People shouldn't have to continiously spend time and money in telling others that they want their privacy.
The default should be a respect for peoples privacy.
"An invention is a novel idea which permits in practice the solution of a specific problem in the field of technology. Under most legislations concerning inventions, the idea, in order to be protected by law ("patentable"), must be new in the sense that it has not already been published or publicly used; it must be non-obvious ("involve an inventive step") in the sense that it would not have occurred to any specialist in the particular industrial field, had such a specialist been asked to find a solution to the particular problem; and it must be capable of industrial application in the sense that it can be industrially manufactured or used."
It seems to me that the patent office has forgotten their own words, as things like the one click Amazon thing falls into the "obvious" and common solution to a particular problem, upin being given to a specialist in that field.
The problem is that the patent offic takes no risk in issuing bad patents, for to challange a granted patent the patent office still collects a fee.
For such an organization to grant a patent on swinging sideways only goes to prove that it's strength as an organization to deal out property rights is to be questioned and certainly having lessor weight of respect.
A patent doesn't grant insured protection and as such it'd be interesting to see how they are losing their ability to grant paperwork having value.
What's the rate of challenging patents of worth challenging in court?
Seems to me the court system is where IP rights get enforced or not, not the patent offices of the world.
Any other ways to subvert genuine free enterprise/capitalism where the consumer interest are most important?
I'm sure those promoting such lessor value for more money are doing so in a manner that is like addictive drugs. That it includes some sort of self supportive dependancy.
Where the specific creation of a problem when one does not really exist, supports and feeds the problems existance.
I.E. the catholic church very long running problem with sex, on one side denying the natural human drive and on the other side suffering from commiting sexual abuses. If they didn't make sex out to be so damn wrong, they themselves wouldn't be so damn out of balance with nature in their perversions to find that balance.
In the relative case of computer technology, GPL software doesn't seem to have the sort of problems such an IP protection law would be relative to or even needs to be considered.
What sort of unnatural imbalance would such laws cause, and what would be the resulting counter balance?
There seems to be a growing trend to test market and trawl for ideas by supposedly leaking information.
I'm sure many/.'er could make up better kick ass specs. And hey, with CPUs being made with FPGAs (see recent/. article) certainly we are getting closer top homebrew graphic chips, too.
only it was in human to human language......oh wait we have some that can't understand their own language and those languages which are universal like money and the hand/finger gesture of giving someone the bird.
That MS doesn't own any of it's code, that the programmers they hired do.
I wonder why I'm not collecting use royalities on all the cabinets, exhibits and corporate theater sets I've built.
I have thought about hiring someone to write some code for a project that would be GPL. Am I somehow prevented from doing so because psuedo software engineers want all the rights and control over something they didn't figure out but only implimented?
This is total BULL SHIT. Privacy should damn well be a Default thing to respect, unless given written permission by the individual that it is ok to invade ones privacy.
The reason for this is really very simple.
I don't want to fucking spend my time and money on having to respond every gawd damn company tellin them NO!
I'm a long term US citizen, IS that enough to get respect?!!!
Perhaps with all those companies they ran out of business?
Money is an abstraction, an agreed upon media of value exchange that can be distorted.
To have a more fundamental POV there has to be value generation of which the abstract media is associated with.
So has MS really produced such real value as the abstract media... uh errr, as the abstraction of the abstract media of money (numbers on paper) suggest?
In other words, had MS not run out of business (using proven illegal anti-trust tactics) where and how would that 40 billion be going thru the economy?
For an example consider the Trillion Dollar Bet and how it drained the south Asian Market and contributed to the so called terrorist motive/excuse.
What you have expressed may be all well and fine, but a company can hide their wrong doings in many other ways, like shredding of documents, which even the US government has done, or at least an employee of in being ordered to...
There is other recent examples too, like Enron and even more current another company which I do not recall the name of but only that it sounded like Enron until the news promo said it wasn't. And of course, as a simple matter of fact, there is Microsoft which with the inherent possibility of Bill consulting his former judge father, has been able to apply the 5th amendment, maybe not in direct statements but certainly in actions which many preceive as acts of purgery (cept for some reason the court doesn't seem to..)
It seems what you are refering to is not something so avoidable by not applying the 5th amendment directly or even indirectly.
Although I do not have quick and easy access to reading about another case (link) I do question whether or not such a situation as this could intentionally be set up to entrap consumers, making it appear to not be such a set up but in effect being just that. With an overall target not of attacking specific consumers but of trying to get laws passed which as not in the general publics best interest and even perhaps not in the best interest of the talent either.
