Unfortunately, I don't think this is what Bush has in mind. From is memo I gather that his intention is to make sure the corporations that already have it keep it:
...policies and procedures to promote more efficient and beneficial use of spectrum without harmful interference to critical incumbent users.(emphasis mine)
I think that system is the one the article mentions getting rid of. The first three paragraphs again:
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dennis Birch compares the U.S. soldier to a Christmas tree: Whenever improvements in technology help lighten a soldier's load, someone else wants to hang on a new piece of gear like an ornament.
The result is "100 pounds of great ideas hanging off him in all different directions," Birch said.
So in its prototype for a high-tech uniform of the future, researchers at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts, have shaken all gear from the soldier and started from scratch.
I downloaded it, installed with crossover office but when I click on it, nothing happens. Any windows users know if it uses ie for anything?
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Or if they could just better document the config files. I reported a bug in kde 3.1 because everytime I open konqueror the View->Use Index.html option is checked and the save profile saves every setting but that one. So I started looking thru the config files (there are many) to try and set it manually. For just about any given config file there is no documentation that I could find that explains what variables/values are allowed for each rc or config file. The "KDE Handbook" is just MS type "open this window, check this box, click apply" level instructions, no really useful information. Kind of like this review.
If that documentation was readily available ala nvidia (the best readme ever) I wouldn't have to uncheck that box every time I open konq.
On the topic of Ximian's Back, who cares? It's basically a theme right? Doesn't look there's any new feature. A cool background image isn't a new feature. A new feature would be easy to implement/configure voice control of your desktop like IBM/Trolltech announced a bazillion years ago. I guess that one'll show up right after Duke Nukem.
If that's true, then why was there ever a problem in the first place? Surely this was brought up so many times back when this first started with 2600. Even the MPAA must realize that DeCSS is not necessary for copying DVD's. So while the MPAA and their bribed politicians are claiming it's a burglary tool in court, the reason they went to court in the first place is probably something else. Like that fact that with DeCSS you can watch a movie on an UNLICENSED player.
For the MPAA (though they won't say this in court), this has nothing to do with copy prevention, but everything to do with the when, where, and how you watch a film you paid for. Obviously this is important to them or they wouldn't have dreamed up Region Codes.
How the hell do you get to be a State Attorney General and not have the mental ability to see straight through this?
Okay, two groups of french journalists, both covering the same event, but arriving on different days, get treated like this. Might it be retribution against the French for not doing what the U.S. ordered them to do (Iraq)? It does seem like the French are being singled out.
But if the FSF is right that OpenTV is violating the GPL, and if this behavior is found to be legal by the courts, the entire free-software and open-source movements could be derailed.
It seems to me that if the GPL were weakened by a court decision, that same decision would also weaken copyrights generally and eula's specifically. Which brings to mind and interesting possible scenario:
The lawyers at MS, realizing that the GPL is about to put on trial, initially rejoice but then realize that their own eula is also in danger. Bill Gates donates a billion dollars to the FSF legal fund as a "gesture of goodwill".
I think one of the biggest problems with our present political system is that no real issues ever get discussed or debated. Even in the televised debates all the questions are preapproved by the campaigns. What if there was a list of questions, a bit longer than your three that every candidate had to answer if he/she wanted to actually get elected? What's really attractive about this is no matter what your politics are (as an individual voter) you'd most likely want to know the answers to these questions. With that in mind, wouldn't a publicity campaign called "ping them down" or something like that be pretty successful?
Candidate A Candidate B still hasn't answered the "pin them down" questions. Is he being evasive?
Candidate B Well, umm,...you see...
The campaign isn't for or against any particular ideal so it could be really popular with the individual voters.
The Questions. An Ask Slashdot maybe? Maybe better to get a few questions from existing political groups like the eff, aclu, and yes the *aa's. It has to be legit and unbiased to be popular
Please someone have the resources to get something like this started
The protests I remember are the ones in the late eighties when Roh agreed to elections. I didn't think they were that big. Of course my news was what I saw myself and what was in the Stars and Stripes.
