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You guys are hammering the duke site and I was trying to mirror their stuff for a project I am working on. Very neat stuff, hope to have my mirror up soon.
I just don't seem to get it. Why is it that genetically engineered corn is created in the first place? I'm sure that if you ask the people who did they work (i.e. scientists), they'd say it was for the betterment of humanity. If you ask the money-greedy, idiotic, bastard executives they'll say that it was for the royalties they'd get from its creation.
I'm sorry, but is our society too aloof to the problems of the world? Being a person who has taken a fair numbere of science classes in college and also done research with geneticists, these people are largely doing this work for the desire to help humanity, not to make a cheap buck. Our system is so screwed up that we insist that the food that may get planted will lead to lawsuits. So what if a thousand children die? Who gives a shit as long as these greedy idiots can drives their benzs and live in million dollar homes.
How many of you would help someone in car accident if it was possible? How many of you would help someone trapped in a place they couldn't get out of? I think that most people would answer yes because we as humans strive for not only our own survival but the survival of others. That is the very thing that makes us unique.
After September 11th and the subsequent bombardment of Afghanistan, I honestly thought that humanity had gone the way of savages and animals just bent on killing each other. Yet, on a drive down Interstate-5 to Los Angeles I saw a black pickup flip over and land on its side in the middle of the road. You know what I saw? I saw my fellow Americans stop on the side of the road in both directions and try to help the people inside the pickup. People were directing traffic, others were cleaning the mess on the road, more were trying to assist the occupants. This is humanity. Humanity is there to stop the suffering of others.
So I ask, why does a country have to worry about lawsuits when its people are starving? There is something really wrong with the system.
The problem is that you cannot remove all goverenment-imposed rules and regulations on businesses. We do not live in a country where there is a true democratic or true capitalist system. As Americans, we rely on our government to keep big business in check to ensure our health, safety, etc. So, another way to fix the problem is that any person going into office can only hold office once in their lifetime. There should be no political parties (much like George Washington's warning against parties). The problem with both of these is then how do you know who would be qualified to run for president for example? Well, a politician is supposed to serve the public and if the public agrees with his/her policies, then he should be elected. As long as the idea of reelection and helping one's own party is around, the priorities of the people will always take a back seat.
The fact of the matter is that our government has been looking for excuses to curtail the freedoms we enjoy for a long time. Why? Well, if its news to you, most politicians make a career out of staying in office. This was something the forefathers never imagined. The constant desire to win the elections leads these politicians to ask for money and the big corporations pony up and cough up the dough. What happens then? Well, poor people like me who can't afford to shell out cash to my congressman gets left out of the political process. Sure, I can vote but if my viewpoints don't come with a dollar figure then they are meaningless. The DMCA is the brain-child of this process we call "democracy" (we should rename it to "big-corp'ocracy").
So why aren't most people doing anything about it? Since they don't know what is going on. The local 10 o'clock news doesn't carry this stuff. Do you want to take a stab at why? Well, most local tv news stations are owned by big corporation and they cannot afford to criticize the DMCA since they can weild it around so freely. Articles like this are good, but what slashdotters don't understand is that there needs to be a concerted effort to write editorials in the papers constantly to make sure that the rest of America sees this for what it is.
india did not have a networking infrastructure before the lines were laid out to connect them to the internet. They should respect the ideology of the internet and stop attempting to make a cheap buck. Even if they had the infrastructure in place, the bottom line is that their traffic is carried w/o charge around the world so they shouldn't be asking for money now.
In this context, we are not talking about mutual benefits or mutual losess. Rather we are talking about ISPs in India asking portals for money.
The advantage India has is its sheer size. However, if you've ever gone there (like I have over the last 22 years) then you'll realize that the marketing potential is not that of a billion person country. Rather, there are very few middle class people and it would be almost safe to say that the country is system of just a majority lower class and minority upper class. This propoganda spread by Indian-nationals in our country regarding the potential of the marketplace is sheer bulls***. India is stuck with their hindu caste system which forever locks the poor into the lower class. Efforts to shed this system have been met with huge resistance from the upper castes. On a side note, many (if not most) Indians in the US are from the lower classes who migrated here after the partition took place. They settled here with funds they stole from fleeing "Pakistanis" (in quotes since Pakistan didn't exist at the time of the partition technically). India is no better off than Pakistan. Sure people could argue that the economic indicators support that India is stronger, but that is largely because of the extremely wealthy that live their.
