Not to US interests in the sense of the entire nation or it's people, but US interests in the sense of an incredibly well funded and connected copyright enforcement and extension lobby that has seen millions of works illegally controlled by perpetually extending the terms of copyright. If you have enough money, you CAN buy government anywhere in the world -- no system is proof against corruption by determined interests with big budgets.
Besides, what's the harm in the US interfering in the legislation and rights of foreign nations? It won't create any new Taliban, an outraged Iran, a fearful North Korea, etc.
Canadians aren't pissed at the Americans for interfering with our drug management policies or proposed changes to them. We don't mind that they label us one of the worst pirate nations on the planet. No worries about the demands that we turn our selves into a police state so we, too, can pursue the chicken little terrorist threat.
*sigh*
The only ones who need to wake up are the Americans. Much as they hate it, fundamental human rights means that they do NOT get to impose their will, policy, law, or dogmatic beliefs on the rest of the world.
May Spain stick by their guns and tell the US to shove it.
Any company that finds out an employee is actively seeking other engagements is likely to show them the door on the company's terms and schedule, rather than wait for the employee to leave at an inopportune time.
Or are the crackers just counting coup for filching the source code?
And yes, I'm one of those pedantic buggers who insist that they're crackers, not hackers. Crackers steal and do damage; hackers study out of curiousity.
Does the code include the keys that would be needed to inject bad/malware virus definitions, causing user's machines to delete files that weren't viruses? Does this open up some sort of command-and-control channel over users machines aside from that risk?
I thought the whole point of distributing news articles through the Associated Press was to share them so ANYONE in the media, including so-called "New Media", could publish them.
Pay a premium for a TV that requires special glasses, which as mine are prescription, means not settling for what's on the market, but waiting for someone to produce prescription lens 3D glasses for that particular model and paying an arm and a leg for them.
After waiting for those non-existent glasses to be developed, paying hundreds or thousands of dollars extra, what will I have?
I'm not familiar with any environment or department which even suggests an FDA approved keyboard, much less mandates one. I could see an Underwriter's Laboratory approved keyboard, as they handle safety evaluations for electrical and electronic items in the US.
But think of the market potential if they can buy enough Congressmen to make these mandatory for hospitals and doctors offices, or even better yet, convince the INSURANCE companies to mandate them to minimize the risk of malpractice lawsuits.
Ah, they'll find a way to get you to part with that $900 yet...
State run TV means it's going to serve the priorities of the state. It's not a commercial enterprise out to win the greatest number of eyeballs, but a tool of the government first and the entertainment of the people second.
It's not unlike the emphasis the CBC placed on their programming mix when state-run TV was the only option in Canada. I saw a lot of documentaries, docu-drama histories, and educational shows when I was young.
The very fundamental ideals of Chinese society place family and the greater community at higher priority than the individual's wants or needs. I suspect the vast majority of the Chinese people actually don't mind this. Those that do can certainly access media from elsewhere in the world -- technology is wide spread in China.
You really need to get the image of rice farms out of your heads.
Of course you'll have to do some serious adaptation to get the proprietary TTY and workstation cables to interface with a PC. The point is, there have been designs that were easier to keep clean in dirty environments.
HP used to make great industrial-grade hardware before they focused on the commercial market. Maybe they still do -- I haven't seen their latest industrial equipment, and a lot of industry just seems to shrug and replace keyboards often instead.
Try to track down and check out one of the '80s-'90s era HP industrial keyboards. The tactile feedback sucked, but they were sealed units that could even be spray-washed. You needed sealed units to survive the shop-floor environment for any length of time.
The article says that commercial de-dupe solutions are too expensive. It's not cheap technology, that's for sure.
But it's unreasonable to expect a solution for free to such a complex problem. Rather than try to find a solution that "is ready for customer deployment", they should be seeking out a solution whose design meets their goals, and FUND that project. Too many companies think open source means free. And it does, technically.
But if you want quality open source solutions, you're either going to have to pay to help speed up development, or you're going to have to wait for years while people work on it in their spare (and unpaid!) time and hope that the key developers don't abandon the project completely. And make no mistake, with any open source project of any size, there are key developers who produce the majority of the code. Software with as many contributors as the Linux kernel are very, very rare.
Most are more like Eclipse, where a HUGE chunk of the funding comes from one company (IBM in the case of Eclipse.)
It's high time companies started to realize that open source is a way of sharing technology, not a free as in beer provider for your every whim and want.
I do think teachers are underpaid in many districts. These are the true job-creators of a nations, the people who educate the young so they can be gainfully employed in the future. While a university education may not be the norm for society, there is no doubt you need your High School diploma to have any hope of a future as anything other than a minimum wage slave. Even 20 years ago, a friend of mine with a Grade 8 education in Florida couldn't find work doing anything other than digging trenches for the power company in the area.
But budgets have to be shared. Any incoming funds have to be divided amongst several initiatives -- it can't all go to teachers salaries. And I am adamantly against increasing the pay of school administrators -- they are petty bureaucrats, not educators. As with hospitals, it's sickening to see a paper pusher taking home several times the pay of the people who do the REAL work. And make no mistake -- administrators of schools and hospitals have no where near the influence over their organizations that a stand-out CEO can have on a company.
