Okay I like that even less. Why? Do I have to connect to the internet to get it work? Why do you need two pay 3.33 a month for voice navigation? Microsoft Streets includes a GPS for that price?] I would love one of these companies to offer document their map database. I would love to make a Linux Car PC with navigation but the map database is the big hangup.
"Elsebeth Baumgartner was jailed for making false statements about the government as determined by the government." Dude read it. She was a nut case. Yes you can be arrested for making groundless false statements about people.
"Steve Hindi attempted to record what the government is doing. Obviously can't have that. They probably arrest TV news anchors covering press conferences all the time." Again selective reality raises its ugly head. The law in Illinois states that you can not record ANYBODY with out their consent. That is a privacy law and yes it applies to Police officers as well as anyone else. Did he break that law? Yes he did.
You know you have decided that you know the truth. And that is all that matters. Why let facts get in the way. Yes you can take actions while PROTESTING the government that will get you arrested. Those actions will land you in jail. You run up to a government official screaming "I am going to kill you for murdering people!" and you will get arrested. But the act of criticizing in it's self will not put you in jail.
Yes but the people on Slashdot are NOT a large segment of the population. I have to admit I don't see the value of having a portable IM. I have my cell which is a lot smaller than any of the Nokia Webpads. People can just sms me. Maybe I should write and Jabber/sms gateway for my server at home. I could hook it up to gtalk and people could IM me and have it go to my cell phone... Now the trick would be going back the other way.
I said match it for connectivity. I was pointing out that there was no need to add an Edge card to match the nokia. But to add navigation to the Nokia is $120 for three years. To add it to the notebook I can get Microsoft streets with GPS for $99. I am not saying that it is an exact match in size and function. For a lot of uses the notebook will be better than the 810. For light weight the 810 wins. But how much do you need the light weight? That is a question that only the end users can answer.
"hen I still have to pay $125 for the EDGE wireless card to throw into the laptop to use it when there is no wifi" Why? The Nokia only has WiFi and Bluetooth. All you would need is a bluetooth adapter if the Notebook didn't already have one to match the Nokia for connectivity.
Yea I wondered why I got an MP3 in my email this morning. I thought it was probably some new buffer exploit that I hadn't heard of yet. Dang I wish I had listened to it now.
But you could use the "Application Memory" as mass storage. Yes the miniSD slot is nice but it isn't gigabytes of mass storage. If the N810 was a great media player that could also surf the web, watch YouTube, and run other programs then I think it could be a good product for Nokia. Right now it takes too much fiddling to make it work really well. People don't want to fiddle with a product. They want it to just work.
Okay only 256m of Flash????? If it came with 16 Gb then it would be a worthy IPod Touch rival. I would love one but at $500 I will probably give it a miss.
I am afraid you are right. If they put those features into an X86 the results would be. A. It would break a lot of software. "Well detected a lot of already broken software." and B. Wouldn't sell. As you said PCs are cheap and "good enough" for a lot of jobs.
Exactly just turn on some lights and make sure all the doors are locked. If you are still worried call the police. Going out armed with a kitchen knife? Just dumb.
"Ottawa County prosecutor Mark Mulligan (whom Baumgartner had run against in the prosecutorial election) filed charges of making false statements against Baumgartner after she began accusing officials of the Island Rocket ferry line of smuggling illegal drugs. Kevin Baxter was a part owner of Island Rocket. A jury found Baumgartner guilty of making false statements and Judge John Adkins ordered a psychological evaluation of Baumgartner. He also barred her from making accusations against public officials. Finally, the Ohio Supreme Court disciplinary board temporarily suspended her license to practice law (see below).
Flight and Jail Time
Baumgartner attempted to avoid her sentencing by fleeing to Texas, where she tried again, unsuccessfully, to contact the FBI to have her various rivals investigated. Her husband convinced her to return to Ohio, where she was jailed for six months for fleeing the state. While in jail she caused difficulty for her jailors, by, for example, clogging the toilets with paper cups. She also filed numerous lawsuits on her own behalf and for her fellow prisoners, to the point where Mulligan had Baumgartner declared a "vexatious litigator" and had her banned from filing lawsuits in the state of Ohio (a rare designation applied to only 44 people)."