Anyway, back on track to the prisoners dilema. India has a population that has a little bit of market potential. They make a demand asking the large portals for money. If the portals refuse, does India gain anything? No it does not. Even the fear that Yahoo or MSN or some other person might take the market over is utter crap since this idea is a pure "make-money" scheme. It is hardly plausible to assume that if both Yahoo and MSN wanted to pay the Indians would lock themselves out of one of the portals for a little bit more cash. I hope I am clear. My conclusion is that MSN and Yahoo and other portals will say F-YOU and move on. On a side note, a good retaliation is to charge indian isps for all the traffic they send over the non-indian backbone.
Today, XYZ corporation went under for bad accounting. Eyes are trained on the actions of the newly formed IBM-PwC.
Microsoft spokesman Mr. Longhorn said "that open-source *had* to have contributed to the shortcomings of their accounting scheme. With Microsoft software, since we do not show the source, corporations can better hide their iillegal deads."
RMS responds, "Accouting through obscurity does not work."
As an example, I was messing around with some bus speed settings in the BIOS on my Supermicro P6DGU (dual proc, GX-chipset mobo) and the system refused to boot up. The BIOS can be emergency-flashed by holding down a pre-defined keyboard key. First problem was my USB Keyboard/Mouse. The BIOS would not go into auto-repair mode so I had to swap with an old PS/2 keyboard. THen, the ROM image had to renamed to something specific such that the system could grab it, but it all had to be done off my 3.5" boot floppy. Tell me, is there a replacement for it? No there isn't. I don't have CD-Burners on every machine here, nor do I have zip drives on every machine so it would be rather difficult to recover my system without the 3.5" drive. Give me a fast/universal replacement for the 3.5" floppy and I'll take it. Until then, I don't think it can be killed off.
Well, I am a big home theater nut. This could have good applications if it works.
So far, we have seen things move from the old days of mono output then to stereo. Stereo is a great thing since, if the quality of the speaker and CD is excellent, then not only can the sounds be positioned in the plane of the speakers but also it can have a transparent effect of being layered from front to back. (e.g. guitar on right side, singer in the middle in front of drummer, bass on left side).
With Dolby Surround we got 4 speakers that gave us stereo fronts and two mono surround speakers. This was nice at the time because it gave 3 channels of sound (left, right, rear) but whenever an airplane came flying from rear to the front, it always felt like it came from directly the middle area behind you. It wasn't convincing.
Dolby Pro-logic gave us an added center channel with was encoded into the front stereo channels and a processor would remove it and pass it to the center. This was nice, but was added since not everyone can sit in the "sweet spot". Remember, with stereo, you can only get the right imaging of the music if you sit where both speakers are equidistant from your ears. The center channel made it so people sitting on any one side of the viewing area could feel the centered nature of dialog. This was all analog though so there would be "leakage" of channels.
Next came Dolby Digital and DTS. Both of which are 5 full range discrete channels and 1 subwoofer channel. Discrete means that each channels audio was digitally encoded so this solved the problem of "leakage" that plague Dolby Pro-Logic because the decoder chip no longer had to "guess" where the sound was supposed to go. This also brought the stereo capability to the rear channels such that pans from the rear to the front could occur more realisticly. The problem? Dolby digital and DTS are both lossy formats that sample the sound and compress it during the encoding process. This makes it possible to fit the sound track onto DVDs. DTS compresses less but there is not much difference in the way of sound quality.
With the arrival of Star Wars episode 1, we got Dolby Digital EX which has a "matrixed" center channel derived from the rear stereo speakers much like the way the front center channel was in Dolby Pro-Logic. DTS followed suit and brought their own DTS Neo:6 format with a matrixed rear channel. Now both DTS and Dolby digital provide 6.1 channels which allows a discrete rear center channel so pans are even more convincing to those who are sitting off-center. Remember, the rear stereo imaging is affected by where a person sits. If the speakers are not equidistant, then the effects are off-center as well. The rear channel fixed that.
