That part 4 interview is a perfect specimen of a spin artist in full spin mode.
The thing that stood out to me in the article was how billie seems to think people have no other incentive in innovating than profit. True innovators innovate for the challenge and because that's just what they LIKE doing. Profiting from it is just a side effect.
The part 3 interview, which is about XBox and everything evolving around that, has a bit of unintended humor in the first answer where Bill Gates appears to be championing for user choice and competition between vendors. Wow!
Well, until recently spamming, in itself, has been quite legal. You could only get someone convicted, if they spammed to advertise something illegal.
Since the various anti-spamming laws have come to effect the problem has been lack of enforcement.
The only real deterrent so far has been civil suits filed by ISPs such as Microsoft (Hotmail and MSN), Earthlink and AOL to name to most active litigators of spammers. The civil suits have been very effective, but do not usually land the perps in prison (other than that Buffalo spammer who was dumb enough to use stolen credit cards to pay for the Earthlink accounts he spammed from).
I'm a T-Mobile customer (not for long, after this).
I already sent them a nastygram over this. What kind of irresponsible piece of s*** company not let their customers know all their information is in the hands of a hacker???
Politicians, of all kinds, are for any project that gives, in order of preference:
- the politician in question more money - the politician's handlers (campaign donors) more money - the politician's family more money - the politician's voters more money
Doesn't matter if it's a massive government project and the politician is a conservative. Not one bit. Who cares if there's no real need.
This thing will likely be a slam dunk, at least in the short term, giving more money to all concerned, so it's a definite go as far as politicians go. The pesky environmentalists and economists might put a few spikes in the wheels along the way though.
Why does the submitted think the Finnish police need prompting from the US copyright holders for going after illegal activities in Finland? Copyright violations, as perpetrated by the Finns running the BitTorrent site taken down there, is not a civil matter, but a criminal matter. The police are obligated to act when they observe a crime in progress.
That's the way it works in US and that's the way it works in Finland.
Even if it was a civil matter, you might be surprised to find out that all major record labels have representation in most western countries. Something to do with the fact that they release music by artists of those countries...no need for RIAA to get involved.
"And why don't content providers understand that: 1. this won't stop pirates from pirating TV, and that 2. this only makes it harder on ordinary consumers?"
You're missing something. Content providers don't care about consumers, they care about advertisers. It hasn't been about providing content to consumers for a long time.
"Now to answer your actual question about a real mistake, that is, something that you did not actually do, you simply have to make a written request to the credit agency with notes on why it's not your credit and such."
The process is: you complaing, credit agency contacts the lender, lender answers.
They will generally take the lender's word over yours. Good luck.
I propose every foreign student where an emblem in their chest marking which country they come from. It would make it easier for the government to track these people. After all, what if even one of them is a terrorist?
US students, of which nobody will ever be a terrorist, should be tracked for other reasons like to figure out what will become of them once they grow up and whether the investment on them has paid off. I propose we implant an RFID tag under the scalp of each US student. That way the Government could easily scan them at every opportunity.
It is important that we know what young people do with their lives. After all, they could become terrorists some day! Or eat children! Or even, heaven forbid, violate copyright laws! We MUST know what they're up to.
As a Turkish guy you should be ashamed of what your country has done against the Kurds for decades. I would classify Turkey as a terroristic state. You've treated the Kurds almost as badly as Iraq has, the only exception being you didn't actually have the balls to use biological weapons against them. You've killed them using all available conventional methods though.
As a Turkish guy you should also be ashamed of how someone that publishes OTHER people's work on a site that's basically a directory of websites (think phone directory) of can be convicted of supporting a "terrorist" organizations.
No tourists for you, ever.
There's advertising and then there's advertising
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Product placement is playing an increasingly common role in TV programming these days. There's no reason to have any commercial breaks on shows like The Apprentice, for example, because the whole episode is already an ad in itself.
I'm sure the TV moguls will conveniently forget about that when they eventually end up buying a legislator or two to fight the "new" TV piracy menace.
There's a number of different options for independent contractors as regards to retirements savings. You can actually save more than an employee as an independent contractor. You can put 25% of their income up to $41K / year into a retirement savings account.
Wrong, but that's ok, you can pretend that to be the case if it makes you feel better.
Personally, all things being equal, I'd take the best qualified regardless of what their citizenship status is. And companies I work for have. No, they didn't offer the H1-B workers any less money than the other people, they got the same offer.
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"What's the story here?"
The emergence of What You Buy, um, License, Is Not Really Yours World (tm) (c)
License this, license that, none of it is yours. In conflicts an arbitror chosen by the license holder decides who is right. Ad Nauseum.
Not good.
That part 4 interview is a perfect specimen of a spin artist in full spin mode.
The thing that stood out to me in the article was how billie seems to think people have no other incentive in innovating than profit. True innovators innovate for the challenge and because that's just what they LIKE doing. Profiting from it is just a side effect.
The part 3 interview, which is about XBox and everything evolving around that, has a bit of unintended humor in the first answer where Bill Gates appears to be championing for user choice and competition between vendors. Wow!
Well, until recently spamming, in itself, has been quite legal. You could only get someone convicted, if they spammed to advertise something illegal.
Since the various anti-spamming laws have come to effect the problem has been lack of enforcement.
