The bottom line here is, if a consumer does not like the actions that a corporation is taking, then they can vote with their money by using a competing service.
Bullshit. Did the contract these people agreed to in order to get service mention "oh by the way, we censor websites that we don't like?
Your "vote with your wallet" crap requires an informed marketplace, which is anathema to today's megacorporations which thrive on lies and greed. This is one of the reasons I pay extra to not get a yearly contract for my ISP: I can't trust them to not pull shit on me with their vaguely worded "bandwidth limits" which they can't just tell me what they are, and other trash like that.
Most Christians tend to be conservative though, because we believe in the right to life.
This is why religion and politics should NEVER meet. What have the Christians traded for the "right to life" by sleeping with the dogs of corporate greed? If you are known by the company you keep, is it any surprise that being led around by a group of lying scumbags has so severely hurt the image of Christianity in the eyes of many?
Religions are compromised by compromise. Trading away your moral values for a vote means you don't value your morals very highly.
Now as for doctors many times the doctor is also the owner. They run it like a busness.
Which is also against my observations, at least in the "business" perspective. We used to do consultation for doctors as well as software. Trying to get them to advertise is the real "pulling teeth with a toothpick". They assume that just because they put up a shingle somewhere that patients will just magically appear. We got out of that business, we just couldn't deliver and when we couldn't deliver with the doctors rejecting every avenue of advertising that we put forward. Worse, it was impossible to make the doctors understand that it wasn't our fault that the magic patient fairy failed to smack them with its rubber mallet.
The difference is that in this case, the silence IS the crime. The "convicted solely due to their silence" bit means that they can't convict them on terrorism or child porn or whatever (assuming they have no other evidence... really, if you found your way to the guy's computer, you've gotta have something, or are you really solving a crime?). Instead, the crime will be "failing to turn over the keys" and realistically, that'll go on top of whatever else they've got on you.
By itself it's a pretty stupid charge to try and pull. You could just claim the file was corrupted, not encrypted, and that no password would have retrieved any data from it (hint: use pgp without ascii armor if you want this to be believable) and that they have no apparent reason to expect that there was any data there in the first place, else they'd have some form of evidence, even if it was just some log of a public chat saying you've got the plans to blow up a building or something of that nature.
Oh -- and from what I hear, this particular system is much despised by most of the MDs who use it.
Which is the reverse of what I hear. I was at a medical conference recently trying to pitch our own wares, and it seemed to me that half the people at the conference were from the state penitentiary system and used the state's software, and the other half were from VA hospitals and used Vista. I was told fairly consistently by the VA docs that they loved the system and that they'd never use anything else. Of course, the hospital set it up for these doctors, so they never had to deal with any of the guts.
Looking at the system myself, it looks like 99% of the headache is in setting it up. Once it's configured correctly, that's when you get the doctors praising it like it was the best thing since sliced bread.
The most interesting thing about the article is that the software's been Free all along, some group issued a FOIA request for the source code and got it, and it's been an opensource project for at least a year now.
Is it immoral Blizzard campers making money selling the Chinese subscribers they're farming? Let's talk about how all this camping and farming is affecting our economy. Clearly, duped subscribers are being used to inflate the importance of this third-rate console. What'll happen when the admins discover this and issue a rollback or worse, start just cancelling Microsoft and Blizzard accounts for participating in this hack?
Personally, I preferred the SNES version, except for the "hacking" parts. The genesis version of hacking was far more interesting than playing ICE minesweeper.
a filing system that uses labels rather then folders
I've thought about set-based filesystems before. Rather than having directories, a file would belong to one or more sets, like for instance "System Files", "$USER's Files", "Mail Files", "2004 Vacation Pictures", "Porn", etc. In a multiuser system, all the users' mail spools would be located by looking in "Mail Files". An individual user's mail would be located in "$USER's Files"*"Mail Files". My porn would be in "root's Files"*"Porn", completely separate from "jdoe's Files"*"Porn", but I could still see all the porn on the system from "Porn". A team project could contain files in ("User1's Files"+"User2's Files"+"User3's Files")*"CPSC120 Assignment 3". The biggest issue with this, implementation-wise, would be the storage requirements for N sytem-defined sets, plus user-defined sets, and their indexes. Some method for file disambiguation would be necessary too, if I have an "All User's Files" set, what would each user's.bashrc look like?
