ICANN might be able to force VeriSign to get this off the net
http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/
Petitions only work if a) the petitioners represent a threat to the petitionee's livelyhood, or b) the petition is to force a state government to put something to a vote (e.g. referendum process). ICANN viewa us, the lowly internet users, as riff-raff. They are the lord, we are their serfs. What threat does a petition hold for them? They have absolute power and don't care what we think.
Well, I can't speak for the guys you work for, but I know I have, and know how to use it too. Though I have to say, it wasn't the airforce, but a brittish foriegn exchange student, that taught me how to really shine shoes, but I can put a shine on my shoes you could use to signal planes with. And I'm talking standard issue low quaters none of these patent leather shoes.
Guys I worked WITH. Me work FOR the Air Force? Gack! Fightin' words!
But yeah, I learned how to shine from an ancient retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant. He could shine shoes so bright that you'd be ashamed to wear them on your filthy unworthy feet.
not really, not where i come from at least.
banks can't afford to mess around, they got fiscal responsibilities(yeah the military has too but there's just so many people in there that are ignorant of things, of all things, that the banks are the winner. i could swear that the banks use stronger crypto on most everyday things too than most worlds armies).
Yeah, sorry. I was being too general. The US and/or Canadian Military is more disciplined than most every US and/or Canadian Bank.
If you want IT, go with the Air Force. If any of my nephews decide to join the service, I will strongly counsel them to go in the Air Force instead of the Army (where I spent 7 years).
Air Force is good if what you're looking for is "military light", without too much of that pesky discipline. Marine Corps is good if you want the discipline without too many of those pesky marketable job skills. Can't say much about the Navy, as I was Army also and pretty much only worked with Air Force and Marine Corps. Nowadays, it seems that ALL the branches have a pretty heavy IT force and the most important thing is to pick the right MOS. The Air Force will most likely get you a lot of experience that's directly applicable to the civilian business world. But then you're just another IT monkey with a security clearance (maybe). One thing that IT in the Army might get you is experience with setting up wireless tactical networks, which may look a bit better on a resume than "email admin for XYZ Supply Squadron at McGuffin AFB". (Don't get me started on how rag-bag sloppy AF personnel always seemed to be when I worked with 'em; I sometimes wondered if they'd even HEARD of shoe polish)
Then again, I spent 6 years in the "pre-networked" army ('87-'93) processing/analyzing intelligence in the field with the 11B's, so my position is somewhat biased...
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$300.00 / (2847 mi x 2) = ~5.3 cents/mile. It's a round trip ticket, remember.
Doh. Me fail math? That's unpossible!
Send me back to the fifth grade, I guess.
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I'm trying to learn Russian now, so I'm getting reacquanted with the proccess.
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My heart goes out to you. I found the only way to get my pronounciation right was to get half tanked on vodka. My instructor, a russian immigrant, says that the two guys who came up with the alphabet invented a lot of bizarre subtleties out of whole cloth-- such as the "u" i sound and the "bi" i sound, which do not require two seperate letters-- and that spoken russian isn't nearly as complicated as written russian. Same thing with the spelling of a lot of words. There are letters that are never pronounced, but are required in the spelling. That's what happens when you let a couple of linguists design your alphabet.
Name another form of transportation that even comes CLOSE to the speed and economy of air travel.
You've set up an unwinable contest there, mate. By arbitrarily adding in the "speed" caveat, you've unfairly narrowed the field of choices to "modes of transport as fast as a jet aircraft". Now, if you're talking just plain cost, four people in a minivan will run you ~.05 a mile. If you want real value, go Amtrak. It'll take almost 3 days, but NY to LA is only $166. One could, I suppose, go by bus, but a Greyhound ticket would run you $159. I think I'd go train.
Additionally, it's only 2847 miles from NY to LA over roads, so your airline ticket cost estimate of "$.05 a mile" really should be "at least $.10 a mile".
Have you put in as many hours as, oooh, let's say commercial airline pilots?
