Internet access allows users to browse web sites and use services like POP3/SMTP and IMAP4 e-mail.
Ever notice how none of these network-enable gadgets ever say, "Internet access allows users to browse gopher sites and use services like IRC,Unsenet and FTP?
Way back when, for email legal discovery, I would have restore from tape a copy of the entire post office. That was 30 GB a pop (per day searched)
So a company is exposed to greater liability by having one of these drives as it prevents them from answering your discovery requests with arguments of undue burden? Who needs a document destruction policy when your media just gets overwritten naturally?
But doesn't that fit the deist idea that god created the universe but then doesn't interfere?
I guess that depends on what we considere interference. Does setting up the game pieces so that wildly improbable things will happen exactly when they should constitute interference?
Your life was pre programmed when god made the universe so you have no choices in life.
Again I think this is a question of perspective. Just because someone else already knew what choice I am going to make, does that mean I didn't make the choice?
If you really want to "bake your noodle" consider that if you have an omnipotent God, then time is really not an issue. Thus if something needs to be different in the world because of choices silly people make, God would be quite able to simply change the system so that it always worked that way, wouldn't he?
Please, please, please! Learn to write English. My wife delights in showing me papers she's had to grade from freshman composition classes that are written entirely in txt msg spk that U or I do ! understnd.
Seriosly, bad communication skills generate huge costs in lost time, and legal fees when something goes wrong.
Unfortunately for the faithful this means no miracles. Just because science can't explain something doesn't mean it was 'God.'
Sure you can have miracles and consistency, in fact if your got is omiscient thats really the most reasonable system.
You need a miraculous event? Say an eclipse on a certain day, or maybe a parting of the Red Sea? Well since your omniscient God knew exactly when and where this stuff had to happen when he made the whole bloody thing, the necessary elements which produce the "miracle" should be traceable back as far as you'd like to go. Shouldn't they?
A man walks into Best Buy, he has this strange black T-shirt on with uniteligible white characters. No Matter. Its a slow day as he walks over to the wide selection of Movies. He picks one up, and then another. After squinting at the back of several, he carries a copy to the nearby customer service counter.
"Excuse me," he asks politely, "I'm really interested in buying a copy of this movie, Return of the Kings."
"Of course!" The young clerk replies, "I can ring that up for you right here."
"But.... " the customer continues, "I'd like to exercise my rights as a consumer and buy it in a format that doesn't have the encryption scheme indicated by this little logo on the back. Do you have it in a different format?"
"uh.... you don't want the movie?"
"No, I just want it in a different format, one that will permit fair use."
"You can use that one."
"I can't copy it at home."
"Oh!" says the clerk, eyes brightening, "We can sell you a second copy. In fact, if you buy two you can get the third at half off."
"No, I only want this one movie."
"Sure thing, I can ring that up for you here."
"But I want it in a different format, something I can use."
"well sir, you'll need a player."
"I have a player... but I don't want the movie with this little encryption scheme!"
"Uhm, can I get back to you, there's a line of other customers I need to help."
-15F ?? I've never been that cold! Where are you from? I live in Georgia,USA, and it's 65 here (usually about 40 for this time of year). Damn global warming.
North Dakota, not to brag but most winters we'll get down to around -40F at least once. Bring on the global warming.
Where is a device like this going to see the most use? At home most gadget customers have the equipment to play all sorts of media, a larger screen, and a couch.
To be fair, Congress includes both the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is true though that most folks running for the House call themselves "congressmen," probably to avoid the stigma of running for the lower house.
(Or perhaps as part of a grand conspiracy to further confuse the masses as to the mechanics of their own government... where's my tin foil?!)
Perhaps public misperception can eventually make lasers easier to obtain and more widely produced rather than regulated to the point of inaccessability.
1. People think the lasers are weapons. 2. Other people start selling lasers as weapons. 3. Weapons are constitutionally protected for civilian ownership in all civilized nations. 4. Ergo - the Lasers can be purchased at your local sporting-goods store after a background check and some paperwork.
(Author's note, Point #3 is intended to be a bit of a joke. But I expect at least one reader will not read all the way to this disclaimer, instead flaming me good and hard.)
It sounds to me like you want to limit yourself more than you realize. You would abandon the labor and tradition of generations that makes you who you are just because of a momentary dislike for the circumstances?
