Well, I guess my comment was based on the article posted here since I don't have access to NY Times. I have heard other cases though aiming mostly at taxing the internet, those are what I was talking about. I assumed this was the same type of thing based on the/. post. my bad.
I don't agree with the ruling. It sounds to me like another uneducated, or miseducated judge has ruled on something they don't understand.
This is what I mean: saying the internet is a seperate "place" out there is like saying that a phone line is a "place" also. When business is done over the phone, it's between two parties who are firmly based somewhere in the real world. My point is that the internet is just a communications medium and not a location. If you want to frame business transaction laws do so in regards to where the company is registered, not where it's servers exist.
Another way of thinking about things is a 3 piece model, for example: When you call 1-800-ABCDEFG, you might be talking to a telemarketer based out of a strictly telemarketing company somewhere like Charleston, SC, but Hooked on Phonics as a company resides elsewhere (I don't know where, but let's say Portland, Oregon.) So the actual transaction taking place is between you and the company in Portland, and as a secondary transaction the company in Portland pays the company in Charleston for it's telemarketing service. This is basically the same setup as the internet. You have a company, a web hosting company, and a customer. If they establish the internet as a "place" then this web hosting company will be responsible for taxes on all of its transactions, as well as other legal ramifications. I personally don't beleive that this is the right way to go about things, we need to have laws based on entity to entity transactions rather than the actual path taken.
Moderator: read the damn article before you go modding people down. One of the ceremonies is a 60 second genuine wedding. If you don't agree with my sense of humor then I could understand flamebait or troll although I wouldn't think they would be deserved. Funny would be appreciated, but I'm DEFINITELY not offtopic, asshole.
Gnutella is a completely decentralized, or peer-to-peer, file-sharing system. Unlike Napster, there is no centralized server that acts as a broker in processing search requests, matching users with each other. Gnutella clients automatically seek out other Gnutella clients elsewhere on the Internet. (I guess gnutella is free from lawsuit then?)
I'm not so sure I like the idea: what if some cell phone junkie figures out a way to display all of the messages coming into his phone (a friend of mine can do similar things) and he gets to read everyone's text messages... not a good thought.
"If the speech was delivered on September 10, it would have been viewed as a negative event in the privacy community," Ponemon said. "Now that it's delivered after the 11th, it's a crisis. It looks like we've lost federal government support."
Never a more true statement than that one. It really is a shame that the end result of the terrorist attacks will be not only loss of life and property but also the loss of some important freedom. Dubya said it best himself when he said the terrorist attack was "an attack on freedom itself," and it seems as if the September 11 tragedy is only going to be used as a weapon in continued attacks.
Boy, here's an idea: let's develop an extremely expensive technology that lets us use liquid hydrogen for airplane fuel when we already have thousands of airplanes flying the friendly skies with the regular jet fuel system, all so terrorists can't hijack planes...
Or... have the flight attendants trained dually as security officers, all toting stun guns and combat knives. Seems a lot cheaper to me, and more fun too.
So the phone is powered by methane? That sure brings new use to going out for Mexican food during lunch. Now instead of rednecks cowtipping you'll have techies running around the pastures trying to capture some of that "natural" gas!
First of all I'd like to bring up an old story by Cliff on academic dishonesty that was posted by a friend of mine in a class I took in my last semester at a certain university. In this class, students were all given an assignment where they had to work seperately but could share ideas, just not code. However, when the students actually did this, they were punished (the article goes into greater detail.) The very principle of that punishment is directly contradictory to the real world, where people discuss ideas all of the time, constantly, in order to work effectively.
On a more positive note, I have to say that in my last 3 semesters of college (computer engineering curriculum) I had some rather enjoyable project classes where I worked on teams of 2 to 4 people and the experience was moderately similar to actual real world working practice. I think teamwork in education is essential and should be 50% of the curriculum. In most of my classes while in school we had labs where we worked with others, yet those projects were rather small and insignificant. I think schools should focus more on semester long or even year long projects for their computer engineers and scientists as there's only so much about those subjects you can learn from a book, the rest is really just hands on.
