The best tool against the postdigestive sphincters on the internet is education. Parents need to know what kind of dangers there are, as well as tools that might be able to help them educate their kids. Filtering software should be included with the caveat that it's not foolproof.
Michael Moore specializes in the use of hyperbole to make his point. Based on his movie, he would have you believe that Canada, UK, France, and Cuba are the panaceas of modern medicine and that the U.S. is worse than third world. There is a mountain of evidence to show that the picture isn't as bleak as he paints it, and there are many cases of problems in Canada, UK, France, and Cuba to undermine his thesis that government health care is what we need.
As much as it pains me to say it (considering that there are things to be concerned about from Moore's one-sided piece), the health care industry deserves a chance to respond. Google is pointing out that they have a way for them to do so.
The speed of the takedown has more to do with the power of lawyers than the power of corporations. If the ISP wants to take advantage of the "CYA" safe harbor afforded them by the DMCA and other similar laws, they have to comply with takedown notices without delay.
If the notice came from a credible lawyer for an individual, it would still have to be honored.
They haven't lost anything until their patents that relate to things like WINE are killed off or openly licensed. Either of those outcomes will only come after a court battle.
Are we so arrogant as to believe that we've reached the pinnacle of enlightenment?
It wasn't so long ago, in the anthropological sense, that we asserted such wonderful claims as "the world is flat", "the universe revolves around the earth," or "blacks aren't human".
The problem then was that we didn't have any information to interpret. Now, we have the information, but our ability to properly interpret that information is suspect, at best. Last year, the "scientific consensus" was that hurricanes like Katrina would become more and more common. This year, the new prevailing wisdom is that global warming will increase shear and prevent hurricanes as strong as Katrina.
The point of all this isn't to suggest that the consensus about global warming is wrong. I think it probably is right. However, there is room for dissent, and dissent is healthy.
This approach seems unlikely to work. Patent holders win huge jury awards because they, in the jury's eyes, have been legitimately wronged. In this case, the jury may see the vendor as the one being exploited.
Ubuntu's installer and GPartEd don't appear to like my hardware setup (AMD Athlon X2, NForce4, one PATA (Windows), one SATA (Linux)). Mandriva installed on the SATA drive just fine, but either GPartEd or the device driver included with Ubuntu fail to partition/format the SATA drive.
I like Ubuntu's polish a lot more than Mandriva, but Mandriva works.
I separate Bush from the Republicans in general. There are plenty of autocrats on both sides, and Bush is one of the worsts. However, there are some pragmatists, too.
The appointment of Ballmer would make more sense coming from a dogmatic president like Bush. Ballmer's all about preaching the Windows dogma. The cabinet should be populated with pragmatists.
He seems to be doing well for someone who only got into office because the other party screwed up royally -- twice. First they got killed by the licenses for bribes scandal, and then they had the idiocy to send a guy with the same last name (but to be fair, he was more than capable) up for election. (Kind of like the inverted case of Eddie Murphy's character in "The Distinguished Gentleman").
Honestly, should anyone really care? If the next-generation Palm operating system is based on a Linux kernel but has the capability of running Palm OS apps in an emulation mode, should we care about what code base it runs on?
OS's aren't like people or pets. They're tools. When you've outgrown them, you can either upgrade them or find a new one. Obviously Access has no interest in updating the PalmOS, so Palm has to go its own way. I personally hope that they deliver new capabilities on Linux while retaining the simplicity of the Palm interface.
Microsoft is making disparaging statements about another project, without any specificity. They do this to cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt on the competitive offerings of other vendors.
I think the corporate members of the community should take the proactive step of making Microsoft put up or shut up. IBM, HP, and Oracle should step up and do it.
Netscape is the one that submitted JavaScript to ECMA:
From Wikipedia: "JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, later LiveScript, and finally renamed to JavaScript. The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator web browser. JavaScript was first introduced and deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3 in December of 1995. When web developers talk about using JavaScript in Internet Explorer, they are actually using JScript. The choice of name proved to be a source of much confusion."
Ummm....JavaScript's ancestry is Mozilla-based (Netscape, seeking to capitalizing on Java buzz). So, criticizing Mozilla for implementing JavaScript is a bit like criticizing Microsoft for implementing VBScript.
A more fitting analogue would be slamming Mozilla for implementing ActiveX.
Kucinich is committing a gross misinterpretation of the Laws of the United States and the U.S. Constitution with the wording of this resolution. While there are certainly actions of Cheney which are impeachment-worthy, Kucinich's resolution is a political diatribe with only the barest shreds of substance. Saying that Cheney's actions against Iran are a high crime and misdemeanor is the topper. Although Cheney's comments may not have been helpful, Kucinich is unrealistic in assuming that our relations with Iran would be positive in the absence of those comments.
Really, this is just a ploy to try to gain enough attention to make his bid for the presidency in 2008 less unrealistic.
AMD may be getting to 3GHz this year, but IBM's going to be at 4-5GHz when it ships its next blade, System p and System i servers later this year or early next year.
Your messages are barking up the wrong tree. Your attitude about the skeptics is "well, tough." Sorry, that's not diplomatic enough. It doesn't work for GWB (on other subjects) and it doesn't work for the alarmists, either.
Truth is truth, but how you deliver the truth has a lot to do with how many buy into it.
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Not as much as gasoline, but we need to keep pushing the envelope forward.
It isn't enough to get rid of the gasoline engine. Batteries that have reached their EOL are a disposal problem.
The best tool against the postdigestive sphincters on the internet is education. Parents need to know what kind of dangers there are, as well as tools that might be able to help them educate their kids. Filtering software should be included with the caveat that it's not foolproof.
That's a great book. I've loved every Asimov book I've ever picked up.