She went to jail for making false statements and then fleeing the state. Not for criticizing the government.
In the absence of a court order or a warrant, the state's eavesdropping laws require all parties to a verbal consent to being tape-recorded, regardless of an expectation or intent of privacy."
This person was illegally recording conversations. They where breaking a state law. So also not going to jail for criticizing the government.
And again. Not for critizing the government. You may question if the trial was fair but then again he entered a plea so he decided not to fight it. And I really don't care if the lead singer of RAM felt it was unfair. "Sherman Martin Austin (b. 1984) is an American anarchist and convicted felon who was the first person to be successfully prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 842(p), which makes the distribution of information on explosives unlawful if the information is provided with the knowledge or intent that the information will be used to commit a violent federal crime. Austin was convicted in under a plea agreement in 2002 and served a one year sentence in Federal prison. Some have questioned whether Austin's trial was fair."
And finally. "After the chairman, U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, said: "if there are no further questions or participation from anyone on the Committee, we will stand adjourned. Thank you very much."
Ms. Sassower rose and respectfully asked: "Mr. Chairman, there's citizen opposition to Judge Wesley based on his documented corruption at the New York Court of Appeals. May I testify?"
Instead of answering 'yes' or 'no,' Senator Chambliss said: "I will issue a warning that we will have order. The Committee will stand in recess until the police can restore order. Everyone remain seated."" You can not just interrupt congress as a spectator. And this is from the pro side of this event. Yea If you stand up and and start making speeches in the capital as a spectator without being recognized you will probably go to jail. What she said wasn't a crime. Where and how she said it was. Same as if you did the same thing in a cort of law. So if want people to have the right to do that then yes this one may be questionable. I don't think so. But that is my opinion.
I know several police officers including a member of a SWAT team. Frankly all of them are professionals. Sure some shouldn't have a badge or abuse power but that is a tiny minority. Consider how may times a day the police arrest people in the US the number of misdeeds in the US is very small. Yes every one is serious and should be taken seriously but jumping on the police in this case is just stupid. They did a great job in this case and should be commended. Helpful hint. If you hear a sound in your backyard don't grab a knife and check on it. A knife is probably just going to get you killed.
I really doubt that the first group really would have held off since there was always a chance that it would happen. I could be wrong but I would be that the people that didn't buy it out number the ones that would have waited to buy. Now the people wrote the web apps. Well yes they might have held off but I don't think anybody bought an iPhone because of the third party web apps. I could be wrong but I don't see it. So yes they may have not developed it. I think they held off because they want total control. They had to find a way to require signed apps. Now what I bet is that people will be so grateful for an SDK they will not grip that Apple is going to control who can or can not write an app for the iPhone. This security line is bull since Palm, Blackberry, and any number of WindowsCE smartphones have had pretty much unlimited application development for years.
"There are WAY too many stupid, unthinking individuals in law enforcement to allow them to act with this kind of force without some direct authorization from someone with at least a LITTLE sense." I guess you didn't read the story. It was a PHONE CALL. He somehow forged the CID and it looked like the call came from that address. So what you would like is this," Someone with an assault rife is trying to break into my home". We will send you some help as soon as we get permission?
"We live in a time where fear is threatening *WAY* more people than terrorism ever could." Yep in in this case it is your fear of the goverment that is outside of reason. The police seemed to have acted properly in this case and showed good restraint. The man "heard" a noise in his backyard and went out with a "KITCHEN KNIFE" to see what it was. Brilliant... So the SWAT team after being told that there was someone with a weapon at that location runs into a guy in his PJs with a knife! And they didn't shoot him.
