Elderly people remember what a carbon copy is, and how it is used in mail. I remember using it with a typewriter before switching to printers and later email.
As for Coca Cola, it is known already. There is nothing special there, just no one would bother to create a giant company to compete at their/Pepsi scale. For fuck sake, they sell juice as well -- juice "recipe" is universally known, and it does not cause them any problems.
Trade secrets are only trade secrets when they are under control of the owner and passed to employees, contractors, etc. This is accomplished through (and only through) NDAs. Without NDA, there wouldn't even be a way to know if something is a secret. Once an information someone believes to be a secret is passed somewhere without an NDA, it is not a secret anymore -- though the person who disclosed it and was under NDA, can be prosecuted, unless, of course, it is the original owner itself. If it is discovered independently, there is not even an act of disclosure where a "secret" applies.
The point is that action doesn't define position, it happens despite personal position, because most politicians' conviction isn't considered important enough to resign over (which is a whole other problem with politics). If politicians were not at the mercy of a political party and special interests to win reelection they would have the freedom to act in accordance with their beliefs. Then they'd only have to worry about committee assignments, but that is often just another aspect of the campaign finance problem.
Whatever Congressmen propose and vote for, is their position. Period. This is their function as politicians, and there are no others. Why do they choose it, or how they come to those decisions, is completely irrelevant, and they are welcome to shut up about that.
There is a much worse problem with this -- what parents are going to do with all this data? Keylogger gives no context, does not identify people the user communicates with, does not even properly reconstruct a message after editing, copying and pasting. So huge amount of perfectly valid conversations may look potentially bad for parents. And parents will have to process this every day.
It's inevitable that each and every parent will eventually encounter something they have to "react" to. But how? Kid will get the whole thing thrown into his face, including the fact that parents installed a keylogger and did not tell him. Overprotective parent will happily sacrifice kid's trust in himself when seeing that his precious child is in a danger of being raped. Over what? Emailing grandpa his home address? Expressing approval of classmate's dress over IM? Arguing about exact lyrics of a song heard on TV? Millions of other perfectly normal conversations?
I would suggest that in the absence of cheap imported goods a way would be found to produce those goods here in the west. America has a large workforce
China does not try to feed its economy through gigantic loans to consumers and real estate speculation.
If it tried to do so, it would immediately lose any need to export anything, and for a while economy would grow much faster than it does -- however no one in China is stupid enough to do it because it's obvious what the consequences of such moves are.
There are plenty of moderates in the Republican party, unfortunately they vote the party line instead of their conscience or that of their constituency.
Then they are by definition not moderates. No one cares what they secretly whisper to their whores or pray to their Jesus -- politician's position is defined entirely by his political actions.
/g/ is where overflow Microsoft astroturfers went. Come back to Slashdot, you wankers! You have already demonstrated the pinnacle of your debating capabilities there, a photoshopped dickbutt comic.
Sure they can. And these forms of discrimination are not illegal.
I have specifically said that it would apply to forms of discrimination that are already illegal -- as an example. If Sony can not create a "no niggers" rule, it means that its control is not as complete and total as you and GP claim it to be. Obviously Sony's actual actions amount not to discrimination but fraud and libel -- that are just as much illegal, and just as much can not be covered by any kind of contracts or proclamations from Sony.
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Elderly people remember what a carbon copy is, and how it is used in mail. I remember using it with a typewriter before switching to printers and later email.
Citation please.
As for Coca Cola, it is known already. There is nothing special there, just no one would bother to create a giant company to compete at their/Pepsi scale. For fuck sake, they sell juice as well -- juice "recipe" is universally known, and it does not cause them any problems.
WTF are you talking about?
Trade secrets are only trade secrets when they are under control of the owner and passed to employees, contractors, etc. This is accomplished through (and only through) NDAs. Without NDA, there wouldn't even be a way to know if something is a secret. Once an information someone believes to be a secret is passed somewhere without an NDA, it is not a secret anymore -- though the person who disclosed it and was under NDA, can be prosecuted, unless, of course, it is the original owner itself. If it is discovered independently, there is not even an act of disclosure where a "secret" applies.
