How do people reconcile that with the privacy provisions in the U.S. constitution?
They don't. The people who believe "if you're not guilty, then you have no need to hide" don't believe in reconciling. Or logic. They believe in doing whatever they want whenever they want to. After all, they know they're right.
There will always be people like that. Unfortunately, one of them happens to be attorney general of the united states at the moment.
Want simple laws? Want elected representatives to be forced into an individual up or down vote on every piece of pork? Want to end the silly procedure of slipping in a last minute amendment to fatten or kill a bill? Pass this amendment:
Congress shall pass no law exceeding in length 5000 words.
For reference, the original U.S. constitution was ~4600 words. Adopting something like the Federal Budget would take well over 100 votes this way. (Back of the hand calculation based on current administration's draft 2004 budget at 2866 pages.)
The real story here is... that the Google teflon is wearing thin in the media.
Media, schmedia. We like Google here at Slashdot. Therefore, this is no big deal.
Had the culprit been some one else (such as Microsoft, Real, SCO, any RIAA label, or George Lucas, whom we don't like), then this would have been a crime of epic proportions.
Yeah, I'm kinda stuck on, "How the H-E-double-hockey-sticks did that happen? Little weasels got something right for once."...Which means there must be something cataclysmically _wrong_ about the TiVo plan that I'm just not seeing yet.
Even if only 25% of registrations are relatively accurate,...
Better yet, the 25% that gives real info probably overlaps pretty well with the group that advertising can sway. Those who give no info or bad info are hard to sell anyway.
1. Does the non-pulsatile LVAD interfere with the mechanisms in the body that regulate blood pressure?
2. Can the non-pulsatile LVAD accommodate the need for increased blood flow during exercise, e.g. walking, as opposed to non-activity, e.g. sitting or sleeping. (Perhaps it is similar to existing devices in this regard, but I am a layman and have no idea how those work either.)
The cell phone companies clearly blew an opportunity when they initially treated the hardware as a loss leader. It's hard to get that genie back in the bottle. People today will pay for a crap flash MP3 player or low-to-medium-end digital camera, but balk at paying a premium for a mobile phone with loads of features.
Since people (generally) can't keep their hardware if they switch providers, they don't love/value their hardware. They expect that they'll have to switch plans next year and that they'll have to have a new phone at that time. That, as much as anything but the breakage rate on devices that, frankly, we abuse, is why people don't think an investment of cash in an uberphone is going to be worth it in the long term.
Part of the reason this test is hard is that you have to do it out of the context of your life. Here are some of the tests for IDing phishing:
1. Email from companies you haven't done business with is fraudultent. Or SPAM.
2. If it looks even vaguely like a fraud/SPAM you received last week, it's fraud/SPAM again.
3. If it's misspelled or has bad grammar, it's fraud.
4. If it wants you to give it any personal data (e.g. "verify your account info"), it's almost certainly fraud.
5. Even if it appears legit, don't follow the links. Ever. Either (a) log into your account via the regular site or (b) call the phone number on your real bill.
Sure, there are other tests, like looking at where the links actually point or checking DNS entries, but Grandma can't be taught those things. These things, she can remember.
[sarcasm] I'm glad to learn that we are making rapid progress to where humans will learn to control their military with drugs. Good thing we're not still a dangerous, savage child-race, or anything.[/sarcasm]
Even the DMCA was signed under Clinton's presidency. So you'll have to vote Green or some other left-left-wing party if you want to revoke some of these laws
The sad part is that no matter what party you elect, there are only 536 elected members of the Federal Government. It's within the reach of any large corporation to bribe them all. And they only need to buy 51%.
Like television networks, right? Hundreds of little station houses spaced out all over the country to rebroadcast the TV signals? Well, they're still here, but their relevance keeps decreasing.
What's going to be around forever is telecommunication. Modalities like the www are relatively temporary. Sooner or later, "the internet" will fade into the background so much that you'll hardly even realize it's there.