My video tape collection has grown, since DVD's have caused tape to greatly drop in price to be compairable to going to the theater (which typically is not play such older movies anymore).
But I've had a VCR for far longer than my video tape purchase habbits..... So the only difference between using the VCR over the last several decades and this slashdot article is what?
The Ability to track and report??? Gastopo tactics?
Which in effect is and invasion of privacy of the people.
Is not being a long term US citizen good enough to have privacy as a default thing for companies to respect of the people/consumers?
I'm getting really tired of "having to tell companies I do not want my privacy invaded" for it cost me in time and postage to do such "required batteling for my...... right to privacy"....
And given everyone and their sub company has jumped on the privacy sales pitch bandagon, it's not getting any better.
How much more is it going to cost me to continue the battle for my privacy, and do I now have to be concerned about what products I buy and how they might be used to invade my privacy?
And such cases as this where the effect is entrapment.....
I don't think the case you refered to really applies or addresses the bottom line issues of consumer rights.
It is wrong for a judge to put the task of invading the peoples privacy in the hands of a company who sold a product to the people, using that product against them.
Especially considering that the only reason it's being done now and not over the past 30 years is because it can be now done.
Just wondering, shouldn't right to privacy be a default value to respect of the consumers?
Meaning if a company wants to invade your privacy, they should be required to get your permission rather than you having to fight off every F*&Kin company that seems to assume they have the right to invade your privacy. Rather than the "if you don't respond, we then assume we can invade your privacy" it should be "if you don't respond and agree to invasion of your privacy then we legally can't invade your privacy"
This would certainly reduce alot of concern and stress to the people along with reducing the sales hype that uses "your privacy is our concern".
Wouldn't privacy interest be consistant with not responding?
Bell South called me the other day wanting to sell me some sort of new "privacy" service. I didn't listen to the complete sales pitch because by simple logic I shouldn't have to buy my privacy.
War on terror......which seems to have brought privacy issues to the limelight --- what could be more terrorizing than having to buy privacy?
This sort of camera cop is evolving in atlanta and metro areas. This has been in development since before the 1996 olympics (much wasn't operational during the olympics but was promised for the olympics - actually traffic was wonderful during the 96 olympics so it turned out to not be so needed then in just helping to report traffic conditions).
The draw back in using such a system is that you don't see cops pulling people over, blue flashing lights and all that generally cause everyone to slow down. Instead you will just end up generating more income for the city(s) governments with a less improvement in driving safety. But I suppose maintance of those cameras and such related expences needs that increased income...
There was even some talk of creating a second HOV like lane for those who would pay a monthly fee to drive in it....... then traffic comes to a stop, like that lane wouldn't (dream on).
But hey, now we got cameras that help warn those watching TV (know any vehicles with a TV that the Driver can watch?) and radio reporters not in helicopters... (Quick take a hand off the steering wheel and eyes off the road to make a cell phone call to notify the news media of an accide... screech....crash)
BTW, when traffic is not stop and go on I285, it's generally moving around 80mph (that's as much as 25mph over the speed limit....) and generally somewhat unsafe to be driving the speed limit or lower boundry of it [40mph].
The city officials must be drulling over the idea of traffic cop cameras...
They removed all the "slower traffic keep right" signs. Nobody paid attention to them anyway.
What would make a big improvement in traffic flow is to reduce the number of pickup trucks on the road (and similiar type vehicles). As some TV commercial for pickup trucks communicates....something about seeing changing scenery......... everyone passing you up, or damn well trying to...
Or maybe they just need to hire a bunch of people to drive around in pickup trucks and the like...
The general idea of enabling a computer to identify things in physical reality, or even the idea of identification of things in the abstract world of computing is not the tech revolution but only a part of it.
There are nine action constants, one of which is the ability to IDentify and cause a sequence of actions to take place upon such identification.
The other eight parts (also including the 8th) [using the metaphor of the Matrix movie):
AI (Alternate Interface) Switch You start or begin things and stop or end things.
PK (Place Keeper) Apoc You need to know where you are in doing something, keep track of things, especially if you need to set something aside to do other things before you can go back to something and continue.
OI (Obtain Input) Tank You get things to pass to other things (variables).
IP (InPut from) Mouse You select where your getting something from and what to get when you get things.