And have you been situated somewhere where you'd be aware of such problems, such as the cockpit?
Have those commercial airline pilots and/or the FAA done a rational study of the problem yet? Or do they just have these anecdotal incidents we keep hearing about? I've yet to see a decent explaination as to exactly WHAT these electronic devices do and which avionic systems they affect. It goes both ways, man.
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I recommend Python.
Open source, expressive (very short code can achieve a lot), readable (very short expressive code is easily groked -- fewer bugs), no direct pointer manipulation (safe -- fewer bugs), integrates nicely with other languages, runs on a variety of platforms, very easy to learn.
Python is good for some things, but it's hardly a 1:1 replacement for C/C++. While it may be somewhat better in some areas, interpreted languages have certain shortcomings that make them unsuitable as replacements for compiled languages in many cases. Such as anything rquiring small size or fast execution...
Now, the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere can definitely cause injury or death. Now green plants definitely produce this weapon of mass destruction? Doesn't that mean all green plants are terrorists and must be destroyed?
Errr...actually, we produce the CO2. Plants suck it up and produce O2.
Then why not establish a single democratically-elected dictator? After all, it worked so well for the Roman Empir^H^H^H^H^HRepublic.
Actually, I think it was the Roman Senate that was elected during the republic, and that the rise of roman dictatorship was the de-facto end of the republic. Roman dictators were pretty much elected by themselves and their army!
Here's the thing, you wouldn't listen to any points that I made because you are so busy arging points that I haven't even made (nor was going to make.)
You didn't make any point, dude. You only asked me if if a bizarre contrived situation would be stealing. I replied that not only would it not be stealing, but wherever you were going with the straw-man argument was totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. I mean, sure, someone might say "you STOLE my formula", but this is simple colloquialism, like the phrase "he STOLE my girlfriend". You wouldn't say someone could actually OWN their girlfriend, would you?
The problem is you are presenting a premise without your argument and complaining when I reject the premise without waiting for the argument!
This is why a movie company can spend $100M producing a movie and sell the DVD for $20 -- they already made money on the movie from movie theater ticket sales.
But when a record company spends money making an album, they only make money back selling CD's.
It doesn't cost anywhere near $100milion to release an audio CD. Your argument has merit, but only if you're asking the correct question:
How does the cost of assembling/creating the extra content and pressing a movie DVD compare to the production of an audio CD? I seriously doubt it's 3X-9X more expensive to produce an audio CD.
Not really. If the battery is truly dead, there won't be anything to supply spark, power the electronic fuel injection, electric fuel pump, etc. It's not like the old days of magnetos and carbs..
Huh? The car has a generator. Why won't it supply electricity for all these things? I had a dead battery a few times and drove home just fine after someone gave me a jump.
What you call a "generator" is more accurately an alternator. An alternator requires a small amount of electricity beforehand in order to create the magnetic field it rotates the wire coils through. With no initial electricity, it's just a coil of wire spinning inside another coil of wire. Also, the problem with had cranking a car with electronic fuel injection is that it needs to be cranked long enough to generate enough power to get the fuel system up to the high pressure required by the injectors.
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It's Offtopic, You Tool Face
It's not off topic, moron. Corsair making memory with blinking lights on it requires a reference to the classic "blinkenlights" warning.
Re:It could be viewed as stealing.
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The copyright holder is the owner of exclusive rights.
If you take on the execution of one of those rights for yourself and make a copy then you have taken away from the exclusivity that they own.
Heh. So what you're saying is that infringing upon the copyright holder's exclusive right to copy is stealing? Incorrect. It's copyright infringement. Stealing and theft are property crimes. Copyright infringement is not. You need to point out an actual loss of property if you're going to call it stealing. And remember to think before you try that, and know that music cannot be property, ideas cannot be property, and "sales that might have been" cannot be property. Try again.
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It was nice to see that DetuscheGrammaphone wasn't on it.
Errr....I believe that's because the "Deutsche" aspect pretty much precludes them from joining the Recording Industry Association of America. They may, in fact, be a member of the German/European equivalent to the RIAA.
