its only a hop skip and a jump from there to have the judge decide that he ALWAYS shows a lack of judgement, and its a medical condition.
Damn, I hate it when that happens...
My comment was meant to say: if his judgement was so erratic and poor, how could he have managed to hack his way into such prominent sites? eBay and Lycos (et. al.) must be attacked quite regularly and we don't hear of them being cracked very often...
Mind you, in this kid's case, the apple may not have fallen far from the tree. His dad does not have any problem with how Jerome conducted himself
in front of the judge:
In a telephone interview after the appearance, Heckenkamp's father, Thomas Heckenkamp, said his son is only trying to protect his rights . "They've overstepped their bounds, and they're keeping him from defending himself," he said.
The internet was born, bred, and raised through adolescence by the US, and to just let it go for PC reasons is stupid.
PC reasons? The Internet is a global environment, and any organization that "oversees" (if that is an appropriate term) the Internet must have a global perspective if it to be of any use or legitimacy.
Having the US government take over will no doubt benefit US corporations, but for the remainder of the planet, it will be no better than what ICANN is proposing. The interests of the few will be forced upon the rest of us.
Maybe the Internet NEEDS a benevolent dictator, and if so, the US gov't is the best bet.
That is strictly a matter of opinion. If I had to choose, I would trust the benevolence of the EU long before I would trust the benevolence of the US. At least the EU has a wider variety of interests to represent.
And if you're afraid of losing freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, what would you do if they revoked your right to vote?
Certainly you have every right to your opinion, but I do not think it is in any way obvious that an armed population is a guarantee of, or a precursor to democracy.
If anything, the risk is that too much rhetoric will obscure the valid point - that ICANN does not want to be accountable to the population they serve. References in other posts comparing ICANN's actions to the IOC are bang on.
The RIAA doesn't care, though. They only care about being able to ramp up the prices on music CDs.
That raises an interesting question. Presumably, the "cost" of all this "rampant piracy" has been built into the cost of legitimately purchased CDs. When the RIAA gets their way and laws are passed to protect their interests and business model, what are the odds that CD prices will go down?
Never underestimate a quality tool in the hands of a master.
Granted, but I bet Clapton would still sound like Clapton, regardless of whether he was playing a cheap Squire or a vintage US-made Strat. Van Halen guitar work is recognizable if it's a bastardized Kramer, or an Ernie Ball. The talent shines through regardless.
If you talent and ability, you don't need an expensive rig with loads of effects in order to sound good. That would be the difference between guys like Eric Johnson and Joe Satriani and lame-ass pretenders like Wes Borland.
Never buy a guitar cause it looks good (unless it sounds good too).
My guitar teacher always told me that the sound comes from your hands.
With the amps and digital hardware that is out there today, you can pretty much make any guitar sound like any other. Sure, there is nothing that beats a great classic guitar (My favourite is a Gibson SG), but the idea is not to get hung up on the label, and how much it costs.
If you have talent, and play with passion, you can make magic with the cheapest guitar (as long as it stays in tune...)
They're trying to build a version to fly at Kitty Hawk for the centennial celebration of the original flight, December 17th 1903.
Not to belabour the point - but why?
Sure, it was an important achievement, but what's the point? And why have more than one team? Bragging rights are all that seems to be on the line here. So, in the race to build the first, best replica, a number of teams are devoting a lot of time and resources to a project that will add nothing to the body of human knowledge and experience - regardless of the outcome.
So I will ask the obvious question again. Why? There is nothing wrong with marking the occasion, but this is way OTT.
Think of the viscious fights over who gets to be the first to kill Jar-Jar Binks.
The designers probably know that everyone would want to kill Jar Jar. That being the case, here are my guesses as to how they can deal with that eventuality:
1: Make Jar-Jar extremely kick-ass and very difficult to kill.
2: Surround Jar-Jar in a very protected place surrounded by some extremely hard-core NPC's who will protect him to the death.
3: Hide Jar-Jar in some really remote location. If someone finds him, they deserve to finish him.
4: (Most likely) Leave Jar-Jar out of the game.
Disabling SNMP doesn't close the SNMP hole, in some cases. Apparently, the hole may be in SNMP itself.
How so? If there is no daemon listening on the port, how can a system be at risk? If I don't run an SNMP daemon, any SNMP data that hits my boxen will be dropped.
Mind you, the implications of this issue is huge for those that run Tivoli / NetView or OpenView management systems.
Actually, I have a real problem with that. There were all sorts of speculators who tried to sign up domains for recognizable trademarks in the hopes of making a lot of money selling the domain back to the trademark holder. To me, that is un-acceptable.
