"Officer Richard Perrone alleged that Lee and Teresa Sipple stalked him after they purchased $1,200 in video surveillance and radar equipment that allegedly tracked Perrone speeding past their home"
I'm not sure why you think this particular quote implies they purchased the equipment specifically to catch Perrone in the act of speeding. Yes, they purchased the equipment and, yes, it allegedly tracked Perrone speeding past their home. Along with many other vehicles, no doubt. If it is the word "after" that is making you think this supports his charge of harassment, it would be pretty difficult for him to have alleged harassment prior to them purchasing the equipment that was used to track his alleged speeding.
If the sentence had read something like: "Officer Richard Perrone alleged that Lee and Teresa Sipple stalked him after they pruchased $1,200 in video surveillance and radar equipment in order to track Perrone as he sped past their home" then it might imply they were specifically targeting Perrone.
I think it is far more likely the harassment charge stems from the emails and phone calls referred to in the article you linked to, rather than the purchase of camera and radar equipment.
Yup. Lot's of reasons another civilization could be millions (billions?) of years ahead of us, or behind. Who knows, they could be here right now, but keeping a low profile. May even have a directive of some sort that prevents them from revealing themselves to civilizations who are not quite ready for them.
You are right on. The summary completely contradicts itself (I know, big surprise):
"The Fermi paradox says that if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, at least one of them should have colonized the entire galaxy by now.
Then:
like the extraterrestrials, humans have three choices: colonize the galaxy, remain on Earth, or become extinct
Leaving aside the fact everybody choices two and three are the same, isn't it possible that space-faring civilizations have simply not reached us yet? The galaxy is a big place, and we don't know when the E.T.s became space-faring civilizations.
Guess I better read the article before I rant any more about this.
I grew up copying my friends albums on tapes. We all bought stuff, but no one bleated then about stealing. We called it sharing.
I think you are remembering things through rose-coloured glasses. The record companies howled about that kind of thing. In Canada, they successfully lobbied the governement to impose a blank media tax on cassette tapes, much like the blank media tax on CDs today.
- Nth hand unverified, information (My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. )
According to Cringley:
The former Microsoft contract employee who contacted me on this issue did not do so anonymously, by the way. I know his name and how to reach him. We have talked on the phone more than once. He did not hesitate to name names.
You are welcome to question whether Cringley is being truthful or not, but why should I belive your assertation that the source was a friend's sister's boyfirend's... whatever?
- this is about stuff along time ago.... the headline here said somehting about Microsoft's "NEW" dirty tricks? WTF?
I think what is new is our knowledge that Microsoft is being accused of destroying evidence. The allegations are new. Cringley said in the article you apparently didn't bother to read:
Now that the (Iowa) case is settled I'd like to write a little bit about something that happened in an earlier case - Burst v. Microsoft - but was never revealed. I kept expecting it to be revealed in this case, but apparently it was not.
Mind you, there is no date on this blog entry (I couldn't even find a Cringley byline, only a link to an audio version that gives his name), but the comments are dated Feb 15. So the allegations are current.
There is a lot suspect in what's being claimed in the article as well.
There is also a lot that sounds pretty damning, like:
lawyers for Burst.com found in the discovery phase of their case what appeared to be a pattern of message destruction, with Microsoft unable to reproduce ANY e-mail concerning Burst.com over periods of time surrounding specific meetings between the two companies. Burst had ITS copies of the messages where it had been part of the conversation as the two companies worked together under NDA, but Microsoft presented none of these. It seemed logical to Burst that Microsoft, as a company that fairly lives by e-mail, would have atg least a few messages concerning the meetings, either before or after. Eventually Burst lawyers uncovered a mechanism -- a sort of procedural algorithm if you will -- under which Microsoft had consistently and in MANY cases managed to keep all the messages it didn't need to keep and to destroy all the ones it DID need to keep. The survival of ANY incriminating messages, in fact, came only from the breakdown of discipline in implementing this procedural algorithm. Burst revealed this information and the judge in that case, Judge Motz, ordered Microsoft to take heroic measures to search backup tapes for messages that were supposedly lost.
Sorry for the long quote, but I think this lends credibility to what is being asserted by the source Cringley has so far not named.
The Canadian Copyright Board ruled in 2003 that Canadians were entitled to download files off p2p networks, but sharing files was illegal. The following year, Judge Konrad von Finckenstein denied the CRIA's request to force ISPs to provide the names of 29 customers accused of file sharing, and commented that putting files in a shared folder did not violate Canada's copyright laws either
I realize the article is from 2004 but, as far as I know, this ruling still stands.
