I'm really starting to get sick of slashdot. If people aren't screaming to boycott some company because its CEO farted in the wrong direction, they're screaming about how the whole damned world it out to destroy the internet.
Now people are screaming about how they 'own' their comments they posted to a public forum.
WHERE ARE THE OPEN SOURCE ADVOCATES NOW??
If open source is so great and you believe in it so much, why are you bitching about your posts being used in what essentially is an open source project???
I must admit I would be interested in purchasing this book even though I am not the biggest Katz fan.
However, I will not purchase it until I am sure which 'charity' the proceeds will go to. I'm sure as hell not going to buy it if the money goes to some anti-gun group.
If the programmer is that concerned about it, then don't tell anyone who he is. Just release the code. There are plenty of places to upload the code to make it available to the public without having to stamp your name all over it.
As we all see with this DeCCS deal, once its out there, there's no stopping it.
My college tried to pass the same type of 'opposite-sex' dorm room visitation as well. We were able to have it killed very quickly when many students pointed out that this rule discriminated against heteros since gay/lesbian students could have their partners in their rooms without any restriction.
10 years later this same campus has 6 co-ed dorms with only 2 same sex dorms.
Somebody should ask the senator if this means he is 'pro-gay' and see how fast that gets re-worded.
Remeber when cassette tapes came out? (ok... ok... stop laughing... I can't be the only one old enough.)
Anyway, the music industry fought that like crazy as well. Claiming piracy and the destruction of the music industry. Suddenly, they shut up. Why? A percentage of every single cassette tape sold in the US (I'm not sure about other countries) now goes to the recording industry. Thats one hell of a lot of money.
I see the DVD people doing the same thing. Pressing these suits (the money they are spending is nothing compared to the big picture) until they can get a piece of every DVD recordable media sold now and in the future. Big money.
You are totally off base. You are talking about product liability while I am talking about responsible use.
If a hunter shoots a shotgun and it blows up in his face, the manufacturer is responsible of producing a faulty product. If a person uses that shotgun to kill someone, the manufacturer is simply not at fault.
Drug dealers use pagers, cell phones and pay phones to complete hundreds of thousands of transactions a day in the US alone. So, following your logic the government should get right in there and confiscate every pager, cell phone and pay phone. Can't have those around because, my god!, they MAY be used for crime. Please save us Washington!
As for your question about the government removing all firearms restrictions? It wouldn't make a bit of difference. Thats the real pain in the ass with these damn criminals... they just don't follow the law no matter how nice we are to them.
As I brought up in a previous message, there are ligitimate uses for a hidden camera. There have been many documented cases where a babysitter/nanny has been caught seriously abusing a child they were supposed to be caring for.
What if I want to make sure my child is not being abused? What if I have a neighbor who threatens me constantly? What if I have someone who comes into my office going through my desk or deleting/changing files on my computer?
These are all true life cases which a hidden camera was used by a law abiding citizen to stop/capture/convict a criminal.
Just because there are drunk drivers out there doesn't mean I shouldn't be allowed to by a six pack. Just because someone may use these devices in an illegal manner doesn't mean an honest citizen shouldn't have access to them.
The people who are 'robbing you of your rights' are the criminals, not the manufacturer.
It is not Ramsey's responsibility to make sure every customer uses their products in a legal way. Of course, looking at America today you'd think it is. A perfect example is the many citys currently suing gun makers because of high murder rates. Are they also going to sue automobile manufacturers because cars are able to speed, be driven by drunks, used in drive-bys, used a getaway vehicles or be freely driven through open air drug markets?
There are perfectly acceptable uses for hidden cameras in the home. I'm sure many of you have seen the videotapes of nanny's/babysitters beating the children they are supposed to be caring for. A law-abiding citizen has every right to have access to that equipment. They should only lose that right when it has been proven that they have broken the law.
I'm not getting all this 'minor problem' crap I keep hearing in the media. i.e.: 'A few (9!) nuclear power plants experience minor problems.' Excuse me?? I don't know about you, but to me, ANY problem at a nuke plant is a MAJOR problem.
No problems at hospitals? Just a few failed heart monitors? Again, that would seem pretty damn serious to me, especially if you were a patient hooked to the monitor!!
Imagine what would have happened if y2k had been ignored.
8 months ago, we did some testing on our legacy system. None rolled over to 1900. Half rolled over to Jan 4, 1980, the other half shut off. We fixed them. Just because a problem was solved doesn't mean the problem never existed.