So what's next? Well Meridian has a loss-less system called MLP which is awesome sound quality wise. DVD Audio is coming out which has a higher sampling rate so the sound quality is better (analogy: think about an MP3 encoded in 64kbps versus one encoded in 160kbps, that is to say that CDs have a twangy sound compared to the higher-resolution DVD-Audio). Lexicon/Meridian/etc. all have 7.1 and 8.1 systems either out already or they are almost their. So what will happen? We keep adding speakers to our home theaters until there is no more room to sit? If this method of projecting audio could work, then we could get rid of the clutter of speakers and amplifiers and solve the problem. What do you guys think?
Knowing the United States less than honorable track record in Latin and South America, I find it almost funny the article would talk about a US Ambassador trying to "convine" Peru. What is the US going to do? Bomb them for not running Minesweeper and Solitare on their desktops? The irony of the situation is gigantic.
For those who think the US has every right to pursue pushing its own companies, that's fine. But I would hope that we would push companies in compliance with our own laws. Regardless, I would still like to see Linux in Peru.
What people don't understand is that with the system used by Arraycomm allows better precision mapping of the wireless user. Sure, these days with our current cellular system we can triangulate a persons coordinates but this system could allows on-the-fly tracking since its built into the system. This is something for you privacy expertst to chew on.
TO: NCCUSL Commissioners FROM: Carol Kunze RE: Discussion of UCITA on July 29, 2002 at NCCUSL Annual Conference
* * * *
I write to you on behalf of Red Hat, Inc., a software services company which also distributes the open source operating system Linux. We are making what we appreciate is an extraordinary request - THAT YOU REVERSE THE 1999 DECISION TO ADOPT UCITA. UCITA was written for the proprietary (commercial, for profit) software industry. It does not reflect the practices of the open source community, nor the expectations of parties to an open source transaction.
Open source software is primarily written by communities of users, often
through non-profit organizations. Open source software can be freely copied, freely modified and the source code is freely available to enable users to do so. All copies can be freely redistributed.
This means that everyone is free to service, adapt, fix bugs and write compatible software. The developer has no monopoly on servicing the product.
Because open source software can be freely distributed, the distributor may have no contractual relationship, or indeed even know many of the authors of the code which it is distributing.
UCITA is written for transactions involving a single license, where an agreement is concluded, where the distributor has a direct or indirect contractual relationship with the developer, and where there are profits to support warranties. Many open source software transactions do not conform to this model in any respect.
The open source community has created its own set of practices and norms that differ widely from the commercial rules that UCITA adopts as the standard. UCITA does not reflect the open source community's development model, its distribution model, its license terms, nor its general expectations.
UCITA may bring certainty to software licensing law, but only for proprietary software distributors. NCCUSL should not adopt a law with default terms which, if applied to an open source transaction, would convert it into a proprietary transaction against the will of the user and the distributor.
NCCUSL should not adopt a law which threatens the existence of an important and growing alternative in the software market. By adopting proprietary practices as the norm, UCITA attempts to force open source to conform to a model based on profits and warranties.
This would destroy open source.
It is not for NCCUSL to decide which form of software development and distribution to legally validate. NCCUSL SHOULD EITHER LEGISLATE A SOFTWARE LAW WHICH REFLECTS BOTH PROPRIETARY AND OPEN SOURCE PRACTICES, OR IT SHOULD REFRAIN FROM LEGISLATING.
Red Hat respectfully requests that you vote to reverse the previous adoption of UCITA.
Sincerely, Carol A. Kunze, Esq. 901 Cape Cod Ct Napa, CA 94558 707.966.5211 fax 707.371.1807 ckunze@ix.netcom.com
Most people buying computers these days don't give a damn whether their printer is an HP, Lexmark, Generic, etc. All they want is to be able to print out their book reports and greeting cards. So, looking at the printer business, we see that since HP sells its printers at a loss for the intention of making up the price in the sale of cartridges, then I commend them for what they did. The article points out that Dell sales amounted to about 2 days worth of HP's annual sales. What have they got to lose?
If I was a shareholder, I would be fine with that they did. Why compete against Dell's own printers when the publiic doesn't care for brand, all the care for is price?
The BSA is largely based on what is called biased-interpretation statistics and false software sales projections. Piracy is/has been in the world of computer for as far back as I can remember (pre-286 days). The largest problem is that how can a group such as the BSA base some piracy satistics when there was never a time when piracy wasn't around. So it is a guess, right? Exactly.
