I think this ia great move to sure up the Russian economy. The govt can now commodize the Mafia spam/bot nets and sell cycles off to the highest bigger for scams and dubious online pharmacies.
While working at a place may have you end up with forced Scientology indoctrination, I really don't think a file system is going to make you kill your wife.
Of course if avoiding the taint of Hans Reiser is how you choose a file system, perhaps you've never left the basement;)
I thought that a DMCA notice *required* actual specifics of infringing content. Its part of what you have to do when you file a notice. Claiming that your are going to force someone to pay you so that you have to comply with the law seems patently (no pun intended) ridiculous. If your client wants this action done, they pay you (the lawyer) to do what is necessary.
I get the feeling that the mere fact that they refuse to follow the rules without trying to extort money from the 'defendant', will get them a well deserved legal slap in the face
This is kind of a concern, Mac OS X 10.3 is still alive and well out there. Somewhere along the line they cut 10.3.9 from the supported OSes for FF3, so now its 10.4 and up only. Now while I don't expect the 2.x branch to have any security compromising problems, the establishment dogs who's only job it is to demand that every possible security thing is addressed will start grousing. And FF has been he only alternative for an up to date browser.
Does anyone have a list of Viacom properties? I would go a long way to know what to avoid and to start contact with companies that advertise on Viacom productions.
Why is Road Runner discontinuing their own Newsgroups service? Due to low subscriber usage Road Runner has decided to discontinue Newsgroups service as of June 23, 2008.
Amazing.. Its so underutilized, they got sued over it.
So I went looking for how this ruined x-mas for someone and found the link.
It seems like to me that what started out as something that was shared turned into a pissing match between already barely tolerating each other family members. I fault this summary because intentional escalation of individuals is *not* the fault of google (or anyone other than the parties involved.
Something still smells funny here. "The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. "
So its untrue that the kid was given detention, but not disavowal of stupid "discipline". So from what I'm decoding from the double speak is that firefox was used, the teacher was probably clueless, and the student punished for not using IE like they were told. I am still perceiving a problem with the cluelevel(tm) at the school.
While you may have a valid point, the question in my mind is "Why do you dismiss someone's opinion out of hand in favor of someone who is a lawyer?" While a lawyer has more learning, and very likely more legal experience; (speaking generally now) does not mean they are 1) correct, 2) an expert in said area, 3) telling the truth. There is value into looking at others opinions and arguments. A seemingly blind faith in the opinion of lawyers, is well harrowing. For instance, surely a group of lawyers told Darl McBride that SCO owned Unix and thus Linux (analogy simplified for the sake of everyone's sanity).
Clearly one's profession should be taken into account as a plus for the validity of their statement, but as it is said "Trust but verify". So to get the point, evaluate the statements, consider them, challenge them. When you are all done you can decide what to dismiss.
You are quite right, however this is really only an extension of this idea of a 'phantom contract'. You get content and youa re forced to watch ads. The tv/cable guys have been whining about this for a good long while now. For instance, notice how while VCRs could read the break signal and pause your recording to skip the commercials, but they arent made that way anymore?
Notice that John Dvorak says "Now take that fast processor and add a big hard disk and you have the slowly emerging personal video recorder. In many ways the device is similar to MP3 technology: It's a way to steal programming. This has gone unnoticed because PVRs haven't caught on, yet. " So skipping commercials is theft. Again the phantom contract delusion. (link is here http://www.forbes.com/2001/04/16/0416dvorak.html) I am not hot linking because the content is only available by clicking on a pass thru flash advert page.. to the article page that is also filled with advertising. So Forbes and John.. bite me.
Its has often been asked of the 'mandatory advertisement viewing" crowd "Am I still a thief if i have to pee?" Im sorry your broadcasting/cable tv/publically accessible web page in no way puts me on the hook to be screamed at with autoplay flash popup ads for soap.
I do notice a wee bit of hypocrisy here in that Apple refused to pay universal, but expects for AT&T to pay a similar fine.