Now, the people who registered generic terms for domains (i.e. drugs.com, beer.com, etc) - those were the smart people because the domain could properly be sold to the highest bidder.
In this case (and the example you quote with the NHL Wild), the companies trying to get a domain that was registered long before the company existed, these people are no better than the cyber-squatters and do not deserved to be treated any better.
It's too bad that they are the ones with the money and the lawyers though. It would be nice if ICANN and their *cough* impartial *cough* dispute mechanism could take this sort of thing into account. Mind you, it would be nice if ICANN had the broad interests of the entire Internet community at heart as opposed to the corporate interests it seems to represent.
As many others have stated, the cost of this is not ACTUALLY $80 per month. It is 80 Canadian Dollars per month, which is 50 US Dollars at the most.
The above point is essentially true, however it might be worthwhile to point out that in the domestic market, the Canadian dollar has >80% purchasing power compared to the US dollar in the US domestic market. Prices are not 40% higher in Canada than they are in the US.
How about paying a reasonable wage - enough to pay the bills. It's not a binary choice - poverty level or CEO level wages you know.
this is the kind of migrant labor these workers chose.
Just like they "chose" to be poor. Ri-i-ight.
Granted, they probably didn't have a whole lot of options to choose from
Definitely an understatement. Let's see: poverty level wages, or starve. They definitely had a choice. Mind you, HP also had a choice: they could pay a living wage to their staff, or they could contract out the positions to a third party and minimize their costs, and give Carly a bigger bonus.
It's nice to see that the pig-ignorant are alive and well. You might have had a fraction of a point to make, but with that statement, you blew all your credibility.
Reading your post did remind me of Jeff Foxworthy though...
The tactics described in this article here are very similar to the ones the large brands use on contract workers in the export zones in SE Asia. Naomi Klein describes it at length in her book NO LOGO.
Strange that these same management techniques which work so well on the poor and uneducated overseas are now being used domestically.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
I will play the Devil's Advocate for a moment here:
I am sure that Jack Valenti would argue he is not asking for an indifinite copyright term (not yet anyways), but merely one that permits his organization members to receive an adequate return on their investment. If those copyright holders do well, they can employ more people if they issue dividends to the shareholders, that money goes back into the economy. That's good for all of us. As Jack said, how does it hurt anyone to extend the copyright protection on Mickey Mouse for a few more years?
(Personally, I think that arguement is crap, but sounds like something his group would support.)
On a completely different topic: maybe it's because I am not a USian, but why are the authors of the US constitution referred to as the "framers". Isn't that a tad over-dramatic?
Putting aside the interesting philosophical question of whether a corporation can be evil for a moment
Look at Phillip Morris and the other tobacco companies. If they do not qualify as evil, I don't know what does.
Mind you, it could just be that the tobacco companies just happens to be by evil people. Then there is the degree of evil involved. Clearly the CEOs of big tobacco are way more evil than the guy who delivers mail at Kraft (which is AFAIK a Phillip Morris subsidiary).
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the Singularity, the point in time when humans create a machine intelligence that is smarter than we are.
How exactly do you define intelligence?
If you define it in terms of capabilities, computers are already faster at calculations than any human could be. In the absence of a clearly defined standard of what constitues intelligence, how do we know what the Singularity IS much less when we get to that point?
The Turing test for Artificial Intelligences was once considered the benchmark as to whether the goal of creating an artificial intelligence had been achieved. Now, the test is considered insignificant because what it measured (the ability to understand and respond to human natural language) was merely one aspect of intelligence, and apparently not the most important indicator of intelligence.
There are literally hundreds of IQ tests out there, and they all measure something, but the question is, does it measure what it claims to, and is the thing being measured an appropriate indicator of what you are looking for? If the experts (psychologists) can't come to some sort of concensus, what hope to the rest of us have for figuring it out?
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its only a hop skip and a jump from there to have the judge decide that he ALWAYS shows a lack of judgement, and its a medical condition.
Damn, I hate it when that happens...
My comment was meant to say: if his judgement was so erratic and poor, how could he have managed to hack his way into such prominent sites? eBay and Lycos (et. al.) must be attacked quite regularly and we don't hear of them being cracked very often...
Mind you, in this kid's case, the apple may not have fallen far from the tree. His dad does not have any problem with how Jerome conducted himself in front of the judge:
In a telephone interview after the appearance, Heckenkamp's father, Thomas Heckenkamp, said his son is only trying to protect his rights . "They've overstepped their bounds, and they're keeping him from defending himself," he said.
Dumb-asses beget dumb-asses, I suppose
its only a hop skip and a jump from there to have the judge decide that he ALWAYS shows a lack of judgement, and its a medical condition.
