I'm taking an "ethics of IT" course right now, and most of the ethical systems proposed in the books I'm reading entirely don't work in a world of open source.
They are written with a fundamental underlying assumption of closed source. This is the way 99% of people that claim to know about computers still think. We still have a ways to go.
One does have to wonder why basic economics are not taught in high school. They'll teach you higher algebra and trig that most will have little use for, but when it comes to something as vital as basic economics, they keep you ignorant.
Virginia can no longer use SSN for DMV/driver's license, it was banned a few years ago.
Previous to that you had to "opt-out" of having your SSN be on your driver's license, and half the time the clerk didn't know what you were talking about.
Virginia has your SSN and a lot of information up too, in the virginia courts database that has everyone's criminal record, including traffic.
Most states have this.
Don't attack the wrong people, the blame lies squarely with the credit card companies for using your SSN as identification and trusted authentication.
These are all public records and always were public records. It just saves you a drive to the court house of the respective county (or paying a PI network to do same) to have them online.
Yeah, I admit Florida is one fucked up state in so many ways, but don't blow this out of proportion.
Not just numbers, Google chokes if you want to search for anything outside a-z case insensitive really.
There have been particular error messages and the like where it's a common phrase, but the spacing and punctuation are unique. Google "helpfully" tokenizes it and supresses all the case and punctuation, even when I quote the string.
Search for "HELLO?" in quotes like that. You'll see how the quotes really don't mean much to google. I'm sure the string "HELLO?" (exactly like that) is on the web somewhere, but you can't use google to find it easily.
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Ah, thanks for the update. Looks like it's still illegal for now though. Has there been any FCC action since that ARRL recommendation came out (2004?).
It's kinda funny they played the 9/11 and HIPAA card. Like someone is going to get in trouble for violating HIPAA by relaying the injuries someone has at an emergency scene.:)
The old EULA for RHEL basically violated the GPL (at least in spirit). They've fixed it now.
It used to say you couldn't install more copies of RHEL than you paid for, and if you did and they audited you, which they had the right to do, then they could charge you for them plus an extra penalty.
The new EULA says you can, but they won't be supported. Big difference, and much better.
But for the year or so that the bad EULA was hanging out there, that sure didn't work to inspire community confidence in RH's committment to open source.
Yep. We have a 1TB+ archive that we back up every hour with rsync.
Through the magic of rsync-incremental, we have snapshots of what the archive looked like from present day to 60 days ago, pick any day within the last two months and I can get you a copy of what the archive was then. All this takes up less than 2TB of space. rdiff-backup would be even more efficient on certain datasets than rsync-incremental is.
Doing conventional backups (full+forward delta incrementals) on that much data over the network would take days to do a full backup, with rsync we never need to do a full backup, the amount of data transfer saved over conventional backups is more like 1000x.
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I've even got (very slow) SSH access via encapsulated packet radio (I'm a ham radio person, callsign is AA7AS) from my car and boat if I'm anywhere the hams have packet stuff running.
You know that's illegal right? Encryption is not to be used on ham radio.
What I want to know is, who is arguing the other side
The ACLU. The ACLU actually wants the same data the government wants. The reporting on this story has been very biased, you are an example, you didn't even know what the case was (it's ACLU v Gonzales).
At what point do I come off as a socialist?...close the gap with US salaries......greedy CEOs... Those who don't like what the future has to hold can choose to move to a country with a controlled economy
It was somewhat of an ad hominem, but there were socialist overtones in your post.
The corporations that form the basis of our free-market economy are compelled BY LAW to reduce costs as much as possible, in order to increase margins and enhance shareholder value.
No, they aren't. Fiduciary duty implies no such thing. Quit spreading misinformation. I'm very sick of seeing this lie.
Corporations are bound to their charter, which may include things such as "no outsourcing" or "no buying foreign copper" or similar restrictions.
Even if it doesn't, there's no law that compels people running a public corporation to always "reduce costs as much as possible". Otherwise it would be illegal to not go with the lowball bidder on every contract, regardless of their suitability.
People running a public corporation have a duty not to blatently waste or steal money, and that's about as far as fiduciary duty goes.
Another extremely important point that seems to get lost on socialists such as yourself, is that most of the companies in the US are not public, and never will be.
And they aren't all small companies either. From Forbes: Cargill, Koch Industries, Mars, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Publix Super Markets, Bechtel, Ernst & Young, Cox Enterprises, Toys "R" Us, Fidelity Investments, Swift & Co., SC Johnson & Co., Boise Cascade, Giant Eagle, Gulf Oil, Hallmark Cards, Levi Strauss, Hearst, Neiman Marcus, Bloomberg, Colonial Group, Kohler, Wegman's Food Market, 84 Lumber, Mervyn's, Booz Allen Hamilton, McKinsey, Perdue Farms, JR Simplot, Wawa, Cumberland Farms, Edward Jones, Gilbane, and E&J Gallo Winery.
This block has caused problems before, and is only "trained" out of the person by allowing them to become accustomed to firing at humanoid shaped targets.
The block against killing another human has just as much to do with dehumanizing the target and convinving the soldier of a "higher cause".