Don't like it somewhere? You can easily go somewhere else
So rather than fix the problem, you prefer to run away?
Today, we've given children the freedom to make their own choices about what they want to do with their lives. How can you be opposed to that? Everyone benefits there as we can all find greater satisfaction in our occupation since it's something we chose rather than something that was forced upon us.
I'm not trying suggesting we need to make laws here. Too often we jump to the conclusion that if a problem exists we need to pass a law to correct it. What I'm arguing is that continuing traditions have value and can give greater satisfaction than following the money train or the easy job description.
If you like the atmosphere of the place you grew up in, the surroundings of your close family and the state of mind that gives you, then moving back home is probably a good choice.
How many people seriously consider this choice? Did you look at the benefits of being close to your family, your faith, and your hometown and honestly ask what GOOD things are there, or did you see only the glitz and advertising of modern consummerism? And even if you ARE the rare person who honestly considered this, are you the minority? We're all told that if we study hard we can go off to work in a big company in a big city & shop at a big department store. What kind of table-ware defines you as a person?
How many of us will choose not to start worrying about tomorrow
Actually, as for me, I can manage most of the points above to some extent, and I'm from South Dakota originally. I wanted to stay around "Home" and make my state a better place. I wanted to contribute to the economy & stave off the tide of out-migration. However it took an incredible effort after college and post gradaute education to even live in the area. Perhaps this is the point I was hoping to make, that it is not only rare for someone to feel conencted to his home, but to desire to contribute to its prosperity.
As for population centers, I supopse it is pretty hard for a person in Boston to say, "this is my town, and I'm going to make it better." As the efforts of one person are often obscured by sheer volume.
Does anyone else thing maybe we're getting a little bit too mobile? It used to be that travel exposed us to unique local cultures, ideas, and products. We identified ourselves with our own home turf.
Now, we seem to be becomming just bland "American" consumers. We watch the same entertainment, we listen to the same songs, we shop in the same chain stores, and we wear the same clothes.
When was the last time you heard someone tell you they wanted to carry on the family tradition of a particular trade. How many college students move back to the small town because its "home"? How many of us devoutly carry on our family religions? Or how many of us think about retirement when we get our first job?
My point is that we cannot expect free food, water, or other rights. Why would justice be any different?
1. Are you suggesting there should be no justice system? Then why bother having civilization?
2. Are you suggesting that people should mete out their own justice? Then the one with the most money always wins, because he can afford the biggest guns.
3. Are you suggesting that I should pay for EVERYONE's justice? All lawyers would have to be government employees. Do you want government employees protecting your civil rights from the government that pays them?
4. Perhaps you're suggesting lawyers get paid too much? How much should a person who goes through 7 gruelling years of post-secondary education get paid?
5. But I think you're suggesting that you want all of the benefits of our justice system, but without any cost to you.
IAAL, and darned proud of the modern justice system...
1. Everyone accused of anything in court has a right to defend themselves and make the accuser prove it. This system protects every other right you have.
2. The folks at LokiTorrent want to exercise that right. In order to do so they need financial assistancec.
3. We all benefit from NOT having a system whereby a well funded organization cannot assume it will win because it can afford lawyers, a system where the big money always wins.
4. Ergo we all benefit from LokiTorrent exercisisng its rights. Why then should we not help them out if we are able?
All your base are imagining an ad-hoc beowulf cluster of old korean overlords welcoming YOU!
How much more powerful must devices like these become before they are subject to oversight in the United States by the ATF rather than the FDA? Does anyone know where the dividing line is between the two?
(assuming they're sold in a way affecting interstate commerce.)
I wonder if this isn't just Intel trying to reverse the spin on AMD's announcement.
1. AMD announces they're top dog. 2. Intel decides to minimize the effect of this by bragging about how much money they can spend. 3. Neither is looking at any immediate, dramatic, change in business because processor sales follow seasonal patterns more than Ad campaign release dates.
It is a big deal. You suggest that coders should just pick up and move overseas, and abandon their families, their friends, their churches, indeed their entire culture without a second thought?
We as a nation often stand aghast when cultures are destroyed in the name of profit in other lands. How can we be so cavalier when it happens to us?
India enacts software patent law... nobody seems to care.
The United States enact... nobody seems to care.
Poland blocks IP law... nobody seems to care.
