Firearms and three-ton trucks merely threaten human life, which has no value to the current axis of business/government. General purpose computers threaten corporate profits, which are considered far more importnat.
One small point: Work is rarely an infinite gravy train for the author. Thanks to "work for hire" agreements, it's more like an infinite gravy train for the corporations that employ him/her.
Resources will eventually become scarce, and then corporations might turn to recycling. This means it's better that the old papers, monitors, etc. are conveniently stacked in a warehouse rather than just strewn in landfills.
Dmitry didn't write the spam software. He simply worked for the company part-time, doing something entirely unrelated.
It isn't really fair to blame interns who happen to work for [insert name of evil corporation] for the company's possibly unethical behaviour. I doubt that many people here agree with everything their employer's does. (I know I disagree with my employer's decision not to promote me and give me a big fat pay rise...)
A part of the problem is that many spammers do get their bandwidth literally for free (even though the cost of sending an individual message is low, the cost of sending a billion quickly mounts up). They send one message to an open relay, which then turns it into millions more.
Perhaps we need to educate the sysadmnins who keep relays open that the spammers are stealing their bandwidth and system resources, not just those of the people who get spammed.
True. But while most corporations give their largest bribes to the Republicans, the copyright cartel tends to favor the Democrats. Many on the extreme right even see Disney as very liberal, and organize boycotts against it. This could even things out a bit.
The other reason is that CDMA cell networks (used by Sprint and Verizon) require GPS signals which, as other posts have pointed out, may be drowned out by unfiltered UWB.
A filter can remove the UWB signal from the (relatively narrow) bands used for GPS. This still leaves a lot of bandwidth, which is currently used by cell phones, TV stations, etc.
It's possible that a UWB system could interfere with these, but your UWB transmitter would have to be very close to your cell phone or TV. It's only been approved for very short distances, so there shouldn't be much risk of interfering with other people's cell phone reception, just that in your own home or office. Still, it's an interesting loophole for people who want to block cell phone signals. ("No officer, this isn't an illegal cell phone jammer, it's a UWB network!")
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It's just branded as ".NET". If you want to log into a passport site, your browser must accept regular third-party cookies. If you want to use passport as your site's authentication mechanism, you must install Microsoft's own server-side software. Interestingly, they're making this available for many platforms (including Linux), because they know that most Web sites don't use MS servers. But it's different for each: it's a regular executable, no cross-platform compatibility.
They're trying to foce the PVR makers to add "features" like this which would allow the TV station to prevent a program being recorded unless the viewer paid an additional fee.
Electrons themselves can't travel at the speed of light. (They have a rest mass, and so according to relativity theory, would require infinite energy to accelerate them to this speed). The information is carried by electromagnetic waves (or photons), which pass through the electrons and do travel at the speed of light (because they have zero mass).
Of course, the speed of light (or photons, or EM waves) in a copper wire is somewhat less than that of light in free space (but, interestingly, somewhat more that that in glass fiber, despite claims that fiber optics is "networking at the speed of light").
Ah, but porn is actually less likely to be confused with the original. I agree that almost no-one will confuse Austin Powers with James Bond (and so the parody ought to fall under fair use, if that concept still exists in US law), but Star Ballz won't even be playing in the same theaters or available from many of the same video stores as Star Wars.
From the outside, these objetcs would look exactly the same as the black holes that most astrophysicists currently believe in. The only difference is that there's no actual hole in the center, just a very dense lump of matter. If you got sucked into one, you'd be spread out over its surface, not stretched into a long string.
So everyone has two years to go out and buy working computer equipment? It could lead to an even greater (temporary) boom in the industry than the dot-coms.
The interesting question here is why bin Laden's group used only 40-bit encryption, when everyone knows that he could have got 128-bits or more from a non-US vendor. And the answer is that Microsoft has a monopoly on PC operating systems. This monopoly is a US company, ergo all Windows users in the world are affectred by US export legislation.
Soon, Bill will claim that this is a reason why the government should strengthen the Windows monopoly (SSSCA anyone?) rather than break it up. After all, if al-Queda had used a non-Microsoft OS, the FBI might have less evidence against Reid.