I'm just really pissed off today. Our department has been busting our ass days/nights/weekends to get everything ready and working. 2000 comes and our work pays off, systems run and its business as usual... not a single burp in our building. Do we get a pat on the back or a 'good job'? Hell, no... we get laughed at and told it was all hype. I've got two people in the back room who are steaming and ready to walk and I've got others who are talking about rolling all the changes back out over a weekend so the building can see what might have happened.
My concern was more about viruses than y2k. Because of the holidays, we have been flooded with this animated greeting card crap. No matter how many times we tell our users not to run 'em, they never listen. We decided to deny all attachments that came in though our firewall. Standard email worked just fine.
Several of our clients/vendors likes the idea and decided they would do the same. Problem is, they don't run linux firewalls/servers... they are all MS shops. They could not find a way to just remove the attachments. They had to either deny all email or let everything through. I have no experience with MS exchange so I don't know if it's a limitation of the software or of the admins... regardless... I still find it pretty funny.
Very good point... Its like the television networks broadcasting when certain areas can expect to have their power restored after an outage. Um, if the powers out, how the hell are they going to get the broadcast?
I ordered from a few stores over the past 1 and 1/2 months. Outpost.com came out way above all the others. I ordered three items from them at different times over the past few weeks. The orders where all placed between 10 - 11 pm each time. Without fail, less than 8 hours later each item was at my door via Airborne Express (I live near Baltimore, MD). And Outpost dosen't even charge for shipping most items. My last order was placed the night of the 23rd. The airborne guy woke me up banging on the door 7.5 hours later.
As for the others...
toytime.com- had the items in stock and shipped/arrived on time. Only problem is they don't seem to beleive in packing materials other than a carboard box. Things arived a little banged up... like kids care.
toys-r-us.com- never had any decent items in stock to ship. etoys.com did... but I'd rather do without.
cdnow.com- sucked. paid for 2 days shipping for 'in stock' items. Shipped 1 week later... ground. Wrong items shipped.
Reel.com has mastered the art of ripping off the customer. I've ordered from them twice and thats two times too many.
Each time they have doubled/tripled my shipping cost from shipping each item from a different 'distribution center' and charging me seperate shipping for each item. On top of that, even though I paid for 2 day shipping, ever item comes ground.
Charges are currently being disputed with CC company.
They don't have advertising now, but its fairly well know that they have been talking to banner advertisors for the past 5-6 months. Banner ads on ebay auctions are just around the corner.
You know, it never ceases to amaze me... All these people who have the answer... who know what makes kids act the way they do...
For some reason, they never seem to actually HAVE any kids of their own. I'm not talking about nieces and nephews, I'm not talking about the neighbors kids, I'm talking about being around your own kids 30x7 (yeah... 30. Try sleeping around a newborn and you'll understand).
I have three. 2 girls and 1 boy. Boys and girls are different. Not maybe, not a little.... they are completely different. You can tell from the minute thay are born the difference in the way they act. In most cases, the mother can tell the difference before the child is even born.
Toy manufacturers do not determine how a child acts.... the child's brain does. They are wired different.
The USPS has had a priority and express mail tracking system installed and working for 5-6 months now. They also have auto-insurance up to $50, more available at a much cheaper price than the other major shippers.
Like Priority Mail... the de-facto standard for auctioneers using eBay, Yahoo, Auction Universe, etc...
How about Certified and/or Registered mail?
How about the fact that less than 35% of households in the U.S. actually have a computer much less internet access. (thats close to the current stat isn't it?)
Remember years ago when people claimed that computers would virtually eliminate paper in the workplace? In fact, paper use increased 10 fold. Same thing is happening to the Post Office. The actual packages they are transporting may be different, but they are just as busy as ever.
Besides, its kinda hard to stick an electronic greeting card on the fireplace mantle.
Man.... what a whiner. 'I did it first', 'I did it better', 'they copied me'. Get over it. Nerds was a PBS show for nerds and it fit its audience. Pirates was a made for TV movie and it fit its audience.
Pirates was actually better in my opinion because now my friends and family have a much better understanding of why I have so much contempt for Gates and Microsoft.
Quoting my mom, 'wait a minute... you mean bill gates didn't invent windows?'.
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I'm really starting to get sick of slashdot. If people aren't screaming to boycott some company because its CEO farted in the wrong direction, they're screaming about how the whole damned world it out to destroy the internet.
Now people are screaming about how they 'own' their comments they posted to a public forum.
WHERE ARE THE OPEN SOURCE ADVOCATES NOW??
If open source is so great and you believe in it so much, why are you bitching about your posts being used in what essentially is an open source project???
