It depends on jurisdiction. I did pretty bad in Civil Procedure, and don't have my FRCP in front of me, but in Federal Court (which I don't even know if theyre in since I didn't RTFA), you get 2 bites at the apple. You can voluntarily remove yourself once, then refile and I think if there's a procedural problem, you can also remove and refile. Don't quote me on all that though. Well, then everything's fine. There was a procedural problem with their second suit; they were going to lose.
Are you really that whiney, or are you just playing one on Slashdot?
No one is saying you have to plunk down one single 92x92 sq mile slab of power generation. In fact, that would be rather dumb, to concentrate everything together, when there's no real need to.
There's already one plant running out in the Arizona desert, a molten salt facility. And yet, somehow, the critters out there still manage to survive the horror.
Also, what's your idea? Find the lamp, pop the genie out, and wish for unlimited free clean energy? Cold fusion's over that way.
Does that mean that, in California, we'd actually own the music files, and would not be able to be prosecuted for shifting those files, breaking the encryption, etc?
Also, what does "tangible" mean? To me, it means something a bit more permanent than bits on a disk. After all, if someone gets near it with a magnet, there goes your "tangible" property. The same cannot be said for a car, a bookshelf, a can of paint, etc.
When you get to his actual proposal, he says that it's up to the application to send a message to the new TCP stack that says "Hey, I'm a good app, gimme bandwidth"? At least, that's how I read it.
I don't think I could walk to the kitchen and get a beer faster than it would take P2P authors to exploit that.
Come on... go to Vivid's homepage, and the first thing you see is a woman's face in the chest of another woman. Yeah you go to Vivid's homepage, what do you expect? But, since the url doesn't actually hint that it's an adult related website, someone could be "inadvertently" exposed to something.
I don't really buy into the whole "xxx" domain thing, because it's just not workable. I don't have a problem with porn on the internet, even, nor with it being searchable in google, yahoo, etc. I understand this guy is doing it to avoid a government mandated solution (which wouldn't work anyways). But seriously.. he could try to be at least a little more believable.
I didn't really propose any legal solutions. I just bemoaned the fact that Sony was able to get away without any consequences. To my mind, market forces are not a consequence.
Their crime : They put a rootkit on many computers and were caught Their legal punishment : ???
I can expect that, if I were to ever start installing rootkits on computers and was caught, that I would escape any government punishment? Of course not, I'd be in jail until the death of the universe.
Why aren't coroporations under the same punishment? If they commit a crime, they are sent to "prison" (IE, their corporate business license yanked) for however long I would be sent to prison. I don't really give a fig about the investors or the employees; the corporation committed a crime, the corporation should be punished.
I'm not anti-corporation. I'm just not pro-corporations-can-do-whatever-they-want. I just feel corporations should have the same punishment I do if they're going to be considered almost-a-person under the law.
It seems like most people cared in approximate proportion to the amount of damage caused -- not much. And some people cared because they hate various people or entities for whatever reason and they want their chosen enemies destroyed. You seem to be in the second group.
So, with that logic, no personal crime should have punishment, because the vast majority of people don't care about it. Why would I care if someone's car got carjacked in Minneapolis, when I'm in Phoenix?
And yet, there are punishments for those crimes, despite me not caring. And those punishments are sometimes strict enough to cause that person to not do it again. I don't see that happening with *any* corporation. Sony did not get punished. They should have gotten based on the *potential* harm. This was not a "crime of passion", this was cold and pre-meditated.
Meh... My company nominated me to be the Vista guinea pig, to test whether the software we produce was compatible with Vista, and to make changes if it wasn't. Given that I didn't have a choice in the matter (Other than to quit... And quitting over that seems a bit dumb), I've got every right to complain.
Vista's shell sucks. I hate it with the burning rage that could only otherwise be produced by 35 angry chihuahuas.
Luckily, geoshell works on it, so I don't have to put up with it.
Disclaimer... I work in the medical software industry.
Hospitals don't want personal accountability. They want a bank account to go after, because if data gets lost/stolen, or someone dies because the faulty software allowed people to go through procedures they shouldn't have, or the results of some procedures are misread and they miss that the guy is going into kidney failure, or whatever... Money is what people are going to go after *them* for.