Will Google still have a prominent role then? That depends on what they do next more than it does on what they have done so far.
I'm astounded. What has anyone of these children done to deserve forced-injection with anything? Manditory vaccination is something we do for communicable diseases, not lifestyle choices!
We have trouble convincing even at-risk first responders to accept vaccination against things like anthrax that some one might actually try to kill them with. And these people want to force vaccinate everyone against cocaine, beer and cigarettes? Insane.
I can only imagine the submitter's despondency that day when Slate _didn't_ recommend Iexplorer for security over Firefox. It must have shaken the foundations of his world.
How great his glee must be today! Now everything "makes sense" again -- Microsoft is all evil, all the time. That thing that looked like independent journalism wasn't real -- it was just part of a grander conspiracy to destroy Slate completely....Er, something like that.
There's cheap, and then there's cheapskate. A settlement in which RIAA gives CDs to libraries should be what you call a win-win scenario. RIAA can produce at cost and claim a tax write-off at market price. The libraries theoretically get far more CDs than a money settlement from RIAA would every buy at market prices.
RIAA was already getting a great break on this deal. Donating unsellable crap* is just pathetic.
(*As opposed to sellable crap -- it's not like RIAA has very much "good music" after all.)
According to the article, "Nobody wants to undermine the iPod [but] We have to understand that some people use P2P technology in ways that are wrong and illegal." -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt)
Some days, don't you just wish that the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution read, "A well regulated public domain being necessary to the happiness and liberty of a free People, the right of the people to keep and hear music shall not be infringed." How is it that guns are an essential liberty, but iPods are so dangerous that they must be outlawed?
THEN "It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming.... I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason..." -- Turner Broadcasting CEO Jamie Kellner (Inside Magazine, 2002)
NOW "It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show []. Any time you skip a commercial or [remember the show without the ads] you're actually stealing the programming... I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for [reminiscing and flashbacks]. But if you formalize it and you [actually remember the whole thing], you've [stolen from our company.] --A Media-Sponsored Senator (one day soon)
Dude, be impressed! He got modded up to +5 Informative by linking to something that was linked in the article. Paraphrasing Pirates of the Carribean, "That has to be the best Karma Whore I've ever seen."
I would disagree with one of your points. Software development isn't, despite the best efforts of some people, and should never be, an engineering discipline. Coding is a creative discipline closer to the "mystic gestalt of painting" than the design of gears.
Don't the grooves of a library meet the teeth of a procedure call? Similarly, if Team A builds the UI, Team B builds the storage system, and Team C builds the user account management, doesn't that sound like a construction project, rather than art? If software has components that can be swapped out and replaced with other components, isn't it an engineering discipline? Well, YMMV. Trying to assign software (a new species) to an old place in the taxonomy may not be possible, but it's fun to mess around with.
Part of the difficulty with identifying the basic "creative" unit of software is that all software is functional, and the function isn't copyrightable. Only the expression that makes up a particular implementation is copyrighted. And there are only so many ways to say i = i + 1. Certainly, large novels share many identical short sentences. But this is a big question that others have explored ad naseum -- there are whole books devoted to the subject "how much similarity is too much".
That, of course, is the #1 fly in the ointment: the "clean room" rewrites that we now rely on to avoid copyright are useless for avoiding patents.
And, as you hint, figuring out the boundaries of what a patent does and doesn't cover can be tough and expensive.
Actually, there are a lot of detriments to using patents on software instead of copyrights. Of course the worst of both worlds is to have both patents and copyrights apply to software.
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Mickey, Bugs, Clippy, Poo, or Darth. Doesn't matter, so long as it's copyrighted. By some one else.
How do people reconcile that with the privacy provisions in the U.S. constitution?
They don't. The people who believe "if you're not guilty, then you have no need to hide" don't believe in reconciling. Or logic. They believe in doing whatever they want whenever they want to. After all, they know they're right.
There will always be people like that. Unfortunately, one of them happens to be attorney general of the united states at the moment.