Yes, but if such poor (non-existant?) judgement was typical of his behaviour, how could he have managed to ha>
The internet was born, bred, and raised through adolescence by the US, and to just let it go for PC reasons is stupid.
PC reasons? The Internet is a global environment, and any organization that "oversees" (if that is an appropriate term) the Internet must have a global perspective if it to be of any use or legitimacy.
Having the US government take over will no doubt benefit US corporations, but for the remainder of the planet, it will be no better than what ICANN is proposing. The interests of the few will be forced upon the rest of us.
Maybe the Internet NEEDS a benevolent dictator, and if so, the US gov't is the best bet.
That is strictly a matter of opinion. If I had to choose, I would trust the benevolence of the EU long before I would trust the benevolence of the US. At least the EU has a wider variety of interests to represent.
And if you're afraid of losing freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, what would you do if they revoked your right to vote?
Certainly you have every right to your opinion, but I do not think it is in any way obvious that an armed population is a guarantee of, or a precursor to democracy.
If anything, the risk is that too much rhetoric will obscure the valid point - that ICANN does not want to be accountable to the population they serve. References in other posts comparing ICANN's actions to the IOC are bang on.
The RIAA doesn't care, though. They only care about being able to ramp up the prices on music CDs.
That raises an interesting question. Presumably, the "cost" of all this "rampant piracy" has been built into the cost of legitimately purchased CDs. When the RIAA gets their way and laws are passed to protect their interests and business model, what are the odds that CD prices will go down?
Slim or none?
Never underestimate a quality tool in the hands of a master.
Granted, but I bet Clapton would still sound like Clapton, regardless of whether he was playing a cheap Squire or a vintage US-made Strat. Van Halen guitar work is recognizable if it's a bastardized Kramer, or an Ernie Ball. The talent shines through regardless.
If you talent and ability, you don't need an expensive rig with loads of effects in order to sound good. That would be the difference between guys like Eric Johnson and Joe Satriani and lame-ass pretenders like Wes Borland.
Never buy a guitar cause it looks good (unless it sounds good too).
My guitar teacher always told me that the sound comes from your hands.
With the amps and digital hardware that is out there today, you can pretty much make any guitar sound like any other. Sure, there is nothing that beats a great classic guitar (My favourite is a Gibson SG), but the idea is not to get hung up on the label, and how much it costs.
If you have talent, and play with passion, you can make magic with the cheapest guitar (as long as it stays in tune...)
They're trying to build a version to fly at Kitty Hawk for the centennial celebration of the original flight, December 17th 1903.
Not to belabour the point - but why?
Sure, it was an important achievement, but what's the point? And why have more than one team? Bragging rights are all that seems to be on the line here. So, in the race to build the first, best replica, a number of teams are devoting a lot of time and resources to a project that will add nothing to the body of human knowledge and experience - regardless of the outcome.
So I will ask the obvious question again. Why? There is nothing wrong with marking the occasion, but this is way OTT.
Think of the viscious fights over who gets to be the first to kill Jar-Jar Binks.
The designers probably know that everyone would want to kill Jar Jar. That being the case, here are my guesses as to how they can deal with that eventuality:
1: Make Jar-Jar extremely kick-ass and very difficult to kill.
2: Surround Jar-Jar in a very protected place surrounded by some extremely hard-core NPC's who will protect him to the death.
3: Hide Jar-Jar in some really remote location. If someone finds him, they deserve to finish him.
4: (Most likely) Leave Jar-Jar out of the game.
Disabling SNMP doesn't close the SNMP hole, in some cases. Apparently, the hole may be in SNMP itself.
How so? If there is no daemon listening on the port, how can a system be at risk? If I don't run an SNMP daemon, any SNMP data that hits my boxen will be dropped.
Mind you, the implications of this issue is huge for those that run Tivoli / NetView or OpenView management systems.
I think it's a great move on behalf of GNOME.
I was under the impression that Sun was going to use GNOME as the default GUI instead of CDE in the next (and future) version of Solaris.
I am sure that Scott McNealy will be thrilled that his GUI will be based on something that is m$ in essence...
And if he has to pay a license to m$ to distribute it...
First come, First serve should apply.
Actually, I have a real problem with that. There were all sorts of speculators who tried to sign up domains for recognizable trademarks in the hopes of making a lot of money selling the domain back to the trademark holder. To me, that is un-acceptable.
Now, the people who registered generic terms for domains (i.e. drugs.com, beer.com, etc) - those were the smart people because the domain could properly be sold to the highest bidder.
