"the fact of the matter is governments will always seek as much power as possible "
I would like to refine your comment just a little, strengthen it for those who might doubt by pointing to a reason why it is true. More precisely, those who seek power will always be drawn to centers of power. And from there expand their influence. Power centers that fail to grow attract fewer power seekers. "The Government" is made up of people and understanding their motives gives insight into their collective motive.
What if my band wanted our music streamed in mp3 on internet radio stations without DRM? Just because our business model doesn't match that of the major recording labels, doesn't mean that it should be outlawed. Does it? What if we _want_ people to stream rip/download our music and send it to their friends so they will come to our shows? This bill would be limiting our potential audience to those who happened to be listening to the station at the time our music is played and killing all viral interest.
So when we get to a point where my neighborhood has a few of these Fon Linus networks for me to use, what if I get a Mushroom Network type router and start aggregating the networks to get mondo bandwidth? What if Fon teamed with people like Mushroom or WiBoost to offer this as an option from the get go? I'd love to get both functions rolled into one box.
>I could honestly care less. The NSA wants to read my email? Fine. The government will know where and when I'm having a football party, geek meeting, or brass rehearsal.
hmmm that's interesting. according to your e-mail there is a guy at your football party and another two from your geek meeting who are on the No Fly List. just to be sure, we'll add you as well.
I'd like to start by saying that I'm not entirely sure how I feel about how this should ultimately play out but would like to respond to this specific point that the guy in Tenn is not benefitting from the taxes he would be paying for the New York work. One argument to the contrary would be that he _is_ benefitting from that tax money he is paying as the company he is working for couldn't exist to give him a job if the roads there weren't built/maintained. He would not be able to get the job if the 'local' employees hadn't gone to schools or aren't sending their kids to schools there. Etc. Basically, my point is that this is alot more complex than you are making out and resolving this is tricky.
Support for clunker desktops and laptops will go a long way towards making Linux and computing in general available to the financially limited. I was actually rather impressed with M$ rumored foresight at creating a version of XP to run on old machines that are still running 95 or 98. Who here doesn't have a few (dozen) friends with eMachines that they bought 6 years ago and are running on limited RAM, limited disk space, and everything else? The further they reduce the hardware requirements of a basic distribution (coupled with ease of install), the more plain folk will agree to do the switch. I'm personally hoping for the day I can slap something like an Ubuntu install CD into a Sony PCG-N505ve and have everything work well.
A machine vote and count is for speed and efficiency. Everyone's for that.
However, some way of verifying the results will prevent people from rigging the machines or at the very least allay fears and paranoia that the machines have been rigged.
It doesn't help if someone is voted into office legitimately if there are many people who rightly or wrongly believe the vote was stolen. If anything, a verifiable vote will strengthen the power of the winner and allow people to move forward after bitter elections.
We don't give rich parking violators bigger tickets than poorer ones. Why should we give an industry which makes more money than another a bigger fine for something which is less dangerous? Unless the argument is that swear words and breasts on TV are more damaging than a nuclear accident?
>Not the lease[t] of which is feel. Imagine your wife with a hard and lumpy P4 in there, instead of a Silicone Gel breast implant, and you'll get the idea. Oh wait, yeah... some weirdos around here would dig that. Nevermind!
What?! The perfect setup for the Beowulf Cluster joke and nobody took advantage of it?
>I dunno what that was, but it made Philip Glass' music sound like full blown orchestral scores with complex melodies...
Ummm, Philip Glass music is scored for and typically played by full blown orchestras and contain extremely complex melodies that span very long time intervals.
Isn't this exactly the mandate of Ubuntu? A super easy to install, maintain, and use OS for the developing world. (And "developing world" also applies to many communities with few resources in developed countries). It might not be 100% there yet, but from all the brochures, its all about different people hugging.
After buying a 1 bedroom condo for over half million in a larger city in the US, or $1.2 million in manhattan, or even more than that in tokyo and other places, the miniature size for rather full sized functionality is worth every penny. Not to mention the relative silence.
