer to every question is on google.
It is an interesting question, right?
In this case, I had wondered the same thing, but I never would've bothered looking it up had someone else not asked the question.
I think it's good to have questions like these -- there are many questions that are answered by google that I haven't even thought about asking. Real hardcore computer type stuff, or stuff that all nerds ponder once in their life. This way I can learn about something I never knew I needed to know about.
If you know the answer, why not post it so people like me can learn a little..
Think about it though.. imagine if that key had been encrypting actual government secrets. Any country with a government capable of buying enough computing power would now have all those secrets. Keep in mind that the US government has secrets dating back in time from way before the Kennedy assassination. 4 years is way too short for secrets like that.
I think the intent of this system is simply to evolve. Nobody knows how to really predict the weather, but by going through several generations of different models, with the good ones being selected and the bad killed, I think we can get really close to being correct.
Course all you ultra fundamentalist religious people don't believe in Darwinism, so I suppose this might be a little hard to digest,
.. but I digress
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..but it looks like the New York Times is carrying the article as well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/technology/13NET.html
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The problem is that easy access to information is almost assumed to be a right.
The answer is flamebait: either you like capitalism or you prefer a more socialist economy.
Since the US has aspects of both styles of economy built into it, the argument whether this service (the publication of databases of public domain data) should be provided by private industry or if it should be provided by the government.
Both sides of the argument have their strengths and weaknesses:
private industry is generally able to create final product more efficiently than a government, but there is a chance that the industry may exercise too much control over their final product (eg: charge too much, or only provide it to certain types of people. If the company providing the service becomes a monopoly, there is almost no limit to how far they can abuse their control.)
government is generally less efficient, but it benefits from being a monopoly that is (indirectly) under control of the people that use its service. No energy is wasted in duplicate efforts to produce the same thing.
choose your poison.
because telemarketers calling during dinner became a problem that affected politicians directly. Problems that don't affect them directly and immediately are largely ignored (eg: microsoft's monopoly, the riaa as acting as a governmen-sanctioned vigilante, air pollution, inner-city crime, etc)
I find it rediculous when companies try to charge for access to their news archives (eg: nytimes). For the most part, the only articles that are of interest to anyone are those that are from the current edition. The current articles are mainly read for pleasure. I can understand paying for that.
However, old articles are only of interest to people doing research. I can think of no single activity that advances civilization faster than research. Research leads to understanding, which leads to improvements on old ideas. I believe that any time someone has the desire to research something, that desire shouldn't be hindered in any way. Access to databases of old news articles should be free.
Did you notice how the red hat he has in his hand was blacked out in the picture on the SCO site?
You have a good point.. most people have no idea that they even need to flash their bios.
However, 50% of the time, Joe User comes to me and I flash the bios for him.
btw, some OEMS have now have EXEs that can flash the bios while still in windows.
I had the same problem. All I had to do was flash the bios on my motherboard with the newest revision and all was well.
yup, you're right
posted w/o thinking, i guess
Here's the number of IPs of IPv4 vs IPv6:
256 ^4 = 4,294,967,296
256 ^ 6 = 281,474,976,710,656
I like these questions.. who cares if they're on google. The answer to every question is on google.
It is an interesting question, right?
In this case, I had wondered the same thing, but I never would've bothered looking it up had someone else not asked the question.
I think it's good to have questions like these -- there are many questions that are answered by google that I haven't even thought about asking. Real hardcore computer type stuff, or stuff that all nerds ponder once in their life. This way I can learn about something I never knew I needed to know about.
If you know the answer, why not post it so people like me can learn a little..
thanks
Think about it though.. imagine if that key had been encrypting actual government secrets. Any country with a government capable of buying enough computing power would now have all those secrets. Keep in mind that the US government has secrets dating back in time from way before the Kennedy assassination. 4 years is way too short for secrets like that.
Course all you ultra fundamentalist religious people don't believe in Darwinism, so I suppose this might be a little hard to digest,
..but it looks like the New York Times is carrying the article as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/13/technology/13NET .html
however, the link mentioned in this article was: "http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-835500.html"
which doesn't redirect back to zdnet.com.
In fact, the url is completely different from zdnet's usual (e.g.):
"http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/zdhpedittop/www.zdne t.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2845901,00.h tml"
notice how "http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-835500.html" wasn't filed under any section like 'techupdate' for example
To me, this really looks like a fake