From what I can tell, this is an exclusively UK article, and the act that they reference about being required to hand-over keys is a UK specific one. Has anyone heard of any case in the US where someone has been compelled by the court to hand over their private keys, or worse the passphrase for them? I have not heard of such a law, nor a case where this was enacted.
What is particularly interesting about this is how *only* indymedia was taken off-line. There are two other websites that are mentioned in the subpoena as places where this manifesto was posted that were not contacted or taken offline. Presumably the reason why indymedia's server was taken offline was to get the logs of when these manifestos were posted to try and identify the people who posted them. This strikes me as odd for a couple reasons. One is that the other sites were not taken offline to get their logs to find out who posted them, and two... indymedia has had a very well publicized policy about *not logging IP addresses* since 2001 when the FBI came knocking for some other stuff.
I got nothing to hide at my apartment, so why would I care if it was searched by an over-zealous government agency? I have several reasons:
1. Anything that they find they will interpret. For example, the Debian "apt-get install anarchism" t-shirt I have would probably automatically mean that I was part of this "international anarchist federation" that was planting bombs on EU people. That flyer I picked up on the street yesterday from that crazed guy that is mostly gibberish rants about how zionism is the way and has a picture of Bush in a Nazi uniform, performing a salute with a cross-hairs overlayed on the image... You KNOW they are going to see that and get really edgy and are going to have to assume it is my delusional plans to do bad things. I totally disagree with him, and its going in the recycling, but the federales don't know when they come a' knockin'.
2. My apartment isn't totally clean, but I dont want it tossed.
3. Ok, so I visit some protest websites, and I have some literature, and they'll collect all that and I can explain all of it, but what if our government becomes more creepy and paranoid and passes more laws against dissidents and makes it very difficult to question or disagree with the government (I would argue we are on this slippery slope now)... now I'm worried what kinda dots they are going to connect and implicate me in.
4. Digital detrius: have you ever clicked on a link here on slashdot and ended up on some annoying teen-porn site that kills your browser? Or maybe you've been to some website that makes a simple request to some site that has some illegal material on it. If the authorities decide they want my machine, I'm kinda wondering what browser history, cache files, cookies, or other crazy crap that I dont know about (and would be appalled at) is sitting on my machine for them to implicate me in something totally crazy. I'm a little paranoid about this, so I clean out as much as I can all the time, but I know my sister has a Windows machine that got 0wned and she couldn't change her homepage from a kiddie porn site (until I reinstalled linux on the machine), she had no idea what to do and how to control it, but hey! if the cops decide to come a knockin'... ignorance is no defense.
... or even more evil, a certain proprietary source company paying people who know what they are doing to write passable exploits that don't actually work, flood us with these and Linux starts to look less and less secure in comparision with their numbers of security vulnerabilities.
Peer1.net did not appropriately respond to their spam complaints, and simply moved known spammers from one IP block to another. It is unknown if they were knowingly harboring spammers (MAPs seems to think so), but the reason MAPs escalated to all of their netblocks was because they could not get the attention of Peer1 with previous attempts, and the best way to get their attention when they are ignoring you is to get every single one of your customer's attention and have them all call you. I emailed MAPs, they didn't respond, I called them and got a human on the phone and they explained this to me. I called Peer1 to chew them out for doing this and will demand that they give me outage credit.
I rely on RBLs to block a significant amount of spam, however I use conservative ones that the anti-spam community seems to be fairly confident in their abilities, attitude, de-listing policy. They constantly need to be re-evaluated (in fact I need to do that soon) as to their effectiveness, but with this list I have not had a customer complaint about us blocking mail.
NB: MAPs is not listed because they do this sort of thing. While it may sound like I support what they did above, I also am really pissed off because I've got a lot of trouble tickets from people wanting to know why their mail bounced. It is for this reason that I am not using MAPs in my RBL list.
US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace's office in the US ordering them to provide Indymedia's hardware located in London to the requesting agency. Rackspace is one of Indymedia's web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia's server in the UK. This affects some 20+ Indymedia sites worldwide.
Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia. Talking to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order." ISPs have received gag orders in similar situations which prevent them from updating the concerns parits on what is happening.
It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.
At the same time a second server was taken down at Rackspace which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of miscellanous things.
The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut down community radio stations around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia takes down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same issue. On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media organisations have been successful with their victories (thanks to the EFF), for example against Diebold and the Patroit Act. Today however, the US authorities shut down IMCs around the world.
The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and the global Indymedia Radio site.
What the protesters are doing is materially no different than what the Nuremberg Files (more info at religioustolerance.org [religioustolerance.org]) did to abortion doctors, judges, politicians, spouses, etc. Was it legal? Sure. Public information. But it still wasn't right, it was meant to enable harrassment, and it's the same thing the protesters are doing.
Two critical differences between this and the Nuremberg Files:
1. The doctors information that was being posted in the Nuremberg case are private citizens, the RNC delegates are public citizens with their information registered and available with the state (and hey, pictures and diaries on their website!).
2. The Nuremberg information was put up with explicit incitement to murder, bomb and kill the doctors and their place of work, that is not how these things were published - they were published with the instructions that this is where people are going to be if you want to protest them.
The ACLU won the case against the abortion crackpots in the Nuremburg case, they are working on this case as well, I think they know exactly what they are doing and how this is different.
You can get slashdot without the banner ads already, just do a google search on squid ad filtering, set up a proxy and you are good to go. Here are a couple links for you lazy people: http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ad http://www.redhatbox .org/squid/squid-bannerfilter. htmlzap/
I worked for UPS for about 3 months out of high-school. The attraction of the $12.95/hr, even at 3am was enough to get me to go do physical work. Unfortunately I've lived with an injured back and dear, fond memories of the hell I went through. I was an "Unloader" with the "promise" that I would one day rise through the ranks ("In just a couple weeks!") to being a sorter, soon I would work in air-freight, then... driving. Thats when things get really good, and you get paid a tasty sum of money. What I found out was this was only a pack of lies. I was stuffed in an unlit semi-trailer, with a conveyor belt and told to put the boxes on the belt as fast as I could. It was dusty, it was late, it was dark and I was being timed. The boxes were piled to the top. I had to jump up and pull down a box-a-lanche for each wall I got through, hundreds of Fragile boxes fell from 10 feet to the floor, or smacked on the conveyor belt. 70+ pound boxes I had to pick up, with no back support, and put on the conveyor belt that was chest high (I'm 6'4"). There was a supervisor outside who timed me, and every time he came by I had to get a better time or I would get fired. I slammed boxes on the conveyor belt to make time, boxes fell of the belt half-way up to the sorters because I didn't put them on I threw them on or they fell on from the box-o-lanche. It royally sucked and I could only take it out on the boxes. Finish a trailer? Move on to the next one, and the next one... one 15 minute break the whole night (pound about 3 mountain dews and keep going)... Fragile means nothing, I couldn't see what was written on the boxes, but even if I could I wouldn't care, I was in a hurry, and I hated your box.
The only time I enjoyed myself was when a box wripped open and about 5,000 condoms and other "toys" went flying everywhere. I wasn't allowed to touch the contents of the boxes in such a case, so I had to call the manager over...
I'm a member of the only union that Microsoft fears, Washtech which is a CWA affiliate. Washtech has made Microsoft tremble with its awful perma-temp debacle, bringing the case to court and winning. Washtech has taken on Boeing and Amazon too.
IT workers need a Union for the same reason that workers have always formed unions: together you have more power to improve the terms and conditions of our employment than we do as individuals.
Oh, wait, you are doing fine, your 60-hour a week jobs have kept you entertained, the three grand training classes that you had to pay for yourself have kept you up to speed - but now you are unemployed and you can't do much about finding a job because you signed that NDA from hell. Its too bad that you were getting paid hourly and weren't qualified for overtime pay.
