I suspect that the telemarketers are here to stay as the only ban that will meet the equal protection standard is the LIST APPLIES TO ALL CALLERS - commercial, noncomercial or even private.
Freedom of speech is another issue all togather. What good is free speech if no one can hear you?
At this point the US has one true aly left in the whole world, Tony Blair's socialist government in the UK.
I would consider Spain, Italy, Japan and Austrailia to be at the same level as Britain. Frankly, the US never has had a lot of allies - except in times of dire need, and then we are the greatest friend in history! (Until the war is won and so on)
The one thing that totalitarian governments do have in common is that the guiding ideology turns out to be almost irrelevant
Tolitarianism is nothing new - it's just the currently fashionable term for tyranny. The US was largely designed to be tyrant proof. To that end, we've made it 200+ years. That history of elected succession we have is in NO DANGER.
Of course, with Ascroft and Bush in power there could be an alternative explanation.
What's your point here? Bush will be gone in one or five years, and Ashcroft with him. Will be interesting to see how bad the People think Bush really is... Regardless, Bush is hardly a tyrant, or tolitarian dictator. Ashcroft is a little crusty and old school, but the courts do nicely in keeping him in check.
An NDA is a tool. Properly applied, it can be a very powerful protection as well as a marketing tool. Overused, and it becomes useless and unenforceable.
Regardless, personal integrity is the key to real secrecy: don't hire/work with/partner with people you don't trust. And that trust has to extend to the decision to share information.
What can you expect the states to do? They're fucked budget-wise and need to get back in black as soon as possible. This is just one of the lousy things that'll probably pass siimply because of the horendous budget situation the entire country is currently in.
First, the state of the budget in most states is like most of the 70's and 80's. That's why we had taxes go up so much in that period. Right now the crunch is simple: revenues are flat or declining and costs, especially healthcare insurance and programs, are increasing.
There are a few things I'd like to see tried before increasing taxes or creating new taxes:
How about:
A) Sell prime property held (and not used) for development. B) Garage sale anyone? C) Fix corrupt procurement processes D) Fire the guy who pushes the button in the elevator at the statehouse. E) Reform and make consistent property taxes. F) Declare a moratorium on building new buildings. G) Actually use the sunset clause on unnecessary programs. H) Settle county v. state lawsuits out of court. I) Consider toll roads. J) Lower cost prisons - seriously most states spend more to house an inmate than i do to house/feed/trasport/educate four people and cat for a year. K) Audit MEDICARE and other ENTITLEMENTS. And go for recovery from people who shouldn't be using the program. L) Adopt real means testing for healthcare entitlements - perhaps using controlled assets. I've met to sell with six millionaires in the last week that are ON MEDICARE. All of them shelter their wealth using corporations/trusts. WTF? M) Cut coverage from 100% covered, $500 deductable, $10 copay health insurance to something more in line with the private sector for state/local governement employees. N) Audit school systems for fraud waste and abuse. Especially waste resulting from incredibly stupid lawsuits and incredibly stupid management decisions. O) Hold state workers accountable when the fsck up a federal grant by not filing on time.
There's more, but at the end of the day, taxes are high enough, are paid mostly by the UPPER MIDDLE CLASS.
Looking back, I'd say RMS's two greatest contributions to the world are the GNU Public License and the GCC compiler.
The licenses were important. Richard's attitude - and insistence on the concept of freedom has been equally important. But as far as code goes, EMACS is right there with GCC...
There are almost 1 million people employed in the telemarketing industry. It's too bad that people didn't think about how many people this do not call list will put on the street. And many of these people are telemarketers because it's a better gig than welfare.
You know what? I'm glad microsoft is shutting down it's chat rooms. Why?
* I don't like MSN Service. * I never cared much for anonymous chat. I remember working in a computer lab in college and walking around the room and finding out who was who in the different chats hostend on our vax. You'd have a little skinny 98 pound no sunlight no food no life guy with an ident of jockstud. Then you'd have a 400 pound girl called supermodel01. When they hooked up, look out! LOLx3 * Parents who let their kids play with this stuff are playing with fire. Remember about that rule about talking to strangers? Applies online too. * Instant messaging is becoming less and less relevant. Banned in a lot of workplaces. Especially Microsoft variety.
