No no they do not. Sales taxes are very unfair and quite regressive. The simple reason is that at lower incomes most people *have* to spend a big chunk of their paychecks on food, clothes, other things that they need and can not really choose not to spend on and as a result they end up paying sales tax on a much larger percentage of their income than a rich person who spends a much lower percantage of their income on things they can not choose to be without. So no sales taxes and a really unfair and bad thing.
So rich people do not need to buy food, clothes, or other things that they need? I think sales taxes are an excellent idea, as long as you get rid of all other taxes.
If I'm rich and buy a huge mansion, then I will have to pay a huge sales tax on it. If I own a company, then I will have to pay sales tax on all of my equipment, buildings, manufacturing supplies, etc.
If you get rid of all other taxes then then there should be a sales tax on EVERY sale, including the purchase of services, employees, etc.
In my opinion, it's more a matter of one lives in a world of ideas, while the other lives in a world of people. Online use of verbal skills to play with complex ideas is thus exactly the kind of thing an introvert would do, whereas the extrovert would become bored with the "cold dry flat text" of a board like Slashdot and either go to something more interactive like IRC where he can feel like he's interacting with other people, or go do something with his friends.
BINGO!
I'm an Introvert and my Aunt is an Extrovert. She either spends most of her time talking on the phone or using Yahoo and a web cam to talk to her friends on the computer.
I on the other hand would break somebody's arm if they ever tried to connect a stupid web cam to my computer.
You can't be in close proximity to people in most enviroments without talking or the situation feels awkward and uncomfortable
True for most people, and I couldn't tell you why. It seems to be a hard-coded rule (to extroverts) that you must be in conversation at all times. While it's not that I'm un-interested in other people, I don't always feel the need to speak with the complete strangers that are waiting in line at the DMV with me.
I think it is a kind of "Friend or Foe" detector. Imagine yourself in these two situations:
1) You get onto an elevator that is already occupied and smile and say hello to the man there. He smiles and says hello to you. You turn your back on him and watch the floor indicator until you arrive at your floor.
2) You get onto an elevator that is already occupied and smile and say hello to the man there. He just glares at you and does not say anything. You will probably stand off to the side a bit so you can keep an eye on both him and the floor indicator until you arrive at your floor.
While just saying "Hello" in my example is not really even a small-talk conversation, I think it's used pretty much the same way. It's just one person testing another to see how they resonate with them.
My biggest gripe is the linux directory structure. Going from windows(or even DOS) to linux is very frustrating when you have stuff scattered all over the place.
I like my directory structure to be more organized. The OS and it's stuff goes here, my installed programs go here, etc, etc.
The linux structure just seems too chaotic.
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"It's not a terrible idea, but instead of being a site for others to host dodgy content, they should have gone into a more consumer oriented business selling secure, anonymous email, P2P supernodes, personal file sharing, and that sort of thing. I'm not sure how you'd *pay* them anonymously, but providing the "naughty" services instead of expecting others to rent trifling bandwidth from them to do so might have provided a better revenue stream."
Hmm... I'll take a crack at this.
When you open an account with the hosting company they issue you an account number. They do not collect ANY information from you. When your bill is due, you stuff cash into an envelope and send it off to them with your account number on it.
Another added layer is to make sure they keep no logs whatsoever on anyone that uses your account/site.
The problem with this is that if your site gets hacked YOU will also have no way to track the hacker down since the host does not keep logs.
The account will remain active for up to x days after your payment is due. If nobody sends money for that account, they can delete it. You would probably pay by the year or something though as opposed to paying by the month.
In other news today scientists have discovered the cause of El Nino to be an underwater cable that periodically heats up and boils large amounts of the Pacific Ocean. Telephone officials have traced the cause to stories posted on "Slashdot.org" that link to Asia.
[QUOTE] Yes i know about Cointelpro, yes i know about Hoover, yes i know about the "Patriot act" but why does the FBI always get attacked first? What about the NSA? (B/C they are willing to spy on non US targets w/ echelon?) Most of the world would fear echelon (NSA Spy network) before the FBI. [/QUOTE]
That is exactly the point. The REST of the world would fear the NSA/CIA more than the FBI, because those 2 agencies are supposed to spy on the rest of the world. The FBI is more an internal entity and thus American's would fear a knock on the door by the FBI then they would the CIA/NSA.
The FBI are, for the most part, just a big police department that can go anywhere inside the country. As opposed to Town/state police who must remain inside thier city/state of employment.
I'm sick of hearing about how piracy hurts the artists. It's bullshit plain and simple. Have you seen some of these artists homes? Million dollar mansions with walk-in closets etc... I don't think piracy is exactly putting them into the poor house.
