What's your solution, if you're on a task force meant to help improve IT organization. Are you recommending that Cliff walks into the CIO's office and say, "There's nothing we can do."?
Seriously, what would you do in this position? Just give up? Is that how we solve problems now days?
Did a search for my neighborhood: Encino San Fernando Valley. Most results were for real estate sales. I wonder if this is the nature of blogs or google still need to refine the ranking algorithm.
This ruling gives you legal protection when you decide to put your songs, ebooks, or other copy-righted works on the Internet if you wish to prove yourself with easy access.
Without this ruling, merely having those works accessible from the Internet, even if you didn't mean to let others download them, can makes you a criminal*. More accurately, this ruling clarifies whether putting a copyrighted work on the net is legal or not. You might want to access a MP3 from work or while travelling to another country, and you may do so because it is protected by the doctrine of Fair Use. It only becomes illegal when it can be shown that the shared file is used in a way that is not protected by Fair Use. One example is if you start charging others to view your shared file. Now they can bust you for breaking the law. Note that using Gnutella to share your file, however, will probably still be considered illegal.
This ruling is consistent with the traditional American prinicpal of "innocent until proven guilty". If you "share" a file and no one is there to download it, does it still make you a criminal? No. This also puts a lot more burden of proof on the RIAA to demonstrate that your actions are illegal. It is no longer sufficient to say "His files are accessible over the Internet." Now they need to prove that actual harm has been down (someone without rights accessed these files). They may even have to prove criminal intent on your part (you knowingly allowed someone without rights to access these files). The last point can be a stretch, but it is a point you can argue in court.
* - More accurately, you have the probability of being a criminal. Since this was a legally unknown area before the ruling.
Except KDE would look even more foolish if they take constructive criticism as personal attacks and respond in a tit-for-tat fashion.
The thrust of the argument is *no software is perfect*. Sometimes it is necessary for Technical Quality to suffer in order to improve User Experience. Afterall, software exists to serve the users, not above of users.
Anyone who respond to this criticism by attacking technical imperfections in Firefox has totally missed the point.
Just to add to this. AdBlock can block based on a regular expression. So I block http://*.doubleclick.net/*
Which means any javascript, ads, images, flash from doubleclick is blocked. If the 'floating transparent image' is served from doubleclick, it will not show up either:)
Or you can do something sophsitcated like blocking
http://www.somesite.com/ads/*
Which blocks everything under the 'ads' directory for that site but loads the rest of the site normally.
Mandrake recently created a new category for their release called Community. The Community version has been well teste, and is supposely "good enough", but not "good enough" for production use. While this Official version is well... "better".
The more I try to explain this the more confused I get. I think they should just differentiate their products like so:
just because you make millions in Hollywood and have played many roles in film doesn't give you any more credibility than the guy who slaves all day for hisfamily.
Um, actually, it does. Simply because most people trust celebrities more than they do the average joe.
Nobody is saying that CBS is violating the constitution. It's not a constitutional issue. Nobody other than the some ultra liberal hippie nut case has ever made it a constitutional issue. The issue is that CBS is curtailing programming for political reasons. Which, although not unconstitutional, is dumb, shameful, and just plain disgusts the most of us. That's why they are simply getting criticized, instead actually being sued for violating the law.
Please don't give me that line about being force to listen. Who says the laws force you to listen to your neighbors blast Led Zepplin at 3 am? That's against the law and that's why police is there! So why are you complaining when there are already laws protecting right NOT to listen to Led Zepplin at 3 in the morning?
The reason why Clear Channel dropped him is because FCC threatened to fine Clear Channel and anyone that didn't! And you really believe that it's not a First Amendment issue when the government controls and censors what you and I read, hear, and see? The fact is millions of Americans WANT to listen to Stern and don't find his show to be patently offensive. So why take him off the radio?
Because our government is again overreacting to the complaints of a vocal minority. Not to mention they are just plain pandering to the religious right in an election year.
Having said all that, I still rather be in the good old US of A than any other nation in the world:)
Unlike traditional RPGs where you feel like an important part to the story in the game. By nature of having thousands of other players in an MMORPG, the typical player are bound to feel average and an insignificant part in the game. While balance is necessary, it's just an illusion to help a player feel unique when he's just another average entity in the virtual world. The point at which a player realizes that is also when he gets bored of the game and closes account.
