Linux PDA of your choice: $400 802.11 or other wireless networking card: $150 TRay Camera springboard: $25,000 Being the first human with a tricorder AND the fact that it run Linux: Absolutely priceless.
1.) Before Mozilla 1.0 (1.1 now), mozilla just plain utterly sucked. 2.) Before Mozilla 1.0, I refused to use it and used IE exclusively (Yes, I run windoze as much as I run Linux because I work in the real world). When not in 'doze, I would run Konquerer about 80% of the time because it was so much faster and more reliable than mozilla. 3.) Mozilla 1.0 is out. It's much faster. It doesn't crash. I love the tabbed option. and last but not least: 4.) NO MORE JAVASCRIPT POPUP WINDOWS!!!! > IE can kiss my ass. No more buggy crappy virus-back-door IE funkage on my desktop. This reason alone killed IE on my desktop.
IE is out, mozilla is in. People will change just because it works and is written for the users instead of for the dot.bomb marketplace.
controll my battlebot guard dog while chowning my neighbors' cat?
I already get my tv over the internet...
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P2P Television?
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It's called Gnutella and if they can get the protocol to actually work in RL as well as in theory I'll finally finish downloading the first season of Enterprise and burn it to VCD and be happy.
It should be obvious that to burry copper is completely obsolete. Per yard, fiber should be cheaper to manufacture and bury.
10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody, so start building the infrastructure now and leave the telcos in the dust.
Will they do it? No. Why not? Because they think that they should bury the copper/fiber hybrid cable that they have been burying and come back and do it again later.
Burying cable is the most expensive part of telecomm.... retards.
First you assume that the 9 million CDs would and could be sold...
Second, you take the number of people in the US who listen to that genre of music, and assume that every single one of them bought that music illegally.
Third, you assume that everybody is a crook.
Fourth, you realize that you really like your job in the FBI, because that makes you "they" and them "those" and you can make "them" do whatever "we" want.
Simple administrative math. If you have problems understanding it, go talk to your System Admin... they all have the same basic course requirements.
About my suggestion for a government communications branch:
I understand this can be abused, but if done right it could be a good thing. It would require careful design. But not all government agencies are evil and corrupt. Look at the BBB. They are a useful government branch that provides a needed service keeping businesses in line.
I am as wary of government involved in communicaiton as anyone else. Probably more than most people. But I think it could be done right and be a blessing.
It could also be done wrong and be a curse.
But it probably wouldn't be much worse than it is right now.
Ha! I never said it was, and you're calling the wrong person a socialist.
I didn't say it should be free either, just that it should not be in the hands of special-interest groups. It is a necessity for our modern economy and a necessity for the future. It's here to stay and it cannot ever go away if we want to continue success.
Consider roads under your argument. If roads were deregulated and anyone could build roads whever they want and charge for there use, how fast do you think it would become a huge economy-bashing mess?
Communications should be in the same light. We no longer travel on roads to spread information, but that was one of the principle reasons for their construciton! (See history of the U.S. Postal service and read about how many roads were commissioned by and for their use alone).
Agreed that when electronic communications were first invented they didn't have this much impact, but now they are as essential as our highway system.
I am sick and tired of Cable companies whining about their costs and expenses while the rip new assholes into every single one of their subscribers.
1.) they lie constantly. They lied about my apartment building's contract being expired so that they could then refuse to refund me the money they charged me for installation.
2.) They lied and said that I would have DSL modem speeds. Well, I *would* have DSL speeds if I wasn't sharing my bandwidth with 10,000 other people downloading their pr0n all night long.
3.) they build exclusive deals with complexes preventing you from getting the much cheaper, more reliable and faster DSL service offered by the telco.
I'm sick of this bullshit government sponsered monopolistic rape-the-consumer stuff.
I say let's all move for congress to take all communicaitons hardware and make it an independant co-op agency. Make it illegal to have for-profit communications. It has become a public necessity and it should not be in the hands of greedy or controlling people.