It would be a different story if you were pirating a small local bands music. They would feel the effects of it more. I doubt Britney Spears or Destiny's Child even notice it.
"So, she can't buy a car to practice, and she can't practice without a car. It's a big mess. The only forseeable way around it is to let her drive one of our cars illegally until she gets good enough to pass the road test."
She can drive as long as someone in the car with her has had a license for 4 years or more. She could also get a learners permit (at least these are the laws in CT, USA).
Tesla was first an inventor and second a showman, he absolutely sucked at business. Edison on the other hand would RUN to the nearby patent office when he had a new invention.
Telsa invented these, among other things:
The whole AC system that we use today including: Rotating magnetic field and the motors/generators that use it. Polyphase. The Transformers to convert to high/low frequency for transmission.
Flourescent lights Arc lights Radio (Supreme court said he had it first) Radar The first remote controlled vehicle (small boats he made for the army) X-ray (go read his bio's before arguing) The Tesla coil (you probably have one in your monitor/tv) First truly accurate oscillator The Tesla turbine Electricity collector from the difference in voltage from the sky/ground. (kinda like the recent 'tether' experiment on the shuttle. but from the ground)
Toward his later years he was working on wireless transmission of electricity. also the 'death ray' he was working on was nothing more than a anti-airplane beam that would melt their engines through inductance.
All his life it was his dream to harness the power of niagra falls, which he did. Westinghouse put him in charge of setting it up, but tesla only hung around for a short time. He wanted to get back to inventing stuff.
Every protection scheme out there still relies on one thing:
Is this software registered: Yes or No
You just change the No(0) to always say Yes(1). End of story.
It doesn't matter how fancy your key is or what encryption it uses, the software always has to ask if it's valid. It always comes down to a yes or no, true or false question.
I remember when 3D Studio tried to get around this with the dongle (putting code onto a piece of hardware that has to be plugged into the serial port). The people that cracked it just ripped the code off of the dongle into a file and told the program to look at the file for the info it needed instead of looking for the dongle.
Running back home to a server doesn't work either. You just stop the program from calling home, and tell the program that everything is just fine.
I don't see why this is news, reporting your great new "un-beatable" copy protection scheme is self-defeating. Every cracker out there is going to release a crack for it just to show that they can defeat it.
This is a very bad idea. Not only for it's intended purpose, but for the other uses it will be put to.
1) Not only do you have the problem with the Gov't tracking your every move with this system, but any Corporation that wants access to it will probably get it. How long do you think the Gov't will hold out for when large sums of money are being offered to them?
2) How long do you think this will be in operation before they decide to turn on the "Speeder Tracking System" and start billing you everytime you go 1 mph over the limit? It has already happened here in Connecticut with a couple of Car rental companies.
3) "Mr. Doe we noticed that you were one of 5 people at x location on Friday at 2:13pm where a crime was committed nearby. Please come with us for questioning. We do hope you have an alibi."
4) For ONLY $5.99 find out where YOUR spouse was on Saturday night! We can also tell you everywhere your daughter went last week! Call now!
"However, nobody put a gun to the head of the OEM's who produced single system PC's. To win this case, you would need to demonstrate that the contracts between Microsoft and OEM's violated antitrust laws."
I used to work for a small OEM and yes, MS could hurt them too. This small OEM had bussiness sales and most of those companies wanted computers with windows. If our OEM could not provide them with it (ie if MS cut them off) then they would have gone to an OEM that could provide it.
I have the "Microsoft Windows NT Server and Windows NT Workstation OEM Preinstallation Kit" booklet right here in front of me. I'll quote you some of the more juicy bits:
"To comply with the terms of your OEM license agreement, you must conform to the requirements and restrictions described in the sections that follow."
"You must preinstall Windows NT using one of the two methods described in this book; you may not preinstall Windows NT using any other method."
"You must preinstall Windows NT on the hard drive of every computer that you ship to a user."
"You cannot ship only a compact disc containing the Windows NT operating system; Windows NT must also be preinstalled on the computer's hard drive."
"You can install ONLY the Windows NT 4.0 operating system on a computer. You cannot include an additional operating system (such as Windows NT 3.51, windows 95 or Windows 3.1) unless you have a seperate legal agreement with Microsoft."
There are some of the restrictions word for word. There are a bunch of other things like the computer has to boot directly into windows, which rules out lilo. You also can't modify/delete almost anything including the IE start or search pages.
So what you are saying is that Microsoft would have made more money last year if it wasn't for Linux. So linux is bad, and we need to shut down the evil open source menace.
