Well, except the IAEA published a response to the NYT, and called them full of shit, and that the IAEA never has had concrete proof of any military use development program.
Remember, this is the same NYT who hired Judith Miller, right?
If you can maintain satellites in GEO, you can BUILD satellites in GEO. Hello Space Based Solar/Beamed Microwave, and We Win The Game!
Pournelle has written extensively on this, e.g.:
Prizes reduce market uncertainties by providing a floor. If the US were to offer a $1 billion prize for the first American company to fly a ship to orbit and bring it home 6 times in one year, we would probably have reusable space ships within five years, possibly sooner: a billion is a pretty good market incentive. And if the US were to offer $10 billion prize for the first American company to put 31 Americans on the surface of the Moon and keep them there alive and well for 3 years and a day, we would have a Lunar Colony within 7 years and probably sooner.
The neat thing about prizes is that we spend no money unless someone wins.
1) Given that the corporate entity *agreed* to abide by the Regulation of The People in exchange for permission to incorporate, then what The People say, goes. e.g.: Health Department Inspections; Fire Department Inspections.
2) Further, there is *law* which regulates things like this... In NYS, it's section 40-B of the Civil Rights Law, which pretty much states that if you have a ticket, and aren't committing a breach of the peace or being offensive, then they *under law* cannot throw you out.
Of course, the stadium isn't going to post 40-B, are they? Nope. They'll just assume ( rightly ) that nitwits will *believe* their fairy tale about "We can do whatever we want"
It's not like we are still researching the effects of electromagnetic radiation on children from local power stations using technology over one-hundred years old, or anything like that.
We're not. The sick kids came from the PCB laden oil spread under the high tension lines' right-of-way.
The problem here is the same stupidity which lead to 9/11.
PROTIP: ***NEVER*** negotiate with terrorists.
A terrorist snatches one of ours, they are dead to us. We publish their obituaries in the paper tomorrow, and then send in the Marines to recover the body. It the terrorists are SMART, they'll hand the guy over as fast as they can, and take their chances in a Federal District Court; if they're DUMB, they're dead.
Instantly, hostages have ***ZERO*** value, and all this stupid discussion goes away.
Does any of the material at the center of this dispute even really QUALIFY for Constitutional protection?
If you recall, the Copyright Clause reads:
"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."
So... I'm at a loss as to how their Entertainment Product meets the Constitutional requirement of "promot(ing) the Progress of Science and useful Arts"... AutoCAD, sure.. You build bridges with AutoCAD. That's a damned 'useful Art'...
"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'm pretty certain that the Framers didn't intend for your ringtone to be covered by copyright -- seeing as there's no way it can be considered to promote the Progress of either Science or useful Arts...
If you have the kind of money and connections Kenny-Boy had, how hard do you think it would be to find a similar enough looking body to be buried instead of yours?
"I don't consider replacing Linux with a Win server, because Linux is just too good and easy to manage for firewall/email/rsync backups/cron jobs/bash and perl script/etc."
You don't REPLACE the Linux server. You drop the AD Management box NEXT TO the Linux server, and just move the AD stuff to it. Continue using the Linux box for the samba shares/backup/everything else.
Remember REAL operating systems ship with Perl pre-installed. So consider this Microsoft stuff like a canned business machine, and adopt it into your workflow when needed.
But keep in mind, the real IMPORTANT business stuff is on the linux box. You just use the server to control the workstations...
You don't get it. To the "Unwashed Masses" it doesn't matter if it's Windows, Unix, or whatever. It broke, it's your fault.
At the end of the day -- the root cause of all this is that the senior management doesn't respect you. Since they don't, their subordinates don't.
My advice. Install a copy of Bugzilla, document everything in excruciating detail. Copies of IM conversations showing the nitwittery involved, etc.
But understand this. NO-ONE WILL EVER READ ANYTHING YOU PUT INTO THE SYSTEM. ( Still, keep it professional, because you WILL be copy/pasting stuff out of it to explain why Tami's PC blah, blah, blah...
BUT IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER JUST TO PUT IT DOWN AND GET IT OUT OF YOUR HEAD.
