The issue is not who knows, the issue is that someone knows.
Google collects all this information about people. Imagine a government asks Google to provide that information to identify individuals it considers a risk to society. One might argue this is fine to stop the next VT but it can also lead, obviously, lead to oppression.
If the laws support the government there is nothing Google can really do about this but hand over what is asked of them. (Yes they can and do fight such requests in the courts but, ultimately, if they lose they will hand over the data.)
So even if Google itself does 'no evil' by collecting such large amount of information they can contribute significantly to the perpetration of evil.
The page you linked to actual refers to a crime committed in Turkey, the perpetrators of which have been arrested. The RMS song is about the persecution of individuals in violation of international laws by his (the US government) government.
Yes, well.... it is... but GPL limits with whom you can share and that is the crux of the issue. By imposing that restrictions sharing, and freedom in general, is somewhat limited but, on the other hand, it does increase the overall pool of open source software.
I met a girl at my gym that worked for the firm that did all the PR for Zune. Needless to say, she had a Zune. When I asked her about it (as I had never actually seen one before) she was at pains to tell me that the only reason she used it was because it was free and that she didn't want to sweat on her iPod. In fact, the only credit she gave the thing was that it had a built in radio, which permitted to the TV audio the gym broadcasts on FM.
Anyway, it struck me that when your own PR people think your product is uncool, you are going to have some serious market issues.
If, as a foreign power, your security could be defeated by IP spoofing then, honestly, your security issues are not going to be solved by managing your own root. In fact, if your so inept, then you probably should leave DNS security in the hands of the US government because because, frankly, that DNS root of yours is going to be hacked by script kiddies and spammers in no time flat and trash your whole infrastructure impacting your economy. Honestly, having the US government spy on you is probably preferable, and their going to do it anyway, root or no root.
Dell: Hello, can we help you? Me: Hi, I am having some problems installing Linux on my new Dell laptop. I need some information about the video card so I can set up X. Dell: Ok, umm... sure... you said Lyn-ucks? Me: Yes? Dell: Ok, umm... can you spell that please?
The GPL may be noble but it certainly is not free. It is a set of rights to which you are bound as a developer that are by no means trivial. Major corporations, like IBM, have teams of GPL-specializing attorneys to ensure compliance with those rights.
At the risk of sounding inflammatory, GPL is, in fact, source code DRM. If you want to use GPL licensed source you have to sign up to rules much as you have to sign up to rules when you but a tune from Apple. Again, I acknowledge that these are noble and generally positive rules but any rules implicitly impinge on freedom.
Yes, and, as an added advantage, it forces the technology leader of a competing desktop offering (Gnome) to continually 'plead' for your help and support. Microsoft is bound to like that leverage.
It's a bit OT but I quit Vonnage but calling them up. I was on hold for maybe 5 minutes and although the sales person tried to persuade me to stay there was no problem at all canceling.
Although I personally found their call quality lacking (Skype is better) I've never found fault with the Vonnage customer experience.
How many people want to be locked into buying videos from Apple?
Totally! I mean, does anyone seriously think any intelligent person would buy media from a company that only played on that companies device?!? I think Apple tried that with that iPod thing and look how that turned out;-)
You know those focus group - a bunch of citizens siting around telling the politician what they like and don't like - we should have more of those not less. I mean, when did we get to the point where listening to people and making policy around that became a bad thing. Is that not what democracy is all about?
It is a state not a federal law. Anyway, you MUST have a break, but nothing says you cannot be paid for one. The issue here - the story - is that the employee's are going to get 5 hours less per week in pay for the same amount of time at their desk. If I took away that much pay from you would you not be upset.
Google is clearly hurting their employees with this. Perhaps if they were not raking in cash I might understand but given their margins this is just plain self-serving.
New rules from the FBI general counsel's office tell agents they are to limit emergency requests for phone records to the most dire situations, in which the loss of life or bodily harm is believed to be imminent. They are to document carefully the circumstances surrounding the request.
So assuming the rules are followed there should be no problem as there will be a paper trail? If the rules are not followed who cares what the rules are anyway.