Oh well, don't do anything about it, just complain. Find a friend and complain together, but don't do anything about it because unions are lame.
If you want to give away your 8 hour work day, the weekend (all things that were fought and obtained by unions), then that is your prerogative, but don't come bitching and moaning to me when you are burnt out.
One thing that was neglected in this article was the other annoucement that happened alongside this one at the coference, that Apple was dropping all the prices on the LCD monitors.
You think $2200 is too expensive for a cinema monitor (18 x 23, 16.7 million colors), then that is fine, don't get one of those, get a normal sized monitor. But they are dropping those prices too. Have you actually seen one of these? When I saw it in the store I nearly shorted it out with the drool.
If you want tab filename completion, searchable histories, etc. use zsh - it is just ksh with features. Just as tcsh was an improvement of csh in that it added a lot of the interactability features, so does zsh do for ksh, and wow is it cool.
The problem with corporations in America is that they are legal "people" by definition in law. This allows them to do practically everything that a regular person can do, except vote...but they influence elections more than any individual vote ever could anyways. they have unlimited terms of existence, their owners have limited
liability, their managers are rarely held responsible for the harms they do, corporations are
treated by the courts as citizens with civil liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. If
corporations break the law, they cannot be imprisoned. They are allowed to dominate our social
and political life through far-reaching decisions affecting products, investments, pollution,
safety and jobs, as well as through their manipulation of elections, laws, and the media.
This country's founders created corporations to provide specific public services, but,
concerned about the risks of concentration and abuse of power, they carefully limited
corporate powers. Incorporation was a privilege not a right, and corporations were each
granted unique charters by a state legislature in the state where they did their business.
Corporations had to have a specific purpose written into their charter
(license to do business); if they didn't fulfill it, or exceeded their authority,
their charter could be revoked.
Corporation charters were granted for a specific period of time, usually
10 to 30 years, and ceased to exist after that time unless their charters
were renewed.
Corporations could not own stock in other corporations or own real estate
beyond what they needed to conduct their business.
State legislatures set the rates that corporations could charge for
their products or services.
All corporation records and documents were open to the public
(or the legislature or the state attorney general, depending on the state).
A corporation's officers, directors and stockholders could be held personally
liable (sometimes triply) for all harms and debts caused by the corporation.
Shareholders had the right to remove directors at will.
Major corporate decisions had to be affirmed by unanimous shareholder vote,
and the power of large shareholders was limited by scaled voting, so that large
and small investors had more equal voting rights.
Corporations were prohibited from making any donations to political
candidates, direct or indirect. (In Wisconsin, this law was still in effect
until 1972!)
To ensure local control and input, all of a corporation's stockholders
were required to be from the state where it did its business.
and much much more
We must reclaim the sovereignty of the people to insure that corporations really serve the public interest, their original purpose.
To do this, we must follow the example of this country's founders - limit corporations' size and power, and hold their every act
subservient to the will of the sovereign people. That is democracy.
Here is my formula for winning in the tech business while still staying happy:
1. Don't go to college to get a CS degree, you will learn theory, while useful, is not as impressive as job experience in the tech field. The only good thing about a CS degree is in some places you'll have a slim chance of becomming a University admin, which is experience, but also seen as limited in scope and not broad experience in the industry.
2. Go to college and study something that you are interested in, BESIDES tech crap. Major in English or some other humanities or art class. You'll have a blast and broaden your creative abilities, not to mention your imagination and vision, very handy in high-tech. I mentioned an English degree because I have found that they are regarded highly in high-tech. Usually it means, if you have the experience, that you not only are a tech-god[dess] but you can COMMUNICATE effectively, with both management, customers. This is rare for geeks who spend all day staring at a screen and not talking to anyone. Especially if you are planning on being a programmer or a sysadmin, boy I've met some serious sociopaths out there, while unbelievable gurus, are impossible to talk to with their mumbling and inability to form complete sentences.