Could this be in any way the reason why the root server database has not updated for 2.5 days? Last updated 19-Apr-2000 22:22:07 EDT.
I must admit I would be interested in purchasing this book even though I am not the biggest Katz fan.
However, I will not purchase it until I am sure which 'charity' the proceeds will go to. I'm sure as hell not going to buy it if the money goes to some anti-gun group.
If the programmer is that concerned about it, then don't tell anyone who he is. Just release the code. There are plenty of places to upload the code to make it available to the public without having to stamp your name all over it.
As we all see with this DeCCS deal, once its out there, there's no stopping it.
Hell, next they'll ban on campus pizza delivery in an attempt to make every pay for thier meals at the on campus dining halls.
My college tried to pass the same type of 'opposite-sex' dorm room visitation as well. We were able to have it killed very quickly when many students pointed out that this rule discriminated against heteros since gay/lesbian students could have their partners in their rooms without any restriction.
10 years later this same campus has 6 co-ed dorms with only 2 same sex dorms.
Somebody should ask the senator if this means he is 'pro-gay' and see how fast that gets re-worded.
Am I crazy or was there a character called Hedly Lamar (note the L in hedly) in the movie Blazing Saddles?
I've never put the two together before but the thought just popped in my head. Was this a coincedence or an homage?
-scuz me while I whip this out...
Actually, he picked a charity in case noone bid for it.
Noone here must read the attached links.
Remeber when cassette tapes came out? (ok... ok... stop laughing... I can't be the only one old enough.)
Anyway, the music industry fought that like crazy as well. Claiming piracy and the destruction of the music industry. Suddenly, they shut up. Why? A percentage of every single cassette tape sold in the US (I'm not sure about other countries) now goes to the recording industry. Thats one hell of a lot of money.
I see the DVD people doing the same thing. Pressing these suits (the money they are spending is nothing compared to the big picture) until they can get a piece of every DVD recordable media sold now and in the future. Big money.
I'm sorry, but I think anyone would be hard pressed to find anything coming out of holloywood that could be considered 'intellectual'.
You are totally off base. You are talking about product liability while I am talking about responsible use.
If a hunter shoots a shotgun and it blows up in his face, the manufacturer is responsible of producing a faulty product. If a person uses that shotgun to kill someone, the manufacturer is simply not at fault.
Drug dealers use pagers, cell phones and pay phones to complete hundreds of thousands of transactions a day in the US alone. So, following your logic the government should get right in there and confiscate every pager, cell phone and pay phone. Can't have those around because, my god!, they MAY be used for crime. Please save us Washington!
As for your question about the government removing all firearms restrictions? It wouldn't make a bit of difference. Thats the real pain in the ass with these damn criminals... they just don't follow the law no matter how nice we are to them.
As I brought up in a previous message, there are ligitimate uses for a hidden camera. There have been many documented cases where a babysitter/nanny has been caught seriously abusing a child they were supposed to be caring for.
What if I want to make sure my child is not being abused? What if I have a neighbor who threatens me constantly? What if I have someone who comes into my office going through my desk or deleting/changing files on my computer?
These are all true life cases which a hidden camera was used by a law abiding citizen to stop/capture/convict a criminal.
Just because there are drunk drivers out there doesn't mean I shouldn't be allowed to by a six pack. Just because someone may use these devices in an illegal manner doesn't mean an honest citizen shouldn't have access to them.
The people who are 'robbing you of your rights' are the criminals, not the manufacturer.
It is not Ramsey's responsibility to make sure every customer uses their products in a legal way. Of course, looking at America today you'd think it is. A perfect example is the many citys currently suing gun makers because of high murder rates. Are they also going to sue automobile manufacturers because cars are able to speed, be driven by drunks, used in drive-bys, used a getaway vehicles or be freely driven through open air drug markets?
There are perfectly acceptable uses for hidden cameras in the home. I'm sure many of you have seen the videotapes of nanny's/babysitters beating the children they are supposed to be caring for. A law-abiding citizen has every right to have access to that equipment. They should only lose that right when it has been proven that they have broken the law.
Remember, innocent until proven guilty.
I've found that the best way to explain this to the people who just don't get it is this:
Do you teach a child to count from 0 to 9 or from 1 to 10?
You usually see the light turn on once you ask that. If you don't you're probably dealing with someone who can't count anyway.
I'm not getting all this 'minor problem' crap I keep hearing in the media. i.e.: 'A few (9!) nuclear power plants experience minor problems.' Excuse me?? I don't know about you, but to me, ANY problem at a nuke plant is a MAJOR problem.
