When the FBI has carnivore attached to every ISP and RIAA / MPAA / DC / AnyOtherNameForADMCALovin'Company / UCTIA backed spyware company I'm sure they'll have LOTS of reliable statistics about your website (and shopping patterns, and bank accounts, and how much porn you download off of newsgroups)... and you'll be able to get it... for a price of course (unless you do something the Gvm't doesn't like, then you'll get it free under the rules of discovery. Too bad you'll be in jail soon after)
Nathan "They're watching me, I swear" Cento....
Yggdrasil Computing... holy crap. I thought those guys were out of buisness long ago. Their web pages hadn't been updated in what seemed like years. Anyone know what they've been doing (other than the DVD archive) since their last dist. release?
Doubtful, since the a) they haven't had much (any?) good said about them in the mainstream press and b)the geekerati aren't using thier software anyway. Me thinks that their database isn't being populated very quickly. No data, no money. No money, no laughing.
It's because this "protect the children" mantra is a smokescreen. They don't just want to protect children, they want to "protect" everyone. The people who are fighting for censorware (or the V-Chip, or banning books in school) don't want ANYONE to read/view that material. If they were to stand up and say "we are going to tell you what to read/view/think because we know better than you" they would be laughed at. But angle it as "protecting the children" and it lends an air of legitimacy.
Why is it always (in ominous, echo'y voice) "Big Tobacco"???? No one ever calls McDonalds "Big Food" or the Wal-Mart "Big Cheap Shit." Why should the gvm't bankrupt tobacco companies? Should they be allowed to go after alcohol companies next? How about fast food joints (they're making our kids fat!!!! "MY TAX DOLLARS GO TO PAY FAT PEOPLE'S BILLS...blah blah blah")? How about just letting smokers die for doing something they willingly took part in?
Nathan: Avid Non Smoker - Even More Avid Lover of Liberty
AOL has a "monopoly" on the instant messaging market. In other words, they can and will stifle future development of IM products BECAUSE they dominate
Wrong... if and when AOL tries to keep others from entering the IM market with thier own protocol/servers/etc then they are abusing their position. If others (MS,Yahoo,Tribal Voice) make a competing service and no one uses it that's not AOL's fault.
If it was stock it was 64 (16 of it being banked under the ROM)... but you could hack 256K (hell, some even put a meg into 'em) into no problem. I had 256K internal and then the 256K MIO expansion box. Wicked quick RamDisk that didn't go tits up when you cycled the power. Those were the days.
If it's anything like the jog dials on their other equipment then it's a "Good Thing" (TM). Think "a better mouse wheel" (in feel, the functionality is pretty much the same)
Totally (well, somewhat) off-topic here, but I have to agree about the Sony MD platform. YES its not an open standard, YES they have a stupid SDMI-like scheme to keep you from making serial copies (but its easy to defeat) and it'll probably be made obsolete when flash memory prices drop (by, like, a magnitude of 10-20)... BUT, for right now its the best damn portable music system out there. And the units are rock solid.
It certainly has been decided, and reverse engineering is legal, if it is directed at producing a compatible application. Reverse engineering aimed at stealing somebody else's intellectual property is not legal, and this case looks to be decidedly an example of the latter.
Do you have a right to use my tax money to pay for your heart-lung machine? Do you have a right to make me breathe your second hand smoke, and compromise my own health? Do you have a right to force me out of public places with your smoke, in order to protect my own lungs? Why don't you look at the facts objectively, instead of only thinking about yourself?
{rant}
You're right! And that's the problem. I shouldn't have to pay for someone else's health problems... smoking, heart, whatever. Yet the government insists on covering financially any ying-yang that partakes in something that isn't healthy. Bitch at insurance companies all you want, but they balance the cost of coverage against the risks. If I'm a smoker than I pay higher premiums. If I'm obese I pay higher premiums. Conversely if I'm healthy I pay lower premiums. Not so with Uncle Sam. We all pay the same flat fee. A chunk of my paycheck goes to covering smokers, fat folk, idiots who ride motorcycles without helmets, etc. So instead of making policy whereby they (the gvm't) start banning / taxing "habits" in the name of cost saving I say let people keep their habits and get rid of Medicare completely (or at least cut it back to the bare min.)
