Interactive filtering of SpAm by targets/users is best.
I think; maybe, valid personal email should be the focus.
We want our email, but we do NOT want sPaM.
Currently we use USRID/AccID, DNS, DHCP, ARP-RARP,... maybe a couple other protocol/apps to provide identification and routing within TCP/IP packets for login, email, web-surf, VoIP,... so many check, verify, route,....
I agree, with others, the W3C (someone) will need to add some RFCs on check/verify local "Lookup" user approved filter for email.
As Relates to SpaM/Email:
1. Subscribers, customers, users of an email service must be required to define an "Approved Email List (AEL)". Email client applications should require a user-action (right-click-select option, maybe) to generate a UDP/TCP update-message to add an addressor's email to the user-AEL resident on the email/profile server. To delete any addressors from a user-AEL should require a few extra steps of accessing the user-account web-page and specifically selecting one address (we change friends, someone moves,...), a group of addresses (job change, organization name update,...), or all addresses (global list update/upload, reduce complexity, dropout,...).
2. Email service providers must provide to users a web-app/text-upload process for managing a user-AEL. (1) Either upload formatted text (with total content overwrite option) user-AEL as part of the user account/profile definition, or (2) on the email service domain's open/manage email account website a web-app that allows easy addition/deletion to the user-AEL.
3. New/Unknown email addressors, those not identified in an addressee user-AEL, with a datagram over 128-bytes (standardized size more/less for one name and an email address) are terminated, not delivered, bit-bucket, not replied/forwarded,....
4. New/Unknown email addressors, those not identified in an addressee user-AEL, with a datagram under 128-bytes are delivered to the email addressee. This will allow the email addressee their option to decide; if the email addressor should be added to their user-AEL. This will allow an addressor to provide enough information to be potentially (as family, friend, business, hobby,...) added to a user-AEL, or enough URL information to link back to an online business/interest website to track resent online banking, trading/investing, purchases, subscriptions,... print invoices, or....
5. Incoming email are checked for valid local email accounts (NOT, then terminate). Incoming email having a valid local address are then checked by comparing the addresses with the user-AEL with the specific email address (userid@domain.___) of origin (MATCH NOT, then terminate). Repeat email terminations/rejects from same "@domain.___" could be blacklisted as a sPam@domain.___ unless recognized by a local user-AEL.
I'll stop counting here, because I think the rest can be surmised and counting gets boring. This process could be close to transparent for email users, except for the managing of an email account user-AEL. It would reduce spAM and potentially malicious/viral email in obvious ways by limiting allowed payloads/datagrams from unknown (un-validated/vouched for) sources in any email. Vouched for addressors (causing problems) on a user-AEL could be more traceable. The processing/handling overhead of such a systems would (I expect) be about the same as the present process and would significantly reduce email-server storage space requirements. Email is un-trustable, but required tool in the business world, and increasingly burdensome of our personal time.
The spAm-cans could only dump to email users that included them in their user-AEL. Over time it would reduce the spam-flood and/or spam-DDOS on the internet, because few (maybe none) would ever see spam-stuff and SPAM would prove a financi
H4x0r, I must reply to others that would dispute the original and your post.
____ Ask people on the streets of Rome about 2 kilo years ago about Caesar or Octavian and most would be able to tell you something about them. Ask them about JFC, Jews, China, etc, and they will look at you funny. Greeks make up a very small percentage of hysterical groups. The only way for the average citizen to hear about any issues today is through big lawsuits like Pontius vs. Jesus. ____ Anyway, reality is almost always deceiving to almost all those present. Mother Theresa of Calcutta when compared to PD of the UK today in Europe/USA... okay what about the streets of India. Gandhi and Churchill, look at MLK in the "60s" and a national holiday today,.... ____ I agree with the original post. RMS will be one of the greats in human history, some may try to remove him from history, but their efforts will not be effective in another century/millennium. RMS's ideals/concepts/ethics extend well beyond the parochial perspective of free-software verses profit/capital and the virtual power of the transient (life and money). ____ There are a few historical examples that strongly support the original post, and RMS is modern/technology origin of Open Source, Standards, Communities, free-software, international colleagues projects/collaboration for business and humanity,.... ____ RMS is today the greatest living American. George, Bill, John, Ronnie,... many others that are much better known are not near the stature in character of the individual many of US just call RMS or Stallman. Many of us contribute (in many ways) to keeping the ship afloat for humanity and business, but I have "NO DOUBT" as to who built this mighty ship for all us and the future. Only the greatest of evils will sink.... - OldHawk777
I question the quality/character of the WSJ ....
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Mr. Soto's SPAM love can in no way justify indiscriminate delivery of SPAM to me or other citizens. The WSJ editors have become true space-cases to even present this as news (business) worthy. The WSJ was probably an early supporter of the "Opt-Out-Privacy-Slight OOPS" citizens' rights rape. The WSJ (of today) would probable present as business news worthy the personal satisfaction and financial benefits of a child pornographer. The WSJ is implying what is good for some must be good for everyone (I feel... VFS[:(.
Regulation
controlled by business/religious special interest is terrible, will
stifle innovation, enhances control of society, protectionist (but
not isolationist), and does resemble the Stalinist/Maoist, and for
the past couple decades a Capitalist model of a command economy in
the USA and EU (No wonder the Chinese Government is so accepting of
the new Capitalist economic model). Just say three times very fast
Power to the Party in escalating volume and excitement,
and PLEASE, don't get lost in a Blutarski Collegiate reverie of
younger days (unless of course you are that young and vacuous). Some
folks look at Patent and Copyright laws today as a way to regulate
who keeps market share, and telecommunications (today a joke in the
USA), gnetics (own the natural now by law), nanotech (governed by
techno idiot politicians),.... Regulation cannot be blamed, but
intent, interest, and implementation does screw-the-pooch
for the rest of US, EU, and the future. Things will go on, but they
will be crippled, mangled, deranged, and debilitated costing money,
lives, hopes, and dreams. Only the religious and plutocratic
terrorist will live happly ever after with control of others for
some time.
Regulation
in a true democracy where Businesses, Institutions, Religions,
Special Interest Groups (including foreign, ecology, animals,...),
individuals acting/working to promote special interest and
dynastic/aristocratic political plutocratic oligarch groups (short
phrase Bullshit Artist),... are disenfranchised, because
only a Citizen is allowed to participate in a democracy.
A
building, property, wealth, thing, object, organization, institution
can never be a Citizen. In the USA and EU these non-human...
non-citizen (Bill Gates is Citizen Bill, the CEO is Microsoft not a
citizen) things do control the nation and law (PA1/2, DMCA, WTO, MS,
GM, IBM,... manymanymanymore).
BACK
to main point, I have said for a few years:
____
Patents and Copyrights are not bad, but they are sorely abused by the
willy-nilly application and approval process that exist today and
stand a good chance of being a perpetrated crime on future expansion
and improvements in humanity's future. Many (not all) business
executives and politicians (of the Ned Ludd [1779] ilk) walk
hand-in-hand promoting revolting exploitation of nations/people and
plunder for irresponsibility (at least) and/or criminal theft (by
Common Sense, if not the law). I can think of no law
created, on science, technology, citizen-rights, security..., in the
USA in the last twenty years that was, as stated by others
significantly, not flawed by political temerity, special interest,
and foolish expediency.
____
Iconoclastic (Yep, BUSINESS is a religion for some.) assaults by
concepts like Open Source, Open Standards,
General Public License (GPL), Open Community of
Consensus/Interest,... are the nascent nexus of a great future
for the USA, business, humanity, innovation, success,.... There are
new business models/architectures developing that will replace
Keynesian definition of economies and markets of the last couple
millennium. J.M. Keynes may have written down the definition/theory
in the last century, and others wrote such wieners as Trickle
Down and Supply Side, but in application they are
all failing the economic requirements of today and will fail US in
the future.
