is still just as stupid. When I purchase an item I expect that it is mine to do with as I please, not to still be at the whim of whatever company made it. I certainly don't expect http://www.ragold.com/ to come by and tell me what to do with the Dilbert (tm) mints I purchased from them. I also don't expect Honda to dictate to me what to do with my Accord. Why should I let the RIAA/MPAA/Apple/etc tell me under what terms and conditions I can enjoy the music/movies I purchase?
As for Jon's end run around Apple's DRM (twice), I applaud his efforts. It certainly shows that DRM can't stand up to people who want to control the things they buy. I no more want my music to be limited to a single computer or iPod in my house than I want to be limited to what TV I can watch movies on or which DVD player I can play a DVD on.
I don't know about other folks in general, but I do know that I like my privacy. I'd rather have a computer on my desk, behind a firewall, where I can keep my private information private. It's all well and good to say that storing your data on Google or Yahoo or MSN allows you to access it from any computer on earth, but you run the risk of the computer you are at copying the information you access.
Wether it's a malicious keylogger, trojan, or simply the paging space / file, your information get copied to the PC at the internet cafe you are using. Suddenly your private information is no longer private. Any savvy computer-literate person could access that copy of your data. Give me a laptop or desktop where I can encrypt the data and only I have the decryption passphrase any day.
Showing a breast on national TV... $500,000 Killing an elderly person...$100,000 Screwing up at a nuclear power plant...$60,000 Running a red light...$250.00 Getting your story posted to Slashdot...Priceless
Yeah, that's the ticket! Blackmail a company into making what I'm doing legit! Since I know they won't do the legal way I'll force them into it using blackmail!
I've seen is that the government hires contractors to do the work, asks them for input, then totally ignores what the contractors recommend. As an example: recently, a group I work with was asked what it would take to improve the computer systems and build an identical setup for a hot-backup. We did our research, talked with vendors, and put together a proposal that we presented to the government (and we didn't even gold-plate it).
They took our research and gave it to someone who doesn't know much about computers (except how to turn one on). He promptly removed HALF of the items we NEEDED to fulfill their request. So now we have half of what we need and we're still expected to build an "identical" setup.
The only way you can successfully accomplish what you set out to do is with proper planning, adequate resources, and good leadership. We only had proper planning and that does NOT make for a successful project.
I've watched this debate with a great deal of interest and have laughed at the antics of those who want to push creationism on everyone.
I was raised in a Roman Catholic family and went to a Catholic high school. Funny thing is they taught us EVOLUTION, not creationism, in science class. We discussed the creation story in theology and how it was a metaphor for evolution since the people who were inspired to write the Bible didn't have the knowledge to understand evolution.
When will the people who want to put stickers like this in textbooks get the clue that trying to put science under the purvue of religion is a bad idea. Remember what happened to Galileo? When a group of people persecute others that don't agree with their idea of the "truth", we have tyrany.
I, for one, welcome our new copyleft communist masters (and logo).
[rant] Seriously, Bill Gate and Co. continue to try and paint anyone who doesn't agree with their stance on IP as un-American. Who died and made him J. Edgar Hoover, Jr.?
America was NOT founded on the principles of IP but on freedom of choice (religious and otherwise) and the idea that everyone is supposed to contribute to the public good. The recent push to IP, patent, and copyright every little "innovation" (think one-click)is what is hurting our ability to produce something new and better without having to wade through a morass of legalities.
I will continue to support copyleft, OSS, and any other program that contributes to the dissemination of knowledge and ideas. [/rant]
Well there goes my livelihood! As a professional painter, I make my living painting things. I'll miss painting lasers; Dr. Evil was my best paying customer.
I am neither insensitive and uninformed. I truly feel bad about all the people who were killed in this disaster. I've even donated money to the relief effort via the Red Cross.
However, I have lived along the Gulf coast for most of my life and have seen a similar phenomenon: Hurricane parties. People go party on the beach to watch a hurricane come ashore and, invariably, someone gets washed out to sea by the storm surge. Or they get killed by flying debris because they are outside.
I don't know about you, but if I saw a wave that was taller than my house, I run as fast as I could. It might still get me, but at least I tried instead of going toward danger and becoming an easy target.
People who go to watch tidal waves (tsunamis) or hurricanes, in person, definitely show a lack of intelligence. That's why I mentioned the Darwin Awards.
Lastly, an interesting article from the Australian Spaceguard Survey about the need for a Tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. The author comments that tsunami warnings may not help much, as people often flock to the coastline to see the giant waves.
Should we nominate those that do this for a mass Darwin award?
Spinning a web of legal precedents, invoking California laws governing the care of patients dependent on life support, as well as laws against animal cruelty, Rothblatt argued that a self-conscious computer facing the prospect of an imminent unplugging should have standing to bring a claim of battery.
