1. The technology is flawed therefor it is useless. No, there is no real connection between a technologies flaws in all conditions, and it's usefulness in some conditions. 2. The government will know everything about me. Unless there is a warrant out on you, the government likely gives a two-hoots against you. This is NOT echelon:) 3. It will be easy to remove by any idiot. Not, likely. The technologies to make difficult to know that it is running on your machine are well known. And truly most idiots do not know what is running on their machine, and criminals tend not to be criminal masterminds. Mostly they are just stupid criminals. 4. There are already laws. No, monitoring laws are very technology specific. Monitoring software requires it's own laws. 5. There is no reason to do this. Powerful encryption requires LE to do something like this in order to capture keys and information to be used against the badgus. 6. Government intrusion bad! Well, yes. That is why the 4th Amendment exists in the US, and there are pretty powerful privacy laws in most western democratic societies. But All of them carve out exceptions to prevent activity that is harmful for the social good. (criminal and seditious behavior for the most part). The difficult part is how to balance between a blind and ineffectual enforcement activity and an all knowing overly effectual (we all sin, so some say. Holiday Greetings all!) government enforcement activity.
Not all people are computer geeks, and high up criminals I am damn sure are NOT letting their computer geek friends look at thier computers. And if they *are* they are the ones that have been most likely turned by the authorites and installed the monitoring software on the computer.
I would fully disagree with the phrase *ABSOLUTELY* because that phrase is almost *ALWAYS* wrong.
Fact is big time criminals use either off the shelf or easily obtained software for ill-will. That software is easier to be monitored on the machine than any other fashion, and some percentage of those monitored, and probably some large percentage will have damning material monitored that will be used against them.
And the rest of you will be reinstalling your OS every day, because you have some paranoid belief that the Goverment has any reason whatsoever to care about you at all...
I am willing to bet that less than 1% of those that are surveyed will even be aware of it.
I am willing to bet, that less that.1% of those that make a decision about what OS they use will make that decision based on whether the government will spy on them.
1. No 2. No 3. Under the Authority of the provision. As had been exercised in previous wiretap/patriot act/rico/conspiracy laws/ 4. If they still have jurisdiction, probably yes. Undoubtably they will still use itl.
Not AUL. Monitoring from the machine has two very useful purposes. First is circumvents and allows decoding of information that is about to be de/encrypted.
Second, it goes with the computer. Packet sniffers are network dependent, "spyware, or monitorware" is computer dependent
First, about the trust issue. Just as with the russians... Trust but verify.
The problem with teenagers is that they have all the maturity and experience of teenagers. Being monitored in such a way helps a kid make better decisions. (not getting caught is a fine motivator) and bad decisions cannot be as well hidden by mearly lying.
The most heinous and famous of crimes are often committed by kids whose parents had unflinching trust in thm. And the most manipulative and intelligent of those children probably read Slashdot, and post anonymously "if you can't trust them don't let them drive!"
The years of 16 to 18 are periously filled with all sorts of hazards. Parents can use all the help they can, to help their kids make it through it. Those who don't believe that are not parents, but mearly are kids, or have been kids. And yes while you turned out ok, the jails are full of kids that their parents were convinced they were "good kids"
And damning it for being a not-perfect technology. Well yes, that is fun for the first million or so imperfect technologies, until you realize that *all* technology is imperfect and that doesn't necessarily make something unusable or non-useful, it just makes it technology.
Visual PC suffered from many strange UI problems. But my favorite was putting an unlabled button on the bottom of the screen that was required to be pushed the first time the program was launched in order to get the program to function properly. And you only ever had to push it once.
So rather than a big giant, push me if this is the first time you launched or something button... You didn't know what to do. And if you looked in help as to why your mouse wasn't working it referred to the button by NAME and didn't show the picture of the Icon.
And if you were really persistent, you could eventually discover that this was the button you were supposed to push the first time to make thier product work. Then it permenantly takes up screen space, and user memory for a thing that is only ever used *once*.
And the VPC folks didn't understand why that was bad UI.
"Creating a monopoly on potential workers is called unionizing. In a free market everything would be open to capitalistic forces - including labor."
I agree about the monopoly, but capitalistic forces are what create unions. Unions are the result of truly free labor markets.
And just like any monopoly, they often do not ultimately serve the economy or society.
One of the advantages of some governmental involvment in the free market is that the impetus for unions is lessoned enough that market based competition for talanted and hardworking workers is revealed.