Sony does not lose money on hardware -- Microsoft does that, but Microsoft is nowhere close to Sony scale when hardware production is concerned.
Sony is just incredibly greedy, and wants to encourage poor game programming to support their insistence on including DRM everywhere.
Fuck off!
Whem Microsoft "asks" something, the only appropriate response is "Fuck off!". What, I believe, Google, Mozilla, and even Apple are well aware of.
"Mom, why those guys call each other neckbeards and basement dwellers, and post pictures of a cat on fire?"
Right cake.
Wrong cake.
That will allow them to bake a lot of pretty cakes!
I'm a little teapot
No, you are not.
The point is that action doesn't define position, it happens despite personal position, because most politicians' conviction isn't considered important enough to resign over (which is a whole other problem with politics). If politicians were not at the mercy of a political party and special interests to win reelection they would have the freedom to act in accordance with their beliefs. Then they'd only have to worry about committee assignments, but that is often just another aspect of the campaign finance problem.
Whatever Congressmen propose and vote for, is their position. Period. This is their function as politicians, and there are no others. Why do they choose it, or how they come to those decisions, is completely irrelevant, and they are welcome to shut up about that.
There is a much worse problem with this -- what parents are going to do with all this data? Keylogger gives no context, does not identify people the user communicates with, does not even properly reconstruct a message after editing, copying and pasting. So huge amount of perfectly valid conversations may look potentially bad for parents. And parents will have to process this every day.
It's inevitable that each and every parent will eventually encounter something they have to "react" to. But how? Kid will get the whole thing thrown into his face, including the fact that parents installed a keylogger and did not tell him. Overprotective parent will happily sacrifice kid's trust in himself when seeing that his precious child is in a danger of being raped. Over what? Emailing grandpa his home address? Expressing approval of classmate's dress over IM? Arguing about exact lyrics of a song heard on TV? Millions of other perfectly normal conversations?
What will US export? Promises not to sue if someone will try to sell something in US (a.k.a. most of "IP")?
I would suggest that in the absence of cheap imported goods a way would be found to produce those goods here in the west. America has a large workforce
lol
If anything at all will happen what can bring US economy down permanently, US will have no allies left.
China does not try to feed its economy through gigantic loans to consumers and real estate speculation.
If it tried to do so, it would immediately lose any need to export anything, and for a while economy would grow much faster than it does -- however no one in China is stupid enough to do it because it's obvious what the consequences of such moves are.
Yes!!! People will not be able to find food because the next batch of iPhones will be dumped onto the ocean floor instead of being sold to Americans!
Morons.
Oh, wow. Not that shit again.
There are plenty of moderates in the Republican party, unfortunately they vote the party line instead of their conscience or that of their constituency.
Then they are by definition not moderates. No one cares what they secretly whisper to their whores or pray to their Jesus -- politician's position is defined entirely by his political actions.
Yes, but those people would not open their mouth without someone paying for it.
It's corporate whoring in its purest form, there is no sane way of defending it.
/g/ is where overflow Microsoft astroturfers went. Come back to Slashdot, you wankers! You have already demonstrated the pinnacle of your debating capabilities there, a photoshopped dickbutt comic.
Sure they can. And these forms of discrimination are not illegal.
I have specifically said that it would apply to forms of discrimination that are already illegal -- as an example. If Sony can not create a "no niggers" rule, it means that its control is not as complete and total as you and GP claim it to be. Obviously Sony's actual actions amount not to discrimination but fraud and libel -- that are just as much illegal, and just as much can not be covered by any kind of contracts or proclamations from Sony.
lol wut
My reaction was "pox on both your houses" minutes after I turned on the TV.
Hundreds of megabytes per day at peak usage -- though not for too long. Had a good reason for it, too -- mail, version control repository and applications installation while away from home.