Before you know it your goddamned micropayments are going to be macro.
I can't believe people are falling for this, and what I really can't believe is that congress hasn't yet realized what a great source of tax revenue this will be. Yeah...this new micropayment will stop spam, right, now only the rich companies can spam.
Is your mailbox any less full every day because they have to pay to get it there. My god what idiots are pushing this stuff?
I've seen Solaris a couple of times in the past. The original is in Russian. Not knocking it, but it is one of the most difficult movies I've ever seen. It is inspiring you to get drawn in, but it is very perplexing. On the face of it the story is simple, but it is multi-layered.
It is also perhaps the most non-Hollywood movie ever made, so you might as well assume right now that Cameron, Steven, and George are not capable of remaking as complex.
Hmmm, my immediate reaction is to do what all good consumers should do, choose not to shop with the conglomerates.
But where do I go? I guess it'll have to be those boutique music stores that charge too much for CDs because they've been pushed to the brink by the retailing conglomerates.
I guess to make a comparison with conservation and "green"-like options for energy, etc., it's gonna cost a little more to do what I believe. It certainly does no good to say you're not going to shop at Best Buy then turn around and go to Wal-Mart, Amazon, B&N, and the like. They all have something that pushes me away.
We're going to have to rate companies to help us find the least of the evils when we shop.
It would be really dirty, but I can imagine software makers and library makers putting your MAC in the watermark. Nice universal way to find the originator.
The market doesn't solve all problems, despite what Wall St. and industry associations would like us to believe, there is still a role for government (non-Enronized that is) in the 21st century.
The longest advertisement I saw in a cinema just looked like one long love story / soap opera to me. I was appalled. I hope it was just an extreme advertising faux pas.
Compulsory registration of users
When a commercial encryption product is sold, the name, address and organization code (or individual identity card number) of the direct user of the product must be registered together with the purpose of each encryption product. The registration particulars will then be recorded with the state encryption administration authorities.
Use of state approved products
Units and individuals are only allowed to use commercial encryption products that have been approved by the state encryption administration authorities. They may not use encryption products they have researched and produced by themselves or that have been produced outside China.
No transfers allowed
Users of commercial encryption products may not transfer their commercial encryption products. Any malfunction of an encryption product must be repaired by a unit designated by the state encryption administration authorities. Any scrapping or destruction of encryption products must be reported to the state encryption administration authorities.
Foreigners are not allowed to use encryption at all, besides diplomats. Doesn't sound to me like opposition parties or underground movements are going to get licenses anytime soon.
Okay, okay...here are some better specs...still trying to build comparable features from Dell:
--1 x 2.2Ghz Pentium 4 (note that I didn't build a dual machine)
--512 MB RAM
--80GB HD
--ATI Fire GL2, 64MB,VGA/DVI
--Basic sound card
--DVD-RW/CD-RW
--Modem (remember, I'm trying to compare)
So, summary: A single proc sys with close as possible specs from Dell is....
$3,778
Bottom line, as a PC-User, I've got something to think about.
Just for fun, try to build a comparable brand name PC for $3000.
I tried with Dell and ended up with a $5,071 quote. I'm sure my specs can be debated, but I got:
--Dual Xeon 2.2Ghz (Hard to tell if this is a good comparison)
--512 MB RAM
--80GB HD
--ATI Fire GL2, 64MB,VGA/DVI (Best I could find on their site, besides high-end)
--Sound Blaster Live! Value
--Windows XP Pro
Anyone have any idea whether the Xeon 2.2Ghz is fair to compare with at all?
I can tell you have a great future ahead of you in the NSA/FBI/Justice Dept. This is the sort of patriot we need...to bad you seem to be English. Oh well, with folks like you I can see why England is so stable and crime free.
Nothing like a peaceful controlled society to keep the toes warm.
In the spirit of capatalist democracy, this is great news. With MFN status I can see great business opportunities for our wonderful nation. If things go really well, this could be the even that turns our economy around.
After all, what better filtering and firewall software could they buy than ours? I'm putting together the presentation for the VCs right now. If I act fast I could trump MS, IBM, CA, and Network Associates before they get all the business.
Come to think of it, I wonder what business opportunities I can find in providing security systems for the labor camps.
Aaargh, what am I thinking! The real money is in facial recognition software so they can catch the dissenters easier.
Maybe something that could protect legally, as well as help jerk people into realizing the state of affairs would be to create a project that:
(a) Makes a list of countries with free enough laws for various purposes of web sites
(b) Create click throughs similar to Adult sites where people click to verify that they are over 21, except the click through would be to verify that people live in one of the listed countries.