"ICANN has exceeded its authority" And the Federal Gov. hasn't? What about the civil war?
"does not operate in an open fashion" And the U.S. Government is all open doors?
"...is dangerously unaccountable to Internet users, businesses and other key interest groups..." The U.S. government is only accountable to itself, unless mass public opinion takes hold. Besides, if ICANN goes to the govm't then AOL-Time Warner will just spend $1,000,000,000 on TV addspace and vote themselves exclusive use of the Internet.
Mark my words: this is worse.
Now I DO think that all the communications hardware in the US should be under Federal/State control just like roads are. I think bandwidth should be considered in the same way highways are, with nobody being able to restrict or control use of it. On the same note, we all know that only about 10% of the taxes collected for roads actually go to roads, so there should be an independant accounting firm/agency/group which makes sure that all Internet taxes go to building the internet. (Like my $40/mo going to the Internet Comission and I get VOIP service with a US Postal IP assigned to me and free national DNS.:-) )
Cheaters do have a right to ceat, on their own servers.
What pisses us all off isn't so much cheaters, as it is deceptive cheaters that try to take advantage or ruin other peoples' fun. Ceating is easy in almost all games where there is any client software at all. I would oppose any game that tried to prevent my use of my computer just like I oppose any os or application that tries to monkey with my computer.
This problem is very difficult to solve because all a player needs to do is outsmart dumb software. That's pretty easy. Everybody knows when someone is using a headshot bot in counterstrike, but it's a little tougher to notice cheaters who pay attention to who is watching and how obvious they are being. I quit playing CS because of cheaters.
Blizzard beat most of the maphack/exploits on StarCraft just by continually patching the software. I think CS and Half-Life should take a hint. Modify the code so that people can't exploit it... often. It's tedious to stack traces for exploitable code, and if the code changes frequently then it becomes very very tedious.
"If the population of New York City decided to go into open revold, holed themselves up in buildings with only small arms and rifles, the government would have a bloody mess of a time doing anything about it."
The problem is getting even 5% of the population to be involved in the *start of a revolution. Revolutions are won or lost by about 1% of the population, in the first couple of weeks of the revolt. If the government succeeds in squashing them without too much public mess then the government wins. Weapons play an immeasurably important role in those first few weeks.
Once the entire city of new yourk is in revolt, guns don't matter anymore... the government has already lost.
Of course, the real weapon of choice is the media, which is why it's easier to get your hands on a PPG than a broadcast studio.
Bullshit. I have Bellsouth FastAccess in Atlanta. I have fiber running through my front yard with an ethernet switch burried across the street. It's 4 wire ethernet running to my switch running PPPoE as the transport protocol.
So I could cut the phone line and still have Bellsouth's fast access service. I'd still have to pay for it though.
In addition, I couldn't "opt" out of the installation fee, even though they wouldn't do the installation for my Linux Firewall for me. They wouldn't even give me phone support when their switch had a faulty card because I didn't have Windows 95 installed on my PC. I finally went out to the switch, broke the locks and yanked the $15,000 board out of the switch and called them and told them that the problem was. I didn't tell them I yanked it out, but I did tell them it was "damaged". Fixed the problem tho.
"You can get where you're going without speeding." But we can get there faster by speeding. Did you have a point here? Everybody wants police on the road to stop idiot dangerous drivers.
"minors can get their own damn booze:)" Um, no they can't and that's the problem. I am a parent, and I love my children. But I want them to learn about the dangers and pleasures of wine and beer from me, not be droped headfirst into drinking at the unstable age of 21 amidst floudering loosers in bar scenes. The missinformation purposfully spread by anti-youth drinking campaigns is destabalizing our culture. Besides, this is unquestionable discrimination by age, something outlawed by the government. When I was 18 I was ten times more mature than any 21 year old I have ever met. That's not to brag, but rather because I had been through more crap than most 18 year olds.