____
The new open global market will of necessity be far more Open
Community in structure than the legacy Keynesian and stovepipe
management structure embraced today in national/regional businesses.
SCO, Microsoft, IBM,... and many other USA businesses will either
embrace fast paced Open Consensus Community change models
that manage concepts, directions, performances, resolutions,
developments, shifts/jumps,... or become a preserved tr
____ I like capitalism as an economic theory and model. Capitalism when strictly and correctly functioning as the economic model rewards performance and seeks to enhance performance, thereby generating profits and rewards. Today most political, business, and religion, leaders consider capitalism as a profits/rewards model which requires little performance, no responsibility, delusional belief of virtual power over citizens, elevated privileges/value of personal life,.... Their shit (via Hollywood Avatar enhancements) smells sweet to the poorly educated fools looking for a shepherd to lead them to fleecing or slaughter. The uneducated can be the tools of great evil, just as evil can look seductively good to the best educated fools.
____ Capitalism as a form of plutocratic government is as big a failure and equivalent to Communism (a social theory applied to encompass economics) , Aristocracy (as validated by Marie and Louis, Nick and Alex, and many others),....
____ Pure Democracy, which promotes and defends the rights of citizens, and disenfranchises Capitalist Republic and Religious Paradise supremacists (institutions and special interest groups, are not citizens) is the only civilized, valid, and reasonable form of government ever to exist.
Simply stated... if you ain't one of us... you're screwed.
(00) Troubleshooting experience does help. (01) Field troubleshooting (real-job & real-world) experience is best. (02) Help-desk folks with good intentions are script-readers not problem solvers. (03) Troubleshooting experienced folks are seldom help-desk developers. (04) Most field technicians are pluck-&-chuck manual readers. (05) Troubleshooting experienced folks don't mentor pluck-&-chuck technicians. (06) Pluck-&-chuck technicians are a managed "totally replaceable" field asset. (07) Management knows that pluck-&-chuck and troubleshooting are equivalent skills. (08) Management frequently decides who they like best... not who performs best. (09) Revolving Systemic Virtual [not real] Problem (RSVP) for US & EU management. (0A) "Green-card" professionals cost less, and are therefor better for profit. (0B) "Contract-out" professionals cost less, and are therefor better for profit. (0C) "Foreign-culture" professionals are highly exploitable and extremely profitable. (0D) US & EU Capitalist Republic favors profit over family, friend, and country. (0E) US & EU Capitalist Republic values profit morals, not performance ethics. (0F) US & EU expect your children (or grand kids) to have an either-or future: ______ Either they will be well educated to manage a profitable sweat-shop. _________ Or they will be poorly educated to work in a profitable sweat-shop.
____ Either we can disenfranchise the plutocrats of the Capitalist Republic and Religious Paradise supremacists, or have posterity (our children) suffer the fate of what we fondly call the "Third World".... However, being as the middle-class will have been decimated to a very few "politically correct" managers..., politicians will be able to praise themselves, business, and religious leaders for ending "Third World" poverty and problems. The beginning of a kinder and gentler "Second World" [AKA: New World Order] will provide US & EU with all we need to be good suitable workers (assets). I agree, there will be more of US & EU leading the "New World Order", but far less of US & EU citizens will continue to lead a privileged "Quality of Life" when compared to present day poorly-educated + tyrannically-lead = subsistence cultures.
____ The poor are always disenfranchised with limited education, and frequently have tyrants that threaten more than lead. EU &US Capitalist Republic and Religious Paradise supremacists as tyrants use fear and misdirection. As in fear for the welfare of your family... if you lose your job, and/or good actions without gods' approval will damn you two hell, and/or... you either understand at this point my point or your children will get the point later.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination. I know, either I am NostraDumAss reborn, or suffering my own version of psychosis... worrying about the future for children and grand kids that are not mine....
(1) SCO is hiding their lies. Legal wrangling by SCO to find a favorable (technology incompetent) court is a waste of corporate financial resources and burdens the recourses of interested others. SCO is the only party in any possible case that does not want to resolve these problems ASAP. Rather than a rush to court by SCO, it appears SCO is in a rush to scam and defraud businesses internationally. SCO needs to withdraw from the game they are playing, or play and lose, before some State Attorney General initiates a criminal investigation.
(2) SCO could win in a USA court and lay-claim to Linux. SCO would never win in a Canada, EU, China, India, French, Russian, British, Irish, Scot, German,.... So, in the USA, Linux would have underground dealers and eventually the FBI and ATFS (Alien Technology Free Software) agents would be arresting folks like me and you. The prison sentences will be comparable with cocaine and heroin dealers... (I know, but...) look at PA-1+2, DMCA, HDA,... directions (forget the US Constitution protecting US citizens). In other words, SCO is already in their grave the world community will not allow this frivolous BS to invade their sovereign nations. As for the USA... we wait to see...?
The USA FLAG waived proud and high, as the USA Constitution ideals died in Congress.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Plutocratic Capitalist perverts subverting Pluralistic Democracy and Open Economy are as clueless as Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI (1755-1793).
Public libraries are frequently the most parochial in the USA.
OS/GPL software has an initial general target audience "The Desktop".
I suggest, in the USA, obtain a LOC ISSN [http://www.loc.gov/issn] listing as an annual "Open Source" software reference on CD/DVD media with an abstract description of a desktop OS Linux distribution with appropriate supporting GPL desktop software for YYYY. Then again a different path may be more appropriate (like a periodical) check under the LOC Cataloging Programs and services [http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir].
Donations of OS/GPL software references (listed in the LOC catalog) to university and community college libraries, in the USA, may be accepted as a gift to the library and checked out by students, professors,... for the purpose of study, use, install,.... Students/community may one day habitually and freely install and upgrade the most current OS/GPL software for personal use.
University students are more likely (I think) to discover value in OS/GPL software, and maybe even request the university library obtain the most up to date releases of the Linux kernel and other OS/GPL applications. Well, where would educational institution libraries obtain free (or media cost) OS products for their shelves and loaning to students?
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Authentic People prefer dominion over the moment, a place, and self. Authentic People plant seeds of human evolution, destiny, and envy. Primitives will always enviously try to raze the dream and ideal. _ Plutocrat Tyrants prefer judicial jeopardy to honorable death. _ Plutocrat Megalomaniacs prefer death before public recognition. _ Plutocrat Capitalist prefer a debased public to civilization. _ Trivial Denizens prefer a sullied public to honorable endeavor.
This is just hearsay from a very recent OPEN-DOOR Washington meeting.
"THANK Goad, PRAISE Ollie, GORY-B2 Yoho-Way,.... We have the keys to paradise. The ultimate knowledge that comes from having access to all knowledge is ours. Yippidy-dippidy-doodaa we control all the world now including the slums, sluts, and slackers of the Internet Kingdom. Now we get the needed Linus brain transplant half for John and half for Don (zombies need brains, dead men don't) should make US twice as smart".//GW//
You must always pay for what you get. When you pay to get fucked... expect the whore to take your money, forget you, and be headed for the next fucking buck. You should not worry about the new economic morality. Be very happy that you have the standard of life that allows such quality rewards.
Nothing available... (I guess) something for the future.... I agree, initially the cost may be between $1K-$2K, to recoup unfunded development cost. However, production cost should be able to drop unit price to under $0.8K after the first year or few thousand units sold. This is a human welfare necessity not a "bread & butter" issue for anyone's survival. It would need to be affordable to many not the wealthy few. Portability of personal wearable gear in public places for gaming may have some support value... for independently controlled Avatar Populated Experience Simulations (APES, pun intended) environments/bars/....