Same argument. Napster and Linux both fill a demand that the other guy is not.
There is absolutely no point to.biz. Can you really get away with having microsoft.biz, or walmart.biz? no, you will be forced to give your domain to those companies, who already have.com.
There should only be one domain per company.
.sex and some type of personal homepage domain would be much more usefull. bobshomepage should not be a.com if it's not a bussiness. maybe.per or.add.
Just wait until it starts to be used for other means. It already IS happening.
1) These cameras are only for traffic statistics.
2) We are going to use them for fighting crime now too.
3) We added face recognition.
What next?
1) We need to let insurance and advertising companies use them to help pay for the cameras.
2) Private Investigators willing to pay to use them... maybe to check on a cheating spouse.
3) Maybe employers will want to pay to access it... to make sure you're really out sick on a sick day
Maybe corrupt political uses. You know they will eventually be able to track one person around. Then they can not only watch the "dissident", but also find out all of his contacts, friends, etc. (They will probably come up with a good excuse... how about "need it to follow drug users to find the dealers").
Then there are the operators who will misuse it. Perverts using it to spy on people, nosy person using it to spy on enemies, neighbors, spouse, kids, etc.
If we DO have to put up with the cameras, then I like the idea of the system being completely public. Any person can access any camera at any time. Also they must install a camera pointing at the person in the police department that is watching the cameras. This camera must include the screens so we can see what they are watching. I would also like to see cameras inside the police department (excepting really private areas such as bathroom, locker room, etc). If they don't allow that, then break out the BB guns.
This makes you wonder:
"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness. Get control of all means of publicity and thereby: Get the peoples' mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance. Destroy the peoples faith in their natural leaders by holding up the latter to ridicule, contempt and obloquy. Always preach true democracy but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. Encourage government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear with rising prices, inflation and general discontent. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a soft and lenient attitude on the part of the government towards such disorders. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues: honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless."
- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
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No no they do not. Sales taxes are very unfair and quite regressive. The simple reason is that at lower incomes most people *have* to spend a big chunk of their paychecks on food, clothes, other things that they need and can not really choose not to spend on and as a result they end up paying sales tax on a much larger percentage of their income than a rich person who spends a much lower percantage of their income on things they can not choose to be without. So no sales taxes and a really unfair and bad thing.
So rich people do not need to buy food, clothes, or other things that they need? I think sales taxes are an excellent idea, as long as you get rid of all other taxes.
If I'm rich and buy a huge mansion, then I will have to pay a huge sales tax on it. If I own a company, then I will have to pay sales tax on all of my equipment, buildings, manufacturing supplies, etc.
If you get rid of all other taxes then then there should be a sales tax on EVERY sale, including the purchase of services, employees, etc.
In my opinion, it's more a matter of one lives in a world of ideas, while the other lives in a world of people. Online use of verbal skills to play with complex ideas is thus exactly the kind of thing an introvert would do, whereas the extrovert would become bored with the "cold dry flat text" of a board like Slashdot and either go to something more interactive like IRC where he can feel like he's interacting with other people, or go do something with his friends.
BINGO!
I'm an Introvert and my Aunt is an Extrovert. She either spends most of her time talking on the phone or using Yahoo and a web cam to talk to her friends on the computer.
I on the other hand would break somebody's arm if they ever tried to connect a stupid web cam to my computer.
You can't be in close proximity to people in most enviroments without talking or the situation feels awkward and uncomfortable
True for most people, and I couldn't tell you why. It seems to be a hard-coded rule (to extroverts) that you must be in conversation at all times. While it's not that I'm un-interested in other people, I don't always feel the need to speak with the complete strangers that are waiting in line at the DMV with me.
I think it is a kind of "Friend or Foe" detector.
Imagine yourself in these two situations:
1) You get onto an elevator that is already occupied and smile and say hello to the man there. He smiles and says hello to you. You turn your back on him and watch the floor indicator until you arrive at your floor.
2) You get onto an elevator that is already occupied and smile and say hello to the man there.
He just glares at you and does not say anything. You will probably stand off to the side a bit so you can keep an eye on both him and the floor indicator until you arrive at your floor.
While just saying "Hello" in my example is not really even a small-talk conversation, I think it's used pretty much the same way. It's just one person testing another to see how they resonate with them.
My biggest gripe is the linux directory structure. Going from windows(or even DOS) to linux is very frustrating when you have stuff scattered all over the place.
I like my directory structure to be more organized. The OS and it's stuff goes here, my installed programs go here, etc, etc.
The linux structure just seems too chaotic.