This of course ignores the fact that every tool and user is geared towards hiearchical filesystems. Even if Spotlight can pull stuff up by category, that stuff still resides in/some/directory, and thats where the program goes when it opens it. It would be possible to "fake it" a little simply by hacking the "cd" operation to intersect sets, but the order of set intersection doesn't matter, so cd set1/set2 gets you to the same place as cd set2/set1, which will cause tools using directory recursion to blow a gasket. Assuming of course, you provide all the possible intersecting sets as subdirectories to the current set intersection directory. cd.. should remove the most recently added set, meaning that from/set1/set2, cd.. would take you to/set1 while from/set2/set1 (which is the same "place") it would take you to/set2. Finally, from/, you'd see every file on the system (again, you'd need a way to disambiguate files with the same names). Even if that's all worked out, kludging cd to work in sets doesn't provide for a way to take unions of sets or perform other useful set operations.
Why couldn't it have been? How long has GTA:SA been out? 1.24MB is a pretty big file for "just flipping a bit", but perhaps not too big for someone to use someone else's 3D engine, someone else's objects and textures (they're still wearing their clothes even!) to insert a minigame where the player gets to bump two 3D objects together for a while.
I'm inclined to believe Rockstar's report on this one, until whoever was responsibile for the Hot Coffee mod releases a document showing step by step how to do it myself.
Well, if I was supreme ruler of the universe, I'd establish a multinational non-profit for managing the DNS infrastructure. The multinational aspect of it would help ensure that no one government could bring enough pressure to bear to break it, while the non-profit side will hopefully prevent corporate greed from making it go down the path Verisign took.
I would like an explanation of what's wrong with my reasoning, though. Especially since you apparently hated it so much that you set me as a foe. Having seen my own government spout gibberish nonsense about the internet, I'm not exactly thrilled with the chances of the World Internet Organization of doing any better, but at least if I can get enough people to care, I can throw Orrin Hatch out of MY government.
And you think they do understand details of what the WHO does?
No, but they know what the hell the WHO is doing. Tell you what, I'll round up all the politicians that can tell the difference between a dead baby and a live baby, and you round up all the politicians who can tell the difference between a working squid cache and a broken squid cache, and whoever has the least people has to buy dinner for the other side.
Yeah, but the copies you are handing out to people exist only as long as they are at your website.
Hell fucking NO. Every caching proxy between you and me, not to mention my OWN cache has a copy.
As to the rest of your ranting, you're right, some past indiscretion that has since been rectified shouldn't be held against someone, but to believe that the internet caused this problem, or that breaking the internet will somehow make people stop behaving this way, ignores human nature and the plight of many, many ex-cons.
Thats because the WHO has a pretty clear role in life, and that role is pretty hard to fuck up. I mean, if the WHO went around killing babies, it'd be pretty obvious that something is wrong.
But what about "managing Teh Intarweb"? The majority of politicians these days don't even understand that there is more to the internet than what Internet Explorer shows them. If they start throwing around regulations that are impossible to follow (like "ban all sites that might offend someone, but we can't give you a list because that would be offensive", how many times have we heard THAT now?) the majority of the politicians wouldn't figure it out until everything starts going down in flames, and if they can't see the rubble in Internet Explorer, they don't know that it's there.
And of course, being unelected, should they get an email saying the internet should be shut down for its annual cleaning and believe that it's true, there isn't anything obvious that can be done about it.
So now a terrorist has driven a car bomb into the middle of a crowd of kids that the army was handing candy and toys out to. Can I call it or what? Where is the story? This morning, it's a paragraph or two on the bottom of my newspaper. CNN didn't even devote a whole story to it.
People talk about demonizing people (usually in reference to People in a broad term, like "Muslims") and how thats "bad", but our biggest failure in this war is our failure to demonize the real demons. As long as the "silent majority" can continue to shrug and not care, nothing changes. If the atrocities are not reported, what reason does Islam have to cut these terrorists out of their body? Why should we expect Saudi Arabia to quit supporting them? There is more at stake here than just what Iraqi newspapers report, the worldwide view is important as well.
As it stands, many of the Iraqi parents will probably blame the Americans just for being there, and the situation will get worse.
I think before iTMS gets into full length movies, I think they should start with a contract with MTV, VH1, etc. to "sell" music videos. This will give them a chance to work out how they're doing to deal with video files, get a video player working and tested in iTunes, and have everything ready to go for when they roll out a movie-on-demand service.