Furthermore, the BSA only projects how many boxes of a product might be sold or they rely on surveys in which people anonymously tell them that they have certain pieces of software and then they tell them if they are pirated or not. The problem is that most people out there downloading.NET Server, MS Exchange, SQL server are only getting it for the brag-factor. What about all those people that use Photoshop for a normal image viewer? Those people wouldn't go out and pay $500 for photoshop, they just have it since its the in-thing! I mean, what's a better deal than when its free? Of cousre, why not get the most over-powered/bloated piece of software if its free (windows-user mentality)?
The point is, if the BSA wants to skew statistics, they will. They are an organization supported by business so they will always approach this subject with a slant.
I liked the RedHat beta review that was posted on eWeek. It pointed out a lot of positives but it wasn't overly complicated. I agree with the finding, RedHat needs to have a graphical font installer/manager that can change system-wide fonts in X such that I don't have to squint on my 1600x1200 desktop.
I haven't tried the beta yet, but it mentions a screen resolution changing tool. What exactly is this? Is it a tool that just changes the viewport size? Or does it in fact change the entire desktop's resolution? I hope it is the latter because I hate modlines.
I don't know the exact in's-and-out's of the webtv e-mail system but back in the BBS days, we used to send each other (amongst friends) DOS TSR's that would be disguised as a trusted executable file for a legit program. The person would run it and hang up their modem used ATH0. And dial out numbers using ATDT. To get rid of it, they would have to reboot using a bootdisk since the TSR would be in their autoexec.bat file. Anyway, the point is that this method of modem-"hacking" is very easy to do and shouldn't be tough to adapt for the modern day webtv.
A part of me actually finds the idea of Microsoft being held liable for the 911 calls pretty amusing. But the reality is that it costs money and unfortunately it could cost lives. I hope all of you people make sure to tell your moms/dads/grandparents/spouses/friends/etc. to disconnect their boxes from the phones lines.
Its about time that a precedent be set in the patent-crap(tm) going on these days. If a company is going to assert its patents and charge people for it after so long, it is more than justified to play hardball and in essence say "we'll pull your patent-laden bullsh*t off the list of standards". Okay sure, the alternatives are there but disk-space/image-quality/browser support must be there before anything will work. Before anyone says that PNG works as a replacement, I would have to say that the size increase alone prohibits their use especially on high-traffic sites where bandwidth counts.
I am a home theater addict and have been very disturbed by the fact that the home theater industry moves just as fast as the computer industry but you can't upgrade your components unless you get something from manufacturers like Krell, Meridian, Theta Digital.
So... many of us are using what we call Home Theater PC's (HTPC) to play DVD's in Progressive scan mode to feed our DLP projectors, using MP3/Ogg/Wav files for our home audio collections, HDTV decoder cards, etc. The problem is that all this stuff needs to be easily controlled with a remote. Many people have designed interfaces using flash/webserver and they tie it into an IR controll system. Maybe this will make it easier to hide the computer-ness of our HTPC and make them more appliance-like.
If interested, avsforum.com has some nice forums for discussion in the realm of HTPC's.
Looks like there is something in this device which shouldn't be there:
WMA Digital Rights Management (DRM) support On one side, we/.'ers run around screaming about DRM and the other side our favorite site (/.) runs stories like these. Seems like no one here knows what they truely stand for. I call for a boycott!!!
Slashdot Mirror
You guys are hammering the duke site and I was trying to mirror their stuff for a project I am working on. Very neat stuff, hope to have my mirror up soon.
Do you have any extra copies you want to sell?
I just don't seem to get it. Why is it that genetically engineered corn is created in the first place? I'm sure that if you ask the people who did they work (i.e. scientists), they'd say it was for the betterment of humanity. If you ask the money-greedy, idiotic, bastard executives they'll say that it was for the royalties they'd get from its creation.
I'm sorry, but is our society too aloof to the problems of the world? Being a person who has taken a fair numbere of science classes in college and also done research with geneticists, these people are largely doing this work for the desire to help humanity, not to make a cheap buck. Our system is so screwed up that we insist that the food that may get planted will lead to lawsuits. So what if a thousand children die? Who gives a shit as long as these greedy idiots can drives their benzs and live in million dollar homes.
How many of you would help someone in car accident if it was possible? How many of you would help someone trapped in a place they couldn't get out of? I think that most people would answer yes because we as humans strive for not only our own survival but the survival of others. That is the very thing that makes us unique.
