Although this is disturbing, you have to look at the fact that even though they can listen to anything you discuss with your lawyer, AND "leak" it to the team prosecuting you, it still would NOT be admissable in court. It is tantamount to an illegal search and no judge would let it be admitted as evidence. So please everyone STOP panicking. Plus you throw the ACLU into the whole mix and it will be old news early next week.
Conrad introduced the genre of the sea story. If you want to read excellent and powerful books read any one of his many. They are excellent excellent books that have to be read into. But if you can analyze it and get into it then you will have found the true power of this author. His most popular book is probably "Heart of Darkness," this is the book that Apocalypse Now! is based on. I could list many titles but I say just go out and buy any of his books (or all of them like I did).
I am not sure about other states, but here in Missouri there is now a No Call Law. Basically you go to http://www.ago.state.mo.us/nocalllaw.htm and enter your name and info and phone number. Once you do that (there is a small delay) it is illegal for a telemarketer to call you. As of September 26, 2001 the state has collected from telemarketers $102,500 in fines.
Seems to me like more states need these laws, write your state legislator. I know I am on the list, and my parents and we never get any telemarketer calls.
I would recommend to anyone that can get out of a big city, or already lives far away from light polution, to try and see this. It is extremely interesting and an excellent opportunity to get the kids (if you have any) interested in physics, space, astronomy, etc. I find it interesting that the comet is nearly at its farthest point from the sun when we are getting hit. Earth must be moving into the path of debris that was already left behind by the comet.
In my major, Chemical Engineering, all of the work we do is in groups. They are not formal groups, but we all get together, analyze the problem, then we attack it. Although there is now way to tell exact contributino of each party; it seems to work out pretty well that on each problem someone will come up with that key idea that allows it to be solved. Usually it is a variety of people that come up with these ideas, so no one person feels like they are contributing more than others.
The way we get around people just copying is that the exams are individual and in class. Trust me, it is really easy to tell when someone just freeloads off all of the others, they tend to fail exams.
I see no reason why in addition to group projects in CS, that there couldn't be exams to test knowledge; or perhaps the professor could interview each student to test their knowledge?
Looks like starting October 1st at7pm TNN is going to have nearly 24/7 Star Trek Next Generation Marathon running starting at episode 1. I'd say get the VCR's spinng if you want every episode or have never seen some of them (doubtful).
Plus I believe that TNN is carried on more cable providers than UPN.
Myself, I would guess that StarFleet would be a derivative of a joint mission of the Air Force, Navy, and NASA. If you do it like that then all of your arguments become moot. This also makes the most sense. Why would 3 different agencies with the same goal go about it individually. Oh, I know, US government and all, but come on, I am sure they learned somthing in 150 years.
Personally what I find scary, and has been brought up many times before on Slashdot, is the question of what happens when some script kiddie gets a hold of the backdoor. Then anyone will end up being able to download the algorithm or password to read ANY encrypted file. The kid will probably just end up getting some probationary period as they are still under 18 and the rest of us will pay with having no secure commercial product available. It will basically start another grassroots effort to make our own encryption programs that have no backdoors. This will be against the law and I really can't see where the cycle will end.
Actually I believe that a University can hold a patent on even government funded research. One example I can think of is that the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsi holds a patent on fortifying milk with Vitamin D. I know that for every gallon of milk sold the University gets a couple cents. It would seem that they have a patent on it or why would anybody pay them a few cents per gallon. I could be wrong. Let me know if I am.
That looks like a really neat website, the only problem is that it markets books that I would say are unpopular. I saw no "mainstream" or famous authors (at least to me). To be truly successful, at least to earn my business, they would have to carry more classics by authors like Joseph Conrad. I will say this though, it is a good start.
Ontopic:
I believe that whoever has the money will win. Right now the companies have the money and they are pushing the DMCA. So the way it is going, unless the Supreme Court strikes it down as unconstitutional I think we will have to live with it. I also believe that the higher courts will try to stay away from this. They don't like to get into things they don't really understand. Plus if it does go to them, whose argument are they going to follow? The EFF's? I doubt it, more likely the million dollar legal team from the record companies, etc.