I looked at the emoscop.
An emoscop adapter on a less expensive 2Meg or 4Meg pixel camera may be a very
good way to reduce the cost of building a video headset for the Legally
Blind. I'll be glad when I retire in a few (too many) years and have time
to build a prototype (maybe someone will do it before me,... I hope they won't
patent what I consider an obvious application of available technology). After I
retire..., taking the SF farther may involve some of the concepts implied by
the below websites.
I cover Special Interest (SI) with the word plutocrat, because wealth is implied by "SI" in a Capitalist Republic.
Also, the "Capitalist Republic" is not limited to financial Wealth as associated with WMF/WTO, money, banks,.... Wealth is anything with a recognized exchange/control value (it could be property, military, weapons, subservient people,... this would include a religious regime, aristocracy, and/or China. Never consider the US and EU as in a different basket (just a more, then most, affluent and comfortable one). Without democracy (Government by "ALL" the People) we all will suffer except the select few, and the select few should always consider the repercussions: (1) Religious Wars, (2) French Reign of Terror, (3) the purging of Nazis' "Brown Shirts", Stalin's Paranoia, MS Mao's Cultural Revolution, (4) many more throughout recorded history (including Japan, Egypt, Greece,...), (5) whatever comes next....
plutocracy (pl-tokre-se) noun
___1. Government by the wealthy. ___2. A wealthy class that controls a government. ___3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
plutocrat (plte-krat) noun plutocratic or plutocratical adjective plutocratically adverb
OldHawk777
That's why I call US & EU the Capitalist Repub
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Folks,
_____If public faith is lost, then the system (democracy) fails. System security must always support the public faith in democracy by assuring legitimate, veracious, and verifiable results. It is better that the nation and citizens die or fade into history, then allowing democracy to fail.
_____A democracy is a nation where the citizens feel individually responsible for deciding their destiny. Corporate, religious, and plutocratic institutions are disenfranchised in a democracy, because of the human psychology/society premise of "Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely." _____This is part of the reason for the separation of powers in our USA Constitution, but though implied we have never been able to completely protect the election process and/or eliminate corruption of elected officials that vote/act in the interest of the corporate, religious, and plutocratic interest while verbally patronizing US citizens with "FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN", "IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST",... or other such poppycock [AKA: BS] rhetoric.
_____Rhetoric is frequently the only skill most preachers and politicians have, and without honor and ethics they are puppets of any megalomaniac in power. Plutocratic factions promoting their interest know that they always have allies (religious terrorist (Christian Moslem and Jew), Nazis,... whatever they are called) and need one great leader that will help murder the opposition literally. _____The nonsense rhetoric of some politicians and preachers is at this level. Just pay attention to Jerry Falwell, his colleagues, and followers [http://www.funnystrange.com/quiz/], and their close politician friends), and never forget the "Honorable for some" Louis Farrakhan. Fortunately the claptrap rhetoric has not been able to subdue the commonsense of US citizens and our birthright for skepticism of authority's self-interest and delusions of grandeur.
_____We can still vote for better citizens to take any politicians place in Washington DC, state capitals, and locally. Politicians are all (for now) replaceable. This is the way to put a politicians head up their own self-important ass and let them know their shit truly stinks. For preachers, let GOD judge them. For the Corporate and plutocratic institutions lets disenfranchise them from our democratic process and return to one person one vote by eliminating the purchased sound-bite rhetoric elections.
_____Do you feel more secure today then you did on 2001/09/11? Do you feel national interest, economy, and security are the priority of today's politicians? I agree with JFK "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." I would add, be responsible to the USA Constitution and Democracy, "ask every politician and preacher what have they done for the NATION?", If they wear $500 to $2,000 dollar suits, have a personal income of more than $250,000.00 annually, and ask for any citizen to sacrifice and donate money to GOD or a cause then they are frauds.
FCC management performs as well as CIA, FBI, DOD, NASA, LANL,... management. Management (2 out of 3) in Government are mediocre to poor performers at their job (US Business is about the same). I do not know any of them to be wife-beaters, but they are employee abusers. They let the foot-soldiers, worker-bees, pack-mules,... of their organization know that they are in charge of the work-place world, that everyone is replaceable (except themselves), that what you provide to them in the work environment is their IP product and only their name will appear on external distributions. These managers contract out as many jobs as possible to USA business, foreign countries if possible or by whoops double-blind sub-contract outsourcing. They are more interested in image then performance. They excel at suck-up socializing, playing golf to lose, drink to be a part of the management team, they are prostitutes in wool-suits and ties.
The FCC will continue to do the stupid things that are politically correct for the Capitalist Republic. FCC performance in the public interest has been exceptionally poor. Politicians, IP/PO, FTC, WTO, IMF,... are not gangs interested in the public welfare, but they do show a consistent interest in exploitation of the citizens of the US, EU,....
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination. So, don't whine about my comments, because your hallucination is different.
Governance of the international community on the internet by any parochial government (US, EU, UN, China,...) would be a disaster. The Bamboo Curtin Network (Intranet) of China, The diminishing freedom network of EU and US,... the internet may become the tool of government to control the public. It is already very easy (by planting a Trojan-virus) to monitor novice users activities (audio always, video when available) in the vicinity. If security and encryption is controlled by the state then expect the state to abuse the citizens. Over the past two decades very few (in comparison) laws on technology (Computers, Software, Bio and Nano,...) were in the public interest. Most laws in the US and EU on Privacy, IP, Security,... have been in the favor of governments and capitalism. The UN would do no better with dictatorial powers over the internet. The UN should never be able to tell me, EU, US, or others what we can/cannot do on the internet... it would be tyranny. However, the UN should help standardize file formats, protecting OS and virtual public property, develop international agreements that promote human welfare, education, and ecologically sound development,.... The UN should defend to the best of its ability the freedoms and openness of interaction, information,... for all nations, cultures, and people.
Better, I can see your point, from your interpretation of the key phrases you selected. Now here is what I think is the main point protecting GPL-IP, Open source and standards, Public Domain (due to age or intent of creator) property must be as aggressively protected from wanton and major assaults by profit motivated thieves and pirates. To do this laws must be passed by governments and internationally agreed upon, just like current laws governing commerce,....
Many folks today do not understand that there is public property (sometimes called not-for-profit code/content/IP/...), which is not for free (and is not a school, city/national park,...), but does exist primarily for the good of humanity not for exploitation (as attempted with the human gnome/genetics) by the international capitalist republic steering the WTO/IMF/... for influence expansion of the capitalist republic. In this manner you are correct there are some folks that have decided (for the greater good of humanity) to provide very real IP to the collective resources of humanity. Again, this concept does not advocate collectivization, but does mean that if someone wants to contribute, then what is provided should not be vandalized and/or exploited by the greedy and unethical fools for profit.
Therefor, I can lookup socialism and collectivism, but I am not sure it will get you out of your box-thought process. As another point, simply because someone champions humanity (we are our brothers' keeper when they are sick, uneducated, terrorized,....) does not mean they are the enemy, fools, socialist,... hell they may JFC come back to visit earth.
As noted from my last post dogma BS whether on socialism, capitalism, or is in fact pejorative. Give fools (politicians, dictators, demigods,...) a label and box (dogma) and they automatically start trying to fit the whole human heard in to an space most cannot fit. This attitude on dogma (religious, political, economic,...) does not make me a nihilist/anarchist, lets leave everyone outside these BS dogma-boxes. I (like many others) know there must be much better ways for humanity to go forward. The current dogma-boxes are little better then those used by Rome 2K or Egypt 4K years ago. The dogma-boxes are slightly adjusted in attempts to cope with changes in technology and population, seldom or never to improve the human species condition and promote evolution.
