''I'm an American, I believe in the American Way,'' he said. ''I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.''
Is he trying to say that our legislators are stupid, or that thier win98 machines cant stay up long enough for them to learn anything?
Im sorry to see all of the Amatuer Bands being taken away by business, but truthfully the only way to stop it is to get hams interested in using those bands. There is extrememly little activity going on up there as far as amatuer goes in my area.
"Straight out of quake it's a couple of EE projects for building rail guns:".......
Actually the Railgun is from the movie eraser. The makers on Quake2 must have thought it kicked ass...
The only real and permanent solution to our power woes is to cut our independence from the power companies by using other sources of power. It is very possible for a household to be completely reliant on alternative energy sources. That would free up the power companies to better serve businesses and other consumers of mass quantities of power. The power companies are keeping us in the 1950s by fooling us (the average american family) into thinking that we need thier power. Now that the internet is in full swing, they can't keep the supply/demand ratio balanced. This problem will continue to grow as technology expands unless we, the consumer seek out alternative power sources.
I have an idea:
Lets find out what jail these guys are at and all get together to send these guys a package conataining 1 can of spam, and 1 $24 offer to make money stamping license plates!
I totally agree with the statement that the government has no right to regulate corporate activities. Government is the real problem here because we as people are totally dependent on it and always waiting for them to do something about an injustice (be it corporate of civil). I also believe that if the size of government was slashed by about 50%, large corporations would no longer have politicians to throw money at. Furthermore, if the size of government is cut, in about 5-10 years people will be broken of thier habit of sitting on their ass and waiting for government to take action. The average Joe (The apathetic, government dependant) will cast their vote with the almighty dollar.
A good way to build up a portfolio is to code lots of open source software. Most employers would be impressed if they could go to freshmeat.net and download something that you coded in your spare time. I dropped out of college about 8 years ago and finally finished up last year with no internships. It is very difficult to find a job with no experience, but not impossible. I showed my prospective employer some code that I wrote and answered a few technical questions correctly and found myself sitting in a nice cubicle two weeks later. If you dont end up doing an internship, beware, because you will need to cover up your lack of experience at first with BS. Good Luck!
That's about as reasonable as a Click-Wrap license that I have recently encountered. "By opening this package you agree to be bound by the license found on the media enclosed". The license was on the CD-Rom and you have to open the package to view it. so much for freedom of speech and freedom to choose.
Unfortunately, the general public does not run the government. PACs and special interest groups control out legislature by first aligning thousands of votes behind one candidate, and then threatening to remove that endorsement (and in turn the votes of the people supporting the organization) if the then-elected legislator doesnt do things the way the organization sees fit. I work for such an organization (The PAC is one of its many arms) and I have seen first hand how an endorsement by a PAC can make or break an election. I dont agree with this, and thats why I vote libertarian this year. We are being stripped of our rights by very powerful organizations that have their own agenda for us all. This may be the power at work in this new law also.
I have a question:
Why does the media continue to blame software that can be useful for filesharing and maybe even enterprise use in the future, for piracy? So, P2P doesnt work all that great yet. Big deal! The pirates still have FTP and usenet. It amazes me how the media is so quick to blame a computer program for the theft of copyrighted materials. Seems like its the convenient thing to do these days. Shouldn't the person who steals the material be scrutinized, and not the software that is used?
I disagree. Like in the threads above, you can not win a court case over "Look and Feel". Its just that Themes will never be able to afford to stand up to apple in court. Think of it this way.... I really like the look of the McDonalds Building down the road. I don't necessarily like the Logos, or the proprietary part of it, but I like the way the building is set up, so I put up a building in a different part of the country that looks similar to that building. It has the "Look and Feel" of a Mcdonalds in respect to the shape of the building, where the entrances and exits are and the general layout of the place, the "Interface". If somebody builds something that looks similar to a thing that a company has, but containing nothing proprietary, They are making something different from that of the company, a "Clone". Clones will never be the property of the company that owns the "thing" that is cloned as long as there is no trademark or logo on it. Maybe Apple is still sore over microsoft stealing windows from them.
