since he is an attorney he is more qualified to pursue this matter from knowledge of law than the typical American. However, from law knowledge he also knows that his career will probably be greatly stifled should he pursue it.
From another POV, that of an American citizen, given all the insane mindset I have seen of the government since Bush got in office, I'm terrorized. Not by the fear of foreigners but buy The US government mindset. The disregard of science, factual evidence, applying double standards to crimes, the changing of laws and government structure that was originally put in place to prevent abuses by the government. But most of all, I'm terrorized by the fact that the waring mindset of the US government has stolen social security benefits (this going on for my whole life) and used them for war and yet with the largest military budget ever in mans history, hasn't put the money back, that they took from social security. And this is only the tip of the wrongs the US government has committed and is now committing against the very people that they are supposed to be representing. And that is terroristic.
With all this insane mindset of the US government, would it be of any surprise to find that they have been generating reasons to be attacked? I.E. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stock market.html -- follow the money to where the dot com boom and bust got its funding and lack of from, as well as the fall of the losers in the trillion dollar bet - Enron, Worldcom, etc.. and of course the excuse it all provided for the Islamic extremist to use to promote others to join them (fyi - Indonesia (80% Muslin according to the CIA) was hit the worse from the trillion dollar bet and the world bank (US run) offered to bail them out with interest..
World Trade center, Pentagon, and probable White House: Statement being "Wrongful world stock market manipulation back by politically controlled military" I do not condone killing innocent or even war, but know if you don't give another reason to harm you you are a great deal safer.
Not doing it is supportive of Terrorism. A fraction of one percent of the 6 billion plus people of the world are in a position of starting a war. They are the terrorist and look how much the rest of us pay for their disease.
So gas in canada, without the temperature sensing devices, contains more energy per gallon than in a generally hotter environment down south.
But that can be compensated for in grade of fuel you receive for the dollar. There are generally three grades of gasoline.
However, IS NOT THIS ALL REALLY JUST BITCHING ABOUT PENNIES WHEN COMPARED TO THE DOLLARS OF PROFIT GAINED FROM GAS HIKES???
Lets ignore the gas hikes, I remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon (how would Tempature relate to that?) And Lets ignore ALSO the Auto Industry who just can seem to get hardly any more miles a gallon out of technology....cause they really don't want to.. We should today be getting like over 100 miles a gallon...
So instead lets pull this distraction of bitching about.... what amounts to nothing in comparison to the real problem.
However if this penny thing can lead to helping the bigger things change... then maybe.. but I doubt it.
Since there seems to be such prior, then one of two things will happen.
Either the Patent will denied the application due to the prior art OR the Patent Office will put another compounding item on its list of wrongs it has committed, further degenerating the value of the patent system.
Software Patents are acts of fraud. This is because of the nature of software and the universally accepted things that cannot be patented. (i.e. Physical Phenomenon, Abstract Ideas, natural law, etc..) but which all are the essence of software.
So, take something that is not patentable due its nature and allow it to be. What can you expect to manifest in the way of problems and symptoms of such human error, acts against the natural characteristics of human ability to create and use abstraction and to use abstraction from others to build improvements on?
sum total being false limitations on advancements and human thought, but in part.
Its not like software can't be protected with copyright, which actually last longer than patents but copyrights don't prevent the application of an "ABSTRACT IDEA" via a different method or sequence of abstraction.
Software Patents are acts of fraud against human, but done by humans who want it their way even when it cost them the advancements others could make that you and their children would benefit from. (which over generations can amount to far more advancement over a given period of time in comparison to applying false constraints.)
Dumb down the consumers and then lie to them so to extract value from them that they would have otherwise figured out one their own and done a better job. Even software development methodologies today are way over over complexicated ---> http://threeseas.net/abstraction_physics.html
All this babel on this side or that side when the bottom line facts are about where the money is coming from and where it is going in regards to health care. From the individual in need to the doctor to the medical supply company to the pharmaceutical company's, and not to forget the insurance companies and any government funding that came not from direct knowledge of the tax payers like MEDICARE.
But perhaps what is really needed is a full disclosed accounting by the government of where they spend tax payer money.
Now due to the Governments wrongful putting their hands in the Social Security till, more than once, and not putting the money back, I and those of my age will not be collecting more than 75% of what is due me, upon retirement.