The marketplace already significantly rewards "profit-performance" and lies, greed, immorality,... Enron, Global Crossings,.... Yes, it's true. The general public sees as "profit-performance", lies, greed, immorality,... I see the same. Maybe you should look again.
Software MS-Win or Linux, the jury is still out. Currently, I support the EFF and non-profit OSDs. I cannot program but I can make small yearly donations to support their humanitarian mission. What the profit motivated OSDs (SCO, MS,...) do is of no interest to me (I have none of their stock in my portfolio.
You missed it. Socialism, very funny. I have always considered socialism, communism,... as dysfunctional as any other form of plutocracy including aristocracy, draconian states, capitalist republics (profit based economy),....
Pluralistic Democracies (as opposed to a plutocratic democracy) would seek a performance based economic model that significantly rewarded performance, but did not enrich greedy profit motivated failures.
I pay for all my software and hardware... not only the MS-Win products I have, but also Mandrake 7.0, Redhat 9.0,....
I believe in payment for products and performance, I am against thievery/piracy/cons/scams/... of all sorts, I expect the capitalist republic profit motivation to (as already proven in my reality) to seek profit not performance. If there is expectation that destruction of "open source/standards" in this capitalist republic profit economy will provide greater profit, then I do expect attacks against the products and communities supporting "open source/standards".... Someone on the news just needs to say frequently "they are all a bunch of hackers", God Bless America (GBA), they are attacking the homeland. BS-Image is everything (it will hang you/US) when news is a sound-bite from a talking head.
On such issues the EU should not show itself to be as parochial as mainland China and the US Congress and President. The EU should request action by the UN to develop such globally important standards.
Such "Open Technology" actions that do not focus on the UN as the only path towards success are counter productive for humanity and wasteful of valuable and limited resources.
"Open Technology" for all of humanity to develop. Learning Environment Independent Architecture (LEIA) technology from digitized common format content to global broadcast hardware and software open source/standards. Research and Development (Medicine, Science, Technology,...) centers that translate voice and/or documents on-the-fly (real-time) for Collaborative Learning Interactive Communities (CLIC),... continue to all the benifits for developing nations and global business/commerse/markets/...
Watermarking will just be another way of clouding an issue. With GPL-IP you need a protective shield, that is accepted by the UN (under international treaties) and major governments that are willing to pound and fine pirates and thieves of GPL-IP. The UN needs to come together to provide for the common defense of GPL-IP, the Public property of humanity (the Genetics, Genome, Evolution,...),... a few other major items.
As for all the copyright and patent stuff, let them protect their shit, it is their right (I have always paid the OEMs and OSDs for my hardware and software). Twenty/fifty years from now they, their company, and products will be under the pile of dust (I suspect), but for now expect a powerful affiliation of the vicious, powerful, and foolish to try and maintain by any means the present amicable conditions for greed and control. They will try their best to destroy GPL, Linux,.... They may even subcontract to India, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel,... to develop major/unique viruses for Linux, Open-Office,... in attacks to destroy the "Open Source and GPL" communities and others with open standards concepts.
I do believe it is advisable that every new version (X.0) release should be properly labeled and identified for contributors/community (GPL-IP) then placed in the LOC, ECLAS, IPL, PG, maybe other major libraries. of major "open source" products (Linux, Open-Office,...), and major public property content is a gift to humanity and should be properly achieved and protected from potential destructive practices of megalomaniacs. Such official filling and library index registration should be able to provide legal evidence and protection for posterity.
OldHawk777 Reality is a self induced hallucination.
Why worry about doing a good job, when a very poorly performed job still provides exceptional financial rewards, no loss of benefits, no penalty.... It has become the "silver-plated" meal ticket for screw-ups and SNAFUS (in business and government).
Look at NASA failures and loss of USA prestige in the sciences, FBI failures and a security through obscurity hoax plan, Homeland Defense failures or whoops accidental success,.... I mean even the NSA has OSD software subcontracts with mainland China. Important sites in the DC area have been reported in the news as running applications with Trojan-horse spy viruses for months.
USA business (some not all) same direction, management has become the stern-hardass joke of conmen and scam-artist without (maybe) any laws broke.
Something needs to be done...; Therefor, this is my little patriotic part. Since, I have been told I am getting to old to play a young mans game.
I strongly agree, "you cannot generalize that to "most", since new businesses are not, in fact, "most" businesses". That was not my intent. My intent was making an observation from my perspective of current and recent events over the past five years.
I do not like liars, there appears to me to be a lack of good ethics in business and government (not all, but far to many) management with blame placed on others.
These days when I hear/see a democratic politician blame a republican politician, I feel I should blame the democrat for the problem. When I hear/see a Republican blame the civil-servants or soldiers for a problem, I feel blame is on the Republican. Corporate CEOs, CFOs,... Business (the same) wants to blame and point the fingers for failures at everyone, except themselves.
I now believe management as a privileged class (like in an Aristocracy or Plutocracy) in the USA and EU needs to be held accountable for damages and mistakes... just like a doctor or hospital for incompetence and/or dangerous unnecessary procedures.
PLEASE, DO NOT WATCH ANYMORE RUSH LIMBAUGH specials. I agree, he is a great stand-up comic and drug-addict (like some others). Some folks, I just can't take as seriously smart (Rush is more like a pseudo-intellectual).
Ollie North is still a pathetic joke.
Dumb Quail will always be a bird-brain.
If you are so shallow as to not understand what/why I write, then don't be so foolish as to reply with a temper tantrum of trained/practiced Rush rhetoric.
I will always remain who I am whether the mod-points are up or down.
HAVE-FUN, try to figure it out, even Don Rumsfeld doubts his own BS or don't you keep up with current and recent events.
There will be good honest folks, true-blue Americans all, raised from the dead to provide verifiable identity, because no agency knows for sure who's dead yet.
Then again in a few years they will get a big database going that identifies all the verified dead. The contract for the database will go to the Database American Future Technical (DAFT) Company who's parent company is "Patriotic Alliance" Halliburton Brown & Root....
Anyway, DAFT subcontracts to small businesses in Pakistan and China will perform data entry as it is received from the US Deaths Agency that received the data from the FBI who verified the death from local municipal records.
Finally, corporate America will be able to issue ID cards to whoever walks through the door. This is not a job that politicians would want to have civil servants perform, because America Businesses do everything better then government employees. Examples: Global-Cross/Double-Cross, Enrun/AnRun with the money, Diebald/Scalped,... many... many others. Politicians and CEOs will help build the future of America.
Hell, maybe Mexico (in 50 to 100 years) will eventually be able to invade and save US.
Prescience: Frequently is observing the obvious that will happen while others dream-on obliviously to reality. Examples: Would be the US Congress and Bush Cabinet.
If you contract out your core business data or processes/applications, then expect to suffer many consequences beyond your control. Yep, it is USA government and business SOP... old news articles liked on slashdot somewhere.
Also, if USA law applies in India, China,... wherever outside the USA, then it must be a USA possession or colony. So, extortion in the USA may not be extortion in Pakistan. Sort of like some corporate and/or political corruption in the USA is only criminal in the minds of many citizens. Breaking a law is criminal, breaking a principle or ethics is profitable [GBA!].
Slashdot Mirror
Interactive filtering of SpAm by targets/users is best.
... maybe a couple other protocol/apps to provide identification and routing within TCP/IP packets for login, email, web-surf, VoIP, ... so many check, verify, route, ....
...), a group of addresses (job change, organization name update, ...), or all addresses (global list update/upload, reduce complexity, dropout, ...).