In this case (and the example you quote with the NHL Wild), the companies trying to get a domain that was registered long before the company existed, these people are no better than the cyber-squatters and do not deserved to be treated any better.
It's too bad that they are the ones with the money and the lawyers though. It would be nice if ICANN and their *cough* impartial *cough* dispute mechanism could take this sort of thing into account. Mind you, it would be nice if ICANN had the broad interests of the entire Internet community at heart as opposed to the corporate interests it seems to represent.
I don't know, it doesn't seem right. Shouldn't they be downloading Linux or trying to destroy the WTO or something?
/. contingent would have been watching anime or pr0n...
I would have thought that the
Or both - anime pr0n...
Tivo is not available here in Canada
I don't know if this is Tivo per se, but Bell will sell you a device that offers the same sort of functionality. Details here
I assume it probably phones home in the same way.
As many others have stated, the cost of this is not ACTUALLY $80 per month. It is 80 Canadian Dollars per month, which is 50 US Dollars at the most.
The above point is essentially true, however it might be worthwhile to point out that in the domestic market, the Canadian dollar has >80% purchasing power compared to the US dollar in the US domestic market. Prices are not 40% higher in Canada than they are in the US.
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Also, learn English. Learn how to speak it so that even slow midwestern people like me can understand you.
Maybe the "slow mid-western people" will learn a bit of tolerance.
My command of the English language is pretty good, but based on comments like that, I do not understand you either...
What's the alternative?
How about paying a reasonable wage - enough to pay the bills. It's not a binary choice - poverty level or CEO level wages you know.
this is the kind of migrant labor these workers chose.
Just like they "chose" to be poor. Ri-i-ight.
Granted, they probably didn't have a whole lot of options to choose from
Definitely an understatement. Let's see: poverty level wages, or starve. They definitely had a choice. Mind you, HP also had a choice: they could pay a living wage to their staff, or they could contract out the positions to a third party and minimize their costs, and give Carly a bigger bonus.
Thats nice to know, so why are you here?
It's nice to see that the pig-ignorant are alive and well. You might have had a fraction of a point to make, but with that statement, you blew all your credibility.
Reading your post did remind me of Jeff Foxworthy though...
Or they could whine about it.
Spoken like someone who has always been comfortably middle class.
"It's their fault for being at the bottom of the economic ladder. They sit and complain instead of working harder and smarter."
There should be some kind of income cap, like the top-paied executive can't earn more than 10x what the lowest paid worker in the company can
Are you kidding? Think about all the time they spend developing those mission statements. That's gotta be worth more than 10X minimum wage.
The tactics described in this article here are very similar to the ones the large brands use on contract workers in the export zones in SE Asia. Naomi Klein describes it at length in her book NO LOGO.
Strange that these same management techniques which work so well on the poor and uneducated overseas are now being used domestically.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
I will play the Devil's Advocate for a moment here:
I am sure that Jack Valenti would argue he is not asking for an indifinite copyright term (not yet anyways), but merely one that permits his organization members to receive an adequate return on their investment. If those copyright holders do well, they can employ more people if they issue dividends to the shareholders, that money goes back into the economy. That's good for all of us. As Jack said, how does it hurt anyone to extend the copyright protection on Mickey Mouse for a few more years?
(Personally, I think that arguement is crap, but sounds like something his group would support.)
On a completely different topic: maybe it's because I am not a USian, but why are the authors of the US constitution referred to as the "framers". Isn't that a tad over-dramatic?
Putting aside the interesting philosophical question of whether a corporation can be evil for a moment
Look at Phillip Morris and the other tobacco companies. If they do not qualify as evil, I don't know what does.
Mind you, it could just be that the tobacco companies just happens to be by evil people. Then there is the degree of evil involved. Clearly the CEOs of big tobacco are way more evil than the guy who delivers mail at Kraft (which is AFAIK a Phillip Morris subsidiary).
the Singularity, the point in time when humans create a machine intelligence that is smarter than we are.
How exactly do you define intelligence?
If you define it in terms of capabilities, computers are already faster at calculations than any human could be. In the absence of a clearly defined standard of what constitues intelligence, how do we know what the Singularity IS much less when we get to that point?
The Turing test for Artificial Intelligences was once considered the benchmark as to whether the goal of creating an artificial intelligence had been achieved. Now, the test is considered insignificant because what it measured (the ability to understand and respond to human natural language) was merely one aspect of intelligence, and apparently not the most important indicator of intelligence.
There are literally hundreds of IQ tests out there, and they all measure something, but the question is, does it measure what it claims to, and is the thing being measured an appropriate indicator of what you are looking for? If the experts (psychologists) can't come to some sort of concensus, what hope to the rest of us have for figuring it out?