That's not the sort of training I was referring to though, I was speaking of the non-psychological part of training, that is being able to react without thinking, by performing the same action so many times in the past it's completely automatic.
I've shot guns since I was in the single digit age range. I've played video games where you shoot pixels at other blobs of pixels of varying realism just as long.
Yet when I see a real video of someone really getting shot or blown up, it really does affect me in a way no video game (or movie) can.
I find them very discomforting, and I wouldn't know how to act when confronted with someone who frequents such places (in reallife at least).
Us people that enjoy target shooting are all around you. You probably never even realize it. I been a member of a gun club before, and while sometimes there's one or two people that are the stereotype you are probably thinking of, those people usually get kicked out of gun clubs for being whackos.
The real shooting club community really doesn't tolerate the type you are most likely imagining.
It works fine if the person is committed to actually changing, but it's not going to force anyone to do anything, as you said they will just "game it" to make it shut up.
Sort like snapping a rubber band on your wrist every time you want to smoke. It's not going to prevent you from smoking, but it might help a few people.
Real training is about "muscle memory". Pulling out a real gun and shooting someone in the head is not something you can train for with a game controller.
Expensive flight simulators go to great lengths to emulate the feel of really flying. If it were as simple as just knowing the mechanics of it, anyone could fly a few hundred hours in X-plane on their PC with a Logitech $30 stick then go hop in a 747 and be fine.
X-plane is FAA certified as a training simulator, but it's only FAA certified when it's used in a full-motion simulator, one that costs $150,000.
Shooting a paper silhouette target with a real gun is much more effective training than any video game can ever be, and yet I don't hear anyone calling for those to be banned, or even calling them "scary".
Nobody posts actual live personal emails on the web anymore
I do. It's at the bottom of my home page and on every mailing list message I send that gets mirrored on the web (which is most of the open source ones).
Yeah, I get spam, but it's not that bad, no worse than when I tried to hide like a coward.
Slashdot Mirror
Hah!
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The book actually cited an article named "Don't copy that floppy".
Blalock, "Don't Copy That Floppy,"
Which is apparently this article:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1365/i
I think we may be living in a bubble also.
I'm taking an "ethics of IT" course right now, and most of the ethical systems proposed in the books I'm reading entirely don't work in a world of open source.
They are written with a fundamental underlying assumption of closed source. This is the way 99% of people that claim to know about computers still think. We still have a ways to go.
One does have to wonder why basic economics are not taught in high school. They'll teach you higher algebra and trig that most will have little use for, but when it comes to something as vital as basic economics, they keep you ignorant.
You can search a list of all registered patent attorneys in the US here.
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http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/ro
This is pretty much the only valid answer to this question, so we might as well shut the story down now.
It's nothing new at least.
Watch any bad Kung-fu movie from the 70s. There's always some kind of gratuitous and explicit rape scene that has nothing to do with anything.
Killing all the female babies has that effect.
Virginia can no longer use SSN for DMV/driver's license, it was banned a few years ago.
Previous to that you had to "opt-out" of having your SSN be on your driver's license, and half the time the clerk didn't know what you were talking about.
Virginia has your SSN and a lot of information up too, in the virginia courts database that has everyone's criminal record, including traffic.
Most states have this.
Don't attack the wrong people, the blame lies squarely with the credit card companies for using your SSN as identification and trusted authentication.
These are all public records and always were public records. It just saves you a drive to the court house of the respective county (or paying a PI network to do same) to have them online.
Yeah, I admit Florida is one fucked up state in so many ways, but don't blow this out of proportion.
Not just numbers, Google chokes if you want to search for anything outside a-z case insensitive really.
There have been particular error messages and the like where it's a common phrase, but the spacing and punctuation are unique. Google "helpfully" tokenizes it and supresses all the case and punctuation, even when I quote the string.
Search for "HELLO?" in quotes like that. You'll see how the quotes really don't mean much to google. I'm sure the string "HELLO?" (exactly like that) is on the web somewhere, but you can't use google to find it easily.
Ah, thanks for the update. Looks like it's still illegal for now though. Has there been any FCC action since that ARRL recommendation came out (2004?).
:)
It's kinda funny they played the 9/11 and HIPAA card. Like someone is going to get in trouble for violating HIPAA by relaying the injuries someone has at an emergency scene.
The old EULA for RHEL basically violated the GPL (at least in spirit). They've fixed it now.
It used to say you couldn't install more copies of RHEL than you paid for, and if you did and they audited you, which they had the right to do, then they could charge you for them plus an extra penalty.
The new EULA says you can, but they won't be supported. Big difference, and much better.
But for the year or so that the bad EULA was hanging out there, that sure didn't work to inspire community confidence in RH's committment to open source.
the potential size savings is enormous.
Yep. We have a 1TB+ archive that we back up every hour with rsync.
Through the magic of rsync-incremental, we have snapshots of what the archive looked like from present day to 60 days ago, pick any day within the last two months and I can get you a copy of what the archive was then. All this takes up less than 2TB of space. rdiff-backup would be even more efficient on certain datasets than rsync-incremental is.