"and everyone (IMHO) can do without night-vision rifle scopes." Except the government. Perhaps you missed this part, but the right to bear arms wasn't granted for hunting, but to protect us from those that wanted to take away our other rights. They couldn't find a way to keep us from having the right to own and bear arms, so they just changed it to be that we couldn't own and bear any arms that were worth anything against the people in power. Effectively destroying the purpose of the right without removing the right completely. People are correct when they say this right has no reason for being anymore: it's been rendered worthless.
You and the government. You want security? Install a 4096 RSA gPGP key pair and talk about how you're going to have sex with Bin Laden while watching America fry under your recently purchased soviet nuke which is right now sitting in pieces in your living room at 1234 Microsoft Way, Seattle Washington.
They will never know what the email says with current technology. Even if they can break the code and violate your privacy, there is absolutely no way on earth they can decript ALL the codes, even if they have keys and the means to intercept them all. Looking at encrypted packets on a fiber network it would be impossible to distinguish which packets go toegether in a streaming connection between two computers.
So stop worrying, this is a billion dollar waste of money by the Navy and the NSA would be better off investing in nanotech and quantum computers to put the cork back in the bottle.
My $0.02 is still worth more than your 0.02 even at current exchange rates, so:P
I am faced with a similar problem: storing PET scan overreads for peer/specialist review along with patient medical information and allowing access to those overreads by only the referring physician and his peer.
The approach I am considering most is to use an applet to compress and then encrypt the overread file on the client machine before sending it over SSL to be storred in the database. Of course, I don't have to access the actual overread here, just the authentication information and general contact information for the involved parties. We are using AMA certificates as the key system. This takes it completely out of our hands and prevents us from suffering the headaches. Other personal information which is not encrypted is kept in an Oracle database behind two firewalls, both of which only allow SSL/SSH traffic. Threre are two certificates being used: the site certificate for the public side and an OpenSSL certificate for the private side. I use a streaming program which I wrote to make the SSL connection from the frontside server to the backside servlet. Oracle handles the encryption on the Database side.
This provides the following security levels: A registered physician must access the site an log in via SSL to the external server. Once he has the overread file, he must have a valid AMA certificate to decrypt the overread. Obviously, his certificate must have been one of those used to encrypt the file.
Security protecting the data is pretty straight forward. You must get through both firewalls, which I check daily for security updates. Both firewalls have different passwords.
It used to be hard and expensive, but with the libraries and graphics cards doing most of the work in 3D, writing a game in 3D is far easier. All you need to do now as a designer is:
1.) Design Models 2.) Design skeletal deformation scripts. (walk, run, jump, duck, roll) 3.) Write the game code. 4.) release the game title.
and if you want it to run on another system 5.) port the game code, and patch the few dissimilar graphics functions between machines.
It used to be that to build a game you had to: 1.) design models 2.) design skeletal deformations for all movements. 3.) render all movements and make dib sequences or some other indexed pre-rendered graphics sequences. 4.) write your own scene renderer for whatever format your game will follow. 5.) work out all the ugly crap that doesn't flow well. 6.) patch a cruddy game engine on top of your game 'cause your budget is now gone.
Then you had to go and trash everything if you wanted to do things better.
Now the market is flooded with people wanting you to use their 3D engine. They write all the graphics stuff and tweak it for library xyz which in turn is tweaked to run really well on xyz chip. Leaves the game developers free to design and build a better game.
I noticed a lot of mention about how "poor turing" just "happened" to be "gay" and how the "evil" right-wing idiots fubarred by prosecuting him for this.
Wrong. Nobody has ever been prosicuted for being gay, or homosexual. People are prosecuted for doing something illegal: in this case, having sex or sexual relations with a person of the same sex.
Look at the wonderful contributions (some would say invention or founding) to the school of psycology by Sigumd Freud. The man was a decidedly sick pedophile (ref. here. There are also many other sources of information on this fact)
Based on the replies to the COPA story I predict that within 50 years people will be seeking protection for pedophiles who never actually *have* sex with/molest children with the exception of virtual or holographic children. After all, if we can brainwash the public into believing that homosexuality is a physical/genetic condition then it should be just as easy to convince them that pedophilia is as well.