{/rant}
Not the CMC Int'l Record Company???:) That would be too funny. Maybe they want to drop those bad boys a Lynard Skynard show, a spectacular firework show of sorts.
Why are these the only two options? I can personally come up with about 100 or so. Chances are none of 'em are true... but the same could be said for the two you listed as well.
Me personally, I don't care where I came from. I'm here, that's all that matters.
I don't want to come off as a Windows basher (yes, I'm using it right now) but 98SE was a cluster fuck to install on two machines that I had. One had an older MB (about 2 years old) and a Cyrix chip. SE Installed (after about 6 attempts) but would lock up if you tried to install CD-Burner, SB Live (all stuff that worked well under 95). I then tried to put it on a more modern machine with more success, but it still required about 3 attempts. Your milage may vary, but I will say Stormix was a TONNE easier and still love a good old curses based Debian install (granted you have to sit around to configure, but I've never had one go down for no reason [i.e. I didn't hose some config. up])
I like it a lot. It show's the absurdity of certain laws and attitudes. It reminds me of prostitution laws: If you pay someone cash for sex you're breaking a law (except in parts of Nevada). If you spend the exact same amount of money on gifts, dinner, etc. its called a date.
This is a Good Thing(tm). If I am to believe the the collective wisdom of slashdot, Linux cannot fork because it is under the GPL. So if the GPL prevents forking, what is so wrong about the QPL restricting forking? Or to put it another way, if the forking is good, where are all the GTK forks?
Not quite. Linux can fork all it wants. What most folks claim is that it is not in many people's interest to fork it. But it still may fork, and if it does it may not be such a bad thing. If for some reason Linus decides not to include something that the vast majority of users want.. bingo... fork! And chances are that that particular fork will become the dominant version.
Chances are they've added that clause in the contract for the same reasons the US government adds the question "Were you ever a member of the Nazi party" on entry documents: not to stop people, but to make it easier to get rid of them.
The INS didn't put that question on entry documents with the intention of catching Nazis trying to enter the country. They added it to make it easier to get rid of them should they be found out (read the fine print on the form... false information is a federal offence). The gvmt now has an easy case for granting extradition (if it was requested)... he committed a federal crime by lying on his entry form.
Chances are this is the same logic @Home are using. For instance, one party accuses another, @Home using party of doing something illegal, or against contract, whatever, or @Home feels that the user is violating their service agreement somehow and they were using encryption in the process. @Home now can cancel their account for simply using the encryption instead of having to go through the process of trying to determine if what the user was sending was indeed illegal, in violation of contract, whatever.
Randian my butt. Have you ever heard of Libertarianism?
People are *not* able to do what they want with their own money-- there are laws, you know
Yup. They (should) only keep me from infringing on others rights. Other than that I spend (or don't spend) the money as I see fit. I'm sorry if you find my purchasing patterns unwise, but I spent nine hours a day working. I don't tell you how to spend your money, what to believe in, what to say, where to go, etc. Pardon me if I don't give a flying f**k how you think I should spend my time.
Not "absolutely untrue". Yes the market is unpredictable in the micro sense of the word, but, somewhat like the weather, you can look at trends and indicators to gage how the market will *probably* behave in a macro sense.
I think the general consensus among those in the financial industry was that the tech was overvalued. The big question mark was *how* overvalued and when the correction would take place.
"Regulon" has the stench of "How do I get rid of the things I don't like." (CNN, weatherman, flamers, spammers, Web site designers, e-do gooders and nit-picking coders, pundits, zealots, smart-asses and grumps) The solution you point out is by far the most elegant and most simple, but Mr. Katz has the same attitude of an Anti-Porn crusader or some numbnut who wants to regulate music/media: "Lets get rid of it totally... trust me... its for your own good."