OP (OutPut to) Dozer You select where your sending something to and what to send when you send things.
SF (do StufF) Neo You do things a step at a time, even when your doing more than one thing at a time, each you do a step at a time. And the things you do can be or include doing the nine things.
IQ (Index Queue) Morpheus You look up what things mean, and use the meanings to (SF) "do StufF". Often the meaning is from a Selected Abstraction Set.
ID (IDentify things) Trinity Sometimes you gotta know what something is before you know what to do. So you test things to see what they are. Once you know what something is, you can (SF) "do StufF".
KE (Knowledge Enable) Cypher When looking up or testing something (IQ and ID), you may only want a certain part of it. This "KE" helps you narrow down what you want to look up (IQ) or test (ID). When you look up a word in a dictionary, you limit your search to the section starting with the first letter of the Word.
These NINE things can easily be made available in the form of computer functionality, easy for us to use.
And With This we can Automate The things We Do thru computers (not that this is not what the programming industry does, but this is for the general end user.)
Or in other words, once you have identified something, whatdo you want to do with it or based on it's existing?
Another interesting thought is along the lines of clearing the tag, like the stick-on security labels found on many products (you know the little magnetic stickers that stores have to deactivate so you can leave the store without setting off alarms)
As a matter of privacy you understand.....But how much would such a deactivate unity cost (not to mention your need to spend the time to deactivate tags on everything you buy in order to enforce your privacy).
The point of which is that any good intention can be converted to wrongful use.
Imagine all the ways such technology can be used in wrong ways, for apparently the supporters of this either have blinders on or plans to abuse it.
Certainly we all have been hearing the word "privacy" one gawd aweful a-hell-of-a-lot especially in sales pitches where your privacy should be a default thing to respect by others and only invaded with your permission (not the other way around causing yo uto constantly be fighing for your privacy).
Imagine a criminal taking inventory of your home, in their effort to take from you....or even kill you.
Sooner or later that parites that matter are going to have to recognize the disconnected from reality arrogance of MS. And as the boy who cried wolf, MS has been BS'ing since Bill Yelled and coined the term "software piracy" in the mid 1970's.
I just hope the court system involved in the anti-trust case does before a decission is made by the judge.
Keep him stupid about the technology he is using and sooner or later there are going to be far more asking for help then is capable of goving it.
I have earthlink screw up and bill me for multi-connections (which I physically cannot do) and it took way to much to get them to finally figure out it was their fault (after a half dozen or so false solutions they gave me) But the worse part is that they billed my credit card and when I asked for charges to be reversed that said they credited my account....only it wasn';t the credit card account but the earthlink account.....Which I never agreed to pay them that far in advance, or pay interest on such charges.)
A one point I let customer service send me to tech support who sent me to customer service who sent me to tech support (It was my intention to see how many times this would happen before they caught on.)
Next thing I know I was disconnected.
The total experience cmmunicated to me that earthlink has gone totally brain dead and that lack of any mentality is spreading to ISP earthlink has aquired (Also have a mindspring account that began becomming brain dead in tech support too..)
The problem was in fact on their end and I even watched as more than once their tech people proceeded to scan my system without telling me. Now that's worse than brain dead....that's smelling rotten. For who would want such brain dead help messing with your system?
The problem is not going to get better, for by the inherent nature of creating false constraint in the way of unneeded complexity, it can only get worse.
Anyone having problems dealing with web pages that have CSS added where it really isn't needed?
Then apparently it's not dead end enough because it seems clear that plenty enough programmers are plenty happy with re-inventing the same stuff over and over.....so much so that the applied technology has no motive to advance far enought to cause auto-coding to come about at a level that the general computer user can do it.
In other words, so long as there is motive not to advance, the field of programming won't.
So being dead end can be determined by how much re-invention continues.
Slashdot Mirror
tellin MS employees to infilterate non MS newsgroups and messages boards that have a focus on other platforms....(I.E. Slashdot)
The response would be similiar.
People shouldn't have to continiously spend time and money in telling others that they want their privacy.
The default should be a respect for peoples privacy.
Everyone knows this so why isn't it?
For the people by the people??????
....register with us by giving us your life history along with your request for privacy.
We need your life history to make sure it you.
the patent office would only listen to their own words.
From some -patent information clips (these were taken from the USPTO web site.