After September 11th and the subsequent bombardment of Afghanistan, I honestly thought that humanity had gone the way of savages and animals just bent on killing each other. Yet, on a drive down Interstate-5 to Los Angeles I saw a black pickup flip over and land on its side in the middle of the road. You know what I saw? I saw my fellow Americans stop on the side of the road in both directions and try to help the people inside the pickup. People were directing traffic, others were cleaning the mess on the road, more were trying to assist the occupants. This is humanity. Humanity is there to stop the suffering of others.
So I ask, why does a country have to worry about lawsuits when its people are starving? There is something really wrong with the system.
i just saw a pop-up at Yahoo for the new MAV w/ an X10 camera mount.
The problem is that you cannot remove all goverenment-imposed rules and regulations on businesses. We do not live in a country where there is a true democratic or true capitalist system. As Americans, we rely on our government to keep big business in check to ensure our health, safety, etc. So, another way to fix the problem is that any person going into office can only hold office once in their lifetime. There should be no political parties (much like George Washington's warning against parties). The problem with both of these is then how do you know who would be qualified to run for president for example? Well, a politician is supposed to serve the public and if the public agrees with his/her policies, then he should be elected. As long as the idea of reelection and helping one's own party is around, the priorities of the people will always take a back seat.
The fact of the matter is that our government has been looking for excuses to curtail the freedoms we enjoy for a long time. Why? Well, if its news to you, most politicians make a career out of staying in office. This was something the forefathers never imagined. The constant desire to win the elections leads these politicians to ask for money and the big corporations pony up and cough up the dough. What happens then? Well, poor people like me who can't afford to shell out cash to my congressman gets left out of the political process. Sure, I can vote but if my viewpoints don't come with a dollar figure then they are meaningless. The DMCA is the brain-child of this process we call "democracy" (we should rename it to "big-corp'ocracy").
So why aren't most people doing anything about it? Since they don't know what is going on. The local 10 o'clock news doesn't carry this stuff. Do you want to take a stab at why? Well, most local tv news stations are owned by big corporation and they cannot afford to criticize the DMCA since they can weild it around so freely. Articles like this are good, but what slashdotters don't understand is that there needs to be a concerted effort to write editorials in the papers constantly to make sure that the rest of America sees this for what it is.
india did not have a networking infrastructure before the lines were laid out to connect them to the internet. They should respect the ideology of the internet and stop attempting to make a cheap buck. Even if they had the infrastructure in place, the bottom line is that their traffic is carried w/o charge around the world so they shouldn't be asking for money now.
In this context, we are not talking about mutual benefits or mutual losess. Rather we are talking about ISPs in India asking portals for money.
The advantage India has is its sheer size. However, if you've ever gone there (like I have over the last 22 years) then you'll realize that the marketing potential is not that of a billion person country. Rather, there are very few middle class people and it would be almost safe to say that the country is system of just a majority lower class and minority upper class. This propoganda spread by Indian-nationals in our country regarding the potential of the marketplace is sheer bulls***. India is stuck with their hindu caste system which forever locks the poor into the lower class. Efforts to shed this system have been met with huge resistance from the upper castes. On a side note, many (if not most) Indians in the US are from the lower classes who migrated here after the partition took place. They settled here with funds they stole from fleeing "Pakistanis" (in quotes since Pakistan didn't exist at the time of the partition technically). India is no better off than Pakistan. Sure people could argue that the economic indicators support that India is stronger, but that is largely because of the extremely wealthy that live their.
Anyway, back on track to the prisoners dilema. India has a population that has a little bit of market potential. They make a demand asking the large portals for money. If the portals refuse, does India gain anything? No it does not. Even the fear that Yahoo or MSN or some other person might take the market over is utter crap since this idea is a pure "make-money" scheme. It is hardly plausible to assume that if both Yahoo and MSN wanted to pay the Indians would lock themselves out of one of the portals for a little bit more cash. I hope I am clear. My conclusion is that MSN and Yahoo and other portals will say F-YOU and move on. On a side note, a good retaliation is to charge indian isps for all the traffic they send over the non-indian backbone.
Today, XYZ corporation went under for bad accounting. Eyes are trained on the actions of the newly formed IBM-PwC.
Microsoft spokesman Mr. Longhorn said "that open-source *had* to have contributed to the shortcomings of their accounting scheme. With Microsoft software, since we do not show the source, corporations can better hide their iillegal deads."