Maybe the teachers have some legitimate concerns, but it's going to be hard for them to get anyone to believe it's about anything other than wanting more money and to keep things just the way they have always been. Given the dismal track records of schools in the US, where even university graduates sometimes can't write a decent paragraph in English, I think new approaches have got to be tried, including more use of technology.
Don't get me wrong -- a good teacher who facilitates class discussion is a far better educator than a computer, but there ARE a lot of courses that amount to little more than reading the text book out loud to the students for them to memorize, and the only reason the texts get read in class is too many students are too lazy to read it at home as they should.
To help pay for these programs, the state may have to shift tens of millions of dollars away from salaries for teachers and administrators.
Like any pig at a trough, they want it ALL, not just their share. Education of the students is secondary while both sides play politics with their lives.
I agree whole-heartedly. When I bought a TiVO for DirecTV service while living and working in Delaware, it fundamentally changed the way I watched TV. No more schedules, no more advertising (click 5 times and wait a few seconds), and I always had something available that I wanted to watch.
Torrent downloads have provided the same functionality back in Canada. I look on downloading as a big time-shifting VCR which just happens to use no tapes, but the end result is the same -- I watch what I want, when I want, not on the arbitrary schedule of the networks.
TiVO really did have a big innovation, and definitely deserved the patents they were awarded for it.
The Old Testament talks about slavery in those times, and it didn't have quite the same connotation it does in modern times. For thing, if I recall correctly, you were only allowed to keep a slave for seven years, not a lifetime.
The other thing is that voluntary slavery was used as a means of paying off debts. If the debtor didn't have the money to pay a debt, they would become slaves to whoever made the loan.
Some might say that working for a living is a form of voluntary slavery, if they were a hard core communist. I don't think that way, but I can understand the perspective.
Which just proves that when the US beats the drum of "freedom" for the oppressed people of a nation, it's just a bullshit lie to rally public support, not an actual ideology of the nation.
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Not to US interests in the sense of the entire nation or it's people, but US interests in the sense of an incredibly well funded and connected copyright enforcement and extension lobby that has seen millions of works illegally controlled by perpetually extending the terms of copyright. If you have enough money, you CAN buy government anywhere in the world -- no system is proof against corruption by determined interests with big budgets.
Besides, what's the harm in the US interfering in the legislation and rights of foreign nations? It won't create any new Taliban, an outraged Iran, a fearful North Korea, etc.
Canadians aren't pissed at the Americans for interfering with our drug management policies or proposed changes to them. We don't mind that they label us one of the worst pirate nations on the planet. No worries about the demands that we turn our selves into a police state so we, too, can pursue the chicken little terrorist threat.
*sigh*
The only ones who need to wake up are the Americans. Much as they hate it, fundamental human rights means that they do NOT get to impose their will, policy, law, or dogmatic beliefs on the rest of the world.
May Spain stick by their guns and tell the US to shove it.
Any company that finds out an employee is actively seeking other engagements is likely to show them the door on the company's terms and schedule, rather than wait for the employee to leave at an inopportune time.
Or are the crackers just counting coup for filching the source code?
And yes, I'm one of those pedantic buggers who insist that they're crackers, not hackers. Crackers steal and do damage; hackers study out of curiousity.
Does the code include the keys that would be needed to inject bad/malware virus definitions, causing user's machines to delete files that weren't viruses? Does this open up some sort of command-and-control channel over users machines aside from that risk?
From what I can see, the sets themselves are often loss-leaders positioned to sell the glasses.
I can't find any reason to argue with that. If the AP is funded by membership fees of some kind, so should anyone else using it as a source.
I thought the whole point of distributing news articles through the Associated Press was to share them so ANYONE in the media, including so-called "New Media", could publish them.
When many people come to the same conclusion independently, maybe there's some truth to what they're saying.
The Right to Free Speech through the internet can be accomplished by heading down to your local library to use one of their computers.
It does not extend to being guaranteed a home connection and machine of your own. Exercising your rights does not require technology welfare.
Hell, I haven't even owned a REGULAR TV for years. My computer is my TV.
Pay a premium for a TV that requires special glasses, which as mine are prescription, means not settling for what's on the market, but waiting for someone to produce prescription lens 3D glasses for that particular model and paying an arm and a leg for them.
After waiting for those non-existent glasses to be developed, paying hundreds or thousands of dollars extra, what will I have?
A TV that gives me a migraine.
No thanks.
I'm not familiar with any environment or department which even suggests an FDA approved keyboard, much less mandates one. I could see an Underwriter's Laboratory approved keyboard, as they handle safety evaluations for electrical and electronic items in the US.
But think of the market potential if they can buy enough Congressmen to make these mandatory for hospitals and doctors offices, or even better yet, convince the INSURANCE companies to mandate them to minimize the risk of malpractice lawsuits.