Sexual preference is a choice, even though that choice may be made without direct consious intervention (as a child based on stimulus/response for instance). A choice to break the law, even if that law is unfair or unjust, is still illegal. The law must be upheld.
I think drug laws are absolutely rediculous and a gross breech of my freedom. I do not, however, take illegal drugs because of the risks of getting caught breaking the law. I don't think the law should let me get away with breaking the law just because I think it is unfair, so why would I go and do something I knew would get me into serious trouble?
Turing was prosecuted because he broke the law. Can we expect less?
I really hope this is the beginning a trend. I am getting tired of marketing people trying to sell me a product with a 300 page legal agreement attached and a barely veiled threat that they will not like me or my company if I don't "Buy, sign, and then shut up and do what they say... or else."
It sounds like that was what M$ tried to do (again) but this time it backfired in their face.
I can only hope this is the lightening horizon of the dawn of an age where Mob-style business practices are met with swift justice.
to Goth, darkness and MSDN... I told you those blogging guys were really evil. The downward spiral obviously shows that the thin fascade of a "blogging" conference was really just a cover for the subliminal brainwashing techniques of Oreilly and his Kindom Hall lackeys.
Down with Oreilley and their subversive book spam campaign!
(Now go ahead and mod me into oblivion as a troll even though that was intended to be funny.)
The courts killed their market and technology. Napster has been history since that ruling, barring an upset by the Supreme Court, which hardly seems likely.
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Linux PDA of your choice: $400
802.11 or other wireless networking card: $150
TRay Camera springboard: $25,000
Being the first human with a tricorder AND the fact that it run Linux: Absolutely priceless.
1.) Before Mozilla 1.0 (1.1 now), mozilla just plain utterly sucked.
2.) Before Mozilla 1.0, I refused to use it and used IE exclusively (Yes, I run windoze as much as I run Linux because I work in the real world). When not in 'doze, I would run Konquerer about 80% of the time because it was so much faster and more reliable than mozilla.
3.) Mozilla 1.0 is out. It's much faster. It doesn't crash. I love the tabbed option. and last but not least:
4.) NO MORE JAVASCRIPT POPUP WINDOWS!!!! > IE can kiss my ass. No more buggy crappy virus-back-door IE funkage on my desktop. This reason alone killed IE on my desktop.
IE is out, mozilla is in. People will change just because it works and is written for the users instead of for the dot.bomb marketplace.
Hellz yeah.
controll my battlebot guard dog while chowning my neighbors' cat?
It's called Gnutella and if they can get the protocol to actually work in RL as well as in theory I'll finally finish downloading the first season of Enterprise and burn it to VCD and be happy.
It should be obvious that to burry copper is completely obsolete. Per yard, fiber should be cheaper to manufacture and bury.
10Gb speeds should be enough for anybody, so start building the infrastructure now and leave the telcos in the dust.
Will they do it? No. Why not? Because they think that they should bury the copper/fiber hybrid cable that they have been burying and come back and do it again later.
Burying cable is the most expensive part of telecomm.... retards.
First you assume that the 9 million CDs would and could be sold...
Second, you take the number of people in the US who listen to that genre of music, and assume that every single one of them bought that music illegally.
Third, you assume that everybody is a crook.
Fourth, you realize that you really like your job in the FBI, because that makes you "they" and them "those" and you can make "them" do whatever "we" want.
Simple administrative math. If you have problems understanding it, go talk to your System Admin... they all have the same basic course requirements.
Policy doesn't work until something really bad happens and someone with real power in the company says "Do it or you're fired".
I've been in this situation with dozens of companies, and policy only takes root when error rears its ugly head.
Sometimes the errors cost headaches, sometimes they cost you a lawsuit.
If I've had this problem with 1U servers?