Pausing. Obviously, a new idea, and one worthy of patenting. I think I'm going to patent the play button.
I take offense to that comment. I realize that this is the normal attitude here on Slashdot and it's really warranted most of the time, especially dealing with companies like Microsoft, etc. However this technology is rather complicated and innovative and will actually improve the TV watching experience, especially for those sports lovers out there. There's a lot more than just a "pause" button that goes into this.
Actually titanium in golf clubs is one of the practical places for it. Titanium headed woods are lighter and produce greater force when hitting the golf ball, plus they help people create higher swing speeds. I personally use wooden woods because I like the weight and feel, but titanium is actually useful and relevant with golf clubs.
Remember when the Big Bertha Titanium driver came out? It was a sensation, everybody bought one, then all of the sudden everything golf related was "titanium." Titanium core balls, titanium putters, titanium umbrellas... it just didn't stop. Of course they never sold anything useful like titanium golf spikes, but hey that's marketing. So now I guess it's spread over to computers and probably everything else. Hell I even got a credit card advertisement for a Titanium Visa. That doesn't really make sense to me, I mean I get the Silver, Gold, Platinum - precious metals that are rare and valuable, but Titanium is widely available, more renowned for it's strength than value...
Anyway, I'm sure this video card is really great but I have to admit calling it "Titanium" lowers my level of interest in buying it. It's like if I tried to sell you a "Titanium" watermelon... doesn't really make sense.
Actually, Fusion reactors are so safe that if something did go wrong we would feel the same effects as those from a microwave oven. They also produce many times more megawatts than any reactor we have presently.
Is this really so bad? You have to a) run IE, b) have javascript security at it's lowest, and c) type in an incorrect URL in order for this "trap" to work... do we really want these people running around on the net anyway?
Actually I have a rather good job with excellent job security in the computer engineering field. It is my personal opinion that saving money by firing good workers is a complete mistake and will end up costing companies more in the long run. By cutting material costs instead of losing experienced employees, companies can begin to make more money.
Habitat for Humanity is considering the free Linux operating system. But because Microsoft is so dominant, it will be difficult for firms to switch. Windows runs 92% of PCs. Its Office software has better than a 90% market share, Gartner says.
What do you all think about that? I'm not extremely familiar with Linux, I haven't had the time to get really deep into it like I would prefer because here at work we're forced into using MS2000 and I hardly use my computer at home. From what I've heard, it shouldn't be difficult to switch, and once they do, life will be much easier, not to mention less expensive. With the economy the way it is, I wouldn't be surprised if MS did itself in on this one, we may see a fundamental switch in the way OS is viewed if some big time executives get the hint that by using LInux instead of MS, you can save 1.5 million per year and maybe hire back some of the people you layed off...
You can try to bring up other exotic justifications ("making mix CDs"), but they're too irrelevant to bring up.
Huh? Have you bought a CD in the last 5 years? There's only one or two good songs on each album these days, if you're lucky. Not everyone out there can afford a 125 disc changer for their car, so us commonfolk get a cd burner and take all of our CD's and create our own CD's with the songs we actually WANT to hear. The record industry is just a bunch of bastards who want to continue to produce crap at the rate of as much as possible per day (just look at Cash Money Records as an example - the day after Juvenile's first song got really big there were 15 albums out by Cash Money, and they all sucked.) Anyway, letter of the law aside, the moral obligation of the music industry is to entertain people for a price, and if those poeple pay that price then they should be able to use what they buy, as long as they don't try and sell it to others.
Our technology is not thief proof. What it's meant to do is provide a speed bump to people who don't steal things, and wish to use them in the parameters that are suggested by the artists...If you give people what they want with respect to their ability to copy the music in ways that they think is reasonable, they will not ever attempt to circumvent the technology. Only hackers will attempt to circumvent the technology in order to prove that it can be done.