Shouldn't that be the computer is claiming that it will NEED a battery?
If the astronauts are upset that NASA screwed up the food supply, they could always rebel and go on a hunger strike. Uh, wait..That's what NASA wants them to do...
I'm an AIX Systems Administrator and trained IBM pSeries hardware technician (network guru, etc) by day. At night I buy, refurbish, and resell IBM RS/6000s and pSeries machines on eBay. Having a side business is great and allows me tax advantages that, as just a W-2 wage earner, I can't get.
My wife certainly doesn't mind the extra income; it has helped us pay off our cars and make extra payments on our house. Nice to be out of debt and have an actual savings account!
As someone who has been through endocarditis and congestive heart failure, your symptoms sound hauntingly familiar. Preferring to lay flat on your back, very little energy, dizziness where all things I experienced. My advice to you is keep looking for the BEST cardiologist (not a general practitioner) you can find. There are many things that a cardiologist will notice that a GP will not. Tell the doctor EVERYTHING you've been through; start a personal blog or journal and note down every time you have symptoms.
Don't give up, don't put it off, don't take "You're fine." as a valid answer; keeping looking until you find a cardiologist who is willing to listen with an open mind. Your health come FIRST! Without that, life is pretty miserable.
Saving all the music...
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I hate to tell him that a single nuke, airburst high enough, would generate an EMP that could erase all he's working to accomplish. He'd be better off burning the music to CD or DVD.
'President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost,' said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
If that's the case, why does the President support off-shoring American jobs? Sounds like he's speak out of both ends of his a$$ to me.
It's nice to see that Pixar is sticking to it's guns on having a great story/script BEFORE they start making a movie out of it. Too bad Eisner & Co. didn't get that clue and I think Pixar will be all the better for it now that they've told Disney to get lost.
As Steve Jobs would say, the movie is "insanely great"!
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is still just as stupid. When I purchase an item I expect that it is mine to do with as I please, not to still be at the whim of whatever company made it. I certainly don't expect http://www.ragold.com/ to come by and tell me what to do with the Dilbert (tm) mints I purchased from them. I also don't expect Honda to dictate to me what to do with my Accord. Why should I let the RIAA/MPAA/Apple/etc tell me under what terms and conditions I can enjoy the music/movies I purchase?
As for Jon's end run around Apple's DRM (twice), I applaud his efforts. It certainly shows that DRM can't stand up to people who want to control the things they buy. I no more want my music to be limited to a single computer or iPod in my house than I want to be limited to what TV I can watch movies on or which DVD player I can play a DVD on.
I don't know about other folks in general, but I do know that I like my privacy. I'd rather have a computer on my desk, behind a firewall, where I can keep my private information private. It's all well and good to say that storing your data on Google or Yahoo or MSN allows you to access it from any computer on earth, but you run the risk of the computer you are at copying the information you access.
Wether it's a malicious keylogger, trojan, or simply the paging space / file, your information get copied to the PC at the internet cafe you are using. Suddenly your private information is no longer private. Any savvy computer-literate person could access that copy of your data. Give me a laptop or desktop where I can encrypt the data and only I have the decryption passphrase any day.
Are businesses REALLY interested in innovation or just being copycats? I foresee a lawsuit coming out of this blatant duplication of the shuffle.
Not Quark! http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/DS9/c haracter/1112445.html
This Quark!http://www.tvparty.com/recquark.html
Could certainly use his services to keep our orbits clean!
Why do engineers need to develop methods of invisibility? After all, most engineers are invisible to the female half of the population anyway.
Damn.
Smart guy, excellent GUI designer, and someone who will be truely missed in the Apple Community.
Hell, even my Mac mini looks sad.
Showing a breast on national TV... $500,000
Killing an elderly person...$100,000
Screwing up at a nuclear power plant...$60,000
Running a red light...$250.00
Getting your story posted to Slashdot...Priceless
Why do they bother to give their companies names like Claria and iDownload? Why not tell it like it is? iFsckU, iSpyOnU, ShowMeYourData, etc?
Yeah, that's the ticket! Blackmail a company into making what I'm doing legit! Since I know they won't do the legal way I'll force them into it using blackmail!
What logic! What stupidity! What a maroon!
but did they HAVE to make it look like a clock-radio?
I'm afraid I'd toss it across the room when I'm half-asleep.
I've seen is that the government hires contractors to do the work, asks them for input, then totally ignores what the contractors recommend. As an example: recently, a group I work with was asked what it would take to improve the computer systems and build an identical setup for a hot-backup. We did our research, talked with vendors, and put together a proposal that we presented to the government (and we didn't even gold-plate it).
They took our research and gave it to someone who doesn't know much about computers (except how to turn one on). He promptly removed HALF of the items we NEEDED to fulfill their request. So now we have half of what we need and we're still expected to build an "identical" setup.
