I'd say in regards to business ethics violating the patent is definately acceptable.
The greater good of mankind always comes before profit.
Merck violated this by not recalling Vioxx earlier. They went for profit over safety. A clear violation of this protocol.
A company is allowed to make a profit, provided they do not cause harm as a result of these profit gaining activities. For example, it's acceptable to charge for medication at cost during time of an epidemic. Since someone has to make it, and ingredients need to be purchased. To charge 500% in times of need... violates that policy.
If your product/service is made in a way that the factory emits harmful substances into the evironment and causes harm to neighboring communities... you broke that ethical boundry.
If your service creates harm to business (price fixing, paying suppliers not to sell to a competitor etc.) or individuals (see above)... you broke that ethical boundry.
A government has an obligation to above all, protect it's people. If a government doesn't do that job. It has failed.
That said, I'm 100% behind Taiwan in that decision. I hope the US follows it. Given those circumstances, there's no legitimate argument not to in regards to ethics or morals.
The iPod is successful for two reasons: ease of use, quality
That's something lacking on most PDA's. Palm OS was great, has become patchzilla with about a billion things bolted on that old OS, and the new version is still vaporware. Microsoft on the other hand, released a complex, ugly looking OS that makes that tiny screen feel way to overwhelming.
As far as quality goes... well think about it. The Treo isn't bad, but has it's downsides, those cheap Dell PDA's are just that, cheap.
For there to be a winner, someone has to do what Apple did. Combine killer features, and quality with ease of use.
Palm had that formula for a while, but dropped the ball a few years ago. Sony picked up the hardware side with the Clie, which I still carry around. As far as the software goes... it never came back.
Is it legal to do what the EEF did (I do agree with doing it, I might add). IIRC there are a ton of generic laws prohibiting such activities since it could technically be viewed as a threat to national security (knowing such info could aid terrorists communications, etc. etc... your dog wants secure printing).
I wonder what the Feds next step will be... I doubt they will just sit.
Yea... and do your parents update their access point with a linux based firmware?
Come on... you don't really think average joe is going to do that.
Most vendors don't push firmware updates to begin with... they make them available for those who discover them (either through tech support, or geekyness). And not all devices have been upgraded by the vendor for IPv6.
Stop being a "if your not a nerd get off the net" freak, and start being realistic. I don't think you'll be seeing the entire world running doing something that technical. For most people accesspoints are simply "that thing the neighbors boy put in to share the cable internet".
There are *millions* of Linksys, Netgear, DLink, routers and access points out there. Most of which don't support IPv6. And I doubt these vendors are going to update all that firmware.
Nor will consumers be into throwing out old hardware "to get more IP space"... that's not exactly going to work (marketing wise).
Nor will people with old OS versions, or other odd devices (IP cameras, etc. etc.).
IMHO this will need government pressure, similar to the digital switchover for TV. Some sort of a date for compliance of devices, and a clean switchover date.
Ok, this isn't really a security bug. It's a crasher. If this is a security bug, so is this one (you'll likely need to cp/paste into new window to open) that I discovered a few years ago.
IMHO "security" bugs are for ones that have an impact on "security". If it doesn't fit that criteria, it's not a security issue.
A JS permissions exploit would be a security bug. So would the IDN issues, and buffer overflows...
but a crasher? I think that's pushing the benchmark. It's not really a DoS... it's a crash/hang.
It would be a security issue if say, it caused 911 to become unavailable, or killed US Radar systems... but not for crashing a web browser.
I think people have been pushing for a while in hopes of getting new security bugs. And that's all products, not just Moz. There are legitimate security bugs, but I don't think this qualifies. IMHO you need to be able to do something that violates security to be a security issue.
Any modern course will at a minimum discuss the commerce laws (especially interstate), fed vs. state laws, diff between federal law and constitutional law...
ANY Legal Env class will be touching on those. No question about it. Perhaps in law school not all in 1 class, but for a Legal Env class, there's no doubt about it.
I got a mac mini, it's actually a prety powerful computer. And so insanely silent 99% of the time, I don't even know it's on. This is a great update because they fixed some of the key issues:
- 512MB RAM is now standard (256MB isn't really very usable on OS X). - More VRAM! Sadly not upgrading the chipset yet, but it's still an improvement - 5400 RPM HD!!!! This is the biggest upgrade. The 4200RPM drive and minimal RAM makes this computer really slugish. Upgrade the RAM and the HD, and it's a whole new computer. That paging file will get you.
The processor upgrade isn't a big deal. The DVDR isn't bad, but don't know how much I'd use it.