The Kwangju Massacre I always thought of as part of Chun taking over the country and not as a "protest". But I was in high school then so I looked it up just now. Chun's coup and the Kwangju Massacre were seperated by a year.
I think a required first step to removing the national id # in Korea would be the elimination of N. Korea as a potential threat(ie reunification). When I was in language school and my primary instructor first told us about the national id system we were all surprised and wanted to know why Koreans tolerated it. He justified it by telling us that N. Korea would often send spies into the South and without the national id card it would be to easy to blend in.
My first year in country I think there were 9 prostitutes arrested for spying.
Without N. Korea I think there could be no justification for a national id system. Even taking into account The War On Terror given how homogenous Korea is.
As to whether or not the baa-baa-sheep-like-ness will prove to be seriously detrimental to Korean society in the future will require many decades of observation, and many hours spent watching the History Channel after those decades have passed. Who knows? Maybe they've got it right.
Well, after the "Asian Market Collapse" the "baa-baa-sheep-like-ness" did prove very beneficial. When the government called on Koreans to stop traveling and taking Korean money out of the country most Koreans complied. In fact, they put a noticeable dent in the Thai weekend excursion business. Also, when the government called on employees to continue going to work even though their employers had no cash to pay them, most complied. A good friends sister-in-law had a small business with about twenty employees. They continued coming to work despite not getting a paycheck for several months. The whole thing could have been much worse than it was if not for everyone making sacrifices "for the good of the group".
I lived in Korea in the 80's. I went to DLI San-Fran and worked in intelligence as a voice interceptor. Because of my access I probably know more than you ever will about the Korean government at that time.
During the 90's (97-98)I worked for a Korean shipping company (Boyang) as an interpreter/agent and for my own export business. I made several trips (4) to Korea, each trip being for a maximum duration of two weeks. It was during those trips that I used cyber-cafes to check my email.
I have never taught ESL. In fact, I've never even been inside a hawgwan.
The whole Korean karaoke/hostess bar tradition is pathetic and I don't hang out in them.
Why are you stuck on how much Korean pussy I get/have gotten?
Maybe you have some personal issues you need to deal with. More than a few times a Korean has offerred some insight into my own culture/perceptions that I wasn't aware of, and honestly at times that insight was rather insulting, yet there was some truth to it.
There are many white Americans and Europeans who are infinitely more qualified than you or I to comment on Korean culture and history. Get over it.
Sorry, teaching ESL to Korean students because you're a blond, blue-eyed white boy with no qualifications, *after* Korea became a democracy just doesn't mean shit.
Sorry, I never taught ESL. But I did teach Korean-Americans in the U.S. Korean. And I was first in Korea before it was a democracy.
My dad was a member of one of the student protest groups at Yonsei University.
Really? I studied at Yonsei for one year. Did you?
What little protests you saw during the 1990s is nothing.
Umm, I was there in the 80's, but not in the 90's.
Go home, white boy, go home
Tangent - How is that your parents being Korean make you more knowledgeable re Korean culture and history? I'm willing to bet that you didn't study Korean history in college but this white boy did. I'm also willing to bet that you don't know the language fluently either. Understanding you're mom tell you to take out the trash doesn't make you fluent btw...
The *most* violent and frequent protests in the world occured in South Korea during the hey-day of dictatorship in the 80s. The student protests in Korea were a major reason why Korea is a democracy today.
I was there for that. Obviously you weren't. btw, I did study history, from Chosun to the present day...
Korea is an entire nation. Those large, violent, frequent protests that you saw on TV weren't what you saw on TV. I was there and the prostests were actually pathetically small. Usually it was less than two hundred college students. They just got a lot of coverage in your country. Go one block away from the protest and no one cares, no one is interested.
They won't fight this. There may be a couple of loud voices heard for a minute but Koreans are even more sheeplike than Americans. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or what but Korea's a country where the entire population can have an opinion that opposes the status quo yet nothing will change.
While no one in Korea will run to the streets protesting, this is the internet and the more courageous Koreans (a minority) will stop posting to message boards that reside in country and start using boards put up by Koreans living in the U.S. and other countries.