In my opinion, the reason for the supposed death of ham radio is the lack of experimentation going on. Alot of hams just buy stuff out of a catalog, QSO on a couple of bands, and leave it at that. I think that QRP, satellite, and a resurgence of interest in building your own rig are the things that will carry Amatuer radio for another hundred years.
I think that the big problem with spam and why everyone hates it so much on the user level is not the volume of it (although that's a different story on the admin level) as much as the content. Who wants to get mail from "Hot, fisting teen sluts"? or "make 1 million a year just by sending a dollar to everyone on this list". I think that there should be an accepted standard of whats sent by Email. You never see ads for porno coming through snail mail to your 6 year old son. people would be outraged and the companies and/or persons would be forced to stop. I think that we could get just about ever Xrated spammer on charges of distributing pornography to minors if we really tried. Even if they just put links in thier Email, look what happened to 2600 for placing links to DeCSS on thier site. On the other hand, I know that most people here would disagree, but I dont mind getting ads for Technical magazines and similar items by Email and similar content and I think that that should be accepted.
New laws never give us anything. they only take away something from us, be it individualism, intellectual property, freedom, privacy, etc. We could get by with a handful of laws instead of the thousands that we have on the books. I would like to see 99% of current legislation come to a grinding halt.
Even though some will say I'm throwing away my vote, I'll be voting libertarian this year as a direct result of the DMCA and carnivore.
Scripting languages are good for webmasters as long as a few security ground rules are followed. I find PHP and Perl scripts much easier to write quickly than C/C++ code. Most webmasters have a deadline that pretty much dictates that a scripting language should be used. I wouldnt want to spend all night chasing memory bugs in a web script, especially with a 3 day deadline.
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''I'm an American, I believe in the American Way,'' he said. ''I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.''
Is he trying to say that our legislators are stupid, or that thier win98 machines cant stay up long enough for them to learn anything?
Im sorry to see all of the Amatuer Bands being taken away by business, but truthfully the only way to stop it is to get hams interested in using those bands. There is extrememly little activity going on up there as far as amatuer goes in my area.
"Straight out of quake it's a couple of EE projects for building rail guns:"....... Actually the Railgun is from the movie eraser. The makers on Quake2 must have thought it kicked ass...
Paul should remember his time at DEC, where restricting security information was business practice. Remember VMS? How secure that was....
10 print "Beautiful code" 20 goto 10
Hackers will find a way around the new system. They always find a way, and they will have fun doing it.
The only real and permanent solution to our power woes is to cut our independence from the power companies by using other sources of power. It is very possible for a household to be completely reliant on alternative energy sources. That would free up the power companies to better serve businesses and other consumers of mass quantities of power. The power companies are keeping us in the 1950s by fooling us (the average american family) into thinking that we need thier power. Now that the internet is in full swing, they can't keep the supply/demand ratio balanced. This problem will continue to grow as technology expands unless we, the consumer seek out alternative power sources.
A rearview mirror on the monitor? A 12" Subwoofer? A "Piss on Microsoft" Decal?
It kinda sounds like the intro to the "Seven Samurai" remake by Orbital.
Oh Great....
Does this mean that if I go to www.whitehouse.gov, I will be greeted with a front page of:
Are U From India?
ASL pls.
I have an idea: Lets find out what jail these guys are at and all get together to send these guys a package conataining 1 can of spam, and 1 $24 offer to make money stamping license plates!
I totally agree with the statement that the government has no right to regulate corporate activities. Government is the real problem here because we as people are totally dependent on it and always waiting for them to do something about an injustice (be it corporate of civil). I also believe that if the size of government was slashed by about 50%, large corporations would no longer have politicians to throw money at. Furthermore, if the size of government is cut, in about 5-10 years people will be broken of thier habit of sitting on their ass and waiting for government to take action. The average Joe (The apathetic, government dependant) will cast their vote with the almighty dollar.