The only way you can successfully accomplish what you set out to do is with proper planning, adequate resources, and good leadership. We only had proper planning and that does NOT make for a successful project.
I've watched this debate with a great deal of interest and have laughed at the antics of those who want to push creationism on everyone.
I was raised in a Roman Catholic family and went to a Catholic high school. Funny thing is they taught us EVOLUTION, not creationism, in science class. We discussed the creation story in theology and how it was a metaphor for evolution since the people who were inspired to write the Bible didn't have the knowledge to understand evolution.
When will the people who want to put stickers like this in textbooks get the clue that trying to put science under the purvue of religion is a bad idea. Remember what happened to Galileo? When a group of people persecute others that don't agree with their idea of the "truth", we have tyrany.
I, for one, welcome our new copyleft communist masters (and logo).
[rant]
Seriously, Bill Gate and Co. continue to try and paint anyone who doesn't agree with their stance on IP as un-American. Who died and made him J. Edgar Hoover, Jr.?
America was NOT founded on the principles of IP but on freedom of choice (religious and otherwise) and the idea that everyone is supposed to contribute to the public good. The recent push to IP, patent, and copyright every little "innovation" (think one-click)is what is hurting our ability to produce something new and better without having to wade through a morass of legalities.
I will continue to support copyleft, OSS, and any other program that contributes to the dissemination of knowledge and ideas.
[/rant]
Well there goes my livelihood! As a professional painter, I make my living painting things. I'll miss painting lasers; Dr. Evil was my best paying customer.
I am neither insensitive and uninformed. I truly feel bad about all the people who were killed in this disaster. I've even donated money to the relief effort via the Red Cross.
However, I have lived along the Gulf coast for most of my life and have seen a similar phenomenon: Hurricane parties. People go party on the beach to watch a hurricane come ashore and, invariably, someone gets washed out to sea by the storm surge. Or they get killed by flying debris because they are outside.
I don't know about you, but if I saw a wave that was taller than my house, I run as fast as I could. It might still get me, but at least I tried instead of going toward danger and becoming an easy target.
People who go to watch tidal waves (tsunamis) or hurricanes, in person, definitely show a lack of intelligence. That's why I mentioned the Darwin Awards.
Lastly, an interesting article from the Australian Spaceguard Survey about the need for a Tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. The author comments that tsunami warnings may not help much, as people often flock to the coastline to see the giant waves.
Should we nominate those that do this for a mass Darwin award?
Spinning a web of legal precedents, invoking California laws governing the care of patients dependent on life support, as well as laws against animal cruelty, Rothblatt argued that a self-conscious computer facing the prospect of an imminent unplugging should have standing to bring a claim of battery.
Shouldn't that be the computer is claiming that it will NEED a battery?
If the astronauts are upset that NASA screwed up the food supply, they could always rebel and go on a hunger strike.
Uh, wait..That's what NASA wants them to do...
I'm an AIX Systems Administrator and trained IBM pSeries hardware technician (network guru, etc) by day. At night I buy, refurbish, and resell IBM RS/6000s and pSeries machines on eBay. Having a side business is great and allows me tax advantages that, as just a W-2 wage earner, I can't get.
My wife certainly doesn't mind the extra income; it has helped us pay off our cars and make extra payments on our house. Nice to be out of debt and have an actual savings account!
Patrick,0 0149.htm or endocarditis http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?ident ifier=4436.
You have probably heard this from others already, but it sounds like you might have myocarditis http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/0
As someone who has been through endocarditis and congestive heart failure, your symptoms sound hauntingly familiar. Preferring to lay flat on your back, very little energy, dizziness where all things I experienced. My advice to you is keep looking for the BEST cardiologist (not a general practitioner) you can find. There are many things that a cardiologist will notice that a GP will not. Tell the doctor EVERYTHING you've been through; start a personal blog or journal and note down every time you have symptoms.
Don't give up, don't put it off, don't take "You're fine." as a valid answer; keeping looking until you find a cardiologist who is willing to listen with an open mind. Your health come FIRST! Without that, life is pretty miserable.
I hate to tell him that a single nuke, airburst high enough, would generate an EMP that could erase all he's working to accomplish. He'd be better off burning the music to CD or DVD.
I caught my webcam watching me the other day.
I put a bullet in its beady little eye.
Now my stuffed Tux doll is watching me.
It's the guillotine for him!
'President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost,' said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
If that's the case, why does the President support off-shoring American jobs? Sounds like he's speak out of both ends of his a$$ to me.
And absolutely LOVED it!
It's nice to see that Pixar is sticking to it's guns on having a great story/script BEFORE they start making a movie out of it. Too bad Eisner & Co. didn't get that clue and I think Pixar will be all the better for it now that they've told Disney to get lost.
As Steve Jobs would say, the movie is "insanely great"!
the liars start running.