3. Here is the important part: You should not only go to college, but while you are in college work somewhere in high-tech. A lot of places allow for flexible scheduling, or need evening operations support, you don't have to do it full time. The important part is - get some experience. Experience is the crucial element to your resume, not an Engineering degree or a CS degree.
Following these three simple steps will land you a nice paying high-tech job while pleasing your parents because you went to college, but it will also afford you a life-time of enriching experience and creative work that high-tech work leaves behind (if it ain't left brained in high-tech then you aren't getting paid a lot)...
And just like the WTO, there is an Independent Media Center in Philly - this had been in the works since far before the protests in Washington DC in April (when the IMF and World Bank met) - the Democratic Convention in LA is going to get the same treatment, it is like the WTO, because we are still out here and we are still angry about these things, and everytime someone pushes us down, we get right up and work harder.
Check out The Philly Independent Media Center - they've got quite a juicy bit of information covering the protests - pictures, videos, etc. Not only that, but they are running Slashdot (or a significantly hacked version thereof). I've been going to their site most of the week because the larger corporate media has hardly said a peep about the massive protests and arrests that have been happening. On NPR's "All Things Considered" [sic] a reporter said that Bush's acceptance speach was going to be the biggest news of the whole week. Probably if you don't pay attention to anything BUT the RNC.
When I went down to Valencia California for my brother's graduation we went through the lovely airport there and rented a car. Naturally I got the cheapest car I could find, but while I was filling out the forms I couldn't help but notice that Hertz (or was it Avis, checking both sites didn't reveal anything helpful) had an ELECTRIC CAR for rent! They have gone to great lengths to make it easy to use and have even secured special parking spots in garages in LA that are reserved for the Electric cars... These spots are the ones right next to the electrical outlet... Also, they will come and get you at no cost if you were to run outta juice. Of course this is only for those schmoes who are worried about it because I know this doesn't happen unless you are the kind of person who runs out of gas....
What is Metallica actually losing, what is the bottom line here? Is not Metallica mega-rich already? Why do they need more money? Isn't there a point in every musician/artist/CEO's life where they have made too much money?
I'm not talking out of jealousy here, I am just talking about the Bill Gates phenomenon. People say Bill Gates is great because he donates this or donates that to X or Y charity, but said charity would not need his donations if they had money already. Does Bill Gates directly take money from charities and then selectively give it back? No, but we are talking about the distribution of wealth over all and the enormous and rapidly growing gap between the rich and the poor. As Bill Gates' pie gets larger, our portion gets smaller, and more and more we come to the table and ask, with our pleading dog-eyes, "'Smore please?"
While a minimum wage is a good thing to have, there are good things to having a maximum wage too. Where would all the money go if Bill Gates had to quit after $X would it disappear, fly into the air, catch fire, become too stinky to pick up? No, it probably would be more distributed than hoarded in a closely guarded mega-vault on the other side of Lake Washington...
Don't forget what it says in the article, this is the most important part: However, he admitted some information -- pertaining to the decryption of DVD access codes -- which could not be legally broadcast in the US, would be screened.
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From what I can tell, this is an exclusively UK article, and the act that they reference about being required to hand-over keys is a UK specific one. Has anyone heard of any case in the US where someone has been compelled by the court to hand over their private keys, or worse the passphrase for them? I have not heard of such a law, nor a case where this was enacted.
What is particularly interesting about this is how *only* indymedia was taken off-line. There are two other websites that are mentioned in the subpoena as places where this manifesto was posted that were not contacted or taken offline. Presumably the reason why indymedia's server was taken offline was to get the logs of when these manifestos were posted to try and identify the people who posted them. This strikes me as odd for a couple reasons. One is that the other sites were not taken offline to get their logs to find out who posted them, and two... indymedia has had a very well publicized policy about *not logging IP addresses* since 2001 when the FBI came knocking for some other stuff.