That, and I'd really love to see New Order's True Faith video again.
Call me crazy, but if the FBI needs 10 minute wiretapping on a WIFI setup to keep my plane from being blown up by a bunch of Islamic radicals, then so be it. It's better to be a live chump who's email was intercepted by the feds than a dead one who's viagra spam remained a secret.
I have nothing against this. Know why? The magic words at the end: with court approval. If someone decides to fuck with the system, there's a paper trail. Imagine if we couldn't have caught the several FBI agents over recent history that used wiretaps to make inside trades?
Pretending that these measures will only be used in the one-in-a-billion chance someone tries to hijack a plane (or the probably significantly higher chance that someone decides to just blow it up) is naive, especially when you consider the kind of business elite that will be using these services and who will be ripe for the picking.
They just don't want to get involved in the conflict, they want to hide in their houses when gunfire erupts. It's the silent majority.
And THATS exactly what I'm talking about. As long as the people are too afraid to speak up, nothing will change. It won't matter if we wipe out every last living Al Qaeda member, when the next group decides to take power, the "silent majority" will roll over for them too.
As for the media, I'm not exactly talking about storming some newspaper office and forcing people to write warm fuzzy stuff at gunpoint here, I'm talking about tricking them into showing fake tapes, spreading false information, and so on. Maybe our intelligence network really has atrophied over the years to the point where there is no intelligence left in it. It made some serious tactical blunders, like taking down Chalabi when he was a known good path for leaking anything we wanted. "Keep your enemies closer". How old is that saying?
Why? Because the world of DNS has radically changed in amazing and profound ways in two years? How old is bind 9?
It's not like it takes a lot of activity to automate a DNS server. Nobody has to sit there and push buttons or something, just keep backups, spare equipment in a closet, bandwidth and power, and have someone with a pager to deal with any issues that come up.
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The bottom line here is, if a consumer does not like the actions that a corporation is taking, then they can vote with their money by using a competing service.
Bullshit. Did the contract these people agreed to in order to get service mention "oh by the way, we censor websites that we don't like?
Your "vote with your wallet" crap requires an informed marketplace, which is anathema to today's megacorporations which thrive on lies and greed. This is one of the reasons I pay extra to not get a yearly contract for my ISP: I can't trust them to not pull shit on me with their vaguely worded "bandwidth limits" which they can't just tell me what they are, and other trash like that.
Most Christians tend to be conservative though, because we believe in the right to life.
This is why religion and politics should NEVER meet. What have the Christians traded for the "right to life" by sleeping with the dogs of corporate greed? If you are known by the company you keep, is it any surprise that being led around by a group of lying scumbags has so severely hurt the image of Christianity in the eyes of many?
Religions are compromised by compromise. Trading away your moral values for a vote means you don't value your morals very highly.
Now as for doctors many times the doctor is also the owner. They run it like a busness.
Which is also against my observations, at least in the "business" perspective. We used to do consultation for doctors as well as software. Trying to get them to advertise is the real "pulling teeth with a toothpick". They assume that just because they put up a shingle somewhere that patients will just magically appear. We got out of that business, we just couldn't deliver and when we couldn't deliver with the doctors rejecting every avenue of advertising that we put forward. Worse, it was impossible to make the doctors understand that it wasn't our fault that the magic patient fairy failed to smack them with its rubber mallet.
The difference is that in this case, the silence IS the crime. The "convicted solely due to their silence" bit means that they can't convict them on terrorism or child porn or whatever (assuming they have no other evidence... really, if you found your way to the guy's computer, you've gotta have something, or are you really solving a crime?). Instead, the crime will be "failing to turn over the keys" and realistically, that'll go on top of whatever else they've got on you.
By itself it's a pretty stupid charge to try and pull. You could just claim the file was corrupted, not encrypted, and that no password would have retrieved any data from it (hint: use pgp without ascii armor if you want this to be believable) and that they have no apparent reason to expect that there was any data there in the first place, else they'd have some form of evidence, even if it was just some log of a public chat saying you've got the plans to blow up a building or something of that nature.
Oh -- and from what I hear, this particular system is much despised by most of the MDs who use it.
Which is the reverse of what I hear. I was at a medical conference recently trying to pitch our own wares, and it seemed to me that half the people at the conference were from the state penitentiary system and used the state's software, and the other half were from VA hospitals and used Vista. I was told fairly consistently by the VA docs that they loved the system and that they'd never use anything else. Of course, the hospital set it up for these doctors, so they never had to deal with any of the guts.