"Instead, now we have hackers who have already worked on third-party native apps, there's all kinds of web-apps to keep those who won't jailbreak busy in the meantime." Give me a break. Sorry but that is uber spin of the worst sort. Apple didn't tell anyone that they where going to release and SDK to encourage development! Sorry but one of the reasons I didn't buy an iPhone was the lack of an SDK. Do you really think that anyone said "I really want more apps on the iPhone but since they are not going to release and SDK will get one now instead of later!" Good heavens!
"Your point on government criticism is valid, we are pretty free in that regard (this post is a great example). But freedom of speech is just one right "guaranteed" in our constitution." But that is the only thing that counts in this case. Sure other ideas of "freedom" are up for debate. When does freedom of speech become disturbing the peace. When do one groups freedom to protest infringes on another group freedom of speech. But to claim that the US shouldn't complain about China's actions is misleading and does nothing to help the course of freedom. No country is perfect and there is some variation of what is a "Freedom" and what is a crime. A great example is Hogan's Heroes. When they showed it in Germany "where it was very popular" they had to edit out the Hitler salute. Or in the US it is not legal to advertise tobacco products on TV. When those restrictions where put in place they where considered by some the restriction of Freedom of speech. Another example is restricting campaigning a certain distance from the polls. Or you have the battle of the freedom to smoke vs the freedom to not breath smoke. And yes there are two sides to that one as well. I am clearly on the Pro-air side in that debate myself. The US system from what I have seen is one of the best and most free but then it is a balancing act. If we had been occupied by the Nazis we might also feel that restricting some political speech to gain some freedom from fear is a good trade off. I am afraid that it is an all to natural human tendency to think that restrictions that they agree with are just logical and those that they do not are just stupid. For myself I value political free speech a lot more than I do commercial free speech. I classify porn, tv, movies, and video games as mostly commercial free speech. Other don't. I value good manners more than most people do. I think that yelling down a speaker for any reason is a violation of their freedom of speech and those that came their freedom to listen. Again others disagree. But to compare the US to China? That is hypocritical in the extreme.
Jobbs also said that he like Nokia's policy of "requiring" that apps be signed. So how much will it cost to get an app signed? Want to add Divix or Ogg support? Might just be too bad. I guess this is going to be a big "we shall see"
Okay then let's see. I said, "When has anyone in the US gone to jail for publishing a blog critical of the US government?" Was he tazered and thrown in jail for publishing a blog? Or was it for disturbing the peace? Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can go into any location of your choosing and start screaming your head off about anything you like. From what I understand he was asked to leave by security and refused. When they tried to remove him he resisted physically. Again a sense of perspective is in order. How many years is he going to spend in jail? Was he killed? Tell you what go to China and find a location where a high government official is speaking. Start yelling your protests there and then I think you will see the difference.
"This includes the Geneva Convention, which has all that prisoner-of-war stuff that you (and the Administration) seem to be so intent on ignoring." Really in what part of my statement did I say we shouldn't follow international law in respect to POWs?
My exact statement in my post in regards to that was this. "There are international agreements on the treatment of prisoners of war and those should apply." I also said "I would like to see an investigation of what is going on at Gitmo " So sir you. a. Only read what you want to read. or b. Are willing to lie because you feel your point of view is more important than the truth.
In times of war certain constitutional freedoms maybe suspended. That is the way it has been since the founding of the US. The "laws" that apply to POWs are very different from the laws that apply to criminals and for good reason. If not then you could try any POW for murder that you want too and not just those that violate the rules of war. Now as too how many constitutional freedoms have been suspended and if that they are appropriate at this time is a totally different discussion. I do feel that most of the rules as they are applied to citizens are not appropriate for the current threat.
But that like discussion like the original post have nothing to do with the US's stance on Yahoos actions in China. This whole the US has not right to criticize China's actions is just a red heiring to distract people from Yahoo's actions, China's actions, or to criticize the US's actions.