RMS responds, "Accouting through obscurity does not work."
In other news...
As an example, I was messing around with some bus speed settings in the BIOS on my Supermicro P6DGU (dual proc, GX-chipset mobo) and the system refused to boot up. The BIOS can be emergency-flashed by holding down a pre-defined keyboard key. First problem was my USB Keyboard/Mouse. The BIOS would not go into auto-repair mode so I had to swap with an old PS/2 keyboard. THen, the ROM image had to renamed to something specific such that the system could grab it, but it all had to be done off my 3.5" boot floppy. Tell me, is there a replacement for it? No there isn't. I don't have CD-Burners on every machine here, nor do I have zip drives on every machine so it would be rather difficult to recover my system without the 3.5" drive. Give me a fast/universal replacement for the 3.5" floppy and I'll take it. Until then, I don't think it can be killed off.
http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=Vide o+Card
Well, I am a big home theater nut. This could have good applications if it works.
So far, we have seen things move from the old days of mono output then to stereo. Stereo is a great thing since, if the quality of the speaker and CD is excellent, then not only can the sounds be positioned in the plane of the speakers but also it can have a transparent effect of being layered from front to back. (e.g. guitar on right side, singer in the middle in front of drummer, bass on left side).
With Dolby Surround we got 4 speakers that gave us stereo fronts and two mono surround speakers. This was nice at the time because it gave 3 channels of sound (left, right, rear) but whenever an airplane came flying from rear to the front, it always felt like it came from directly the middle area behind you. It wasn't convincing.
Dolby Pro-logic gave us an added center channel with was encoded into the front stereo channels and a processor would remove it and pass it to the center. This was nice, but was added since not everyone can sit in the "sweet spot". Remember, with stereo, you can only get the right imaging of the music if you sit where both speakers are equidistant from your ears. The center channel made it so people sitting on any one side of the viewing area could feel the centered nature of dialog. This was all analog though so there would be "leakage" of channels.
Next came Dolby Digital and DTS. Both of which are 5 full range discrete channels and 1 subwoofer channel. Discrete means that each channels audio was digitally encoded so this solved the problem of "leakage" that plague Dolby Pro-Logic because the decoder chip no longer had to "guess" where the sound was supposed to go. This also brought the stereo capability to the rear channels such that pans from the rear to the front could occur more realisticly. The problem? Dolby digital and DTS are both lossy formats that sample the sound and compress it during the encoding process. This makes it possible to fit the sound track onto DVDs. DTS compresses less but there is not much difference in the way of sound quality.
With the arrival of Star Wars episode 1, we got Dolby Digital EX which has a "matrixed" center channel derived from the rear stereo speakers much like the way the front center channel was in Dolby Pro-Logic. DTS followed suit and brought their own DTS Neo:6 format with a matrixed rear channel. Now both DTS and Dolby digital provide 6.1 channels which allows a discrete rear center channel so pans are even more convincing to those who are sitting off-center. Remember, the rear stereo imaging is affected by where a person sits. If the speakers are not equidistant, then the effects are off-center as well. The rear channel fixed that.
So what's next? Well Meridian has a loss-less system called MLP which is awesome sound quality wise. DVD Audio is coming out which has a higher sampling rate so the sound quality is better (analogy: think about an MP3 encoded in 64kbps versus one encoded in 160kbps, that is to say that CDs have a twangy sound compared to the higher-resolution DVD-Audio). Lexicon/Meridian/etc. all have 7.1 and 8.1 systems either out already or they are almost their. So what will happen? We keep adding speakers to our home theaters until there is no more room to sit? If this method of projecting audio could work, then we could get rid of the clutter of speakers and amplifiers and solve the problem. What do you guys think?
Knowing the United States less than honorable track record in Latin and South America, I find it almost funny the article would talk about a US Ambassador trying to "convine" Peru. What is the US going to do? Bomb them for not running Minesweeper and Solitare on their desktops? The irony of the situation is gigantic.
For those who think the US has every right to pursue pushing its own companies, that's fine. But I would hope that we would push companies in compliance with our own laws. Regardless, I would still like to see Linux in Peru.
Actually I don't mean GPS. A persons cellular whereabouts can be triangulated with cell phone towers. I wish I had the webpage available.
