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People living in democracies, Sunstein maintains, should be exposed to ideas they might not have chosen themselves. Unplanned, spontaneous, unanticipated encounters are central, though they "often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating."
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So is he giving that old line that opposing spam is unamerican? Or is he just supporting political spam? One of the things I like about democracy, at least in theory, is that I can choose to not be involved with any of it, live alone and secluded, and not HAVE to hear anyone's personal propoganda. Of course I would have no expectation to be able to complain about the state of the system, but that may be my choice.
Not in the least. When you go to the store and get an item, it has a UPC on it. That UPC has a number that corresponds to a record in a pricing database. That record has name and price (among other things). When the cashier scans it, he/she views (or is supposed to view) the display to make sure the name matches what they just scanned. If it doesn't, they should cry foul (though for the machine by default, I would think). What you seem to imply is that the UPC is a number directly representing the price. This is totally incorrect, and would lead to a lot of UPC switching in stores.
He complained, put a petition around the school - and lo and behold, they gave him a MONTH suspension for "hacking" into computers.
Wait a second. A school employee cracked a student's account and manipulated it with malicious intent, so the school suspended the STUDENT for "hacking"?
Remeber, the RIAA embodies total greed. They realize they can make more money off the idea if they destroy Napster as it is now, then innovate a new, pay-per-some-mundane-criteria-like-clicking scheme.
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I would argue that this forum is not a diary, it is more a forum for discussion of topics that relate directly to my career. In fact, I make a point of keeping my personal and professional lives separate as much as possible.
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Quite correct, of course. I think most flashes of genius are exhibited by people who also display psychotic tendancies. Whether this is a cause of the genius, or an effect of the social interactivity issues caused by such, I can do not know.
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I've found that, without exception, people that I "meet" online have issues. Usually they're only mildly messed up, looking for quick sex or a tease, sometimes they have serious problems, MPD, schitzo, family issues, and such.
Most of the online journals I've seen tend to reflect this. Usually people tend to be griping about what's wrong in their lives, the same problems over and over.
Perhaps this is because the internet is an easy means to a constructive outlet, a way to deal with thier issues. Any way, I can't say I've seen one online journal of a person who can easily be regarded as sane. Anyone else notice this?
Details details. In the future of corporate america, I'll wager that copyright infringement will be seen as a more serious crime than murder: "When you kill one man, you steal from one, but when you take a work, you steal from everyone!"
This leads to an interesting point. Murder the copyright holder(s) before they can prosecute you for "stealing" their works. You'll wind up with a lesser overall sentence.
Well that assumes that you must terminate only one entity to nix all copyright holders of a given work. But perhaps it's a good start?
Now, personally, I think they were dumb hosting the site on their telco's network, and that the telco was perfectly within its rights in withdrawing service (it is their network, after all).
Actually, I have to disagree. When a company gains its infrastructure from a government-granted monopoly (well I'm speaking for the US here, but it may apply to Korea in some ways), the lines belong, at least partly, to the public.
What do you mean? That's exactly what you've been looking for! Oh, wait, not on company time . ..
Seriously, I've found lots of mp3s and funny stuff on there (including, nay, mostly "authorized" bootlegs, so screw the RIAA). Personally, I share my text archive, when I'm connected. There's a good bit of useful stuff, but I think right now it's being overshadowed by pr0n and spam.
When the American Indian Nation migrated to this land and assumed mineral rights, who became poorer? No matter your belief system (creationism, evolutionism, etc), there have not always been people to own every bit of everything out there.
You should have posted with your real account, I found the information quite useful, and I consider myself a windows person. Of course, that leads to me admit an (obvious?) lack of knowledge of internal linux workings.
I suppose I was trying to get at implying that whatever windowing system was incomplete by saying poorly integrated (like I said, I don't know too much about linux under the hood).
Now the problem about them not wanting to use a linux server is indicatve of a larger issue. People (ESPECIALLY engineers) tend to be wary of things they aren't familiar with. These people know Windows 98 and trust it (of course we know to to trust it farther than you can toss the box it's crashing on). To them, linux is something they don't know. They probably haven't heard too much about he brand name, whereas MS has total penetration into their office. I think, at least for small groups such as this, that linux needs to work on getting onto the desktop before it can gain small business (non-tech) server acceptance.