"And it's the only digital camera we've ever tested that made us temporarily panic, thinking we'd left it in a shirt pocket in the laundry."
About my suggestion for a government communications branch:
I understand this can be abused, but if done right it could be a good thing. It would require careful design. But not all government agencies are evil and corrupt. Look at the BBB. They are a useful government branch that provides a needed service keeping businesses in line.
I am as wary of government involved in communicaiton as anyone else. Probably more than most people. But I think it could be done right and be a blessing.
It could also be done wrong and be a curse.
But it probably wouldn't be much worse than it is right now.
Ha! I never said it was, and you're calling the wrong person a socialist.
I didn't say it should be free either, just that it should not be in the hands of special-interest groups. It is a necessity for our modern economy and a necessity for the future. It's here to stay and it cannot ever go away if we want to continue success.
Consider roads under your argument. If roads were deregulated and anyone could build roads whever they want and charge for there use, how fast do you think it would become a huge economy-bashing mess?
Communications should be in the same light. We no longer travel on roads to spread information, but that was one of the principle reasons for their construciton! (See history of the U.S. Postal service and read about how many roads were commissioned by and for their use alone).
Agreed that when electronic communications were first invented they didn't have this much impact, but now they are as essential as our highway system.
I am sick and tired of Cable companies whining about their costs and expenses while the rip new assholes into every single one of their subscribers.
1.) they lie constantly. They lied about my apartment building's contract being expired so that they could then refuse to refund me the money they charged me for installation.
2.) They lied and said that I would have DSL modem speeds. Well, I *would* have DSL speeds if I wasn't sharing my bandwidth with 10,000 other people downloading their pr0n all night long.
3.) they build exclusive deals with complexes preventing you from getting the much cheaper, more reliable and faster DSL service offered by the telco.
I'm sick of this bullshit government sponsered monopolistic rape-the-consumer stuff.
I say let's all move for congress to take all communicaitons hardware and make it an independant co-op agency. Make it illegal to have for-profit communications. It has become a public necessity and it should not be in the hands of greedy or controlling people.
"ICANN has exceeded its authority"
:-) )
And the Federal Gov. hasn't? What about the civil war?
"does not operate in an open fashion"
And the U.S. Government is all open doors?
"...is dangerously unaccountable to Internet users, businesses and other key interest groups..."
The U.S. government is only accountable to itself, unless mass public opinion takes hold. Besides, if ICANN goes to the govm't then AOL-Time Warner will just spend $1,000,000,000 on TV addspace and vote themselves exclusive use of the Internet.
Mark my words: this is worse.
Now I DO think that all the communications hardware in the US should be under Federal/State control just like roads are. I think bandwidth should be considered in the same way highways are, with nobody being able to restrict or control use of it. On the same note, we all know that only about 10% of the taxes collected for roads actually go to roads, so there should be an independant accounting firm/agency/group which makes sure that all Internet taxes go to building the internet. (Like my $40/mo going to the Internet Comission and I get VOIP service with a US Postal IP assigned to me and free national DNS.
Cheaters do have a right to ceat, on their own servers.
What pisses us all off isn't so much cheaters, as it is deceptive cheaters that try to take advantage or ruin other peoples' fun. Ceating is easy in almost all games where there is any client software at all. I would oppose any game that tried to prevent my use of my computer just like I oppose any os or application that tries to monkey with my computer.
This problem is very difficult to solve because all a player needs to do is outsmart dumb software. That's pretty easy. Everybody knows when someone is using a headshot bot in counterstrike, but it's a little tougher to notice cheaters who pay attention to who is watching and how obvious they are being. I quit playing CS because of cheaters.
Blizzard beat most of the maphack/exploits on StarCraft just by continually patching the software. I think CS and Half-Life should take a hint. Modify the code so that people can't exploit it... often. It's tedious to stack traces for exploitable code, and if the code changes frequently then it becomes very very tedious.