"If AT&T can get immunity for the same violations committed within the US on US citizens, why not Yahoo?" Huh??????? When has anyone in the US gone to jail for publishing a blog critical of the US government? You are lacking a sense of proportion. I am not saying that the US is perfect but give me a break. I suggest you go to genocide watch and look at the number of deaths attributed to the Chinese government. I would like to see an investigation of what is going on at Gitmo but you do know that prisoners of war are NOT protected by the US constitution and never have been. They have no right to a trial or legal counsel. Trying to apply constitutional protections too them is invalid. There are international agreements on the treatment of prisoners of war and those should apply. As I said develop a sense of proportion. The US civil rights record and China's are worlds apart. The one thing they share is that they are both not perfect. Of of the big differences is that you are free to complain and comment on the failings of the US system without going to jail.
Flash==Basic but worse. My goodness people don't teach children Flash. Flex may be better but I havn't played with it much yet. Sqeek is probably the new Logo. Smalltalk was designed to be a better Logo than Logo but in the 80s you could only run it on a $10,000 machine.
Real simple. DRM costs and is useless. 1. Somebody has to pay for DRM. 2. Right now if they want to sell their music for the iPod they have to play buy Apples rules or ditch DRM. 3. A chance to cut out one of the middle men. Why pay Apple or Amazon anything for selling their music. They can put up their own websites. Why not keep all the money? But to do that they have to work with the iPod. Apple will let them bypass the iTunes store so they must loss DRM to do that. The Danger there is artists can cut out all the middle men. When will MySpace open a music store I wonder? You see I don't discount greed. I depend on it. Same reason that the record companies sell CDs to Walmart.
So the simple thing to do is. 1. Buy used CDs 2. Rip CDs. 3. Store CDs as backup in a box under your bed. You can set the encoding quality to what every you want. You can pick the format that you want. And you are not giving your money to the record companies. And it is 100% legal.
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Okay I like that even less. Why?
Do I have to connect to the internet to get it work? Why do you need two pay 3.33 a month for voice navigation? Microsoft Streets includes a GPS for that price?]
I would love one of these companies to offer document their map database. I would love to make a Linux Car PC with navigation but the map database is the big hangup.
"Elsebeth Baumgartner was jailed for making false statements about the government as determined by the government."
Dude read it. She was a nut case. Yes you can be arrested for making groundless false statements about people.
"Steve Hindi attempted to record what the government is doing. Obviously can't have that. They probably arrest TV news anchors covering press conferences all the time."
Again selective reality raises its ugly head.
The law in Illinois states that you can not record ANYBODY with out their consent. That is a privacy law and yes it applies to Police officers as well as anyone else. Did he break that law? Yes he did.
You know you have decided that you know the truth. And that is all that matters. Why let facts get in the way. Yes you can take actions while PROTESTING the government that will get you arrested. Those actions will land you in jail.
You run up to a government official screaming "I am going to kill you for murdering people!" and you will get arrested.
But the act of criticizing in it's self will not put you in jail.
Yes but the people on Slashdot are NOT a large segment of the population.
I have to admit I don't see the value of having a portable IM. I have my cell which is a lot smaller than any of the Nokia Webpads. People can just sms me. Maybe I should write and Jabber/sms gateway for my server at home. I could hook it up to gtalk and people could IM me and have it go to my cell phone...
Now the trick would be going back the other way.
I said match it for connectivity. I was pointing out that there was no need to add an Edge card to match the nokia.
But to add navigation to the Nokia is $120 for three years. To add it to the notebook I can get Microsoft streets with GPS for $99.
I am not saying that it is an exact match in size and function. For a lot of uses the notebook will be better than the 810. For light weight the 810 wins. But how much do you need the light weight?
That is a question that only the end users can answer.
"hen I still have to pay $125 for the EDGE wireless card to throw into the laptop to use it when there is no wifi"
Why? The Nokia only has WiFi and Bluetooth. All you would need is a bluetooth adapter if the Notebook didn't already have one to match the Nokia for connectivity.
