I find it hard to believe that retracting this act is going to right the wrongs it created, but I have no idea why. Simply put, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 resulted in the biggest blow to a free market in history. At least, that's my interpretation. The number of entities that control the nations media, from books, to music, to TV and movies, went from somwhere in the hundreds, to the present 6. But if retracting the act now would in any way rectify that, companies like the Bells and Verizon (who have a very hefty interest in preserving the ownership deregulations) would be up in arms protecting it.
You paint a very troubling picture. Surely whatever gereration was raised under this so called 'entertainment' went on to become terminator-like killing machines.
Does anyone know of a site where MS' misdeeds (like this one) are summed up all in a nice, neat, and concise way? I'm asking because I tend to voice my dislike for microsoft whenever the topic comes up, and people usually ask me what my basis is. Usually it goes something like: 'What do you mean I should get linux? What's wrong with Microsoft Windows?'
The thing is, I've been not liking Microsoft for so long that I've lost track of all the reasons I don't like......Microsoft. I remember big stuff like fake letters to state AG's, a fake video to support the claim that IE is stuck to the OS, a lawsuit against a charity that gave away computers with Windows on them.........but I know there's tons more. And I know someone out there must have a nice, detailed timeline........right?
Why do YOU care what he does? Are you two AC's from the NYT or something? Obviously, people don't want to go through the trouble, or give their personal info to strangers. Maybe the times should put a driver's license slot on the street machines, would you like that?
As I understand it, cisco makes the routers that your internet service runs through. And they make so many of them, that pretty much all internet services run through them. I'd like to see how you'll go about not buying them.
My personal opinion is that, in a more freedom-loving society, Cisco would become an enemy of the state.
I think you're right, but I don't think that would really apply here. People would complain directly to Microsoft just as they would complain directly to the grocery store. And the point you made is also true, only because it takes a negative experience to inspire someone to go to the trouble of complaining. Here, the comment system is obscure to most people, but I actually think that since it comes from the government it is more likely to spur supportive comments from the droves of MS employees who are much more attuned to what's at stake.
I hope this results in people running their own dedicated servers for the less popular mods. Some of the most fun I've had playing online games was with the Pirate mod and Civil War mod for Myth 2, but unfortunately the games mostly being played on the bungie server were simple WW2-recon ones.
That's a warped point of view considering that it suggests that the distribution of all personal information is a 1st amendment right. I can read court proceedings and other documents that the media might print, and it's wrong that those prints don't include the name and SS# that the original proceeding would? Your right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose, your right to freedom of information stops at my medical records/wallet/you get the idea.
I think this is true in Germany. I may have the wrong country, but I know some places in Europe do that. Unfortunately in America, no, your personal information is not your property.
In places that it is, it works as an interesting compromise. Businesses hate opt-in systems because they know they have nothing to offer, and no one is going to bother to opt-in without knowing what it'll get them. Under a system where the information is the person's property, they can decide to sell it as a commodity to businesses, and businesses get to skip the bullshitting about how they respect the customers' privacy and re-sell all the information people are willing to sell to them.
...would be to shut up and get a lawyer. I'm not taking his side, but it doesn't even seem like he understands what he's gotten himself into. He's gonna dig himself into a real long prison term by being just a little to immature and impressionable.
It goes further back than the cold war. According to cryptome, the CIA/FBI/NSA/Army have thousands of documents on the JFK assassination that they still haven't released. They were supposed to be, after the work of the Assassination Records Act (I think that's what it was called anyway), but apparently requests are denied on the grounds that they might endanger 'national security' (hello!) Hell, JFK's [i]brain went missing[/i] from the pile of evidence (disappeared right out of the NARA building, I think) and as far as I know no one has talked about how that happened either. Mmmmmm, fascism!
This is obviously not going to be one of my more insightful contributions, but DIE. DIE DIE DIE you horrible load of crap. Who knew before you that a 'trojan-esque', full frontal assault on personal privacy could ever be legitimized as 'harmless, wholesome, American, capitalistic marketing'. BUUURRRN.