I am sorry but your argument is clearly invalid. If I legally use a rights managed image on my web site and you then spider images from my site and use them arbitrarily you can bet the image owner will sue. You certainly will not be able to argue that you have the right to that image because someone, somewhere, on the internet, neglected to prevent a copying of that image through robots.txt.
I am sorry but you are mistaken. The way a piece of technology is implemented has bearing on an interpretation of the law but it obviously does not define law. If the judge or jury in this case determine that a 'human readable' license on a web page is adequate to bind on organization reading the page to that license (even if the page was 'read' by a robot) then that will be the precedent for future cases, irrespective of how the technology industry has define the process should work.
I do think this person has a reasonable case. A legal notice was placed on a document which defined the rights to use that document. The rights were ignored or were otherwise violated. It's not unlike any other copyright case except the violation was done without human intervention which in no way excuses it under the law AFAIK.
Yes, suppliers have options, what's your point? If Apple stopped making iPod's someone else would make jPod's or kPod's or whatever because there is DEMAND!
Anyway, I am not against DRM. I am just against vendor lock in of the stuff I bought. Actually I own a Mac and an iPod but I want the option of using something else in the future. In fact, I saw the sansa player, which I'd like to give a try, but there is no way to do that unless I do something deemed illegal to covert my music to a different format.
I think the motivation here is that many EU phone companies sell you stuff through your phone without making it clear that you are buying anything. (It says it's free and then you click get and you wind up paying a eur 4 'download charge'). So with a cooling off period you would see your bill and you'd be able to tell them you don't want the crap you bought. It's a EU solution to an EU problem.
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The issue is not who knows, the issue is that someone knows.
Google collects all this information about people. Imagine a government asks Google to provide that information to identify individuals it considers a risk to society. One might argue this is fine to stop the next VT but it can also lead, obviously, lead to oppression.
If the laws support the government there is nothing Google can really do about this but hand over what is asked of them. (Yes they can and do fight such requests in the courts but, ultimately, if they lose they will hand over the data.)
So even if Google itself does 'no evil' by collecting such large amount of information they can contribute significantly to the perpetration of evil.
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The page you linked to actual refers to a crime committed in Turkey, the perpetrators of which have been arrested. The RMS song is about the persecution of individuals in violation of international laws by his (the US government) government.
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Yes, actually, you can. (Although your other points regarding the repression of the information related to the Armenian genocide is quite valid).
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If only you RTFA you would know that internet only radio stations are exempt from Canadian content minimums.
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We know that CO2 contributes somewhere between 10 and 25% of the warming
We do? I rather thought it was more. Please can you tell me where you derived this from?
Thanks,
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Ummm ... hi there ... Canadian here ... please can we not get dragged into this :-)
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If Microsoft Genuine Advantage turned off these people they already know their IP address and they choose not to do anything about it.
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Yes, well .... it is ... but GPL limits with whom you can share and that is the crux of the issue. By imposing that restrictions sharing, and freedom in general, is somewhat limited but, on the other hand, it does increase the overall pool of open source software.
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I met a girl at my gym that worked for the firm that did all the PR for Zune. Needless to say, she had a Zune. When I asked her about it (as I had never actually seen one before) she was at pains to tell me that the only reason she used it was because it was free and that she didn't want to sweat on her iPod. In fact, the only credit she gave the thing was that it had a built in radio, which permitted to the TV audio the gym broadcasts on FM.
Anyway, it struck me that when your own PR people think your product is uncool, you are going to have some serious market issues.
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If, as a foreign power, your security could be defeated by IP spoofing then, honestly, your security issues are not going to be solved by managing your own root. In fact, if your so inept, then you probably should leave DNS security in the hands of the US government because because, frankly, that DNS root of yours is going to be hacked by script kiddies and spammers in no time flat and trash your whole infrastructure impacting your economy. Honestly, having the US government spy on you is probably preferable, and their going to do it anyway, root or no root.
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It's because those models do not sell in the UK (or most of them don't anyway).
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Oh the joy, I can just see it now ...