I invented fire.
Also, the internet. And the wheel.
Want simple laws? Want elected representatives to be forced into an individual up or down vote on every piece of pork? Want to end the silly procedure of slipping in a last minute amendment to fatten or kill a bill? Pass this amendment:
Congress shall pass no law exceeding in length 5000 words.
For reference, the original U.S. constitution was ~4600 words. Adopting something like the Federal Budget would take well over 100 votes this way. (Back of the hand calculation based on current administration's draft 2004 budget at 2866 pages.)
The real story here is ... that the Google teflon is wearing thin in the media.
Media, schmedia. We like Google here at Slashdot. Therefore, this is no big deal.
Had the culprit been some one else (such as Microsoft, Real, SCO, any RIAA label, or George Lucas, whom we don't like), then this would have been a crime of epic proportions.
Yeah, I'm kinda stuck on, "How the H-E-double-hockey-sticks did that happen? Little weasels got something right for once." ...Which means there must be something cataclysmically _wrong_ about the TiVo plan that I'm just not seeing yet.
Even if only 25% of registrations are relatively accurate,...
Better yet, the 25% that gives real info probably overlaps pretty well with the group that advertising can sway. Those who give no info or bad info are hard to sell anyway.
hand card over to TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) and ask them to "be careful -- it's fragile"
pass card over retail store checkout counter magnetic pad
microwave card for 10 secs
feed card to puppy (slather with peanut butter if necessary)
bury card in dust
Two questions, if I may:
1. Does the non-pulsatile LVAD interfere with the mechanisms in the body that regulate blood pressure?
2. Can the non-pulsatile LVAD accommodate the need for increased blood flow during exercise, e.g. walking, as opposed to non-activity, e.g. sitting or sleeping. (Perhaps it is similar to existing devices in this regard, but I am a layman and have no idea how those work either.)
I suppose that Perl accounts for less than 1/2 as many projects as the leaders, but...
C++ 13255 (18.7%)
C 13069 (18.5%)
Java 12210 (17.2%)
PHP 9010 (12.7%)
Perl 5254 (7.4%)
Python 3249 (4.6%)
All 38 others (20.9%)
The cell phone companies clearly blew an opportunity when they initially treated the hardware as a loss leader. It's hard to get that genie back in the bottle. People today will pay for a crap flash MP3 player or low-to-medium-end digital camera, but balk at paying a premium for a mobile phone with loads of features.
Since people (generally) can't keep their hardware if they switch providers, they don't love/value their hardware. They expect that they'll have to switch plans next year and that they'll have to have a new phone at that time. That, as much as anything but the breakage rate on devices that, frankly, we abuse, is why people don't think an investment of cash in an uberphone is going to be worth it in the long term.
1. Email from companies you haven't done business with is fraudultent. Or SPAM.
2. If it looks even vaguely like a fraud/SPAM you received last week, it's fraud/SPAM again.
3. If it's misspelled or has bad grammar, it's fraud.
4. If it wants you to give it any personal data (e.g. "verify your account info"), it's almost certainly fraud.
5. Even if it appears legit, don't follow the links. Ever. Either (a) log into your account via the regular site or (b) call the phone number on your real bill.
Sure, there are other tests, like looking at where the links actually point or checking DNS entries, but Grandma can't be taught those things. These things, she can remember.
[sarcasm] I'm glad to learn that we are making rapid progress to where humans will learn to control their military with drugs. Good thing we're not still a dangerous, savage child-race, or anything.[/sarcasm]
Even the DMCA was signed under Clinton's presidency. So you'll have to vote Green or some other left-left-wing party if you want to revoke some of these laws
The sad part is that no matter what party you elect, there are only 536 elected members of the Federal Government. It's within the reach of any large corporation to bribe them all. And they only need to buy 51%.
The Internet is going to be around for ever
Like television networks, right? Hundreds of little station houses spaced out all over the country to rebroadcast the TV signals? Well, they're still here, but their relevance keeps decreasing.