I got nothing to hide at my apartment, so why would I care if it was searched by an over-zealous government agency? I have several reasons:
1. Anything that they find they will interpret. For example, the Debian "apt-get install anarchism" t-shirt I have would probably automatically mean that I was part of this "international anarchist federation" that was planting bombs on EU people. That flyer I picked up on the street yesterday from that crazed guy that is mostly gibberish rants about how zionism is the way and has a picture of Bush in a Nazi uniform, performing a salute with a cross-hairs overlayed on the image... You KNOW they are going to see that and get really edgy and are going to have to assume it is my delusional plans to do bad things. I totally disagree with him, and its going in the recycling, but the federales don't know when they come a' knockin'.
2. My apartment isn't totally clean, but I dont want it tossed.
3. Ok, so I visit some protest websites, and I have some literature, and they'll collect all that and I can explain all of it, but what if our government becomes more creepy and paranoid and passes more laws against dissidents and makes it very difficult to question or disagree with the government (I would argue we are on this slippery slope now)... now I'm worried what kinda dots they are going to connect and implicate me in.
4. Digital detrius: have you ever clicked on a link here on slashdot and ended up on some annoying teen-porn site that kills your browser? Or maybe you've been to some website that makes a simple request to some site that has some illegal material on it. If the authorities decide they want my machine, I'm kinda wondering what browser history, cache files, cookies, or other crazy crap that I dont know about (and would be appalled at) is sitting on my machine for them to implicate me in something totally crazy. I'm a little paranoid about this, so I clean out as much as I can all the time, but I know my sister has a Windows machine that got 0wned and she couldn't change her homepage from a kiddie porn site (until I reinstalled linux on the machine), she had no idea what to do and how to control it, but hey! if the cops decide to come a knockin'... ignorance is no defense.
... or even more evil, a certain proprietary source company paying people who know what they are doing to write passable exploits that don't actually work, flood us with these and Linux starts to look less and less secure in comparision with their numbers of security vulnerabilities.
Peer1.net did not appropriately respond to their spam complaints, and simply moved known spammers from one IP block to another. It is unknown if they were knowingly harboring spammers (MAPs seems to think so), but the reason MAPs escalated to all of their netblocks was because they could not get the attention of Peer1 with previous attempts, and the best way to get their attention when they are ignoring you is to get every single one of your customer's attention and have them all call you. I emailed MAPs, they didn't respond, I called them and got a human on the phone and they explained this to me. I called Peer1 to chew them out for doing this and will demand that they give me outage credit.
r g,
I rely on RBLs to block a significant amount of spam, however I use conservative ones that the anti-spam community seems to be fairly confident in their abilities, attitude, de-listing policy. They constantly need to be re-evaluated (in fact I need to do that soon) as to their effectiveness, but with this list I have not had a customer complaint about us blocking mail.
list.dsbl.org,
opm.blitzed.org,
relays.ordb.o
cbl.abuseat.org,
NB: MAPs is not listed because they do this sort of thing. While it may sound like I support what they did above, I also am really pissed off because I've got a lot of trouble tickets from people wanting to know why their mail bounced. It is for this reason that I am not using MAPs in my RBL list.
Press Release
7 October 2004
FBI Seizes IMC Servers in the UK
US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace's office in the US ordering them to provide Indymedia's hardware located in London to the requesting agency. Rackspace is one of Indymedia's web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia's server in the UK. This affects some 20+ Indymedia sites worldwide.
Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia. Talking to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order." ISPs have received gag orders in similar situations which prevent them from updating the concerns parits on what is happening.
It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.
At the same time a second server was taken down at Rackspace which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of miscellanous things.
The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut down community radio stations around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia takes down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same issue. On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media organisations have been successful with their victories (thanks to the EFF), for example against Diebold and the Patroit Act. Today however, the US authorities shut down IMCs around the world.
The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and the global Indymedia Radio site.
Weitse Verma for making my life of sendmail hell go away (no offense EA), and tirelessly answering email on the postfix-users list.
The guys who wrote screen, which from what I can tell are:
1987 Oliver Laumann
1991 Wayne Davidson
1993 Juergen Weigert
1993 Michael Schroeder
and all the debian package maintainers that are making installing software so much easier.