All in all, this is a who cares. IM is not the killer app -- it's more like that pointcast "push" deal that was the next big thing in 1998-1999.
I'm giving up on debating global warming on Slashdot, it seems just about everyone is convinced its bunk. With the weather getting more and more extreme, could you at least understand why we are worried?
I'm not sure what the worry about the weather is, but it is shared by quite a bit of humanity. Evidence:
* Cable TV weather channels * Religous rituals and such to bring about desirable weather * Global warming envionmental reports (simmilar to religous rituals and such) * The Farmer's Almanac * Weather satelites
I really don't know what to believe on the global warming front. Everyone has an agenda:
* The kook left wants to limit human population. * The kook right wants to exploit every possible resource for profit.
And no one is willing to divorce the science from their politics. Everyone is begging for their own desired outcome. Instead of investing in this kind of political quagmire, let's spend more on something that's likely to solve the real problem:
* Precieved overcrouding and overconsumption.
Space programs, agricultural research and medicing all deal with these issues and have resulted in quantum leaps in technology in my lifetime.
Actually, the neoconservatives aren't conservatives at all. They are former fringe kooks, much like the Nancy Pelosi/Barney Frank/Ted Kennedy variety of democrat.
No matter what, it is my firm belief that IP only protects vested interests of large companies that can afford to buy ever more restrictive IP laws
It seems that IP has become more and more granular, covering smaller and smaller details. 100 years ago, you tradmarked your name and logo, but not the shape of the flap on your purse. 100 years ago, you would patent an invention, not a common application of someon else's invention (one click shopping). 100 years ago, you would copyright your book and the copyright would expire one day so you had to keep writing.
All that happens with IP is:
* Smaller ideas are owned. * The system becomes more punative. * Ownership rights are extended to perpetuity.
They need to build an infrastructure that can support education of their people that will then lead to their own scientists discovering their own cures. To borrow an oft used phrase here, these governments "need to change their business model."
I suppose human life just has no value to you.
* IP Litigation is a huge industry.
Since when was this illegal?
Since when was it productive?
P2P apps are not paying for the rights to broadcast or distribute these songs
I suppose cobbing a $.50 track off a cd is worth $10,000 in damages? Come on.
Intellectual property is stupid. You can't really own an idea!
No, cases like this illustrate that allowing "stealth IP" is a bad idea.
Actually, since I can't for the life of me tell the diference since I have know way of knowing what ideas are owned and what are not, I think that IP in general is a bad idea. IP is having the following positive effects on the world:
* People are dying because of the artificial monopoly created by patents on drugs. * Real software innovation is slowing due to patents. * IP Litigation is a huge industry. * Kids are being sued for copying a song that can be heard often for free on the radio.
IP was necessary to build industry and science, but imagine where science and industry would go with no restrictions on what ideas can be extended and copied?
Thank you for writing a coherent, polite and clear response to SCO. I believe that your methods will get us faster and better results than the usual loose cannons.
When I saw the headline for the article, this atrocity came to mind immediately.
Thank goodness it's actually a great idea - a computer that I can take on the road and actually enjoy using. looks a little larger than a traditional notebook, though.
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I suspect that the telemarketers are here to stay as the only ban that will meet the equal protection standard is the LIST APPLIES TO ALL CALLERS - commercial, noncomercial or even private.
Freedom of speech is another issue all togather. What good is free speech if no one can hear you?
At this point the US has one true aly left in the whole world, Tony Blair's socialist government in the UK.
I would consider Spain, Italy, Japan and Austrailia to be at the same level as Britain. Frankly, the US never has had a lot of allies - except in times of dire need, and then we are the greatest friend in history! (Until the war is won and so on)
The one thing that totalitarian governments do have in common is that the guiding ideology turns out to be almost irrelevant
Tolitarianism is nothing new - it's just the currently fashionable term for tyranny. The US was largely designed to be tyrant proof. To that end, we've made it 200+ years. That history of elected succession we have is in NO DANGER.
Of course, with Ascroft and Bush in power there could be an alternative explanation.