... sure ... you said Lyn-ucks? ... can you spell that please?
Dell: Hello, can we help you?
Me: Hi, I am having some problems installing Linux on my new Dell laptop. I need some information about the video card so I can set up X.
Dell: Ok, umm
Me: Yes?
Dell: Ok, umm
The GPL may be noble but it certainly is not free. It is a set of rights to which you are bound as a developer that are by no means trivial. Major corporations, like IBM, have teams of GPL-specializing attorneys to ensure compliance with those rights.
At the risk of sounding inflammatory, GPL is, in fact, source code DRM. If you want to use GPL licensed source you have to sign up to rules much as you have to sign up to rules when you but a tune from Apple. Again, I acknowledge that these are noble and generally positive rules but any rules implicitly impinge on freedom.
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Yes, and, as an added advantage, it forces the technology leader of a competing desktop offering (Gnome) to continually 'plead' for your help and support. Microsoft is bound to like that leverage.
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It's a bit OT but I quit Vonnage but calling them up. I was on hold for maybe 5 minutes and although the sales person tried to persuade me to stay there was no problem at all canceling.
Although I personally found their call quality lacking (Skype is better) I've never found fault with the Vonnage customer experience.
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How many people want to be locked into buying videos from Apple?
;-)
Totally! I mean, does anyone seriously think any intelligent person would buy media from a company that only played on that companies device?!? I think Apple tried that with that iPod thing and look how that turned out
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If it makes you feel better, Comcast was the second most hated company in round 1.
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You know those focus group - a bunch of citizens siting around telling the politician what they like and don't like - we should have more of those not less. I mean, when did we get to the point where listening to people and making policy around that became a bad thing. Is that not what democracy is all about?
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It is a state not a federal law. Anyway, you MUST have a break, but nothing says you cannot be paid for one. The issue here - the story - is that the employee's are going to get 5 hours less per week in pay for the same amount of time at their desk. If I took away that much pay from you would you not be upset.
Google is clearly hurting their employees with this. Perhaps if they were not raking in cash I might understand but given their margins this is just plain self-serving.
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Good News! If your nostalgic for Clinton you can vote in another next year.
The article reads ...
New rules from the FBI general counsel's office tell agents they are to limit emergency requests for phone records to the most dire situations, in which the loss of life or bodily harm is believed to be imminent. They are to document carefully the circumstances surrounding the request.
So assuming the rules are followed there should be no problem as there will be a paper trail? If the rules are not followed who cares what the rules are anyway.
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I am sorry but your argument is clearly invalid. If I legally use a rights managed image on my web site and you then spider images from my site and use them arbitrarily you can bet the image owner will sue. You certainly will not be able to argue that you have the right to that image because someone, somewhere, on the internet, neglected to prevent a copying of that image through robots.txt.
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I am sorry but you are mistaken. The way a piece of technology is implemented has bearing on an interpretation of the law but it obviously does not define law. If the judge or jury in this case determine that a 'human readable' license on a web page is adequate to bind on organization reading the page to that license (even if the page was 'read' by a robot) then that will be the precedent for future cases, irrespective of how the technology industry has define the process should work.
I do think this person has a reasonable case. A legal notice was placed on a document which defined the rights to use that document. The rights were ignored or were otherwise violated. It's not unlike any other copyright case except the violation was done without human intervention which in no way excuses it under the law AFAIK.
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Yes, suppliers have options, what's your point? If Apple stopped making iPod's someone else would make jPod's or kPod's or whatever because there is DEMAND!
Anyway, I am not against DRM. I am just against vendor lock in of the stuff I bought. Actually I own a Mac and an iPod but I want the option of using something else in the future. In fact, I saw the sansa player, which I'd like to give a try, but there is no way to do that unless I do something deemed illegal to covert my music to a different format.
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I think the motivation here is that many EU phone companies sell you stuff through your phone without making it clear that you are buying anything. (It says it's free and then you click get and you wind up paying a eur 4 'download charge'). So with a cooling off period you would see your bill and you'd be able to tell them you don't want the crap you bought. It's a EU solution to an EU problem.
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