Although I find your comments interesting I also think that they are an insult to everything that Humanity has accomplished. You are completely right when you say that the British, French, Greek and Spanish have contributed more to culture. You forget that they have been around a thousand years longer. Also, while we are being fair to all the other poorly treated peoples of the world, what about the numerous Asian cultures that make those European cultures look like an inconsequential spec of dust. What about the colorful cultures of Africa or the ancient cultures of South America. Have they contributed nothing?
You are right when you say that the Russians have contributed great things to science, etc. Their main problem was that they had brilliant people, but they could not put those ideas into use. For example the physics behind American Stealth technology is based on the discoveries of a Russian scientist that the Soviets could not put into practice.
The great thing about the USA is that we have become so successful, politcally and scientifically, in such a short time. We have no dillusions that we are better than the cultures before, but we do accept new ideas and we at present are the most technologically advanced country in the world. The USA has the resources to fund the most scientific work and thus is going to continue to be the most scientifcally advanced country.
Now if we thought we were this great empire that all should worship, then I can assure you that we would be introverted and would not share our discoveries with others, but we want to create a global society.
The US has its problems, but it recognizes them and it will fix them, and it has fixed many of them. You act as though Europe has no problems, but that is just as ignorant as saying that the US is tuck on itself.
I can see this as being practical for maybe keeping something at one place in orbit around the sun or for moving very slowly around our solar system, but once it got too far from the sun it would not be getting enough photons of light to accelerate any more. I guess the trick would be to gain enough speed before it gets too far away from the sun. The problem with that would be that, at least it seems logically, you have to increase the size of the sail a large amount to gain even a little acceleration.
Oh well, I am sure some viable use will be found for it. Either that or we will dump millions of dollars into it and then decide that it isn't viable.
I am not sure what version of Red Hat she is using, but the last time I installed it, version 7.0, I didn't have to know how many cyclinders, etc. for the swap file. It was actually just as easy to install as windows.
It was definitely harder to upgrade to the 2.4.? kernel, but I got through that also with just a little patience.
Maybe she should check the current versions before she goes ranting on. Although StarOffice is very bloated. She could try the free version of WordPerfect for linux.
This is how the market will work for a while. It will take a very long time for a purely internet company to actually be successful, at least in the way of profit. For time being the successful companies online will be those that have a real physical presence, as in real stores, etc. It will take a long time for the economy to move to an electronic medium successfully. Plus one has to look at the amount of people that not only have access online, but that have access where they can shop. That will be further down the road. I have no doubt that it will come, but one must be patient. The Industrial Revolution in the United States did not happen overnight. The Electronic revolution has to play by similar rules. It will just take time.
This is not necessarily true. For the 2000 tax year I actually did lose more money because I went over the limit for the earned income credit. I went over it by less than $500. I fI had been below I would have gotten all of my money back (I get to write off a lot of educational expenses), but as it was I had to pay ~=$136 to the federal government.
Obviously this will not apply to me once I am making more money, but right now in college that $136 really makes a difference.
Just thought that I should point this out, and that it really does affect those people with low incomes.
Rob
I would recommend that you get a degree in something like electrical engineering and minor in computer science. The EE degree is just a broader version of the computer engineering degree and will allow you more leway in a job after school, and companies will want you evven more if you have a double major or minor in CompSci because then they will think that you know how to use computers.
Good luck to you in whatever you choose.
But for me I will be happy with my Chemical Engineering degree and MBA
MS is a very large and powerful company that feels threatened by a small but up and coming group of people. Of course they are going to attack their competitors. One way of doing that is too put a bad image in the public mind for Linux and all things Linux or I guess more specifically now GPL.
The public will choose in the end what the best solution to there needs is. I just hope that it is a solution for the people by the people.
I wonder who will pay for this. It appears that napster hopes that paying customers will. This has not happened in the past. I have yet to see any succesful paid music download services.
If anyone knows of any I would be interested in how they are doing.
This is going to fail. All it takes is one record label to say no.
