I agree with the conclusions, but not with the reasonning. I think the main problem with transcultural outsourcing is the unspecified assumption. You live in a system where you know a lot of things a specifier know also, and know so much that they are evidences. You don't specify evidence, do you ? You should. Because they are not evident for everybody. Some basic european assumption like social security for everybody and no first amendement, right of access and recdtification to data about people stored in company's systems,... can make americans cry or wonder. Those can be considered (by PHBs) as details, but we know the devil's in the details. Imagine discrepency with people in other country sharing less history. Misunderstanding is the norm. Another reason mentionned to me was that when a system didn't work, indians where brought in Luxembourg to correct it. imagine, leaving, even if only for a year, a very poor country, for a western one, with all expenses paid... they add no interest in delivering a working and maintenable system in the first place. I don't say it is allways the case and all indians are greedy (I'm sure it is not the case), but, when you begin to reason only in economics terms, you should reason as an economist : every human is motivated by it's personnal interest, even if he live in India.
These include urgently looking into ways of developing "effective measures for enforcing intellectual property rights", and actively promoting "the development and spread of global DRM-related standards".
And, as everything every user create is copyrighted to this user, how are the DR of this user Managed, and how are the ip rights of this user enforced ?
remember that system like sdmi consider that unmanaged content should be managed, and once in the system, cannot be extracted. this is a clear violation of the rights of the user.
according to m-w.com: irony: 2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning sarcasm : 2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
according to : http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/I/irony.htm irony : Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest. http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/ S/sarca smus.htm sarcasm : Use of mockery, verbal taunts, or bitter irony.
so I used irony, but was it sarcasm ? I understand that what seems to caracterise sarcasm is bitterness. But I was targetting the +1 funny, not the +1 bitter, so I sure can affirm it was intended as irony, not sarcasm;)
(and according to my experience, I should get some +1 interresting, even if I'm completely off-topic(those I'm quite sure to get also). Now, commenting on the moderation system is also a quite certain mean to get some -1 troll)
Kinko's spokeswoman Maggie Thill said the company takes security seriously and believes it has "succeeded in making a similar attack extremely difficult in the future." She would not provide details, saying that to do so could make systems less secure.
didn't you ear about braille alphabet? having a poll station with many* registered blind or visually-impaired peoples, provided with doubly marked (classic and braille) paper ballots permit to have them vote secretly, without the need of a complex system. The easiest the system, the more trustable it is.
*the only case a paper ballot can be non anonymous is when all voters in some identifiable group cast the same vote (and there is no null/void vote). Having a big enough group in order to avoid that can require the regrouping of people with a special voting procedure. Another solution is to have all ballots doubly marked, everywhere.
As for more fair systems, let's assure first that the poll record correctly, accuratly, and without manipulation the response to the question asked to the elector. Once the measuring instrument is ok, we can try to ask differents questions.
Different countries, differents systems. In France, we have oversee teritories, that can have finished voting 4 hours before it begin in the main land. But their results are secrets as long as every poll station is not closed (for national consultations, local does not have same restrictions). All we have is post vote pools, and they have repetedly demonstrated their imprecision. But the fact we vote on sundays explain perhaps why people don't seem to avoid voting at all cost (except when the weather is very nice;)
Time to start to understand that no voting-machine project, open-source or not, is viable. The requirements, differents from country to country and from state to state, are so complex (observable, anonymous, comprehensible and trustable by someone with an IQ of 70, trustable even if you trust no one, but, at the same time preventing you to prove to anybody how you voted ) that I still have to see a proposal better that the french system with plexiglass clear voting boxes, and open to every voter manual counting. And if you want, you can pass the whole day at the poll station to check everything. Even if there was an open source solution, the many technics we can imagine to have a running program different from the published one are so numerous. And for what gain ? To be able to have final result at 8 PM, instead of 4AM the next day ?
(in fact, I'm not sure of the formulation, because I only know the french version : "celui qui tue pars l'épée périra par l'épée." French speaking people can get the word play between IP and épée)
If you have a music (or other copyrighted work) file, and you didn't buy it, technically you stole it...
Completly wrong. All what you authored is your. Mankind is not divided between Hollywood's accredited producers and the rest of the world's consumers. I don't want to discuss the use of stole. I want to discuss the concept that creation is reserved to a very few. Last year, some study by a French ministery revealled that about 1% of French people did author music using a computer. How are the digital rights of those 600000 peoples managed by all those schemes ?