Yeah I can see how it does seem to be similar, and I'm going to analyze is in this post as we go... thing is some of things just don't compare:
iPhone AT&T (service provider) is having business driven to it in the form of thousands of new cellular contracts by the iPhone. In fact I am confident in saying that the customers want the iPhone *not* AT&T. So the device is the cause, AT&T gets the benefit of Apple's device. And giving how evil AT&T is I can't find myself shedding a tear on the contract they signed, I have no doubt they ran the numbers and decided the profit was enough to make them happy.
iTunes Ok things get more complicated here, the iPod made iTunes one another necessary, the store of course came later (but always planned?) to provide a method for iPod owners to pay for content, and in the long term drive iPod sales. So as HW sales is the goal, the store has to be attractive to people to make them use it. I'd bet that as long as that model holds up (don't see why it won't), Apple would be happy to just break even on the media sales at iTMS. Jacked up prices makes the store less attractive by braking the cost vs convenience balance thus it makes no sense for Apple. So let NBC/Universal take their stuff elsewhere and find someone else to sell it to at the higher prices while others rake in the money on the high volume.
An acquaintance of mine once regaled me of an anecdote of then the cabbies were on strike in NYC en masse. As it goes the traffic in manhattan was a dream, and that they should strike all the time.
"7...... How much more do we have to add to really start becoming scared?"
Thing about being scared, is that there has to be something to be afraid about. Years ago it was clear to me the internal mess we were walking into. So when you have accepted that you are hopelessly screwed, the only thing to wait for is the inevitable.
However the only bright point of being a borderline paranoia pessimist is that nearly anything that does happen is guaranteed to be better than what you expect.
Ok other than at least the handful of possible problems I can think of, if you have a file open, why isnt that part of the file system data cached also? I apologize for the lack of deep analysis here, but if the argument is that if you want to store access time of a file that is in cache, and you have to hit the platter to update that time, and to save that non cache hit by not storing AT, then why not have that block of the file system cached when you open the file? When you close the file, you also do a final flush on that file system block, otherwise the cache gets flushed on the normal cache flush criteria?
Oh how your comment reminds me of a policy of a place where I used to work. It stated (more or less) 'in order to protect the security of the network, downloading copyright protected information is prohibited'. Keep in mind that this was approved by lawyers.. they seems to have ignored the basics of copyright law in school, anything published is copyright protected.
While its of some debate that the Sarbanes-Oxley law would 'force' apple to charge for the 802.11n support, your lame ass assertion about the numbering scheme is worthy of abject ridicule. Have you been under a rock for so long or are you not aware that each 'point release' has been a major revision. Are you upset by the way they are numbered? Would you, perhaps, be happier if Tiger was called Mac OS XIV?
You have been modded and you certainly are flamebait. The only question is which camp do you fall into? GPL cultists or MS Apologists?
The justices, without comment, let stand an appeals court ruling against Libertarian activist and millionaire John Gilmore. Gilmore wanted the court to force the federal government to disclose the policy that requires passengers to produce identification. Unless the regulations are made public, air travelers have no way to determine if the regulations call for impermissible searches, Gilmore said in court papers. The Justice Department has said that demanding ID protects passengers' safety.
So he lost the case to get the govt to disclose the policy. And yet you claim he knows the policy, however its not in fact disclosed.
Funny I had thought that this was really about the secret regulations that Gilmore (and others) were repeated told that exist but cannot see. Its not relevant if you can fly without showing ID. If the Govt says there is a law it is our right to know them. The very fact that you can fly without showing ID leads to very few conclusions : 1) there is no law and they are all lying (for some reason) or 2) there is a law and its so inflammatory that 'they' would rather make exceptions instead of telling the public.
I'm leaning toward lying. If a law/regulation existed but was tired to something so sensitive that it cant be released (which is basically BS) then just move the mandate to another public part of the law.
These are the actions of the govt 'they' elected (I'd vote for satan before I'd vote for these people). Liars or Fascists thats your choice, and its a damned bleak one.
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I think this ia great move to sure up the Russian economy. The govt can now commodize the Mafia spam/bot nets and sell cycles off to the highest bigger for scams and dubious online pharmacies.