"An invention is a novel idea which permits in practice the solution of a
specific problem in the field of technology. Under most legislations
concerning inventions, the idea, in order to be protected by law
("patentable"), must be new in the sense that it has not already been
published or publicly used; it must be non-obvious ("involve an inventive
step") in the sense that it would not have occurred to any specialist in
the particular industrial field, had such a specialist been asked to find
a solution to the particular problem; and it must be capable of industrial
application in the sense that it can be industrially manufactured or
used."
It seems to me that the patent office has forgotten their own words, as
things like the one click Amazon thing falls into the "obvious" and common
solution to a particular problem, upin being given to a specialist in that
field.
The problem is that the patent offic takes no risk in issuing bad patents,
for to challange a granted patent the patent office still collects a fee.
What about all them so called alien crystal implants??
Oh I get it, they needed help...
For such an organization to grant a patent on swinging sideways only goes to prove that it's strength as an organization to deal out property rights is to be questioned and certainly having lessor weight of respect.
A patent doesn't grant insured protection and as such it'd be interesting to see how they are losing their ability to grant paperwork having value.
What's the rate of challenging patents of worth challenging in court?
Seems to me the court system is where IP rights get enforced or not, not the patent offices of the world.
there can be no liability in something that is open to inspection and fixing.
Perhaps the real problem is in making software creation and modifying easier, so that more can participate.
Any other ways to subvert genuine free enterprise/capitalism where the
consumer interest are most important?
I'm sure those promoting such lessor value for more money are doing so
in a manner that is like addictive drugs. That it includes some sort of
self supportive dependancy.
Where the specific creation of a problem when one does not really exist,
supports and feeds the problems existance.
I.E. the catholic church very long running problem with sex, on one side
denying the natural human drive and on the other side suffering from
commiting sexual abuses. If they didn't make sex out to be so damn wrong,
they themselves wouldn't be so damn out of balance with nature in their
perversions to find that balance.
In the relative case of computer technology, GPL software doesn't seem to
have the sort of problems such an IP protection law would be relative to
or even needs to be considered.
What sort of unnatural imbalance would such laws cause, and what would be
the resulting counter balance?
There seems to be a growing trend to test market and trawl for ideas by supposedly leaking information.
/.'er could make up better kick ass specs. And hey, with CPUs being made with FPGAs (see recent /. article) certainly we are getting closer top homebrew graphic chips, too.
I'm sure many
only it was in human to human language......oh wait we have some that can't understand their own language and those languages which are universal like money and the hand/finger gesture of giving someone the bird.
How may languages is that understood in?
It shouldn't be any wonder why Microsoft wants to dominate the world, for it is apparently the mindset of programmers in general.
re-inventors get paid way to much!!!!!
And that includes Microsoft.
That MS doesn't own any of it's code, that the programmers they hired do.
I wonder why I'm not collecting use royalities on all the cabinets, exhibits and corporate theater sets I've built.
I have thought about hiring someone to write some code for a project that would be GPL. Am I somehow prevented from doing so because psuedo software engineers want all the rights and control over something they didn't figure out but only implimented?
This is total BULL SHIT. Privacy should damn well be a Default thing to respect, unless given written permission by the individual that it is ok to invade ones privacy.
The reason for this is really very simple.
I don't want to fucking spend my time and money on having to respond every gawd damn company tellin them NO!
I'm a long term US citizen, IS that enough to get respect?!!!
over it?
... uh errr, as the abstraction of the abstract media of money (numbers on paper) suggest?
Perhaps with all those companies they ran out
of business?
Money is an abstraction, an agreed upon media of value exchange that can be distorted.
To have a more fundamental POV there has to be value generation of which the abstract media is associated with.
So has MS really produced such real value as the abstract media
In other words, had MS not run out of business (using proven illegal anti-trust tactics) where and how would that 40 billion be going thru the economy?
For an example consider the Trillion Dollar Bet and how it drained the south Asian Market and contributed to the so called terrorist motive/excuse.
That the world is not going to end in my lifetime.....
What you have expressed may be all well and fine, but a company can hide their wrong doings in many other ways, like shredding of documents, which even the US government has done, or at least an employee of in being ordered to...
..... So the only difference between using the VCR over the last several decades and this slashdot article is what?
...... right to privacy"....
There is other recent examples too, like Enron and even more current another company which I do not recall the name of but only that it sounded like Enron until the news promo said it wasn't. And of course, as a simple matter of fact, there is Microsoft which with the inherent possibility of Bill consulting his former judge father, has been able to apply the 5th amendment, maybe not in direct statements but certainly in actions which many preceive as acts of purgery (cept for some reason the court doesn't seem to..)