Already done, already in Paris, during 1900 universal exposition: a two lanes, two speeds walkway http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Consultatio nTout.exe ?O=03300029&E=50
why does audioscience GPLs something that is then GPL'ed ? Why not GPLed ? English is not my mother tongue and I wish to comprehend the logic of this gramatical construction. Using names for verbs is, if not correct, admitted practice in engineering circles (at least). But using acronyms as verbs seems much more uncommon. Can someone explain what is the "norm"(if there is one) for such constructions (UPPER vs lower, ' or not ',...)
according to capitalist, economy is natural (survival of the fittest), but no matter the cause, the result is the same. (and don't forget cross polenization, once a specie is economically the dominant one, it can very rapidly become naturally the only one)
yes, if they don't replace natural ones. example of agriculture tend to prove that once a specie is found economically interresting, it quickly become the dominant one.
problem of GM is not transmission to man but reduction of biodiversity. I don't understand how folks who are critics of MS monoculture (and induced vulnerabilities) can tolerate reduction of biodiversity in the real life.
not all software is COTS. Some company will be happy to develop for you exactly what you need. And if you change your processes, it will be to exploit the new possibilities offered by the software. Of course, it is expensive, and it is not MSOffice with 3 macros. But software can be 100% of what peoples needs. (Did I said it was expensive ?)
I don't know about US trademarks, but where I live, you cannot (theorically) register a trademark about an intrisic descriptive caracteristic of a product. This can be a problem when knowledge of the product become common, as the once trademark become descriptive. What was once a pun about a little contender to multics (already descriptive, somewhat) is now common description of a type of operating system. But as we have seen with the olympics, the judiciary as all power to ignore trademark laws.
1)What is the cost of providing the communication service, and 2)what is the cost of: mettering, securing, financing, billing, authenticating, supporting, marketting, *ing of the communication service?
Once everybody understands that, community owned telcos can become a reality. (One can always dream).
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I agree with the conclusions, but not with the reasonning.
I think the main problem with transcultural outsourcing is the unspecified assumption.
You live in a system where you know a lot of things a specifier know also, and know so much that they are evidences. You don't specify evidence, do you ? You should. Because they are not evident for everybody.
Some basic european assumption like social security for everybody and no first amendement, right of access and recdtification to data about people stored in company's systems,... can make americans cry or wonder. Those can be considered (by PHBs) as details, but we know the devil's in the details. Imagine discrepency with people in other country sharing less history. Misunderstanding is the norm.
Another reason mentionned to me was that when a system didn't work, indians where brought in Luxembourg to correct it. imagine, leaving, even if only for a year, a very poor country, for a western one, with all expenses paid... they add no interest in delivering a working and maintenable system in the first place.
I don't say it is allways the case and all indians are greedy (I'm sure it is not the case), but, when you begin to reason only in economics terms, you should reason as an economist : every human is motivated by it's personnal interest, even if he live in India.
These include urgently looking into ways of developing "effective measures for enforcing intellectual property rights", and actively promoting "the development and spread of global DRM-related standards".
And, as everything every user create is copyrighted to this user, how are the DR of this user Managed, and how are the ip rights of this user enforced ?
remember that system like sdmi consider that unmanaged content should be managed, and once in the system, cannot be extracted. this is a clear violation of the rights of the user.
according to m-w.com: :
y .htm/ S/sarca smus.htm
;)
irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
sarcasm : 2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
according to : http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/I/iron
irony : Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures
sarcasm : Use of mockery, verbal taunts, or bitter irony.
so I used irony, but was it sarcasm ?
I understand that what seems to caracterise sarcasm is bitterness. But I was targetting the +1 funny, not the +1 bitter, so I sure can affirm it was intended as irony, not sarcasm
(and according to my experience, I should get some +1 interresting, even if I'm completely off-topic(those I'm quite sure to get also). Now, commenting on the moderation system is also a quite certain mean to get some -1 troll)
After all, key loggers have to keep a log somewhere!
5 /
but not necessarly on the PC.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5a0
They obviously really understand security...
note (for the humour-impaired) : this is irony
didn't you ear about braille alphabet?
having a poll station with many* registered blind or visually-impaired peoples, provided with doubly marked (classic and braille) paper ballots permit to have them vote secretly, without the need of a complex system.
The easiest the system, the more trustable it is.
*the only case a paper ballot can be non anonymous is when all voters in some identifiable group cast the same vote (and there is no null/void vote). Having a big enough group in order to avoid that can require the regrouping of people with a special voting procedure. Another solution is to have all ballots doubly marked, everywhere.
