Actually, it's the rest of the world that's in for a shock. At some point, America is going to fully realize that we're in an us or them situation and open up a barrel of whupass on y'all. Just remember, the last time America was attacked by a non-white people, we invented nuclear weapons. And used them. Twice.
Hope you're not too fond of Mecca. It might not be around much longer.
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Scenario 1: Even if he's dead, he had employees who should've been able to continue the business without him. He kept them out of the loop on these auctions, so they can't.
Scenario 2: His wife is his next of kin, and she doesn't know where he is (or so she claims).
Scenario 3: Again, his wife should know where he is, and if he just had to "step out" for a bit, his employees would be able to fulfill the orders if they were real.
If he had just disappeared, it would be one thing. But he apparently set this up with a lot of planning, so this isn't just an accident.
I'm completely and totally addicted to Warhammer 40k. I own several armies (Orks, Feral Orks, Imperial Guard, Imperial Guard Armoured Company, Imperial Fists, Worldeaters), will be judging a Rogue Trader tournament in March, and am president of a local club.
Throw in the all night Counter Strike sessions and is it any wonder I'm getting divorced?;)
"Because thats the attitude that kills companies in this market. The global economy is moving from goods to services, and that applies to software as well."
LOL! Do you think "capturing eyeballs" is important, too? What's more important, selling an item, or getting page views? You Stanford Business School types crack me up.
Seriously, you have to remember that it costs AOL money to keep their network up. If they just let anyone who wanted to access that network without using their "approved" client, there's no gaurantee those people will receive AOL's ads (which are sold to pay for the network). This is analogous to tapping into a cable line.
By that logic, it's legal for the phone company to tap their customer's calls. See http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2511.html, specifically Section a, subsection i, which basically limits phone companies from doing any kind of monitoring of phone lines except when fixing broken equipment or checking for problems on the line. Making sure their residential customers aren't using their phones to conduct business isn't covered (and is the closest analogy I can think of).
I'm sorry, did we see the same movie? There was no "hero" in the story, they were all heroes. And focusing too much on what one guy did later would've been a disservice to the memory of those who fell, both American and Somali.
"You have just pointed out what the problem with democracy in America today is."
Actually, he did a good job of pointing out why we are not a democracy. We are a republic, we elect others to make the big decisions for us. The next time everyone votes on the budget, then we'll be a democracy.
"- Time. The real world, Weinberger says, is a series of ticks to which schedules are tied. As he investigated different kinds of eBay auctions, checking back every few hours to see if he'd been outbid on quilts, "I felt as if I were returning to a story that was in progress, waiting for me whenever I wanted. I could break off in the middle when, for example, my son came home, and go back whenever I wanted."
The same exact thing goes for books. This isn't revolutionary and new. For hundreds of years people have put down books when their son came home and gone back whenever they wanted."
Except, of course, if you put down a book when your son comes home and go back to it later, you won't find that the characters have somehow all died while you were away. Step away from an eBay auction for too long, and you may just lose it. There's been at least one I was involved in, trying to get some cheap Warhammer 40k models, that people were adding in bids down the last closing seconds. Saying that time stops, or even slows down, on the Web is just stupid.
"The hiring company holds both the visa and their passport."
Bullshit. If this ever really happened, the person at the hiring company who took those items would go to Federal prison. Passports and visas are not owned by the holder, they are owned by the nation issuing them (in the case of an Indian immigrant to the US, fo example, the passport would belong to India, the visa to the US). Stealing either one is a Federal felony in the US, and I can't imagine anyone in HR at any company not knowing this.
"At the risk of stating the obvious; the only way to make an impact on them is NOT BUY their product."
Actually, a better way is to buy it, then return it. Since returns are only authorized for "defective" CDs they'll be able to see exactly how many people are screwed by this technology based on the returns.
"Hmmm, we've been building permanent dwellings for thousands of years. We've been building software for fifty, and doing so on a large scale for about thirty."
And we've been flying for less than a hundred years, on a large scale for about 60. Should we expect half as many problems with airplanes as we see with programming? If that were the case planes would just fall out of the sky for no reason.
Here's something I'd like Hollywood and their friends to think about: at some point protecting one's IP becomes more expensive than stopping possible pirating. And while the cost will be passed on to consumers, that just makes entertainment devices that much more expensive, meaning fewer of them will be sold with a lower profit margin.
"Though I generally feel RMS isn't an effective speaker, he definitely has a point here. Honestly, do people really need Word for the majority of text documents?"
That wasn't RMS's point, though. His point was that, because Word is a proprietary program, it's users can't modify it for their own uses. But it's true that the vast majority of Word's users wouldn't modify it even if they could. Hell, back when I used StarOffice on a regular basis I never changed any of the code, mostly because I didn't have the time to sort through thousands of lines of code to tweak one variable.
For simple office type software I'd rather have something that "just works" out of the box, than have something I have to constantly fiddle with to get working right. (Servers are different, but then they require tweaking to get the most out of them.)
"You can vote if you get at least a Supporting Membership in The Millennium Philcon or ConJosé (location of worldcon)."