The Post Office is a business just like any other. (The fact that it is owned by the government doesn't change this: It still aims to make money, and sometimes succeeds.) It wants everyone to send as much mail as possible, so that it gets more revenue.
This is why it accepts junk mail, and would never institute a program such as the one described: Everyone would register, the junk mailers would stop sending them mail, and post office would lose money.
Many small companies (or individuals) can make money by providing tech support for Linux, and many more can save money by using Linux (which in many cases will include developing their own improvements to the system, which under the GPL will then be released to benefit the community) instead of proprietary software. But the profits from Linux won't be concentrated into one company, and they aren't sufficient to pay for seven-figure CEO salaries, thousands of employees or (most importantly) billions of dollars in junk bond repayments.
No Linux company will ever be as big as Microsoft --- and if one did get that big, both the open-source and free software movements would have failed. The whole point of open-source and free software is that it prevents a software company from becoming a monopoly, by providing more power to software's users.
They should show a logo for the program (not the network) during the commercials. When I switch on the TV or channel surf, I always switch to another channel immediately if one happens to be showing commercials (in the US, there's a greater than 1/4 chance that it will be). If I saw the logo of a program I liked, I might actually stick around and wait for it to start up again. This would have the effect of both helping the viewer and getting more people to watch commercials (during the good programs, at least).
Yes, I know I should plan what programs to watch in advance, or check with a Web site or TV guide, but I'm not that organized. My guess is that neither are 90% of the viewing public.
There's usually no reason to accept a cookia, so having a browser ask you about them for every site that you visit is a major pain in the *&%@. A better solution is to have all cookies rejected automatically, with the user able to intervene on the rare occasion that a cookie is useful (eg. savign Slashdot login info.) Many browsers can be set to do this, including, surprisingly, IE6. (With older versions of IE, you had to adjust the security settings so that cookies were only accepted from the "trusted sites" zone, then manually add sites like/. into that zone.)
And the ammunition maker has called on the law-enforcement and medical community to stop revealing that people can be killed by bullet wounds. Such information can only help the wrong-doers.
Not the Ricochet network, switched off in August but still in place. It proved so resilient that the City of New York temporarily reactivated it, for use by search and salvage workers.
Iraq isn't allied to Afghanistan, at least not yet. (Perhaps they'll team up to fight the Americans, who knows?) In fact, bin Laden's original grievance with America was that he wanted to fight the Gulf War and force Iraq out of Kuwait. Instead, America came in to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and never left.
The DMCA was passed unanimously in the House and the Senate. Both establishment parties are equally guilty. (The Greens and Libertarians oppose it, but who listens to them?)
There are now two lone politicians (one from each side, I can't remember the names) trying to ammend the DMCA so that it isn't so bad, but they face overwhelming opposition from their own parties. However, it's possible that some other congressmen and senators are just ignorant (just rubberstamped the DMCA without bothering to look at it) and not actually corrupt, so perhaps they can be persuaded.
Open Source is a bad business model for software companies, but using and developing open source software can be a good business decision by other companies. Like IBM.
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Firearms and three-ton trucks merely threaten human life, which has no value to the current axis of business/government. General purpose computers threaten corporate profits, which are considered far more importnat.
One small point: Work is rarely an infinite gravy train for the author. Thanks to "work for hire" agreements, it's more like an infinite gravy train for the corporations that employ him/her.
Resources will eventually become scarce, and then corporations might turn to recycling. This means it's better that the old papers, monitors, etc. are conveniently stacked in a warehouse rather than just strewn in landfills.
It isn't really fair to blame interns who happen to work for [insert name of evil corporation] for the company's possibly unethical behaviour. I doubt that many people here agree with everything their employer's does. (I know I disagree with my employer's decision not to promote me and give me a big fat pay rise...)
Perhaps we need to educate the sysadmnins who keep relays open that the spammers are stealing their bandwidth and system resources, not just those of the people who get spammed.
True. But while most corporations give their largest bribes to the Republicans, the copyright cartel tends to favor the Democrats. Many on the extreme right even see Disney as very liberal, and organize boycotts against it. This could even things out a bit.
The other reason is that CDMA cell networks (used by Sprint and Verizon) require GPS signals which, as other posts have pointed out, may be drowned out by unfiltered UWB.