What's your point here? Bush will be gone in one or five years, and Ashcroft with him. Will be interesting to see how bad the People think Bush really is... Regardless, Bush is hardly a tyrant, or tolitarian dictator. Ashcroft is a little crusty and old school, but the courts do nicely in keeping him in check.
Jobs produce income. Income can buy assets. Assets are something you own that produces income. When income from assets = expenses, you create wealth.
Creating jobs may create wealth, but most often only for the owner of the income producing asset of which the employees are a part.
An NDA is a tool. Properly applied, it can be a very powerful protection as well as a marketing tool. Overused, and it becomes useless and unenforceable.
Regardless, personal integrity is the key to real secrecy: don't hire/work with/partner with people you don't trust. And that trust has to extend to the decision to share information.
What can you expect the states to do? They're fucked budget-wise and need to get back in black as soon as possible. This is just one of the lousy things that'll probably pass siimply because of the horendous budget situation the entire country is currently in.
First, the state of the budget in most states is like most of the 70's and 80's. That's why we had taxes go up so much in that period. Right now the crunch is simple: revenues are flat or declining and costs, especially healthcare insurance and programs, are increasing.
There are a few things I'd like to see tried before increasing taxes or creating new taxes:
How about:
A) Sell prime property held (and not used) for development.
B) Garage sale anyone?
C) Fix corrupt procurement processes
D) Fire the guy who pushes the button in the elevator at the statehouse.
E) Reform and make consistent property taxes.
F) Declare a moratorium on building new buildings.
G) Actually use the sunset clause on unnecessary programs.
H) Settle county v. state lawsuits out of court.
I) Consider toll roads.
J) Lower cost prisons - seriously most states spend more to house an inmate than i do to house/feed/trasport/educate four people and cat for a year.
K) Audit MEDICARE and other ENTITLEMENTS. And go for recovery from people who shouldn't be using the program.
L) Adopt real means testing for healthcare entitlements - perhaps using controlled assets. I've met to sell with six millionaires in the last week that are ON MEDICARE. All of them shelter their wealth using corporations/trusts. WTF?
M) Cut coverage from 100% covered, $500 deductable, $10 copay health insurance to something more in line with the private sector for state/local governement employees.
N) Audit school systems for fraud waste and abuse. Especially waste resulting from incredibly stupid lawsuits and incredibly stupid management decisions.
O) Hold state workers accountable when the fsck up a federal grant by not filing on time.
There's more, but at the end of the day, taxes are high enough, are paid mostly by the UPPER MIDDLE CLASS.
Your forgot the biggest injustice:
Steal a purse or wallet containing $20 and get 6 years.
Steal a purse or wallet containing $20 and get caught three times in the wrong state, and get life.
This is as fsked up as file swapping and riaa.
Looking back, I'd say RMS's two greatest contributions to the world are the GNU Public License and the GCC compiler.
The licenses were important. Richard's attitude - and insistence on the concept of freedom has been equally important. But as far as code goes, EMACS is right there with GCC...
I think it's a raw slice of perch on rice actually.
If they can use my telephone for their marketing, why can't they shine ads on my windows?
I suppose you'll love the next big trend in marketing: door-to-door. Hint: it can't be stopped like telemarketing.
There are almost 1 million people employed in the telemarketing industry. It's too bad that people didn't think about how many people this do not call list will put on the street. And many of these people are telemarketers because it's a better gig than welfare.
RIAA sues wrong user. Today, RIAA served notice and withdrew suit against Bob McLomax of Verisign, INC. RIAA issued this statement:
"We did a web search for a file swapper named Robert McLomax on the web. Our search for www.mclomaxfiles.com led us to Verisign's new search engine."
Verisign would not return phone calls, instant messages or smoke signals.
You know what? I'm glad microsoft is shutting down it's chat rooms. Why?
* I don't like MSN Service.
* I never cared much for anonymous chat. I remember working in a computer lab in college and walking around the room and finding out who was who in the different chats hostend on our vax. You'd have a little skinny 98 pound no sunlight no food no life guy with an ident of jockstud. Then you'd have a 400 pound girl called supermodel01. When they hooked up, look out! LOLx3
* Parents who let their kids play with this stuff are playing with fire. Remember about that rule about talking to strangers? Applies online too.