That's not random capitalization. It's what I call "Comic Case", and if you're like me, you got it from reading a lot of hand inked lettering, where that's the technique to punch up dialog.
Don't get me started on my '99 Passat Wagon... It had a great little fault where occasionally it wouldn't start. No cranking. No nothing. Turns out that there was an intermittent short in a wire.
Oh, man... Were the guys at the local VW proud of themselves that -- after 500 bucks of labor -- they managed to figure out how to read a fucking wiring diagram and ran a new wire...
Tom,
Thanks for your contribution.
It is imperative you communicate this to *everyone* in the NoScript project -- especially to Giorgio Maone.
I think the real issue here is that Giorgio violated our trust, and *appears* to have been acting without integrity and without "Good Faith".
This earlier post echoes my, and many others feelings:
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Had NoScript asked me if I wanted to whitelist adds on their site (in my AdBlock preferences) to support NoScript development, I would have happily clicked "Yes."
As it is, Giorgio acted like a piece-of-shit, scumbag, newbie-hacker throwing a temper tantrum, should be ashamed of himself for embarrassing himself, YOU, and everyone on the project , and needs to make public apology for his misguided attempt.
Here's a hint. If you put it in the documentation, README or changelog it WILL NOT BE READ.
Get out an update which says, "SORRY! We've rolled back all the patches for this to version xxxxxx, and we will never make any changes outside our application without your PRIOR EXPRESS INFORMED CONSENT.
And then learn from this mess -- and don't fuck up like this again.
And NOW the politicians opponents can begin the "If he's not hiding anything, why is he afraid of Good Old American Anonymous Political Commentary -- SO AFRAID he needed to launch a PRIVATE INVESTIGATION and SPY ON HER to assuage his paranoia..."
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"I see you're new around here and determined to think I give a flying fuck about you and what you know about how computer licensing should work."
Isn't the point that MSFT's patent application is torpedoed by the prior art of FlexLM?
"AT&T has 2 options (by law): eat the cost or charge the customer. They have chosen to "eat the cost"."
The day AT&T doesn't pass along a cost, is the day Hell freezes over. If anything, the difference is in the Regulatory Recovery Fee or something.
"written by someone who doesn't test applications on a clean system prior to distribution, then wonders why it doesn't work."
Well, what happens when someone INSTALLS the applications on a system which isn't clean?
Shouldn't that be tested, too? Your comment seems to imply that the configuration shouldn't be in some way.
Well, except the IAEA published a response to the NYT, and called them full of shit, and that the IAEA never has had concrete proof of any military use development program.
Remember, this is the same NYT who hired Judith Miller, right?
Well, how do you deal with a user who has applications dependent on different versions of libraries then?
Do you just say "FU" to them?
How about before all that we fix the broken implementation of "to promote the progress of Science and the Useful Arts", first?
That'll remove a lot of the content unworthy of special protection from the discussion, and we can then focus on the remaining issues.
When you have construction crews in GEO building power stations, where exactly do you think they're going to go on long weekends and vacation?
1) Given that the corporate entity *agreed* to abide by the Regulation of The People in exchange for permission to incorporate, then what The People say, goes. e.g.: Health Department Inspections; Fire Department Inspections.
2) Further, there is *law* which regulates things like this... In NYS, it's section 40-B of the Civil Rights Law, which pretty much states that if you have a ticket, and aren't committing a breach of the peace or being offensive, then they *under law* cannot throw you out.
Of course, the stadium isn't going to post 40-B, are they? Nope. They'll just assume ( rightly ) that nitwits will *believe* their fairy tale about "We can do whatever we want"
We're not. The sick kids came from the PCB laden oil spread under the high tension lines' right-of-way.
It does when you beam the electricity to ground-stations from orbiting solar power satellites.
The problem here is the same stupidity which lead to 9/11.
PROTIP: ***NEVER*** negotiate with terrorists.
A terrorist snatches one of ours, they are dead to us. We publish their obituaries in the paper tomorrow, and then send in the Marines to recover the body. It the terrorists are SMART, they'll hand the guy over as fast as they can, and take their chances in a Federal District Court; if they're DUMB, they're dead.