It's possible that a UWB system could interfere with these, but your UWB transmitter would have to be very close to your cell phone or TV. It's only been approved for very short distances, so there shouldn't be much risk of interfering with other people's cell phone reception, just that in your own home or office. Still, it's an interesting loophole for people who want to block cell phone signals. ("No officer, this isn't an illegal cell phone jammer, it's a UWB network!")
It's just branded as ".NET". If you want to log into a passport site, your browser must accept regular third-party cookies. If you want to use passport as your site's authentication mechanism, you must install Microsoft's own server-side software. Interestingly, they're making this available for many platforms (including Linux), because they know that most Web sites don't use MS servers. But it's different for each: it's a regular executable, no cross-platform compatibility.
They're trying to foce the PVR makers to add "features" like this which would allow the TV station to prevent a program being recorded unless the viewer paid an additional fee.
Of course, the speed of light (or photons, or EM waves) in a copper wire is somewhat less than that of light in free space (but, interestingly, somewhat more that that in glass fiber, despite claims that fiber optics is "networking at the speed of light").
Ah, but porn is actually less likely to be confused with the original. I agree that almost no-one will confuse Austin Powers with James Bond (and so the parody ought to fall under fair use, if that concept still exists in US law), but Star Ballz won't even be playing in the same theaters or available from many of the same video stores as Star Wars.
From the outside, these objetcs would look exactly the same as the black holes that most astrophysicists currently believe in. The only difference is that there's no actual hole in the center, just a very dense lump of matter. If you got sucked into one, you'd be spread out over its surface, not stretched into a long string.
So everyone has two years to go out and buy working computer equipment? It could lead to an even greater (temporary) boom in the industry than the dot-coms.
Better still, call it fair use prevention.. That's what it really does.
Soon, Bill will claim that this is a reason why the government should strengthen the Windows monopoly (SSSCA anyone?) rather than break it up. After all, if al-Queda had used a non-Microsoft OS, the FBI might have less evidence against Reid.
This is why it accepts junk mail, and would never institute a program such as the one described: Everyone would register, the junk mailers would stop sending them mail, and post office would lose money.
No Linux company will ever be as big as Microsoft --- and if one did get that big, both the open-source and free software movements would have failed. The whole point of open-source and free software is that it prevents a software company from becoming a monopoly, by providing more power to software's users.
They should show a logo for the program (not the network) during the commercials. When I switch on the TV or channel surf, I always switch to another channel immediately if one happens to be showing commercials (in the US, there's a greater than 1/4 chance that it will be). If I saw the logo of a program I liked, I might actually stick around and wait for it to start up again. This would have the effect of both helping the viewer and getting more people to watch commercials (during the good programs, at least).
Yes, I know I should plan what programs to watch in advance, or check with a Web site or TV guide, but I'm not that organized. My guess is that neither are 90% of the viewing public.
There's usually no reason to accept a cookia, so having a browser ask you about them for every site that you visit is a major pain in the *&%@. A better solution is to have all cookies rejected automatically, with the user able to intervene on the rare occasion that a cookie is useful (eg. savign Slashdot login info.) Many browsers can be set to do this, including, surprisingly, IE6. (With older versions of IE, you had to adjust the security settings so that cookies were only accepted from the "trusted sites" zone, then manually add sites like /. into that zone.)
And the ammunition maker has called on the law-enforcement and medical community to stop revealing that people can be killed by bullet wounds. Such information can only help the wrong-doers.
Not the Ricochet network, switched off in August but still in place. It proved so resilient that the City of New York temporarily reactivated it, for use by search and salvage workers.
Iraq isn't allied to Afghanistan, at least not yet. (Perhaps they'll team up to fight the Americans, who knows?) In fact, bin Laden's original grievance with America was that he wanted to fight the Gulf War and force Iraq out of Kuwait. Instead, America came in to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and never left.
There are now two lone politicians (one from each side, I can't remember the names) trying to ammend the DMCA so that it isn't so bad, but they face overwhelming opposition from their own parties. However, it's possible that some other congressmen and senators are just ignorant (just rubberstamped the DMCA without bothering to look at it) and not actually corrupt, so perhaps they can be persuaded.
Open Source is a bad business model for software companies, but using and developing open source software can be a good business decision by other companies. Like IBM.