With a concise email concerning my objections to UCITA and a lengthy list of articles and sites on the net explaining how it will adversely affect consumers. Hope it helps.
The point be missed is that there are hundreds of millions of vinyl records in the hands of collectors, vinyl that will never be replaced. These records constitute an enormous amount of our modern (post 1800's) musical heritage and many have never been digitized. Having a laser to read them helps to ensure the quality of the recording will never be degraded.
Yeah, sure, some say digitize the vinyl and be done with it. But some listeners want to hear the recording in its original analog mellifluousness (a Katzian-style word in a tech posting -- see he does have influence).
And correct me if I am wrong, but can't a laser drive an analog process? The unit doesn't necessarily have to digitize the sound before playing it through the speakers.
The question of Time. Why did God, if he exists, create it? An old man let me in on this secret of the ages. Simple. God created time so that everything wouldn't happen at once.
What in the heck is wrong with trying to prosecute someone for breaking into my system?
Emmet in the story post seems to imply with his statement "Prevention starts with the end user, Janet!" that it's the victim's fault! So, I'm to blame because I'm actually trying to run a business and have neither the time to become a security expert nor hire one, and some asshole with too much time on his hands and not enough work decides to learn how to crack systems and targets mine.
Bullshit. That's like saying if you get mugged and beat up by some menacing brute on the sidewalk, it's your fault for wanting to live your life and not get a blackbelt. Reno and the police shouldn't prosecute the mugger because "prevention begins with the pedestrian". What a load of hooey..
There's a bigger concern than altered images!
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When I was in college, I ran and edited an underground newspaper that covered a range of political and social events and topics.
During that time, I was at many events being simultaneously covered by the "traditional" news media. What I saw during those events and spoken by orators WAS AMAZINGLY different from what was reported on television or in the traditional media newspapers the next day.
One example: while covering a speech by Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, he stated that "there will be blood on the streets of America" alluding to some sort of racial uprising and that the blood would not be on his hands, that he was just the messenger. This racial Armageddon theme was threaded throughout the speech, yet on the local television news that night, the only focus was on Farrakhan's message of self-help for minorities. Now please, before the flames and claims of racism start, I was covering the event because our local university paper was NOT covering minority issues at the time; that is, I was an empathetic listener. But I was appalled at what I heard and even more appalled by the traditional media's blatant filtering of what was actually said during the speech.
My point? That these electronic insertions are the least of our worries. The drastic filtering and altering of what's being reported on is of more grave concern than any background images we're looking at.
This is bigger than the article lets on. I know there was a union guy supporting this but don't believe it. The Feds are under fire from government labor unions to allow government workers with mostly computer-based work to work from at home. The argument the Feds have made against telecommuting goverment workers has always been cost (of outfitting the employee with a computer at home, telecommunication dialup, etc.). Now that machines and bandwidth prices have dropped precipitiously, the $ argument is going out the window.
So how better to raise the cost bar again than to bring OSHA in and say that OSHA safety regulations apply. Imagine a company (or federal agency) having to bring all of its telecommuters' home work areas up to OSHA standards. The costs would be astronomical.
In your/. preferences, set your threshold level to 1. Then when losers like the original poster get moderated to zero (usually pretty quickly), you'll never even see their inane babbling.
Get a clue. He's objecting to the fact that record companies are bundling popular songs that they know the public will want with mediocre songs that most people don't want. A single popular song, if unbundled, might cost you $2 - $3, whereas a CD will set you back $12-18. They're bundling simply to increase their profits.
Microsoft Advocating (that we're) Really-nice Team.
Sorry, I know that's cynical, but the above was so well-written and combined with the blurb at the end about the Gates foundation, well, it just sounded like a Microserf PR release.
IMHO, this is nothing more than the commercialization of Usenet and various mailing lists. What was once free through altruism will now cost you.
How many times have you gone to newsgroups and mailing lists to find the answers you need to technical problems? Answers posted for free. I've posted answers free myself, knowing that at sometime in the future I'll have a question that hopefully someone will answer. It's like a global stew of info that everyone can contribute to and take from.
I don't view this as a step forward but a step backward. I know that you can GPL your answer, but think of the temptation to charge for your answer that many people (who would otherwise post the answers for free on a mailing list or newsgroup) will succumb to.
MOSAIC is another step in a long, sad list of well-intentioned safety measures that in the future will have a very negative impact upon American freedoms.
