Here we go again - if's Apple vs Microsoft and Lotus vs Borland all over again, as this has been done before.
Unfortunately the courts have no clear opinion on this. Lotus vs Borland made it all the way to the Supreme Court but was split 4-4 with one justice recusing himself.
President Gates: (addressing cabinet meeting) Good morning. What crisises are we facing today? SecOfState Fiorina: The palestinians are fighting the israelites again. President Gates: *yawn* OK, take the next flight out and get 'em to kiss and make up. Gotta look good to the goons on CNN. Next? SecOfTechnology McBride: Sir, someone cracked the DRM on Windows Media Player again. Vice President Ballmer: (throws chair) BASTARDS! I WANT WMP PATCHED AND DELIVERED IN A SERVICE PACK BEFORE NOON, A DMCA NOTICE SENT TO THE THIEF BY THE DoJ, AND GET THE NSA TO SHUT HIS WEBSITE DOWN!
Starting back in 2002 I started using unpublished phone numbers for my land line (not unlisted, there's a difference).
Unpublished numbers add teeth to keeping you off telemarketer lists, even those that are exempt from the DNC registry. I make a point of informing the caller that they have reached an unpublished number and I wanted it taken off their list. Even AOL promptly took me off their autodialer list when I was given a number that belonged to someone else.
They don't cost much more per month and they're a lot less hassle and money then filing a lawsuit.
A year ago my PC got hosed by a lightning strike. I had to replace everything except the sound card.
Under this act of God, beyond my control, M$ would have required me to call and beg for a new key.
No thanks. It was overwhelming enough to purchase a tower, reinstall the OS and the apps, and recover from backups. And that was during a job hunt so the PC was critical to my career during a very stressful period. The last thing I needed is to deal with re-activating the OS.
My upgrade path after W2K will be Mac. I have no desire to jump through activation hoops. Brilliant M$, you've just reduced your monopoly on the PC OS market...!
Survey: excuse me, we're taking a survey. Do you download music from the internet over p2p?
Civilian: Yes I do.
Survey: Here's your court papers, you've just been served. Thank you for your time.
When the copyright system was originated, the government granted the exclusive privilege in exchange that the copyright owner shoulder the burden on enforcing it. Like the patent and the trademark system, you cannot use government law enforcement.
The courts have long established that free speech is not unlimited. If you publicly broadcast anything that is false then it is defamation and not protected under free speech.
Free speech permits you to criticize as long as your statements are true. However some organizations are known for exploiting the legal system to silence critics even though the criticism is factful and true. The Cult of $cientology is infamous for silencing critics through the courts and through "fair game" tactics.
This may be an experiment with AI but it shows we have a long way to go.
This robot follows a rhythm section - and not much else. It still requires the human mind to lead it. It still requires the human mind to originate the rhythm or the music.
Most if not all musical AI experiments involve a robot using a preprogrammed piece of music. Human composers create the music and/or arrangement.
Humans create music when their emotions respond to life events. Blues music was an outlet for the oppressed or the broken hearted. Most popular music evolved from rebellious adolescents. Classical music evolved from highly intelligent minds.
Many original compositions are derivatives of music that composers have acquiesced into their conscious or their sub-conscious. Inspiration can be totally spontaneous, and can pop into your mind at any time without any stimulus. In your car. At work. At recreation. Even while sleeping. Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" in his sleep - the song came to him in a dream, and he immediately woke up and wrote it down. That happens to a lot of composers.
Every style of music and every composition you can name has evolved from human emotions. AI still has to advance to teach robots to respond to emotions and to have spontaneous inspiration. That is the stimulus for them to lead, not follow. Until we accomplish that milestone, AI has a long way to go.
Does it cause oil prices to skyrocket? Does it stop interstate commerce?
In communities with no Hollywood presence does it cause the local factories or offices to close up shop?
Does it intervere with the manufacture of raw goods like steel and farm crops?
The "study" neglects to acknowledge that entertainment is a non-essential expense - we can live without it when the budget is short or if the quality is substandard.
I can still buy Disney movies at grocery store chains, Target, Circuit City, Best Buy, KMart, Amazon, etc. Wally World is not the only game in town. Disney knows this and isn't exactly shaking in their shoes.
The real danger is Wally World shoehorning itself into a position of an exclusive distribution channel, which raises the spectre of RIAA again. The $$$ isn't in the product, it's in the distribution channel and WalMart wants to be there. Maybe the revenue from their cut can go towards providing decent health insurance for their employees, but I'm confident they won't.