Yea I wondered why I got an MP3 in my email this morning. I thought it was probably some new buffer exploit that I hadn't heard of yet. Dang I wish I had listened to it now.
But you could use the "Application Memory" as mass storage.
Yes the miniSD slot is nice but it isn't gigabytes of mass storage. If the N810 was a great media player that could also surf the web, watch YouTube, and run other programs then I think it could be a good product for Nokia. Right now it takes too much fiddling to make it work really well. People don't want to fiddle with a product. They want it to just work.
Okay only 256m of Flash?????
If it came with 16 Gb then it would be a worthy IPod Touch rival. I would love one but at $500 I will probably give it a miss.
I am afraid you are right. If they put those features into an X86 the results would be.
A. It would break a lot of software. "Well detected a lot of already broken software."
and
B. Wouldn't sell.
As you said PCs are cheap and "good enough" for a lot of jobs.
Exactly just turn on some lights and make sure all the doors are locked. If you are still worried call the police. Going out armed with a kitchen knife? Just dumb.
Okay lets see some truth..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsebeth_Baumgartner
"Ottawa County prosecutor Mark Mulligan (whom Baumgartner had run against in the prosecutorial election) filed charges of making false statements against Baumgartner after she began accusing officials of the Island Rocket ferry line of smuggling illegal drugs. Kevin Baxter was a part owner of Island Rocket. A jury found Baumgartner guilty of making false statements and Judge John Adkins ordered a psychological evaluation of Baumgartner. He also barred her from making accusations against public officials. Finally, the Ohio Supreme Court disciplinary board temporarily suspended her license to practice law (see below).
Flight and Jail Time
Baumgartner attempted to avoid her sentencing by fleeing to Texas, where she tried again, unsuccessfully, to contact the FBI to have her various rivals investigated. Her husband convinced her to return to Ohio, where she was jailed for six months for fleeing the state. While in jail she caused difficulty for her jailors, by, for example, clogging the toilets with paper cups. She also filed numerous lawsuits on her own behalf and for her fellow prisoners, to the point where Mulligan had Baumgartner declared a "vexatious litigator" and had her banned from filing lawsuits in the state of Ohio (a rare designation applied to only 44 people)."
She went to jail for making false statements and then fleeing the state. Not for criticizing the government.
Next is http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000069
"Illinois is an "all party" state, and that does not mean everybody is having a good time.
In the absence of a court order or a warrant, the state's eavesdropping laws require all parties to a verbal consent to being tape-recorded, regardless of an expectation or intent of privacy."
This person was illegally recording conversations. They where breaking a state law. So also not going to jail for criticizing the government.
And again. Not for critizing the government. You may question if the trial was fair but then again he entered a plea so he decided not to fight it. And I really don't care if the lead singer of RAM felt it was unfair.
"Sherman Martin Austin (b. 1984) is an American anarchist and convicted felon who was the first person to be successfully prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 842(p), which makes the distribution of information on explosives unlawful if the information is provided with the knowledge or intent that the information will be used to commit a violent federal crime.
Austin was convicted in under a plea agreement in 2002 and served a one year sentence in Federal prison. Some have questioned whether Austin's trial was fair."
And finally.
"After the chairman, U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, said: "if there are no further questions or participation from anyone on the Committee, we will stand adjourned. Thank you very much."
Ms. Sassower rose and respectfully asked: "Mr. Chairman, there's citizen opposition to Judge Wesley based on his documented corruption at the New York Court of Appeals. May I testify?"
Instead of answering 'yes' or 'no,' Senator Chambliss said: "I will issue a warning that we will have order. The Committee will stand in recess until the police can restore order. Everyone remain seated.""
You can not just interrupt congress as a spectator. And this is from the pro side of this event. Yea If you stand up and and start making speeches in the capital as a spectator without being recognized you will probably go to jail. What she said wasn't a crime. Where and how she said it was. Same as if you did the same thing in a cort of law.
So if want people to have the right to do that then yes this one may be questionable. I don't think so. But that is my opinion.
