The BIG question isn't the intentions of N. Korea but what the US will do.
The Sad part is, living in the US i don't even know what we will do. Isn't it great when the foreign policy of a nation is scretive to its own people that government is supposed to serve and protect?
I certainly hope it won't be war, i certainly hope our government can get back to civil politics and i hope that we learn from the past so we aren't doomed to repeat it.
N. Korea isn't stupid enough to attack the US, however they realize they have us by the neck in just the fear of what they posses and that in itself means so much more to them then the act of aggression.
So why is it you feel the US must be aggressive and continue it's hostility against nations simply based upon the ideal that the US can be the only "big stick" on the block?
Personal liability is far different than saying it is the fault of your vendor.
If there is a vendor that provides open source solutions then they should be able to support them just as a proprietary vendor would.
The issue isn't a point of how you can legally screw them over, its how you can speak to your boss in terms that he understands. If your boss knows you screwed up or didn't know something you were supposed to then its harder for him to pass that up through management than if you used a canned app that failed and you were doing you job in sustaining that app. Indirectly not your fault and therefore less risk to your job. (However a good security admin should know and research the limits of what they use to begin with)
I don't think the original post had anything to do with EULA and licensing but risk and accountability for that risk.
I'm not disputing the technology and idea of podcasting, just the fact that for commercial or historical purposes there has to be a way to validate the integrity of the content.
podcasting can be done through web/rss/p2p or even pvr type functionality that you schedule on your own.
My point is without having a subscriber base and decentralized podcasting units particular to each vendor there is no way to validate and enforce content integrity of your podcasted works unless there is a DRM and or other types of integrity checks (combination of keys/crcs and such) that are enforced from the ground up.
Current live delivery systems are succesful because they're controlled from a central point.
Something like the new Napster would make a lot of sense. (basic license fee for unlimited recordings on a device per device basis or such)..
If only you knew how extreme the pundits on all sides can take the issues and the measures they would go to to cause the havoc that could potentially happen.
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I find it amazing that you can sell something according to the Terms of Service on EBay and a buyer can renig on such contracts through PayPal and get there money back.
I will NEVER sell tickets on Ebay again due to being burned in such a fashion where the person purchased tickets for a specific date, got the tickets but didn't open them and sent them back and did a refund request on PayPal. PayPal asked for the shipping tracking and saw it was returned to sender so they reversed the charges and gave the money back to the buyer.
For someone who did 15k in paypal billing that year to get ignored and to have no one able to answer my calls and emails was pretty upsetting to say the least. To have an "All sales are final" sale get reversed because of a cheating buyer was upsetting but to freeze my account and hold my money until I authorized an illigitimate refund was icing on the cake.
Paypal purposely won't accept visa or mastercard payments on reversed charges because they know they couldn't win a disputed or cancelled charge with Visa/Mastercard - Remember that when you let them suck money out unprotected via an EFT/Bank draft.
oh, and the insurance up to 500 only protects the buyer..
Seller beware.. ebay and paypal aren't out to help you.
Podcasting itself is just the concept of archival retreival and playing back on your own handheld type device.
Nothing would stop podcasting from riding on top of p2p type networks, so thats not really the issue here.
I think the issue goes back DRM - who owns what, and who can listen to what. I think the last thing podcasters would want happening is having someone replay content for public consumption without licensing such content.
I know when i would produce a radio show i wouldn't care.. not in it for the money. However if the noted Rush Limbaugh (sic) produced a show and others replayed or rebroadcasted the "podcast" that would convert to lost revenues and potential for interesting hacks.
Imaging someone making a pod cast of Rush saying he likes Gay people and doesn't mind paying taxes if it helps society as a whole.
With that said free podcasting has its place, however as any formal communication channel or commercial effort i believe it has to be protected in one way or another not for monetary value necessarily but content integrity.
Which ofcourse is an issue with many types of content these days so easily edited, enhanced and modified on the average pc.
Lets not have the blind lead the blind. The great telco infrastructure and right of ways for the majority of the companies seeking to stop municipal broadband was funded entirely through tax payer dollars and initiatives.
Lets also not forget how much money the government gives to these corporations in handouts, tax "relief" and subsidies.
I would rather have an ELECTED OFFICIAL be responsible for maintaining what is becoming MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE than ignore the problem entirely or say corporate america can do it better when it hasn't even bothered.
Sometimes the PROFIT of something isn't the cash reward but the ROI across the board. Kids with resources, families who can keep in touch and schools and libraries that can afford to modernize and network with each other.
Your story would make much more sense if i was able to choose my telephone company, able to choose my cable company or able to select what i want.
(Yes, i use vonage, so i have my own phone service.. but the infrastructure it relies upon was still laid by tax dollars and subsidies)
But price and functionality. For 500-700 bucks you get more software, more power and more functionality then a $900.00 dell in an ugly large blue case could ever give you.