Look, ultimately there is a playing field in which capitalists work. They are in constant lookout for profit. The government can and should manipulate the playing field to make it non-abusive and fair, while at the same time generally allowing capitalists to thrive. The combination, not perfect seems to work best.
Unions tend to be more damaging, they make local changes to the playing field, and ultimately can make it so that the capitalist can not profit at all, and can make the work force wildly expensive and inefficient, this is not to the benefit of society as a whole.
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"The mistake is to think that you should get what you deserve: you don't. You get what you are worth."
The mistake is to believe that above sentance is a true and worthwhile premise. Truly free markets result in sweatshops (minimizing costs), and monopolies (minimizing competition), to maximize profits.
Truly free markets do not take into account damage to environment, people, societies and economies. Some government is necessary to counter act the societal ill that is caused by "free markets".
The supply of people that are willing to be abused to provide for themselves and family is reasonably large. The fallacy is that it is "ok" to be abused by your employer. And it is also a fallacy to believe that the only one who should be able to keep the employer from abusing the employee is the employee, and that the only way to keep from being abused is by quitting.
No, just as with many things, there are some things that are wrong, even if there is a pool of people willing to do it. And the way to make it better for them, and for everyone else, and to raise the whole moral value of the pool is with moderate government intervention (like minimum wage, and overtime laws).
If too much government intervention then there is a downturn in the economy, too little government intervention, there is also a downturn in the economy, and tremendous societal costs. The rub is finding the balance.
If you need to mod me down now, but I am starting to get PO'd!
Just what in the F*CK is going on with Slashdot???
Is there any justification what so freakin' ever this is a frontpage story? As far as anyone can tell this is about as informative and useful as 85% of the Usenet.
The quality of frontpage postings has gone down dramatically. After weeks of every story just being a heavily editorialiazed piece of crap, we now have, "Hey, does anyone elses FF 1.0 crash?".
Editors, Taco, Cowboy Neal?!? Is anyone awake here? Have we totally lost our standards?
First of all, RTFA... This is not about putting banner ads during fast forward. It is about putting up interaction during ads. This has already been tested and is shown to work. (IE people respond to it).
It is also an article showing that TiVo can provide advertisements that have better response rates than interstitial advertising provides.
But this slashdot posting is editorializing from beginning to end. I can understand that *you* don't wnat to see any advertising ever... Good for you. (but look at the banners at the top and right of the the slashdot page you nit.) But you know nothing about why I or many people have TiVo! And for the most part all this editorializing is WRONG. The interstital is being replaced by the more attractive click-ins. The ads are better produced, more entertaining, more informative. And they are not being replaced by more intrusive advertising. It is being replaced by *less* intrusive and more interactive advertising. And you can still opt out of the data collection! Get a friggin grip.
To hire all the people that need to be involved. Writing, programming, and iconagraphy are three different skills, and have really no overlap. Writers, do indeed write better. Programmers do indeed program better, and artists do indeed art better. It sounds as if the guy that writes your proposals and specs the jobs (who is that in the mirror?) could use a lesson in resource requirements.
"Begs the question" is not the same as "raises the question."
"Begs the question" refers to a specific logical fallacy, where you use an unproven premise to define itself. This is NOT a case of this.
Raises the question, is a conversational phrase meaning that if a is true, then what are the ramifications of a.
This is similar to ESL folks that are taught "too much" instead of "a lot", and say things like "there is too much sand on the beach" or "there is too much people dancing at the party." It is just safer to say "Raises the question" and never say "Begs the question" because you will be correct too much more often.
Mexico becomes the worlds largest supplier of Electricity and Hydrogen by creating a series of N-plants that plug into the sw and texas grids, and creates hydrogen which is trucked and piped into the United states.
This diverts massive amounts of wealth from the middle east to north america. Dramatically raises the wealth and conditions of the middle class in Mexico. Crime is dramatically reduced. Reverse immigration as Mexican Citizens return home to better paying jobs.
This seems so plausable, I am stunned it hasn't happenned yet...
Essentially it seems like that they are getting operating systems, office products, servers/server software for about 60 pounds per machine per year, which I presume includes some level of support and 40 million of custom software.
Open Source if not quite ready for prime time, is already showing its power in competetive situations..
It is the vote differential that matters not the raw +votes... So even with all your cheery assumptions it would be ~50k votes gained not 100k votes gained. Which would be 80k short...
This article is a dupe of an article that will be posted 4 hours in the future.