Two critical differences between this and the Nuremberg Files:
1. The doctors information that was being posted in the Nuremberg case are private citizens, the RNC delegates are public citizens with their information registered and available with the state (and hey, pictures and diaries on their website!).
2. The Nuremberg information was put up with explicit incitement to murder, bomb and kill the doctors and their place of work, that is not how these things were published - they were published with the instructions that this is where people are going to be if you want to protest them.
The ACLU won the case against the abortion crackpots in the Nuremburg case, they are working on this case as well, I think they know exactly what they are doing and how this is different.
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http://www.redhatbo
I worked for UPS for about 3 months out of high-school. The attraction of the $12.95/hr, even at 3am was enough to get me to go do physical work. Unfortunately I've lived with an injured back and dear, fond memories of the hell I went through. I was an "Unloader" with the "promise" that I would one day rise through the ranks ("In just a couple weeks!") to being a sorter, soon I would work in air-freight, then... driving. Thats when things get really good, and you get paid a tasty sum of money. What I found out was this was only a pack of lies. I was stuffed in an unlit semi-trailer, with a conveyor belt and told to put the boxes on the belt as fast as I could. It was dusty, it was late, it was dark and I was being timed. The boxes were piled to the top. I had to jump up and pull down a box-a-lanche for each wall I got through, hundreds of Fragile boxes fell from 10 feet to the floor, or smacked on the conveyor belt. 70+ pound boxes I had to pick up, with no back support, and put on the conveyor belt that was chest high (I'm 6'4"). There was a supervisor outside who timed me, and every time he came by I had to get a better time or I would get fired. I slammed boxes on the conveyor belt to make time, boxes fell of the belt half-way up to the sorters because I didn't put them on I threw them on or they fell on from the box-o-lanche. It royally sucked and I could only take it out on the boxes. Finish a trailer? Move on to the next one, and the next one... one 15 minute break the whole night (pound about 3 mountain dews and keep going)... Fragile means nothing, I couldn't see what was written on the boxes, but even if I could I wouldn't care, I was in a hurry, and I hated your box.
The only time I enjoyed myself was when a box wripped open and about 5,000 condoms and other "toys" went flying everywhere. I wasn't allowed to touch the contents of the boxes in such a case, so I had to call the manager over...
IT workers need a Union for the same reason that workers have always formed unions: together you have more power to improve the terms and conditions of our employment than we do as individuals.
Oh, wait, you are doing fine, your 60-hour a week jobs have kept you entertained, the three grand training classes that you had to pay for yourself have kept you up to speed - but now you are unemployed and you can't do much about finding a job because you signed that NDA from hell. Its too bad that you were getting paid hourly and weren't qualified for overtime pay.
Oh well, don't do anything about it, just complain. Find a friend and complain together, but don't do anything about it because unions are lame.
If you want to give away your 8 hour work day, the weekend (all things that were fought and obtained by unions), then that is your prerogative, but don't come bitching and moaning to me when you are burnt out.
One thing that was neglected in this article was the other annoucement that happened alongside this one at the coference, that Apple was dropping all the prices on the LCD monitors.
You think $2200 is too expensive for a cinema monitor (18 x 23, 16.7 million colors), then that is fine, don't get one of those, get a normal sized monitor. But they are dropping those prices too. Have you actually seen one of these? When I saw it in the store I nearly shorted it out with the drool.
If you want tab filename completion, searchable histories, etc. use zsh - it is just ksh with features. Just as tcsh was an improvement of csh in that it added a lot of the interactability features, so does zsh do for ksh, and wow is it cool.
This country's founders created corporations to provide specific public services, but, concerned about the risks of concentration and abuse of power, they carefully limited corporate powers. Incorporation was a privilege not a right, and corporations were each granted unique charters by a state legislature in the state where they did their business.
- Corporations had to have a specific purpose written into their charter
(license to do business); if they didn't fulfill it, or exceeded their authority,
their charter could be revoked.
