I would say that is an issue with Google, rather than the Bloggers, after all, they've got every right to publish whatever they want on the Internet. If Google is cataloging it incorrectly, then that's a problem for Google to solve and I'm quite sure they're working on it.
Quite recently the Education Department of Western Australia (whom I work for) entered into a license deal with Microsoft. The Ed Dept was sick of trying to keep track of all the paper for Windows and Office licenses, so they asked Microsoft if they could simply buy a 'State License' and get a blanket aggreement that would cover every school in the state for as many copies as they would need. Microsoft seemed quite keen on the idea and an aggreement was signed. Basically, all the schools get a sorta "Select" kit that contains all of MS's desktop OSes, a couple of versions of Office, Encarta and VISUAL STUDIO PRO, amongst other things. The argument then becomes "Why not use Microsoft dev tools? It's not going to cost us anything anyway, the department has a state license."
A couple of people have raised to possibilty of this type of procedure being used to select characteristics such as height, eye color and intelligence. It's probably safe to say that the only real reason it hasn't happened is expense and the fact that those gene sequences are not pinned down perfectly yet. What's going to happen when they are? More disturbingly, what's going to happen when we have the black couple who want a child with light skin? Think that's outrageous? I don't even want to think about what's going to happen when the various sequences that define homosexuality are finally pinned down. We may end up creating a 'master race' without Hilter's help.
The Health Department of Western Australia has built a custom system for their Rural hospitals called HCARe (bizzare caps on purpose) that they run on SCO OpenServer and which is probably Linux compatible. I'm uncertain if they decided to build it themselves because they were unable to find a suitable OpenSource program or simply because of politics, however the system has the advantage of being able to be rebuilt on demand according to indivdual needs. The metro hospitals use commercial systems such as Oracle that have been bought 'off the shelf' and then customised.
As for your Linux web server, have a look at E-Smith Linux , it's so easy to setup and administrate it's criminal.:)
Hope this helps,
SeaWolf
While I know that most peoples response to this will be 'It's the priciple of it', I have to say that the court case is somewhat insignificant. It's far, far too late for the MPAA to be trying to stop DeCSS and no matter what the court rules there will be millions of off-shore copies outside their control.
There is a historical precedent.
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I remember when home video came onto the market and everybody said it was the death of cinema. That was also said when TV started coming onto the market. Cinema hasn't bitten the bullet yet, and I don't think it's about to.
I haven't seen it happen yet, but I know that someone is going to wave the freedom of speech flag on this one and say that's OK to release this kind of information because of freedom of speech. Well it's not! The New York Times tried to do the right thing and made a mistake. That does not make it acceptable for someone to exploit that error in this manner. Aside from the real danger to the families of these people who are in Iran, what about those who just want to retain some privacy? What about those who would rather not have their names thrown out into what is turning into a public spectacle for the purpose of criticizing their past and the past of the US government? With the right to freedom of speech comes the responsibility to use it wisely. It's people releasing information like this simply because they can that is going to result in us all having our rights eroded. This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE! And they know it.
Just browsing through the discussions I can't help but notice that, despite Microsoft's claims, whilst some of us belive that we shouldn't break the protection scheme, no one belives that we couldn't if we wanted to. Maybe Microsoft should think about that.
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I would say that is an issue with Google, rather than the Bloggers, after all, they've got every right to publish whatever they want on the Internet. If Google is cataloging it incorrectly, then that's a problem for Google to solve and I'm quite sure they're working on it.
Quite recently the Education Department of Western Australia (whom I work for) entered into a license deal with Microsoft. The Ed Dept was sick of trying to keep track of all the paper for Windows and Office licenses, so they asked Microsoft if they could simply buy a 'State License' and get a blanket aggreement that would cover every school in the state for as many copies as they would need. Microsoft seemed quite keen on the idea and an aggreement was signed. Basically, all the schools get a sorta "Select" kit that contains all of MS's desktop OSes, a couple of versions of Office, Encarta and VISUAL STUDIO PRO, amongst other things. The argument then becomes "Why not use Microsoft dev tools? It's not going to cost us anything anyway, the department has a state license."
A couple of people have raised to possibilty of this type of procedure being used to select characteristics such as height, eye color and intelligence. It's probably safe to say that the only real reason it hasn't happened is expense and the fact that those gene sequences are not pinned down perfectly yet. What's going to happen when they are? More disturbingly, what's going to happen when we have the black couple who want a child with light skin? Think that's outrageous? I don't even want to think about what's going to happen when the various sequences that define homosexuality are finally pinned down. We may end up creating a 'master race' without Hilter's help.
The Health Department of Western Australia has built a custom system for their Rural hospitals called HCARe (bizzare caps on purpose) that they run on SCO OpenServer and which is probably Linux compatible. I'm uncertain if they decided to build it themselves because they were unable to find a suitable OpenSource program or simply because of politics, however the system has the advantage of being able to be rebuilt on demand according to indivdual needs. The metro hospitals use commercial systems such as Oracle that have been bought 'off the shelf' and then customised. As for your Linux web server, have a look at E-Smith Linux , it's so easy to setup and administrate it's criminal. :)
Hope this helps,
SeaWolf
While I know that most peoples response to this will be 'It's the priciple of it', I have to say that the court case is somewhat insignificant. It's far, far too late for the MPAA to be trying to stop DeCSS and no matter what the court rules there will be millions of off-shore copies outside their control.
I remember when home video came onto the market and everybody said it was the death of cinema. That was also said when TV started coming onto the market. Cinema hasn't bitten the bullet yet, and I don't think it's about to.
I haven't seen it happen yet, but I know that someone is going to wave the freedom of speech flag on this one and say that's OK to release this kind of information because of freedom of speech. Well it's not! The New York Times tried to do the right thing and made a mistake. That does not make it acceptable for someone to exploit that error in this manner. Aside from the real danger to the families of these people who are in Iran, what about those who just want to retain some privacy? What about those who would rather not have their names thrown out into what is turning into a public spectacle for the purpose of criticizing their past and the past of the US government? With the right to freedom of speech comes the responsibility to use it wisely. It's people releasing information like this simply because they can that is going to result in us all having our rights eroded. This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE! And they know it.
Just browsing through the discussions I can't help but notice that, despite Microsoft's claims, whilst some of us belive that we shouldn't break the protection scheme, no one belives that we couldn't if we wanted to.
Maybe Microsoft should think about that.