The common thread here is really a lack of concern by the masses about what the law is in this area. Is this really an issue of law being made only for the big corporations, or is it a question of lack of education & information among the rest?
Perhaps the real solution to the problems of IP law, as almost universally recognized on/. even by AC's is that we direct our energy away from our respective governments and toward our friends and neighbors.
That officials enacting IP law will seldom see the/.er as anything more than a wanna-be pirate. Legislators look at those who have the knowledge to tinker but are not corporate engineers being paid to testify with suspiciion. They must surely be self-serving software pirates worthy only of scorn.. at least until the timer needs to be set on the VCR. Geeks are not a voting block.
The solution then, is to explain to Grandpa why software patents are bad. Grandpa is no dummy. If we can survive working tech-support over the telephone, we can explain IP to Grandpa in person when we visit for Christmas.
It will be easier than it sounds. People love to have rights, even if they don't fully understand them. Show a man his rights are being violated and the righteous indignation begins to swell. All Grandpa needs to really understand is that, when IP laws are toughened, when copyrights are extended, that takes away something from HIM... then he will speak up. When granpa speaks, the government listens.
I listed to that Walesa fellow speak at my university a few years ago. If he is any indication I think the Poles have more than a few honest, hard working folks involved in politics. Sure they seldom make the news, but maybe if we start watching what they do we can follow their example?
(Of course my father's family was mostly Polish immigrants to North and South Dakota... so maybe I'm biased.)
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Internet access allows users to browse web sites and use services like POP3/SMTP and IMAP4 e-mail.
Ever notice how none of these network-enable gadgets ever say, "Internet access allows users to browse gopher sites and use services like IRC,Unsenet and FTP?
Way back when, for email legal discovery, I would have restore from tape a copy of the entire post office. That was 30 GB a pop (per day searched)
So a company is exposed to greater liability by having one of these drives as it prevents them from answering your discovery requests with arguments of undue burden? Who needs a document destruction policy when your media just gets overwritten naturally?
At the risk of sounding like Mr. Gates fabled 640K comment back in the day, how in the world is a user supposed to make use of such a product?
.txt, .sxw, and .doc files to fill up 500 gigs? I better get typing.
1. My music collection? Nope, DRM prevents me from burning my CD's anymore...
2. Digital movies? Nope, again DRM requires me to buy a seperate copy of each work, even for backup purposes.
3. Software? Nope, that's all subscription based, I just get to pay my $37.50 a month and be happy with what they choose to offer.
So, I'm left with
But doesn't that fit the deist idea that god created the universe but then doesn't interfere?
I guess that depends on what we considere interference. Does setting up the game pieces so that wildly improbable things will happen exactly when they should constitute interference?
Your life was pre programmed when god made the universe so you have no choices in life.
Again I think this is a question of perspective. Just because someone else already knew what choice I am going to make, does that mean I didn't make the choice?
If you really want to "bake your noodle" consider that if you have an omnipotent God, then time is really not an issue. Thus if something needs to be different in the world because of choices silly people make, God would be quite able to simply change the system so that it always worked that way, wouldn't he?
Sorry about that, bad communication can also stem from trying to get "teh frist post!!!!"
I'm actually rather shocked to be so far from that elusive goal.
Please, please, please! Learn to write English. My wife delights in showing me papers she's had to grade from freshman composition classes that are written entirely in txt msg spk that U or I do ! understnd.
Seriosly, bad communication skills generate huge costs in lost time, and legal fees when something goes wrong.
Unfortunately for the faithful this means no miracles. Just because science can't explain something doesn't mean it was 'God.'
Sure you can have miracles and consistency, in fact if your got is omiscient thats really the most reasonable system.
You need a miraculous event? Say an eclipse on a certain day, or maybe a parting of the Red Sea? Well since your omniscient God knew exactly when and where this stuff had to happen when he made the whole bloody thing, the necessary elements which produce the "miracle" should be traceable back as far as you'd like to go. Shouldn't they?
A man walks into Best Buy, he has this strange black T-shirt on with uniteligible white characters. No Matter. Its a slow day as he walks over to the wide selection of Movies. He picks one up, and then another. After squinting at the back of several, he carries a copy to the nearby customer service counter.
"Excuse me," he asks politely, "I'm really interested in buying a copy of this movie, Return of the Kings."