So where is the money going, considering the numbers in the math of consideration of those who die before collecting and have no one else to benefit from their family?
The money is there, its just not going to the benefit of the tax payers, but instead to the war mongers addiction to war technology. And this military is the place where the money went that was taken from social security....
It shoudl be noted that of the 6 billion plus people on this planet, it is a fraction of one percent that is in position to lead and inspire others to follow in their waring mentality...
I can understand if the setup and photographing interferes for normal activity, but how are they going to police it? I mean NYC is a city to take pictures of as a tourist....or terrorist...but there is Google.
knowledge begets knowledge and as such specific knowledge begets its own.
Its no suprise that a spy agency has trouble trusting itself.
At some point in mans advancement towards a peaceful world he has to realize that the resources he spends on untrusting is simply not affordable any more. That such resources can be better spent on improving the environment all of man lives in and as such remove reason to terrorise or warmonger.
It really is a fraction of a percent of the 6 billion plus human population that promotes deceptions supporting war and terrorism. And there are those who follow, but wouldn't if such promoters didn't.
you know how linux doesn't suffer the windows viruses or the BSD system doesn't suffer linux holes?
Well its all about uniqueness. If ever computer ran a different operating system with different....whatever protocals..
Of course this is not realistic, or is it? Lets say the linux open source system could be compiled with something like an encription code that alters the system enough to make it unique. Any applications to run on that particular system would as well need to be compiled with the same code, etc, and so on... making each system unique enough that the difficulty of infecting or breaking into a system is greatly increased.
Maybe I should patent the idea... oh but wait... Its not novel....though my finger print may be unique, my eye retina unique, everyone has their own. Just look at itunes encripting your personal data to track piracy...
....pay the taxes in virtual money/value and let the government trade it in for something they can use, like virtual weapons of mass destruction or virtual anti-terrorist defence, or for the more domestic spending, virtual road repair, virtual food stamps, virtual housing for the poor, etc...
....establishing a network of stations, for profit, extracted out of the many and various web broadcasters.
For the only way to deal with the irrationality of what is proposed is to do so with money and teamwork between the broadcaster. And that typically happens through business broadcast networks.
In other words, what many web broadcaster have accomplished in establishing web broadcasting audience is now going to be taken away from them as they go out of business or are merged and either shut down or become part of the network controlled and profited by much fewer, and likely broadcaster already long established in radio (including those which are multimedia - ie, newspaper, tv, print... In a few words: control over the audience, for profit and advertising.
Certainly you can expect deals with the RIAA to be struck by the broadcast networks that will consume the others out of this shakedown, that will pay a great deal less per song broadcast than is being put forth now.
Retroactivity over near a year and a half, is enough to knowlingly force non-profit out and even allow lawsuits against the non-profit in order to steal their registered audience lists.
Already you have radio stations (owned by networks) also broadcasting through the web, and they loose market share to any around the world who do web broadcasts and are not part of the corporation network overloads.
Now that its been said and you have read it, you know its true!
I'll do my share and not use my bandwidth to listen to any but independant stations on the web, if I listen at all. For what music I listen to on the radio, its very limited to less than two hours week days for wake alarm and drive to/from work. And there are no local stations that play the sort of music I really like. But for sure, the radio I listen to, they can't count me, they can't see me, they can only guess, and I'd imagine that is unlike the internet.
Hmmm, but there is quite a bit recorded of such events. Because you don't know of any "evidence" doesn't mean there is none as to have such evidence would have an impact on the churches influence.
The spaceship of Ezekel was recognized by an atheist who worked for NASA, and thats just one example.
they don't. And analogy is that before a civilation can reach the information age, they have to go thru the industrial age. Here its a getting to a stage or non-destructivity before any other advanced life is going to say hello. Just as we would follow that same. Otherwise it is dangerious to say hello to barbarians.
... any further then getting over the supposed self destructive nature we have tended to show towards others of our race.
Once we do that we may find there is other more advanced life in the universe that already has the transportation thing figured out along with teraforming and seeding, etc...
Hell, we may just be the product of such.
Creationism? No, no more than a farmer.
Perhaps we are the result of just such an effort ot species survival, or at least the survival of consciousness - abstract thinking and advancing capable minds...