What's going to be around forever is telecommunication. Modalities like the www are relatively temporary. Sooner or later, "the internet" will fade into the background so much that you'll hardly even realize it's there.
Will Google still have a prominent role then? That depends on what they do next more than it does on what they have done so far.
(a) pull your head out of your ass
(b) get of my way or
(c) run me off the road and pound me into tiny bits?"
I'm astounded. What has anyone of these children done to deserve forced-injection with anything? Manditory vaccination is something we do for communicable diseases, not lifestyle choices!
We have trouble convincing even at-risk first responders to accept vaccination against things like anthrax that some one might actually try to kill them with. And these people want to force vaccinate everyone against cocaine, beer and cigarettes? Insane.
I can only imagine the submitter's despondency that day when Slate _didn't_ recommend Iexplorer for security over Firefox. It must have shaken the foundations of his world.
...Er, something like that.
How great his glee must be today! Now everything "makes sense" again -- Microsoft is all evil, all the time. That thing that looked like independent journalism wasn't real -- it was just part of a grander conspiracy to destroy Slate completely.
There's cheap, and then there's cheapskate. A settlement in which RIAA gives CDs to libraries should be what you call a win-win scenario. RIAA can produce at cost and claim a tax write-off at market price. The libraries theoretically get far more CDs than a money settlement from RIAA would every buy at market prices.
RIAA was already getting a great break on this deal. Donating unsellable crap* is just pathetic.
(*As opposed to sellable crap -- it's not like RIAA has very much "good music" after all.)
According to the article, "Nobody wants to undermine the iPod [but] We have to understand that some people use P2P technology in ways that are wrong and illegal." -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt)
Some days, don't you just wish that the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution read, "A well regulated public domain being necessary to the happiness and liberty of a free People, the right of the people to keep and hear music shall not be infringed." How is it that guns are an essential liberty, but iPods are so dangerous that they must be outlawed?
THEN ... I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason..." -- Turner Broadcasting CEO Jamie Kellner (Inside Magazine, 2002)
"It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming.
NOW
"It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show []. Any time you skip a commercial or [remember the show without the ads] you're actually stealing the programming... I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for [reminiscing and flashbacks]. But if you formalize it and you [actually remember the whole thing], you've [stolen from our company.] --A Media-Sponsored Senator (one day soon)
Yes, soon all our memory will be Cow Chips.
Dude, be impressed! He got modded up to +5 Informative by linking to something that was linked in the article. Paraphrasing Pirates of the Carribean, "That has to be the best Karma Whore I've ever seen."
I would disagree with one of your points. Software development isn't, despite the best efforts of some people, and should never be, an engineering discipline. Coding is a creative discipline closer to the "mystic gestalt of painting" than the design of gears.
Don't the grooves of a library meet the teeth of a procedure call? Similarly, if Team A builds the UI, Team B builds the storage system, and Team C builds the user account management, doesn't that sound like a construction project, rather than art? If software has components that can be swapped out and replaced with other components, isn't it an engineering discipline? Well, YMMV. Trying to assign software (a new species) to an old place in the taxonomy may not be possible, but it's fun to mess around with.
Part of the difficulty with identifying the basic "creative" unit of software is that all software is functional, and the function isn't copyrightable. Only the expression that makes up a particular implementation is copyrighted. And there are only so many ways to say i = i + 1. Certainly, large novels share many identical short sentences. But this is a big question that others have explored ad naseum -- there are whole books devoted to the subject "how much similarity is too much".
Good hunting--
That, of course, is the #1 fly in the ointment: the "clean room" rewrites that we now rely on to avoid copyright are useless for avoiding patents.
And, as you hint, figuring out the boundaries of what a patent does and doesn't cover can be tough and expensive.
Actually, there are a lot of detriments to using patents on software instead of copyrights. Of course the worst of both worlds is to have both patents and copyrights apply to software.