"If the population of New York City decided to go into open revold, holed themselves up in buildings with only small arms and rifles, the government would have a bloody mess of a time doing anything about it."
The problem is getting even 5% of the population to be involved in the *start of a revolution. Revolutions are won or lost by about 1% of the population, in the first couple of weeks of the revolt. If the government succeeds in squashing them without too much public mess then the government wins. Weapons play an immeasurably important role in those first few weeks.
Once the entire city of new yourk is in revolt, guns don't matter anymore... the government has already lost.
Of course, the real weapon of choice is the media, which is why it's easier to get your hands on a PPG than a broadcast studio.
Bullshit. I have Bellsouth FastAccess in Atlanta. I have fiber running through my front yard with an ethernet switch burried across the street. It's 4 wire ethernet running to my switch running PPPoE as the transport protocol.
So I could cut the phone line and still have Bellsouth's fast access service. I'd still have to pay for it though.
In addition, I couldn't "opt" out of the installation fee, even though they wouldn't do the installation for my Linux Firewall for me. They wouldn't even give me phone support when their switch had a faulty card because I didn't have Windows 95 installed on my PC. I finally went out to the switch, broke the locks and yanked the $15,000 board out of the switch and called them and told them that the problem was. I didn't tell them I yanked it out, but I did tell them it was "damaged". Fixed the problem tho.
:)
"You can get where you're going without speeding."
:)"
But we can get there faster by speeding. Did you have a point here? Everybody wants police on the road to stop idiot dangerous drivers.
"minors can get their own damn booze
Um, no they can't and that's the problem. I am a parent, and I love my children. But I want them to learn about the dangers and pleasures of wine and beer from me, not be droped headfirst into drinking at the unstable age of 21 amidst floudering loosers in bar scenes. The missinformation purposfully spread by anti-youth drinking campaigns is destabalizing our culture. Besides, this is unquestionable discrimination by age, something outlawed by the government. When I was 18 I was ten times more mature than any 21 year old I have ever met. That's not to brag, but rather because I had been through more crap than most 18 year olds.
"and everyone (IMHO) can do without night-vision rifle scopes."
Except the government. Perhaps you missed this part, but the right to bear arms wasn't granted for hunting, but to protect us from those that wanted to take away our other rights. They couldn't find a way to keep us from having the right to own and bear arms, so they just changed it to be that we couldn't own and bear any arms that were worth anything against the people in power. Effectively destroying the purpose of the right without removing the right completely. People are correct when they say this right has no reason for being anymore: it's been rendered worthless.
You and the government. You want security? Install a 4096 RSA gPGP key pair and talk about how you're going to have sex with Bin Laden while watching America fry under your recently purchased soviet nuke which is right now sitting in pieces in your living room at 1234 Microsoft Way, Seattle Washington.
:P
They will never know what the email says with current technology. Even if they can break the code and violate your privacy, there is absolutely no way on earth they can decript ALL the codes, even if they have keys and the means to intercept them all. Looking at encrypted packets on a fiber network it would be impossible to distinguish which packets go toegether in a streaming connection between two computers.
So stop worrying, this is a billion dollar waste of money by the Navy and the NSA would be better off investing in nanotech and quantum computers to put the cork back in the bottle.
My $0.02 is still worth more than your 0.02 even at current exchange rates, so
I am faced with a similar problem: storing PET scan overreads for peer/specialist review along with patient medical information and allowing access to those overreads by only the referring physician and his peer.
The approach I am considering most is to use an applet to compress and then encrypt the overread file on the client machine before sending it over SSL to be storred in the database. Of course, I don't have to access the actual overread here, just the authentication information and general contact information for the involved parties. We are using AMA certificates as the key system. This takes it completely out of our hands and prevents us from suffering the headaches. Other personal information which is not encrypted is kept in an Oracle database behind two firewalls, both of which only allow SSL/SSH traffic. Threre are two certificates being used: the site certificate for the public side and an OpenSSL certificate for the private side. I use a streaming program which I wrote to make the SSL connection from the frontside server to the backside servlet. Oracle handles the encryption on the Database side.