Ah, they'll find a way to get you to part with that $900 yet...
State run TV means it's going to serve the priorities of the state. It's not a commercial enterprise out to win the greatest number of eyeballs, but a tool of the government first and the entertainment of the people second.
It's not unlike the emphasis the CBC placed on their programming mix when state-run TV was the only option in Canada. I saw a lot of documentaries, docu-drama histories, and educational shows when I was young.
The very fundamental ideals of Chinese society place family and the greater community at higher priority than the individual's wants or needs. I suspect the vast majority of the Chinese people actually don't mind this. Those that do can certainly access media from elsewhere in the world -- technology is wide spread in China.
You really need to get the image of rice farms out of your heads.
Good point. Maybe somebody didn't figure out the "?" part of the SPUG (South Park Underpants Gnome) theme.
Of course you'll have to do some serious adaptation to get the proprietary TTY and workstation cables to interface with a PC. The point is, there have been designs that were easier to keep clean in dirty environments.
HP used to make great industrial-grade hardware before they focused on the commercial market. Maybe they still do -- I haven't seen their latest industrial equipment, and a lot of industry just seems to shrug and replace keyboards often instead.
Try to track down and check out one of the '80s-'90s era HP industrial keyboards. The tactile feedback sucked, but they were sealed units that could even be spray-washed. You needed sealed units to survive the shop-floor environment for any length of time.
You have the right to hate any show you don't like and refuse to watch it. You don't have the right to tell other people what they like.
You seriously underestimate the spread of technology in China.
The article says that commercial de-dupe solutions are too expensive. It's not cheap technology, that's for sure.
But it's unreasonable to expect a solution for free to such a complex problem. Rather than try to find a solution that "is ready for customer deployment", they should be seeking out a solution whose design meets their goals, and FUND that project. Too many companies think open source means free. And it does, technically.
But if you want quality open source solutions, you're either going to have to pay to help speed up development, or you're going to have to wait for years while people work on it in their spare (and unpaid!) time and hope that the key developers don't abandon the project completely. And make no mistake, with any open source project of any size, there are key developers who produce the majority of the code. Software with as many contributors as the Linux kernel are very, very rare.
Most are more like Eclipse, where a HUGE chunk of the funding comes from one company (IBM in the case of Eclipse.)
It's high time companies started to realize that open source is a way of sharing technology, not a free as in beer provider for your every whim and want.
I was kind of nasty with my phrasing. Sorry.
I do think teachers are underpaid in many districts. These are the true job-creators of a nations, the people who educate the young so they can be gainfully employed in the future. While a university education may not be the norm for society, there is no doubt you need your High School diploma to have any hope of a future as anything other than a minimum wage slave. Even 20 years ago, a friend of mine with a Grade 8 education in Florida couldn't find work doing anything other than digging trenches for the power company in the area.
But budgets have to be shared. Any incoming funds have to be divided amongst several initiatives -- it can't all go to teachers salaries. And I am adamantly against increasing the pay of school administrators -- they are petty bureaucrats, not educators. As with hospitals, it's sickening to see a paper pusher taking home several times the pay of the people who do the REAL work. And make no mistake -- administrators of schools and hospitals have no where near the influence over their organizations that a stand-out CEO can have on a company.
Maybe the teachers have some legitimate concerns, but it's going to be hard for them to get anyone to believe it's about anything other than wanting more money and to keep things just the way they have always been. Given the dismal track records of schools in the US, where even university graduates sometimes can't write a decent paragraph in English, I think new approaches have got to be tried, including more use of technology.
Don't get me wrong -- a good teacher who facilitates class discussion is a far better educator than a computer, but there ARE a lot of courses that amount to little more than reading the text book out loud to the students for them to memorize, and the only reason the texts get read in class is too many students are too lazy to read it at home as they should.
Like any pig at a trough, they want it ALL, not just their share. Education of the students is secondary while both sides play politics with their lives.
I agree whole-heartedly. When I bought a TiVO for DirecTV service while living and working in Delaware, it fundamentally changed the way I watched TV. No more schedules, no more advertising (click 5 times and wait a few seconds), and I always had something available that I wanted to watch.
Torrent downloads have provided the same functionality back in Canada. I look on downloading as a big time-shifting VCR which just happens to use no tapes, but the end result is the same -- I watch what I want, when I want, not on the arbitrary schedule of the networks.
TiVO really did have a big innovation, and definitely deserved the patents they were awarded for it.
The Old Testament talks about slavery in those times, and it didn't have quite the same connotation it does in modern times. For thing, if I recall correctly, you were only allowed to keep a slave for seven years, not a lifetime.
The other thing is that voluntary slavery was used as a means of paying off debts. If the debtor didn't have the money to pay a debt, they would become slaves to whoever made the loan.
Some might say that working for a living is a form of voluntary slavery, if they were a hard core communist. I don't think that way, but I can understand the perspective.
Which just proves that when the US beats the drum of "freedom" for the oppressed people of a nation, it's just a bullshit lie to rally public support, not an actual ideology of the nation.