* Instant messaging is becoming less and less relevant. Banned in a lot of workplaces. Especially Microsoft variety.
All in all, this is a who cares. IM is not the killer app -- it's more like that pointcast "push" deal that was the next big thing in 1998-1999.
How could you NOT register and attend this event, and ask them to explain their position in person?
Show up in a penguin suit.
Does anyone have an open source voting system project going?
I'm giving up on debating global warming on Slashdot, it seems just about everyone is convinced its bunk. With the weather getting more and more extreme, could you at least understand why we are worried?
I'm not sure what the worry about the weather is, but it is shared by quite a bit of humanity. Evidence:
* Cable TV weather channels
* Religous rituals and such to bring about desirable weather
* Global warming envionmental reports (simmilar to religous rituals and such)
* The Farmer's Almanac
* Weather satelites
I really don't know what to believe on the global warming front. Everyone has an agenda:
* The kook left wants to limit human population.
* The kook right wants to exploit every possible resource for profit.
And no one is willing to divorce the science from their politics. Everyone is begging for their own desired outcome. Instead of investing in this kind of political quagmire, let's spend more on something that's likely to solve the real problem:
* Precieved overcrouding and overconsumption.
Space programs, agricultural research and medicing all deal with these issues and have resulted in quantum leaps in technology in my lifetime.
I am not sure my mouse has any dna. It is mostly solid state electronics encased in an attractive case.
Well, I think that the world would have appreciated the same level of consideration before the system was ever even implemented in the first place.
The customer sat numbers are in: it isn't good for Verisuck.
It's quite shocking to me that the top guy at Intel is so fundamentally ignorant of the realities of modern computing and communication.
See trusted computing for the why on this. Nothing at the C level of intel is not said without great reason.
Actually, the neoconservatives aren't conservatives at all. They are former fringe kooks, much like the Nancy Pelosi/Barney Frank/Ted Kennedy variety of democrat.
No matter what, it is my firm belief that IP only protects vested interests of large companies that can afford to buy ever more restrictive IP laws
It seems that IP has become more and more granular, covering smaller and smaller details. 100 years ago, you tradmarked your name and logo, but not the shape of the flap on your purse. 100 years ago, you would patent an invention, not a common application of someon else's invention (one click shopping). 100 years ago, you would copyright your book and the copyright would expire one day so you had to keep writing.
All that happens with IP is:
* Smaller ideas are owned.
* The system becomes more punative.
* Ownership rights are extended to perpetuity.
They need to build an infrastructure that can support education of their people that will then lead to their own scientists discovering their own cures. To borrow an oft used phrase here, these governments "need to change their business model."
I suppose human life just has no value to you.
* IP Litigation is a huge industry.
Since when was this illegal?
Since when was it productive?
P2P apps are not paying for the rights to broadcast or distribute these songs
I suppose cobbing a $.50 track off a cd is worth $10,000 in damages? Come on.
Intellectual property is stupid. You can't really own an idea!
No, cases like this illustrate that allowing "stealth IP" is a bad idea.
Actually, since I can't for the life of me tell the diference since I have know way of knowing what ideas are owned and what are not, I think that IP in general is a bad idea. IP is having the following positive effects on the world:
* People are dying because of the artificial monopoly created by patents on drugs.
* Real software innovation is slowing due to patents.
* IP Litigation is a huge industry.
* Kids are being sued for copying a song that can be heard often for free on the radio.
IP was necessary to build industry and science, but imagine where science and industry would go with no restrictions on what ideas can be extended and copied?
Thank you for writing a coherent, polite and clear response to SCO. I believe that your methods will get us faster and better results than the usual loose cannons.
Sure they can. They've provided work for a lifetime for thousands of people.
Should their wealth be taken back if they outsource that work away?
Someone is still doing the work. Just not the original worker. People in India, Mexico and elsewhere need to eat too, you know.
When I saw the headline for the article, this atrocity came to mind immediately.
Thank goodness it's actually a great idea - a computer that I can take on the road and actually enjoy using. looks a little larger than a traditional notebook, though.