For example, if the USA, Hungary, and Japan have acceptable libel laws, then discussion sites would verify that users come from one of those.
Or auction sites, could verify that someone is not in Germany or France, etc.
Perhaps sites with certain types of media could confirm that viewers are not coming from UCITA-like countries such as the USA.
The idea is not to keep people from those countries out, but to help them realize that they are going to have to be democratically active to fix their countries idiot laws. Plus it might protect the sites from the legal problems mentioned.
I believe it is wrong to change the User Agent string in browsers, particularly in order to pretend to be an MS browser.
Rightly or wrongly, sites use their logs of User Agents to know how to focus their user interface designs and compatibility testing. If they have invalid or patently false information then we are doing a disservice to ourselves and the community.
It irks me that Opera (at least some version) ship with a false User Agent string, and I have always set this to the correct agent, and I think that this is a stand we must all take. The Web must be heterogenous.
I don't believe that you are just selling them your personal info for a discount. There is definitely an element of that, but I get close to the same or lower prices at the competitors without cards. Don't forget the psychological draw to the 'savings club'.
Anyway, it is sleazy to sell my info without adequately informing me. If that really is the purpose for these card clubs then I would say all of the advertizing is extremely misleading.
I heard him speak on computing power not so long ago may two or three months) and he was adamant that users should not have computers much more powerful than today and something to the effect of limited availability of computing power except when licensed.
I wish I could find a transcript because I can't vouch for the details, but it was shocking.
Oh well, big business is quite happy with big brother, what's new.
Bravo to Soren: he wants credit for the hard work he did. I 100% agree that it should have been done and is deplorable that it wasn't.
I would like to point out though that there is a strong argument that it was precisely that hard work rather than intellectual property that was stolen. Bear with me, and no knee-jerk mods please:
(1) A structure is just that: a structure. If there is intellectual property there it is in the original designer of the structure.
If this was a structure in nature (such as the human genome or what have you) then there are plenty of people who disagree with it being anyone's IP at all. Unfortunately, in the wisdom of capitalist democracy some people think that they *own* all of our tomatoes.
But this isn't nature, and someone did plan and write these structures and deserves credit. And Soren deserves plenty too for figuring it out and giving it to the world.
(2) You could say that his comments are IP, and that's a pretty strong argument. So perhaps there is more than just good old hard work here. However, it's possible these are just titles of the data structure elements, and titles aren't exactly covered by the same IP standards as other IP.
Oh well. I don't want to take away from the important work, and certainly nothing from Soren's credit. Just some food for thought.
Unfortunately, this is more like a turf war than you might think.
You're only proud to be a citizen of <Random_Country_Name/> because you are one. The Microsofties that I know generally stand behind their company. After all, that's where their livelihood is from, and it is human nature.
If you work in a dilbertian corporation the same jingoism applies to inter-departmental wars. In these wars, it is rare that the best decision for the corporation is made. Self-preservation is a powerful force and autoexec-jingoism is hard to avoid too.
I wish I was immune, but of course, when I worked in Japan I was all for the Japanese, when I worked in Europe, I took the EU side in trade disputes, and in my past life as an Aussie citizen I disparaged the ugly Americans. Oh well, perfection is hard to find.:-(
It's actually more amusing to be around Oracle citizens though. The way they quote "Larry" makes me very concerned about their welfare.
In any case, I don't think you'll get any Microsoft sick-outs soon. If you want to fight a good OS war then know your enemy for they are loyal.
I don't see this as a bad thing at all. My experience with both WebBoard and WebSite has been happily short-lived. They are products that I suppose could have been good if given the attention that Apache, IIS, and iPlanet Enterprise have. But they just don't cut the mustard for anything but the most basic usage.
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I just love to see these wars. It turns out the supposedly enlightened techie hordes of today manage to include plenty of Catholics and Protestants.
Will jingoism and xenophobia *ever* die...
By the way, FreeBSD rules...die Linux users;-)
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Before you know it your goddamned micropayments are going to be macro.
I can't believe people are falling for this, and what I really can't believe is that congress hasn't yet realized what a great source of tax revenue this will be. Yeah...this new micropayment will stop spam, right, now only the rich companies can spam.
Is your mailbox any less full every day because they have to pay to get it there. My god what idiots are pushing this stuff?
Hehe, when did a Windows system get promoted to the status of "box"
The planet covered in water is actually an organism that is being studied on the space station.
