.. i travel a lot. for fun, i brought along some reading material and didn't keep it hidden -- it was a book on the koran. sure enough, i was pulled aside for a 'random search'. bear in mind i'm a white male with a pony tail, and typically dress.. 'down'.
still, made me happy that people were paying attention.
private company, well within their rights to censor whatever they want. the people who use AOL do so typically because AOL's easy, it's a name they recognize, and they like the features that are included. these folks are AOL's subscribers, they operate under AOL's license, and they have to abide by AOL's rules. such is the cost of ease.
while i think it's a lousy pr decision, i don't think they're wrong for keeping emails out of their users' inbox that may be harmful to their business. on the contrary, it's quite prudent for them to do so. at some point, business have to be able to make decisions that their customers don't like -- their customers will either leave or they won't.
all of those things are true. however, if you were a media lawyer, which words in someone's google search history would you be looking for? whether the purpose you're using them for is illegal or not, the path is the same.
from tfa: "He said Google ads are very targetable, because Google knows a lot about the person surfing, especially if they have used personal search or logged into a service such as Gmail."
not to mention possibly what crimes you've committed. i find myself suddenly not wanting to ever search on the word 'torrent' again.
what will ever keep IE alive? all of the corporate customers that demand that not only their employees use it exclusively, but that all of their apps be developed to only support it. almost every company i've worked for over the past five years has coded their pages to the IE standard, and the rest be damned.
lately i've been using Flock. (http://flock.com/). based on firefox (as such, has the same memory leaks that firefox does) but provides a lot of gee-whiz features that i find myself missing when i go elsewhere. ties in with blog posting, remote bookmarks, flickr, and does it all pretty seamlessly. it's a browser i'd feel comfortable turning my mom loose on.
for the record, these vary from state to state. in my home state, you don't have do have someone's permission before recording them over the phone. the way the law is written, one party has to know the phone call is being recorded, not both.
the legitimate charge here is the copied games -- which wouldn't have been, had they distributed the game discs with the console. this is a case of a person profiting off someone else's copyrighted works, which is what copyright law is designed to prevent.
as for the circumvention charge, the evidence is on the console. my hope is that this case isn't extensible to any modchip installation. modchips have legitimate uses as well, and i'm a firm believer that once i get a piece of hardware, i can do whatever i want with it, as long as i don't hurt anyone else.
the legal system of the US seems to disagree, though.
something i'm really looking forward to isn't the tiny tiny computers which will be possible with QC. it's the normal-sized computers which are, in actually, thousands of quantum processors working like mad in parallel. massively parallel systems making supercomputers possible in our toasters.
The idea of a ubiquitous network where you can get 'online' and be assured routing of your info is great -- however the grass roots bit will probably fail.
Perhaps, the better way to pull this would be a subscription-based thing. $5/month for that constant connection.
This does allow for all kinds of lifestyle reflection. In addition to being yet another way to find you, it'd allow for point of view cameras all over, even a virtual overlay a la CyberGeneration.
This is, phenomenally, the best thing that the Linux community could ask for. The position we want to be in right now is that of underdog -- the initiative that the companies secretly root for and the big dogs don't consider a threat.
A Halloween Treat, indeed.
However, it's worth considering that with all the propaganda and speculation, not to mention paranoia surrounding the whole bug thing, this may have been penned, planning on a leak. To let us get comfortable, and get our gaurd down, until they launch the newest propaganda media campaign.
And, it could all be hoax.
If it's genuine, rock. If it's not, total information gained still = 0. Cute, but overall, this attitude shouldn't effect us.
Well, the only thing that can end (or reduce) government is government. That's one of the real work from the inside issues. A government should regulate trade between the states and nations, defend our asses, then get the hell out of our lives. In order for this to happen, politicians have to decide on it.
That is, unless we want to take up guns and revolt. I'm a pretty bad shot, so that's out.
naught.out
Well, the PR release is kinda funny to read, but
the unholy ideas and whatnot that those breaking
the CueCat have come up with more or less embody
the spirit of innovation.
1) Find something (moderately) useful.
2) Find another way to use it.
3) Release this information to the general public.
Now, #3 is the step most people leave out. Everyone wants their patent and trademark and copyright, and exclusive use. It rocks that innovation is still continuing under the shadow of lawsuits and corporate thread.
Let's face it -- the old adage is true: Good programmers copy, great programmers steal. It just shows to go ya that this is as true with hardware concepts as it is software.