As you will surely know the electro-magnetic waves used for cell phone communication are just the same a radioactive waves used in nuclear power plants, they just operate at a different frequency and energy. However energy adds up over the long time
Despite your sig, you are apparently an idiot. Gamma radiation is ionizing radiation. RF radiation, which lives all the way on the other side of the spectrum, with visible light radiation in between, is non-ionizing radiation. If you don't know the difference, you have no business pontificating on the subject. And what's with the "energy adds up" thing? Are you trying to say that damage is cumulative? Even assuming that english is not your first language, this doesn't explain your total lack of understanding of the principles involved. Get behind me, troll, get behind me!
microwaves are strongest right by the antenna, and fall off rapidly (what is it? The sum of the square... oh shit, I Can never remember this mathematical crap)
Unfortunately Eskimos/islander would probably be way too different to city humans, I wager they'd be healthier because they have a better environment and they don't sit in a car/on a chair in front of a computer all day, but instead move a lot, their diet would be different as well.
Actually, their diet is worse and the huge percentage of eskimo youths who huff gasoline makes them prone to a lot of strange illnesses. But yes, they are a bad choice as a control group.
I wonder what problems everybody has with the page nature of pdf.
I think the biggest complaint has to do with the "hard" page layout. There's no option for word wrapping, so if the font is too small to read, you're forced to up the magnification and deal with both side- and vertical-scolling to read it.
Not to beat a dead horse, but if Excel was prior art, I would have hoped that Microsoft themselves would have brought it up.
"Microsoft" isn't just some guy who could say "hey, I remember working on excel way back when; it could do just what this patent says". No, it's a huge company with thousands of employees. It's entirely possible that there's no one there anymore who worked on Excel 5 who was even aware MS's lawyers would be interested in knowing about this. A company that large can't really be thought of as a single entity. It's more like a hive. All the parts work together towards a common goal, perhaps, but no one part knows what all the others are doing.
It's not theft. Mantra or not, it's a fact of law. Theft is a property crime. Copyright violation is not. Music cannot be owned, only copyrighted. What part of the difference between real property and copyright do you not understand?
Consider: an object can only be stolen once at any given time, it can be recovered and returned to its rightful owner, or insurance can be claimed; but a file shared is shared forever.
The song(file) is "shared" as soon as the copyright holder sells the first copy. The right to authorize legal copies lies with the copyright holder. The copyright doesn't go away, nor is it diminished, by the work being copied.
If you own a file (a Star Wars fan film for example) that you didn't want shared which is distributed without your permission the damage (be it financial or personal) can never be undone.
What you're talking about here is confidential information. There is no right to ownership of secrets, dumbass. Once confidential information is out, it's out. One can often recover damages from the party who let the cat out of the bag, such as with trade secrets, but there is no right of ownership to secret info, and there's certainly no law against embarassing people.
Sharing allows virtually an infinite number of repetitions of the same damaging act;
Yep, and each one of those copies is potentially a violation of copyright that is actionable in a court of law as copyright infringement. Not larceny, theft, nor grand theft, but copyright infringement. Get it?
possibly a worse crime than simple one-off physical theft.
[shrug]
I'm not going to argue with you over whether you or anyone else thinks copyright infringement is "worse" than theft; that's not the issue. We're talking about the law here and the law regards property and copyright law differently. The RIAA estimating the "value" of the songs shared at full retail price is just further attempts by them the equate copyright violation with shoplifting.
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Petitions only work if a) the petitioners represent a threat to the petitionee's livelyhood, or b) the petition is to force a state government to put something to a vote (e.g. referendum process). ICANN viewa us, the lowly internet users, as riff-raff. They are the lord, we are their serfs. What threat does a petition hold for them? They have absolute power and don't care what we think.
Guys I worked WITH. Me work FOR the Air Force? Gack! Fightin' words!
But yeah, I learned how to shine from an ancient retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant. He could shine shoes so bright that you'd be ashamed to wear them on your filthy unworthy feet.
