2) Nobody can ever be compelled (forced) to show his card. Similarly to the right of a business to refuse service if you don't wish to furnish your social security number, organizations may choose not to talk to you if you won't furnish some proof of identity, but proof of identity can never be required by a government agency, or in relation to the fulfillment of certain human needs (food, water, air, clothing, shelter, communication
Given the asymmetry of power between businesses and consumers, businesses should not be able to compel production of said card as a condition of doing business, either. Markets can't take care of everything, and an introduction of a national ID while at the same time saying "the market" will prevent abuses is sheer insanity.
If they took the money they spent trawling fserves and used it to lower the price, maybe people wouldn't bother. That has to be _incredibly_ time consuming. OTOH, is it possible that someone in the channel was pissed at you and sent the DCC log to the MPAA?
That's already happened. A defendant was extradited to bum-fuck Tennessee for running a porn BBS back in the early 90's and convicted on obscenity charges.
The locksmith analogy is reasonable, but I don't like it for one big reason: most governments require locksmiths to be licensed. If this analogy is the one that plays, expect to be licensed by the state to "pack" a debugger or in-circuit emulator and possibly even an assember.
There can be no "fair competition" when employers hold all the cards. There's a gross asymmetry of power. The Microsoftian abuse you imagine here isn't coming from the workers.
When information on university hiring was given out, it was on my desk first, when there was a break to be given I got it. The visa students couldn't catch a break.
Could this also be because people on student (F-1, J-1) visas can't legally work in the country (with certain exceptions), making you one of the only viable candidates for most positions?
This is exactly what I had been thinking! There should be enough friction against voting that those who don't care enough to get off their butts and go somewhere to vote don't. I shudder to envision the republic when couch potatoes can vote from their "convergence" devices: Ellen Degeneres for President! Never mind the implications of having media companies own the transport for votes.
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And isn't available without paying royalties to DuPont. The real reason Freon was banned is because DuPont's patent was about to expire and they used the global warming myth, sponsoring the Rio de Janeiro conference (and, no doubt, lots of palm grease on Congress) to get it banned.
More details on DuPont's obvious financial interest in the banning of Freon is avaialable here.
Let's get the filenames of the programs up here, so that they will be more easily found with Gnutella, etc. Freenet keys would be nice, too. Don't those fools at IPIX know that the surest way to get fast and wide distribution of something is to try to suppress it? Sheesh.
"Grow up" is such a sad admonition. It implies that acquiescing to the unfair way the world works and declining to fight it because it's bled off your passion and ideals is somehow superior to living and speaking one's beliefs.
That said, there probably isn't much to be gained by returning insults to Microsoft, since Microsoft will do a fine job of hurting themselves if the Open Source community would just let them.
. . . that after 10 years, PGP's use hasn't become commonplace. Even sadder is that it's not because of M$, the gubmint, or lack of a standard so much as the apathy of our own people.
and you should create your security policies based on the assumption that any of your lusers might be a spy from a different company/working for the NSA/about to go on a destructive rampage when they find out they've lost their job/etc.
Onee problem with that is the the "lusers" have jobs to do that require access well above what you describe. Another problem is that treating people that way tends to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Do you think DVD's are so expensive because of the costs to actaully produce them? That is why the bootleggers make a profit anyway.
While I agree with your point that the industry's resources would be better spent making lower priced movies that people wouldn't bother pirating because they're so cheap, it's bogus to say the bootleggers are making more money because they don't have to worry about copy protection. They make a profit at a lower price because they didn't have to bear the cost of producing the film. Not even the most contorted anti-intellectual property logic I can come up with can make it seem fair that the bootleggers make a profit on the studios' work.
Every user with access has to be apprised of the threat, and to know the appropriate channels for handling things like password resets, system failures, etc. They should be made wary of any attempt to garner information that appears to be from the inside, and be told that it isn't poor service to refer requests for sensitive information to an appropriate security manager.
Note that in the consumer realm, AOL and similar services have made great strides in indoctrinating users with "No one at AOL will ever ask you for your password or credit card information . .." Nothing will help the truly clueless, but while AOL can't let those people go or deny them access, you can.
<accenttype=British mode=affected> Ah yes, of course. It does warm my heart to see that the junior colleges and vocational schools do manage to teach the proper spelling of the word "deign" (by not falling into that old "i before e" trap). Much more than I expected, old sport. Much more. As an Oxford man, myself, I appreciate such things. </accent>
With apologies to F. Scott Fitzgerald:)
P.S.: Stanford is hardly a "pedestrian" school. The campus is so big, one should hardly be without a motorcar.
Then your definition is wrong. When a "thief" "steals" something, you don't have it anymore. When a copyright infringer takes a copy of something, it's still there. Either you're just too thick to understand that or you're deliberately misappropriating the word "thief." I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
While we're talking about IBM's dirty tactics, Here is a nice advertisement. (For the goatse.cx weary, it's http://www.geocities.com/zekester1945/) I recommend WebWasher for Windows users and JunkBuster for Linux users to eliminate GeoCities popup ads.
I swear, sometimes mod points are like the stereotypical police officers--never around when one needs one. Props to you; if I had a point, it would be yours.