I've seen Solaris a couple of times in the past. The original is in Russian. Not knocking it, but it is one of the most difficult movies I've ever seen. It is inspiring you to get drawn in, but it is very perplexing. On the face of it the story is simple, but it is multi-layered.
It is also perhaps the most non-Hollywood movie ever made, so you might as well assume right now that Cameron, Steven, and George are not capable of remaking as complex.
Hmmm, my immediate reaction is to do what all good consumers should do, choose not to shop with the conglomerates.
But where do I go? I guess it'll have to be those boutique music stores that charge too much for CDs because they've been pushed to the brink by the retailing conglomerates.
I guess to make a comparison with conservation and "green"-like options for energy, etc., it's gonna cost a little more to do what I believe. It certainly does no good to say you're not going to shop at Best Buy then turn around and go to Wal-Mart, Amazon, B&N, and the like. They all have something that pushes me away.
We're going to have to rate companies to help us find the least of the evils when we shop.
It would be really dirty, but I can imagine software makers and library makers putting your MAC in the watermark. Nice universal way to find the originator.
The market doesn't solve all problems, despite what Wall St. and industry associations would like us to believe, there is still a role for government (non-Enronized that is) in the 21st century.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0215-06.htm
In any case, the wal-mart culture of middle-america is definitely not something I'm interested in aligning with. Makes microsoft look warm and cuddly.
The longest advertisement I saw in a cinema just looked like one long love story / soap opera to me. I was appalled. I hope it was just an extreme advertising faux pas.
Hmmm...
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http://www.virtualchina.com/archive/laws/lr0002
Compulsory registration of users
When a commercial encryption product is sold, the name, address and organization code (or individual identity card number) of the direct user of the product must be registered together with the purpose of each encryption product. The registration particulars will then be recorded with the state encryption administration authorities.
Use of state approved products
Units and individuals are only allowed to use commercial encryption products that have been approved by the state encryption administration authorities. They may not use encryption products they have researched and produced by themselves or that have been produced outside China.
No transfers allowed
Users of commercial encryption products may not transfer their commercial encryption products. Any malfunction of an encryption product must be repaired by a unit designated by the state encryption administration authorities. Any scrapping or destruction of encryption products must be reported to the state encryption administration authorities.
Foreigners are not allowed to use encryption at all, besides diplomats. Doesn't sound to me like opposition parties or underground movements are going to get licenses anytime soon.
Without the monitor
Okay, okay...here are some better specs...still trying to build comparable features from Dell:
--1 x 2.2Ghz Pentium 4 (note that I didn't build a dual machine)
--512 MB RAM
--80GB HD
--ATI Fire GL2, 64MB,VGA/DVI
--Basic sound card
--DVD-RW/CD-RW
--Modem (remember, I'm trying to compare)
So, summary: A single proc sys with close as possible specs from Dell is....
$3,778
Bottom line, as a PC-User, I've got something to think about.
Just for fun, try to build a comparable brand name PC for $3000.
I tried with Dell and ended up with a $5,071 quote. I'm sure my specs can be debated, but I got:
--Dual Xeon 2.2Ghz (Hard to tell if this is a good comparison)
--512 MB RAM
--80GB HD
--ATI Fire GL2, 64MB,VGA/DVI (Best I could find on their site, besides high-end)
--Sound Blaster Live! Value
--Windows XP Pro
Anyone have any idea whether the Xeon 2.2Ghz is fair to compare with at all?
I wish I could see the genius in this comment, but unfortunately, China is quite happy to break down your door if you are using PGP.
Of course, this is what the Gov would love to see here to...happy splintered doors of dissenters, but that's besides the point.
I can tell you have a great future ahead of you in the NSA/FBI/Justice Dept. This is the sort of patriot we need...to bad you seem to be English. Oh well, with folks like you I can see why England is so stable and crime free.
Nothing like a peaceful controlled society to keep the toes warm.
In the spirit of capatalist democracy, this is great news. With MFN status I can see great business opportunities for our wonderful nation. If things go really well, this could be the even that turns our economy around.
After all, what better filtering and firewall software could they buy than ours? I'm putting together the presentation for the VCs right now. If I act fast I could trump MS, IBM, CA, and Network Associates before they get all the business.
Come to think of it, I wonder what business opportunities I can find in providing security systems for the labor camps.
Aaargh, what am I thinking! The real money is in facial recognition software so they can catch the dissenters easier.
Yep, China is where the opportunities are.