The only real deterrent so far has been civil suits filed by ISPs such as Microsoft (Hotmail and MSN), Earthlink and AOL to name to most active litigators of spammers. The civil suits have been very effective, but do not usually land the perps in prison (other than that Buffalo spammer who was dumb enough to use stolen credit cards to pay for the Earthlink accounts he spammed from).
Theft is not fatal either, let's ignore that too.
The perp was arrested in October, about three months ago. Plenty of time to send some information about the breach.
I'm a T-Mobile customer (not for long, after this).
I already sent them a nastygram over this. What kind of irresponsible piece of s*** company not let their customers know all their information is in the hands of a hacker???
Politicians, of all kinds, are for any project that gives, in order of preference:
- the politician in question more money
- the politician's handlers (campaign donors) more money
- the politician's family more money
- the politician's voters more money
Doesn't matter if it's a massive government project and the politician is a conservative. Not one bit. Who cares if there's no real need.
This thing will likely be a slam dunk, at least in the short term, giving more money to all concerned, so it's a definite go as far as politicians go. The pesky environmentalists and economists might put a few spikes in the wheels along the way though.
yiihaaa!
"ultimately the power is in *our* hands because we have the money they want."
I wish that were true.
Unfortunately the power is in their hands, because they own the politicians who make the laws that govern us.
Why does the submitted think the Finnish police need prompting from the US copyright holders for going after illegal activities in Finland? Copyright violations, as perpetrated by the Finns running the BitTorrent site taken down there, is not a civil matter, but a criminal matter. The police are obligated to act when they observe a crime in progress.
That's the way it works in US and that's the way it works in Finland.
Even if it was a civil matter, you might be surprised to find out that all major record labels have representation in most western countries. Something to do with the fact that they release music by artists of those countries...no need for RIAA to get involved.
I'll bite and play the devil's advocate...
Did you personally study the FireFox source code so that you know to trust it?
If not, how can you trust FireFox?
If you trust just because other people claim the source code is safe, how do you know to trust those people?
If you take the sort of reasoning your post exhibits, you can not trust a single computer program.
I've always maintained the entertainment cops need to go after the SOURCE, i.e. ripping groups and other wholesale distributors of pirated material.
Maybe it'll keep the RIAA stormtroopers busy from attacking 12-year-olds.
How much would a setup like that cost?
What are the other HW requirements? (site is slashdotted...)
This looks very promising. Might be a nice way to build yourself a non-DRMized, non-broadcast-flagged DVR before the MPAA locks everything down.
"You do know what Google Groups is , right?"
Apparently you don't.
The new Google Groups is Usenet groups + Google's answer to Yahoogroups, e.g. a web based mailing list interface.
You can subscribe to Usenet groups and get all the postings to your email address.
There's an Atom feed file for every group.
The about page for each group has group archives available by year and month.
I think once (if) I get used to the new interface this new Google Groups could be very nice indeed.
"And why don't content providers understand that: 1. this won't stop pirates from pirating TV, and that 2. this only makes it harder on ordinary consumers?"
You're missing something. Content providers don't care about consumers, they care about advertisers. It hasn't been about providing content to consumers for a long time.
"Now to answer your actual question about a real mistake, that is, something that you did not actually do, you simply have to make a written request to the credit agency with notes on why it's not your credit and such."
The process is: you complaing, credit agency contacts the lender, lender answers.
They will generally take the lender's word over yours. Good luck.
"2. It includes pictures"
As long as clothing is forbidden (to make sure any tattoos or other identifying marks could be identified easier, of course)
I propose every foreign student where an emblem in their chest marking which country they come from. It would make it easier for the government to track these people. After all, what if even one of them is a terrorist?
US students, of which nobody will ever be a terrorist, should be tracked for other reasons like to figure out what will become of them once they grow up and whether the investment on them has paid off. I propose we implant an RFID tag under the scalp of each US student. That way the Government could easily scan them at every opportunity.
It is important that we know what young people do with their lives. After all, they could become terrorists some day! Or eat children! Or even, heaven forbid, violate copyright laws! We MUST know what they're up to.
How convenient for you to completely omit all the human rights violations happening in Turkey.
They're the only European country where people "dissappear".
They have ruthlessly persecuted the Kurds for decades.
They censor their news media, which probably caused your ignorance.
As a Turkish guy you should be ashamed of what your country has done against the Kurds for decades. I would classify Turkey as a terroristic state. You've treated the Kurds almost as badly as Iraq has, the only exception being you didn't actually have the balls to use biological weapons against them. You've killed them using all available conventional methods though.
As a Turkish guy you should also be ashamed of how someone that publishes OTHER people's work on a site that's basically a directory of websites (think phone directory) of can be convicted of supporting a "terrorist" organizations.
No tourists for you, ever.
Product placement is playing an increasingly common role in TV programming these days. There's no reason to have any commercial breaks on shows like The Apprentice, for example, because the whole episode is already an ad in itself.
I'm sure the TV moguls will conveniently forget about that when they eventually end up buying a legislator or two to fight the "new" TV piracy menace.
There's a number of different options for independent contractors as regards to retirements savings. You can actually save more than an employee as an independent contractor. You can put 25% of their income up to $41K / year into a retirement savings account.
The Google keywords are: independent contractor retirement savings.
"I can tell you they're paying them less"
Wrong, but that's ok, you can pretend that to be the case if it makes you feel better.
Personally, all things being equal, I'd take the best qualified regardless of what their citizenship status is. And companies I work for have. No, they didn't offer the H1-B workers any less money than the other people, they got the same offer.
one word: unemployed