Coders on staff do not have a financial stake in the game. The worst that can happen is that they get fired. Even *if* they were monumentally stupid enough to sign a contract that includes a personal liability clause (And if they did, are they really smart enough to review code, especially for potentially life-saving software?), they won't have enough money to satisfy the hospital, if something were to happen. That, and if it's a company, the hospital can talk about how they've crushed the vendor, to show everyone else what happens when they screw up. Otherwise, all they can say is "Yeah, the people we hired to make sure this didn't happen failed. Sorry." Hardly the same story.
Yes, this is extremely cynical.. But, as I see it, it's the state of things in the US, at least.
As for costs.... Capital costs of software and hardware is hardly a drop in the bucket. McKesson sells systems for 6 figures to hospitals, and hospitals don't even blink. Personnel costs are a different story. Why this is, I have no idea. But, I highly doubt lowering the cost of IT will lead to any appreciable difference in healthcare cost.
They want accountability. They want someone to blame/sue if something goes wrong. A bunch of geeks writing software anonymously across the Internet? No hospital manager will go for that, especially with privacy guidelines going rampant. Even if they have the source code, they will not have the time/money to audit that code to make sure that everyone's info is not going to Russia.
They'll talk to Redhat and McKesson... Those companies are taking the responsibility (and liability) for the software. They won't talk to random Joe Blow on the internet.
I thought exactly this with the PC version of Bioshock. A friend of mine asked me if I was playing it yet, and I said that I hadn't bothered picking it up because it was Vista only.. I then proceeded to nag at him for getting Vista.
He told me it ran on XP just fine, only without a couple of fancy DX10 options.
My guess is that Microsoft wants everyone to think exactly that, to get them to "upgrade" to Vista. They realize Vista's been a failure on its own merits, so they are trying to get everyone to "upgrade" by enticing them with ancillary stuff.
Seriously.. Also, if you can't do the widgets, at least have the decency to track (separately) last directory used for opening projects and saving images and use those by default in file open and save dialogs (Like most other windows programs). I imagine I'm not along, in that I keep my project files deep in one tree, while the images that are output are deep in another tree.. it's a pain in the ass to always have to go between them.
The only reason I use gimp is because it's free, not because I like it better. I've started putting the bug in my boss's ear about photoshop, because Gimp is just getting on my nerves.
Reading through the comments, I'm struck by one thing, really.. The utter deviation of the posters, versus the "normal" mode of Slashdot.
Why is it an utter crime to want to get free tv listings? Why is it considered mandated that you must pay money to get them, where before they were free? Is it because it is the ScheduleDirect people? Or is it because it's "only" 5 dollars? Or is it because the word "Free" is bad? Seriously, tell me. I can download Linux for free, but I guess that's bad? I can read Slashdot for free, but I guess that's bad?
The ScheduleDirect people are offering a paid service. More power to them. I have a little nagging doubt in my head that they will degrade other methods of program acquisition (EIT, direct inserts into the database from a scraper, etc), to "facilitate" SD (otherwise known as rope people into using their paid-for service, and nothing else). Those fears may or may not be unfounded, but why shouldn't I be worried and looking for alternatives?
Why shouldn't people want to find out about any free listings that are out there, just like has been offered for years from the Zap2It people?
... Without a data feed of this type, users will be reduced to scraping websites at best. Is this going to be a killing blow for MythTV?" I fail to see how, unless the screenscrapers specifically mentioned don't work. I wrote a scraper for my MythTV box to pull PPV information from somewhere, since it wasn't coming from Zap2it. It's not that hard, really, and took me all of an hour to do.
I just got done trying to get Vista RC2 running on a spare hard drive, to get a "real machine" feel for the thing.
My experience -- It sucks.
1. The thing doesn't have support for my SATA controller. Gigabyte board, Ali SATA controller. I had to use the XP drivers. Tell me that Gigabyte/Ali are no name brands that no one's heard of. Not a deal breaker, as there's a work around.
2. Install is extremely slow. My personal idea is that every step along the way, the install is trying to find an IDE hard drive for some reason, but since I don't have one, I'm having to wait for timeouts. I'm not sure if this is the case, though.
3. Once you get in... My Geforce 3 can't handle Aero, so MS helpfully turned it off. The default theme is ugly as snot, with huge window borders (4-5 pixels), baby blue in color. Trying to change this baby blue color yielded no results; it stayed baby blue.
4. Getting used to the explorer shell again (I use Geoshell on my windows boxes) is a pain. What they've done to Explorer makes it less user friendly, instead of more user friendly. Granted, I don't use Explorer very often either (I use Directory Opus on my windows boxes), but even XP's Explorer is better/more usable.