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Although this is disturbing, you have to look at the fact that even though they can listen to anything you discuss with your lawyer, AND "leak" it to the team prosecuting you, it still would NOT be admissable in court. It is tantamount to an illegal search and no judge would let it be admitted as evidence. So please everyone STOP panicking. Plus you throw the ACLU into the whole mix and it will be old news early next week.
For those of you who don't want to guess where the cypto stuff starts in the Real Media file it starts between 21 and 22 minutes
Conrad introduced the genre of the sea story. If you want to read excellent and powerful books read any one of his many. They are excellent excellent books that have to be read into. But if you can analyze it and get into it then you will have found the true power of this author. His most popular book is probably "Heart of Darkness," this is the book that Apocalypse Now! is based on. I could list many titles but I say just go out and buy any of his books (or all of them like I did).
I am not sure about other states, but here in Missouri there is now a No Call Law. Basically you go to http://www.ago.state.mo.us/nocalllaw.htm and enter your name and info and phone number. Once you do that (there is a small delay) it is illegal for a telemarketer to call you. As of September 26, 2001 the state has collected from telemarketers $102,500 in fines.
Seems to me like more states need these laws, write your state legislator. I know I am on the list, and my parents and we never get any telemarketer calls.
I would recommend to anyone that can get out of a big city, or already lives far away from light polution, to try and see this. It is extremely interesting and an excellent opportunity to get the kids (if you have any) interested in physics, space, astronomy, etc. I find it interesting that the comet is nearly at its farthest point from the sun when we are getting hit. Earth must be moving into the path of debris that was already left behind by the comet.
In my major, Chemical Engineering, all of the work we do is in groups. They are not formal groups, but we all get together, analyze the problem, then we attack it. Although there is now way to tell exact contributino of each party; it seems to work out pretty well that on each problem someone will come up with that key idea that allows it to be solved. Usually it is a variety of people that come up with these ideas, so no one person feels like they are contributing more than others.
The way we get around people just copying is that the exams are individual and in class. Trust me, it is really easy to tell when someone just freeloads off all of the others, they tend to fail exams.
I see no reason why in addition to group projects in CS, that there couldn't be exams to test knowledge; or perhaps the professor could interview each student to test their knowledge?
Just some ideas.
Looks like starting October 1st at7pm TNN is going to have nearly 24/7 Star Trek Next Generation Marathon running starting at episode 1. I'd say get the VCR's spinng if you want every episode or have never seen some of them (doubtful).
Plus I believe that TNN is carried on more cable providers than UPN.
Myself, I would guess that StarFleet would be a derivative of a joint mission of the Air Force, Navy, and NASA. If you do it like that then all of your arguments become moot. This also makes the most sense. Why would 3 different agencies with the same goal go about it individually. Oh, I know, US government and all, but come on, I am sure they learned somthing in 150 years.
Personally what I find scary, and has been brought up many times before on Slashdot, is the question of what happens when some script kiddie gets a hold of the backdoor. Then anyone will end up being able to download the algorithm or password to read ANY encrypted file. The kid will probably just end up getting some probationary period as they are still under 18 and the rest of us will pay with having no secure commercial product available. It will basically start another grassroots effort to make our own encryption programs that have no backdoors. This will be against the law and I really can't see where the cycle will end.
CNN is reporting on TV that there are explosions in Kabul, Afghanistan
Not much info, but more than I can get off of anywhere else. goto:
St. Louis Today
Offtopic: While I was looking for the MIT patents on this digital TV stuff I ran across this:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft95&s1=Massachusetts&s2=Tec hnology&OS=Massachusetts+AND+Technology&RS=Massach usetts+AND+Technology
Apparently Apple holds a patent on Icons.
Maybe I can find some that are relevent to the story now.
Actually I believe that a University can hold a patent on even government funded research. One example I can think of is that the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsi holds a patent on fortifying milk with Vitamin D. I know that for every gallon of milk sold the University gets a couple cents. It would seem that they have a patent on it or why would anybody pay them a few cents per gallon. I could be wrong. Let me know if I am.
Torque come from horsepower. Torque has to do with the horsepower in relation to gearing.
Offtopic:
That looks like a really neat website, the only problem is that it markets books that I would say are unpopular. I saw no "mainstream" or famous authors (at least to me). To be truly successful, at least to earn my business, they would have to carry more classics by authors like Joseph Conrad. I will say this though, it is a good start.