Yeah, sorry. I was being too general. The US and/or Canadian Military is more disciplined than most every US and/or Canadian Bank.
Air Force is good if what you're looking for is "military light", without too much of that pesky discipline. Marine Corps is good if you want the discipline without too many of those pesky marketable job skills. Can't say much about the Navy, as I was Army also and pretty much only worked with Air Force and Marine Corps. Nowadays, it seems that ALL the branches have a pretty heavy IT force and the most important thing is to pick the right MOS. The Air Force will most likely get you a lot of experience that's directly applicable to the civilian business world. But then you're just another IT monkey with a security clearance (maybe). One thing that IT in the Army might get you is experience with setting up wireless tactical networks, which may look a bit better on a resume than "email admin for XYZ Supply Squadron at McGuffin AFB". (Don't get me started on how rag-bag sloppy AF personnel always seemed to be when I worked with 'em; I sometimes wondered if they'd even HEARD of shoe polish)
Then again, I spent 6 years in the "pre-networked" army ('87-'93) processing/analyzing intelligence in the field with the 11B's, so my position is somewhat biased...
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Militaries are a lot more disciplined than banks.
Doh. Me fail math? That's unpossible!
Send me back to the fifth grade, I guess.
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My heart goes out to you. I found the only way to get my pronounciation right was to get half tanked on vodka. My instructor, a russian immigrant, says that the two guys who came up with the alphabet invented a lot of bizarre subtleties out of whole cloth-- such as the "u" i sound and the "bi" i sound, which do not require two seperate letters-- and that spoken russian isn't nearly as complicated as written russian. Same thing with the spelling of a lot of words. There are letters that are never pronounced, but are required in the spelling. That's what happens when you let a couple of linguists design your alphabet.
You've set up an unwinable contest there, mate. By arbitrarily adding in the "speed" caveat, you've unfairly narrowed the field of choices to "modes of transport as fast as a jet aircraft". Now, if you're talking just plain cost, four people in a minivan will run you ~.05 a mile. If you want real value, go Amtrak. It'll take almost 3 days, but NY to LA is only $166. One could, I suppose, go by bus, but a Greyhound ticket would run you $159. I think I'd go train.
Additionally, it's only 2847 miles from NY to LA over roads, so your airline ticket cost estimate of "$.05 a mile" really should be "at least $.10 a mile".
Have those commercial airline pilots and/or the FAA done a rational study of the problem yet? Or do they just have these anecdotal incidents we keep hearing about? I've yet to see a decent explaination as to exactly WHAT these electronic devices do and which avionic systems they affect. It goes both ways, man.
Python is good for some things, but it's hardly a 1:1 replacement for C/C++. While it may be somewhat better in some areas, interpreted languages have certain shortcomings that make them unsuitable as replacements for compiled languages in many cases. Such as anything rquiring small size or fast execution...
Errr...actually, we produce the CO2. Plants suck it up and produce O2.
Actually, I think it was the Roman Senate that was elected during the republic, and that the rise of roman dictatorship was the de-facto end of the republic. Roman dictators were pretty much elected by themselves and their army!
You didn't make any point, dude. You only asked me if if a bizarre contrived situation would be stealing. I replied that not only would it not be stealing, but wherever you were going with the straw-man argument was totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. I mean, sure, someone might say "you STOLE my formula", but this is simple colloquialism, like the phrase "he STOLE my girlfriend". You wouldn't say someone could actually OWN their girlfriend, would you?
The problem is you are presenting a premise without your argument and complaining when I reject the premise without waiting for the argument!
It doesn't cost anywhere near $100milion to release an audio CD. Your argument has merit, but only if you're asking the correct question:
How does the cost of assembling/creating the extra content and pressing a movie DVD compare to the production of an audio CD? I seriously doubt it's 3X-9X more expensive to produce an audio CD.
Huh? The car has a generator. Why won't it supply electricity for all these things? I had a dead battery a few times and drove home just fine after someone gave me a jump.