What I'm hearing from the preliminaries is that no one is suprised, and I know I'm certainly not. We all knew that something like this was a possibility, and when the technology was ubiquitous enough, it would be exercised by the Microsoft Marketing Machine (Bob).
Not only do I not get why people are still using this, but why it's even being reported as news. Everyone is collectively smacking their heads and going 'Duh!' on this one. Just wait until they start redirecting IE to the Microsoft Propaganda Page every hour on the hour (for MSN users, of course!).
I've run this kind of thing before under Windoze, and it was extremely useful. I'd considered this under linux, but never made a concerted effort to bring it around.
Has anyone else succeeded in two desktops with regular video cards? I'm just curious. While I'm flooding the list with questions, how are the laptop people out there handling docking stations and external monitors?
And the standard - 'Wow, cool, I'm glad the hardware manufacturers are taking notice, blah blah blah'...
Everyone who has replied has forgotten one important fact about law enforcement in the US -- if the officer who arrives decides it's not a crime, or the judge decides it's not a crime, it's not, regardless of what the books say.
Having experienced these things firsthand, I can attest to the fact that most crimes that the arriving officer thinks are minor, even felony crimes, breaking and entering, and destruction of property, will NOT get prosecuted. Discretion is put first into the hands of an officer, then into the hands of a judge.
How does this apply to the current argument? Because if a crime is sexy enough it'll be given a newsline, and THOSE crimes are the ones that the public sees, not the date rapes, vandalisms, and death threats in the US.
I wonder what the viewer will be -- something like a flatscreen web viewer you have to put a deposit down on, or a monitor built into the back of the seat?
Honestly, the best bet may be a touch-screen 200x300 lcd, if they want to keep the cost down. A full-screen sized unit would be more expensive to replace, and would require a stronger initial investment.
At $1/minute, I'd back off. But if it were provided as a rental for the whole flight, say $20, that's reasonable. Their pricing model remains to be seen, I suppose.
What's the real story here? Beats me. Felonys are things like Grand Larceny, and Killing Grandma. Serious repercussions and lots of damages are required for something to be a Felony, right?
Or it may be that any crime which is so unknown that its damages may not be easily talliable becomes a felony as a deterrent. It may be that making laws banning data theft and hacking become 'cutting edge politics', and all the street savvy politicians want their name on that bill.
Probably, the severity of the law is caused by the blinding fear the average luser has about his machine being hacked, or all the dirty emails he sends his mistress being looked at by someone.
Theft is theft -- and if its information, how that information is used should determine the crime, or how much the (unrecoverably) destroyed data is worth.
Consider this: If someone broke into your house, while you were watching TV, romped through the kitchen naked, and left out the back door, but didn't take anything, would the courts care? No -- the police officer who showed up would say that since nothing was stolen, and no one was hurt, it's probably not worth the hassle to take it to court. But if someone were to enter your computer system it's a felony?
Case of sexy politics here, methinks. I could be wrong, but everyone runs that risk. Bugs me, though that while I can't get a guy who threatens to kill me sent to jail when I provide the officers with his name and address, as well as a witness to the event, laws exists that state unauthorized access to a system is a felony.
I don't dispute that charges should be brought -- it's the severity that gets me down.
The palm 3e was offerred for a limited time with a clear case to palm developers. I haven't kept up with palm fashion lately, but I recall a few weeks ago seeing a company which was offerring translucent cases for the palm 3 form factor. If I had the link I'd post it.
The kids' palm (120m?) comes with a colored case, but I don't know of any factory 3s with color cases other than the 3e special.
Visors, on the other hand, come in all the colors of the rainbow.
If you're using a simple network setup, or are learning the network side of system administration, this is a great book. It's the only network admin I've ever needed to use for Linux.
Just a note on O'Reilly, if you don't have a user group in your area, set one up. The user group gets free books, discounts on conventions and conferences, and lots of pre-release input and useful information. There's a link on their website, but you have to dig.
Everything that's new (and mobile, digital phones are certainly still new) goes through a period where its limits are tested by those inclined to do so. I can't imagine any exceptions to this.
While some of these 'tests' are valuable (look at DeCSS), others are irritating.
I can certainly tolerate a little irritation in exchange for cool, new gear. Pass the Neosporin.