The list:
armed guards at school entrances, hallways, etc.,
metal detectors,
random locker searches,
regulation of speech via speech codes,
electronic ID cards for access to school areas,
and now, psychological profiling and record keeping.
This is really so sad. Maybe you don't see what I see, but I see a generation of young Americans becoming accustomed to and desensitized to the tools of a police state.
When they graduate and enter the world at large, they will be coming from a heavily-restricted environment and perhaps will be less willing to question lawmakers and special-interest groups who would propose laws that restrict our freedoms in the name of safety.
Got that? It means I have to opt-out on my computer at work, my laptop, and my computer at home. Not only that, I have to remember to do it anytime I do a reinstall and my cookies are wiped. Otherwise, they'll start the tracking all over again.
You know, at times, I think the Luddites may have had the right idea.
Actually, this is a private concern that is doing the patenting. They're beating the government project to the punch by using a faster process I think. Had the government discovered the genes and their functions first, the data would have been in the private domain. When the private concern "discovers" them, they get the rights (to research and drugs) for that particular gene.
Quick question, are there any OODBSs out for Linux? Also, anyone have any knowledge of how an OODBMS runs (speedwise) against all these RDMSs mentioned (Oracle, DB2, etc.).
I just have to laugh. Europe/Asia/etc. would love to have had Microsoft as a homegrown company arising from someone's garage (though few are willing to reform their rigid economic/political arenas to allow for such garage-style company creation). Then there is the U.S: Sure, have at it. Start a company and grow, grow, grow. Whoops! You were too damned successful, now take that! Microsoft is NOT like AT&T. AT&T had a monopoly that was greatly based upon the government giving them one as a public utility (allowing them to dig cables, erect lines, etc. with no competition allowed). Microsoft is not a utility like AT&T was. It has had and does have competitors. Microsoft just beat theirs into the ground. And now we want to punish them. I don't like them, but I don't begrudge them their success.
They DO do something. They market Linux better than anyone else (so the article says). That means MacMillan is doing the best job of getting Linux in front of the masses. Marketing's required for world domination.
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With a concise email concerning my objections to UCITA and a lengthy list of articles and sites on the net explaining how it will adversely affect consumers. Hope it helps.
The point be missed is that there are hundreds of millions of vinyl records in the hands of collectors, vinyl that will never be replaced. These records constitute an enormous amount of our modern (post 1800's) musical heritage and many have never been digitized. Having a laser to read them helps to ensure the quality of the recording will never be degraded.
Yeah, sure, some say digitize the vinyl and be done with it. But some listeners want to hear the recording in its original analog mellifluousness (a Katzian-style word in a tech posting -- see he does have influence).
And correct me if I am wrong, but can't a laser drive an analog process? The unit doesn't necessarily have to digitize the sound before playing it through the speakers.
The question of Time. Why did God, if he exists, create it? An old man let me in on this secret of the ages. Simple. God created time so that everything wouldn't happen at once.
He does it because, as many a PR rep will tell you, bad publicity is worth more than no publicity. Fame or infamy, both can make you money.
What in the heck is wrong with trying to prosecute someone for breaking into my system?
Emmet in the story post seems to imply with his statement "Prevention starts with the end user, Janet!" that it's the victim's fault! So, I'm to blame because I'm actually trying to run a business and have neither the time to become a security expert nor hire one, and some asshole with too much time on his hands and not enough work decides to learn how to crack systems and targets mine.
Bullshit. That's like saying if you get mugged and beat up by some menacing brute on the sidewalk, it's your fault for wanting to live your life and not get a blackbelt. Reno and the police shouldn't prosecute the mugger because "prevention begins with the pedestrian". What a load of hooey..
When I was in college, I ran and edited an underground newspaper that covered a range of political and social events and topics.
During that time, I was at many events being simultaneously covered by the "traditional" news media. What I saw during those events and spoken by orators WAS AMAZINGLY different from what was reported on television or in the traditional media newspapers the next day.
One example: while covering a speech by Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, he stated that "there will be blood on the streets of America" alluding to some sort of racial uprising and that the blood would not be on his hands, that he was just the messenger. This racial Armageddon theme was threaded throughout the speech, yet on the local television news that night, the only focus was on Farrakhan's message of self-help for minorities. Now please, before the flames and claims of racism start, I was covering the event because our local university paper was NOT covering minority issues at the time; that is, I was an empathetic listener. But I was appalled at what I heard and even more appalled by the traditional media's blatant filtering of what was actually said during the speech.