What in the world does that mean? To me he seems to be saying that he's trying to prevent law abiding, honest people from making a backup copy with poorer sound quality (MP3) on their computer or portable MP3 player, but he's doing nothing to stop the "hackers" who will steal the music and then publish it on the web... this seems ridiculously backwards. I think it's awful that record companies and the music industry are moving towards not allowing indivuduals to make digital backups of their cd's. Is this an attempt to stop people from making a CD with all of their favorite songs on it from their album collection, so we'll be forced to buy those cheezy greatest hits albums off TV? Apparently they don't care if people steal the music and distribute it all over the place, but if you're just a normal person who doesn't "wish to steal things," they don't want you to be able to use what you purchased. I sure hope somebody stops this.
OK, everyone knows that word association is a powerful marketing tool. Example: Microsoft Office. When you say "office suite of programs" to the average person, they automatically think Microsoft Office. Well this article sure gives us a great one:
In this online note, we summarize our preliminary analysis of the surprisingly strong impact of the Internet propagation of Microsoft worms (such as Code Red and Nimda) on the stability of the global routing system.
Look on AP, Yahoo, MSNBC, CNN, and you always see "the Nimda virus" or "the Code Red virus," but I prefer the way the article said it. So from now on in your conversations with others, refer to each virus in this category as a "Microsoft Virus" and hopefully by word of mouth word association we can sway public opinion away from this crappy MS software.
I was worried I'd have to start paying taxes on all my sats, you know how it is, first you buy a car, then a house, then a multi-million dollar satellite, and the government wants to stick it's grubby hands in your pockets every chance they get. Isn't it bad enough already that I'm paying social security and I could get 10 times the return by putting that money in a 2% savings account instead?
Seriously, I think the federal government should be able to tax these sats because NASA and others are very important in the regulation of space and the coordination of all the objects out there (so these satellites don't go crashing into the international space center.) It should be just enough to pay for the work the federal govt. does, but it's ridiculous for some county to say "hey, we want some money, gimmie some money" just because they can. They have nothing to do with space travel so they should keep their grubby hands out of it.
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Well, I guess my comment was based on the article posted here since I don't have access to NY Times. I have heard other cases though aiming mostly at taxing the internet, those are what I was talking about. I assumed this was the same type of thing based on the /. post. my bad.
I don't agree with the ruling. It sounds to me like another uneducated, or miseducated judge has ruled on something they don't understand.
This is what I mean: saying the internet is a seperate "place" out there is like saying that a phone line is a "place" also. When business is done over the phone, it's between two parties who are firmly based somewhere in the real world. My point is that the internet is just a communications medium and not a location. If you want to frame business transaction laws do so in regards to where the company is registered, not where it's servers exist.
Another way of thinking about things is a 3 piece model, for example: When you call 1-800-ABCDEFG, you might be talking to a telemarketer based out of a strictly telemarketing company somewhere like Charleston, SC, but Hooked on Phonics as a company resides elsewhere (I don't know where, but let's say Portland, Oregon.) So the actual transaction taking place is between you and the company in Portland, and as a secondary transaction the company in Portland pays the company in Charleston for it's telemarketing service. This is basically the same setup as the internet. You have a company, a web hosting company, and a customer. If they establish the internet as a "place" then this web hosting company will be responsible for taxes on all of its transactions, as well as other legal ramifications. I personally don't beleive that this is the right way to go about things, we need to have laws based on entity to entity transactions rather than the actual path taken.
No, hmmm, wow, that's something to think about. Geez, I wonder what that would be like...
Moderator: read the damn article before you go modding people down. One of the ceremonies is a 60 second genuine wedding. If you don't agree with my sense of humor then I could understand flamebait or troll although I wouldn't think they would be deserved. Funny would be appreciated, but I'm DEFINITELY not offtopic, asshole.
The author just had to take a shot at Napster:
Gnutella is a completely decentralized, or peer-to-peer, file-sharing system. Unlike Napster, there is no centralized server that acts as a broker in processing search requests, matching users with each other. Gnutella clients automatically seek out other Gnutella clients elsewhere on the Internet.
(I guess gnutella is free from lawsuit then?)
I'm not so sure I like the idea: what if some cell phone junkie figures out a way to display all of the messages coming into his phone (a friend of mine can do similar things) and he gets to read everyone's text messages... not a good thought.