Maybe something that could protect legally, as well as help jerk people into realizing the state of affairs would be to create a project that:
(a) Makes a list of countries with free enough laws for various purposes of web sites
(b) Create click throughs similar to Adult sites where people click to verify that they are over 21, except the click through would be to verify that people live in one of the listed countries.
For example, if the USA, Hungary, and Japan have acceptable libel laws, then discussion sites would verify that users come from one of those.
Or auction sites, could verify that someone is not in Germany or France, etc.
Perhaps sites with certain types of media could confirm that viewers are not coming from UCITA-like countries such as the USA.
The idea is not to keep people from those countries out, but to help them realize that they are going to have to be democratically active to fix their countries idiot laws. Plus it might protect the sites from the legal problems mentioned.
I concur...DirectNIC.com is great. I have two domains there, but they have tools that look like they could handle hundreds for me easily.
Also, their interface lets you do anything you need.
BTW, EasyDNS is great software that someone really should do as open source, but AFAIK the DN registration is just register.com.
I believe it is wrong to change the User Agent string in browsers, particularly in order to pretend to be an MS browser.
Rightly or wrongly, sites use their logs of User Agents to know how to focus their user interface designs and compatibility testing. If they have invalid or patently false information then we are doing a disservice to ourselves and the community.
It irks me that Opera (at least some version) ship with a false User Agent string, and I have always set this to the correct agent, and I think that this is a stand we must all take. The Web must be heterogenous.
I don't believe that you are just selling them your personal info for a discount. There is definitely an element of that, but I get close to the same or lower prices at the competitors without cards. Don't forget the psychological draw to the 'savings club'.
Anyway, it is sleazy to sell my info without adequately informing me. If that really is the purpose for these card clubs then I would say all of the advertizing is extremely misleading.
I heard him speak on computing power not so long ago may two or three months) and he was adamant that users should not have computers much more powerful than today and something to the effect of limited availability of computing power except when licensed.
I wish I could find a transcript because I can't vouch for the details, but it was shocking.
Oh well, big business is quite happy with big brother, what's new.
Bravo to Soren: he wants credit for the hard work he did. I 100% agree that it should have been done and is deplorable that it wasn't.
I would like to point out though that there is a strong argument that it was precisely that hard work rather than intellectual property that was stolen. Bear with me, and no knee-jerk mods please:
(1) A structure is just that: a structure. If there is intellectual property there it is in the original designer of the structure.
If this was a structure in nature (such as the human genome or what have you) then there are plenty of people who disagree with it being anyone's IP at all. Unfortunately, in the wisdom of capitalist democracy some people think that they *own* all of our tomatoes.
But this isn't nature, and someone did plan and write these structures and deserves credit. And Soren deserves plenty too for figuring it out and giving it to the world.
(2) You could say that his comments are IP, and that's a pretty strong argument. So perhaps there is more than just good old hard work here. However, it's possible these are just titles of the data structure elements, and titles aren't exactly covered by the same IP standards as other IP.
Oh well. I don't want to take away from the important work, and certainly nothing from Soren's credit. Just some food for thought.
Unfortunately, this is more like a turf war than you might think.
/> because you are one. The Microsofties that I know generally stand behind their company. After all, that's where their livelihood is from, and it is human nature.
:-(
You're only proud to be a citizen of <Random_Country_Name
If you work in a dilbertian corporation the same jingoism applies to inter-departmental wars. In these wars, it is rare that the best decision for the corporation is made. Self-preservation is a powerful force and autoexec-jingoism is hard to avoid too.
I wish I was immune, but of course, when I worked in Japan I was all for the Japanese, when I worked in Europe, I took the EU side in trade disputes, and in my past life as an Aussie citizen I disparaged the ugly Americans. Oh well, perfection is hard to find.
It's actually more amusing to be around Oracle citizens though. The way they quote "Larry" makes me very concerned about their welfare.
In any case, I don't think you'll get any Microsoft sick-outs soon. If you want to fight a good OS war then know your enemy for they are loyal.
I don't see this as a bad thing at all. My experience with both WebBoard and WebSite has been happily short-lived. They are products that I suppose could have been good if given the attention that Apache, IIS, and iPlanet Enterprise have. But they just don't cut the mustard for anything but the most basic usage.
I just love to see these wars. It turns out the supposedly enlightened techie hordes of today manage to include plenty of Catholics and Protestants. Will jingoism and xenophobia *ever* die... By the way, FreeBSD rules...die Linux users ;-)