No problems at hospitals? Just a few failed heart monitors? Again, that would seem pretty damn serious to me, especially if you were a patient hooked to the monitor!!
Imagine what would have happened if y2k had been ignored.
8 months ago, we did some testing on our legacy system. None rolled over to 1900. Half rolled over to Jan 4, 1980, the other half shut off. We fixed them. Just because a problem was solved doesn't mean the problem never existed.
I'm just really pissed off today. Our department has been busting our ass days/nights/weekends to get everything ready and working. 2000 comes and our work pays off, systems run and its business as usual... not a single burp in our building. Do we get a pat on the back or a 'good job'? Hell, no... we get laughed at and told it was all hype. I've got two people in the back room who are steaming and ready to walk and I've got others who are talking about rolling all the changes back out over a weekend so the building can see what might have happened.
Not a happy day here in the IT department.
Several of our clients/vendors likes the idea and decided they would do the same. Problem is, they don't run linux firewalls/servers... they are all MS shops. They could not find a way to just remove the attachments. They had to either deny all email or let everything through. I have no experience with MS exchange so I don't know if it's a limitation of the software or of the admins... regardless... I still find it pretty funny.
Very good point... Its like the television networks broadcasting when certain areas can expect to have their power restored after an outage. Um, if the powers out, how the hell are they going to get the broadcast?
I ordered from a few stores over the past 1 and 1/2 months. Outpost.com came out way above all the others. I ordered three items from them at different times over the past few weeks. The orders where all placed between 10 - 11 pm each time. Without fail, less than 8 hours later each item was at my door via Airborne Express (I live near Baltimore, MD). And Outpost dosen't even charge for shipping most items. My last order was placed the night of the 23rd. The airborne guy woke me up banging on the door 7.5 hours later.
As for the others...
toytime.com- had the items in stock and shipped/arrived on time. Only problem is they don't seem to beleive in packing materials other than a carboard box. Things arived a little banged up... like kids care.
toys-r-us.com- never had any decent items in stock to ship. etoys.com did... but I'd rather do without.
cdnow.com- sucked. paid for 2 days shipping for 'in stock' items. Shipped 1 week later... ground. Wrong items shipped.
Reel.com has mastered the art of ripping off the customer. I've ordered from them twice and thats two times too many.
Each time they have doubled/tripled my shipping cost from shipping each item from a different 'distribution center' and charging me seperate shipping for each item. On top of that, even though I paid for 2 day shipping, ever item comes ground.
Charges are currently being disputed with CC company.
They don't have advertising now, but its fairly well know that they have been talking to banner advertisors for the past 5-6 months. Banner ads on ebay auctions are just around the corner.
Ok Jon, let me see if I get this straight:
It is NOT ok to blame access to the internet or quake or anything 'geek' for people going nuts.
It IS ok to blame access to guns for people going nuts.
Nope, doesn't make send to me.
You know, it never ceases to amaze me... All these people who have the answer... who know what makes kids act the way they do...
For some reason, they never seem to actually HAVE any kids of their own. I'm not talking about nieces and nephews, I'm not talking about the neighbors kids, I'm talking about being around your own kids 30x7 (yeah... 30. Try sleeping around a newborn and you'll understand).
I have three. 2 girls and 1 boy. Boys and girls are different. Not maybe, not a little.... they are completely different. You can tell from the minute thay are born the difference in the way they act. In most cases, the mother can tell the difference before the child is even born.
Toy manufacturers do not determine how a child acts.... the child's brain does. They are wired different.
The USPS has had a priority and express mail tracking system installed and working for 5-6 months now. They also have auto-insurance up to $50, more available at a much cheaper price than the other major shippers.
Like Priority Mail... the de-facto standard for auctioneers using eBay, Yahoo, Auction Universe, etc...
How about Certified and/or Registered mail?
How about the fact that less than 35% of households in the U.S. actually have a computer much less internet access. (thats close to the current stat isn't it?)
Remember years ago when people claimed that computers would virtually eliminate paper in the workplace? In fact, paper use increased 10 fold. Same thing is happening to the Post Office. The actual packages they are transporting may be different, but they are just as busy as ever.
Besides, its kinda hard to stick an electronic greeting card on the fireplace mantle.
Man.... what a whiner. 'I did it first', 'I did it better', 'they copied me'. Get over it. Nerds was a PBS show for nerds and it fit its audience. Pirates was a made for TV movie and it fit its audience.
Pirates was actually better in my opinion because now my friends and family have a much better understanding of why I have so much contempt for Gates and Microsoft.
Quoting my mom, 'wait a minute... you mean bill gates didn't invent windows?'.