Incidentally, because of costs, we wound up giving them all hardcoded real IPs and went over an ISDN bridge.
I don't understand what you're talking about that's any different from what Windows does now. You want to do something, bring up the CLI (whatever shortcut combo you like) and start typing. If you spawn another non-cli process, it will generate its own window grouping.
(Assuming Linux can't do this) I would assume that the Linux windowing archetecture is not integrated well enough to allow this. In my experience, this is the biggest barrier to getting linux into wider use.
I was consulting with one of my clients about installing a network for them. I mentioned that they should consider using a linux server for DHCP and IPChains. The contact looked at me funny and said about "Lunix? That's one of them command line things without windows right? Naw, ain't nobody here that would know how to work that thar thing. You best just give us that click and point stuff that we can run." (this is a group of civil engineers, by the way, not your average burger flipper).
Blah, after all the rambling, my point is pretty much that more work needs to be done on Linux GUI before it can be seriously competetive.
Dood, I didn't see you today, get down more often. How are things up in the Great Yankee North?:)
Well if you specifically legalize MP3 sharing and such, it will make it all appear more appetizing in the eyes of the advertisers. Getting advertisers is almost always a struggle, I'd think it would help to make it easier in any way possible.
. . . A company selling birdseed, for example, can't use its mailing list to hawk Audubon calendars . . .
Hehehe, you made a funny!
Seriously, though, very informative post. I absolutely did not know that EU had something like that. It gives me a good place to start next time I write Senator Graham.
So what are you going to do about it Razz? When's the last time you wrote your congresscritters? People on here keep complaining about how laws suck, but every time I ask when they last wrote to their leaders, they avoid the question and/or start yelling about how it should just BE right. Sure, that's your opinion and I happen to agree, but how are the people that you elected supposed to know that unless you tell them? As far as they know, the semi-majority vote for them is already an agreement with their belief system, so they may feel validated to believe what they do, and vote likewise.
So come on people (well, USians, if you are not, insert country name here, if applicable), WRITE your leaders. SNAIL MAIL, not email, give them something a peon can hold and shake in their face. We need people with BRAINS to voice their opinions, not paid lobbyists.
Personally, I think this article is FUD. Propoganda for Omnisky. I have ricochet, and love it. It gives me an extra two hours of net time a day (one hour commute to work sucks hard). I also do some freelance consulting on the side, and you would not believe how invaluable it can be to have a laptop guaranteed to be able to download and burn an ISO when you need it (especially when it's gobs faster than a modem).
Honestly, I don't know about their cash flow, but since Metricom is a publicly traded company (MCOM), you should probably check their public reports. Slashdot is good for biased sensational geek-news, but I wouldn't base even an ISP decision on Slashdot alone.
Wouldn't that require replacing the removable media interface in your Mavica with this company's drive heads? Probably a BIOS update to, so it knows it can write more than 1.44 mb. Sigh.
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People living in democracies, Sunstein maintains, should be exposed to ideas they might not have chosen themselves. Unplanned, spontaneous, unanticipated encounters are central, though they "often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating."
blahblahblah
So is he giving that old line that opposing spam is unamerican? Or is he just supporting political spam? One of the things I like about democracy, at least in theory, is that I can choose to not be involved with any of it, live alone and secluded, and not HAVE to hear anyone's personal propoganda. Of course I would have no expectation to be able to complain about the state of the system, but that may be my choice.
Yeah, they told me that two years ago. Look who's still on a modem.
Not in the least. When you go to the store and get an item, it has a UPC on it. That UPC has a number that corresponds to a record in a pricing database. That record has name and price (among other things). When the cashier scans it, he/she views (or is supposed to view) the display to make sure the name matches what they just scanned. If it doesn't, they should cry foul (though for the machine by default, I would think). What you seem to imply is that the UPC is a number directly representing the price. This is totally incorrect, and would lead to a lot of UPC switching in stores.
Robert April, I believe.
Wait a second. A school employee cracked a student's account and manipulated it with malicious intent, so the school suspended the STUDENT for "hacking"?
Remeber, the RIAA embodies total greed. They realize they can make more money off the idea if they destroy Napster as it is now, then innovate a new, pay-per-some-mundane-criteria-like-clicking scheme.
I would argue that this forum is not a diary, it is more a forum for discussion of topics that relate directly to my career. In fact, I make a point of keeping my personal and professional lives separate as much as possible.