And as for the person who commented earlier that this is a "levy," not a "tax," give me a break. The government is collecting 21 cents on every blank cd sold - amounting to half the purchase price the last time I bought a spindle. The fact they are funneling the money to the CRIA is irrelevant from the perspective of the consumer; "levy" or "tax" it's all the same to me when I'm coughing up the coin.
What the hell blank cds have to do with downloading music from P2P networks is beyond me. Do people really sit there burning shitty sounding mp3s of even shittier music on to discs? If that's your thing, good for you. But I'm tired of paying extortion to the CRIA to subsidize it.
you can't move it to another player, at least not without violating the DMCA
I hadn't thought about that angle. I use the same method mentioned by a poster above: burn to a CD-RW and rip it back to mp3 or ogg (yes, I know it's lossy). I suppose doing this would constitute circumventing a copyright protection measure, violating the DMCA.
I'm not a USian, so it doesn't really matter to me. But it's a good example of how easy it is to commit a federal offense in the United States these days.
I'll defer to your judgment on that, as I play guitar strictly for the enjoyment of it. It doesn't sound like that is your reason for playing guitar. In fact, it doesn't sound like you get much enjoyment out of life in general.
You're missing the point of the GP.
You're the second person this week to tell me that. Apparently I'm quite dense. Let's look at the comment I replied to, to see where I may have gone wrong:
"I trust many big companies because they provide quality products and never tried to screw me, and I trust even more small companies, and if you think about it, I'm sure you do too."
Hmmm. I trust many companies too, for the same reason. If they've given me no reason to not trust them, and have taken steps to earn my trust, I tend to... well... trust them.
The point was that 99.99999% of PUBLIC CORPORATIONS are evil
I won't ask you to provide a source for that little statistic, or to prove that the concept of "evil" actually exists and can be exhibited by inanimate entities like PUBLIC CORPORATIONS. But I'm curious: why have you narrowed the focus to PUBLIC CORPORATIONS when the GP referred to "companies"? Also, is your caps-lock stuck?
How does said corporation handle it's workers, the environment, and the law? All things considered, they all fail the morality test, it's even in their charter to do so.
How does any business handle these things?
How is the little restaurant down the street disposing of it's waste? Are they recycling, re-using and reducing to the fullest extent? Do they pay their employees shit wages and leave it to the customer to make up the difference with tips?
How about that newspaper vendor you stop at on your way to work?
Does he beat his wife? Cheat on his taxes? Where does the owner stand on abortion?
Do you look in to his character before plunking down that fifty cents down on a newspaper?
If not, why not?
I guess you've also never heard of a farmer's market, or a pair of scissors and a trusted friend? The world got along fine for thousands of years without multinational corporations
I guess you didn't catch the part in my comment about the hair cut, or the pub or restaurant. Or do you go to Wallmart for a haircut? (I don't know. Maybe you do.)
I could have named local establishments that I do business with, but the parent poster has likely never heard of them. Instead, I named companies he might have heard of and provided links to articles describing why I think they deserve my business.
Does your local farmer's market pay their employees good living wages, offer health care and other benefits and only sell products produced in accordance with your high moral standards? Can you really vouch for every jar of jam, every piece of fruit?
what makes you think that just because you're too stupid to shop someplace else that the rest of us are too ?
What makes you have to resort to name calling?
More importantly, should the fact that I think you're an asshole have a bearing on whether or not I buy a pack of gum from you?
Mind you, I've never bought a lawn mower from the latter, but they strike me as a company I would like to do business with. I've been using Ernie Ball strings for years, and have always been happy with them.
Are you telling us you don't trust any company? Nobody sells you a good product at a reasonable price without committing crimes against humanity?
Where do you buy your groceries? Who cuts your hair? There isn't a restaurant, or a pub or a video store you enjoy patronizing?
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I thought "Dubya" was born in Connecticut.
"America" is more than the United States, and Canada and Mexico both use the metric system.
I'm not sure why you think this particular quote implies they purchased the equipment specifically to catch Perrone in the act of speeding. Yes, they purchased the equipment and, yes, it allegedly tracked Perrone speeding past their home. Along with many other vehicles, no doubt. If it is the word "after" that is making you think this supports his charge of harassment, it would be pretty difficult for him to have alleged harassment prior to them purchasing the equipment that was used to track his alleged speeding.
If the sentence had read something like: "Officer Richard Perrone alleged that Lee and Teresa Sipple stalked him after they pruchased $1,200 in video surveillance and radar equipment in order to track Perrone as he sped past their home" then it might imply they were specifically targeting Perrone.
I think it is far more likely the harassment charge stems from the emails and phone calls referred to in the article you linked to, rather than the purchase of camera and radar equipment.
As far as we know
Yup. Lot's of reasons another civilization could be millions (billions?) of years ahead of us, or behind. Who knows, they could be here right now, but keeping a low profile. May even have a directive of some sort that prevents them from revealing themselves to civilizations who are not quite ready for them.