As for more fair systems, let's assure first that the poll record correctly, accuratly, and without manipulation the response to the question asked to the elector. Once the measuring instrument is ok, we can try to ask differents questions.
The recording industry said Pate's daughter was offering songs by Billy Idol, Missy Elliot, Duran Duran, Def Leppard and other artists
as piracy, thief, property have recently changed meaning, so has ARTISTS
Different countries, differents systems. ;)
In France, we have oversee teritories, that can have finished voting 4 hours before it begin in the main land. But their results are secrets as long as every poll station is not closed (for national consultations, local does not have same restrictions). All we have is post vote pools, and they have repetedly demonstrated their imprecision. But the fact we vote on sundays explain perhaps why people don't seem to avoid voting at all cost (except when the weather is very nice
Time to start to understand that no voting-machine project, open-source or not, is viable.
The requirements, differents from country to country and from state to state, are so complex (observable, anonymous, comprehensible and trustable by someone with an IQ of 70, trustable even if you trust no one, but, at the same time preventing you to prove to anybody how you voted ) that I still have to see a proposal better that the french system with plexiglass clear voting boxes, and open to every voter manual counting. And if you want, you can pass the whole day at the poll station to check everything.
Even if there was an open source solution, the many technics we can imagine to have a running program different from the published one are so numerous. And for what gain ? To be able to have final result at 8 PM, instead of 4AM the next day ?
The one who kill by IP will die by IP.
(in fact, I'm not sure of the formulation, because I only know the french version : "celui qui tue pars l'épée périra par l'épée." French speaking people can get the word play between IP and épée)
no, only lazy (use 10.0.0.x, it is enough for home, and all at the bottom of the keypad)
rfc1918 says we have:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
so you are very pessimistic
If you have a music (or other copyrighted work) file, and you didn't buy it, technically you stole it...
Completly wrong. All what you authored is your.
Mankind is not divided between Hollywood's accredited producers and the rest of the world's consumers.
I don't want to discuss the use of stole. I want to discuss the concept that creation is reserved to a very few.
Last year, some study by a French ministery revealled that about 1% of French people did author music using a computer. How are the digital rights of those 600000 peoples managed by all those schemes ?
Already done, already in Paris, during 1900 universal exposition: a two lanes, two speeds walkwayo nTout.exe ?O=03300029&E=50
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Consultati
yeh, but if licensing become easy, will we see lawyers as the next endangered occupation ?
I think they'll rather sue.
why does audioscience GPLs something that is then GPL'ed ? ...)
Why not GPLed ?
English is not my mother tongue and I wish to comprehend the logic of this gramatical construction.
Using names for verbs is, if not correct, admitted practice in engineering circles (at least). But using acronyms as verbs seems much more uncommon.
Can someone explain what is the "norm"(if there is one) for such constructions (UPPER vs lower, ' or not ',
I certainly does not want some program looking like it belongs to windows on my mac, neither on my linux box
so what ?
the type of business they are looking for is recuring.
according to capitalist, economy is natural (survival of the fittest), but no matter the cause, the result is the same. (and don't forget cross polenization, once a specie is economically the dominant one, it can very rapidly become naturally the only one)
yes, if they don't replace natural ones. example of agriculture tend to prove that once a specie is found economically interresting, it quickly become the dominant one.
problem of GM is not transmission to man but reduction of biodiversity.
I don't understand how folks who are critics of MS monoculture (and induced vulnerabilities) can tolerate reduction of biodiversity in the real life.
not all software is COTS.
Some company will be happy to develop for you exactly what you need. And if you change your processes, it will be to exploit the new possibilities offered by the software.
Of course, it is expensive, and it is not MSOffice with 3 macros. But software can be 100% of what peoples needs.
(Did I said it was expensive ?)
I don't know about US trademarks, but where I live, you cannot (theorically) register a trademark about an intrisic descriptive caracteristic of a product.
This can be a problem when knowledge of the product become common, as the once trademark become descriptive. What was once a pun about a little contender to multics (already descriptive, somewhat) is now common description of a type of operating system. But as we have seen with the olympics, the judiciary as all power to ignore trademark laws.
(In fact two)
:
1)What is the cost of providing the communication service, and
2)what is the cost of
mettering, securing, financing, billing, authenticating, supporting, marketting, *ing of the communication service?
Once everybody understands that, community owned telcos can become a reality. (One can always dream).
... they could not pretend they invented something and patent it