Quite correct, of course. I think most flashes of genius are exhibited by people who also display psychotic tendancies. Whether this is a cause of the genius, or an effect of the social interactivity issues caused by such, I can do not know.
Most of the online journals I've seen tend to reflect this. Usually people tend to be griping about what's wrong in their lives, the same problems over and over.
Perhaps this is because the internet is an easy means to a constructive outlet, a way to deal with thier issues. Any way, I can't say I've seen one online journal of a person who can easily be regarded as sane. Anyone else notice this?
Details details. In the future of corporate america, I'll wager that copyright infringement will be seen as a more serious crime than murder: "When you kill one man, you steal from one, but when you take a work, you steal from everyone!"
This leads to an interesting point. Murder the copyright holder(s) before they can prosecute you for "stealing" their works. You'll wind up with a lesser overall sentence.
Well that assumes that you must terminate only one entity to nix all copyright holders of a given work. But perhaps it's a good start?
Einstein, I believe. Where's mah nickle? Hehehe.
Now, personally, I think they were dumb hosting the site on their telco's network, and that the telco was perfectly within its rights in withdrawing service (it is their network, after all). Actually, I have to disagree. When a company gains its infrastructure from a government-granted monopoly (well I'm speaking for the US here, but it may apply to Korea in some ways), the lines belong, at least partly, to the public.
Seriously, I've found lots of mp3s and funny stuff on there (including, nay, mostly "authorized" bootlegs, so screw the RIAA). Personally, I share my text archive, when I'm connected. There's a good bit of useful stuff, but I think right now it's being overshadowed by pr0n and spam.
When the American Indian Nation migrated to this land and assumed mineral rights, who became poorer? No matter your belief system (creationism, evolutionism, etc), there have not always been people to own every bit of everything out there.
I suppose I was trying to get at implying that whatever windowing system was incomplete by saying poorly integrated (like I said, I don't know too much about linux under the hood).
Now the problem about them not wanting to use a linux server is indicatve of a larger issue. People (ESPECIALLY engineers) tend to be wary of things they aren't familiar with. These people know Windows 98 and trust it (of course we know to to trust it farther than you can toss the box it's crashing on). To them, linux is something they don't know. They probably haven't heard too much about he brand name, whereas MS has total penetration into their office. I think, at least for small groups such as this, that linux needs to work on getting onto the desktop before it can gain small business (non-tech) server acceptance.
Incidentally, because of costs, we wound up giving them all hardcoded real IPs and went over an ISDN bridge.
(Assuming Linux can't do this) I would assume that the Linux windowing archetecture is not integrated well enough to allow this. In my experience, this is the biggest barrier to getting linux into wider use.
I was consulting with one of my clients about installing a network for them. I mentioned that they should consider using a linux server for DHCP and IPChains. The contact looked at me funny and said about "Lunix? That's one of them command line things without windows right? Naw, ain't nobody here that would know how to work that thar thing. You best just give us that click and point stuff that we can run." (this is a group of civil engineers, by the way, not your average burger flipper).
Blah, after all the rambling, my point is pretty much that more work needs to be done on Linux GUI before it can be seriously competetive.
The ISS orbits the earth about once every 45 minutes. That translates to damn fast.
Well if you specifically legalize MP3 sharing and such, it will make it all appear more appetizing in the eyes of the advertisers. Getting advertisers is almost always a struggle, I'd think it would help to make it easier in any way possible.
Hehehe, you made a funny!
Seriously, though, very informative post. I absolutely did not know that EU had something like that. It gives me a good place to start next time I write Senator Graham.
So come on people (well, USians, if you are not, insert country name here, if applicable), WRITE your leaders. SNAIL MAIL, not email, give them something a peon can hold and shake in their face. We need people with BRAINS to voice their opinions, not paid lobbyists.
Honestly, I don't know about their cash flow, but since Metricom is a publicly traded company (MCOM), you should probably check their public reports. Slashdot is good for biased sensational geek-news, but I wouldn't base even an ISP decision on Slashdot alone.
If you encrypt it . . . it would seem so.
I wish I had some mod points left over. +1 for guts right there.
Wouldn't that require replacing the removable media interface in your Mavica with this company's drive heads? Probably a BIOS update to, so it knows it can write more than 1.44 mb. Sigh.