I'm wondering if the speed test uses a data block that is more compressible.
They're earning record profits, so they can afford to underwrite the cost of gas stations installing this equipment.
Laziness does not excuse delivering less fuel than the customer purchased.
Michael Moore specializes in the use of hyperbole to make his point. Based on his movie, he would have you believe that Canada, UK, France, and Cuba are the panaceas of modern medicine and that the U.S. is worse than third world. There is a mountain of evidence to show that the picture isn't as bleak as he paints it, and there are many cases of problems in Canada, UK, France, and Cuba to undermine his thesis that government health care is what we need.
As much as it pains me to say it (considering that there are things to be concerned about from Moore's one-sided piece), the health care industry deserves a chance to respond. Google is pointing out that they have a way for them to do so.
The speed of the takedown has more to do with the power of lawyers than the power of corporations. If the ISP wants to take advantage of the "CYA" safe harbor afforded them by the DMCA and other similar laws, they have to comply with takedown notices without delay.
If the notice came from a credible lawyer for an individual, it would still have to be honored.
I don't think it's a political thing. It's more likely that they hire their PR/marketing firm and they choose where to host the site.
They haven't lost anything until their patents that relate to things like WINE are killed off or openly licensed. Either of those outcomes will only come after a court battle.
Are we so arrogant as to believe that we've reached the pinnacle of enlightenment?
It wasn't so long ago, in the anthropological sense, that we asserted such wonderful claims as "the world is flat", "the universe revolves around the earth," or "blacks aren't human".
The problem then was that we didn't have any information to interpret. Now, we have the information, but our ability to properly interpret that information is suspect, at best. Last year, the "scientific consensus" was that hurricanes like Katrina would become more and more common. This year, the new prevailing wisdom is that global warming will increase shear and prevent hurricanes as strong as Katrina.
The point of all this isn't to suggest that the consensus about global warming is wrong. I think it probably is right. However, there is room for dissent, and dissent is healthy.
Considering that a company must notify a consumer when they are being recorded, having tech like this out in the wild raises serious privacy concerns.
This approach seems unlikely to work. Patent holders win huge jury awards because they, in the jury's eyes, have been legitimately wronged. In this case, the jury may see the vendor as the one being exploited.
Ubuntu's installer and GPartEd don't appear to like my hardware setup (AMD Athlon X2, NForce4, one PATA (Windows), one SATA (Linux)). Mandriva installed on the SATA drive just fine, but either GPartEd or the device driver included with Ubuntu fail to partition/format the SATA drive.
I like Ubuntu's polish a lot more than Mandriva, but Mandriva works.
I separate Bush from the Republicans in general. There are plenty of autocrats on both sides, and Bush is one of the worsts. However, there are some pragmatists, too.
The appointment of Ballmer would make more sense coming from a dogmatic president like Bush. Ballmer's all about preaching the Windows dogma. The cabinet should be populated with pragmatists.
He seems to be doing well for someone who only got into office because the other party screwed up royally -- twice. First they got killed by the licenses for bribes scandal, and then they had the idiocy to send a guy with the same last name (but to be fair, he was more than capable) up for election. (Kind of like the inverted case of Eddie Murphy's character in "The Distinguished Gentleman").
Honestly, should anyone really care? If the next-generation Palm operating system is based on a Linux kernel but has the capability of running Palm OS apps in an emulation mode, should we care about what code base it runs on?
OS's aren't like people or pets. They're tools. When you've outgrown them, you can either upgrade them or find a new one. Obviously Access has no interest in updating the PalmOS, so Palm has to go its own way. I personally hope that they deliver new capabilities on Linux while retaining the simplicity of the Palm interface.
Microsoft is making disparaging statements about another project, without any specificity. They do this to cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt on the competitive offerings of other vendors.
I think the corporate members of the community should take the proactive step of making Microsoft put up or shut up. IBM, HP, and Oracle should step up and do it.
Netscape is the one that submitted JavaScript to ECMA:
From Wikipedia: "JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha, later LiveScript, and finally renamed to JavaScript. The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator web browser. JavaScript was first introduced and deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3 in December of 1995. When web developers talk about using JavaScript in Internet Explorer, they are actually using JScript. The choice of name proved to be a source of much confusion."
Ummm....JavaScript's ancestry is Mozilla-based (Netscape, seeking to capitalizing on Java buzz). So, criticizing Mozilla for implementing JavaScript is a bit like criticizing Microsoft for implementing VBScript.
A more fitting analogue would be slamming Mozilla for implementing ActiveX.
Kucinich is committing a gross misinterpretation of the Laws of the United States and the U.S. Constitution with the wording of this resolution. While there are certainly actions of Cheney which are impeachment-worthy, Kucinich's resolution is a political diatribe with only the barest shreds of substance. Saying that Cheney's actions against Iran are a high crime and misdemeanor is the topper. Although Cheney's comments may not have been helpful, Kucinich is unrealistic in assuming that our relations with Iran would be positive in the absence of those comments.
Really, this is just a ploy to try to gain enough attention to make his bid for the presidency in 2008 less unrealistic.
You can't build a system that permits the user to burn a copy to any of their devices without constricting the design of those devices.
AMD may be getting to 3GHz this year, but IBM's going to be at 4-5GHz when it ships its next blade, System p and System i servers later this year or early next year.
I don't know how this guy reaches the conclusion that Google wouldn't exist without the "benefit" of patent law.
Your messages are barking up the wrong tree. Your attitude about the skeptics is "well, tough." Sorry, that's not diplomatic enough. It doesn't work for GWB (on other subjects) and it doesn't work for the alarmists, either.
Truth is truth, but how you deliver the truth has a lot to do with how many buy into it.