Note: I'm an American who has lived in Korea (I speak read and write Korean) and I'm not trying to be "inciteful".
As someone pointed out, the dvd is "fragile". There are books that are hundreds of years old.
Do you have any 5 year old dvd's or cd's that are still in good shape? I don't, but I have books that have withstood a great deal of abuse over the last 30 years and are still good.
at least if a kid is home schooled his/her parents will take care to prepare the kid for real life. A graduate of public high school doesn't have any marketable skills or experience.
I think there's also a benefit gained from having adolescents spend more time with adults and less time with other adolescents.
Does anyone remember the snl sketch right after Gary Busey cracked his skull in a motorcycle accident? The Gary Busey helmet protector protector protector. I think this was before The Big Hit.
Despite all the half-baked rationalizations cooked up by piracy advocates, no one can really refute the truth spoken by the recording industry: Sooner or later, the widespread distribution of near-perfect digital copies will destroy the market for commercial recordings, and make the production of the very product consumers seem so eager to pirate impossible...and would never have been committed to disc were there not the possibility of profiting from exclusive distribution rights to their product. Every time you download their songs illegally, you are decreasing the probability that such things will be available in the future.
You're saying that if Kazaa were allowed to continue current operations unhampered by any law, the result would be the complete collapse of the recording industry? So frelling what?
Seriously, was there a recording industry when Mozart was alive? Now that we have a recording industry there are no more Mozarts but plenty of Britney Spears.
Next consider that the copyright extensions AND the DMCA were passed because of **AA money. If they no longer existed I'd be very happy, even if it meant that poor Britney had to get a job hosting at a karaoke bar.
Please go [right now] to booth 9 and hammer the icculus people for details on mohaa. Then post those details here or email them to me at "charmin66-at-hotmail.com".
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For some interesting reading regarding just how unscarce and unprecious this National Resource is check here:
http://werbach.com/docs/new_wireless_paradigm.htm
Unfortunately, I don't think this is what Bush has in mind. From is memo I gather that his intention is to make sure the corporations that already have it keep it:
I think that system is the one the article mentions getting rid of. The first three paragraphs again:
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dennis Birch compares the U.S. soldier to a Christmas tree: Whenever improvements in technology help lighten a soldier's load, someone else wants to hang on a new piece of gear like an ornament.
The result is "100 pounds of great ideas hanging off him in all different directions," Birch said.
So in its prototype for a high-tech uniform of the future, researchers at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts, have shaken all gear from the soldier and started from scratch.
I downloaded it, installed with crossover office but when I click on it, nothing happens. Any windows users know if it uses ie for anything?
Or if they could just better document the config files. I reported a bug in kde 3.1 because everytime I open konqueror the View->Use Index.html option is checked and the save profile saves every setting but that one. So I started looking thru the config files (there are many) to try and set it manually. For just about any given config file there is no documentation that I could find that explains what variables/values are allowed for each rc or config file. The "KDE Handbook" is just MS type "open this window, check this box, click apply" level instructions, no really useful information. Kind of like this review.
If that documentation was readily available ala nvidia (the best readme ever) I wouldn't have to uncheck that box every time I open konq.
On the topic of Ximian's Back, who cares? It's basically a theme right? Doesn't look there's any new feature. A cool background image isn't a new feature. A new feature would be easy to implement/configure voice control of your desktop like IBM/Trolltech announced a bazillion years ago. I guess that one'll show up right after Duke Nukem.
If that's true, then why was there ever a problem in the first place? Surely this was brought up so many times back when this first started with 2600. Even the MPAA must realize that DeCSS is not necessary for copying DVD's. So while the MPAA and their bribed politicians are claiming it's a burglary tool in court, the reason they went to court in the first place is probably something else. Like that fact that with DeCSS you can watch a movie on an UNLICENSED player.
For the MPAA (though they won't say this in court), this has nothing to do with copy prevention, but everything to do with the when, where, and how you watch a film you paid for. Obviously this is important to them or they wouldn't have dreamed up Region Codes.
How the hell do you get to be a State Attorney General and not have the mental ability to see straight through this?