M$ has either intervened or infiltrated most processes in their favor. When the antitrust trial was underway, M$ lobbied to have funds reduced for the DoJ. When the white house changed hands, the DoJ attorneys on the case were replaced with rookie lawyers who let the punishment phase get reduced to a slap on the hand that has yet to be enforced. M$ always won reversals in appeals courts on petty technical details. M$ always was involved in standard setting committees with their own business interests at stake, not the interests of the committee. The Java community reluctantly allowed M$ into their world, and their worst fears came true when they embraced/extended Java into their Windoze-eccentric version, which was forced off the market after litigation from Sun.
The EU has not forgotten that M$ was branded a monopolist in US federal court and that the appeals court upheld that judgement. M$ has few options of recourse outside the US - little chance of reversal in appeals, no lobbying channels to undercut barriers to their monopolist tactics, and a well read community with little tolerance for strong handed tactics from corrupt US corporations.
Good to see that there are level headed authorities in the EU that are not so easily swayed.
ActiveX is IE's major vulnerability to drive-by downloads, covert spyware/adware installs, and malicious attempts to take over your computer. Because IE is the dominant browser, it is the target of most malicious coders.
Firefox may have more vulnerabilities, but none of them are as dangerous as the ActiveX server in IE. The numeric comparision in TFA is not even half the truth.
M$ won't patch a vulnerability IE overnight - but look how fast they patched a hack to their WMP DRM.
A bad credit history doesn't tell the whole story. If you're married, your spouses' premarital credit history and her abuses of your credit are on your record.
I suffered financial abuse at the hands of my (now-ex) wife during our separation. Due to a work assignment out of town I left her in charge of finances. She neglected the obligations and abused the credit. She missed mortgage payments and medical bills - now I have a collection notice on my history. She raised the limit on our cards and maxxed them out within months while she had a field day with her extramarital affairs - now my credit score suffers because we can only make minimum payments on $25,000 credit debt. Then she stole my mail and attempted to open a new credit card (with a $12,000 limit) using my personal information - had I not put a forwarding on my mail, those cards would have been in her hands without my knowing it.
I divorced that sorry ass out of my life, but the scars remain on my credit history. She has no idea of the damage she has done. Any employer who views that history will be making a serious judgement error, and that is why credit history should be off limits to employers. I can't be there to fill in the gaps when the employer views that record, and they don't want to hear of domestic problems. It's a dangerous catch-22.
If your spouse has a prior bad credit history - congratulations, you've just inherited her bad history in one fell swoop when you exchanged vows. Her problems now appear on your report! Think about that when you try to arrange a mortgage on your marriage residence.
Lose your job and miss a child support or alimony payment, and family court can throw you in jail until you pay up. That earns you a black mark on your credit history. Another reason why family court is so self-defeating. Another reason credit records should be off limits to employers. I won't open the can of worms on why the divorce system is rigged against men.
It is frightenly easy for a spouse to damage your credit. She can have a gambling addiction, be on a materialistic streak, or is just being vindictive. Credit organizations are so eager to grant credit that they don't question an application. My ex stole my mail and used my personal information to fill out a credit form, then signed her name and assigned herself authorized user. They have no record of my consent and are under no obligation to consult with me despite my signature not appearing on that application. Yet they were ready to grant the credit. I went through the roof when I uncovered that.
The credit industry has permitted an atmosphere of abuse at their profit and at the consumer's pain, and must be reigned in before things get too far out of hand. Credit debt is a dangerous trap that is too easy to fall into, and the system is becoming more rigged to keep the poor in the ranks of the poor. This is not the American dream. Take it back before it is too late.
The new players won't display their full resolution unless they detect the new secure screens. You have to replace the player AND your screen. Deal killer #1
The discs are heavily DRM'd, attempts to circumvent = violation of DMCA. Deal killer #2.
No facility to back up discs to minimize damage from the little ones. Deal killer #3.
I have to replace my DVDs, most of which have not been or never will be released on the new format. Deal killer #4.
Like DVD, Hollywood has an even tighter iron grip on who licenses the format. Deal Killer #5.
Who the hell trust Sony anymore after the root kit fiasco? Deal Killer #6.
I see no profit in the new formats for me. Small wonder why they haven't been adopted.
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_F-Secure Internet Security 2006
_Kaspersky Internet Security 6
_Trend Micro PC-Cillin 14 Internet Security
_Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006
_Zonelabs Zonealarm Internet Security 2006
_McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006
_Computer Associates eTrust Internet Security Suite r2
_Panda Platinum Internet Security 2006
_Softwin Bitdefender 9 Internet Security
No mention of Black Ice by Internet Security Systems. I asked our company admin what he recommended for a software firewall and Black Ice was his answer.
I've been running Black Ice since 2002 and have had zero intrusions (I also run Mozilla with Javascript enabled). It even stopped MSBlaster in its tracks, and I told it to ignore it forever so it wouldn't nag me. I know a friend who is a very experienced "hacker" and he said Black Ice takes hours to break through. You can buy it at Staples for $40.