It's a great computer. For anyone wanting to experiment on the Mac, or just want a cheap system, it's a steal. It's well engineered. The first time you hold it, you know it's well made. Solid, and good hardware.
I personally like this upgrade they offer. Wish mine had more RAM and a faster HD out of the box.
It doesn't matter who you are. If your a cook, and know the meat your using was mishandeled, you have an obligation to prevent human consumption. Doctors have an obligation to preserve life. A cop's first duty is to the public (before his fellow officers or commanders).
People seriously need to learn how to differentiate.
HTTP, and FTP also facilitate piracy. Are they evil? Nope. P2P is no different.
It's the service that indexes and provides easy access to illegal material (software, music, child pornography) that is at fault.
Don't blame the protocol for what people do with it. There are a ton of good uses for the technology.
You can blame guns for violence... or you can blame their owners. Same with TNT. You know people's lives have been ended by radiation right? Well, lives have been saved by it too... it's all about how it's used./wishes people would get a clue.
Most bosses don't know what they want their employees to know.
How does a manager hire someone for a position whose requirements he's completely unfamiliar with? What questions does he ask? How does he know if the candidate really knows what they say?
That's what certification is.
It doesn't mean you know the information. It's just a way to allow the VP's to feel involved. They can handle acronyms on a resume. Hearing that you've spent 5 years working on (acronyms soup)... how do they validate that? They can ask you questions... but they don't know if your response is real... or just BS.
Bias: I'm studying for a Business Management Info Systems Degree.
There are a few obvious wrongs in this article:
It's just a hunch of mine, but with more than $2.5 billion in cash already on-hand, I don't think Google has any plans at all for that extra $4 billion.
You don't just do that unless you have some sort of a plan. It may be long term (rather than short term, which is all analysts in the US tend to care about... unlike their european or asian counterparts)... but it's unlikely there is no plan.
I'd suggest it's infrastructure. The "google grid" everyone talks about. They were interested in Fiber, have interest in open source... use massive amounts of bandwidth and disk space like it costs nothing... hey guess what: they are building a network unlike any other. By having this massive network they have the brute force necessary to outdo any competition. If MSN decides to offer 10GB email accounts or online storage... Google can easily outdo them. It's having the means to do anything they want.
Yes, Google could buy Skype with that kind of money, but Google won't buy Skype. Google prefers to build rather than buy.
Um... no. Blogger, Keyhole, Picasa, DejaNews, ZipDash, Where2, Urchin, Dodgeball, Applied Semantics... yea, they buy quite a bit.
I think they will buy more as well. Skype, Technorati, My Way, even Napster is a potential target (music integration via subscription), or Real.
They are building a platform. It's never been done on this scale before. Not an OS, but a Platform. A web based, grid or services and utilities that can easily be tapped to store, retrieve, process, and analyze information.
Men - men orgasm before sex is complete (woman need to do it before the man... or no chance). - men make women cook... woman just do it - men encourage woman to shave sensitive areas... we refuse.
Woman - hold men hostage by their penis - can be a bitch a few days a month, and blame it on biologicial processes (and blame men somehow) - scream for equal rights... except when the draft comes around... then "gender roles are essential in society". - can orgasm in the shower without getting a cramp from stroking (damn waterpik's).
I'm in college going for a Business MIS (Management Information Systems) Degree.
I can honestly say, I'd never want to be that boss. I don't think I could be. Partially because I'm a geek (I'm a business guy, but I do code quite a bit).
I don't understand how people could want to manage others, and not understand what they are doing. To manage requires a great understanding of the task at hand.
If I didn't know what my employees were doing... I'd take a class. Honestly.
I don't want to be misled by employees, or slow them down.
That's just a terrible manager. Who ever hired him/her, or put him/her in that position should be re-evaluated. That's unacceptable. It's costly to the company. Not to mention frustrating to otherwise good employees.
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I'd say in regards to business ethics violating the patent is definately acceptable.
The greater good of mankind always comes before profit.
Merck violated this by not recalling Vioxx earlier. They went for profit over safety. A clear violation of this protocol.
A company is allowed to make a profit, provided they do not cause harm as a result of these profit gaining activities. For example, it's acceptable to charge for medication at cost during time of an epidemic. Since someone has to make it, and ingredients need to be purchased. To charge 500% in times of need... violates that policy.
If your product/service is made in a way that the factory emits harmful substances into the evironment and causes harm to neighboring communities... you broke that ethical boundry.
If your service creates harm to business (price fixing, paying suppliers not to sell to a competitor etc.) or individuals (see above)... you broke that ethical boundry.
A government has an obligation to above all, protect it's people. If a government doesn't do that job. It has failed.