....
...) added to a user-AEL, or enough URL information to link back to an online business/interest website to track resent online banking, trading/investing, purchases, subscriptions, ... print invoices, or ....
I think; maybe, valid personal email should be the focus.
We want our email, but we do NOT want sPaM.
Currently we use USRID/AccID, DNS, DHCP, ARP-RARP,
I agree, with others, the W3C (someone) will need to add some RFCs on check/verify local "Lookup" user approved filter for email.
As Relates to SpaM/Email:
1. Subscribers, customers, users of an email service must be required to define an "Approved Email List (AEL)". Email client applications should require a user-action (right-click-select option, maybe) to generate a UDP/TCP update-message to add an addressor's email to the user-AEL resident on the email/profile server. To delete any addressors from a user-AEL should require a few extra steps of accessing the user-account web-page and specifically selecting one address (we change friends, someone moves,
2. Email service providers must provide to users a web-app/text-upload process for managing a user-AEL. (1) Either upload formatted text (with total content overwrite option) user-AEL as part of the user account/profile definition, or (2) on the email service domain's open/manage email account website a web-app that allows easy addition/deletion to the user-AEL.
3. New/Unknown email addressors, those not identified in an addressee user-AEL, with a datagram over 128-bytes (standardized size more/less for one name and an email address) are terminated, not delivered, bit-bucket, not replied/forwarded,
4. New/Unknown email addressors, those not identified in an addressee user-AEL, with a datagram under 128-bytes are delivered to the email addressee. This will allow the email addressee their option to decide; if the email addressor should be added to their user-AEL. This will allow an addressor to provide enough information to be potentially (as family, friend, business, hobby,
5. Incoming email are checked for valid local email accounts (NOT, then terminate). Incoming email having a valid local address are then checked by comparing the addresses with the user-AEL with the specific email address (userid@domain.___) of origin (MATCH NOT, then terminate). Repeat email terminations/rejects from same "@domain.___" could be blacklisted as a sPam@domain.___ unless recognized by a local user-AEL.
I'll stop counting here, because I think the rest can be surmised and counting gets boring. This process could be close to transparent for email users, except for the managing of an email account user-AEL. It would reduce spAM and potentially malicious/viral email in obvious ways by limiting allowed payloads/datagrams from unknown (un-validated/vouched for) sources in any email. Vouched for addressors (causing problems) on a user-AEL could be more traceable. The processing/handling overhead of such a systems would (I expect) be about the same as the present process and would significantly reduce email-server storage space requirements. Email is un-trustable, but required tool in the business world, and increasingly burdensome of our personal time.
The spAm-cans could only dump to email users that included them in their user-AEL. Over time it would reduce the spam-flood and/or spam-DDOS on the internet, because few (maybe none) would ever see spam-stuff and SPAM would prove a financi
H4x0r, I must reply to others that would dispute the original and your post.
... okay what about the streets of India. Gandhi and Churchill, look at MLK in the "60s" and a national holiday today, .... .... ... many others that are much better known are not near the stature in character of the individual many of US just call RMS or Stallman. Many of us contribute (in many ways) to keeping the ship afloat for humanity and business, but I have "NO DOUBT" as to who built this mighty ship for all us and the future. Only the greatest of evils will sink ....
____ Ask people on the streets of Rome about 2 kilo years ago about Caesar or Octavian and most would be able to tell you something about them. Ask them about JFC, Jews, China, etc, and they will look at you funny. Greeks make up a very small percentage of hysterical groups. The only way for the average citizen to hear about any issues today is through big lawsuits like Pontius vs. Jesus.
____ Anyway, reality is almost always deceiving to almost all those present. Mother Theresa of Calcutta when compared to PD of the UK today in Europe/USA
____ I agree with the original post. RMS will be one of the greats in human history, some may try to remove him from history, but their efforts will not be effective in another century/millennium. RMS's ideals/concepts/ethics extend well beyond the parochial perspective of free-software verses profit/capital and the virtual power of the transient (life and money).
____ There are a few historical examples that strongly support the original post, and RMS is modern/technology origin of Open Source, Standards, Communities, free-software, international colleagues projects/collaboration for business and humanity,
____ RMS is today the greatest living American. George, Bill, John, Ronnie,
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OldHawk777
Mr. Soto's SPAM love can in no way justify indiscriminate delivery of SPAM to me or other citizens. The WSJ editors have become true space-cases to even present this as news (business) worthy. The WSJ was probably an early supporter of the "Opt-Out-Privacy-Slight OOPS" citizens' rights rape. The WSJ (of today) would probable present as business news worthy the personal satisfaction and financial benefits of a child pornographer. The WSJ is implying what is good for some must be good for everyone (I feel ... VFS[:(.
W.S.J. URSICK
Regulation controlled by business/religious special interest is terrible, will stifle innovation, enhances control of society, protectionist (but not isolationist), and does resemble the Stalinist/Maoist, and for the past couple decades a Capitalist model of a command economy in the USA and EU (No wonder the Chinese Government is so accepting of the new Capitalist economic model). Just say three times very fast Power to the Party in escalating volume and excitement, and PLEASE, don't get lost in a Blutarski Collegiate reverie of younger days (unless of course you are that young and vacuous). Some folks look at Patent and Copyright laws today as a way to regulate who keeps market share, and telecommunications (today a joke in the USA), gnetics (own the natural now by law), nanotech (governed by techno idiot politicians), .... Regulation cannot be blamed, but
intent, interest, and implementation does screw-the-pooch
for the rest of US, EU, and the future. Things will go on, but they
will be crippled, mangled, deranged, and debilitated costing money,
lives, hopes, and dreams. Only the religious and plutocratic
terrorist will live happly ever after with control of others for
some time.
Regulation in a true democracy where Businesses, Institutions, Religions, Special Interest Groups (including foreign, ecology, animals, ...),
individuals acting/working to promote special interest and
dynastic/aristocratic political plutocratic oligarch groups (short
phrase Bullshit Artist), ... are disenfranchised, because
only a Citizen is allowed to participate in a democracy.
A building, property, wealth, thing, object, organization, institution can never be a Citizen. In the USA and EU these non-human ...
non-citizen (Bill Gates is Citizen Bill, the CEO is Microsoft not a
citizen) things do control the nation and law (PA1/2, DMCA, WTO, MS,
GM, IBM, ... manymanymanymore).
BACK to main point, I have said for a few years:
____ Patents and Copyrights are not bad, but they are sorely abused by the willy-nilly application and approval process that exist today and stand a good chance of being a perpetrated crime on future expansion and improvements in humanity's future. Many (not all) business executives and politicians (of the Ned Ludd [1779] ilk) walk hand-in-hand promoting revolting exploitation of nations/people and plunder for irresponsibility (at least) and/or criminal theft (by Common Sense, if not the law). I can think of no law created, on science, technology, citizen-rights, security ..., in the
USA in the last twenty years that was, as stated by others
significantly, not flawed by political temerity, special interest,
and foolish expediency.
____ Iconoclastic (Yep, BUSINESS is a religion for some.) assaults by concepts like Open Source, Open Standards, General Public License (GPL), Open Community of Consensus/Interest, ... are the nascent nexus of a great future
for the USA, business, humanity, innovation, success, .... There are
new business models/architectures developing that will replace
Keynesian definition of economies and markets of the last couple
millennium. J.M. Keynes may have written down the definition/theory
in the last century, and others wrote such wieners as Trickle
Down and Supply Side, but in application they are
all failing the economic requirements of today and will fail US in
the future.