"Science is prejudiced by those that perform it?" Shock! Horror!
It never fails to amaze me how people cannot fathom that such things as history, science, government, education, religion, art, etc. are directly influenced by those who practice it. Nothing, I repeat NOTHING, is free of the influence of people no matter how much we wish it to be (or, to be more accurate free of influences other than our own). No perfect system will ever be put into place. But, what you can do is have a) acknowledge that bias exists and b) have a free and open society where alternate ideas can at least be expressed. It doesn't guarantee that what is "right" or what is "true" will come out on top, but it's a hell of a lot better than the alternative.
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When the FBI has carnivore attached to every ISP and RIAA / MPAA / DC / AnyOtherNameForADMCALovin'Company / UCTIA backed spyware company I'm sure they'll have LOTS of reliable statistics about your website (and shopping patterns, and bank accounts, and how much porn you download off of newsgroups)... and you'll be able to get it... for a price of course (unless you do something the Gvm't doesn't like, then you'll get it free under the rules of discovery. Too bad you'll be in jail soon after) Nathan "They're watching me, I swear" Cento....
Yggdrasil Computing... holy crap. I thought those guys were out of buisness long ago. Their web pages hadn't been updated in what seemed like years. Anyone know what they've been doing (other than the DVD archive) since their last dist. release?
Doubtful, since the a) they haven't had much (any?) good said about them in the mainstream press and b)the geekerati aren't using thier software anyway. Me thinks that their database isn't being populated very quickly. No data, no money. No money, no laughing.
It's because this "protect the children" mantra is a smokescreen. They don't just want to protect children, they want to "protect" everyone. The people who are fighting for censorware (or the V-Chip, or banning books in school) don't want ANYONE to read/view that material. If they were to stand up and say "we are going to tell you what to read/view/think because we know better than you" they would be laughed at. But angle it as "protecting the children" and it lends an air of legitimacy.
Nathan: Avid Non Smoker - Even More Avid Lover of Liberty
Wrong... if and when AOL tries to keep others from entering the IM market with thier own protocol/servers/etc then they are abusing their position. If others (MS,Yahoo,Tribal Voice) make a competing service and no one uses it that's not AOL's fault.
Nathan
Hey, I wrote a (very crude) text editor in Atari Logo... granted it ran rather slowish on that 1.6 Mzh 6502, but it worked.
Remember the days when if it didn't fit in 64K it just wasn't worth doing? <sigh>
If it was stock it was 64 (16 of it being banked under the ROM)... but you could hack 256K (hell, some even put a meg into 'em) into no problem. I had 256K internal and then the 256K MIO expansion box. Wicked quick RamDisk that didn't go tits up when you cycled the power. Those were the days.
If it's anything like the jog dials on their other equipment then it's a "Good Thing" (TM). Think "a better mouse wheel" (in feel, the functionality is pretty much the same)
Totally (well, somewhat) off-topic here, but I have to agree about the Sony MD platform. YES its not an open standard, YES they have a stupid SDMI-like scheme to keep you from making serial copies (but its easy to defeat) and it'll probably be made obsolete when flash memory prices drop (by, like, a magnitude of 10-20)... BUT, for right now its the best damn portable music system out there. And the units are rock solid.
Exactly what IP has been stolen?
Truth be told, we're just trying to find ways to dance around the legal issue.
Nope... if that was the case M$ could sue EVERY ISV for using it's copyrighted API's, OpenFile widget, etc.