I know several police officers including a member of a SWAT team. Frankly all of them are professionals. Sure some shouldn't have a badge or abuse power but that is a tiny minority. Consider how may times a day the police arrest people in the US the number of misdeeds in the US is very small. Yes every one is serious and should be taken seriously but jumping on the police in this case is just stupid. They did a great job in this case and should be commended.
Helpful hint. If you hear a sound in your backyard don't grab a knife and check on it. A knife is probably just going to get you killed.
I really doubt that the first group really would have held off since there was always a chance that it would happen. I could be wrong but I would be that the people that didn't buy it out number the ones that would have waited to buy. Now the people wrote the web apps. Well yes they might have held off but I don't think anybody bought an iPhone because of the third party web apps. I could be wrong but I don't see it. So yes they may have not developed it.
I think they held off because they want total control. They had to find a way to require signed apps.
Now what I bet is that people will be so grateful for an SDK they will not grip that Apple is going to control who can or can not write an app for the iPhone. This security line is bull since Palm, Blackberry, and any number of WindowsCE smartphones have had pretty much unlimited application development for years.
"There are WAY too many stupid, unthinking individuals in law enforcement to allow them to act with this kind of force without some direct authorization from someone with at least a LITTLE sense."
I guess you didn't read the story.
It was a PHONE CALL. He somehow forged the CID and it looked like the call came from that address.
So what you would like is this," Someone with an assault rife is trying to break into my home". We will send you some help as soon as we get permission?
"We live in a time where fear is threatening *WAY* more people than terrorism ever could." Yep in in this case it is your fear of the goverment that is outside of reason. The police seemed to have acted properly in this case and showed good restraint. The man "heard" a noise in his backyard and went out with a "KITCHEN KNIFE" to see what it was. Brilliant... So the SWAT team after being told that there was someone with a weapon at that location runs into a guy in his PJs with a knife! And they didn't shoot him.
"Instead, now we have hackers who have already worked on third-party native apps, there's all kinds of web-apps to keep those who won't jailbreak busy in the meantime."
Give me a break. Sorry but that is uber spin of the worst sort. Apple didn't tell anyone that they where going to release and SDK to encourage development! Sorry but one of the reasons I didn't buy an iPhone was the lack of an SDK. Do you really think that anyone said "I really want more apps on the iPhone but since they are not going to release and SDK will get one now instead of later!"
Good heavens!
"Your point on government criticism is valid, we are pretty free in that regard (this post is a great example). But freedom of speech is just one right "guaranteed" in our constitution."
But that is the only thing that counts in this case. Sure other ideas of "freedom" are up for debate. When does freedom of speech become disturbing the peace. When do one groups freedom to protest infringes on another group freedom of speech. But to claim that the US shouldn't complain about China's actions is misleading and does nothing to help the course of freedom. No country is perfect and there is some variation of what is a "Freedom" and what is a crime. A great example is Hogan's Heroes. When they showed it in Germany "where it was very popular" they had to edit out the Hitler salute. Or in the US it is not legal to advertise tobacco products on TV. When those restrictions where put in place they where considered by some the restriction of Freedom of speech. Another example is restricting campaigning a certain distance from the polls. Or you have the battle of the freedom to smoke vs the freedom to not breath smoke. And yes there are two sides to that one as well. I am clearly on the Pro-air side in that debate myself.
The US system from what I have seen is one of the best and most free but then it is a balancing act. If we had been occupied by the Nazis we might also feel that restricting some political speech to gain some freedom from fear is a good trade off.
I am afraid that it is an all to natural human tendency to think that restrictions that they agree with are just logical and those that they do not are just stupid. For myself I value political free speech a lot more than I do commercial free speech. I classify porn, tv, movies, and video games as mostly commercial free speech. Other don't. I value good manners more than most people do. I think that yelling down a speaker for any reason is a violation of their freedom of speech and those that came their freedom to listen. Again others disagree.