- Corporation charters were granted for a specific period of time, usually
10 to 30 years, and ceased to exist after that time unless their charters
were renewed.
- Corporations could not own stock in other corporations or own real estate
beyond what they needed to conduct their business.
- State legislatures set the rates that corporations could charge for
their products or services.
- All corporation records and documents were open to the public
(or the legislature or the state attorney general, depending on the state).
- A corporation's officers, directors and stockholders could be held personally
liable (sometimes triply) for all harms and debts caused by the corporation.
- Shareholders had the right to remove directors at will.
- Major corporate decisions had to be affirmed by unanimous shareholder vote,
and the power of large shareholders was limited by scaled voting, so that large
and small investors had more equal voting rights.
- Corporations were prohibited from making any donations to political
candidates, direct or indirect. (In Wisconsin, this law was still in effect
until 1972!)
- To ensure local control and input, all of a corporation's stockholders
were required to be from the state where it did its business.
- and much much more
We must reclaim the sovereignty of the people to insure that corporations really serve the public interest, their original purpose. To do this, we must follow the example of this country's founders - limit corporations' size and power, and hold their every act subservient to the will of the sovereign people. That is democracy.Following these three simple steps will land you a nice paying high-tech job while pleasing your parents because you went to college, but it will also afford you a life-time of enriching experience and creative work that high-tech work leaves behind (if it ain't left brained in high-tech then you aren't getting paid a lot)...
And just like the WTO, there is an Independent Media Center in Philly - this had been in the works since far before the protests in Washington DC in April (when the IMF and World Bank met) - the Democratic Convention in LA is going to get the same treatment, it is like the WTO, because we are still out here and we are still angry about these things, and everytime someone pushes us down, we get right up and work harder.
Check out The Philly Independent Media Center - they've got quite a juicy bit of information covering the protests - pictures, videos, etc. Not only that, but they are running Slashdot (or a significantly hacked version thereof). I've been going to their site most of the week because the larger corporate media has hardly said a peep about the massive protests and arrests that have been happening. On NPR's "All Things Considered" [sic] a reporter said that Bush's acceptance speach was going to be the biggest news of the whole week. Probably if you don't pay attention to anything BUT the RNC.
When I went down to Valencia California for my brother's graduation we went through the lovely airport there and rented a car. Naturally I got the cheapest car I could find, but while I was filling out the forms I couldn't help but notice that Hertz (or was it Avis, checking both sites didn't reveal anything helpful) had an ELECTRIC CAR for rent! They have gone to great lengths to make it easy to use and have even secured special parking spots in garages in LA that are reserved for the Electric cars... These spots are the ones right next to the electrical outlet... Also, they will come and get you at no cost if you were to run outta juice. Of course this is only for those schmoes who are worried about it because I know this doesn't happen unless you are the kind of person who runs out of gas....
What is Metallica actually losing, what is the bottom line here? Is not Metallica mega-rich already? Why do they need more money? Isn't there a point in every musician/artist/CEO's life where they have made too much money?
I'm not talking out of jealousy here, I am just talking about the Bill Gates phenomenon. People say Bill Gates is great because he donates this or donates that to X or Y charity, but said charity would not need his donations if they had money already. Does Bill Gates directly take money from charities and then selectively give it back? No, but we are talking about the distribution of wealth over all and the enormous and rapidly growing gap between the rich and the poor. As Bill Gates' pie gets larger, our portion gets smaller, and more and more we come to the table and ask, with our pleading dog-eyes, "'Smore please?"
While a minimum wage is a good thing to have, there are good things to having a maximum wage too. Where would all the money go if Bill Gates had to quit after $X would it disappear, fly into the air, catch fire, become too stinky to pick up? No, it probably would be more distributed than hoarded in a closely guarded mega-vault on the other side of Lake Washington...
Don't forget what it says in the article, this is the most important part: However, he admitted some information -- pertaining to the decryption of DVD access codes -- which could not be legally broadcast in the US, would be screened.