____ The new open global market will of necessity be far more Open Community in structure than the legacy Keynesian and stovepipe management structure embraced today in national/regional businesses. SCO, Microsoft, IBM, ... and many other USA businesses will either
embrace fast paced Open Consensus Community change models
that manage concepts, directions, performances, resolutions,
developments, shifts/jumps, ... or become a preserved tr
____ I like capitalism as an economic theory and model. Capitalism when strictly and correctly functioning as the economic model rewards performance and seeks to enhance performance, thereby generating profits and rewards. Today most political, business, and religion, leaders consider capitalism as a profits/rewards model which requires little performance, no responsibility, delusional belief of virtual power over citizens, elevated privileges/value of personal life, .... Their shit (via Hollywood Avatar enhancements) smells sweet to the poorly educated fools looking for a shepherd to lead them to fleecing or slaughter. The uneducated can be the tools of great evil, just as evil can look seductively good to the best educated fools.
....
____ Capitalism as a form of plutocratic government is as big a failure and equivalent to Communism (a social theory applied to encompass economics) , Aristocracy (as validated by Marie and Louis, Nick and Alex, and many others),
____ Pure Democracy, which promotes and defends the rights of citizens, and disenfranchises Capitalist Republic and Religious Paradise supremacists (institutions and special interest groups, are not citizens) is the only civilized, valid, and reasonable form of government ever to exist.
Simply stated ... if you ain't one of us ... you're screwed.
... not who performs best.
.... However, being as the middle-class will have been decimated to a very few "politically correct" managers ..., politicians will be able to praise themselves, business, and religious leaders for ending "Third World" poverty and problems. The beginning of a kinder and gentler "Second World" [AKA: New World Order] will provide US & EU with all we need to be good suitable workers (assets). I agree, there will be more of US & EU leading the "New World Order", but far less of US & EU citizens will continue to lead a privileged "Quality of Life" when compared to present day poorly-educated + tyrannically-lead = subsistence cultures.
... if you lose your job, and/or good actions without gods' approval will damn you two hell, and/or ... you either understand at this point my point or your children will get the point later.
... worrying about the future for children and grand kids that are not mine ....
(00) Troubleshooting experience does help.
(01) Field troubleshooting (real-job & real-world) experience is best.
(02) Help-desk folks with good intentions are script-readers not problem solvers.
(03) Troubleshooting experienced folks are seldom help-desk developers.
(04) Most field technicians are pluck-&-chuck manual readers.
(05) Troubleshooting experienced folks don't mentor pluck-&-chuck technicians.
(06) Pluck-&-chuck technicians are a managed "totally replaceable" field asset.
(07) Management knows that pluck-&-chuck and troubleshooting are equivalent skills.
(08) Management frequently decides who they like best
(09) Revolving Systemic Virtual [not real] Problem (RSVP) for US & EU management.
(0A) "Green-card" professionals cost less, and are therefor better for profit.
(0B) "Contract-out" professionals cost less, and are therefor better for profit.
(0C) "Foreign-culture" professionals are highly exploitable and extremely profitable.
(0D) US & EU Capitalist Republic favors profit over family, friend, and country.
(0E) US & EU Capitalist Republic values profit morals, not performance ethics.
(0F) US & EU expect your children (or grand kids) to have an either-or future:
______ Either they will be well educated to manage a profitable sweat-shop.
_________ Or they will be poorly educated to work in a profitable sweat-shop.
____ Either we can disenfranchise the plutocrats of the Capitalist Republic and Religious Paradise supremacists, or have posterity (our children) suffer the fate of what we fondly call the "Third World"
____ The poor are always disenfranchised with limited education, and frequently have tyrants that threaten more than lead. EU &US Capitalist Republic and Religious Paradise supremacists as tyrants use fear and misdirection. As in fear for the welfare of your family
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination. I know, either I am NostraDumAss reborn, or suffering my own version of psychosis
Folks,
.... So, in the USA, Linux would have underground dealers and eventually the FBI and ATFS (Alien Technology Free Software) agents would be arresting folks like me and you. The prison sentences will be comparable with cocaine and heroin dealers ... (I know, but ...) look at PA-1+2, DMCA, HDA, ... directions (forget the US Constitution protecting US citizens). In other words, SCO is already in their grave the world community will not allow this frivolous BS to invade their sovereign nations. As for the USA ... we wait to see ...?
(1) SCO is hiding their lies. Legal wrangling by SCO to find a favorable (technology incompetent) court is a waste of corporate financial resources and burdens the recourses of interested others. SCO is the only party in any possible case that does not want to resolve these problems ASAP. Rather than a rush to court by SCO, it appears SCO is in a rush to scam and defraud businesses internationally. SCO needs to withdraw from the game they are playing, or play and lose, before some State Attorney General initiates a criminal investigation.
(2) SCO could win in a USA court and lay-claim to Linux. SCO would never win in a Canada, EU, China, India, French, Russian, British, Irish, Scot, German,
The USA FLAG waived proud and high, as the USA Constitution ideals died in Congress.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Plutocratic Capitalist perverts subverting Pluralistic Democracy and Open Economy are as clueless as Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI (1755-1793).
Public libraries are frequently the most parochial in the USA.
... for the purpose of study, use, install, .... Students/community may one day habitually and freely install and upgrade the most current OS/GPL software for personal use.
OS/GPL software has an initial general target audience "The Desktop".
I suggest, in the USA, obtain a LOC ISSN [http://www.loc.gov/issn] listing as an annual "Open Source" software reference on CD/DVD media with an abstract description of a desktop OS Linux distribution with appropriate supporting GPL desktop software for YYYY. Then again a different path may be more appropriate (like a periodical) check under the LOC Cataloging Programs and services [http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir].
Donations of OS/GPL software references (listed in the LOC catalog) to university and community college libraries, in the USA, may be accepted as a gift to the library and checked out by students, professors,
University students are more likely (I think) to discover value in OS/GPL software, and maybe even request the university library obtain the most up to date releases of the Linux kernel and other OS/GPL applications. Well, where would educational institution libraries obtain free (or media cost) OS products for their shelves and loaning to students?
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Authentic People prefer dominion over the moment, a place, and self.
Authentic People plant seeds of human evolution, destiny, and envy.
Primitives will always enviously try to raze the dream and ideal.
_ Plutocrat Tyrants prefer judicial jeopardy to honorable death.
_ Plutocrat Megalomaniacs prefer death before public recognition.
_ Plutocrat Capitalist prefer a debased public to civilization.
_ Trivial Denizens prefer a sullied public to honorable endeavor.
This is just hearsay from a very recent OPEN-DOOR Washington meeting.
.... We have the keys to paradise. The ultimate knowledge that comes from having access to all knowledge is ours. Yippidy-dippidy-doodaa we control all the world now including the slums, sluts, and slackers of the Internet Kingdom. Now we get the needed Linus brain transplant half for John and half for Don (zombies need brains, dead men don't) should make US twice as smart". //GW//
"THANK Goad, PRAISE Ollie, GORY-B2 Yoho-Way,
Folks,
... expect the whore to take your money, forget you, and be headed for the next fucking buck. You should not worry about the new economic morality. Be very happy that you have the standard of life that allows such quality rewards.
You must always pay for what you get. When you pay to get fucked
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Nothing available ... (I guess) something for the future .... I agree, initially the cost may be between $1K-$2K, to recoup unfunded development cost. However, production cost should be able to drop unit price to under $0.8K after the first year or few thousand units sold. This is a human welfare necessity not a "bread & butter" issue for anyone's survival. It would need to be affordable to many not the wealthy few. Portability of personal wearable gear in public places for gaming may have some support value ... for independently controlled Avatar Populated Experience Simulations (APES, pun intended) environments/bars/....
Thanks for your comment.