It seems what you are refering to is not something so avoidable by not applying the 5th amendment directly or even indirectly.
Although I do not have quick and easy access to reading about another case (link) I do question whether or not such a situation as this could intentionally be set up to entrap consumers, making it appear to not be such a set up but in effect being just that. With an overall target not of attacking specific consumers but of trying to get laws passed which as not in the general publics best interest and even perhaps not in the best interest of the talent either.
recent article comments dealing with music
My video tape collection has grown, since DVD's have caused tape to greatly drop in price to be compairable to going to the theater (which typically is not play such older movies anymore).
But I've had a VCR for far longer than my video tape purchase habbits
The Ability to track and report??? Gastopo tactics?
Which in effect is and invasion of privacy of the people.
Is not being a long term US citizen good enough to have privacy as a default thing for companies to respect of the people/consumers?
I'm getting really tired of "having to tell companies I do not want my privacy invaded" for it cost me in time and postage to do such "required batteling for my
And given everyone and their sub company has jumped on the privacy sales pitch bandagon, it's not getting any better.
How much more is it going to cost me to continue the battle for my privacy, and do I now have to be concerned about what products I buy and how they might be used to invade my privacy?
And such cases as this where the effect is entrapment.....
I don't think the case you refered to really applies or addresses the bottom line issues of consumer rights.
It is wrong for a judge to put the task of invading the peoples privacy in the hands of a company who sold a product to the people, using that product against them.
Especially considering that the only reason it's being done now and not over the past 30 years is because it can be now done.
Sounds like the Judge isn't familiar with the US constitution to me.
According the the fifth admendment, one does not have to provide information that may be used against them in a court of law.
How is it that this judge does not know this?
Have they ben following the MS anti-trust case to much?
Just wondering, shouldn't right to privacy be a default value to respect of the consumers?
Meaning if a company wants to invade your privacy, they should be required to get your permission rather than you having to fight off every F*&Kin company that seems to assume they have the right to invade your privacy. Rather than the "if you don't respond, we then assume we can invade your privacy" it should be "if you don't respond and agree to invasion of your privacy then we legally can't invade your privacy"
This would certainly reduce alot of concern and stress to the people along with reducing the sales hype that uses "your privacy is our concern".
Wouldn't privacy interest be consistant with not responding?
Bell South called me the other day wanting to sell me some sort of new "privacy" service. I didn't listen to the complete sales pitch because by simple logic I shouldn't have to buy my privacy.
War on terror......which seems to have brought privacy issues to the limelight --- what could be more terrorizing than having to buy privacy?
sounds like buying protection from the mob...
This sort of camera cop is evolving in atlanta and metro areas. This has been in development since before the 1996 olympics (much wasn't operational during the olympics but was promised for the olympics - actually traffic was wonderful during the 96 olympics so it turned out to not be so needed then in just helping to report traffic conditions).
......... everyone passing you up, or damn well trying to...
The draw back in using such a system is that you don't see cops pulling people over, blue flashing lights and all that generally cause everyone to slow down. Instead you will just end up generating more income for the city(s) governments with a less improvement in driving safety. But I suppose maintance of those cameras and such related expences needs that increased income...
There was even some talk of creating a second HOV like lane for those who would pay a monthly fee to drive in it....... then traffic comes to a stop, like that lane wouldn't (dream on).
For how bad traffic "sucks" around atlanta
But hey, now we got cameras that help warn those watching TV (know any vehicles with a TV that the Driver can watch?) and radio reporters not in helicopters... (Quick take a hand off the steering wheel and eyes off the road to make a cell phone call to notify the news media of an accide... screech....crash)
BTW, when traffic is not stop and go on I285, it's generally moving around 80mph (that's as much as 25mph over the speed limit....) and generally somewhat unsafe to be driving the speed limit or lower boundry of it [40mph].
The city officials must be drulling over the idea of traffic cop cameras...
They removed all the "slower traffic keep right" signs. Nobody paid attention to them anyway.
What would make a big improvement in traffic flow is to reduce the number of pickup trucks on the road (and similiar type vehicles). As some TV commercial for pickup trucks communicates....something about seeing changing scenery
Or maybe they just need to hire a bunch of people to drive around in pickup trucks and the like...
The general idea of enabling a computer to identify things in physical reality, or even the idea of identification of things in the abstract world of computing is not the tech revolution but only a part of it.