8. PRIVACY
Licensee hereby expressly agrees and acknowledges that Licensor may collect, store, disclose to third parties and otherwise use and process (collectively "Process") Personal Data in connection with the Services, this Agreement and Licensee's use of the Software, and Licensee hereby authorizes Licensor (including its officers, directors, employees and agents and its suppliers and licensors) to Process Personal Data to the extent reasonably required or useful in connection with the provision of the Services and/or the execution of this Agreement, and in compliance with Licensor's current privacy policy as shown on Licensor's website (www.ciphire.com).
>The real irony is that Craigslist tends to be, like Ebay (which was responsible for 3/4 of ALL internet fraud complaints), something you have to approach EXTREMELY carefully.
Yeah, anyone who has tried to hook up using Craigslist knows about the high percentage of fraud.
It's strange that nobody has proposed the best solution of all. Get all those IE users who click on ads to switch to FF. Then a much higher number of FF users will click on advertisements.:-)
i'll get bored of "IE losing marketshare" stories when i stop hearing people say "IE is the standard so we only need to test our websites against it". banking/utilitiy sites especially.
Interesting, I just installed ZoneAlarm on a PC last week and it gave me an alarm that some Lexmark process wanted to make a network connection. I havnt had a Lexmark connected to that thing in probably 3 years (and can find no obviously labled Lexmark files) but have been too lazy to reformat the drive. Perhaps it's time to break out the install CDs.
I've tried Spotlight and suggest that when it comes out, every time you step away from your computer make sure to lock your screen. All someone has to do is type 'porn' into the little search toolbar and within seconds it's all nicely listed.
Perhaps Apple needs to add a feature to turn off indexing for certain directories.;-)
Not knowing anything about bass in particular, I know many fish change their sexes during their lives for different reasons. Some start as female and then become male as the get older. Others change sex if there are 'too many' of their current sex. I don't doubt that pollution has a hand in this case but perhaps fish (and similar) are more susceptible to sex change.
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"the fact of the matter is governments will always seek as much power as possible "
I would like to refine your comment just a little, strengthen it for those who might doubt by pointing to a reason why it is true. More precisely, those who seek power will always be drawn to centers of power. And from there expand their influence. Power centers that fail to grow attract fewer power seekers. "The Government" is made up of people and understanding their motives gives insight into their collective motive.
What if my band wanted our music streamed in mp3 on internet radio stations without DRM? Just because our business model doesn't match that of the major recording labels, doesn't mean that it should be outlawed. Does it? What if we _want_ people to stream rip/download our music and send it to their friends so they will come to our shows? This bill would be limiting our potential audience to those who happened to be listening to the station at the time our music is played and killing all viral interest.
So when we get to a point where my neighborhood has a few of these Fon Linus networks for me to use, what if I get a Mushroom Network type router and start aggregating the networks to get mondo bandwidth? What if Fon teamed with people like Mushroom or WiBoost to offer this as an option from the get go? I'd love to get both functions rolled into one box.
>I could honestly care less. The NSA wants to read my email? Fine. The government will know where and when I'm having a football party, geek meeting, or brass rehearsal.
hmmm that's interesting. according to your e-mail there is a guy at your football party and another two from your geek meeting who are on the No Fly List. just to be sure, we'll add you as well.
I'd like to start by saying that I'm not entirely sure how I feel about how this should ultimately play out but would like to respond to this specific point that the guy in Tenn is not benefitting from the taxes he would be paying for the New York work. One argument to the contrary would be that he _is_ benefitting from that tax money he is paying as the company he is working for couldn't exist to give him a job if the roads there weren't built/maintained. He would not be able to get the job if the 'local' employees hadn't gone to schools or aren't sending their kids to schools there. Etc. Basically, my point is that this is alot more complex than you are making out and resolving this is tricky.
Support for clunker desktops and laptops will go a long way towards making Linux and computing in general available to the financially limited. I was actually rather impressed with M$ rumored foresight at creating a version of XP to run on old machines that are still running 95 or 98. Who here doesn't have a few (dozen) friends with eMachines that they bought 6 years ago and are running on limited RAM, limited disk space, and everything else? The further they reduce the hardware requirements of a basic distribution (coupled with ease of install), the more plain folk will agree to do the switch. I'm personally hoping for the day I can slap something like an Ubuntu install CD into a Sony PCG-N505ve and have everything work well.
Apple will collect sales tax anyway. There are no Apple stores in DC and they still collect DC sales tax when I order. Been that way for years.