You are right on. The summary completely contradicts itself (I know, big surprise):
Then:
Leaving aside the fact everybody choices two and three are the same, isn't it possible that space-faring civilizations have simply not reached us yet? The galaxy is a big place, and we don't know when the E.T.s became space-faring civilizations.
Guess I better read the article before I rant any more about this.
I think you are remembering things through rose-coloured glasses. The record companies howled about that kind of thing. In Canada, they successfully lobbied the governement to impose a blank media tax on cassette tapes, much like the blank media tax on CDs today.
According to Cringley:
You are welcome to question whether Cringley is being truthful or not, but why should I belive your assertation that the source was a friend's sister's boyfirend's
I think what is new is our knowledge that Microsoft is being accused of destroying evidence. The allegations are new. Cringley said in the article you apparently didn't bother to read:
Mind you, there is no date on this blog entry (I couldn't even find a Cringley byline, only a link to an audio version that gives his name), but the comments are dated Feb 15. So the allegations are current.
There is also a lot that sounds pretty damning, like:
Sorry for the long quote, but I think this lends credibility to what is being asserted by the source Cringley has so far not named.
Funny how you guys all seem to be posting AC. Run out of troll accounts?
LOL! It took you long enough, but you got me. 8^P
From a comment I posted a while back:
I realize the article is from 2004 but, as far as I know, this ruling still stands.
And as for the person who commented earlier that this is a "levy," not a "tax," give me a break. The government is collecting 21 cents on every blank cd sold - amounting to half the purchase price the last time I bought a spindle. The fact they are funneling the money to the CRIA is irrelevant from the perspective of the consumer; "levy" or "tax" it's all the same to me when I'm coughing up the coin.
What the hell blank cds have to do with downloading music from P2P networks is beyond me. Do people really sit there burning shitty sounding mp3s of even shittier music on to discs? If that's your thing, good for you. But I'm tired of paying extortion to the CRIA to subsidize it.
You're right.
I should have probably bribed the Uncle, too.
Actually, there are many Canadas, each distinct in its own way. But thanks for the translations.
How about offering your cousiin your desert for help paying the rent? Is that cheating?
Okay, I'll bite. What is wrong with the "manbearpig" episode?
I had to read that sentence a couple of times. Seems backwards somehow.
I agree with you about "alot." Same goes for "noone," instead of "no one." That one is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I hadn't thought about that angle. I use the same method mentioned by a poster above: burn to a CD-RW and rip it back to mp3 or ogg (yes, I know it's lossy). I suppose doing this would constitute circumventing a copyright protection measure, violating the DMCA.
I'm not a USian, so it doesn't really matter to me. But it's a good example of how easy it is to commit a federal offense in the United States these days.
It would be a shame to waste this opportunity. Is there a LUG in the Perm region that could step in and offer some support?
Post an article on slashdot with the words "penetrate" and "open ports" in the summary.
"I trust many big companies because they provide quality products and never tried to screw me, and I trust even more small companies, and if you think about it, I'm sure you do too."
Hmmm. I trust many companies too, for the same reason. If they've given me no reason to not trust them, and have taken steps to earn my trust, I tend to
How is the little restaurant down the street disposing of it's waste? Are they recycling, re-using and reducing to the fullest extent? Do they pay their employees shit wages and leave it to the customer to make up the difference with tips?
How about that newspaper vendor you stop at on your way to work?
Does he beat his wife? Cheat on his taxes? Where does the owner stand on abortion?
Do you look in to his character before plunking down that fifty cents down on a newspaper?
If not, why not? I guess you didn't catch the part in my comment about the hair cut, or the pub or restaurant. Or do you go to Wallmart for a haircut? (I don't know. Maybe you do.)
I could have named local establishments that I do business with, but the parent poster has likely never heard of them. Instead, I named companies he might have heard of and provided links to articles describing why I think they deserve my business.
Does your local farmer's market pay their employees good living wages, offer health care and other benefits and only sell products produced in accordance with your high moral standards? Can you really vouch for every jar of jam, every piece of fruit? What makes you have to resort to name calling?
More importantly, should the fact that I think you're an asshole have a bearing on whether or not I buy a pack of gum from you?
Or
Simplicity?
There. I named two.
Mind you, I've never bought a lawn mower from the latter, but they strike me as a company I would like to do business with. I've been using Ernie Ball strings for years, and have always been happy with them.
Are you telling us you don't trust any company? Nobody sells you a good product at a reasonable price without committing crimes against humanity?
Where do you buy your groceries? Who cuts your hair? There isn't a restaurant, or a pub or a video store you enjoy patronizing?
Not one?