There are nine action constants, one of which is the ability to IDentify and cause a sequence of actions to take place upon such identification.
The other eight parts (also including the 8th) [using the metaphor of the
Matrix movie):
AI (Alternate Interface) Switch
You start or begin things and stop or end things.
PK (Place Keeper) Apoc
You need to know where you are in doing something, keep track of things,
especially if you need to set something aside to do other things before
you can go back to something and continue.
OI (Obtain Input) Tank
You get things to pass to other things (variables).
IP (InPut from) Mouse
You select where your getting something from and what to get
when you get things.
OP (OutPut to) Dozer
You select where your sending something to and what to send
when you send things.
SF (do StufF) Neo
You do things a step at a time, even when your doing more than
one thing at a time, each you do a step at a time. And the things
you do can be or include doing the nine things.
IQ (Index Queue) Morpheus
You look up what things mean, and use the meanings to (SF)
"do StufF". Often the meaning is from a Selected Abstraction Set.
ID (IDentify things) Trinity
Sometimes you gotta know what something is before you know what to do.
So you test things to see what they are. Once you know what something is,
you can (SF) "do StufF".
KE (Knowledge Enable) Cypher
When looking up or testing something (IQ and ID), you may only want a
certain part of it. This "KE" helps you narrow down what you want to
look up (IQ) or test (ID). When you look up a word in a dictionary,
you limit your search to the section starting with the first letter
of the Word.
These NINE things can easily be made available in the form
of computer functionality, easy for us to use.
And With This we can Automate The things We Do thru computers (not that
this is not what the programming industry does, but this is for the
general end user.)
Or in other words, once you have identified something, whatdo you want to
do with it or based on it's existing?
for more information see my home page.
Another interesting thought is along the lines of clearing the tag, like the stick-on security labels found on many products (you know the little magnetic stickers that stores have to deactivate so you can leave the store without setting off alarms)
As a matter of privacy you understand.....But how much would such a deactivate unity cost (not to mention your need to spend the time to deactivate tags on everything you buy in order to enforce your privacy).
The point of which is that any good intention can be converted to wrongful use.
Imagine all the ways such technology can be used in wrong ways, for apparently the supporters of this either have blinders on or plans to abuse it.
Certainly we all have been hearing the word "privacy" one gawd aweful a-hell-of-a-lot especially in sales pitches where your privacy should be a default thing to respect by others and only invaded with your permission (not the other way around causing yo uto constantly be fighing for your privacy).
Imagine a criminal taking inventory of your home, in their effort to take from you....or even kill you.
Sooner or later that parites that matter are going to have to recognize the disconnected from reality arrogance of MS. And as the boy who cried wolf, MS has been BS'ing since Bill Yelled and coined the term "software piracy" in the mid 1970's.
I just hope the court system involved in the anti-trust case does before a decission is made by the judge.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
Keep him stupid about the technology he is using and sooner or later there are going to be far more asking for help then is capable of goving it.
I have earthlink screw up and bill me for multi-connections (which I physically cannot do) and it took way to much to get them to finally figure out it was their fault (after a half dozen or so false solutions they gave me)
But the worse part is that they billed my credit card and when I asked for charges to be reversed that said they credited my account....only it wasn';t the credit card account but the earthlink account.....Which I never agreed to pay them that far in advance, or pay interest on such charges.)
A one point I let customer service send me to tech support who sent me to customer service who sent me to tech support (It was my intention to see how many times this would happen before they caught on.)
Next thing I know I was disconnected.
The total experience cmmunicated to me that earthlink has gone totally brain dead and that lack of any mentality is spreading to ISP earthlink has aquired (Also have a mindspring account that began becomming brain dead in tech support too..)
The problem was in fact on their end and I even watched as more than once their tech people proceeded to scan my system without telling me. Now that's worse than brain dead....that's smelling rotten. For who would want such brain dead help messing with your system?
The problem is not going to get better, for by the inherent nature of creating false constraint in the way of unneeded complexity, it can only get worse.
Anyone having problems dealing with web pages that have CSS added where it really isn't needed?
Then apparently it's not dead end enough because it seems clear that plenty enough programmers are plenty happy with re-inventing the same stuff over and over.....so much so that the applied technology has no motive to advance far enought to cause auto-coding to come about at a level that the general computer user can do it.
In other words, so long as there is motive not to advance, the field of programming won't.
So being dead end can be determined by how much re-invention continues.