yes, they're making money from the iPhone. unquestionably.
but this massive increase in data is also a huge increase in cost, which they'll have to recoup over several years. the iPhone may actually have put them under water temporarily.
Pisano is correct in saying "the First Amendment was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means."
He is incorrect in saying that all traffic coming from a site hosting an infringer is the result of stealing, nor is he correct in saying that a conviction for theft is necessary before this law shuts down a site (it requires only a request for a preliminary injunction), nor that the law even restricts its scope to actual theft (it applies if the site is merely to linking to another site that may or may not already be accused of thieving).
At the point where Pisano guarantees that not one innocent person will have their data cut off from the net for even one second, and can prove it with the text of the bill that accomplishes his goals while doing that, then he may claim he's stopping theft without abrogating the First Amendment.
We have anyone who wants to scribble into a text box, and anyone else who wants to fumble-finger a fancy radio button, and a few people who get paid by the click to forward on the things that get fumble-fingered the most.
I don't even get the white pages any more. The phone company just stopped delivering them about 6 years ago. Or I requested it. Something.
The yellow pages still come, but I just toss it in the recycling bin (probably not even kosher to recycle them although I think I heard something that said they'd changed that; regardless, let the pros sort it out). From the look of it I think it's possible it doesn't get published by the phone company anymore anyway.
Because this one piece of software is ingrained in the company's quality process. With most tools, if you use something different, nobody cares, they're just glad you're getting your work done. With CM, you have to use the same tool everyone does. When you start proposing to change that tool, everyone has a stake in it, and an opinion of it, and of your opinions.
And this is mild. Can you imagine if everyone had to use the same editor?
Unfortunately, our terrorized "leaders" pretended to be angry, all the while organizing their political acts to increase the fear, to well-documented ends.
And yet it's extremely effective in terrorizing people.
And what do you suppose happens when the people we put in charge of public safety say "terrorism is extremely rare" to explain why they did nothing to stop an attack just like the ones that already happened.
And what do you suppose happens to the entire airline industry, and all of the business conducted by the flying public as a result of the availability of air travel, when we have to shut it down because there's no way to make it safe after it's announced we have no intention of trying to.
If I'm the destination for every packet on the internet, I can be everyone's root nameserver, too. They'd have to check my certificate against an old one to even know something was suspicious, and then they'd have to decide what to do when mine doesn't match the old one from the real server. 99.9% of the time that answer is to click "get out of my face, foul dialog box," and pwn themselves.
Locking the cockpit door stops a knife from taking down an airplane.
To stop explosives your only choice is to keep them off the plane.
And I listed several factors that contribute to the current security climate, a few posts up this thread. Read those.
The main social thing that changed is that the continental U.S. became a target in a war that factions of the Muslim world are fighting against factions of the non-Muslim world. That happened in 1993 with the WTC bombing. But that didn't engender changes in flight safety, because people thought as you folks did, that the threat in that venue was no different from before. And all that did was leave the door wide open for what happened in 2001.
In the case of the shoes the bomber was unable to get it lit because the protocol he followed failed to instruct him not to walk around in the rain in those shoes for a day before flying. That doesn't render future attempts moot.
In the case of the underwear, the perpetrator failed to properly mix the explosive components and instead of the enormous explosion that his choice of explosive should have produced he got only tiny explosions and a fire. That doesn't render future attempts moot.
So don't let reality get in the way of your apology.
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The central lesson of modern business is if you aren't cheating you aren't doing your own taxes.
yes, they're making money from the iPhone. unquestionably.
but this massive increase in data is also a huge increase in cost, which they'll have to recoup over several years. the iPhone may actually have put them under water temporarily.
Pisano is correct in saying "the First Amendment was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means."
He is incorrect in saying that all traffic coming from a site hosting an infringer is the result of stealing, nor is he correct in saying that a conviction for theft is necessary before this law shuts down a site (it requires only a request for a preliminary injunction), nor that the law even restricts its scope to actual theft (it applies if the site is merely to linking to another site that may or may not already be accused of thieving).