"It's not a terrible idea, but instead of being a site for others to host dodgy content, they should have gone into a more consumer oriented business selling secure, anonymous email, P2P supernodes, personal file sharing, and that sort of thing.
I'm not sure how you'd *pay* them anonymously, but providing the "naughty" services instead of expecting others to rent trifling bandwidth from them to do so might have provided a better revenue stream."
Hmm... I'll take a crack at this.
When you open an account with the hosting company they issue you an account number. They do not collect ANY information from you. When your bill is due, you stuff cash into an envelope and send it off to them with your account number on it.
Another added layer is to make sure they keep no logs whatsoever on anyone that uses your account/site.
The problem with this is that if your site gets hacked YOU will also have no way to track the hacker down since the host does not keep logs.
The account will remain active for up to x days after your payment is due. If nobody sends money for that account, they can delete it. You would probably pay by the year or something though as opposed to paying by the month.
In our Universe you can?t take something without giving something.
:p
If you cut the distance between two points, then the speed should be doubled, neh?
Anyway, it?s late, I?ve been drinking, and I know that ?speed? is not the right terminology.
So then, it's prefectly ok for Microsoft to bundle Office and Internet Explorer with Windows?
This is the same as the Artist saying you have to buy tracks #3 and #5 when you only want tracks #2 and #4.
In other news today scientists have discovered the cause of El Nino to be an underwater cable that periodically heats up and boils large amounts of the Pacific Ocean. Telephone officials have traced the cause to stories posted on "Slashdot.org" that link to Asia.
I'm just waiting for a security company to send all of the crowbar manufacturers a CD letter. They DO after all make a security circumvention device.
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Yes i know about Cointelpro, yes i know about Hoover, yes i know about the "Patriot act" but why does the FBI always get attacked first? What about the NSA? (B/C they are willing to spy on non US targets w/ echelon?) Most of the world would fear echelon (NSA Spy network) before the FBI.
[/QUOTE]
That is exactly the point. The REST of the world would fear the NSA/CIA more than the FBI, because those 2 agencies are supposed to spy on the rest of the world. The FBI is more an internal entity and thus American's would fear a knock on the door by the FBI then they would the CIA/NSA.
The FBI are, for the most part, just a big police department that can go anywhere inside the country. As opposed to Town/state police who must remain inside thier city/state of employment.
I'm sick of hearing about how piracy hurts the artists. It's bullshit plain and simple. Have you seen some of these artists homes? Million dollar mansions with walk-in closets etc... I don't think piracy is exactly putting them into the poor house.
It would be a different story if you were pirating a small local bands music. They would feel the effects of it more. I doubt Britney Spears or Destiny's Child even notice it.
"So, she can't buy a car to practice, and she can't practice without a car. It's a big mess. The only forseeable way around it is to let her drive one of our cars illegally until she gets good enough to pass the road test."
She can drive as long as someone in the car with her has had a license for 4 years or more. She could also get a learners permit (at least these are the laws in CT, USA).
Tesla was first an inventor and second a showman, he absolutely sucked at business. Edison on the other hand would RUN to the nearby patent office when he had a new invention.
Telsa invented these, among other things:
The whole AC system that we use today including:
Rotating magnetic field and the motors/generators that use it. Polyphase. The Transformers to convert to high/low frequency for transmission.
Flourescent lights
Arc lights
Radio (Supreme court said he had it first)
Radar
The first remote controlled vehicle (small boats he made for the army)
X-ray (go read his bio's before arguing)
The Tesla coil (you probably have one in your monitor/tv)
First truly accurate oscillator
The Tesla turbine
Electricity collector from the difference in voltage from the sky/ground. (kinda like the recent 'tether' experiment on the shuttle. but from the ground)
Toward his later years he was working on wireless transmission of electricity. also the 'death ray' he was working on was nothing more than a anti-airplane beam that would melt their engines through inductance.
All his life it was his dream to harness the power of niagra falls, which he did. Westinghouse put him in charge of setting it up, but tesla only hung around for a short time. He wanted to get back to inventing stuff.
Every protection scheme out there still relies on one thing:
Is this software registered: Yes or No
You just change the No(0) to always say Yes(1).
End of story.
It doesn't matter how fancy your key is or what encryption it uses, the software always has to ask if it's valid. It always comes down to a yes or no, true or false question.
I remember when 3D Studio tried to get around this with the dongle (putting code onto a piece of hardware that has to be plugged into the serial port). The people that cracked it just ripped the code off of the dongle into a file and told the program to look at the file for the info it needed instead of looking for the dongle.
Running back home to a server doesn't work either. You just stop the program from calling home, and tell the program that everything is just fine.