Doing conventional backups (full+forward delta incrementals) on that much data over the network would take days to do a full backup, with rsync we never need to do a full backup, the amount of data transfer saved over conventional backups is more like 1000x.
I've even got (very slow) SSH access via encapsulated packet radio (I'm a ham radio person, callsign is AA7AS) from my car and boat if I'm anywhere the hams have packet stuff running.
You know that's illegal right? Encryption is not to be used on ham radio.
So what?
Let me get this straight. You want a connection that would cost anyone else $2000-$7000 a month, except you want it for $100 a month?
If you want real internet service, you have to pay the price everyone else pays for it.
If you want 15 Mbits to your house for less than your mortgage costs, then one of the sacrifices is not being able to run servers.
What I want to know is, who is arguing the other side
The ACLU. The ACLU actually wants the same data the government wants. The reporting on this story has been very biased, you are an example, you didn't even know what the case was (it's ACLU v Gonzales).
At what point do I come off as a socialist? ...close the gap with US salaries... ...greedy CEOs... Those who don't like what the future has to hold can choose to move to a country with a controlled economy
It was somewhat of an ad hominem, but there were socialist overtones in your post.
The corporations that form the basis of our free-market economy are compelled BY LAW to reduce costs as much as possible, in order to increase margins and enhance shareholder value.
No, they aren't. Fiduciary duty implies no such thing. Quit spreading misinformation. I'm very sick of seeing this lie.
Corporations are bound to their charter, which may include things such as "no outsourcing" or "no buying foreign copper" or similar restrictions.
Even if it doesn't, there's no law that compels people running a public corporation to always "reduce costs as much as possible". Otherwise it would be illegal to not go with the lowball bidder on every contract, regardless of their suitability.
People running a public corporation have a duty not to blatently waste or steal money, and that's about as far as fiduciary duty goes.
Another extremely important point that seems to get lost on socialists such as yourself, is that most of the companies in the US are not public, and never will be.
And they aren't all small companies either. From Forbes: Cargill, Koch Industries, Mars, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Publix Super Markets, Bechtel, Ernst & Young, Cox Enterprises, Toys "R" Us, Fidelity Investments, Swift & Co., SC Johnson & Co., Boise Cascade, Giant Eagle, Gulf Oil, Hallmark Cards, Levi Strauss, Hearst, Neiman Marcus, Bloomberg, Colonial Group, Kohler, Wegman's Food Market, 84 Lumber, Mervyn's, Booz Allen Hamilton, McKinsey, Perdue Farms, JR Simplot, Wawa, Cumberland Farms, Edward Jones, Gilbane, and E&J Gallo Winery.
And that's just a few.
A technology enthusiast always has more products and services to buy than he or she can possibly afford
I don't have this problem. I'm not rich either. Is "tech enthusiast" some new code word for "sucker consumer"?
This block has caused problems before, and is only "trained" out of the person by allowing them to become accustomed to firing at humanoid shaped targets.
The block against killing another human has just as much to do with dehumanizing the target and convinving the soldier of a "higher cause".
That's not the sort of training I was referring to though, I was speaking of the non-psychological part of training, that is being able to react without thinking, by performing the same action so many times in the past it's completely automatic.
I agree 100%.
I've shot guns since I was in the single digit age range. I've played video games where you shoot pixels at other blobs of pixels of varying realism just as long.
Yet when I see a real video of someone really getting shot or blown up, it really does affect me in a way no video game (or movie) can.
I find them very discomforting, and I wouldn't know how to act when confronted with someone who frequents such places (in reallife at least).
Us people that enjoy target shooting are all around you. You probably never even realize it. I been a member of a gun club before, and while sometimes there's one or two people that are the stereotype you are probably thinking of, those people usually get kicked out of gun clubs for being whackos.
The real shooting club community really doesn't tolerate the type you are most likely imagining.
It works fine if the person is committed to actually changing, but it's not going to force anyone to do anything, as you said they will just "game it" to make it shut up.
Sort like snapping a rubber band on your wrist every time you want to smoke. It's not going to prevent you from smoking, but it might help a few people.
Real training is about "muscle memory". Pulling out a real gun and shooting someone in the head is not something you can train for with a game controller.
Expensive flight simulators go to great lengths to emulate the feel of really flying. If it were as simple as just knowing the mechanics of it, anyone could fly a few hundred hours in X-plane on their PC with a Logitech $30 stick then go hop in a 747 and be fine.
X-plane is FAA certified as a training simulator, but it's only FAA certified when it's used in a full-motion simulator, one that costs $150,000.
Shooting a paper silhouette target with a real gun is much more effective training than any video game can ever be, and yet I don't hear anyone calling for those to be banned, or even calling them "scary".
These are folks who have chosen to go the home-theater route
There's also a large group of people that are happy watching movies on a plain old TV with a built in 5 inch mono speaker.
Those probably outnumber both the theater goers and the home theater people.
Nobody posts actual live personal emails on the web anymore
I do. It's at the bottom of my home page and on every mailing list message I send that gets mirrored on the web (which is most of the open source ones).
Yeah, I get spam, but it's not that bad, no worse than when I tried to hide like a coward.