That said, I'm 100% behind Taiwan in that decision. I hope the US follows it. Given those circumstances, there's no legitimate argument not to in regards to ethics or morals.
The iPod is successful for two reasons: ease of use, quality
That's something lacking on most PDA's. Palm OS was great, has become patchzilla with about a billion things bolted on that old OS, and the new version is still vaporware. Microsoft on the other hand, released a complex, ugly looking OS that makes that tiny screen feel way to overwhelming.
As far as quality goes... well think about it. The Treo isn't bad, but has it's downsides, those cheap Dell PDA's are just that, cheap.
For there to be a winner, someone has to do what Apple did. Combine killer features, and quality with ease of use.
Palm had that formula for a while, but dropped the ball a few years ago. Sony picked up the hardware side with the Clie, which I still carry around. As far as the software goes... it never came back.
I'm still waiting for my new Apple PDA.
should be:
Just looks like Firefox has a 2/3 compromise... reminds me of 3/5 compromise. Is that how browser statistics will be measured?
/joking of course.
As the FCC moves more towards law enforcement, and censorship, they really have little to do with conflicts anymore.
/in solviet russia, your radio transissions police you.
//ducks
Is it legal to do what the EEF did (I do agree with doing it, I might add). IIRC there are a ton of generic laws prohibiting such activities since it could technically be viewed as a threat to national security (knowing such info could aid terrorists communications, etc. etc... your dog wants secure printing).
I wonder what the Feds next step will be... I doubt they will just sit.
Yea... and do your parents update their access point with a linux based firmware?
Come on... you don't really think average joe is going to do that.
Most vendors don't push firmware updates to begin with... they make them available for those who discover them (either through tech support, or geekyness). And not all devices have been upgraded by the vendor for IPv6.
Stop being a "if your not a nerd get off the net" freak, and start being realistic. I don't think you'll be seeing the entire world running doing something that technical. For most people accesspoints are simply "that thing the neighbors boy put in to share the cable internet".
There are *millions* of Linksys, Netgear, DLink, routers and access points out there. Most of which don't support IPv6. And I doubt these vendors are going to update all that firmware.
Nor will consumers be into throwing out old hardware "to get more IP space"... that's not exactly going to work (marketing wise).
Nor will people with old OS versions, or other odd devices (IP cameras, etc. etc.).
IMHO this will need government pressure, similar to the digital switchover for TV. Some sort of a date for compliance of devices, and a clean switchover date.
Ok, this isn't really a security bug. It's a crasher. If this is a security bug, so is this one (you'll likely need to cp/paste into new window to open) that I discovered a few years ago.
IMHO "security" bugs are for ones that have an impact on "security". If it doesn't fit that criteria, it's not a security issue.
A JS permissions exploit would be a security bug. So would the IDN issues, and buffer overflows...
but a crasher? I think that's pushing the benchmark. It's not really a DoS... it's a crash/hang.
It would be a security issue if say, it caused 911 to become unavailable, or killed US Radar systems... but not for crashing a web browser.
I think people have been pushing for a while in hopes of getting new security bugs. And that's all products, not just Moz. There are legitimate security bugs, but I don't think this qualifies. IMHO you need to be able to do something that violates security to be a security issue.
Any modern course will at a minimum discuss the commerce laws (especially interstate), fed vs. state laws, diff between federal law and constitutional law...
and espsecially laws regarding business:
- Hiring
- Discrimination
- Disabilities.
ANY Legal Env class will be touching on those. No question about it. Perhaps in law school not all in 1 class, but for a Legal Env class, there's no doubt about it.
good, so I'm not the only one who read that twice. /never good at inglish //spells like a unedumucated person
For those who actually bother to know the basics of business law (should really be a college gen ed) would know their states discrimination laws.
In NJ for example, this practice has been illegal for several years already. I believe a few other states have also outlawed this practice.
It ain't personal unless your sure it isn't bugged.
And even still... how good can a free comp. in the room be? Not very useful for more than basic web browsing.
IMHO the laptop will still rule this domain.
I got a mac mini, it's actually a prety powerful computer. And so insanely silent 99% of the time, I don't even know it's on. This is a great update because they fixed some of the key issues:
- 512MB RAM is now standard (256MB isn't really very usable on OS X).
- More VRAM! Sadly not upgrading the chipset yet, but it's still an improvement
- 5400 RPM HD!!!! This is the biggest upgrade. The 4200RPM drive and minimal RAM makes this computer really slugish. Upgrade the RAM and the HD, and it's a whole new computer. That paging file will get you.