It is important that we repair the time line now...;Encrypt 54339 96784 23470 08472 37932 87412 12327 12300 09483 71953 31994 73821 12086 67544 42139 48901 93753 18632;end
Ok, the 250 Billion number is big, gigantic, whaleish.
But more importantly EBITA is 20.41B. Now their IT budget, not only is it practically huge, it is actually a large percentage of thier earnings.
And as it should be. WalMart, makes it's money of off IT. Being so massive, small advantages turn into large dollars. And for them outsourcing would lower thier IT budget, but hurt them in discovering small advantages.
Most companies do not have this advantage. They cannot overcome the investment costs. But WalMart can...
Viruses come from email, web surfing, program files, image files, music files, floppy disks, cd's, dvd's, thumb drives, network attached storage, routers, hijacked ip streams...
(And I bet I have just listed more than the 6.2 million dollar study).
I am really glad the government has decided this is worth 6.2 million dollars. Couldn't they have purchased a report from any *one* of the specialized companies that does this for a living. Cripes...
If we continue to eschew Nuclear Power in the US, the Mexican government will start building several nuclear power plants (using "safe" technologies) near the US border.
They will export both electricity to the grid, and generate huge quantites of hydrogen (which will become the new "portable" fuel). that will be transmitted to the US.
This will result in a tremendous rennisance of Latin America, and result in a generally graceful transition from fossil fuels to an electric and hydrogen economy. This will "solve" the energy problem for the US. It will move money that is currently going to small groups of people in the Middle East, to our hemisphere, and create prosperity here at home.
China will be doing the same, as well as India and Pakistan and probably South Africa and Japan.
The oil economy will come to an end, and the nuclear economy will prevail.
The advantage will be that satellite will no longer have crappy "digital" quality.
All channels will improve. Stations that remain SD will get more bandwidth as more channels move to HD.
For SD users, and there are a lot of them, this will mean higher quality (high quality SD looks really good on a regular old TV, better than analog cable, better than OTA), and the box will be free or near free.
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Or even more interesting can they *sell* that bad debt to someone else for the tax write off.
Say would microsoft think it was worth 250 million dollars to acquire a company that had 1 billion dollars in bad debt?
I smell a business play!
1. The technology is flawed therefor it is useless. :)
No, there is no real connection between a technologies flaws in all conditions, and it's usefulness in some conditions.
2. The government will know everything about me.
Unless there is a warrant out on you, the government likely gives a two-hoots against you. This is NOT echelon
3. It will be easy to remove by any idiot.
Not, likely. The technologies to make difficult to know that it is running on your machine are well known. And truly most idiots do not know what is running on their machine, and criminals tend not to be criminal masterminds. Mostly they are just stupid criminals.
4. There are already laws.
No, monitoring laws are very technology specific. Monitoring software requires it's own laws.
5. There is no reason to do this.
Powerful encryption requires LE to do something like this in order to capture keys and information to be used against the badgus.
6. Government intrusion bad!
Well, yes. That is why the 4th Amendment exists in the US, and there are pretty powerful privacy laws in most western democratic societies. But All of them carve out exceptions to prevent activity that is harmful for the social good. (criminal and seditious behavior for the most part). The difficult part is how to balance between a blind and ineffectual enforcement activity and an all knowing overly effectual (we all sin, so some say. Holiday Greetings all!) government enforcement activity.
Ok I am telling you... It's not a crime.
Not all people are computer geeks, and high up criminals I am damn sure are NOT letting their computer geek friends look at thier computers. And if they *are* they are the ones that have been most likely turned by the authorites and installed the monitoring software on the computer.
I would fully disagree with the phrase *ABSOLUTELY* because that phrase is almost *ALWAYS* wrong.
Fact is big time criminals use either off the shelf or easily obtained software for ill-will. That software is easier to be monitored on the machine than any other fashion, and some percentage of those monitored, and probably some large percentage will have damning material monitored that will be used against them.
And the rest of you will be reinstalling your OS every day, because you have some paranoid belief that the Goverment has any reason whatsoever to care about you at all...
Sure, I will take that bet....
.1% of those that make a decision about what OS they use will make that decision based on whether the government will spy on them.
I am willing to bet that less than 1% of those that are surveyed will even be aware of it.
I am willing to bet, that less that
This is precisely the need for the law. To see your stuff, while your system is running. Maybe it lives in the Bios, or the kernal... Hmmm....
No you are not guilty of OJ.
It is extremely unlikely you would find this as a "task" running on your machine.