The Amiga OS had the CLI, the GUI and the side door port (more commonly known as the AREXX port but didn't need AREXX to make use of) to allow users full access to the commands and instruction of most all programs written for the Amiga. With this third interfaces the user could automate alot more, and far more easily than found on any other system even today (including teh MAC Automator program which is limited in usability)
The technology has ended up in teh hand of those who want to bury it, obviously. And if anything it only goes to show how greedy and abusive the environment of the computer industry currently is and what to expect of any technology that doesn't contribute very well to the consumer/user entrapment abuse mindset.
It is pathetic and barbaric this lack of having all three primary user interfaces available in a user friendly manner. It is pathetic and barbaric that you have to install most programs on the system you are going to run them on, in order to use them as it prevents people from building their own personal tool box that they can take with them from job to job (and we have plenty and various media to enable "portable"). There is a lot of utility software I will not buy, because of this. I don't have an investment in such a personal software toolbox and that is the software industries loss and the result of greed.
Lock the user in... that's barbaric and pathetic. Don't let the user do anything for themselves that might even hint at programming, without making them have to learn teh complexications of programming in some language of this that or the other bullshit.
Example (and I'm sure the forest is so thick with examples you just may not see it due the weed in front of your face):
Autocad: Annotation - numbering parts. Want to insert a part number into an existing sequence of numbers. ie. 1 - 45... insert a new part and number it 6, shifting all above this.
Of course anyone can see what needs to be done, and it can certainly be done manually, but there is no way for the user to automate this in a simple manner. Learn LISP or Visual Basic or bla bla bla...first, or deal with learning the complications of the Autocad API and then writing the external application or DLL or whatever the fu&.
For fu& sake grab text, inc or dec it and put it back. A macro that should be easy to create, but the facility to do so doesn't exist.
I can buy someone elses program for $40 that does this, but its the installation problem again and its not under may control once install on a company system (possession is 9/10 of the law...bl bla flaw.)... I can try and get the company to buy it... yeah right....
Express tools has a tool that can do this (come with autocad), so long as the text is not in a block and its limited more so than I might customize such a function. But I don't want to learn lisp or VBA or teh Autocad API just to fu&'in do this simple thing.
It doesn't have to be this way. It is that way because it support the greed of consumer entrapment abuse. If the user really wants something and you don't let them do it for themselves with out a lot of overhead you make them deal with, then you can sell it to them....
User/Consumer entrapment abuse...
Self Degrading to the level of STUPID! The result of dumbing down your customers....
And the software industry wonders why CS degrees are dropping in number.
The flip side of Piracy is Consumer Entrapment Abuse.
Nature - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. IS Piracy just a "Reaction"?
.... is not worse than bank robbery. What the hell is going on with the mentality of authorities, law makers, and marketing departments? Are they degenerating into STUPID?
When you rob a bank you remove value, not a copy of it.
Its a well known practice the act of sharing content in order to promote, market the content, by the company producing and/or marketing it.
If piracy is worse than bank robbery then are such company contributors in the marketing department guilty too? An accessory to the crime, embezzelment, etc.. IS this an act of entrapment?
Many people that pirate probably don't have the resources to buy much of what they pirate and/or don't have a resource of the content legally, so if piracy did not happen, would these people somehow magically then have the resources to buy and find a resource to buy from? And if they don't buy and can't pirate then is it really a loss to the company, or which is more of a lose to the company, income that wouldn't be received anyway and/or lessor knowledge of product in the population (contrary to marketing)?
I do not condone piracy, but the hard fact is that its also not uncommon for a legal copy to have such anti-piracy overhead in it that it interferes with its use, when the only option left is to get a cracked/pirated copy (even when you outright have the paid right to a legal copy). And there are other variations on this need for a legal party to obtain and use an illegal copy.,
Is piracy worse than bank robbery? You rob a bank and get away with it, someone has to make good on what was stolen and usually its the federal government FICA...uh err... tax payers. You steal copy of content then who needs to make good on it? And doesn't media manufactures sometimes have to pay some sort of probable piracy fee (that to some extent their media will be used for piracy)?
There are a lot of contridiction in the subject matter of piracy, from marketing to reasonable fair use, Bank robbery and the likes such as identity thief are certainly far more serious. And if another company pirates some content its not viewed as piracy by IP infringment..... how interesting how the vocabulary changes.