Form factor has its pluses but design and functionality wins.
I'm also Biased since i know Apple represents a better company than the other players in the market. Sure they all work you hard, but in return to what the corporations stand for with society i'll buy an Apple anyday. The fact Apple oozes design, functionality, thought, consistency and creativeness just screams liberal
Wrong on both accounts. The russians new the temperature on Venus just as we know the temperature on Titan. We can use a plethora of scientific instruments to do chemical, compound and atmospheric analysis on the planets and get very good temperature results.
Russians used Venus landers to prove it could be done - they built in cooling units and such to last as long as possible.
The pictures, while low res are an awesome site to see for Venus, so here's hoping to some crazy pictures from titan.
Science and Exploration is something everyone can be involved in. Study the images publicly available, learn the equipment, apply for the jobs and volunteer to assist.
The only way science will cease to exist is if you look to place blame on people not accepting risk or being hippies.
The only person to blame for your poor views on science and exploration are yourself.
Hippies or not, its dangerous to launch nukes into the atmosphere - you don't risk your own civilization to benefit science.
Infact NT/2k can be locked down soo much it isn't even funny. Sure you have to have fixes pushed to desktops, but that is why you pay for a good lan group who knows how to setup privs and design a network that can handle the load, manage the workstations and provide a solid service.
I work for a bank as well, and we just rolled out 2k to many of our end users. Everything is tightly controlled, locked down, automatically updated and maintained and reported on nightly.
have been doing this kind of logic for a while. Itanium is almost built entirely on this type of logic with combination of intel compilers and code technology.
I think a hardware design that does more logic controls would be best...
When was the last time Jobs & Crew didn't take something already popular and just improve it?
Apple isn't known for being innovative in bringing NEW technologies - they're inovative in refigning existing technologies. Kind of like BASF "we don't make the products, we make them better"
The reason Mac isn't #1 is because of the slower pace and 100% clean room controlled product cycles.
Kudos to Microsoft for still running with the show and having fun. I look forward to seeing the products refigned.
Dell/HP for computers.. true.. no one else likes those margins - however there are still plenty of mom & pops doing fine.
ATI, Nvidia - sure if your talking gaming...
Intel and AMD for x86, but you can also choose from hundreds of other types of cpus.. Your choices don't have to be so limited when you open up your own horizons.
Do you really cary all that crap with you all the time? Do you really listen to MP3's and have a PDA in your pocket when your going to the grocery store and need to call home to figure out if its swiss or provolone cheese?
Convergence smergence. It's a phone. I pay for cellular service that sucks ass (nextel) and a phone that can play games and do everything else it doesn't need to do very well.
People aren't complaining becaus they don't want the features of these phones - they're complaining because they're gimmicks and not actual uses for the phone.
Fix the range, allow blue tooth to login to your home base station to use VoIP or landline service. Standardize on chargers, standardize on car adaptors, increase battery life, increase rnage and most importantly manage the services better so on christmas, new years, holidays and during emergencies cell phones actually f'n work.
iTunes, Rhapsody/Listen.com, Winamp, DiVX, PowerDVD, and even open source stuff such as dScaler have been superb at easily integrating and utilizing the OS.
Infact for ANY operating system out there i'd say as far as the OS goes and creating the tools necessary to harness the power Windows still wins hands down - its just that easy, and the market that huge that people can take the risks and make the investments to build that killer app.
Games are a fine example - They supprot DirectX and i don't hear them suing because they don't have control over the API or the ability to plugin there own SDK by default - they know they can use DirectX or license OpenGL or build a glide layer or do something else.
Windows is an OS, with tools provided to get the job done. Write doesn't get peoples jobs done so they buy Word, Office or Wordperfect. Windows Media Player doesn't work for everyone so they get iTunes, they get rhapsody and they get Winamp and everything else.
Windows XP has zip support built in and people still buy winzip..
I can claim it didn't hurt me because it didn't. The capitalistic society is responsible for what makes or breaks a venture - not whether or not WMP is included or the source code to IIS is distributed. Use linux or get apache or write your own OS if you want control
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It's just now officially policy.
The BIG question isn't the intentions of N. Korea but what the US will do.
The Sad part is, living in the US i don't even know what we will do. Isn't it great when the foreign policy of a nation is scretive to its own people that government is supposed to serve and protect?
I certainly hope it won't be war, i certainly hope our government can get back to civil politics and i hope that we learn from the past so we aren't doomed to repeat it.
"Big Stick" foreign policy solves nothing.
N. Korea isn't stupid enough to attack the US, however they realize they have us by the neck in just the fear of what they posses and that in itself means so much more to them then the act of aggression.