I don't see why this is news, reporting your great new "un-beatable" copy protection scheme is self-defeating. Every cracker out there is going to release a crack for it just to show that they can defeat it.
This is a very bad idea. Not only for it's intended purpose, but for the other uses it will be put to.
1) Not only do you have the problem with the Gov't tracking your every move with this system, but any Corporation that wants access to it will probably get it. How long do you think the Gov't will hold out for when large sums of money are being offered to them?
2) How long do you think this will be in operation before they decide to turn on the "Speeder Tracking System" and start billing you everytime you go 1 mph over the limit? It has already happened here in Connecticut with a couple of Car rental companies.
3) "Mr. Doe we noticed that you were one of 5 people at x location on Friday at 2:13pm where a crime was committed nearby. Please come with us for questioning. We do hope you have an alibi."
4) For ONLY $5.99 find out where YOUR spouse was on Saturday night! We can also tell you everywhere your daughter went last week! Call now!
The internet ad model will fail because the marketers are stuck in the "make them click to go to our website" mindset.
What the banner ads would be useful for is to let consumers know about a new product that they might otherwise have not known existed.
The problem with click-through ads is that if I click on it, then I will have to stop doing what I was doing to go off to thier site.
"However, nobody put a gun to the head of the OEM's who produced single system PC's. To win this case, you would need to demonstrate that the contracts between Microsoft and OEM's violated antitrust laws."
I used to work for a small OEM and yes, MS could hurt them too. This small OEM had bussiness sales and most of those companies wanted computers with windows. If our OEM could not provide them with it (ie if MS cut them off) then they would have gone to an OEM that could provide it.
I have the "Microsoft Windows NT Server and Windows NT Workstation OEM Preinstallation Kit" booklet right here in front of me. I'll quote you some of the more juicy bits:
"To comply with the terms of your OEM license agreement, you must conform to the requirements and restrictions described in the sections that follow."
"You must preinstall Windows NT using one of the two methods described in this book; you may not preinstall Windows NT using any other method."
"You must preinstall Windows NT on the hard drive of every computer that you ship to a user."
"You cannot ship only a compact disc containing the Windows NT operating system; Windows NT must also be preinstalled on the computer's hard drive."
"You can install ONLY the Windows NT 4.0 operating system on a computer. You cannot include an additional operating system (such as Windows NT 3.51, windows 95 or Windows 3.1) unless you have a seperate legal agreement with Microsoft."
There are some of the restrictions word for word. There are a bunch of other things like the computer has to boot directly into windows, which rules out lilo. You also can't modify/delete almost anything including the IE start or search pages.
So what you are saying is that Microsoft would have made more money last year if it wasn't for Linux. So linux is bad, and we need to shut down the evil open source menace.
Same argument. Napster and Linux both fill a demand that the other guy is not.
There is absolutely no point to .biz. Can you really get away with having microsoft.biz, or walmart.biz? no, you will be forced to give your domain to those companies, who already have .com.
.com if it's not a bussiness. maybe .per or .add.
There should only be one domain per company.
.sex and some type of personal homepage domain would be much more usefull. bobshomepage should not be a
Just wait until it starts to be used for other means. It already IS happening.
1) These cameras are only for traffic statistics.
2) We are going to use them for fighting crime now too.
3) We added face recognition.
What next?
1) We need to let insurance and advertising companies use them to help pay for the cameras.
2) Private Investigators willing to pay to use them... maybe to check on a cheating spouse.
3) Maybe employers will want to pay to access it... to make sure you're really out sick on a sick day
Maybe corrupt political uses. You know they will eventually be able to track one person around. Then they can not only watch the "dissident", but also find out all of his contacts, friends, etc. (They will probably come up with a good excuse... how about "need it to follow drug users to find the dealers").
Then there are the operators who will misuse it. Perverts using it to spy on people, nosy person using it to spy on enemies, neighbors, spouse, kids, etc.
If we DO have to put up with the cameras, then I like the idea of the system being completely public. Any person can access any camera at any time. Also they must install a camera pointing at the person in the police department that is watching the cameras. This camera must include the screens so we can see what they are watching. I would also like to see cameras inside the police department (excepting really private areas such as bathroom, locker room, etc). If they don't allow that, then break out the BB guns.
This makes you wonder:
"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness. Get control of all means of publicity and thereby: Get the peoples' mind off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance. Destroy the peoples faith in their natural leaders by holding up the latter to ridicule, contempt and obloquy. Always preach true democracy but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. Encourage government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear with rising prices, inflation and general discontent. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a soft and lenient attitude on the part of the government towards such disorders. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues: honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless."
- Vladimir Ilich Lenin