1. No
2. No
3. Under the Authority of the provision. As had been exercised in previous wiretap/patriot act/rico/conspiracy laws/
4. If they still have jurisdiction, probably yes. Undoubtably they will still use itl.
Not AUL. Monitoring from the machine has two very useful purposes. First is circumvents and allows decoding of information that is about to be de/encrypted.
Second, it goes with the computer. Packet sniffers are network dependent, "spyware, or monitorware" is computer dependent
First, about the trust issue. Just as with the russians... Trust but verify.
The problem with teenagers is that they have all the maturity and experience of teenagers. Being monitored in such a way helps a kid make better decisions. (not getting caught is a fine motivator) and bad decisions cannot be as well hidden by mearly lying.
The most heinous and famous of crimes are often committed by kids whose parents had unflinching trust in thm. And the most manipulative and intelligent of those children probably read Slashdot, and post anonymously "if you can't trust them don't let them drive!"
The years of 16 to 18 are periously filled with all sorts of hazards. Parents can use all the help they can, to help their kids make it through it. Those who don't believe that are not parents, but mearly are kids, or have been kids. And yes while you turned out ok, the jails are full of kids that their parents were convinced they were "good kids"
And damning it for being a not-perfect technology. Well yes, that is fun for the first million or so imperfect technologies, until you realize that *all* technology is imperfect and that doesn't necessarily make something unusable or non-useful, it just makes it technology.
Visual PC suffered from many strange UI problems. But my favorite was putting an unlabled button on the bottom of the screen that was required to be pushed the first time the program was launched in order to get the program to function properly. And you only ever had to push it once.
So rather than a big giant, push me if this is the first time you launched or something button... You didn't know what to do. And if you looked in help as to why your mouse wasn't working it referred to the button by NAME and didn't show the picture of the Icon.
And if you were really persistent, you could eventually discover that this was the button you were supposed to push the first time to make thier product work. Then it permenantly takes up screen space, and user memory for a thing that is only ever used *once*.
And the VPC folks didn't understand why that was bad UI.
"Creating a monopoly on potential workers is called unionizing. In a free market everything would be open to capitalistic forces - including labor."
I agree about the monopoly, but capitalistic forces are what create unions. Unions are the result of truly free labor markets.
And just like any monopoly, they often do not ultimately serve the economy or society.
One of the advantages of some governmental involvment in the free market is that the impetus for unions is lessoned enough that market based competition for talanted and hardworking workers is revealed.
Look, ultimately there is a playing field in which capitalists work. They are in constant lookout for profit. The government can and should manipulate the playing field to make it non-abusive and fair, while at the same time generally allowing capitalists to thrive. The combination, not perfect seems to work best.
Unions tend to be more damaging, they make local changes to the playing field, and ultimately can make it so that the capitalist can not profit at all, and can make the work force wildly expensive and inefficient, this is not to the benefit of society as a whole.
The mistake is to believe that above sentance is a true and worthwhile premise. Truly free markets result in sweatshops (minimizing costs), and monopolies (minimizing competition), to maximize profits.
Truly free markets do not take into account damage to environment, people, societies and economies. Some government is necessary to counter act the societal ill that is caused by "free markets".
The supply of people that are willing to be abused to provide for themselves and family is reasonably large. The fallacy is that it is "ok" to be abused by your employer. And it is also a fallacy to believe that the only one who should be able to keep the employer from abusing the employee is the employee, and that the only way to keep from being abused is by quitting.
No, just as with many things, there are some things that are wrong, even if there is a pool of people willing to do it. And the way to make it better for them, and for everyone else, and to raise the whole moral value of the pool is with moderate government intervention (like minimum wage, and overtime laws).
If too much government intervention then there is a downturn in the economy, too little government intervention, there is also a downturn in the economy, and tremendous societal costs. The rub is finding the balance.
If you need to mod me down now, but I am starting to get PO'd!
Just what in the F*CK is going on with Slashdot???
Is there any justification what so freakin' ever this is a frontpage story? As far as anyone can tell this is about as informative and useful as 85% of the Usenet.
The quality of frontpage postings has gone down dramatically. After weeks of every story just being a heavily editorialiazed piece of crap, we now have, "Hey, does anyone elses FF 1.0 crash?".
Editors, Taco, Cowboy Neal?!? Is anyone awake here? Have we totally lost our standards?
Cripes.
First of all, RTFA... This is not about putting banner ads during fast forward. It is about putting up interaction during ads. This has already been tested and is shown to work. (IE people respond to it).