{rant} You're right! And that's the problem. I shouldn't have to pay for someone else's health problems... smoking, heart, whatever. Yet the government insists on covering financially any ying-yang that partakes in something that isn't healthy. Bitch at insurance companies all you want, but they balance the cost of coverage against the risks. If I'm a smoker than I pay higher premiums. If I'm obese I pay higher premiums. Conversely if I'm healthy I pay lower premiums. Not so with Uncle Sam. We all pay the same flat fee. A chunk of my paycheck goes to covering smokers, fat folk, idiots who ride motorcycles without helmets, etc. So instead of making policy whereby they (the gvm't) start banning / taxing "habits" in the name of cost saving I say let people keep their habits and get rid of Medicare completely (or at least cut it back to the bare min.) {/rant}
Why's that???? You need the government to make you quit?
Not the CMC Int'l Record Company??? :) That would be too funny. Maybe they want to drop those bad boys a Lynard Skynard show, a spectacular firework show of sorts.
Me personally, I don't care where I came from. I'm here, that's all that matters.
I don't want to come off as a Windows basher (yes, I'm using it right now) but 98SE was a cluster fuck to install on two machines that I had. One had an older MB (about 2 years old) and a Cyrix chip. SE Installed (after about 6 attempts) but would lock up if you tried to install CD-Burner, SB Live (all stuff that worked well under 95). I then tried to put it on a more modern machine with more success, but it still required about 3 attempts. Your milage may vary, but I will say Stormix was a TONNE easier and still love a good old curses based Debian install (granted you have to sit around to configure, but I've never had one go down for no reason [i.e. I didn't hose some config. up])
I like it a lot. It show's the absurdity of certain laws and attitudes. It reminds me of prostitution laws: If you pay someone cash for sex you're breaking a law (except in parts of Nevada). If you spend the exact same amount of money on gifts, dinner, etc. its called a date.
Not quite. Linux can fork all it wants. What most folks claim is that it is not in many people's interest to fork it. But it still may fork, and if it does it may not be such a bad thing. If for some reason Linus decides not to include something that the vast majority of users want.. bingo... fork! And chances are that that particular fork will become the dominant version.
The INS didn't put that question on entry documents with the intention of catching Nazis trying to enter the country. They added it to make it easier to get rid of them should they be found out (read the fine print on the form... false information is a federal offence). The gvmt now has an easy case for granting extradition (if it was requested)... he committed a federal crime by lying on his entry form.
Chances are this is the same logic @Home are using. For instance, one party accuses another, @Home using party of doing something illegal, or against contract, whatever, or @Home feels that the user is violating their service agreement somehow and they were using encryption in the process. @Home now can cancel their account for simply using the encryption instead of having to go through the process of trying to determine if what the user was sending was indeed illegal, in violation of contract, whatever.
People are *not* able to do what they want with their own money-- there are laws, you know
Yup. They (should) only keep me from infringing on others rights. Other than that I spend (or don't spend) the money as I see fit. I'm sorry if you find my purchasing patterns unwise, but I spent nine hours a day working. I don't tell you how to spend your money, what to believe in, what to say, where to go, etc. Pardon me if I don't give a flying f**k how you think I should spend my time.
FRB
Exactly... seems like CMGI are going to sue the crap out of every other search engine.
I think the general consensus among those in the financial industry was that the tech was overvalued. The big question mark was *how* overvalued and when the correction would take place.
"Regulon" has the stench of "How do I get rid of the things I don't like." (CNN, weatherman, flamers, spammers, Web site designers, e-do gooders and nit-picking coders, pundits, zealots, smart-asses and grumps) The solution you point out is by far the most elegant and most simple, but Mr. Katz has the same attitude of an Anti-Porn crusader or some numbnut who wants to regulate music/media: "Lets get rid of it totally... trust me... its for your own good."
It never fails to amaze me how people cannot fathom that such things as history, science, government, education, religion, art, etc. are directly influenced by those who practice it. Nothing, I repeat NOTHING, is free of the influence of people no matter how much we wish it to be (or, to be more accurate free of influences other than our own). No perfect system will ever be put into place. But, what you can do is have a) acknowledge that bias exists and b) have a free and open society where alternate ideas can at least be expressed. It doesn't guarantee that what is "right" or what is "true" will come out on top, but it's a hell of a lot better than the alternative.