What people don't understand is that with the system used by Arraycomm allows better precision mapping of the wireless user. Sure, these days with our current cellular system we can triangulate a persons coordinates but this system could allows on-the-fly tracking since its built into the system. This is something for you privacy expertst to chew on.
NCCUSL Commissioner Email Addresses
Alaska
art@dillonfindley.com
Deborah_Behr@law.state.ak.us
lsjkj@aol.com
wgc@customcpu.com
Alabama
RepGaines@aol.com
rmccurle@law.ua.edu
tjones@law.ua.edu
bruce@hwnn.com
Arkansas
jpender@pmppa.com
larry@arkleg.state.ar.us
david@nixonlaw.com
pcarroll@roselawfirm.com
jdeacon@barrettdeacon.com
Arizona
henderson@nt.law.arizona.edu
l.lemon@azbar.org
tberg@fclaw.com
California
bion.gregory@ccusl.ca.gov
darlinghallrae@compuserve.com
elihu2000@aol.com
wburke@shearman.com
senator.sher@sen.ca.gov
nsterling@clrc.ca.gov
Pamela_Chin@parsons.com
Ronald.phillips@pepperdine.edu
williamsrc@aol.com
Colorado
charley.pike@state.co.us
russgeor@sni.net
lw2demuth@worldnet.att.net
tomg@grimshawharring.com
bkreplep@aol.com
Connecticut
bhawkins@goodwin.com
david.biklen@po.state.ct.us
john.langbein@yale.edu
pavetti@aol.com
lmorgan@rjmlawct.com
WBreetz@law.uconn.edu
District of Columbia
bkass@kass-skalet.com
cbrookinshudson@dccouncil.washington.dc.us
zeldonj@dcsc.gov
efdyke@venable.com
jamescmckay@yahoo.com
Delaware
mhoughton@mnat.com
ann.c.stilson@law.widener.edu
robinsonr@ce.net
Florida
lstagg@akerman.com
ecutl@carltonfields.com
ehrhardt@law.fsu.edu
hkittles@hklaw.com
jessen.linda@leg.state.fl.us
jmorse@law.fsu.edu
Georgia
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No need to mod this up...
TO: NCCUSL Commissioners
FROM: Carol Kunze
RE: Discussion of UCITA on July 29, 2002 at NCCUSL Annual Conference
* * * *
I write to you on behalf of Red Hat, Inc., a software services company which also distributes the open source operating system Linux.
We are making what we appreciate is an extraordinary request - THAT YOU REVERSE THE 1999 DECISION TO ADOPT UCITA.
UCITA was written for the proprietary (commercial, for profit) software industry. It does not reflect the practices of the open source community, nor the expectations of parties to an open source transaction.
Open source software is primarily written by communities of users, often
through non-profit organizations. Open source software can be freely copied, freely modified and the source code is freely available to enable users to do so. All copies can be freely redistributed.
This means that everyone is free to service, adapt, fix bugs and write compatible software. The developer has no monopoly on servicing the product.
Because open source software can be freely distributed, the distributor may have no contractual relationship, or indeed even know many of the authors of the code which it is distributing.
UCITA is written for transactions involving a single license, where an agreement is concluded, where the distributor has a direct or indirect contractual relationship with the developer, and where there are profits to support warranties. Many open source software transactions do not conform to this model in any respect.
The open source community has created its own set of practices and norms that differ widely from the commercial rules that UCITA adopts as the standard. UCITA does not reflect the open source community's development model, its distribution model, its license terms, nor its general expectations.
UCITA may bring certainty to software licensing law, but only for proprietary software distributors. NCCUSL should not adopt a law with default terms which, if applied to an open source transaction, would convert it into a proprietary transaction against the will of the user and the distributor.
NCCUSL should not adopt a law which threatens the existence of an important and growing alternative in the software market. By adopting proprietary practices as the norm, UCITA attempts to force open source to conform to a model based on profits and warranties.
This would destroy open source.
It is not for NCCUSL to decide which form of software development and distribution to legally validate. NCCUSL SHOULD EITHER LEGISLATE A SOFTWARE LAW WHICH REFLECTS BOTH PROPRIETARY AND OPEN SOURCE PRACTICES, OR IT SHOULD REFRAIN FROM LEGISLATING.
Red Hat respectfully requests that you vote to reverse the previous adoption of UCITA.
Sincerely,
Carol A. Kunze, Esq.
