And if somebody would have followed a few former Hijackers around with a pen and some paper, perhaps a few buildings in New York and Washington might still be standing. This is their perspective.
While I do see the point behind this tracking, at the same time tracking everyone is simply ineffective and results in gathering way too much data to process. There are a few databases here and there that scale well enough to make some sense of this data, but overall it is simply too overwhelming.
I can't help but wonder: where did they get such old copies of my websites, and who gave them permission to make those copies? I certainly didn't provide either.
Actually, the day you posted your web site, way back when, you gave permission. You put that content out on the web with the intention of allowing others to view your material. The fact that some people chose to store it and redisplay it is simply an element beyond your control.
Actually, the music industry has been trying to do this for years. I rememer reading various articles in the mid ninties in newsprint about this and how the used cd realtors were fighting them.
Actually, you're forgetting that 19 states are involved in this suit. The DOJ could drop the case all together, but the trial will go on -- pushed forwared by these states. Further (though I'd like somebody with a stronger law background that I to back this up), this order simply vacates Jackson's breakup order. This does NOT mean that Microsoft will not be broken up. The new judge could still rule to break up Microsoft, based on his unbiased knowlege of the case. In fact, this ruling a good thing, as the previous breakup order would have just created a new OS company to turn around and do the same thing the old MS did. This is an opportunity to break up MS in a way that will be beneficial to conumers: by breaking the corporation into three identical entities, creating real, true competition in the OS marketplace.
It's funny to hear all you hard-core open source pundits criticize this move (which was done a long time ago). Simply put, learn the reason behind why OpenMotif exists, and you learn why it is available only for Free operating systems. My best guess is that with GTK and QT taking over as the dominant toolkits in the free software arena, OSF saw Motif losing ground, perhaps towards obsolecence. Unfortunately for OSF, their move was too late. Sun has adopted Gnome (AKA GTK), and others will soon follow with either Gnome or KDE.
Instead we provide our children with false idealistic views on the world. Perhaps one day you will be enlightened and find that, like it or not, the rich control the world, and can within reason do what they want. The difference, is that in the West at least, it is easier to aquire this power than elsewhere, or at any other time in history.
Aside from that, I'm all for this guy going up. He's got the training on the Russian side, and it is rediculous for NASA to have turned him away a few weeks back for the training on the American side.
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And if somebody would have followed a few former Hijackers around with a pen and some paper, perhaps a few buildings in New York and Washington might still be standing. This is their perspective. While I do see the point behind this tracking, at the same time tracking everyone is simply ineffective and results in gathering way too much data to process. There are a few databases here and there that scale well enough to make some sense of this data, but overall it is simply too overwhelming.
Actually, the day you posted your web site, way back when, you gave permission. You put that content out on the web with the intention of allowing others to view your material. The fact that some people chose to store it and redisplay it is simply an element beyond your control.
Actually, the music industry has been trying to do this for years. I rememer reading various articles in the mid ninties in newsprint about this and how the used cd realtors were fighting them.
Actually, you're forgetting that 19 states are involved in this suit. The DOJ could drop the case all together, but the trial will go on -- pushed forwared by these states. Further (though I'd like somebody with a stronger law background that I to back this up), this order simply vacates Jackson's breakup order. This does NOT mean that Microsoft will not be broken up. The new judge could still rule to break up Microsoft, based on his unbiased knowlege of the case. In fact, this ruling a good thing, as the previous breakup order would have just created a new OS company to turn around and do the same thing the old MS did. This is an opportunity to break up MS in a way that will be beneficial to conumers: by breaking the corporation into three identical entities, creating real, true competition in the OS marketplace.
It's funny to hear all you hard-core open source pundits criticize this move (which was done a long time ago). Simply put, learn the reason behind why OpenMotif exists, and you learn why it is available only for Free operating systems. My best guess is that with GTK and QT taking over as the dominant toolkits in the free software arena, OSF saw Motif losing ground, perhaps towards obsolecence. Unfortunately for OSF, their move was too late. Sun has adopted Gnome (AKA GTK), and others will soon follow with either Gnome or KDE.
Instead we provide our children with false idealistic views on the world. Perhaps one day you will be enlightened and find that, like it or not, the rich control the world, and can within reason do what they want. The difference, is that in the West at least, it is easier to aquire this power than elsewhere, or at any other time in history. Aside from that, I'm all for this guy going up. He's got the training on the Russian side, and it is rediculous for NASA to have turned him away a few weeks back for the training on the American side.