MMORPG could do more to help a player feel unique and involved by reducing the emphasis on massively-multiplayer, and and take a more "design/play in your own dungeon" kind of approach.
You don't seem to get it. You say all Stern has to do is to go to XM. But why does he? Because the FCC disagrees with what he says? What power does the FCC have to fine someone for saying things that millions of American wants to hear and enjoys hearing?
And FCC is clearly unreasonable in this situation. They have very vague guidelines on what they considered to be actionable (indecent) and what's not. And threatens to punish anyone who crosses this invisible line. There's no way for anyone to know what the FCC consider to be indecent. So should people just all quit AM/FM radio because thye might potentially say something offensive? Where is the clear line that defines indecent speech that's allowed and not allowed on the radio? The word 'Nigger' is way more offensive than the word 'Shit', yet the FCC allows the N word to be used on the radio, but not 'Shit'. Is that reasonable?
Technology aside... People who use Linux believe in what they use. Linux is created by the community, for the community, and it will always grow and evolve with its community. People trust Linux because we feel that Linux hears our voice and cares for its users. Microsoft will always be a commerical company first. As a business, Microsoft will always put profit ahead of people. It can never form as close a community with its users as Linux can; that's the big difference. People believe in Linux not because of the software or technology, but because of the community and relationship it represents. Linux has brought its users and creators together as neighbors, whereas Microsoft is often reviled by its users.
I begin to think that pehaps these same people now toting the supremacy of their operating system might in another time promote the supremacy of their language, nationality, or race.
Or promoting the supremacy of not being elitsts?
If Moffitt chooses to put funny headers in his emails, or start every line with 'begin', it will not drive people away from the Great Satan of Software. That was never his motive, not according to the posted email anyway. Or have I misread the email or missed something?
What he has done is more of a pratical joke. Like he explained (and you left this out), is that Windows user can still use his mailing list.... if they know how to fudge wit the headers. That's a far cry from the nationalism and racial supremacy that you allude to. Don't try to make the man sound like a Nazi SS soldier for such a little thing.
Don't take this situation so seriously. Afterall, it is Mottiff's mailing list, and he can ban whatever posts he wants. At the end of the day, if he decides to drive away intelligent people like you or me, it is more of his loss then ours!
I was surprised to find out that driver's license was NOT some sort of national ID card. I can rest easier at night knowing that my prophecy was somehow right. But I do have some questions about the ramification of using a driver's license as an ID card.
Does this mean that everyone will have a driver's license now? As in the blind-mute psychotic guy in the electirc wheel chair who lives next to me who's constantly threatening to crush me with his invisible tank?
Or does it mean that if you never passed the driving test you are exempt from having a "National ID"?
I can see having national ID will turn us into slaves of a totalitarian police state, but it's the little questions that bothers me.
Well said. Education is not easy. It takes hard work and a lot of dedication. I am a Java Developer. I have been programming for 3 years and I've taught myself just about everything I know. I know more about programming than most of my coworkers, most of whom has college degrees.
But I definitely do not write better code than them. I have the tendency to hurry my programs without testing them completely. My impatience have sprung embarrasssing bugs in our applications and I feel like a fool for it.
While some of the other programmers here give the appearance that they are college juniors with a hard time working in a business environment, I know that they put a lot of effort and dedication into their code. I simply have not invested that kind of effort, and I believe my lack of a degree reflects it. I am only slow beginning to imitate their thoroughness, and I feel that I have become a much better programmer by following their footsteps.
I don't know what most employers think. But from what I know about myself and from what I have seen of others, people with college degrees may not be the brightest or possess the most technical skills, but these are people who have worked hard before to get into a University and earned a degree. My coworkers have spend many hours trying to do a (in my opinion) trivial thing, but at the end they do get it done. And that is pretty impressive in my opionion.
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What's your solution, if you're on a task force meant to help improve IT organization. Are you recommending that Cliff walks into the CIO's office and say, "There's nothing we can do."?