Perhaps the origination of the coined term "Piracy" needs to be looked back on. Bill Gate complaining of pirates for his port.. uh err...pirating of BASIC..
Hard line is that many customers had been waiting after having paid, for too long to receive the product. Other hardware companies were selling faulty hardware and the such acts not so nice to the buyers. Frustration level were high among these buyers/hobbists. Who was really ripping off who?
Today this same man/company "MS" has a federal criminal record as well as a criminal record in other countries.
Connotation..... lets just call it the same...
There is a lot more on who is right and wrong. Software Patents are acts of fraud, the Software industry pursues making a profit on user/consumers by denying consumer easy ability to do more for themselves. "What do you want us to make for you, improve, etc... that we can sell it back to you?" Product lock-in, etc..
Consumer Entrapment Abuse is worse than bank robbery as it steals away the ability of the general computer user to do more for themselves and their productivity.
"The article is fairly light on details, but it would be interesting to see how the system differentiates from a driver talking on a cell phone versus a mere passenger."
Next time you are in city traffic, look around and note how many people are in a car where a cell phone is being used in a non-hands free manner.
...they are not tying their research well enough to military, anti-terrorist (including the hype of terrorism), supporting the oil game, and hidden dictatorship support.
If they did that then I have no doubt the Bush administration would be falling all over themselves in support.
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since he is an attorney he is more qualified to pursue this matter from knowledge of law than the typical American. However, from law knowledge he also knows that his career will probably be greatly stifled should he pursue it.
k market.html -- follow the money to where the dot com boom and bust got its funding and lack of from, as well as the fall of the losers in the trillion dollar bet - Enron, Worldcom, etc.. and of course the excuse it all provided for the Islamic extremist to use to promote others to join them (fyi - Indonesia (80% Muslin according to the CIA) was hit the worse from the trillion dollar bet and the world bank (US run) offered to bail them out with interest..
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From another POV, that of an American citizen, given all the insane mindset I have seen of the government since Bush got in office, I'm terrorized. Not by the fear of foreigners but buy The US government mindset. The disregard of science, factual evidence, applying double standards to crimes, the changing of laws and government structure that was originally put in place to prevent abuses by the government. But most of all, I'm terrorized by the fact that the waring mindset of the US government has stolen social security benefits (this going on for my whole life) and used them for war and yet with the largest military budget ever in mans history, hasn't put the money back, that they took from social security. And this is only the tip of the wrongs the US government has committed and is now committing against the very people that they are supposed to be representing. And that is terroristic.
With all this insane mindset of the US government, would it be of any surprise to find that they have been generating reasons to be attacked? I.E. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stoc
World Trade center, Pentagon, and probable White House: Statement being "Wrongful world stock market manipulation back by politically controlled military"
I do not condone killing innocent or even war, but know if you don't give another reason to harm you you are a great deal safer.
So why is not a part of the military budget going for fixing real world problems in a manner of removing reason to cause problems?
We do Know how to do it! http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_a
Not doing it is supportive of Terrorism. A fraction of one percent of the 6 billion plus people of the world are in a position of starting a war. They are the terrorist and look how much the rest of us pay for their disease.
So gas in canada, without the temperature sensing devices, contains more energy per gallon than in a generally hotter environment down south.
.... what amounts to nothing in comparison to the real problem.
But that can be compensated for in grade of fuel you receive for the dollar. There are generally three grades of gasoline.
However, IS NOT THIS ALL REALLY JUST BITCHING ABOUT PENNIES WHEN COMPARED TO THE DOLLARS OF PROFIT GAINED FROM GAS HIKES???
Lets ignore the gas hikes, I remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon (how would Tempature relate to that?)
And Lets ignore ALSO the Auto Industry who just can seem to get hardly any more miles a gallon out of technology....cause they really don't want to.. We should today be getting like over 100 miles a gallon...
So instead lets pull this distraction of bitching about
However if this penny thing can lead to helping the bigger things change... then maybe.. but I doubt it.
Since there seems to be such prior, then one of two things will happen.
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Either the Patent will denied the application due to the prior art OR the Patent Office will put another compounding item on its list of wrongs it has committed, further degenerating the value of the patent system.