Looking at the system myself, it looks like 99% of the headache is in setting it up. Once it's configured correctly, that's when you get the doctors praising it like it was the best thing since sliced bread.
The most interesting thing about the article is that the software's been Free all along, some group issued a FOIA request for the source code and got it, and it's been an opensource project for at least a year now.
You forgot "Heart". Then and only then can you get Captain Planet.
If they did that, how would they watch over your shoulder to make sure you're not playing games when you're supposed to be working?
Is it immoral Blizzard campers making money selling the Chinese subscribers they're farming? Let's talk about how all this camping and farming is affecting our economy. Clearly, duped subscribers are being used to inflate the importance of this third-rate console. What'll happen when the admins discover this and issue a rollback or worse, start just cancelling Microsoft and Blizzard accounts for participating in this hack?
he doesn't seem to be very consistant with his views.
Actually, I think it's just the opposite. He's very consistent: "Everything sucks."
Personally, I preferred the SNES version, except for the "hacking" parts. The genesis version of hacking was far more interesting than playing ICE minesweeper.
I don't see how no monthly fee equals "more than just a monthly fee".
Try reading it "more [options] than just a monthly fee" then it makes sense.
a filing system that uses labels rather then folders
.bashrc look like?
/some/directory, and thats where the program goes when it opens it. It would be possible to "fake it" a little simply by hacking the "cd" operation to intersect sets, but the order of set intersection doesn't matter, so cd set1/set2 gets you to the same place as cd set2/set1, which will cause tools using directory recursion to blow a gasket. Assuming of course, you provide all the possible intersecting sets as subdirectories to the current set intersection directory. cd .. should remove the most recently added set, meaning that from /set1/set2, cd .. would take you to /set1 while from /set2/set1 (which is the same "place") it would take you to /set2. Finally, from /, you'd see every file on the system (again, you'd need a way to disambiguate files with the same names). Even if that's all worked out, kludging cd to work in sets doesn't provide for a way to take unions of sets or perform other useful set operations.
I've thought about set-based filesystems before. Rather than having directories, a file would belong to one or more sets, like for instance "System Files", "$USER's Files", "Mail Files", "2004 Vacation Pictures", "Porn", etc. In a multiuser system, all the users' mail spools would be located by looking in "Mail Files". An individual user's mail would be located in "$USER's Files"*"Mail Files". My porn would be in "root's Files"*"Porn", completely separate from "jdoe's Files"*"Porn", but I could still see all the porn on the system from "Porn". A team project could contain files in ("User1's Files"+"User2's Files"+"User3's Files")*"CPSC120 Assignment 3". The biggest issue with this, implementation-wise, would be the storage requirements for N sytem-defined sets, plus user-defined sets, and their indexes. Some method for file disambiguation would be necessary too, if I have an "All User's Files" set, what would each user's
This of course ignores the fact that every tool and user is geared towards hiearchical filesystems. Even if Spotlight can pull stuff up by category, that stuff still resides in
retirement funds were not basic survival.
You seem to be lost, the set for the Logan's Run remake is over in the other building.
It couldn't have been one person.
Why couldn't it have been? How long has GTA:SA been out? 1.24MB is a pretty big file for "just flipping a bit", but perhaps not too big for someone to use someone else's 3D engine, someone else's objects and textures (they're still wearing their clothes even!) to insert a minigame where the player gets to bump two 3D objects together for a while.
I'm inclined to believe Rockstar's report on this one, until whoever was responsibile for the Hot Coffee mod releases a document showing step by step how to do it myself.
Well, if I was supreme ruler of the universe, I'd establish a multinational non-profit for managing the DNS infrastructure. The multinational aspect of it would help ensure that no one government could bring enough pressure to bear to break it, while the non-profit side will hopefully prevent corporate greed from making it go down the path Verisign took.
Hm, I wasn't expecting +5, really.
I would like an explanation of what's wrong with my reasoning, though. Especially since you apparently hated it so much that you set me as a foe. Having seen my own government spout gibberish nonsense about the internet, I'm not exactly thrilled with the chances of the World Internet Organization of doing any better, but at least if I can get enough people to care, I can throw Orrin Hatch out of MY government.
And you think they do understand details of what the WHO does?