5. The thing that made me finally throw my hands up in frustration. Somewhere in the 6 hours I had it running, I managed to completely lock myself out of Control Panel. Every time I'd try to go in there to get to something, it would crash. Whether I did it off the Start button, whether I did it from Explorer, it didn't matter... Explorer would crash. Another co-worker had this happen on a VM install of Vista, but he got around it by using MMC and manually adding in the plugins of whatever he wanted.
For RC2, this is a sad state. I remember, back in the day, happily running NT4 Beta 2 for months and months. Oh well.
OK... given that you weren't being sarcastic, here's my non-ridiculous response...
How should NYC pay for the costs of legislating, policing, and judging the protections of the workers while they're telecommunting to NYC businesses? Or any of the other municipal/state costs that keep NYC such a great place to work, even virtually?
The same people pushing telecommuter tax exemption are even more insistent on corporate tax exemption. Of course, those same people want government out of the way of unrestrained corporate activity, regardless of its effects on humans - and nonprivileged corporations. It's corporate anarchy, and it looks a lot like the Dark Ages.
How is someone working in, say, Arizona taking advantage of legislating, policing, and judging? Isn't that what business/sales/property taxes (ie activites/items that physically take place in NY) are for? If you are, as another poster talked about, referring to various tax incentives that the city/state of NY gave to the businesses... Well, I gotta say, that's the city/state's fault for being that stupid, to give tax breaks/exemptions to businesses, without having teeth in them about worker status.
To take this to the logical (and in my mind, absurd) conclusion... A business has an office in NY. That business also has offices in each of the other 50 states. Say you work for that business, doing something that requires you to visit every state's office once per year. If everyone were like NY, you'd owe full income tax in every state. Some states, of course, do not have state income tax, so you're not looking at all 50 states.. But, let's say a good 35 of them, for the sake of argument, and they have an average rate of 4%.
Wow... I'd hate to have to pay 4% of my income to 35 states.. Heck, I'm not even quite sure how I'd manage it. This is ok, right? Because each state has police that they need to keep up, etc., all of which you are taking full advantage of, by way of being in that state, on business, for one day of the year. This is disregarding any other consideration that could be brought up (interstate commerce, anyone?).
I'm sure this argument won't make a dent, but hey...
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Nah... Get it before Microsoft sues.
Are you really that whiney, or are you just playing one on Slashdot?
No one is saying you have to plunk down one single 92x92 sq mile slab of power generation. In fact, that would be rather dumb, to concentrate everything together, when there's no real need to.
There's already one plant running out in the Arizona desert, a molten salt facility. And yet, somehow, the critters out there still manage to survive the horror.
Also, what's your idea? Find the lamp, pop the genie out, and wish for unlimited free clean energy? Cold fusion's over that way.
Does that mean that, in California, we'd actually own the music files, and would not be able to be prosecuted for shifting those files, breaking the encryption, etc?
Also, what does "tangible" mean? To me, it means something a bit more permanent than bits on a disk. After all, if someone gets near it with a magnet, there goes your "tangible" property. The same cannot be said for a car, a bookshelf, a can of paint, etc.
When you get to his actual proposal, he says that it's up to the application to send a message to the new TCP stack that says "Hey, I'm a good app, gimme bandwidth"? At least, that's how I read it.
I don't think I could walk to the kitchen and get a beer faster than it would take P2P authors to exploit that.
Come on... go to Vivid's homepage, and the first thing you see is a woman's face in the chest of another woman. Yeah you go to Vivid's homepage, what do you expect? But, since the url doesn't actually hint that it's an adult related website, someone could be "inadvertently" exposed to something.
I don't really buy into the whole "xxx" domain thing, because it's just not workable. I don't have a problem with porn on the internet, even, nor with it being searchable in google, yahoo, etc. I understand this guy is doing it to avoid a government mandated solution (which wouldn't work anyways). But seriously.. he could try to be at least a little more believable.
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you
I didn't really propose any legal solutions. I just bemoaned the fact that Sony was able to get away without any consequences. To my mind, market forces are not a consequence.
Their crime : They put a rootkit on many computers and were caught
Their legal punishment : ???
I can expect that, if I were to ever start installing rootkits on computers and was caught, that I would escape any government punishment? Of course not, I'd be in jail until the death of the universe.