I looked at the emoscop. An emoscop adapter on a less expensive 2Meg or 4Meg pixel camera may be a very good way to reduce the cost of building a video headset for the Legally Blind. I'll be glad when I retire in a few (too many) years and have time to build a prototype (maybe someone will do it before me, ... I hope they won't
patent what I consider an obvious application of available technology). After I
retire ..., taking the SF farther may involve some of the concepts implied by
the below websites.
Electroreactive and conducting polymers:
http://www.wcupa.edu/_acad emics/sch_cas.che/mrc.htm
Smart Optics:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/d oi/10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.44126.x/abs/
Flexible water-filled lens concepts:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses /fall2002/physicslabs/physics1clab/
Maybe a smart/programable emoscop with eltroreactive fluid-filled lenses for .... As Annie always said to Daddy
WarBucks; TOMORROW ....
OldHawk777
I agree with you. This stuff is getting scary.
.... Wealth ... this ...), (5) whatever comes next ....
I cover Special Interest (SI) with the word plutocrat,
because wealth is implied by "SI" in a Capitalist Republic.
Also, the "Capitalist Republic" is not limited to financial
Wealth as associated with WMF/WTO, money, banks,
is anything with a recognized exchange/control value (it could
be property, military, weapons, subservient people,
would include a religious regime, aristocracy, and/or China.
Never consider the US and EU as in a different basket (just a
more, then most, affluent and comfortable one). Without democracy
(Government by "ALL" the People) we all will suffer except the
select few, and the select few should always consider the
repercussions: (1) Religious Wars, (2) French Reign of Terror, (3) the purging of Nazis' "Brown Shirts", Stalin's Paranoia, MS Mao's Cultural Revolution, (4) many more throughout recorded history (including Japan, Egypt, Greece,
plutocracy (pl-tokre-se) noun
___1. Government by the wealthy.
___2. A wealthy class that controls a government.
___3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
[Greek ploutokratia: ploutos, wealth + -kratia, -cracy.]
plutocrat (plte-krat) noun
plutocratic or plutocratical adjective
plutocratically adverb
OldHawk777
Folks,
... or other such poppycock [AKA: BS] rhetoric.
... whatever they are called) and need one great leader that will help murder the opposition literally.
_____If public faith is lost, then the system (democracy) fails. System security must always support the public faith in democracy by assuring legitimate, veracious, and verifiable results. It is better that the nation and citizens die or fade into history, then allowing democracy to fail.
_____A democracy is a nation where the citizens feel individually responsible for deciding their destiny. Corporate, religious, and plutocratic institutions are disenfranchised in a democracy, because of the human psychology/society premise of "Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
_____This is part of the reason for the separation of powers in our USA Constitution, but though implied we have never been able to completely protect the election process and/or eliminate corruption of elected officials that vote/act in the interest of the corporate, religious, and plutocratic interest while verbally patronizing US citizens with "FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN", "IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST",
_____Rhetoric is frequently the only skill most preachers and politicians have, and without honor and ethics they are puppets of any megalomaniac in power. Plutocratic factions promoting their interest know that they always have allies (religious terrorist (Christian Moslem and Jew), Nazis,
_____The nonsense rhetoric of some politicians and preachers is at this level. Just pay attention to Jerry Falwell, his colleagues, and followers [http://www.funnystrange.com/quiz/], and their close politician friends), and never forget the "Honorable for some" Louis Farrakhan. Fortunately the claptrap rhetoric has not been able to subdue the commonsense of US citizens and our birthright for skepticism of authority's self-interest and delusions of grandeur.
_____We can still vote for better citizens to take any politicians place in Washington DC, state capitals, and locally. Politicians are all (for now) replaceable. This is the way to put a politicians head up their own self-important ass and let them know their shit truly stinks. For preachers, let GOD judge them. For the Corporate and plutocratic institutions lets disenfranchise them from our democratic process and return to one person one vote by eliminating the purchased sound-bite rhetoric elections.
_____Do you feel more secure today then you did on 2001/09/11? Do you feel national interest, economy, and security are the priority of today's politicians? I agree with JFK "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." I would add, be responsible to the USA Constitution and Democracy, "ask every politician and preacher what have they done for the NATION?", If they wear $500 to $2,000 dollar suits, have a personal income of more than $250,000.00 annually, and ask for any citizen to sacrifice and donate money to GOD or a cause then they are frauds.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
FCC management performs as well as CIA, FBI, DOD, NASA, LANL, ... management. Management (2 out of 3) in Government are mediocre to poor performers at their job (US Business is about the same). I do not know any of them to be wife-beaters, but they are employee abusers. They let the foot-soldiers, worker-bees, pack-mules, ... of their organization know that they are in charge of the work-place world, that everyone is replaceable (except themselves), that what you provide to them in the work environment is their IP product and only their name will appear on external distributions. These managers contract out as many jobs as possible to USA business, foreign countries if possible or by whoops double-blind sub-contract outsourcing. They are more interested in image then performance. They excel at suck-up socializing, playing golf to lose, drink to be a part of the management team, they are prostitutes in wool-suits and ties.
... are not gangs interested in the public welfare, but they do show a consistent interest in exploitation of the citizens of the US, EU, ....
The FCC will continue to do the stupid things that are politically correct for the Capitalist Republic. FCC performance in the public interest has been exceptionally poor. Politicians, IP/PO, FTC, WTO, IMF,
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination. So, don't whine about my comments, because your hallucination is different.
Governance of the international community on the internet by any parochial government (US, EU, UN, China, ...) would be a disaster. The Bamboo Curtin Network (Intranet) of China, The diminishing freedom network of EU and US, ... the internet may become the tool of government to control the public. It is already very easy (by planting a Trojan-virus) to monitor novice users activities (audio always, video when available) in the vicinity. If security and encryption is controlled by the state then expect the state to abuse the citizens. ...) were in the public interest. Most laws in the US and EU on Privacy, IP, Security, ... have been in the favor of governments and capitalism. The UN would do no better with dictatorial powers over the internet. The UN should never be able to tell me, EU, US, or others what we can/cannot do on the internet ... it would be tyranny. .... The UN should defend to the best of its ability the freedoms and openness of interaction, information, ... for all nations, cultures, and people.
Over the past two decades very few (in comparison) laws on technology (Computers, Software, Bio and Nano,
However, the UN should help standardize file formats, protecting OS and virtual public property, develop international agreements that promote human welfare, education, and ecologically sound development,
OldHawk777
Better, I can see your point, from your interpretation of the key phrases you selected. Now here is what I think is the main point protecting GPL-IP, Open source and standards, Public Domain (due to age or intent of creator) property must be as aggressively protected from wanton and major assaults by profit motivated thieves and pirates. To do this laws must be passed by governments and internationally agreed upon, just like current laws governing commerce, ....
...), but does exist primarily for the good of humanity not for exploitation (as attempted with the human gnome/genetics) by the international capitalist republic steering the WTO/IMF/... for influence expansion of the capitalist republic. In this manner you are correct there are some folks that have decided (for the greater good of humanity) to provide very real IP to the collective resources of humanity. Again, this concept does not advocate collectivization, but does mean that if someone wants to contribute, then what is provided should not be vandalized and/or exploited by the greedy and unethical fools for profit.
....) does not mean they are the enemy, fools, socialist, ... hell they may JFC come back to visit earth.
...) a label and box (dogma) and they automatically start trying to fit the whole human heard in to an space most cannot fit. This attitude on dogma (religious, political, economic, ...) does not make me a nihilist/anarchist, lets leave everyone outside these BS dogma-boxes. I (like many others) know there must be much better ways for humanity to go forward. The current dogma-boxes are little better then those used by Rome 2K or Egypt 4K years ago. The dogma-boxes are slightly adjusted in attempts to cope with changes in technology and population, seldom or never to improve the human species condition and promote evolution.