No, but they know what the hell the WHO is doing. Tell you what, I'll round up all the politicians that can tell the difference between a dead baby and a live baby, and you round up all the politicians who can tell the difference between a working squid cache and a broken squid cache, and whoever has the least people has to buy dinner for the other side.
Yeah, but the copies you are handing out to people exist only as long as they are at your website.
Hell fucking NO. Every caching proxy between you and me, not to mention my OWN cache has a copy.
As to the rest of your ranting, you're right, some past indiscretion that has since been rectified shouldn't be held against someone, but to believe that the internet caused this problem, or that breaking the internet will somehow make people stop behaving this way, ignores human nature and the plight of many, many ex-cons.
Thats because the WHO has a pretty clear role in life, and that role is pretty hard to fuck up. I mean, if the WHO went around killing babies, it'd be pretty obvious that something is wrong.
But what about "managing Teh Intarweb"? The majority of politicians these days don't even understand that there is more to the internet than what Internet Explorer shows them. If they start throwing around regulations that are impossible to follow (like "ban all sites that might offend someone, but we can't give you a list because that would be offensive", how many times have we heard THAT now?) the majority of the politicians wouldn't figure it out until everything starts going down in flames, and if they can't see the rubble in Internet Explorer, they don't know that it's there.
And of course, being unelected, should they get an email saying the internet should be shut down for its annual cleaning and believe that it's true, there isn't anything obvious that can be done about it.
So now a terrorist has driven a car bomb into the middle of a crowd of kids that the army was handing candy and toys out to. Can I call it or what? Where is the story? This morning, it's a paragraph or two on the bottom of my newspaper. CNN didn't even devote a whole story to it.
People talk about demonizing people (usually in reference to People in a broad term, like "Muslims") and how thats "bad", but our biggest failure in this war is our failure to demonize the real demons. As long as the "silent majority" can continue to shrug and not care, nothing changes. If the atrocities are not reported, what reason does Islam have to cut these terrorists out of their body? Why should we expect Saudi Arabia to quit supporting them? There is more at stake here than just what Iraqi newspapers report, the worldwide view is important as well.
As it stands, many of the Iraqi parents will probably blame the Americans just for being there, and the situation will get worse.
I mean look what happened to the Romans...Where are they now?
In Rome.
I think before iTMS gets into full length movies, I think they should start with a contract with MTV, VH1, etc. to "sell" music videos. This will give them a chance to work out how they're doing to deal with video files, get a video player working and tested in iTunes, and have everything ready to go for when they roll out a movie-on-demand service.
That, and I'd really love to see New Order's True Faith video again.
Call me crazy, but if the FBI needs 10 minute wiretapping on a WIFI setup to keep my plane from being blown up by a bunch of Islamic radicals, then so be it. It's better to be a live chump who's email was intercepted by the feds than a dead one who's viagra spam remained a secret.
I have nothing against this. Know why? The magic words at the end: with court approval. If someone decides to fuck with the system, there's a paper trail. Imagine if we couldn't have caught the several FBI agents over recent history that used wiretaps to make inside trades?
Pretending that these measures will only be used in the one-in-a-billion chance someone tries to hijack a plane (or the probably significantly higher chance that someone decides to just blow it up) is naive, especially when you consider the kind of business elite that will be using these services and who will be ripe for the picking.
They just don't want to get involved in the conflict, they want to hide in their houses when gunfire erupts. It's the silent majority.
And THATS exactly what I'm talking about. As long as the people are too afraid to speak up, nothing will change. It won't matter if we wipe out every last living Al Qaeda member, when the next group decides to take power, the "silent majority" will roll over for them too.
As for the media, I'm not exactly talking about storming some newspaper office and forcing people to write warm fuzzy stuff at gunpoint here, I'm talking about tricking them into showing fake tapes, spreading false information, and so on. Maybe our intelligence network really has atrophied over the years to the point where there is no intelligence left in it. It made some serious tactical blunders, like taking down Chalabi when he was a known good path for leaking anything we wanted. "Keep your enemies closer". How old is that saying?
Why? Because the world of DNS has radically changed in amazing and profound ways in two years? How old is bind 9?
It's not like it takes a lot of activity to automate a DNS server. Nobody has to sit there and push buttons or something, just keep backups, spare equipment in a closet, bandwidth and power, and have someone with a pager to deal with any issues that come up.