Why aren't coroporations under the same punishment? If they commit a crime, they are sent to "prison" (IE, their corporate business license yanked) for however long I would be sent to prison. I don't really give a fig about the investors or the employees; the corporation committed a crime, the corporation should be punished.
I'm not anti-corporation. I'm just not pro-corporations-can-do-whatever-they-want. I just feel corporations should have the same punishment I do if they're going to be considered almost-a-person under the law.
It seems like most people cared in approximate proportion to the amount of damage caused -- not much. And some people cared because they hate various people or entities for whatever reason and they want their chosen enemies destroyed. You seem to be in the second group.
So, with that logic, no personal crime should have punishment, because the vast majority of people don't care about it. Why would I care if someone's car got carjacked in Minneapolis, when I'm in Phoenix?
And yet, there are punishments for those crimes, despite me not caring. And those punishments are sometimes strict enough to cause that person to not do it again. I don't see that happening with *any* corporation. Sony did not get punished. They should have gotten based on the *potential* harm. This was not a "crime of passion", this was cold and pre-meditated.
Meh... My company nominated me to be the Vista guinea pig, to test whether the software we produce was compatible with Vista, and to make changes if it wasn't. Given that I didn't have a choice in the matter (Other than to quit... And quitting over that seems a bit dumb), I've got every right to complain.
Vista's shell sucks. I hate it with the burning rage that could only otherwise be produced by 35 angry chihuahuas.
Luckily, geoshell works on it, so I don't have to put up with it.
Disclaimer... I work in the medical software industry.
Hospitals don't want personal accountability. They want a bank account to go after, because if data gets lost/stolen, or someone dies because the faulty software allowed people to go through procedures they shouldn't have, or the results of some procedures are misread and they miss that the guy is going into kidney failure, or whatever... Money is what people are going to go after *them* for.
Coders on staff do not have a financial stake in the game. The worst that can happen is that they get fired. Even *if* they were monumentally stupid enough to sign a contract that includes a personal liability clause (And if they did, are they really smart enough to review code, especially for potentially life-saving software?), they won't have enough money to satisfy the hospital, if something were to happen. That, and if it's a company, the hospital can talk about how they've crushed the vendor, to show everyone else what happens when they screw up. Otherwise, all they can say is "Yeah, the people we hired to make sure this didn't happen failed. Sorry." Hardly the same story.
Yes, this is extremely cynical.. But, as I see it, it's the state of things in the US, at least.
As for costs.... Capital costs of software and hardware is hardly a drop in the bucket. McKesson sells systems for 6 figures to hospitals, and hospitals don't even blink. Personnel costs are a different story. Why this is, I have no idea. But, I highly doubt lowering the cost of IT will lead to any appreciable difference in healthcare cost.
Hospitals will not go for that.
They want accountability. They want someone to blame/sue if something goes wrong. A bunch of geeks writing software anonymously across the Internet? No hospital manager will go for that, especially with privacy guidelines going rampant. Even if they have the source code, they will not have the time/money to audit that code to make sure that everyone's info is not going to Russia.
They'll talk to Redhat and McKesson... Those companies are taking the responsibility (and liability) for the software. They won't talk to random Joe Blow on the internet.
theres nothing out there to talk to.
That's what they want you to think.
Where are the space sharks? We need them to help us with our laser issues!
what i am also certain of is the fact that a lot of other proteins in the cell probably have the same frequency.
I'm skeptical too.. but, come on. At least try and provide some basis for your assertions.
Can I get my own cool Spectrum mask?
I think, for me, the first time I saw that label was actually on Shadowrun.
Since then, the label and Vista Only go hand-in-hand in my head.
I thought exactly this with the PC version of Bioshock. A friend of mine asked me if I was playing it yet, and I said that I hadn't bothered picking it up because it was Vista only.. I then proceeded to nag at him for getting Vista.
He told me it ran on XP just fine, only without a couple of fancy DX10 options.
My guess is that Microsoft wants everyone to think exactly that, to get them to "upgrade" to Vista. They realize Vista's been a failure on its own merits, so they are trying to get everyone to "upgrade" by enticing them with ancillary stuff.
Seriously.. Also, if you can't do the widgets, at least have the decency to track (separately) last directory used for opening projects and saving images and use those by default in file open and save dialogs (Like most other windows programs). I imagine I'm not along, in that I keep my project files deep in one tree, while the images that are output are deep in another tree.. it's a pain in the ass to always have to go between them.