It was too hard for the average user. Perhaps if Apple built it into the iPod and integrated it with the scroll wheel it would reach critical mass.
On second thought, just get a Lovegety
>This is almost tinfoil hat territory, but this sounds remarkably similar to the way tobacco companies once behaved.
;-)
Except, in this case, a tinfoil hat actually _would_ help.
> Does someone think the machine miscounted?
A machine vote and count is for speed and efficiency. Everyone's for that.
However, some way of verifying the results will prevent people from rigging the machines or at the very least allay fears and paranoia that the machines have been rigged.
It doesn't help if someone is voted into office legitimately if there are many people who rightly or wrongly believe the vote was stolen. If anything, a verifiable vote will strengthen the power of the winner and allow people to move forward after bitter elections.
We don't give rich parking violators bigger tickets than poorer ones. Why should we give an industry which makes more money than another a bigger fine for something which is less dangerous? Unless the argument is that swear words and breasts on TV are more damaging than a nuclear accident?
>Not the lease[t] of which is feel. Imagine your wife with a hard and lumpy P4 in there, instead of a Silicone Gel breast implant, and you'll get the idea. Oh wait, yeah... some weirdos around here would dig that. Nevermind!
What?! The perfect setup for the Beowulf Cluster joke and nobody took advantage of it?
>I dunno what that was, but it made Philip Glass' music sound like full blown orchestral scores with complex melodies...
Ummm, Philip Glass music is scored for and typically played by full blown orchestras and contain extremely complex melodies that span very long time intervals.
Isn't this exactly the mandate of Ubuntu? A super easy to install, maintain, and use OS for the developing world. (And "developing world" also applies to many communities with few resources in developed countries). It might not be 100% there yet, but from all the brochures, its all about different people hugging.
After buying a 1 bedroom condo for over half million in a larger city in the US, or $1.2 million in manhattan, or even more than that in tokyo and other places, the miniature size for rather full sized functionality is worth every penny. Not to mention the relative silence.
8. PRIVACY Licensee hereby expressly agrees and acknowledges that Licensor may collect, store, disclose to third parties and otherwise use and process (collectively "Process") Personal Data in connection with the Services, this Agreement and Licensee's use of the Software, and Licensee hereby authorizes Licensor (including its officers, directors, employees and agents and its suppliers and licensors) to Process Personal Data to the extent reasonably required or useful in connection with the provision of the Services and/or the execution of this Agreement, and in compliance with Licensor's current privacy policy as shown on Licensor's website (www.ciphire.com).
whats that about?
>It'll cover the drugs and hookers, that's for sure.
;-)
It's nice to know that lawyers still accept these as payment in lieu of cash.
>The real irony is that Craigslist tends to be, like Ebay (which was responsible for 3/4 of ALL internet fraud complaints), something you have to approach EXTREMELY carefully.
Yeah, anyone who has tried to hook up using Craigslist knows about the high percentage of fraud.
It's strange that nobody has proposed the best solution of all. Get all those IE users who click on ads to switch to FF. Then a much higher number of FF users will click on advertisements. :-)
i'll get bored of "IE losing marketshare" stories when i stop hearing people say "IE is the standard so we only need to test our websites against it". banking/utilitiy sites especially.
Interesting, I just installed ZoneAlarm on a PC last week and it gave me an alarm that some Lexmark process wanted to make a network connection. I havnt had a Lexmark connected to that thing in probably 3 years (and can find no obviously labled Lexmark files) but have been too lazy to reformat the drive. Perhaps it's time to break out the install CDs.
I've tried Spotlight and suggest that when it comes out, every time you step away from your computer make sure to lock your screen. All someone has to do is type 'porn' into the little search toolbar and within seconds it's all nicely listed.
Perhaps Apple needs to add a feature to turn off indexing for certain directories.
> as you can imagine what problems a group of males who really need sex can cause.....
more duplicate posts and bad moderating on slashdot?
Not knowing anything about bass in particular, I know many fish change their sexes during their lives for different reasons. Some start as female and then become male as the get older. Others change sex if there are 'too many' of their current sex. I don't doubt that pollution has a hand in this case but perhaps fish (and similar) are more susceptible to sex change.
Tiger wont need it.
Spotlight is scary fast in searching everthing on your computer. Even on my sucky old testbed computer.