At the point where Pisano guarantees that not one innocent person will have their data cut off from the net for even one second, and can prove it with the text of the bill that accomplishes his goals while doing that, then he may claim he's stopping theft without abrogating the First Amendment.
Who has editors?
We have anyone who wants to scribble into a text box, and anyone else who wants to fumble-finger a fancy radio button, and a few people who get paid by the click to forward on the things that get fumble-fingered the most.
News for nuffers. Stuff that antimatters.
Photons aren't matter.
More generally, photons don't care if they're going between matter and antimatter.
This is how many problems are already calculated to be best handled.
Most of the calculations could stand to be checked, however.
That would be "doesn'ts", in English, if it were.
I'm pretty sure you can get all the features this phone has in a free phone with a cheap voice plan, and just ignore the other features.
Which makes this phone's release an art project, not part of a business plan.
Yes.
Because I have been watching what happened to our country since the last time it happened.
If they do it again, you might as well insert the chip in your neck yourself.
So would al Quaeda.
when the asteroid hits my house?
Made you look.
You have children and you don't have all of the Harry Potter books?
I don't even get the white pages any more. The phone company just stopped delivering them about 6 years ago. Or I requested it. Something.
The yellow pages still come, but I just toss it in the recycling bin (probably not even kosher to recycle them although I think I heard something that said they'd changed that; regardless, let the pros sort it out). From the look of it I think it's possible it doesn't get published by the phone company anymore anyway.
And who wants it? It's spam in a 4-kilo format.
Stuck? You're probably the least stressed of us all. Using sccs is the code-control equivalent of moving to Napa and buying a vineyard.
Because this one piece of software is ingrained in the company's quality process. With most tools, if you use something different, nobody cares, they're just glad you're getting your work done. With CM, you have to use the same tool everyone does. When you start proposing to change that tool, everyone has a stake in it, and an opinion of it, and of your opinions.
And this is mild. Can you imagine if everyone had to use the same editor?
http://www.tgorski.com/terrorism/PTSD_After_9-11-01_Lit_Review_01-19-02.htm
Unfortunately, our terrorized "leaders" pretended to be angry, all the while organizing their political acts to increase the fear, to well-documented ends.
And there's a reason for that. Check out the "buxom younger woman" in this video:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/16/the-inevitable-taiwa.html
There are those who say the terrorists have already won.
And yet it's extremely effective in terrorizing people.
And what do you suppose happens when the people we put in charge of public safety say "terrorism is extremely rare" to explain why they did nothing to stop an attack just like the ones that already happened.
And what do you suppose happens to the entire airline industry, and all of the business conducted by the flying public as a result of the availability of air travel, when we have to shut it down because there's no way to make it safe after it's announced we have no intention of trying to.
Blowing up planes isn't just about killing you because you're on it.
It's also about accomplishing a spectacular terrorist act.
Preventing those is a good idea.
The relative safety of air travel, or of any other form of travel, is not relevant.
If I'm the destination for every packet on the internet, I can be everyone's root nameserver, too. They'd have to check my certificate against an old one to even know something was suspicious, and then they'd have to decide what to do when mine doesn't match the old one from the real server. 99.9% of the time that answer is to click "get out of my face, foul dialog box," and pwn themselves.
Locking the cockpit door stops a knife from taking down an airplane.
To stop explosives your only choice is to keep them off the plane.
And I listed several factors that contribute to the current security climate, a few posts up this thread. Read those.
The main social thing that changed is that the continental U.S. became a target in a war that factions of the Muslim world are fighting against factions of the non-Muslim world. That happened in 1993 with the WTC bombing. But that didn't engender changes in flight safety, because people thought as you folks did, that the threat in that venue was no different from before. And all that did was leave the door wide open for what happened in 2001.
Easy peasy. Tell them it's a new tax on REITs.
In the case of the shoes the bomber was unable to get it lit because the protocol he followed failed to instruct him not to walk around in the rain in those shoes for a day before flying. That doesn't render future attempts moot.
In the case of the underwear, the perpetrator failed to properly mix the explosive components and instead of the enormous explosion that his choice of explosive should have produced he got only tiny explosions and a fire. That doesn't render future attempts moot.
So don't let reality get in the way of your apology.