901 Cape Cod Ct
Napa, CA 94558
707.966.5211
fax 707.371.1807
ckunze@ix.netcom.com
I guess I'll have to start citing sources for my info.
Most people buying computers these days don't give a damn whether their printer is an HP, Lexmark, Generic, etc. All they want is to be able to print out their book reports and greeting cards. So, looking at the printer business, we see that since HP sells its printers at a loss for the intention of making up the price in the sale of cartridges, then I commend them for what they did. The article points out that Dell sales amounted to about 2 days worth of HP's annual sales. What have they got to lose?
If I was a shareholder, I would be fine with that they did. Why compete against Dell's own printers when the publiic doesn't care for brand, all the care for is price?
The BSA is largely based on what is called biased-interpretation statistics and false software sales projections. Piracy is/has been in the world of computer for as far back as I can remember (pre-286 days). The largest problem is that how can a group such as the BSA base some piracy satistics when there was never a time when piracy wasn't around. So it is a guess, right? Exactly.
.NET Server, MS Exchange, SQL server are only getting it for the brag-factor. What about all those people that use Photoshop for a normal image viewer? Those people wouldn't go out and pay $500 for photoshop, they just have it since its the in-thing! I mean, what's a better deal than when its free? Of cousre, why not get the most over-powered/bloated piece of software if its free (windows-user mentality)?
Furthermore, the BSA only projects how many boxes of a product might be sold or they rely on surveys in which people anonymously tell them that they have certain pieces of software and then they tell them if they are pirated or not. The problem is that most people out there downloading
The point is, if the BSA wants to skew statistics, they will. They are an organization supported by business so they will always approach this subject with a slant.
I liked the RedHat beta review that was posted on eWeek. It pointed out a lot of positives but it wasn't overly complicated. I agree with the finding, RedHat needs to have a graphical font installer/manager that can change system-wide fonts in X such that I don't have to squint on my 1600x1200 desktop.
I haven't tried the beta yet, but it mentions a screen resolution changing tool. What exactly is this? Is it a tool that just changes the viewport size? Or does it in fact change the entire desktop's resolution? I hope it is the latter because I hate modlines.
I don't know the exact in's-and-out's of the webtv e-mail system but back in the BBS days, we used to send each other (amongst friends) DOS TSR's that would be disguised as a trusted executable file for a legit program. The person would run it and hang up their modem used ATH0. And dial out numbers using ATDT. To get rid of it, they would have to reboot using a bootdisk since the TSR would be in their autoexec.bat file. Anyway, the point is that this method of modem-"hacking" is very easy to do and shouldn't be tough to adapt for the modern day webtv.
A part of me actually finds the idea of Microsoft being held liable for the 911 calls pretty amusing. But the reality is that it costs money and unfortunately it could cost lives. I hope all of you people make sure to tell your moms/dads/grandparents/spouses/friends/etc. to disconnect their boxes from the phones lines.
Its about time that a precedent be set in the patent-crap(tm) going on these days. If a company is going to assert its patents and charge people for it after so long, it is more than justified to play hardball and in essence say "we'll pull your patent-laden bullsh*t off the list of standards". Okay sure, the alternatives are there but disk-space/image-quality/browser support must be there before anything will work. Before anyone says that PNG works as a replacement, I would have to say that the size increase alone prohibits their use especially on high-traffic sites where bandwidth counts.
I am a home theater addict and have been very disturbed by the fact that the home theater industry moves just as fast as the computer industry but you can't upgrade your components unless you get something from manufacturers like Krell, Meridian, Theta Digital.
So... many of us are using what we call Home Theater PC's (HTPC) to play DVD's in Progressive scan mode to feed our DLP projectors, using MP3/Ogg/Wav files for our home audio collections, HDTV decoder cards, etc. The problem is that all this stuff needs to be easily controlled with a remote. Many people have designed interfaces using flash/webserver and they tie it into an IR controll system. Maybe this will make it easier to hide the computer-ness of our HTPC and make them more appliance-like.
If interested, avsforum.com has some nice forums for discussion in the realm of HTPC's.
WMA Digital Rights Management (DRM) support On one side, we /.'ers run around screaming about DRM and the other side our favorite site (/.) runs stories like these. Seems like no one here knows what they truely stand for. I call for a boycott!!!
I guess I will stick to the iPOD.