Boy if the wedding is that short I'd sure hate to go on that honeymoon...
"If the speech was delivered on September 10, it would have been viewed as a negative event in the privacy community," Ponemon said. "Now that it's delivered after the 11th, it's a crisis. It looks like we've lost federal government support."
Never a more true statement than that one. It really is a shame that the end result of the terrorist attacks will be not only loss of life and property but also the loss of some important freedom. Dubya said it best himself when he said the terrorist attack was "an attack on freedom itself," and it seems as if the September 11 tragedy is only going to be used as a weapon in continued attacks.
Boy, here's an idea: let's develop an extremely expensive technology that lets us use liquid hydrogen for airplane fuel when we already have thousands of airplanes flying the friendly skies with the regular jet fuel system, all so terrorists can't hijack planes...
Or... have the flight attendants trained dually as security officers, all toting stun guns and combat knives. Seems a lot cheaper to me, and more fun too.
Internet Information Server
So the phone is powered by methane? That sure brings new use to going out for Mexican food during lunch. Now instead of rednecks cowtipping you'll have techies running around the pastures trying to capture some of that "natural" gas!
(humor)
Refer to a comment posted earlier for more info
First of all I'd like to bring up an old story by Cliff on academic dishonesty that was posted by a friend of mine in a class I took in my last semester at a certain university. In this class, students were all given an assignment where they had to work seperately but could share ideas, just not code. However, when the students actually did this, they were punished (the article goes into greater detail.) The very principle of that punishment is directly contradictory to the real world, where people discuss ideas all of the time, constantly, in order to work effectively.
On a more positive note, I have to say that in my last 3 semesters of college (computer engineering curriculum) I had some rather enjoyable project classes where I worked on teams of 2 to 4 people and the experience was moderately similar to actual real world working practice. I think teamwork in education is essential and should be 50% of the curriculum. In most of my classes while in school we had labs where we worked with others, yet those projects were rather small and insignificant. I think schools should focus more on semester long or even year long projects for their computer engineers and scientists as there's only so much about those subjects you can learn from a book, the rest is really just hands on.
Pausing. Obviously, a new idea, and one worthy of patenting. I think I'm going to patent the play button.
I take offense to that comment. I realize that this is the normal attitude here on Slashdot and it's really warranted most of the time, especially dealing with companies like Microsoft, etc. However this technology is rather complicated and innovative and will actually improve the TV watching experience, especially for those sports lovers out there. There's a lot more than just a "pause" button that goes into this.
Actually titanium in golf clubs is one of the practical places for it. Titanium headed woods are lighter and produce greater force when hitting the golf ball, plus they help people create higher swing speeds. I personally use wooden woods because I like the weight and feel, but titanium is actually useful and relevant with golf clubs.
Remember when the Big Bertha Titanium driver came out? It was a sensation, everybody bought one, then all of the sudden everything golf related was "titanium." Titanium core balls, titanium putters, titanium umbrellas... it just didn't stop. Of course they never sold anything useful like titanium golf spikes, but hey that's marketing. So now I guess it's spread over to computers and probably everything else. Hell I even got a credit card advertisement for a Titanium Visa. That doesn't really make sense to me, I mean I get the Silver, Gold, Platinum - precious metals that are rare and valuable, but Titanium is widely available, more renowned for it's strength than value...
Anyway, I'm sure this video card is really great but I have to admit calling it "Titanium" lowers my level of interest in buying it. It's like if I tried to sell you a "Titanium" watermelon... doesn't really make sense.
void main(){
printf("hello world!");
}
If that's not obscure, what is?
Actually, Fusion reactors are so safe that if something did go wrong we would feel the same effects as those from a microwave oven. They also produce many times more megawatts than any reactor we have presently.
Is this really so bad? You have to a) run IE, b) have javascript security at it's lowest, and c) type in an incorrect URL in order for this "trap" to work... do we really want these people running around on the net anyway?