But to compare the US to China? That is hypocritical in the extreme.
As I said this is a big "We shall see".
Jobbs also said that he like Nokia's policy of "requiring" that apps be signed. So how much will it cost to get an app signed? Want to add Divix or Ogg support? Might just be too bad.
I guess this is going to be a big "we shall see"
Okay then let's see. I said, "When has anyone in the US gone to jail for publishing a blog critical of the US government?"
Was he tazered and thrown in jail for publishing a blog? Or was it for disturbing the peace?
Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can go into any location of your choosing and start screaming your head off about anything you like. From what I understand he was asked to leave by security and refused. When they tried to remove him he resisted physically.
Again a sense of perspective is in order. How many years is he going to spend in jail? Was he killed? Tell you what go to China and find a location where a high government official is speaking. Start yelling your protests there and then I think you will see the difference.
"This includes the Geneva Convention, which has all that prisoner-of-war stuff that you (and the Administration) seem to be so intent on ignoring."
Really in what part of my statement did I say we shouldn't follow international law in respect to POWs?
My exact statement in my post in regards to that was this.
"There are international agreements on the treatment of prisoners of war and those should apply."
I also said "I would like to see an investigation of what is going on at Gitmo "
So sir you.
a. Only read what you want to read.
or
b. Are willing to lie because you feel your point of view is more important than the truth.
In times of war certain constitutional freedoms maybe suspended. That is the way it has been since the founding of the US. The "laws" that apply to POWs are very different from the laws that apply to criminals and for good reason. If not then you could try any POW for murder that you want too and not just those that violate the rules of war.
Now as too how many constitutional freedoms have been suspended and if that they are appropriate at this time is a totally different discussion. I do feel that most of the rules as they are applied to citizens are not appropriate for the current threat.
But that like discussion like the original post have nothing to do with the US's stance on Yahoos actions in China. This whole the US has not right to criticize China's actions is just a red heiring to distract people from Yahoo's actions, China's actions, or to criticize the US's actions.
"If AT&T can get immunity for the same violations committed within the US on US citizens, why not Yahoo?"
Huh???????
When has anyone in the US gone to jail for publishing a blog critical of the US government?
You are lacking a sense of proportion. I am not saying that the US is perfect but give me a break.
I suggest you go to genocide watch and look at the number of deaths attributed to the Chinese government. I would like to see an investigation of what is going on at Gitmo but you do know that prisoners of war are NOT protected by the US constitution and never have been. They have no right to a trial or legal counsel. Trying to apply constitutional protections too them is invalid. There are international agreements on the treatment of prisoners of war and those should apply. As I said develop a sense of proportion. The US civil rights record and China's are worlds apart. The one thing they share is that they are both not perfect. Of of the big differences is that you are free to complain and comment on the failings of the US system without going to jail.
You are correct I should have said cut out one of the middle men
Flash==Basic but worse. My goodness people don't teach children Flash. Flex may be better but I havn't played with it much yet.
Sqeek is probably the new Logo. Smalltalk was designed to be a better Logo than Logo but in the 80s you could only run it on a $10,000 machine.
Real simple. DRM costs and is useless.
1. Somebody has to pay for DRM.
2. Right now if they want to sell their music for the iPod they have to play buy Apples rules or ditch DRM.
3. A chance to cut out one of the middle men. Why pay Apple or Amazon anything for selling their music. They can put up their own websites. Why not keep all the money? But to do that they have to work with the iPod. Apple will let them bypass the iTunes store so they must loss DRM to do that. The Danger there is artists can cut out all the middle men. When will MySpace open a music store I wonder?
You see I don't discount greed. I depend on it. Same reason that the record companies sell CDs to Walmart.
So the simple thing to do is.
1. Buy used CDs
2. Rip CDs.
3. Store CDs as backup in a box under your bed.
You can set the encoding quality to what every you want. You can pick the format that you want. And you are not giving your money to the record companies.
And it is 100% legal.