My point? That these electronic insertions are the least of our worries. The drastic filtering and altering of what's being reported on is of more grave concern than any background images we're looking at.
This is bigger than the article lets on. I know there was a union guy supporting this but don't believe it. The Feds are under fire from government labor unions to allow government workers with mostly computer-based work to work from at home. The argument the Feds have made against telecommuting goverment workers has always been cost (of outfitting the employee with a computer at home, telecommunication dialup, etc.). Now that machines and bandwidth prices have dropped precipitiously, the $ argument is going out the window.
So how better to raise the cost bar again than to bring OSHA in and say that OSHA safety regulations apply. Imagine a company (or federal agency) having to bring all of its telecommuters' home work areas up to OSHA standards. The costs would be astronomical.
In your /. preferences, set your threshold level to 1. Then when losers like the original poster get moderated to zero (usually pretty quickly), you'll never even see their inane babbling.
Try Freedom . Looks like an interesting system. They've got a beta out for free I think.
That's the way I've always heard it.
Get a clue. He's objecting to the fact that record companies are bundling popular songs that they know the public will want with mediocre songs that most people don't want. A single popular song, if unbundled, might cost you $2 - $3, whereas a CD will set you back $12-18. They're bundling simply to increase their profits.
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Microsoft Advocating (that we're) Really-nice Team.
Sorry, I know that's cynical, but the above was so well-written and combined with the blurb at the end about the Gates foundation, well, it just sounded like a Microserf PR release.
IMHO, this is nothing more than the commercialization of Usenet and various mailing lists. What was once free through altruism will now cost you.
How many times have you gone to newsgroups and mailing lists to find the answers you need to technical problems? Answers posted for free. I've posted answers free myself, knowing that at sometime in the future I'll have a question that hopefully someone will answer. It's like a global stew of info that everyone can contribute to and take from.
I don't view this as a step forward but a step backward. I know that you can GPL your answer, but think of the temptation to charge for your answer that many people (who would otherwise post the answers for free on a mailing list or newsgroup) will succumb to.
Money, money, money....
The list:
This is really so sad. Maybe you don't see what I see, but I see a generation of young Americans becoming accustomed to and desensitized to the tools of a police state.
When they graduate and enter the world at large, they will be coming from a heavily-restricted environment and perhaps will be less willing to question lawmakers and special-interest groups who would propose laws that restrict our freedoms in the name of safety.
Some hope?
Got that? It means I have to opt-out on my computer at work, my laptop, and my computer at home. Not only that, I have to remember to do it anytime I do a reinstall and my cookies are wiped. Otherwise, they'll start the tracking all over again.
You know, at times, I think the Luddites may have had the right idea.
Actually, this is a private concern that is doing the patenting. They're beating the government project to the punch by using a faster process I think. Had the government discovered the genes and their functions first, the data would have been in the private domain. When the private concern "discovers" them, they get the rights (to research and drugs) for that particular gene.
I thought only the developer's edition was free with a maximum of three seats? Do they have a free edition you can use on your website?
See technology helps. At least this time, there will be no stampede deaths for the concert! ;-)
Heh, heh. Neat how their first photos were of D.C. (where I work). Kinda of a shot across the bow of our local intelligence agencies, eh?
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Quick question, are there any OODBSs out for Linux? Also, anyone have any knowledge of how an OODBMS runs (speedwise) against all these RDMSs mentioned (Oracle, DB2, etc.).
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I disagree. I think real world skills are great for some colleges.
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I just have to laugh. Europe/Asia/etc. would love to have had Microsoft as a homegrown company arising from someone's garage (though few are willing to reform their rigid economic/political arenas to allow for such garage-style company creation). Then there is the U.S: Sure, have at it. Start a company and grow, grow, grow. Whoops! You were too damned successful, now take that! Microsoft is NOT like AT&T. AT&T had a monopoly that was greatly based upon the government giving them one as a public utility (allowing them to dig cables, erect lines, etc. with no competition allowed). Microsoft is not a utility like AT&T was. It has had and does have competitors. Microsoft just beat theirs into the ground. And now we want to punish them. I don't like them, but I don't begrudge them their success.
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They DO do something. They market Linux better than anyone else (so the article says). That means MacMillan is doing the best job of getting Linux in front of the masses. Marketing's required for world domination.
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Check the posting times. Maybe it's a Linux bug? Just kidding. Go Linux!!1