Seriously, what would you do in this position? Just give up? Is that how we solve problems now days?
Did a search for my neighborhood: Encino San Fernando Valley. Most results were for real estate sales. I wonder if this is the nature of blogs or google still need to refine the ranking algorithm.
IANAL...
This ruling gives you legal protection when you decide to put your songs, ebooks, or other copy-righted works on the Internet if you wish to prove yourself with easy access.
Without this ruling, merely having those works accessible from the Internet, even if you didn't mean to let others download them, can makes you a criminal*. More accurately, this ruling clarifies whether putting a copyrighted work on the net is legal or not. You might want to access a MP3 from work or while travelling to another country, and you may do so because it is protected by the doctrine of Fair Use. It only becomes illegal when it can be shown that the shared file is used in a way that is not protected by Fair Use. One example is if you start charging others to view your shared file. Now they can bust you for breaking the law. Note that using Gnutella to share your file, however, will probably still be considered illegal.
This ruling is consistent with the traditional American prinicpal of "innocent until proven guilty". If you "share" a file and no one is there to download it, does it still make you a criminal? No. This also puts a lot more burden of proof on the RIAA to demonstrate that your actions are illegal. It is no longer sufficient to say "His files are accessible over the Internet." Now they need to prove that actual harm has been down (someone without rights accessed these files). They may even have to prove criminal intent on your part (you knowingly allowed someone without rights to access these files). The last point can be a stretch, but it is a point you can argue in court.
* - More accurately, you have the probability of being a criminal. Since this was a legally unknown area before the ruling.
Except KDE would look even more foolish if they take constructive criticism as personal attacks and respond in a tit-for-tat fashion.
The thrust of the argument is *no software is perfect*. Sometimes it is necessary for Technical Quality to suffer in order to improve User Experience. Afterall, software exists to serve the users, not above of users.
Anyone who respond to this criticism by attacking technical imperfections in Firefox has totally missed the point.
Just to add to this. AdBlock can block based on a regular expression. So I block
:)
http://*.doubleclick.net/*
Which means any javascript, ads, images, flash from doubleclick is blocked. If the 'floating transparent image' is served from doubleclick, it will not show up either
Or you can do something sophsitcated like blocking
http://www.somesite.com/ads/*
Which blocks everything under the 'ads' directory for that site but loads the rest of the site normally.
Mandrake recently created a new category for their release called Community. The Community version has been well teste, and is supposely "good enough", but not "good enough" for production use. While this Official version is well... "better".
The more I try to explain this the more confused I get. I think they should just differentiate their products like so:
Mandrake DANGER-MIGHT-BLOWUP-EVERYTHING
Mandrake IT-WORKS-ON-MY-MACHINE
Mandrake GOOD-ENOUGH-TO-AVOID-LAWSUITS
just because you make millions in Hollywood and have played many roles in film doesn't give you any more credibility than the guy who slaves all day for hisfamily. Um, actually, it does. Simply because most people trust celebrities more than they do the average joe.
Nobody is saying that CBS is violating the constitution. It's not a constitutional issue. Nobody other than the some ultra liberal hippie nut case has ever made it a constitutional issue. The issue is that CBS is curtailing programming for political reasons. Which, although not unconstitutional, is dumb, shameful, and just plain disgusts the most of us. That's why they are simply getting criticized, instead actually being sued for violating the law.
Please don't give me that line about being force to listen. Who says the laws force you to listen to your neighbors blast Led Zepplin at 3 am? That's against the law and that's why police is there! So why are you complaining when there are already laws protecting right NOT to listen to Led Zepplin at 3 in the morning?
:)
The reason why Clear Channel dropped him is because FCC threatened to fine Clear Channel and anyone that didn't! And you really believe that it's not a First Amendment issue when the government controls and censors what you and I read, hear, and see? The fact is millions of Americans WANT to listen to Stern and don't find his show to be patently offensive. So why take him off the radio?
Because our government is again overreacting to the complaints of a vocal minority. Not to mention they are just plain pandering to the religious right in an election year.