Thanks for the link--that's encouraging, but I still don't see where it mentions any specific application which runs under Linux for it to sync with. I can "exchange information" between darn near anything with a serial port and my Linux box, but I can't synchronize a Palm with pine (or other Linux hosted MUA) or gcal (or other Linux hosted calendar). Can the Agenda do that out of the box without custom scripts? Or if it can do it with custom scripts, do they tell the user what the Agenda needs to see to do it?
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Given the asymmetry of power between businesses and consumers, businesses should not be able to compel production of said card as a condition of doing business, either. Markets can't take care of everything, and an introduction of a national ID while at the same time saying "the market" will prevent abuses is sheer insanity.
Of course, as a holder of a Frontpage licence, you have to say that.
The fact that that was not modded up is proof that there is no justice. Or that most everyone here isn't old enough to get it. Thanks :).
If they took the money they spent trawling fserves and used it to lower the price, maybe people wouldn't bother. That has to be _incredibly_ time consuming. OTOH, is it possible that someone in the channel was pissed at you and sent the DCC log to the MPAA?
That's already happened. A defendant was extradited to bum-fuck Tennessee for running a porn BBS back in the early 90's and convicted on obscenity charges.
Well said. I intend to show your comment to management next time the subject of installing monitoring or filtering software on machines comes up.
The locksmith analogy is reasonable, but I don't like it for one big reason: most governments require locksmiths to be licensed. If this analogy is the one that plays, expect to be licensed by the state to "pack" a debugger or in-circuit emulator and possibly even an assember.
There can be no "fair competition" when employers hold all the cards. There's a gross asymmetry of power. The Microsoftian abuse you imagine here isn't coming from the workers.
Could this also be because people on student (F-1, J-1) visas can't legally work in the country (with certain exceptions), making you one of the only viable candidates for most positions?
This is exactly what I had been thinking! There should be enough friction against voting that those who don't care enough to get off their butts and go somewhere to vote don't. I shudder to envision the republic when couch potatoes can vote from their "convergence" devices: Ellen Degeneres for President! Never mind the implications of having media companies own the transport for votes.
More details on DuPont's obvious financial interest in the banning of Freon is avaialable here.
Let's get the filenames of the programs up here, so that they will be more easily found with Gnutella, etc. Freenet keys would be nice, too. Don't those fools at IPIX know that the surest way to get fast and wide distribution of something is to try to suppress it? Sheesh.
I see, so long as you're telling Microsoft's flacks to "grow up," too.
That said, there probably isn't much to be gained by returning insults to Microsoft, since Microsoft will do a fine job of hurting themselves if the Open Source community would just let them.
. . . that after 10 years, PGP's use hasn't become commonplace. Even sadder is that it's not because of M$, the gubmint, or lack of a standard so much as the apathy of our own people.
Onee problem with that is the the "lusers" have jobs to do that require access well above what you describe. Another problem is that treating people that way tends to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
While I agree with your point that the industry's resources would be better spent making lower priced movies that people wouldn't bother pirating because they're so cheap, it's bogus to say the bootleggers are making more money because they don't have to worry about copy protection. They make a profit at a lower price because they didn't have to bear the cost of producing the film. Not even the most contorted anti-intellectual property logic I can come up with can make it seem fair that the bootleggers make a profit on the studios' work.
Note that in the consumer realm, AOL and similar services have made great strides in indoctrinating users with "No one at AOL will ever ask you for your password or credit card information . . ." Nothing will help the truly clueless, but while AOL can't let those people go or deny them access, you can.
Ah yes, of course. It does warm my heart to see that the junior colleges and vocational schools do manage to teach the proper spelling of the word "deign" (by not falling into that old "i before e" trap). Much more than I expected, old sport. Much more. As an Oxford man, myself, I appreciate such things.
</accent>
With apologies to F. Scott Fitzgerald :)
P.S.: Stanford is hardly a "pedestrian" school. The campus is so big, one should hardly be without a motorcar.
Enquiring minds want to know! Tell! (Please?)
Then your definition is wrong. When a "thief" "steals" something, you don't have it anymore. When a copyright infringer takes a copy of something, it's still there. Either you're just too thick to understand that or you're deliberately misappropriating the word "thief." I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
While we're talking about IBM's dirty tactics, Here is a nice advertisement. (For the goatse.cx weary, it's http://www.geocities.com/zekester1945/) I recommend WebWasher for Windows users and JunkBuster for Linux users to eliminate GeoCities popup ads.
You're probably one of the trolls that I had to use the other four points on doing the same thing.
I swear, sometimes mod points are like the stereotypical police officers--never around when one needs one. Props to you; if I had a point, it would be yours.
Thanks for the link--that's encouraging, but I still don't see where it mentions any specific application which runs under Linux for it to sync with. I can "exchange information" between darn near anything with a serial port and my Linux box, but I can't synchronize a Palm with pine (or other Linux hosted MUA) or gcal (or other Linux hosted calendar). Can the Agenda do that out of the box without custom scripts? Or if it can do it with custom scripts, do they tell the user what the Agenda needs to see to do it?