Presumably, if you are a member of one of these groups, you would receive notification from them that it's time to vote. So why waste the space on Slashdot alerting a bunch of people to vote on something they can't? I'll be more interested when the results of that voting has been published, but not until then.
This is analogous to posting a link to the AMPAS website when it's time to vote on the Oscars. With the exception of CleverNickname (Slashdot's token celebrity), none of us are likely to be voting for them, either.
"However experts say emergence of the "proof of concept" virus means the industry needs to invest in changing the way antivirus software works and adapt it to new environments.
Sigh. I must be in the minority thinking that the applications themselves can be written with security in mind. "
What the "experts" really mean is they have to completely rewrite their anti-virus software to be.NET compatible, and that everyone will have to buy brand new copies of those programs. So when M$ says that.NET is good for business, we know they're right about at least one business (anti-virus software).
"Your fears seem to be a typical paranoia in the USA bought about by a total lack of awareness about the rest of the world in the American culture and education system."
Heh. Go read some books on diplomacy and geopolitics, with a focus on why the US has had it's hand in so many conflicts across the Eurasian land mass over the last century. Right now we're the only military power that sits on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and it's in our best interests to keep it that way. Anytime one group of people starts getting close to challenging that status we find some way to bring 'em down (eg, the Axis, the Soviets, Iraq (you didn't think the Gulf War was just over oil, did you?), etc.).
"European cooperation leads to less wars and conflicts, not more."
Less wars among European states, maybe. But somehow I doubt that a unified Europe is going to have the same political needs as the US, and I know you lot won't be as easy to push around anymore. Which just sets the stage for a confrontation between the US and Europe (or perhaps more likely, confrontation between Russia and Europe). Not anytime soon, mind you, but you can see the pieces being put into place for later this century. (Note that by "confrontation" I don't neccassarily mean "war", though that's always possible.)
Oh, and as a European, you should be nervous about the US under one flag. Why do you think England and France almost supported the Confederacy in our civil war, despite their abhorance of slavery?
"And those bureacrats aren't foreign, they're European, they come from all of our countries. We do this unification thing together, all of us."
So it's one people, one nation, one (group of) leader(s)? Sorry if this seems flamish, but as an American I'm nervous about anything that could bring together all of Europe under one flag.
Hmm, completely insulting to someone who makes innocent comments, results to vulgarity to get his point across, admits to asshole tactics because "he deserved it". Wow, you sound just like Shifman! It really makes me wonder that the whole thing wasn't made up afterall.
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Actually, it's the rest of the world that's in for a shock. At some point, America is going to fully realize that we're in an us or them situation and open up a barrel of whupass on y'all. Just remember, the last time America was attacked by a non-white people, we invented nuclear weapons. And used them. Twice.
Hope you're not too fond of Mecca. It might not be around much longer.
You just want a frickin' laser beam.
Of course it's life or death! Don't you remember when Kid Rock starved to death because of MP3s?
Scenario 1: Even if he's dead, he had employees who should've been able to continue the business without him. He kept them out of the loop on these auctions, so they can't.
Scenario 2: His wife is his next of kin, and she doesn't know where he is (or so she claims).
Scenario 3: Again, his wife should know where he is, and if he just had to "step out" for a bit, his employees would be able to fulfill the orders if they were real.
If he had just disappeared, it would be one thing. But he apparently set this up with a lot of planning, so this isn't just an accident.
Throw in the all night Counter Strike sessions and is it any wonder I'm getting divorced? ;)
"Because thats the attitude that kills companies in this market. The global economy is moving from goods to services, and that applies to software as well."
LOL! Do you think "capturing eyeballs" is important, too? What's more important, selling an item, or getting page views? You Stanford Business School types crack me up.
Seriously, you have to remember that it costs AOL money to keep their network up. If they just let anyone who wanted to access that network without using their "approved" client, there's no gaurantee those people will receive AOL's ads (which are sold to pay for the network). This is analogous to tapping into a cable line.
"You forgot one!
7) My favorite alien is [a] Mork [b] Spock [c] D'Aun [d] Cowboy Neal "
You skipped the best one, T'Pol! Oh, T'Pol, *droool*.
By that logic, it's legal for the phone company to tap their customer's calls. See http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2511.html, specifically Section a, subsection i, which basically limits phone companies from doing any kind of monitoring of phone lines except when fixing broken equipment or checking for problems on the line. Making sure their residential customers aren't using their phones to conduct business isn't covered (and is the closest analogy I can think of).
"It's nice that the hero of the story...."
I'm sorry, did we see the same movie? There was no "hero" in the story, they were all heroes. And focusing too much on what one guy did later would've been a disservice to the memory of those who fell, both American and Somali.
"You have just pointed out what the problem with democracy in America today is."
Actually, he did a good job of pointing out why we are not a democracy. We are a republic, we elect others to make the big decisions for us. The next time everyone votes on the budget, then we'll be a democracy.
"they'll probably start by O/S fingerprinting "
Last I heard, it is illegal to scan hosts for information like that....