Okay, two groups of french journalists, both covering the same event, but arriving on different days, get treated like this. Might it be retribution against the French for not doing what the U.S. ordered them to do (Iraq)? It does seem like the French are being singled out.
But if the FSF is right that OpenTV is violating the GPL, and if this behavior is found to be legal by the courts, the entire free-software and open-source movements could be derailed.
It seems to me that if the GPL were weakened by a court decision, that same decision would also weaken copyrights generally and eula's specifically. Which brings to mind and interesting possible scenario:
The lawyers at MS, realizing that the GPL is about to put on trial, initially rejoice but then realize that their own eula is also in danger. Bill Gates donates a billion dollars to the FSF legal fund as a "gesture of goodwill".
Okay so let's put them on record...
I think one of the biggest problems with our present political system is that no real issues ever get discussed or debated. Even in the televised debates all the questions are preapproved by the campaigns. What if there was a list of questions, a bit longer than your three that every candidate had to answer if he/she wanted to actually get elected? What's really attractive about this is no matter what your politics are (as an individual voter) you'd most likely want to know the answers to these questions. With that in mind, wouldn't a publicity campaign called "ping them down" or something like that be pretty successful?
Candidate A Candidate B still hasn't answered the "pin them down" questions. Is he being evasive?
Candidate B Well, umm,...you see...
The campaign isn't for or against any particular ideal so it could be really popular with the individual voters.
The Questions. An Ask Slashdot maybe? Maybe better to get a few questions from existing political groups like the eff, aclu, and yes the *aa's. It has to be legit and unbiased to be popular
Please someone have the resources to get something like this started
The protests I remember are the ones in the late eighties when Roh agreed to elections. I didn't think they were that big. Of course my news was what I saw myself and what was in the Stars and Stripes.
The Kwangju Massacre I always thought of as part of Chun taking over the country and not as a "protest". But I was in high school then so I looked it up just now. Chun's coup and the Kwangju Massacre were seperated by a year.
I think a required first step to removing the national id # in Korea would be the elimination of N. Korea as a potential threat(ie reunification). When I was in language school and my primary instructor first told us about the national id system we were all surprised and wanted to know why Koreans tolerated it. He justified it by telling us that N. Korea would often send spies into the South and without the national id card it would be to easy to blend in.
My first year in country I think there were 9 prostitutes arrested for spying.
Without N. Korea I think there could be no justification for a national id system. Even taking into account The War On Terror given how homogenous Korea is.
As to whether or not the baa-baa-sheep-like-ness will prove to be seriously detrimental to Korean society in the future will require many decades of observation, and many hours spent watching the History Channel after those decades have passed. Who knows? Maybe they've got it right.
Well, after the "Asian Market Collapse" the "baa-baa-sheep-like-ness" did prove very beneficial. When the government called on Koreans to stop traveling and taking Korean money out of the country most Koreans complied. In fact, they put a noticeable dent in the Thai weekend excursion business. Also, when the government called on employees to continue going to work even though their employers had no cash to pay them, most complied. A good friends sister-in-law had a small business with about twenty employees. They continued coming to work despite not getting a paycheck for several months. The whole thing could have been much worse than it was if not for everyone making sacrifices "for the good of the group".
I lived in Korea in the 80's. I went to DLI San-Fran and worked in intelligence as a voice interceptor. Because of my access I probably know more than you ever will about the Korean government at that time.
During the 90's (97-98)I worked for a Korean shipping company (Boyang) as an interpreter/agent and for my own export business. I made several trips (4) to Korea, each trip being for a maximum duration of two weeks. It was during those trips that I used cyber-cafes to check my email.
I have never taught ESL. In fact, I've never even been inside a hawgwan.
The whole Korean karaoke/hostess bar tradition is pathetic and I don't hang out in them.
Why are you stuck on how much Korean pussy I get/have gotten?
Maybe you have some personal issues you need to deal with. More than a few times a Korean has offerred some insight into my own culture/perceptions that I wasn't aware of, and honestly at times that insight was rather insulting, yet there was some truth to it.