... Enron, Global Crossings, .... Yes, it's true. The general public sees as "profit-performance", lies, greed, immorality, ... I see the same. Maybe you should look again.
...) do is of no interest to me (I have none of their stock in my portfolio.
Many folks today do not understand that there is public property (sometimes called not-for-profit code/content/IP/...), which is not for free (and is not a school, city/national park,
Therefor, I can lookup socialism and collectivism, but I am not sure it will get you out of your box-thought process. As another point, simply because someone champions humanity (we are our brothers' keeper when they are sick, uneducated, terrorized,
As noted from my last post dogma BS whether on socialism, capitalism, or is in fact pejorative. Give fools (politicians, dictators, demigods,
The marketplace already significantly rewards "profit-performance" and lies, greed, immorality,
Software MS-Win or Linux, the jury is still out. Currently, I support the EFF and non-profit OSDs. I cannot program but I can make small yearly donations to support their humanitarian mission. What the profit motivated OSDs (SCO, MS,
Oldhawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
You missed it. Socialism, very funny. I have always considered socialism, communism,
Pluralistic Democracies (as opposed to a plutocratic democracy) would seek a performance based economic model that significantly rewarded performance, but did not enrich greedy profit motivated failures.
I pay for all my software and hardware
I believe in payment for products and performance, I am against thievery/piracy/cons/scams/... of all sorts, I expect the capitalist republic profit motivation to (as already proven in my reality) to seek profit not performance. If there is expectation that destruction of "open source/standards" in this capitalist republic profit economy will provide greater profit, then I do expect attacks against the products and communities supporting "open source/standards"
OldHawk777
On such issues the EU should not show itself to be as parochial as mainland China and the US Congress and President. The EU should request action by the UN to develop such globally important standards.
...) centers that translate voice and/or documents on-the-fly (real-time) for Collaborative Learning Interactive Communities (CLIC), ... continue to all the benifits for developing nations and global business/commerse/markets/...
Such "Open Technology" actions that do not focus on the UN as the only path towards success are counter productive for humanity and wasteful of valuable and limited resources.
"Open Technology" for all of humanity to develop. Learning Environment Independent Architecture (LEIA) technology from digitized common format content to global broadcast hardware and software open source/standards. Research and Development (Medicine, Science, Technology,
GET MOVING ASAP for all humanity.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Watermarking will just be another way of clouding an issue. With GPL-IP you need a protective shield, that is accepted by the UN (under international treaties) and major governments that are willing to pound and fine pirates and thieves of GPL-IP. The UN needs to come together to provide for the common defense of GPL-IP, the Public property of humanity (the Genetics, Genome, Evolution, ...), ... a few other major items.
.... They may even subcontract to India, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, ... to develop major/unique viruses for Linux, Open-Office, ... in attacks to destroy the "Open Source and GPL" communities and others with open standards concepts.
...), and major public property content is a gift to humanity and should be properly achieved and protected from potential destructive practices of megalomaniacs. Such official filling and library index registration should be able to provide legal evidence and protection for posterity.
As for all the copyright and patent stuff, let them protect their shit, it is their right (I have always paid the OEMs and OSDs for my hardware and software). Twenty/fifty years from now they, their company, and products will be under the pile of dust (I suspect), but for now expect a powerful affiliation of the vicious, powerful, and foolish to try and maintain by any means the present amicable conditions for greed and control. They will try their best to destroy GPL, Linux,
I do believe it is advisable that every new version (X.0) release should be properly labeled and identified for contributors/community (GPL-IP) then placed in the LOC, ECLAS, IPL, PG, maybe other major libraries. of major "open source" products (Linux, Open-Office,
OldHawk777
Reality is a self induced hallucination.
I am of the same belief about CEOs, CFOs, ....
.... It has become the "silver-plated" meal ticket for screw-ups and SNAFUS (in business and government).
.... I mean even the NSA has OSD software subcontracts with mainland China. Important sites in the DC area have been reported in the news as running applications with Trojan-horse spy viruses for months.
...; Therefor, this is my little patriotic part. Since, I have been told I am getting to old to play a young mans game.
Why worry about doing a good job, when a very poorly performed job still provides exceptional financial rewards, no loss of benefits, no penalty
Look at NASA failures and loss of USA prestige in the sciences, FBI failures and a security through obscurity hoax plan, Homeland Defense failures or whoops accidental success,
USA business (some not all) same direction, management has become the stern-hardass joke of conmen and scam-artist without (maybe) any laws broke.
Something needs to be done
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
I strongly agree, "you cannot generalize that to "most", since new businesses are not, in fact, "most" businesses". That was not my intent. My intent was making an observation from my perspective of current and recent events over the past five years.
... Business (the same) wants to blame and point the fingers for failures at everyone, except themselves.
... just like a doctor or hospital for incompetence and/or dangerous unnecessary procedures.
I do not like liars, there appears to me to be a lack of good ethics in business and government (not all, but far to many) management with blame placed on others.
These days when I hear/see a democratic politician blame a republican politician, I feel I should blame the democrat for the problem. When I hear/see a Republican blame the civil-servants or soldiers for a problem, I feel blame is on the Republican. Corporate CEOs, CFOs,
I now believe management as a privileged class (like in an Aristocracy or Plutocracy) in the USA and EU needs to be held accountable for damages and mistakes
There are always good apples in the basket.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
PLEASE, DO NOT WATCH ANYMORE RUSH LIMBAUGH specials. I agree, he is a great stand-up comic and drug-addict (like some others). Some folks, I just can't take as seriously smart (Rush is more like a pseudo-intellectual).
Ollie North is still a pathetic joke.
Dumb Quail will always be a bird-brain.
If you are so shallow as to not understand what/why I write, then don't be so foolish as to reply with a temper tantrum of trained/practiced Rush rhetoric.
I will always remain who I am whether the mod-points are up or down.
HAVE-FUN, try to figure it out, even Don Rumsfeld doubts his own BS or don't you keep up with current and recent events.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
There will be good honest folks, true-blue Americans all, raised from the dead to provide verifiable identity, because no agency knows for sure who's dead yet.
....
... many ... many others. Politicians and CEOs will help build the future of America.
Then again in a few years they will get a big database going that identifies all the verified dead. The contract for the database will go to the Database American Future Technical (DAFT) Company who's parent company is "Patriotic Alliance" Halliburton Brown & Root
Anyway, DAFT subcontracts to small businesses in Pakistan and China will perform data entry as it is received from the US Deaths Agency that received the data from the FBI who verified the death from local municipal records.
Finally, corporate America will be able to issue ID cards to whoever walks through the door. This is not a job that politicians would want to have civil servants perform, because America Businesses do everything better then government employees. Examples: Global-Cross/Double-Cross, Enrun/AnRun with the money, Diebald/Scalped,
Hell, maybe Mexico (in 50 to 100 years) will eventually be able to invade and save US.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
SOS, it ain't new ...
... old news articles liked on slashdot somewhere.
... wherever outside the USA, then it must be a USA possession or colony. So, extortion in the USA may not be extortion in Pakistan. Sort of like some corporate and/or political corruption in the USA is only criminal in the minds of many citizens. Breaking a law is criminal, breaking a principle or ethics is profitable [GBA!].
Prescience: Frequently is observing the obvious that will happen while others dream-on obliviously to reality. Examples: Would be the US Congress and Bush Cabinet.
If you contract out your core business data or processes/applications, then expect to suffer many consequences beyond your control. Yep, it is USA government and business SOP
Also, if USA law applies in India, China,
HAVE FUN - OldHawk777