This provides the following security levels:
A registered physician must access the site an log in via SSL to the external server. Once he has the overread file, he must have a valid AMA certificate to decrypt the overread. Obviously, his certificate must have been one of those used to encrypt the file.
Security protecting the data is pretty straight forward. You must get through both firewalls, which I check daily for security updates. Both firewalls have different passwords.
Some good stuff in here. A good read for anyone using serious XML.
/. front page.
I kindof see the point of it being a bit longish for the
How 'bout a link to a more permanant article source/website?
It used to be hard and expensive, but with the libraries and graphics cards doing most of the work in 3D, writing a game in 3D is far easier. All you need to do now as a designer is:
1.) Design Models
2.) Design skeletal deformation scripts. (walk, run, jump, duck, roll)
3.) Write the game code.
4.) release the game title.
and if you want it to run on another system
5.) port the game code, and patch the few dissimilar graphics functions between machines.
It used to be that to build a game you had to:
1.) design models
2.) design skeletal deformations for all movements.
3.) render all movements and make dib sequences or some other indexed pre-rendered graphics sequences.
4.) write your own scene renderer for whatever format your game will follow.
5.) work out all the ugly crap that doesn't flow well.
6.) patch a cruddy game engine on top of your game 'cause your budget is now gone.
Then you had to go and trash everything if you wanted to do things better.
Now the market is flooded with people wanting you to use their 3D engine. They write all the graphics stuff and tweak it for library xyz which in turn is tweaked to run really well on xyz chip. Leaves the game developers free to design and build a better game.
I noticed a lot of mention about how "poor turing" just "happened" to be "gay" and how the "evil" right-wing idiots fubarred by prosecuting him for this.
Wrong. Nobody has ever been prosicuted for being gay, or homosexual. People are prosecuted for doing something illegal: in this case, having sex or sexual relations with a person of the same sex.
Look at the wonderful contributions (some would say invention or founding) to the school of psycology by Sigumd Freud. The man was a decidedly sick pedophile (ref. here. There are also many other sources of information on this fact)
Based on the replies to the COPA story I predict that within 50 years people will be seeking protection for pedophiles who never actually *have* sex with/molest children with the exception of virtual or holographic children. After all, if we can brainwash the public into believing that homosexuality is a physical/genetic condition then it should be just as easy to convince them that pedophilia is as well.
Sexual preference is a choice, even though that choice may be made without direct consious intervention (as a child based on stimulus/response for instance). A choice to break the law, even if that law is unfair or unjust, is still illegal. The law must be upheld.
I think drug laws are absolutely rediculous and a gross breech of my freedom. I do not, however, take illegal drugs because of the risks of getting caught breaking the law. I don't think the law should let me get away with breaking the law just because I think it is unfair, so why would I go and do something I knew would get me into serious trouble?
Turing was prosecuted because he broke the law. Can we expect less?
People like Henry Allen giving dissertations on PacMan. :/
I really hope this is the beginning a trend. I am getting tired of marketing people trying to sell me a product with a 300 page legal agreement attached and a barely veiled threat that they will not like me or my company if I don't "Buy, sign, and then shut up and do what they say... or else."
It sounds like that was what M$ tried to do (again) but this time it backfired in their face.
I can only hope this is the lightening horizon of the dawn of an age where Mob-style business practices are met with swift justice.
to Goth, darkness and MSDN... I told you those blogging guys were really evil. The downward spiral obviously shows that the thin fascade of a "blogging" conference was really just a cover for the subliminal brainwashing techniques of Oreilly and his Kindom Hall lackeys.
Down with Oreilley and their subversive book spam campaign!
(Now go ahead and mod me into oblivion as a troll even though that was intended to be funny.)
The courts killed their market and technology. Napster has been history since that ruling, barring an upset by the Supreme Court, which hardly seems likely.