A good way to build up a portfolio is to code lots of open source software. Most employers would be impressed if they could go to freshmeat.net and download something that you coded in your spare time. I dropped out of college about 8 years ago and finally finished up last year with no internships. It is very difficult to find a job with no experience, but not impossible. I showed my prospective employer some code that I wrote and answered a few technical questions correctly and found myself sitting in a nice cubicle two weeks later. If you dont end up doing an internship, beware, because you will need to cover up your lack of experience at first with BS. Good Luck!
Damn! My sega Console with the CD add-onn was the victim of a garage sale!
That's about as reasonable as a Click-Wrap license that I have recently encountered. "By opening this package you agree to be bound by the license found on the media enclosed". The license was on the CD-Rom and you have to open the package to view it. so much for freedom of speech and freedom to choose.
Why not take the promotion and then demote yourself back to your old position?
Unfortunately, the general public does not run the government. PACs and special interest groups control out legislature by first aligning thousands of votes behind one candidate, and then threatening to remove that endorsement (and in turn the votes of the people supporting the organization) if the then-elected legislator doesnt do things the way the organization sees fit. I work for such an organization (The PAC is one of its many arms) and I have seen first hand how an endorsement by a PAC can make or break an election. I dont agree with this, and thats why I vote libertarian this year. We are being stripped of our rights by very powerful organizations that have their own agenda for us all. This may be the power at work in this new law also.
I guess this gives the term "Dumb Terminal" a whole new meaning!
I have a question: Why does the media continue to blame software that can be useful for filesharing and maybe even enterprise use in the future, for piracy? So, P2P doesnt work all that great yet. Big deal! The pirates still have FTP and usenet. It amazes me how the media is so quick to blame a computer program for the theft of copyrighted materials. Seems like its the convenient thing to do these days. Shouldn't the person who steals the material be scrutinized, and not the software that is used?
I disagree. Like in the threads above, you can not win a court case over "Look and Feel". Its just that Themes will never be able to afford to stand up to apple in court. Think of it this way.... I really like the look of the McDonalds Building down the road. I don't necessarily like the Logos, or the proprietary part of it, but I like the way the building is set up, so I put up a building in a different part of the country that looks similar to that building. It has the "Look and Feel" of a Mcdonalds in respect to the shape of the building, where the entrances and exits are and the general layout of the place, the "Interface". If somebody builds something that looks similar to a thing that a company has, but containing nothing proprietary, They are making something different from that of the company, a "Clone". Clones will never be the property of the company that owns the "thing" that is cloned as long as there is no trademark or logo on it. Maybe Apple is still sore over microsoft stealing windows from them.
This guy must work for verizon or the FCC.
In my opinion, the reason for the supposed death of ham radio is the lack of experimentation going on. Alot of hams just buy stuff out of a catalog, QSO on a couple of bands, and leave it at that. I think that QRP, satellite, and a resurgence of interest in building your own rig are the things that will carry Amatuer radio for another hundred years.
I think that the big problem with spam and why everyone hates it so much on the user level is not the volume of it (although that's a different story on the admin level) as much as the content. Who wants to get mail from "Hot, fisting teen sluts"? or "make 1 million a year just by sending a dollar to everyone on this list". I think that there should be an accepted standard of whats sent by Email. You never see ads for porno coming through snail mail to your 6 year old son. people would be outraged and the companies and/or persons would be forced to stop. I think that we could get just about ever Xrated spammer on charges of distributing pornography to minors if we really tried. Even if they just put links in thier Email, look what happened to 2600 for placing links to DeCSS on thier site. On the other hand, I know that most people here would disagree, but I dont mind getting ads for Technical magazines and similar items by Email and similar content and I think that that should be accepted.
New laws never give us anything. they only take away something from us, be it individualism, intellectual property, freedom, privacy, etc. We could get by with a handful of laws instead of the thousands that we have on the books. I would like to see 99% of current legislation come to a grinding halt. Even though some will say I'm throwing away my vote, I'll be voting libertarian this year as a direct result of the DMCA and carnivore.
Scripting languages are good for webmasters as long as a few security ground rules are followed. I find PHP and Perl scripts much easier to write quickly than C/C++ code. Most webmasters have a deadline that pretty much dictates that a scripting language should be used. I wouldnt want to spend all night chasing memory bugs in a web script, especially with a 3 day deadline.