"Of course!" The young clerk replies, "I can ring that up for you right here."
"But.... " the customer continues, "I'd like to exercise my rights as a consumer and buy it in a format that doesn't have the encryption scheme indicated by this little logo on the back. Do you have it in a different format?"
"uh.... you don't want the movie?"
"No, I just want it in a different format, one that will permit fair use."
"You can use that one."
"I can't copy it at home."
"Oh!" says the clerk, eyes brightening, "We can sell you a second copy. In fact, if you buy two you can get the third at half off."
"No, I only want this one movie."
"Sure thing, I can ring that up for you here."
"But I want it in a different format, something I can use."
"well sir, you'll need a player."
"I have a player... but I don't want the movie with this little encryption scheme!"
"Uhm, can I get back to you, there's a line of other customers I need to help."
-15F ??
I've never been that cold! Where are you from?
I live in Georgia,USA, and it's 65 here (usually about 40 for this time of year). Damn global warming.
North Dakota, not to brag but most winters we'll get down to around -40F at least once. Bring on the global warming.
Where is a device like this going to see the most use? At home most gadget customers have the equipment to play all sorts of media, a larger screen, and a couch.
At work, they have a 14" screen but no couch.
Outside of work and home, well its -15F today...
To be fair, Congress includes both the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is true though that most folks running for the House call themselves "congressmen," probably to avoid the stigma of running for the lower house.
(Or perhaps as part of a grand conspiracy to further confuse the masses as to the mechanics of their own government... where's my tin foil?!)
This allows the attacker to download malicious programs on to the machine.
Does anyone use the word "UPLOAD" anymore?
Perhaps public misperception can eventually make lasers easier to obtain and more widely produced rather than regulated to the point of inaccessability.
1. People think the lasers are weapons.
2. Other people start selling lasers as weapons.
3. Weapons are constitutionally protected for civilian ownership in all civilized nations.
4. Ergo - the Lasers can be purchased at your local sporting-goods store after a background check and some paperwork.
(Author's note, Point #3 is intended to be a bit of a joke. But I expect at least one reader will not read all the way to this disclaimer, instead flaming me good and hard.)
It sounds to me like you want to limit yourself more than you realize. You would abandon the labor and tradition of generations that makes you who you are just because of a momentary dislike for the circumstances?
Don't like it somewhere? You can easily go somewhere else
So rather than fix the problem, you prefer to run away?
Today, we've given children the freedom to make their own choices about what they want to do with their lives. How can you be opposed to that? Everyone benefits there as we can all find greater satisfaction in our occupation since it's something we chose rather than something that was forced upon us.
I'm not trying suggesting we need to make laws here. Too often we jump to the conclusion that if a problem exists we need to pass a law to correct it. What I'm arguing is that continuing traditions have value and can give greater satisfaction than following the money train or the easy job description.
If you like the atmosphere of the place you grew up in, the surroundings of your close family and the state of mind that gives you, then moving back home is probably a good choice.
How many people seriously consider this choice? Did you look at the benefits of being close to your family, your faith, and your hometown and honestly ask what GOOD things are there, or did you see only the glitz and advertising of modern consummerism? And even if you ARE the rare person who honestly considered this, are you the minority? We're all told that if we study hard we can go off to work in a big company in a big city & shop at a big department store. What kind of table-ware defines you as a person?
How many of us will choose not to start worrying about tomorrow
I'm reminded of the ant and the grasshopper.
Actually, as for me, I can manage most of the points above to some extent, and I'm from South Dakota originally. I wanted to stay around "Home" and make my state a better place. I wanted to contribute to the economy & stave off the tide of out-migration. However it took an incredible effort after college and post gradaute education to even live in the area. Perhaps this is the point I was hoping to make, that it is not only rare for someone to feel conencted to his home, but to desire to contribute to its prosperity.
As for population centers, I supopse it is pretty hard for a person in Boston to say, "this is my town, and I'm going to make it better." As the efforts of one person are often obscured by sheer volume.
Does anyone else thing maybe we're getting a little bit too mobile? It used to be that travel exposed us to unique local cultures, ideas, and products. We identified ourselves with our own home turf.
Now, we seem to be becomming just bland "American" consumers. We watch the same entertainment, we listen to the same songs, we shop in the same chain stores, and we wear the same clothes.