Software is just not of patentable subject matter, so there is alot on the list already, but to compound it only leads to bigger problems and symptoms http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=245683&ci
Software Patents are acts of fraud. This is because of the nature of software and the universally accepted things that cannot be patented. (i.e. Physical Phenomenon, Abstract Ideas, natural law, etc..) but which all are the essence of software.
So, take something that is not patentable due its nature and allow it to be. What can you expect to manifest in the way of problems and symptoms of such human error, acts against the natural characteristics of human ability to create and use abstraction and to use abstraction from others to build improvements on?
sum total being false limitations on advancements and human thought, but in part.
Its not like software can't be protected with copyright, which actually last longer than patents but copyrights don't prevent the application of an "ABSTRACT IDEA" via a different method or sequence of abstraction.
Software Patents are acts of fraud against human, but done by humans who want it their way even when it cost them the advancements others could make that you and their children would benefit from. (which over generations can amount to far more advancement over a given period of time in comparison to applying false constraints.)
Dumb down the consumers and then lie to them so to extract value from them that they would have otherwise figured out one their own and done a better job.
Even software development methodologies today are way over over complexicated ---> http://threeseas.net/abstraction_physics.html
...from all the criticism and energy people waste their time on generating against this thing.
See conservation of energy isn't being broken.... and the source is perpetual....
....to use it as a promotion of Linux.... That MS is not providing the evidence of their claim.
And it should be put in something like the NY Times...
So... what does that take? Money.
We just need someone or party of reputation to take it on.
All this babel on this side or that side when the bottom line facts are about where the money is coming from and where it is going in regards to health care. From the individual in need to the doctor to the medical supply company to the pharmaceutical company's, and not to forget the insurance companies and any government funding that came not from direct knowledge of the tax payers like MEDICARE.
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But perhaps what is really needed is a full disclosed accounting by the government of where they spend tax payer money.
Now due to the Governments wrongful putting their hands in the Social Security till, more than once, and not putting the money back, I and those of my age will not be collecting more than 75% of what is due me, upon retirement.
So where is the money going, considering the numbers in the math of consideration of those who die before collecting and have no one else to benefit from their family?
Try the US military Budget!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_t
And for a real wake up call: (it may be a little dated but
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_a
The money is there, its just not going to the benefit of the tax payers, but instead to the war mongers addiction to war technology. And this military is the place where the money went that was taken from social security....
It shoudl be noted that of the 6 billion plus people on this planet, it is a fraction of one percent that is in position to lead and inspire others to follow in their waring mentality...
I can understand if the setup and photographing interferes for normal activity, but how are they going to police it? I mean NYC is a city to take pictures of as a tourist....or terrorist...but there is Google.
knowledge begets knowledge and as such specific knowledge begets its own.
/ mod02/www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml
Its no suprise that a spy agency has trouble trusting itself.
At some point in mans advancement towards a peaceful world he has to realize that the resources he spends on untrusting is simply not affordable any more. That such resources can be better spent on improving the environment all of man lives in and as such remove reason to terrorise or warmonger.
It really is a fraction of a percent of the 6 billion plus human population that promotes deceptions supporting war and terrorism. And there are those who follow, but wouldn't if such promoters didn't.
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_a
Free Open Source Software has the spirit or what is to come in human advancement.
you know how linux doesn't suffer the windows viruses or the BSD system doesn't suffer linux holes?
Well its all about uniqueness. If ever computer ran a different operating system with different....whatever protocals..
Of course this is not realistic, or is it? Lets say the linux open source system could be compiled with something like an encription code that alters the system enough to make it unique. Any applications to run on that particular system would as well need to be compiled with the same code, etc, and so on... making each system unique enough that the difficulty of infecting or breaking into a system is greatly increased.
Maybe I should patent the idea... oh but wait... Its not novel....though my finger print may be unique, my eye retina unique, everyone has their own. Just look at itunes encripting your personal data to track piracy...
....virtual goods.
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They can use the virtual taxes to pay for the virtual war (cyberwar) defense.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06
....pay the taxes in virtual money/value and let the government trade it in for something they can use, like virtual weapons of mass destruction or virtual anti-terrorist defence, or for the more domestic spending, virtual road repair, virtual food stamps, virtual housing for the poor, etc...
....establishing a network of stations, for profit, extracted out of the many and various web broadcasters.