Having said all that, I still rather be in the good old US of A than any other nation in the world
Unlike traditional RPGs where you feel like an important part to the story in the game. By nature of having thousands of other players in an MMORPG, the typical player are bound to feel average and an insignificant part in the game. While balance is necessary, it's just an illusion to help a player feel unique when he's just another average entity in the virtual world. The point at which a player realizes that is also when he gets bored of the game and closes account.
MMORPG could do more to help a player feel unique and involved by reducing the emphasis on massively-multiplayer, and and take a more "design/play in your own dungeon" kind of approach.
You don't seem to get it. You say all Stern has to do is to go to XM. But why does he? Because the FCC disagrees with what he says? What power does the FCC have to fine someone for saying things that millions of American wants to hear and enjoys hearing?
And FCC is clearly unreasonable in this situation. They have very vague guidelines on what they considered to be actionable (indecent) and what's not. And threatens to punish anyone who crosses this invisible line. There's no way for anyone to know what the FCC consider to be indecent. So should people just all quit AM/FM radio because thye might potentially say something offensive? Where is the clear line that defines indecent speech that's allowed and not allowed on the radio? The word 'Nigger' is way more offensive than the word 'Shit', yet the FCC allows the N word to be used on the radio, but not 'Shit'. Is that reasonable?
Technology aside... People who use Linux believe in what they use. Linux is created by the community, for the community, and it will always grow and evolve with its community. People trust Linux because we feel that Linux hears our voice and cares for its users. Microsoft will always be a commerical company first. As a business, Microsoft will always put profit ahead of people. It can never form as close a community with its users as Linux can; that's the big difference. People believe in Linux not because of the software or technology, but because of the community and relationship it represents. Linux has brought its users and creators together as neighbors, whereas Microsoft is often reviled by its users.
This article will have great importance to our director of IT, since the way our company stores data seems to completely unstructured.
I begin to think that pehaps these same people now toting the supremacy of their operating system might in another time promote the supremacy of their language, nationality, or race.
Or promoting the supremacy of not being elitsts?
If Moffitt chooses to put funny headers in his emails, or start every line with 'begin', it will not drive people away from the Great Satan of Software. That was never his motive, not according to the posted email anyway. Or have I misread the email or missed something?
What he has done is more of a pratical joke. Like he explained (and you left this out), is that Windows user can still use his mailing list.... if they know how to fudge wit the headers. That's a far cry from the nationalism and racial supremacy that you allude to. Don't try to make the man sound like a Nazi SS soldier for such a little thing.
Don't take this situation so seriously. Afterall, it is Mottiff's mailing list, and he can ban whatever posts he wants. At the end of the day, if he decides to drive away intelligent people like you or me, it is more of his loss then ours!
I was surprised to find out that driver's license was NOT some sort of national ID card. I can rest easier at night knowing that my prophecy was somehow right. But I do have some questions about the ramification of using a driver's license as an ID card.
Does this mean that everyone will have a driver's license now? As in the blind-mute psychotic guy in the electirc wheel chair who lives next to me who's constantly threatening to crush me with his invisible tank?
Or does it mean that if you never passed the driving test you are exempt from having a "National ID"?
I can see having national ID will turn us into slaves of a totalitarian police state, but it's the little questions that bothers me.
Well said. Education is not easy. It takes hard work and a lot of dedication. I am a Java Developer. I have been programming for 3 years and I've taught myself just about everything I know. I know more about programming than most of my coworkers, most of whom has college degrees.
But I definitely do not write better code than them. I have the tendency to hurry my programs without testing them completely. My impatience have sprung embarrasssing bugs in our applications and I feel like a fool for it.
While some of the other programmers here give the appearance that they are college juniors with a hard time working in a business environment, I know that they put a lot of effort and dedication into their code. I simply have not invested that kind of effort, and I believe my lack of a degree reflects it. I am only slow beginning to imitate their thoroughness, and I feel that I have become a much better programmer by following their footsteps.
I don't know what most employers think. But from what I know about myself and from what I have seen of others, people with college degrees may not be the brightest or possess the most technical skills, but these are people who have worked hard before to get into a University and earned a degree. My coworkers have spend many hours trying to do a (in my opinion) trivial thing, but at the end they do get it done. And that is pretty impressive in my opionion.