Slashdot Mirror
.. i travel a lot. for fun, i brought along some reading material and didn't keep it hidden -- it was a book on the koran. sure enough, i was pulled aside for a 'random search'. bear in mind i'm a white male with a pony tail, and typically dress .. 'down'.
still, made me happy that people were paying attention.
once he signs the record deal, the music no longer belongs to him. which sucks, but that's the biz.
private company, well within their rights to censor whatever they want. the people who use AOL do so typically because AOL's easy, it's a name they recognize, and they like the features that are included. these folks are AOL's subscribers, they operate under AOL's license, and they have to abide by AOL's rules. such is the cost of ease.
while i think it's a lousy pr decision, i don't think they're wrong for keeping emails out of their users' inbox that may be harmful to their business. on the contrary, it's quite prudent for them to do so. at some point, business have to be able to make decisions that their customers don't like -- their customers will either leave or they won't.
all of those things are true. however, if you were a media lawyer, which words in someone's google search history would you be looking for? whether the purpose you're using them for is illegal or not, the path is the same.
fun speculation, along the same lines: http://poynterextra.org/epic/ .
from tfa: "He said Google ads are very targetable, because Google knows a lot about the person surfing, especially if they have used personal search or logged into a service such as Gmail."
not to mention possibly what crimes you've committed. i find myself suddenly not wanting to ever search on the word 'torrent' again.
what will ever keep IE alive? all of the corporate customers that demand that not only their employees use it exclusively, but that all of their apps be developed to only support it. almost every company i've worked for over the past five years has coded their pages to the IE standard, and the rest be damned.
lately i've been using Flock. (http://flock.com/). based on firefox (as such, has the same memory leaks that firefox does) but provides a lot of gee-whiz features that i find myself missing when i go elsewhere. ties in with blog posting, remote bookmarks, flickr, and does it all pretty seamlessly. it's a browser i'd feel comfortable turning my mom loose on.
and my mom's a hairdresser. just sayin.
for the record, these vary from state to state. in my home state, you don't have do have someone's permission before recording them over the phone. the way the law is written, one party has to know the phone call is being recorded, not both.
fyi.
NetSol will price match on request. It's not something they advertise, but they'll do it. I found this out when transferring my domains away.
FYI.
the legitimate charge here is the copied games -- which wouldn't have been, had they distributed the game discs with the console. this is a case of a person profiting off someone else's copyrighted works, which is what copyright law is designed to prevent.
as for the circumvention charge, the evidence is on the console. my hope is that this case isn't extensible to any modchip installation. modchips have legitimate uses as well, and i'm a firm believer that once i get a piece of hardware, i can do whatever i want with it, as long as i don't hurt anyone else.
the legal system of the US seems to disagree, though.
something i'm really looking forward to isn't the tiny tiny computers which will be possible with QC. it's the normal-sized computers which are, in actually, thousands of quantum processors working like mad in parallel. massively parallel systems making supercomputers possible in our toasters.
i'm gettin wet. i should go.
The idea of a ubiquitous network where you can get 'online' and be assured routing of your info is great -- however the grass roots bit will probably fail.
Perhaps, the better way to pull this would be a subscription-based thing. $5/month for that constant connection.
This does allow for all kinds of lifestyle reflection. In addition to being yet another way to find you, it'd allow for point of view cameras all over, even a virtual overlay a la CyberGeneration.
Anyway -- I'm done.
This is, phenomenally, the best thing that the Linux community could ask for. The position we want to be in right now is that of underdog -- the initiative that the companies secretly root for and the big dogs don't consider a threat.
A Halloween Treat, indeed.
However, it's worth considering that with all the propaganda and speculation, not to mention paranoia surrounding the whole bug thing, this may have been penned, planning on a leak. To let us get comfortable, and get our gaurd down, until they launch the newest propaganda media campaign.
And, it could all be hoax.
If it's genuine, rock. If it's not, total information gained still = 0. Cute, but overall, this attitude shouldn't effect us.
Much.
Well, the only thing that can end (or reduce) government is government. That's one of the real work from the inside issues. A government should regulate trade between the states and nations, defend our asses, then get the hell out of our lives. In order for this to happen, politicians have to decide on it.
That is, unless we want to take up guns and revolt. I'm a pretty bad shot, so that's out. naught.out
Well, the PR release is kinda funny to read, but
the unholy ideas and whatnot that those breaking
the CueCat have come up with more or less embody
the spirit of innovation.
1) Find something (moderately) useful.
2) Find another way to use it.
3) Release this information to the general public.
Now, #3 is the step most people leave out. Everyone wants their patent and trademark and copyright, and exclusive use. It rocks that innovation is still continuing under the shadow of lawsuits and corporate thread.