"- Time. The real world, Weinberger says, is a series of ticks to which schedules are tied. As he investigated different kinds of eBay auctions, checking back every few hours to see if he'd been outbid on quilts, "I felt as if I were returning to a story that was in progress, waiting for me whenever I wanted. I could break off in the middle when, for example, my son came home, and go back whenever I wanted."
The same exact thing goes for books. This isn't revolutionary and new. For hundreds of years people have put down books when their son came home and gone back whenever they wanted."
Except, of course, if you put down a book when your son comes home and go back to it later, you won't find that the characters have somehow all died while you were away. Step away from an eBay auction for too long, and you may just lose it. There's been at least one I was involved in, trying to get some cheap Warhammer 40k models, that people were adding in bids down the last closing seconds. Saying that time stops, or even slows down, on the Web is just stupid.
Your first mistake: assuming anything about Marxist theory is valid.
Your second mistake: see "Your first mistake."
"The hiring company holds both the visa and their passport."
Bullshit. If this ever really happened, the person at the hiring company who took those items would go to Federal prison. Passports and visas are not owned by the holder, they are owned by the nation issuing them (in the case of an Indian immigrant to the US, fo example, the passport would belong to India, the visa to the US). Stealing either one is a Federal felony in the US, and I can't imagine anyone in HR at any company not knowing this.
"At the risk of stating the obvious; the only way to make an impact on them is NOT BUY their product."
Actually, a better way is to buy it, then return it. Since returns are only authorized for "defective" CDs they'll be able to see exactly how many people are screwed by this technology based on the returns.
"Hmmm, we've been building permanent dwellings for thousands of years. We've been building software for fifty, and doing so on a large scale for about thirty."
And we've been flying for less than a hundred years, on a large scale for about 60. Should we expect half as many problems with airplanes as we see with programming? If that were the case planes would just fall out of the sky for no reason.
Here's something I'd like Hollywood and their friends to think about: at some point protecting one's IP becomes more expensive than stopping possible pirating. And while the cost will be passed on to consumers, that just makes entertainment devices that much more expensive, meaning fewer of them will be sold with a lower profit margin.
"Though I generally feel RMS isn't an effective speaker, he definitely has a point here. Honestly, do people really need Word for the majority of text documents?"
That wasn't RMS's point, though. His point was that, because Word is a proprietary program, it's users can't modify it for their own uses. But it's true that the vast majority of Word's users wouldn't modify it even if they could. Hell, back when I used StarOffice on a regular basis I never changed any of the code, mostly because I didn't have the time to sort through thousands of lines of code to tweak one variable.
For simple office type software I'd rather have something that "just works" out of the box, than have something I have to constantly fiddle with to get working right. (Servers are different, but then they require tweaking to get the most out of them.)
"You can vote if you get at least a Supporting Membership in The Millennium Philcon or ConJosé (location of worldcon)."
Presumably, if you are a member of one of these groups, you would receive notification from them that it's time to vote. So why waste the space on Slashdot alerting a bunch of people to vote on something they can't? I'll be more interested when the results of that voting has been published, but not until then.
This is analogous to posting a link to the AMPAS website when it's time to vote on the Oscars. With the exception of CleverNickname (Slashdot's token celebrity), none of us are likely to be voting for them, either.
Sigh. I must be in the minority thinking that the applications themselves can be written with security in mind. "
What the "experts" really mean is they have to completely rewrite their anti-virus software to be .NET compatible, and that everyone will have to buy brand new copies of those programs. So when M$ says that .NET is good for business, we know they're right about at least one business (anti-virus software).
"Your fears seem to be a typical paranoia in the USA bought about by a total lack of awareness about the rest of the world in the American culture and education system."
Heh. Go read some books on diplomacy and geopolitics, with a focus on why the US has had it's hand in so many conflicts across the Eurasian land mass over the last century. Right now we're the only military power that sits on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and it's in our best interests to keep it that way. Anytime one group of people starts getting close to challenging that status we find some way to bring 'em down (eg, the Axis, the Soviets, Iraq (you didn't think the Gulf War was just over oil, did you?), etc.).
"European cooperation leads to less wars and conflicts, not more."
Less wars among European states, maybe. But somehow I doubt that a unified Europe is going to have the same political needs as the US, and I know you lot won't be as easy to push around anymore. Which just sets the stage for a confrontation between the US and Europe (or perhaps more likely, confrontation between Russia and Europe). Not anytime soon, mind you, but you can see the pieces being put into place for later this century. (Note that by "confrontation" I don't neccassarily mean "war", though that's always possible.)
Oh, and as a European, you should be nervous about the US under one flag. Why do you think England and France almost supported the Confederacy in our civil war, despite their abhorance of slavery?
"And those bureacrats aren't foreign, they're European, they come from all of our countries. We do this unification thing together, all of us."
So it's one people, one nation, one (group of) leader(s)? Sorry if this seems flamish, but as an American I'm nervous about anything that could bring together all of Europe under one flag.
Hmm, completely insulting to someone who makes innocent comments, results to vulgarity to get his point across, admits to asshole tactics because "he deserved it". Wow, you sound just like Shifman! It really makes me wonder that the whole thing wasn't made up afterall.
I thought the whole point of broadband was to take your clothes off?