Ontopic:
I believe that whoever has the money will win. Right now the companies have the money and they are pushing the DMCA. So the way it is going, unless the Supreme Court strikes it down as unconstitutional I think we will have to live with it. I also believe that the higher courts will try to stay away from this. They don't like to get into things they don't really understand. Plus if it does go to them, whose argument are they going to follow? The EFF's? I doubt it, more likely the million dollar legal team from the record companies, etc.
This fixed my 10' x 10' Dorm room just fine....
You are right when you say that the Russians have contributed great things to science, etc. Their main problem was that they had brilliant people, but they could not put those ideas into use. For example the physics behind American Stealth technology is based on the discoveries of a Russian scientist that the Soviets could not put into practice.
The great thing about the USA is that we have become so successful, politcally and scientifically, in such a short time. We have no dillusions that we are better than the cultures before, but we do accept new ideas and we at present are the most technologically advanced country in the world. The USA has the resources to fund the most scientific work and thus is going to continue to be the most scientifcally advanced country.
Now if we thought we were this great empire that all should worship, then I can assure you that we would be introverted and would not share our discoveries with others, but we want to create a global society.
The US has its problems, but it recognizes them and it will fix them, and it has fixed many of them. You act as though Europe has no problems, but that is just as ignorant as saying that the US is tuck on itself.
Have a nice day!
http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/cmcl/
I can see this as being practical for maybe keeping something at one place in orbit around the sun or for moving very slowly around our solar system, but once it got too far from the sun it would not be getting enough photons of light to accelerate any more. I guess the trick would be to gain enough speed before it gets too far away from the sun. The problem with that would be that, at least it seems logically, you have to increase the size of the sail a large amount to gain even a little acceleration. Oh well, I am sure some viable use will be found for it. Either that or we will dump millions of dollars into it and then decide that it isn't viable.
I am not sure what version of Red Hat she is using, but the last time I installed it, version 7.0, I didn't have to know how many cyclinders, etc. for the swap file. It was actually just as easy to install as windows. It was definitely harder to upgrade to the 2.4.? kernel, but I got through that also with just a little patience. Maybe she should check the current versions before she goes ranting on. Although StarOffice is very bloated. She could try the free version of WordPerfect for linux.
This is how the market will work for a while. It will take a very long time for a purely internet company to actually be successful, at least in the way of profit. For time being the successful companies online will be those that have a real physical presence, as in real stores, etc. It will take a long time for the economy to move to an electronic medium successfully. Plus one has to look at the amount of people that not only have access online, but that have access where they can shop. That will be further down the road. I have no doubt that it will come, but one must be patient. The Industrial Revolution in the United States did not happen overnight. The Electronic revolution has to play by similar rules. It will just take time.
This is not necessarily true. For the 2000 tax year I actually did lose more money because I went over the limit for the earned income credit. I went over it by less than $500. I fI had been below I would have gotten all of my money back (I get to write off a lot of educational expenses), but as it was I had to pay ~=$136 to the federal government. Obviously this will not apply to me once I am making more money, but right now in college that $136 really makes a difference. Just thought that I should point this out, and that it really does affect those people with low incomes. Rob
I would recommend that you get a degree in something like electrical engineering and minor in computer science. The EE degree is just a broader version of the computer engineering degree and will allow you more leway in a job after school, and companies will want you evven more if you have a double major or minor in CompSci because then they will think that you know how to use computers. Good luck to you in whatever you choose. But for me I will be happy with my Chemical Engineering degree and MBA
MS is a very large and powerful company that feels threatened by a small but up and coming group of people. Of course they are going to attack their competitors. One way of doing that is too put a bad image in the public mind for Linux and all things Linux or I guess more specifically now GPL. The public will choose in the end what the best solution to there needs is. I just hope that it is a solution for the people by the people.
I wonder who will pay for this. It appears that napster hopes that paying customers will. This has not happened in the past. I have yet to see any succesful paid music download services. If anyone knows of any I would be interested in how they are doing. This is going to fail. All it takes is one record label to say no.