Naftule Brandwein, the Klezmer clarinet virtuoso, turned his back on the audience in order to keep the secret of the finger he used to achieve certain effects.
Robert Johnson, the great blues quitarist of the 1920s who is universally accepted as the grandfather of rock-n-roll, also turned his back to the audience when performing. Stealing techniques was rampant back in the delta blues era of the early 20th century.
I turned down a great job in Long Island. While the pay was attractive, it put me in a higher tax bracket and took away the ability to pay for the outrageous cost of real estate. Not to mention higher cost of insurance, auto maintenance, utilities. It all added up to higher expenses and too little money to put away for savings. And if I lost my job, unemployment would not begin to meet the cost of rent. Monster.com has a tool that lets you find the cost of living in an area where there is a job opening.
Too many people neglect to check salary offers against income taxes - you'd be shocked how much of a bite they take out.
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Unfortunately the courts have no clear opinion on this. Lotus vs Borland made it all the way to the Supreme Court but was split 4-4 with one justice recusing himself.
President Gates: (addressing cabinet meeting) Good morning. What crisises are we facing today?
SecOfState Fiorina: The palestinians are fighting the israelites again.
President Gates: *yawn* OK, take the next flight out and get 'em to kiss and make up. Gotta look good to the goons on CNN. Next?
SecOfTechnology McBride: Sir, someone cracked the DRM on Windows Media Player again.
Vice President Ballmer: (throws chair) BASTARDS! I WANT WMP PATCHED AND DELIVERED IN A SERVICE PACK BEFORE NOON, A DMCA NOTICE SENT TO THE THIEF BY THE DoJ, AND GET THE NSA TO SHUT HIS WEBSITE DOWN!
I use "abuse@whatever.com" to sign up. Gets the message through loud and clear.
Not even with format c:?
It was a dot bomb.
Unpublished numbers add teeth to keeping you off telemarketer lists, even those that are exempt from the DNC registry. I make a point of informing the caller that they have reached an unpublished number and I wanted it taken off their list. Even AOL promptly took me off their autodialer list when I was given a number that belonged to someone else.
They don't cost much more per month and they're a lot less hassle and money then filing a lawsuit.
Under this act of God, beyond my control, M$ would have required me to call and beg for a new key.
No thanks. It was overwhelming enough to purchase a tower, reinstall the OS and the apps, and recover from backups. And that was during a job hunt so the PC was critical to my career during a very stressful period. The last thing I needed is to deal with re-activating the OS.
My upgrade path after W2K will be Mac. I have no desire to jump through activation hoops. Brilliant M$, you've just reduced your monopoly on the PC OS market...!
Survey: excuse me, we're taking a survey. Do you download music from the internet over p2p?
Civilian: Yes I do.
Survey: Here's your court papers, you've just been served. Thank you for your time.
When the copyright system was originated, the government granted the exclusive privilege in exchange that the copyright owner shoulder the burden on enforcing it. Like the patent and the trademark system, you cannot use government law enforcement.
Free speech permits you to criticize as long as your statements are true. However some organizations are known for exploiting the legal system to silence critics even though the criticism is factful and true. The Cult of $cientology is infamous for silencing critics through the courts and through "fair game" tactics.
Then how did that help the US during Vietnam? Korea?
This robot follows a rhythm section - and not much else. It still requires the human mind to lead it. It still requires the human mind to originate the rhythm or the music.
Most if not all musical AI experiments involve a robot using a preprogrammed piece of music. Human composers create the music and/or arrangement.
Humans create music when their emotions respond to life events. Blues music was an outlet for the oppressed or the broken hearted. Most popular music evolved from rebellious adolescents. Classical music evolved from highly intelligent minds.
Many original compositions are derivatives of music that composers have acquiesced into their conscious or their sub-conscious. Inspiration can be totally spontaneous, and can pop into your mind at any time without any stimulus. In your car. At work. At recreation. Even while sleeping. Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" in his sleep - the song came to him in a dream, and he immediately woke up and wrote it down. That happens to a lot of composers.
Every style of music and every composition you can name has evolved from human emotions. AI still has to advance to teach robots to respond to emotions and to have spontaneous inspiration. That is the stimulus for them to lead, not follow. Until we accomplish that milestone, AI has a long way to go.
So how does this differ from overseas banking and imported manufactured goods...?
Does it cause oil prices to skyrocket? Does it stop interstate commerce?
In communities with no Hollywood presence does it cause the local factories or offices to close up shop?
Does it intervere with the manufacture of raw goods like steel and farm crops?
