All right fellow geeks, and those of you who don't define yourselves as geeks but still feel that this is an awful bit of legislation, this is not a time to DoS people.
This is a time to write to your Congressional Representatives. This is a time for everyone(and the "I don't live in the US" bit won't cut it-- you know that the MPAA will try to nail you no matter where you live) to write to multiple Congressional Reps and explain where you stand no matter where you live.
What the hell would she be doing giving commentary for LotR? Just because she was in Aussieland at the same time doesn't mean Jackson condescended to get her words(or mug) on record. In fact, Elijah Wood said something about her being rather aloof and bitchy to all the LotR people.
Tell you what. My girlfriend is going to be living two floors above Ms. "Portman" next year. I'll ask her if she's on video for LotR at all;)
Often property was just seized without any legal action being taken, or they would be found guilty of theft and heavily sentenced(moreso than usual).
Companies would also claim patent violations, and I think the extension in copyright law spawned from an argument that AT&T made against someone(can't remember who) for making public(free) a document that was available for $12.
Entirely ethical, I should think. You gave me the code and the open-source license to modify it as I see fit, didn't you?
That makes it legal, not necessarily ethical. The ethical content of your actions is actually debatable, since in effect you would be "stealing" from the company who would benefit. Same way avoiding television commercials is stealing, I'd say.
Not only does this bar the 'unwashed masses', it also bars Joe Expert Surfer who may just have a job as a janitor.
By barring plebes from their board, ICANN is setting up a precedent by which they can ban just about anyone: "haven't been in the industry for 7.5 years? Sorry!" "Oh, you use linux? That's too unpopular... Sorry!" Who would be qualified?
So I'm going to say it: ICANN can go to hell! Information wants to be free!
I don't think timothy is that far off here. The underlying philosophical question is whether or not we can hold someone guilty in the present for something that that person will do in the future. The United States has and is detaining people because of something that that person might do. This is an important question, because it has significant implications in regards to the "innocent until proven guilty" convention. How can you prove someone is guilty when the crime hasn't been committed yet?
Even without the link to terrorism, this has other significance to US policy today.
I'd say many of us are aware of how to perform a DoS attack. And many of us are not too happy with MS. Should it be legal to hold us responsible for a DoS attack that we might do if allowed to remain free?
After my junior year of high school my younger brother, one of his friends, and I were given a job putting our small town's factory online(custom home furnishings, would have required databases and loooooong calculations and lots of time). My older sister was given the position of project manager, due to the fact that she was a student at Harvard. I was the only person on the project with any programming experience. The owner of the factory was technologically challenged.
We suffered from many problems, but the key problem was that neither the factory owner nor my sister had any clue what was possible for us to do, and neither of them would listen to me when I attempted to explain things to them. Often when it seemed like they were listening, it turned out that they had merely nodded and smiled and continued believing what they wanted.
While I agree that it is important for project managers to have some applicable form of technical knowledge, I think the main problem is convincing upper management of that fact, as seems to be the point of this article. Is it possible to tell upper management that there needs to be someone knowledgeable about this stuff in charge when upper management has no clue themselves?
Well, since that's about all i hear about when you guys talk about geek conventions...;D I just figured I'd tell you that if you go to see the men talk she'll be less than 3 miles away, p'raps in her dorm room here at h'vard.
Wallow in that proximity, geeks!
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All right fellow geeks, and those of you who don't define yourselves as geeks but still feel that this is an awful bit of legislation, this is not a time to DoS people.
This is a time to write to your Congressional Representatives. This is a time for everyone(and the "I don't live in the US" bit won't cut it-- you know that the MPAA will try to nail you no matter where you live) to write to multiple Congressional Reps and explain where you stand no matter where you live.
If that doesn't work...
What the hell would she be doing giving commentary for LotR? Just because she was in Aussieland at the same time doesn't mean Jackson condescended to get her words(or mug) on record. In fact, Elijah Wood said something about her being rather aloof and bitchy to all the LotR people.
;)
Tell you what. My girlfriend is going to be living two floors above Ms. "Portman" next year. I'll ask her if she's on video for LotR at all
Often property was just seized without any legal action being taken, or they would be found guilty of theft and heavily sentenced(moreso than usual).
Companies would also claim patent violations, and I think the extension in copyright law spawned from an argument that AT&T made against someone(can't remember who) for making public(free) a document that was available for $12.
My point was that I didn't agree with this. Evidently dry wit doesn't come across well in text, eh?
sorry for the confusion.
That makes it legal, not necessarily ethical. The ethical content of your actions is actually debatable, since in effect you would be "stealing" from the company who would benefit. Same way avoiding television commercials is stealing, I'd say.
By barring plebes from their board, ICANN is setting up a precedent by which they can ban just about anyone: "haven't been in the industry for 7.5 years? Sorry!" "Oh, you use linux? That's too unpopular... Sorry!" Who would be qualified?
So I'm going to say it: ICANN can go to hell! Information wants to be free!
I don't think timothy is that far off here. The underlying philosophical question is whether or not we can hold someone guilty in the present for something that that person will do in the future. The United States has and is detaining people because of something that that person might do. This is an important question, because it has significant implications in regards to the "innocent until proven guilty" convention. How can you prove someone is guilty when the crime hasn't been committed yet?
Even without the link to terrorism, this has other significance to US policy today.
I'd say many of us are aware of how to perform a DoS attack. And many of us are not too happy with MS. Should it be legal to hold us responsible for a DoS attack that we might do if allowed to remain free?
After my junior year of high school my younger brother, one of his friends, and I were given a job putting our small town's factory online(custom home furnishings, would have required databases and loooooong calculations and lots of time). My older sister was given the position of project manager, due to the fact that she was a student at Harvard. I was the only person on the project with any programming experience. The owner of the factory was technologically challenged.
We suffered from many problems, but the key problem was that neither the factory owner nor my sister had any clue what was possible for us to do, and neither of them would listen to me when I attempted to explain things to them. Often when it seemed like they were listening, it turned out that they had merely nodded and smiled and continued believing what they wanted.
While I agree that it is important for project managers to have some applicable form of technical knowledge, I think the main problem is convincing upper management of that fact, as seems to be the point of this article. Is it possible to tell upper management that there needs to be someone knowledgeable about this stuff in charge when upper management has no clue themselves?
Well, since that's about all i hear about when you guys talk about geek conventions... ;D I just figured I'd tell you that if you go to see the men talk she'll be less than 3 miles away, p'raps in her dorm room here at h'vard.
Wallow in that proximity, geeks!