When was the last time you heard someone tell you they wanted to carry on the family tradition of a particular trade. How many college students move back to the small town because its "home"? How many of us devoutly carry on our family religions? Or how many of us think about retirement when we get our first job?
Perhaps I'm missing your point...
My point is that we cannot expect free food, water, or other rights. Why would justice be any different?
1. Are you suggesting there should be no justice system? Then why bother having civilization?
2. Are you suggesting that people should mete out their own justice? Then the one with the most money always wins, because he can afford the biggest guns.
3. Are you suggesting that I should pay for EVERYONE's justice? All lawyers would have to be government employees. Do you want government employees protecting your civil rights from the government that pays them?
4. Perhaps you're suggesting lawyers get paid too much? How much should a person who goes through 7 gruelling years of post-secondary education get paid?
5. But I think you're suggesting that you want all of the benefits of our justice system, but without any cost to you.
Why should we want to donate to LokiTorrent's defense fund rather than that of any common criminal?
Actually, you regularly pay for the defense of common criminals with your taxes.
The food I eat isn't free.
The water I drink isn't free.
The home I live in isn't free.
I have a right to free speech but I have to buy the pen & paper/internet connection/computer to exercise it.
I have the right to bear arms, but I have to buy my own to exercise it.
How much SHOULD it cost to defend yourself in court?
IAAL, and darned proud of the modern justice system...
1. Everyone accused of anything in court has a right to defend themselves and make the accuser prove it. This system protects every other right you have.
2. The folks at LokiTorrent want to exercise that right. In order to do so they need financial assistancec.
3. We all benefit from NOT having a system whereby a well funded organization cannot assume it will win because it can afford lawyers, a system where the big money always wins.
4. Ergo we all benefit from LokiTorrent exercisisng its rights. Why then should we not help them out if we are able?
All your base are imagining an ad-hoc beowulf cluster of old korean overlords welcoming YOU!
How much more powerful must devices like these become before they are subject to oversight in the United States by the ATF rather than the FDA? Does anyone know where the dividing line is between the two?
(assuming they're sold in a way affecting interstate commerce.)
I wonder if this isn't just Intel trying to reverse the spin on AMD's announcement.
1. AMD announces they're top dog.
2. Intel decides to minimize the effect of this by bragging about how much money they can spend.
3. Neither is looking at any immediate, dramatic, change in business because processor sales follow seasonal patterns more than Ad campaign release dates.
Buy a plane ticket, and move. Big deal.
It is a big deal. You suggest that coders should just pick up and move overseas, and abandon their families, their friends, their churches, indeed their entire culture without a second thought?
We as a nation often stand aghast when cultures are destroyed in the name of profit in other lands. How can we be so cavalier when it happens to us?
India enacts software patent law... nobody seems to care.
... nobody seems to care.
... nobody seems to care.
/. even by AC's is that we direct our energy away from our respective governments and toward our friends and neighbors.
/.er as anything more than a wanna-be pirate. Legislators look at those who have the knowledge to tinker but are not corporate engineers being paid to testify with suspiciion. They must surely be self-serving software pirates worthy only of scorn.. at least until the timer needs to be set on the VCR. Geeks are not a voting block.
The United States enact
Poland blocks IP law
The common thread here is really a lack of concern by the masses about what the law is in this area. Is this really an issue of law being made only for the big corporations, or is it a question of lack of education & information among the rest?
Perhaps the real solution to the problems of IP law, as almost universally recognized on
That officials enacting IP law will seldom see the
The solution then, is to explain to Grandpa why software patents are bad. Grandpa is no dummy. If we can survive working tech-support over the telephone, we can explain IP to Grandpa in person when we visit for Christmas.
It will be easier than it sounds. People love to have rights, even if they don't fully understand them. Show a man his rights are being violated and the righteous indignation begins to swell. All Grandpa needs to really understand is that, when IP laws are toughened, when copyrights are extended, that takes away something from HIM... then he will speak up. When granpa speaks, the government listens.
I listed to that Walesa fellow speak at my university a few years ago. If he is any indication I think the Poles have more than a few honest, hard working folks involved in politics. Sure they seldom make the news, but maybe if we start watching what they do we can follow their example?
(Of course my father's family was mostly Polish immigrants to North and South Dakota... so maybe I'm biased.)