(humor)
Actually I have a rather good job with excellent job security in the computer engineering field. It is my personal opinion that saving money by firing good workers is a complete mistake and will end up costing companies more in the long run. By cutting material costs instead of losing experienced employees, companies can begin to make more money.
Habitat for Humanity is considering the free Linux operating system. But because Microsoft is so dominant, it will be difficult for firms to switch. Windows runs 92% of PCs. Its Office software has better than a 90% market share, Gartner says.
What do you all think about that? I'm not extremely familiar with Linux, I haven't had the time to get really deep into it like I would prefer because here at work we're forced into using MS2000 and I hardly use my computer at home. From what I've heard, it shouldn't be difficult to switch, and once they do, life will be much easier, not to mention less expensive. With the economy the way it is, I wouldn't be surprised if MS did itself in on this one, we may see a fundamental switch in the way OS is viewed if some big time executives get the hint that by using LInux instead of MS, you can save 1.5 million per year and maybe hire back some of the people you layed off...
I appreciate the support.
You can try to bring up other exotic justifications ("making mix CDs"), but they're too irrelevant to bring up.
Huh? Have you bought a CD in the last 5 years? There's only one or two good songs on each album these days, if you're lucky. Not everyone out there can afford a 125 disc changer for their car, so us commonfolk get a cd burner and take all of our CD's and create our own CD's with the songs we actually WANT to hear. The record industry is just a bunch of bastards who want to continue to produce crap at the rate of as much as possible per day (just look at Cash Money Records as an example - the day after Juvenile's first song got really big there were 15 albums out by Cash Money, and they all sucked.) Anyway, letter of the law aside, the moral obligation of the music industry is to entertain people for a price, and if those poeple pay that price then they should be able to use what they buy, as long as they don't try and sell it to others.
Our technology is not thief proof. What it's meant to do is provide a speed bump to people who don't steal things, and wish to use them in the parameters that are suggested by the artists...If you give people what they want with respect to their ability to copy the music in ways that they think is reasonable, they will not ever attempt to circumvent the technology. Only hackers will attempt to circumvent the technology in order to prove that it can be done.
What in the world does that mean? To me he seems to be saying that he's trying to prevent law abiding, honest people from making a backup copy with poorer sound quality (MP3) on their computer or portable MP3 player, but he's doing nothing to stop the "hackers" who will steal the music and then publish it on the web... this seems ridiculously backwards. I think it's awful that record companies and the music industry are moving towards not allowing indivuduals to make digital backups of their cd's. Is this an attempt to stop people from making a CD with all of their favorite songs on it from their album collection, so we'll be forced to buy those cheezy greatest hits albums off TV? Apparently they don't care if people steal the music and distribute it all over the place, but if you're just a normal person who doesn't "wish to steal things," they don't want you to be able to use what you purchased. I sure hope somebody stops this.
OK, everyone knows that word association is a powerful marketing tool. Example: Microsoft Office. When you say "office suite of programs" to the average person, they automatically think Microsoft Office. Well this article sure gives us a great one:
In this online note, we summarize our preliminary analysis of the surprisingly strong impact of the Internet propagation of Microsoft worms (such as Code Red and Nimda) on the stability of the global routing system.
Look on AP, Yahoo, MSNBC, CNN, and you always see "the Nimda virus" or "the Code Red virus," but I prefer the way the article said it. So from now on in your conversations with others, refer to each virus in this category as a "Microsoft Virus" and hopefully by word of mouth word association we can sway public opinion away from this crappy MS software.
I was worried I'd have to start paying taxes on all my sats, you know how it is, first you buy a car, then a house, then a multi-million dollar satellite, and the government wants to stick it's grubby hands in your pockets every chance they get. Isn't it bad enough already that I'm paying social security and I could get 10 times the return by putting that money in a 2% savings account instead?
Seriously, I think the federal government should be able to tax these sats because NASA and others are very important in the regulation of space and the coordination of all the objects out there (so these satellites don't go crashing into the international space center.) It should be just enough to pay for the work the federal govt. does, but it's ridiculous for some county to say "hey, we want some money, gimmie some money" just because they can. They have nothing to do with space travel so they should keep their grubby hands out of it.