So why is it you feel the US must be aggressive and continue it's hostility against nations simply based upon the ideal that the US can be the only "big stick" on the block?
Personal liability is far different than saying it is the fault of your vendor.
If there is a vendor that provides open source solutions then they should be able to support them just as a proprietary vendor would.
The issue isn't a point of how you can legally screw them over, its how you can speak to your boss in terms that he understands. If your boss knows you screwed up or didn't know something you were supposed to then its harder for him to pass that up through management than if you used a canned app that failed and you were doing you job in sustaining that app. Indirectly not your fault and therefore less risk to your job. (However a good security admin should know and research the limits of what they use to begin with)
I don't think the original post had anything to do with EULA and licensing but risk and accountability for that risk.
I'm not disputing the technology and idea of podcasting, just the fact that for commercial or historical purposes there has to be a way to validate the integrity of the content.
podcasting can be done through web/rss/p2p or even pvr type functionality that you schedule on your own.
My point is without having a subscriber base and decentralized podcasting units particular to each vendor there is no way to validate and enforce content integrity of your podcasted works unless there is a DRM and or other types of integrity checks (combination of keys/crcs and such) that are enforced from the ground up.
Current live delivery systems are succesful because they're controlled from a central point.
Something like the new Napster would make a lot of sense. (basic license fee for unlimited recordings on a device per device basis or such)..
If only you knew how extreme the pundits on all sides can take the issues and the measures they would go to to cause the havoc that could potentially happen.
I find it amazing that you can sell something according to the Terms of Service on EBay and a buyer can renig on such contracts through PayPal and get there money back.
I will NEVER sell tickets on Ebay again due to being burned in such a fashion where the person purchased tickets for a specific date, got the tickets but didn't open them and sent them back and did a refund request on PayPal. PayPal asked for the shipping tracking and saw it was returned to sender so they reversed the charges and gave the money back to the buyer.
For someone who did 15k in paypal billing that year to get ignored and to have no one able to answer my calls and emails was pretty upsetting to say the least. To have an "All sales are final" sale get reversed because of a cheating buyer was upsetting but to freeze my account and hold my money until I authorized an illigitimate refund was icing on the cake.
Paypal purposely won't accept visa or mastercard payments on reversed charges because they know they couldn't win a disputed or cancelled charge with Visa/Mastercard - Remember that when you let them suck money out unprotected via an EFT/Bank draft.
oh, and the insurance up to 500 only protects the buyer..
Seller beware.. ebay and paypal aren't out to help you.
Slackware 10.1 and still no update on Yggdrasil? Come on folks!
Podcasting itself is just the concept of archival retreival and playing back on your own handheld type device.
Nothing would stop podcasting from riding on top of p2p type networks, so thats not really the issue here.
I think the issue goes back DRM - who owns what, and who can listen to what. I think the last thing podcasters would want happening is having someone replay content for public consumption without licensing such content.
I know when i would produce a radio show i wouldn't care.. not in it for the money. However if the noted Rush Limbaugh (sic) produced a show and others replayed or rebroadcasted the "podcast"
that would convert to lost revenues and potential for interesting hacks.
Imaging someone making a pod cast of Rush saying he likes Gay people and doesn't mind paying taxes if it helps society as a whole.
With that said free podcasting has its place, however as any formal communication channel or commercial effort i believe it has to be protected in one way or another not for monetary value necessarily but content integrity.
Which ofcourse is an issue with many types of content these days so easily edited, enhanced and modified on the average pc.
Lets not have the blind lead the blind. The great telco infrastructure and right of ways for the majority of the companies seeking to stop municipal broadband was funded entirely through tax payer dollars and initiatives.
Lets also not forget how much money the government gives to these corporations in handouts, tax "relief" and subsidies.
I would rather have an ELECTED OFFICIAL be responsible for maintaining what is becoming MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE than ignore the problem entirely or say corporate america can do it better when it hasn't even bothered.
Sometimes the PROFIT of something isn't the cash reward but the ROI across the board. Kids with resources, families who can keep in touch and schools and libraries that can afford to modernize and network with each other.
Your story would make much more sense if i was able to choose my telephone company, able to choose my cable company or able to select what i want.
(Yes, i use vonage, so i have my own phone service.. but the infrastructure it relies upon was still laid by tax dollars and subsidies)
Compare apples to apples buddy :)
Search for Bill gates on the search.msn.com and www.google.com and the results are very similar.
You are on crack.
And i guess thats why you posted as an AC. Do you work for Dell? Have you bothered to seen what comes standard on the Mini vs anything dell offers?
There is a world of difference in engineering, features, applications and perforance between Apple and Dell or Apple and any X86 offering.
But price and functionality. For 500-700 bucks you get more software, more power and more functionality then a $900.00 dell in an ugly large blue case could ever give you.