It is also an article showing that TiVo can provide advertisements that have better response rates than interstitial advertising provides.
But this slashdot posting is editorializing from beginning to end. I can understand that *you* don't wnat to see any advertising ever... Good for you. (but look at the banners at the top and right of the the slashdot page you nit.) But you know nothing about why I or many people have TiVo! And for the most part all this editorializing is WRONG. The interstital is being replaced by the more attractive click-ins. The ads are better produced, more entertaining, more informative. And they are not being replaced by more intrusive advertising. It is being replaced by *less* intrusive and more interactive advertising. And you can still opt out of the data collection! Get a friggin grip.
To hire all the people that need to be involved. Writing, programming, and iconagraphy are three different skills, and have really no overlap. Writers, do indeed write better. Programmers do indeed program better, and artists do indeed art better.
It sounds as if the guy that writes your proposals and specs the jobs (who is that in the mirror?) could use a lesson in resource requirements.
"Begs the question" is not the same as "raises the question."
"Begs the question" refers to a specific logical fallacy, where you use an unproven premise to define itself. This is NOT a case of this.
Raises the question, is a conversational phrase meaning that if a is true, then what are the ramifications of a.
This is similar to ESL folks that are taught "too much" instead of "a lot", and say things like "there is too much sand on the beach" or "there is too much people dancing at the party." It is just safer to say "Raises the question" and never say "Begs the question" because you will be correct too much more often.
Mexico becomes the worlds largest supplier of Electricity and Hydrogen by creating a series of N-plants that plug into the sw and texas grids, and creates hydrogen which is trucked and piped into the United states.
This diverts massive amounts of wealth from the middle east to north america. Dramatically raises the wealth and conditions of the middle class in Mexico. Crime is dramatically reduced. Reverse immigration as Mexican Citizens return home to better paying jobs.
This seems so plausable, I am stunned it hasn't happenned yet...
Essentially it seems like that they are getting operating systems, office products, servers/server software for about 60 pounds per machine per year, which I presume includes some level of support and 40 million of custom software.
Open Source if not quite ready for prime time, is already showing its power in competetive situations..
It is the vote differential that matters not the raw +votes... So even with all your cheery assumptions it would be ~50k votes gained not 100k votes gained. Which would be 80k short...
((135k*110%)*67%) - ((135k*110%)*33%) = vote differential
This article is a dupe of an article that will be posted 4 hours in the future.
;Encrypt ;end
It is important that we repair the time line now...
54339 96784 23470 08472 37932 87412
12327 12300 09483 71953 31994 73821
12086 67544 42139 48901 93753 18632
Ok, the 250 Billion number is big, gigantic, whaleish.
But more importantly EBITA is 20.41B. Now their IT budget, not only is it practically huge, it is actually a large percentage of thier earnings.
And as it should be. WalMart, makes it's money of off IT. Being so massive, small advantages turn into large dollars. And for them outsourcing would lower thier IT budget, but hurt them in discovering small advantages.
Most companies do not have this advantage. They cannot overcome the investment costs. But WalMart can...
Viruses come from email, web surfing, program files, image files, music files, floppy disks, cd's, dvd's, thumb drives, network attached storage, routers, hijacked ip streams...
(And I bet I have just listed more than the 6.2 million dollar study).
I am really glad the government has decided this is worth 6.2 million dollars. Couldn't they have purchased a report from any *one* of the specialized companies that does this for a living. Cripes...
If we continue to eschew Nuclear Power in the US, the Mexican government will start building several nuclear power plants (using "safe" technologies) near the US border.
They will export both electricity to the grid, and generate huge quantites of hydrogen (which will become the new "portable" fuel). that will be transmitted to the US.
This will result in a tremendous rennisance of Latin America, and result in a generally graceful transition from fossil fuels to an electric and hydrogen economy. This will "solve" the energy problem for the US. It will move money that is currently going to small groups of people in the Middle East, to our hemisphere, and create prosperity here at home.
China will be doing the same, as well as India and Pakistan and probably South Africa and Japan.
The oil economy will come to an end, and the nuclear economy will prevail.
The advantage will be that satellite will no longer have crappy "digital" quality.
All channels will improve. Stations that remain SD will get more bandwidth as more channels move to HD.
For SD users, and there are a lot of them, this will mean higher quality (high quality SD looks really good on a regular old TV, better than analog cable, better than OTA), and the box will be free or near free.
Everyone wins here...