For the only way to deal with the irrationality of what is proposed is to do so with money and teamwork between the broadcaster. And that typically happens through business broadcast networks.
In other words, what many web broadcaster have accomplished in establishing web broadcasting audience is now going to be taken away from them as they go out of business or are merged and either shut down or become part of the network controlled and profited by much fewer, and likely broadcaster already long established in radio (including those which are multimedia - ie, newspaper, tv, print... In a few words: control over the audience, for profit and advertising.
Certainly you can expect deals with the RIAA to be struck by the broadcast networks that will consume the others out of this shakedown, that will pay a great deal less per song broadcast than is being put forth now.
Retroactivity over near a year and a half, is enough to knowlingly force non-profit out and even allow lawsuits against the non-profit in order to steal their registered audience lists.
Already you have radio stations (owned by networks) also broadcasting through the web, and they loose market share to any around the world who do web broadcasts and are not part of the corporation network overloads.
Now that its been said and you have read it, you know its true!
I'll do my share and not use my bandwidth to listen to any but independant stations on the web, if I listen at all.
For what music I listen to on the radio, its very limited to less than two hours week days for wake alarm and drive to/from work. And there are no local stations that play the sort of music I really like. But for sure, the radio I listen to, they can't count me, they can't see me, they can only guess, and I'd imagine that is unlike the internet.
...otherwise it potentially a scam using Terrorist tactics (fear).
Where is Homeland security on this?
Hmmm, but there is quite a bit recorded of such events. Because you don't know of any "evidence" doesn't mean there is none as to have such evidence would have an impact on the churches influence.
The spaceship of Ezekel was recognized by an atheist who worked for NASA, and thats just one example.
they don't. And analogy is that before a civilation can reach the information age, they have to go thru the industrial age. Here its a getting to a stage or non-destructivity before any other advanced life is going to say hello. Just as we would follow that same. Otherwise it is dangerious to say hello to barbarians.
... any further then getting over the supposed self destructive nature we have tended to show towards others of our race.
Once we do that we may find there is other more advanced life in the universe that already has the transportation thing figured out along with teraforming and seeding, etc...
Hell, we may just be the product of such.
Creationism? No, no more than a farmer.
Perhaps we are the result of just such an effort ot species survival, or at least the survival of consciousness - abstract thinking and advancing capable minds...
... and make them pay back to the funds they collected for property they do not own.
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Hmm, Wouldn't this fall under Piracy - as mentioned http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/17/0
Certainly this is an act of consumer fraud and thieft.
The Amiga OS had the CLI, the GUI and the side door port (more commonly known as the AREXX port but didn't need AREXX to make use of) to allow users full access to the commands and instruction of most all programs written for the Amiga. With this third interfaces the user could automate alot more, and far more easily than found on any other system even today (including teh MAC Automator program which is limited in usability)
...bl bla flaw.)... I can try and get the company to buy it... yeah right....
The technology has ended up in teh hand of those who want to bury it, obviously. And if anything it only goes to show how greedy and abusive the environment of the computer industry currently is and what to expect of any technology that doesn't contribute very well to the consumer/user entrapment abuse mindset.
It is pathetic and barbaric this lack of having all three primary user interfaces available in a user friendly manner. It is pathetic and barbaric that you have to install most programs on the system you are going to run them on, in order to use them as it prevents people from building their own personal tool box that they can take with them from job to job (and we have plenty and various media to enable "portable"). There is a lot of utility software I will not buy, because of this. I don't have an investment in such a personal software toolbox and that is the software industries loss and the result of greed.
Lock the user in... that's barbaric and pathetic. Don't let the user do anything for themselves that might even hint at programming, without making them have to learn teh complexications of programming in some language of this that or the other bullshit.
Example (and I'm sure the forest is so thick with examples you just may not see it due the weed in front of your face):
Autocad: Annotation - numbering parts. Want to insert a part number into an existing sequence of numbers. ie. 1 - 45... insert a new part and number it 6, shifting all above this.
Of course anyone can see what needs to be done, and it can certainly be done manually, but there is no way for the user to automate this in a simple manner. Learn LISP or Visual Basic or bla bla bla...first, or deal with learning the complications of the Autocad API and then writing the external application or DLL or whatever the fu&.
For fu& sake grab text, inc or dec it and put it back. A macro that should be easy to create, but the facility to do so doesn't exist.