Form factor has its pluses but design and functionality wins.
I'm also Biased since i know Apple represents a better company than the other players in the market. Sure they all work you hard, but in return to what the corporations stand for with society i'll buy an Apple anyday. The fact Apple oozes design, functionality, thought, consistency and creativeness just screams liberal
Wrong on both accounts. The russians new the temperature on Venus just as we know the temperature on Titan. We can use a plethora of scientific instruments to do chemical, compound and atmospheric analysis on the planets and get very good temperature results.
Russians used Venus landers to prove it could be done - they built in cooling units and such to last as long as possible.
The pictures, while low res are an awesome site to see for Venus, so here's hoping to some crazy pictures from titan.
Get out and do something.
Science and Exploration is something everyone can be involved in. Study the images publicly available, learn the equipment, apply for the jobs and volunteer to assist.
The only way science will cease to exist is if you look to place blame on people not accepting risk or being hippies.
The only person to blame for your poor views on science and exploration are yourself.
Hippies or not, its dangerous to launch nukes into the atmosphere - you don't risk your own civilization to benefit science.
And that may be the reason "field" people use t-mobile.
NT is secure if you have a trained IT staff.
Infact NT/2k can be locked down soo much it isn't even funny. Sure you have to have fixes pushed to desktops, but that is why you pay for a good lan group who knows how to setup privs and design a network that can handle the load, manage the workstations and provide a solid service.
I work for a bank as well, and we just rolled out 2k to many of our end users. Everything is tightly controlled, locked down, automatically updated and maintained and reported on nightly.
have been doing this kind of logic for a while. Itanium is almost built entirely on this type of logic with combination of intel compilers and code technology.
I think a hardware design that does more logic controls would be best...
show me one place where Apple has been more "innovative" in creating something that hadn't existed before?
The only thing i can think of was the apple newton - but even then there were others with similar products.
When was the last time Jobs & Crew didn't take something already popular and just improve it?
Apple isn't known for being innovative in bringing NEW technologies - they're inovative in refigning existing technologies. Kind of like BASF "we don't make the products, we make them better"
The reason Mac isn't #1 is because of the slower pace and 100% clean room controlled product cycles.
Kudos to Microsoft for still running with the show and having fun. I look forward to seeing the products refigned.
Which was a very affordable & fast architecture. HP has converted most of its unix systems to itanic in hopes of aborting any further arch updates.
However i think they are once again improving the stable & faast PA risc systems since HPUX 11i itanium still stinks
from what i can tell SGI is still on the itanium bandwaggon
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Wendys, Fudruckers, Sonic, Jack in the Box
Nike/Reebok? How about Nuke and Addidas man
Microsoft and IBM and HP and Sun
Dell/HP for computers.. true.. no one else likes those margins - however there are still plenty of mom & pops doing fine.
ATI, Nvidia - sure if your talking gaming...
Intel and AMD for x86, but you can also choose from hundreds of other types of cpus.. Your choices don't have to be so limited when you open up your own horizons.
Do you really cary all that crap with you all the time? Do you really listen to MP3's and have a PDA in your pocket when your going to the grocery store and need to call home to figure out if its swiss or provolone cheese?
Convergence smergence. It's a phone. I pay for cellular service that sucks ass (nextel) and a phone that can play games and do everything else it doesn't need to do very well.
People aren't complaining becaus they don't want the features of these phones - they're complaining because they're gimmicks and not actual uses for the phone.
Fix the range, allow blue tooth to login to your home base station to use VoIP or landline service. Standardize on chargers, standardize on car adaptors, increase battery life, increase rnage and most importantly manage the services better so on christmas, new years, holidays and during emergencies cell phones actually f'n work.
Mr Rove, is that you?
Killer apps exist.
iTunes, Rhapsody/Listen.com, Winamp, DiVX, PowerDVD, and even open source stuff such as dScaler have been superb at easily integrating and utilizing the OS.
Infact for ANY operating system out there i'd say as far as the OS goes and creating the tools necessary to harness the power Windows still wins hands down - its just that easy, and the market that huge that people can take the risks and make the investments to build that killer app.
Games are a fine example - They supprot DirectX and i don't hear them suing because they don't have control over the API or the ability to plugin there own SDK by default - they know they can use DirectX or license OpenGL or build a glide layer or do something else.
Windows is an OS, with tools provided to get the job done. Write doesn't get peoples jobs done so they buy Word, Office or Wordperfect. Windows Media Player doesn't work for everyone so they get iTunes, they get rhapsody and they get Winamp and everything else.
Windows XP has zip support built in and people still buy winzip..
I can claim it didn't hurt me because it didn't. The capitalistic society is responsible for what makes or breaks a venture - not whether or not WMP is included or the source code to IIS is distributed. Use linux or get apache or write your own OS if you want control