Instantly, hostages have ***ZERO*** value, and all this stupid discussion goes away.
Well, here's a thought...
Does any of the material at the center of this dispute even really QUALIFY for Constitutional protection?
If you recall, the Copyright Clause reads:
"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."
So... I'm at a loss as to how their Entertainment Product meets the Constitutional requirement of "promot(ing) the Progress of Science and useful Arts"... AutoCAD, sure.. You build bridges with AutoCAD. That's a damned 'useful Art'...
Yeah, that process is called "Amendment".
Remember, The Constitution grants the Federal Government its legitimate authority. If it's not delegated, it's not legitimate.
They thought good and hard when they wrote: "to Promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts".
No Doubt's "Bathwater" doesn't meet that criteria. I might entertain arguments for "Hella Good", but it's still gonna be a uphill climb.
"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'm pretty certain that the Framers didn't intend for your ringtone to be covered by copyright -- seeing as there's no way it can be considered to promote the Progress of either Science or useful Arts...
Or is the vendor getting a discount from the CRA because they've agreed to provide a reliable source of validated data?
If you have the kind of money and connections Kenny-Boy had, how hard do you think it would be to find a similar enough looking body to be buried instead of yours?
Some from Column A, and some from Column B?
"I don't consider replacing Linux with a Win server, because Linux is just too good and easy to manage for firewall/email/rsync backups/cron jobs/bash and perl script/etc."
You don't REPLACE the Linux server. You drop the AD Management box NEXT TO the Linux server, and just move the AD stuff to it. Continue using the Linux box for the samba shares/backup/everything else.
Remember REAL operating systems ship with Perl pre-installed. So consider this Microsoft stuff like a canned business machine, and adopt it into your workflow when needed.
But keep in mind, the real IMPORTANT business stuff is on the linux box. You just use the server to control the workstations...
You don't get it. To the "Unwashed Masses" it doesn't matter if it's Windows, Unix, or whatever. It broke, it's your fault.
At the end of the day -- the root cause of all this is that the senior management doesn't respect you. Since they don't, their subordinates don't.
My advice. Install a copy of Bugzilla, document everything in excruciating detail. Copies of IM conversations showing the nitwittery involved, etc.
But understand this. NO-ONE WILL EVER READ ANYTHING YOU PUT INTO THE SYSTEM. ( Still, keep it professional, because you WILL be copy/pasting stuff out of it to explain why Tami's PC blah, blah, blah...
BUT IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER JUST TO PUT IT DOWN AND GET IT OUT OF YOUR HEAD.
That's not random capitalization. It's what I call "Comic Case", and if you're like me, you got it from reading a lot of hand inked lettering, where that's the technique to punch up dialog.
If you can't negotiate the terms in Good Faith, is it a Lawful contract?
Don't get me started on my '99 Passat Wagon... It had a great little fault where occasionally it wouldn't start. No cranking. No nothing. Turns out that there was an intermittent short in a wire.
Oh, man... Were the guys at the local VW proud of themselves that -- after 500 bucks of labor -- they managed to figure out how to read a fucking wiring diagram and ran a new wire...
Oh, and my ABS module is shot, too...
As it is, Giorgio acted like a piece-of-shit, scumbag, newbie-hacker throwing a temper tantrum, should be ashamed of himself for embarrassing himself, YOU, and everyone on the project , and needs to make public apology for his misguided attempt. Here's a hint. If you put it in the documentation, README or changelog it WILL NOT BE READ. Get out an update which says, "SORRY! We've rolled back all the patches for this to version xxxxxx, and we will never make any changes outside our application without your PRIOR EXPRESS INFORMED CONSENT. And then learn from this mess -- and don't fuck up like this again.
And NOW the politicians opponents can begin the "If he's not hiding anything, why is he afraid of Good Old American Anonymous Political Commentary -- SO AFRAID he needed to launch a PRIVATE INVESTIGATION and SPY ON HER to assuage his paranoia..."