I can buy someone elses program for $40 that does this, but its the installation problem again and its not under may control once install on a company system (possession is 9/10 of the law
Express tools has a tool that can do this (come with autocad), so long as the text is not in a block and its limited more so than I might customize such a function. But I don't want to learn lisp or VBA or teh Autocad API just to fu&'in do this simple thing.
It doesn't have to be this way. It is that way because it support the greed of consumer entrapment abuse. If the user really wants something and you don't let them do it for themselves with out a lot of overhead you make them deal with, then you can sell it to them....
User/Consumer entrapment abuse...
Self Degrading to the level of STUPID! The result of dumbing down your customers....
And the software industry wonders why CS degrees are dropping in number.
The flip side of Piracy is Consumer Entrapment Abuse.
Nature - for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. IS Piracy just a "Reaction"?
.... is not worse than bank robbery.
What the hell is going on with the mentality of authorities, law makers, and marketing departments?
Are they degenerating into STUPID?
When you rob a bank you remove value, not a copy of it.
Its a well known practice the act of sharing content in order to promote, market the content, by the company producing and/or marketing it.
If piracy is worse than bank robbery then are such company contributors in the marketing department guilty too? An accessory to the crime, embezzelment, etc.. IS this an act of entrapment?
Many people that pirate probably don't have the resources to buy much of what they pirate and/or don't have a resource of the content legally, so if piracy did not happen, would these people somehow magically then have the resources to buy and find a resource to buy from? And if they don't buy and can't pirate then is it really a loss to the company, or which is more of a lose to the company, income that wouldn't be received anyway and/or lessor knowledge of product in the population (contrary to marketing)?
I do not condone piracy, but the hard fact is that its also not uncommon for a legal copy to have such anti-piracy overhead in it that it interferes with its use, when the only option left is to get a cracked/pirated copy (even when you outright have the paid right to a legal copy). And there are other variations on this need for a legal party to obtain and use an illegal copy.,
Is piracy worse than bank robbery? You rob a bank and get away with it, someone has to make good on what was stolen and usually its the federal government FICA...uh err... tax payers. You steal copy of content then who needs to make good on it? And doesn't media manufactures sometimes have to pay some sort of probable piracy fee (that to some extent their media will be used for piracy)?
There are a lot of contridiction in the subject matter of piracy, from marketing to reasonable fair use, Bank robbery and the likes such as identity thief are certainly far more serious. And if another company pirates some content its not viewed as piracy by IP infringment..... how interesting how the vocabulary changes.
Perhaps the origination of the coined term "Piracy" needs to be looked back on. Bill Gate complaining of pirates for his port.. uh err...pirating of BASIC..
Hard line is that many customers had been waiting after having paid, for too long to receive the product. Other hardware companies were selling faulty hardware and the such acts not so nice to the buyers. Frustration level were high among these buyers/hobbists. Who was really ripping off who?
Today this same man/company "MS" has a federal criminal record as well as a criminal record in other countries.
Connotation..... lets just call it the same...
There is a lot more on who is right and wrong. Software Patents are acts of fraud, the Software industry pursues making a profit on user/consumers by denying consumer easy ability to do more for themselves. "What do you want us to make for you, improve, etc... that we can sell it back to you?" Product lock-in, etc..
Consumer Entrapment Abuse is worse than bank robbery as it steals away the ability of the general computer user to do more for themselves and their productivity.
"The article is fairly light on details, but it would be interesting to see how the system differentiates from a driver talking on a cell phone versus a mere passenger."
Next time you are in city traffic, look around and note how many people are in a car where a cell phone is being used in a non-hands free manner.
....Oh... I think recent news on "Skynet" http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/ 10/1337226 freaked out the industry of building robots with robots...
Or maybe programmers are just charging to damn much....
money money money....money.../ Spending.asp
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade
you don't have to denying evolution and global warming, just ignore it...
...they are not tying their research well enough to military, anti-terrorist (including the hype of terrorism), supporting the oil game, and hidden dictatorship support.
If they did that then I have no doubt the Bush administration would be falling all over themselves in support.
Just look at the budget for military....
.. but can be used to bury information, bring forward disinformation, etc...
Information is information, and it don't care what sequence of symbols are attached... seek, find and bury or bring forward.