The only reason I use gimp is because it's free, not because I like it better. I've started putting the bug in my boss's ear about photoshop, because Gimp is just getting on my nerves.
Here goes some karma...
Reading through the comments, I'm struck by one thing, really.. The utter deviation of the posters, versus the "normal" mode of Slashdot.
Why is it an utter crime to want to get free tv listings? Why is it considered mandated that you must pay money to get them, where before they were free? Is it because it is the ScheduleDirect people? Or is it because it's "only" 5 dollars? Or is it because the word "Free" is bad? Seriously, tell me. I can download Linux for free, but I guess that's bad? I can read Slashdot for free, but I guess that's bad?
The ScheduleDirect people are offering a paid service. More power to them. I have a little nagging doubt in my head that they will degrade other methods of program acquisition (EIT, direct inserts into the database from a scraper, etc), to "facilitate" SD (otherwise known as rope people into using their paid-for service, and nothing else). Those fears may or may not be unfounded, but why shouldn't I be worried and looking for alternatives?
Why shouldn't people want to find out about any free listings that are out there, just like has been offered for years from the Zap2It people?
Just goes to show...
Simpsons did it.
Actually... I kind of wish that was available the last time I saw Janet Jackson's nipple.
... Without a data feed of this type, users will be reduced to scraping websites at best. Is this going to be a killing blow for MythTV?" I fail to see how, unless the screenscrapers specifically mentioned don't work. I wrote a scraper for my MythTV box to pull PPV information from somewhere, since it wasn't coming from Zap2it. It's not that hard, really, and took me all of an hour to do.I just got done trying to get Vista RC2 running on a spare hard drive, to get a "real machine" feel for the thing.
My experience -- It sucks.
1. The thing doesn't have support for my SATA controller. Gigabyte board, Ali SATA controller. I had to use the XP drivers. Tell me that Gigabyte/Ali are no name brands that no one's heard of. Not a deal breaker, as there's a work around.
2. Install is extremely slow. My personal idea is that every step along the way, the install is trying to find an IDE hard drive for some reason, but since I don't have one, I'm having to wait for timeouts. I'm not sure if this is the case, though.
3. Once you get in... My Geforce 3 can't handle Aero, so MS helpfully turned it off. The default theme is ugly as snot, with huge window borders (4-5 pixels), baby blue in color. Trying to change this baby blue color yielded no results; it stayed baby blue.
4. Getting used to the explorer shell again (I use Geoshell on my windows boxes) is a pain. What they've done to Explorer makes it less user friendly, instead of more user friendly. Granted, I don't use Explorer very often either (I use Directory Opus on my windows boxes), but even XP's Explorer is better/more usable.
5. The thing that made me finally throw my hands up in frustration. Somewhere in the 6 hours I had it running, I managed to completely lock myself out of Control Panel. Every time I'd try to go in there to get to something, it would crash. Whether I did it off the Start button, whether I did it from Explorer, it didn't matter... Explorer would crash. Another co-worker had this happen on a VM install of Vista, but he got around it by using MMC and manually adding in the plugins of whatever he wanted.
For RC2, this is a sad state. I remember, back in the day, happily running NT4 Beta 2 for months and months. Oh well.
How is someone working in, say, Arizona taking advantage of legislating, policing, and judging? Isn't that what business/sales/property taxes (ie activites/items that physically take place in NY) are for? If you are, as another poster talked about, referring to various tax incentives that the city/state of NY gave to the businesses... Well, I gotta say, that's the city/state's fault for being that stupid, to give tax breaks/exemptions to businesses, without having teeth in them about worker status.
To take this to the logical (and in my mind, absurd) conclusion... A business has an office in NY. That business also has offices in each of the other 50 states. Say you work for that business, doing something that requires you to visit every state's office once per year. If everyone were like NY, you'd owe full income tax in every state. Some states, of course, do not have state income tax, so you're not looking at all 50 states.. But, let's say a good 35 of them, for the sake of argument, and they have an average rate of 4%.
Wow... I'd hate to have to pay 4% of my income to 35 states.. Heck, I'm not even quite sure how I'd manage it. This is ok, right? Because each state has police that they need to keep up, etc., all of which you are taking full advantage of, by way of being in that state, on business, for one day of the year. This is disregarding any other consideration that could be brought up (interstate commerce, anyone?).
I'm sure this argument won't make a dent, but hey...