What you call a "generator" is more accurately an alternator. An alternator requires a small amount of electricity beforehand in order to create the magnetic field it rotates the wire coils through. With no initial electricity, it's just a coil of wire spinning inside another coil of wire. Also, the problem with had cranking a car with electronic fuel injection is that it needs to be cranked long enough to generate enough power to get the fuel system up to the high pressure required by the injectors.
It's not off topic, moron. Corsair making memory with blinking lights on it requires a reference to the classic "blinkenlights" warning.
Heh. So what you're saying is that infringing upon the copyright holder's exclusive right to copy is stealing? Incorrect. It's copyright infringement. Stealing and theft are property crimes. Copyright infringement is not. You need to point out an actual loss of property if you're going to call it stealing. And remember to think before you try that, and know that music cannot be property, ideas cannot be property, and "sales that might have been" cannot be property. Try again.
Errr....I believe that's because the "Deutsche" aspect pretty much precludes them from joining the Recording Industry Association of America. They may, in fact, be a member of the German/European equivalent to the RIAA.
Simply because you were too quick to even bother to spend a few minutes going down that logical path.
Cripes man, I went as far as I could. A math formula can't be owned, thus can't be stolen. But OK, good day to you as well.
Despite your sig, you are apparently an idiot. Gamma radiation is ionizing radiation. RF radiation, which lives all the way on the other side of the spectrum, with visible light radiation in between, is non-ionizing radiation. If you don't know the difference, you have no business pontificating on the subject. And what's with the "energy adds up" thing? Are you trying to say that damage is cumulative? Even assuming that english is not your first language, this doesn't explain your total lack of understanding of the principles involved. Get behind me, troll, get behind me!
Inverse square. one-over-distance-times-itself. 1/D^2
Actually, their diet is worse and the huge percentage of eskimo youths who huff gasoline makes them prone to a lot of strange illnesses. But yes, they are a bad choice as a control group.
I think the biggest complaint has to do with the "hard" page layout. There's no option for word wrapping, so if the font is too small to read, you're forced to up the magnification and deal with both side- and vertical-scolling to read it.
"Microsoft" isn't just some guy who could say "hey, I remember working on excel way back when; it could do just what this patent says". No, it's a huge company with thousands of employees. It's entirely possible that there's no one there anymore who worked on Excel 5 who was even aware MS's lawyers would be interested in knowing about this. A company that large can't really be thought of as a single entity. It's more like a hive. All the parts work together towards a common goal, perhaps, but no one part knows what all the others are doing.
It's not theft. Mantra or not, it's a fact of law. Theft is a property crime. Copyright violation is not. Music cannot be owned, only copyrighted. What part of the difference between real property and copyright do you not understand?
Consider: an object can only be stolen once at any given time, it can be recovered and returned to its rightful owner, or insurance can be claimed; but a file shared is shared forever.
The song(file) is "shared" as soon as the copyright holder sells the first copy. The right to authorize legal copies lies with the copyright holder. The copyright doesn't go away, nor is it diminished, by the work being copied.
If you own a file (a Star Wars fan film for example) that you didn't want shared which is distributed without your permission the damage (be it financial or personal) can never be undone.
What you're talking about here is confidential information. There is no right to ownership of secrets, dumbass. Once confidential information is out, it's out. One can often recover damages from the party who let the cat out of the bag, such as with trade secrets, but there is no right of ownership to secret info, and there's certainly no law against embarassing people.
Sharing allows virtually an infinite number of repetitions of the same damaging act;
Yep, and each one of those copies is potentially a violation of copyright that is actionable in a court of law as copyright infringement. Not larceny, theft, nor grand theft, but copyright infringement. Get it?
possibly a worse crime than simple one-off physical theft.
[shrug] I'm not going to argue with you over whether you or anyone else thinks copyright infringement is "worse" than theft; that's not the issue. We're talking about the law here and the law regards property and copyright law differently. The RIAA estimating the "value" of the songs shared at full retail price is just further attempts by them the equate copyright violation with shoplifting.