Let's face it -- the old adage is true: Good programmers copy, great programmers steal. It just shows to go ya that this is as true with hardware concepts as it is software.
What I'm hearing from the preliminaries is that no one is suprised, and I know I'm certainly not. We all knew that something like this was a possibility, and when the technology was ubiquitous enough, it would be exercised by the Microsoft Marketing Machine (Bob).
Not only do I not get why people are still using this, but why it's even being reported as news. Everyone is collectively smacking their heads and going 'Duh!' on this one. Just wait until they start redirecting IE to the Microsoft Propaganda Page every hour on the hour (for MSN users, of course!).
C'Mon folks. Real news please.
I've run this kind of thing before under Windoze, and it was extremely useful. I'd considered this under linux, but never made a concerted effort to bring it around.
...
Has anyone else succeeded in two desktops with regular video cards? I'm just curious. While I'm flooding the list with questions, how are the laptop people out there handling docking stations and external monitors?
And the standard - 'Wow, cool, I'm glad the hardware manufacturers are taking notice, blah blah blah'
Having experienced these things firsthand, I can attest to the fact that most crimes that the arriving officer thinks are minor, even felony crimes, breaking and entering, and destruction of property, will NOT get prosecuted. Discretion is put first into the hands of an officer, then into the hands of a judge.
How does this apply to the current argument? Because if a crime is sexy enough it'll be given a newsline, and THOSE crimes are the ones that the public sees, not the date rapes, vandalisms, and death threats in the US.
Since I wasn't clear -- this assumes the flier DOESN'T have a laptop, and can't plug in their network cord.
Honestly, the best bet may be a touch-screen 200x300 lcd, if they want to keep the cost down. A full-screen sized unit would be more expensive to replace, and would require a stronger initial investment.
At $1/minute, I'd back off. But if it were provided as a rental for the whole flight, say $20, that's reasonable. Their pricing model remains to be seen, I suppose.
What's the real story here? Beats me. Felonys are things like Grand Larceny, and Killing Grandma. Serious repercussions and lots of damages are required for something to be a Felony, right?
Or it may be that any crime which is so unknown that its damages may not be easily talliable becomes a felony as a deterrent. It may be that making laws banning data theft and hacking become 'cutting edge politics', and all the street savvy politicians want their name on that bill.
Probably, the severity of the law is caused by the blinding fear the average luser has about his machine being hacked, or all the dirty emails he sends his mistress being looked at by someone.
Theft is theft -- and if its information, how that information is used should determine the crime, or how much the (unrecoverably) destroyed data is worth.
Consider this: If someone broke into your house, while you were watching TV, romped through the kitchen naked, and left out the back door, but didn't take anything, would the courts care? No -- the police officer who showed up would say that since nothing was stolen, and no one was hurt, it's probably not worth the hassle to take it to court. But if someone were to enter your computer system it's a felony?
Case of sexy politics here, methinks. I could be wrong, but everyone runs that risk. Bugs me, though that while I can't get a guy who threatens to kill me sent to jail when I provide the officers with his name and address, as well as a witness to the event, laws exists that state unauthorized access to a system is a felony.
I don't dispute that charges should be brought -- it's the severity that gets me down.
...Corporate america?
Is this what we're coming to, even between
companies? Petty squabbling about details
and finding the easy way out.
Oh wait. My fault. Capitalism. Damn.
Pass the beer nuts, I guess.
The palm 3e was offerred for a limited time with a clear case to palm developers. I haven't kept up with palm fashion lately, but I recall a few weeks ago seeing a company which was offerring translucent cases for the palm 3 form factor. If I had the link I'd post it.
The kids' palm (120m?) comes with a colored case, but I don't know of any factory 3s with color cases other than the 3e special.
Visors, on the other hand, come in all the colors of the rainbow.
If you're using a simple network setup, or are learning the network side of system administration, this is a great book. It's the only network admin I've ever needed to use for Linux.
Just a note on O'Reilly, if you don't have a user group in your area, set one up. The user group gets free books, discounts on conventions and conferences, and lots of pre-release input and useful information. There's a link on their website, but you have to dig.
O'Reilly and Associates
Everything that's new (and mobile, digital phones are certainly still new) goes through a period where its limits are tested by those inclined to do so. I can't imagine any exceptions to this.
While some of these 'tests' are valuable (look at DeCSS), others are irritating.
I can certainly tolerate a little irritation in exchange for cool, new gear. Pass the Neosporin.