I asked Declan McCullaghahalulagh about this and it looks like Glaser isn't on the board anymore. He also pointed out that he could've been on it before RealNetworks took this sort of turn. I'm not really sure what they won it for, myself. The awards pages aren't in english, since the show(s) they were awarded at weren't in english either. The only dirt I have on RealNetworks is the tendency of their download program to monitor users and gather information to be sold to marketers. Which is good (bad) enough for me. Although it's probably mentioned in legalese on page 124 of the license agreement.
I actually like some of these and think they would make good songs. It'd be one strange song by one strange band, but poems like this is not spam have a kind of 'somber fluidity', if that makes any sense. It didn't make me laugh, but it was good.
This was what I was about to point out. How can they deny that they knew the spyware was there, when a lot of these programs know enough to refuse to operate when the spyware is removed?
It probably just reflects the loss of 3000+ customers on 9/11. The patriotic solution is to shell out billions in stimulus packages to the entertainment industry.
Just glad to see this on slashdot. I would've submitted it myself if I thought it had any chance of being posted. Some of my favorite tidbits are....
1. 'The (Mosanto) committee even drew up graphs charting profits vs. liability over time.'
2."It is our desire to comply with the necessary regulations, but to comply with the minimum,"
3. "Please let me know if there is anything I can do . . . so that we may make sure our Aroclor business is not affected by this evil publicity," (hazard warnings)
4. "It only seems a matter of time before the regulatory agencies will be looking down our throats,"
5. '...the memo did not go so far as to propose a cleanup -- "only action preparatory to actual cleanup."'
To raise a little dissent, I have to say that I really despise the way this story is put out, apparently without any copy of the 'confidential' documents. It seems like a routine thing with most stories of this nature. God forbid they put up a.pdf or something. To put it simply, I trust the corporate media about as much as I trust Mosanto. And when the quotes trail off as if to say "I love.............hitler", I find the word-chasm annoying. I'm sure it's not misrepresentation in this case, but goddamnit, they have the full version and I don't see why they can't put that out......
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I find it hard to believe that retracting this act is going to right the wrongs it created, but I have no idea why. Simply put, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 resulted in the biggest blow to a free market in history. At least, that's my interpretation. The number of entities that control the nations media, from books, to music, to TV and movies, went from somwhere in the hundreds, to the present 6. But if retracting the act now would in any way rectify that, companies like the Bells and Verizon (who have a very hefty interest in preserving the ownership deregulations) would be up in arms protecting it.
Will Cisco be throwing in their patented 'Wall of Oppression' firewall package?
You paint a very troubling picture. Surely whatever gereration was raised under this so called 'entertainment' went on to become terminator-like killing machines.
Does anyone know of a site where MS' misdeeds (like this one) are summed up all in a nice, neat, and concise way? I'm asking because I tend to voice my dislike for microsoft whenever the topic comes up, and people usually ask me what my basis is. Usually it goes something like: 'What do you mean I should get linux? What's wrong with Microsoft Windows?'
The thing is, I've been not liking Microsoft for so long that I've lost track of all the reasons I don't like......Microsoft. I remember big stuff like fake letters to state AG's, a fake video to support the claim that IE is stuck to the OS, a lawsuit against a charity that gave away computers with Windows on them.........but I know there's tons more. And I know someone out there must have a nice, detailed timeline........right?
Why do YOU care what he does? Are you two AC's from the NYT or something? Obviously, people don't want to go through the trouble, or give their personal info to strangers. Maybe the times should put a driver's license slot on the street machines, would you like that?
As I understand it, cisco makes the routers that your internet service runs through. And they make so many of them, that pretty much all internet services run through them. I'd like to see how you'll go about not buying them.
My personal opinion is that, in a more freedom-loving society, Cisco would become an enemy of the state.
I think you're right, but I don't think that would really apply here. People would complain directly to Microsoft just as they would complain directly to the grocery store. And the point you made is also true, only because it takes a negative experience to inspire someone to go to the trouble of complaining. Here, the comment system is obscure to most people, but I actually think that since it comes from the government it is more likely to spur supportive comments from the droves of MS employees who are much more attuned to what's at stake.
In the case of unsolicited email maybe a whistleblower's defense would've protected him.
I hope this results in people running their own dedicated servers for the less popular mods. Some of the most fun I've had playing online games was with the Pirate mod and Civil War mod for Myth 2, but unfortunately the games mostly being played on the bungie server were simple WW2-recon ones.