The "study" neglects to acknowledge that entertainment is a non-essential expense - we can live without it when the budget is short or if the quality is substandard.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
The real danger is Wally World shoehorning itself into a position of an exclusive distribution channel, which raises the spectre of RIAA again. The $$$ isn't in the product, it's in the distribution channel and WalMart wants to be there. Maybe the revenue from their cut can go towards providing decent health insurance for their employees, but I'm confident they won't.
10. File suit against 5 month old infants, senile great grandmothers, and the deceased.
The EU has not forgotten that M$ was branded a monopolist in US federal court and that the appeals court upheld that judgement. M$ has few options of recourse outside the US - little chance of reversal in appeals, no lobbying channels to undercut barriers to their monopolist tactics, and a well read community with little tolerance for strong handed tactics from corrupt US corporations.
Good to see that there are level headed authorities in the EU that are not so easily swayed.
Firefox may have more vulnerabilities, but none of them are as dangerous as the ActiveX server in IE. The numeric comparision in TFA is not even half the truth.
M$ won't patch a vulnerability IE overnight - but look how fast they patched a hack to their WMP DRM.
Because when you flip the vinyl over, there's more music on the other side!
I suffered financial abuse at the hands of my (now-ex) wife during our separation. Due to a work assignment out of town I left her in charge of finances. She neglected the obligations and abused the credit. She missed mortgage payments and medical bills - now I have a collection notice on my history. She raised the limit on our cards and maxxed them out within months while she had a field day with her extramarital affairs - now my credit score suffers because we can only make minimum payments on $25,000 credit debt. Then she stole my mail and attempted to open a new credit card (with a $12,000 limit) using my personal information - had I not put a forwarding on my mail, those cards would have been in her hands without my knowing it.
I divorced that sorry ass out of my life, but the scars remain on my credit history. She has no idea of the damage she has done. Any employer who views that history will be making a serious judgement error, and that is why credit history should be off limits to employers. I can't be there to fill in the gaps when the employer views that record, and they don't want to hear of domestic problems. It's a dangerous catch-22.
If your spouse has a prior bad credit history - congratulations, you've just inherited her bad history in one fell swoop when you exchanged vows. Her problems now appear on your report! Think about that when you try to arrange a mortgage on your marriage residence.
Lose your job and miss a child support or alimony payment, and family court can throw you in jail until you pay up. That earns you a black mark on your credit history. Another reason why family court is so self-defeating. Another reason credit records should be off limits to employers. I won't open the can of worms on why the divorce system is rigged against men.
It is frightenly easy for a spouse to damage your credit. She can have a gambling addiction, be on a materialistic streak, or is just being vindictive. Credit organizations are so eager to grant credit that they don't question an application. My ex stole my mail and used my personal information to fill out a credit form, then signed her name and assigned herself authorized user. They have no record of my consent and are under no obligation to consult with me despite my signature not appearing on that application. Yet they were ready to grant the credit. I went through the roof when I uncovered that.
The credit industry has permitted an atmosphere of abuse at their profit and at the consumer's pain, and must be reigned in before things get too far out of hand. Credit debt is a dangerous trap that is too easy to fall into, and the system is becoming more rigged to keep the poor in the ranks of the poor. This is not the American dream. Take it back before it is too late.
The discs are heavily DRM'd, attempts to circumvent = violation of DMCA. Deal killer #2.
No facility to back up discs to minimize damage from the little ones. Deal killer #3.
I have to replace my DVDs, most of which have not been or never will be released on the new format. Deal killer #4.
Like DVD, Hollywood has an even tighter iron grip on who licenses the format. Deal Killer #5.
Who the hell trust Sony anymore after the root kit fiasco? Deal Killer #6.
I see no profit in the new formats for me. Small wonder why they haven't been adopted.
Last I read, the penalties for drug dealers were worse than for drug users.
Something is very wrong here.
_F-Secure Internet Security 2006
_Kaspersky Internet Security 6
_Trend Micro PC-Cillin 14 Internet Security
_Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006
_Zonelabs Zonealarm Internet Security 2006
_McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006
_Computer Associates eTrust Internet Security Suite r2
_Panda Platinum Internet Security 2006
_Softwin Bitdefender 9 Internet Security
No mention of Black Ice by Internet Security Systems. I asked our company admin what he recommended for a software firewall and Black Ice was his answer.
I've been running Black Ice since 2002 and have had zero intrusions (I also run Mozilla with Javascript enabled). It even stopped MSBlaster in its tracks, and I told it to ignore it forever so it wouldn't nag me. I know a friend who is a very experienced "hacker" and he said Black Ice takes hours to break through. You can buy it at Staples for $40.
Robert Johnson, the great blues quitarist of the 1920s who is universally accepted as the grandfather of rock-n-roll, also turned his back to the audience when performing. Stealing techniques was rampant back in the delta blues era of the early 20th century.
Too many people neglect to check salary offers against income taxes - you'd be shocked how much of a bite they take out.