There are many white Americans and Europeans who are infinitely more qualified than you or I to comment on Korean culture and history. Get over it.
Sorry, teaching ESL to Korean students because you're a blond, blue-eyed white boy with no qualifications, *after* Korea became a democracy just doesn't mean shit.
Sorry, I never taught ESL. But I did teach Korean-Americans in the U.S. Korean. And I was first in Korea before it was a democracy.
My dad was a member of one of the student protest groups at Yonsei University.
Really? I studied at Yonsei for one year. Did you?
What little protests you saw during the 1990s is nothing.
Umm, I was there in the 80's, but not in the 90's.
Go home, white boy, go home
Tangent - How is that your parents being Korean make you more knowledgeable re Korean culture and history? I'm willing to bet that you didn't study Korean history in college but this white boy did. I'm also willing to bet that you don't know the language fluently either. Understanding you're mom tell you to take out the trash doesn't make you fluent btw...
Huh?
there's a quite a tradition of protest in korea.
No, there isn't. There's quite a tradition of doing what the hell you're told in Korea. Regarding protests, see my post above.they're certainly more politically active and aware than americans Aware, probably. Active, not a chance.
The *most* violent and frequent protests in the world occured in South Korea during the hey-day of dictatorship in the 80s. The student protests in Korea were a major reason why Korea is a democracy today.
I was there for that. Obviously you weren't.btw, I did study history, from Chosun to the present day...
Korea is an entire nation. Those large, violent, frequent protests that you saw on TV weren't what you saw on TV. I was there and the prostests were actually pathetically small. Usually it was less than two hundred college students. They just got a lot of coverage in your country. Go one block away from the protest and no one cares, no one is interested.
I understand that a lot of liberal slashdotters might find the idea of having everyone post under their real name and number intriguing.
Hmmm, I would have thought just the opposite. I would think that a lot of liberal slashdotters would see this for what it really is.They won't fight this. There may be a couple of loud voices heard for a minute but Koreans are even more sheeplike than Americans. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or what but Korea's a country where the entire population can have an opinion that opposes the status quo yet nothing will change.
While no one in Korea will run to the streets protesting, this is the internet and the more courageous Koreans (a minority) will stop posting to message boards that reside in country and start using boards put up by Koreans living in the U.S. and other countries.
Note: I'm an American who has lived in Korea (I speak read and write Korean) and I'm not trying to be "inciteful".
As someone pointed out, the dvd is "fragile". There are books that are hundreds of years old.
Do you have any 5 year old dvd's or cd's that are still in good shape? I don't, but I have books that have withstood a great deal of abuse over the last 30 years and are still good.
at least if a kid is home schooled his/her parents will take care to prepare the kid for real life. A graduate of public high school doesn't have any marketable skills or experience.
I think there's also a benefit gained from having adolescents spend more time with adults and less time with other adolescents.
Does anyone remember the snl sketch right after Gary Busey cracked his skull in a motorcycle accident? The Gary Busey helmet protector protector protector. I think this was before The Big Hit.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!!!
Despite all the half-baked rationalizations cooked up by piracy advocates, no one can really refute the truth spoken by the recording industry: Sooner or later, the widespread distribution of near-perfect digital copies will destroy the market for commercial recordings, and make the production of the very product consumers seem so eager to pirate impossible...and would never have been committed to disc were there not the possibility of profiting from exclusive distribution rights to their product. Every time you download their songs illegally, you are decreasing the probability that such things will be available in the future.
You're saying that if Kazaa were allowed to continue current operations unhampered by any law, the result would be the complete collapse of the recording industry? So frelling what?
Seriously, was there a recording industry when Mozart was alive? Now that we have a recording industry there are no more Mozarts but plenty of Britney Spears.
Next consider that the copyright extensions AND the DMCA were passed because of **AA money. If they no longer existed I'd be very happy, even if it meant that poor Britney had to get a job hosting at a karaoke bar.
holy shit
Please go [right now] to booth 9 and hammer the icculus people for details on mohaa. Then post those details here or email them to me at "charmin66-at-hotmail.com".
Thank You