Just off the top of my head, Max Payne and Black & White.
Both blew my mind, and were a lot better than one more half-life expansion.
That's a warped point of view considering that it suggests that the distribution of all personal information is a 1st amendment right. I can read court proceedings and other documents that the media might print, and it's wrong that those prints don't include the name and SS# that the original proceeding would? Your right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose, your right to freedom of information stops at my medical records/wallet/you get the idea.
I think this is true in Germany. I may have the wrong country, but I know some places in Europe do that. Unfortunately in America, no, your personal information is not your property.
In places that it is, it works as an interesting compromise. Businesses hate opt-in systems because they know they have nothing to offer, and no one is going to bother to opt-in without knowing what it'll get them. Under a system where the information is the person's property, they can decide to sell it as a commodity to businesses, and businesses get to skip the bullshitting about how they respect the customers' privacy and re-sell all the information people are willing to sell to them.
...would be to shut up and get a lawyer. I'm not taking his side, but it doesn't even seem like he understands what he's gotten himself into. He's gonna dig himself into a real long prison term by being just a little to immature and impressionable.
Yeah I know, I'm an idiot, see. And in my mind the cold war began when I was a kid old enough to remember it.
It goes further back than the cold war. According to cryptome, the CIA/FBI/NSA/Army have thousands of documents on the JFK assassination that they still haven't released. They were supposed to be, after the work of the Assassination Records Act (I think that's what it was called anyway), but apparently requests are denied on the grounds that they might endanger 'national security' (hello!) Hell, JFK's [i]brain went missing[/i] from the pile of evidence (disappeared right out of the NARA building, I think) and as far as I know no one has talked about how that happened either. Mmmmmm, fascism!
This is obviously not going to be one of my more insightful contributions, but DIE. DIE DIE DIE you horrible load of crap. Who knew before you that a 'trojan-esque', full frontal assault on personal privacy could ever be legitimized as 'harmless, wholesome, American, capitalistic marketing'. BUUURRRN.
I asked Declan McCullaghahalulagh about this and it looks like Glaser isn't on the board anymore. He also pointed out that he could've been on it before RealNetworks took this sort of turn. I'm not really sure what they won it for, myself. The awards pages aren't in english, since the show(s) they were awarded at weren't in english either. The only dirt I have on RealNetworks is the tendency of their download program to monitor users and gather information to be sold to marketers. Which is good (bad) enough for me. Although it's probably mentioned in legalese on page 124 of the license agreement.
This seems like as good a place as any to congratulate RealNetworks for winning a Big Brother award.
I actually like some of these and think they would make good songs. It'd be one strange song by one strange band, but poems like this is not spam have a kind of 'somber fluidity', if that makes any sense. It didn't make me laugh, but it was good.
This was what I was about to point out. How can they deny that they knew the spyware was there, when a lot of these programs know enough to refuse to operate when the spyware is removed?
It probably just reflects the loss of 3000+ customers on 9/11. The patriotic solution is to shell out billions in stimulus packages to the entertainment industry.
You are the man...........man.
Just glad to see this on slashdot. I would've submitted it myself if I thought it had any chance of being posted. Some of my favorite tidbits are....
.pdf or something. To put it simply, I trust the corporate media about as much as I trust Mosanto. And when the quotes trail off as if to say "I love.............hitler", I find the word-chasm annoying. I'm sure it's not misrepresentation in this case, but goddamnit, they have the full version and I don't see why they can't put that out......
1. 'The (Mosanto) committee even drew up graphs charting profits vs. liability over time.'
2."It is our desire to comply with the necessary regulations, but to comply with the minimum,"
3. "Please let me know if there is anything I can do . . . so that we may make sure our Aroclor business is not affected by this evil publicity," (hazard warnings)
4. "It only seems a matter of time before the regulatory agencies will be looking down our throats,"
5. '...the memo did not go so far as to propose a cleanup -- "only action preparatory to actual cleanup."'
To raise a little dissent, I have to say that I really despise the way this story is put out, apparently without any copy of the 'confidential' documents. It seems like a routine thing with most stories of this nature. God forbid they put up a
It's sad, really. I always hate to see bad things happen to pretty girls like John Romero.
If I'm not mistaken, you can thank The Telecommunications Act of 1996 for most of the deregulation.