The processor upgrade isn't a big deal. The DVDR isn't bad, but don't know how much I'd use it.
It's a great computer. For anyone wanting to experiment on the Mac, or just want a cheap system, it's a steal. It's well engineered. The first time you hold it, you know it's well made. Solid, and good hardware.
I personally like this upgrade they offer. Wish mine had more RAM and a faster HD out of the box.
Ok, so how is this thing licensed? Open source? Freeware? Commercial?
Who really would want that? If someone is sophisticated enough to use a Linux OS...
why use a poorly made Dell? I've yet to see a Dell product that's of fair quality, forget about good.
Will there be a Windows Driver?
If there isn't, this has no chance on taking off. Consumers today want portability. They don't like lock-in. A linux exclusive format is lock-in.
Create a good windows (and Mac OS) driver, and it's got massive potential.
I'll take that one further.
A Persons first duty is always to the public.
It doesn't matter who you are. If your a cook, and know the meat your using was mishandeled, you have an obligation to prevent human consumption. Doctors have an obligation to preserve life. A cop's first duty is to the public (before his fellow officers or commanders).
Did you see the specs? Most people won't be "upgrading"... they will be buying new computers with it preloaded.
IMHO it would do more for them to "donate" $100Mil to Dell, IBM, and HP.
Not to many people meet the specs for that bloated piece of junk.
Whatcha gunna do about it? Throw a snow ball? /born in Brooklyn, NY
People seriously need to learn how to differentiate.
/wishes people would get a clue.
HTTP, and FTP also facilitate piracy. Are they evil? Nope. P2P is no different.
It's the service that indexes and provides easy access to illegal material (software, music, child pornography) that is at fault.
Don't blame the protocol for what people do with it. There are a ton of good uses for the technology.
You can blame guns for violence... or you can blame their owners. Same with TNT. You know people's lives have been ended by radiation right? Well, lives have been saved by it too... it's all about how it's used.
Most bosses don't know what they want their employees to know.
How does a manager hire someone for a position whose requirements he's completely unfamiliar with? What questions does he ask? How does he know if the candidate really knows what they say?
That's what certification is.
It doesn't mean you know the information. It's just a way to allow the VP's to feel involved. They can handle acronyms on a resume. Hearing that you've spent 5 years working on (acronyms soup)... how do they validate that? They can ask you questions... but they don't know if your response is real... or just BS.
It's to keep the suits happy. That's all it is.
Sometimes I wonder if it's harder to understand tech support outsourced to India, or southern US.
There are a few obvious wrongs in this article:
You don't just do that unless you have some sort of a plan. It may be long term (rather than short term, which is all analysts in the US tend to care about... unlike their european or asian counterparts)... but it's unlikely there is no plan.
I'd suggest it's infrastructure. The "google grid" everyone talks about. They were interested in Fiber, have interest in open source... use massive amounts of bandwidth and disk space like it costs nothing... hey guess what: they are building a network unlike any other. By having this massive network they have the brute force necessary to outdo any competition. If MSN decides to offer 10GB email accounts or online storage... Google can easily outdo them. It's having the means to do anything they want.
Um... no. Blogger, Keyhole, Picasa, DejaNews, ZipDash, Where2, Urchin, Dodgeball, Applied Semantics... yea, they buy quite a bit.
I think they will buy more as well. Skype, Technorati, My Way, even Napster is a potential target (music integration via subscription), or Real.
They are building a platform. It's never been done on this scale before. Not an OS, but a Platform. A web based, grid or services and utilities that can easily be tapped to store, retrieve, process, and analyze information.
That's what Google is up to.
Men
- men orgasm before sex is complete (woman need to do it before the man... or no chance).
- men make women cook... woman just do it
- men encourage woman to shave sensitive areas... we refuse.
Woman
- hold men hostage by their penis
- can be a bitch a few days a month, and blame it on biologicial processes (and blame men somehow)
- scream for equal rights... except when the draft comes around... then "gender roles are essential in society".
- can orgasm in the shower without getting a cramp from stroking (damn waterpik's).
I'm in college going for a Business MIS (Management Information Systems) Degree.
I can honestly say, I'd never want to be that boss. I don't think I could be. Partially because I'm a geek (I'm a business guy, but I do code quite a bit).
I don't understand how people could want to manage others, and not understand what they are doing. To manage requires a great understanding of the task at hand.
If I didn't know what my employees were doing... I'd take a class. Honestly.
I don't want to be misled by employees, or slow them down.
That's just a terrible manager. Who ever hired him/her, or put him/her in that position should be re-evaluated. That's unacceptable. It's costly to the company. Not to mention frustrating to otherwise good employees.