While working at a place may have you end up with forced Scientology indoctrination, I really don't think a file system is going to make you kill your wife.
Of course if avoiding the taint of Hans Reiser is how you choose a file system, perhaps you've never left the basement ;)
While your point is well taken, QT 7.4.5 got a security update in April and it included 10.3.9.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1241
I thought that a DMCA notice *required* actual specifics of infringing content. Its part of what you have to do when you file a notice. Claiming that your are going to force someone to pay you so that you have to comply with the law seems patently (no pun intended) ridiculous. If your client wants this action done, they pay you (the lawyer) to do what is necessary.
I get the feeling that the mere fact that they refuse to follow the rules without trying to extort money from the 'defendant', will get them a well deserved legal slap in the face
This is kind of a concern, Mac OS X 10.3 is still alive and well out there. Somewhere along the line they cut 10.3.9 from the supported OSes for FF3, so now its 10.4 and up only. Now while I don't expect the 2.x branch to have any security compromising problems, the establishment dogs who's only job it is to demand that every possible security thing is addressed will start grousing. And FF has been he only alternative for an up to date browser.
Sadly however, Obama voted *for* warrantless wiretapping *after* he said he was going to filibuster the bill. He is on record caving on this issue.
Does anyone have a list of Viacom properties? I would go a long way to know what to avoid and to start contact with companies that advertise on Viacom productions.
From their help page.
Why is Road Runner discontinuing their own Newsgroups service?
Due to low subscriber usage Road Runner has decided to discontinue Newsgroups service as of June 23, 2008.
Amazing.. Its so underutilized, they got sued over it.
So I went looking for how this ruined x-mas for someone and found the link.
It seems like to me that what started out as something that was shared turned into a pissing match between already barely tolerating each other family members. I fault this summary because intentional escalation of individuals is *not* the fault of google (or anyone other than the parties involved.
Something still smells funny here. "The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. "
So its untrue that the kid was given detention, but not disavowal of stupid "discipline". So from what I'm decoding from the double speak is that firefox was used, the teacher was probably clueless, and the student punished for not using IE like they were told. I am still perceiving a problem with the cluelevel(tm) at the school.
While you may have a valid point, the question in my mind is "Why do you dismiss someone's opinion out of hand in favor of someone who is a lawyer?" While a lawyer has more learning, and very likely more legal experience; (speaking generally now) does not mean they are 1) correct, 2) an expert in said area, 3) telling the truth. There is value into looking at others opinions and arguments. A seemingly blind faith in the opinion of lawyers, is well harrowing. For instance, surely a group of lawyers told Darl McBride that SCO owned Unix and thus Linux (analogy simplified for the sake of everyone's sanity).
Clearly one's profession should be taken into account as a plus for the validity of their statement, but as it is said "Trust but verify". So to get the point, evaluate the statements, consider them, challenge them. When you are all done you can decide what to dismiss.
You are quite right, however this is really only an extension of this idea of a 'phantom contract'. You get content and youa re forced to watch ads. The tv/cable guys have been whining about this for a good long while now. For instance, notice how while VCRs could read the break signal and pause your recording to skip the commercials, but they arent made that way anymore?
Notice that John Dvorak says "Now take that fast processor and add a big hard disk and you have the slowly emerging personal video recorder. In many ways the device is similar to MP3 technology: It's a way to steal programming. This has gone unnoticed because PVRs haven't caught on, yet. " So skipping commercials is theft. Again the phantom contract delusion. (link is here http://www.forbes.com/2001/04/16/0416dvorak.html) I am not hot linking because the content is only available by clicking on a pass thru flash advert page.. to the article page that is also filled with advertising. So Forbes and John.. bite me.
Its has often been asked of the 'mandatory advertisement viewing" crowd "Am I still a thief if i have to pee?" Im sorry your broadcasting/cable tv/publically accessible web page in no way puts me on the hook to be screamed at with autoplay flash popup ads for soap.
I do notice a wee bit of hypocrisy here in that Apple refused to pay universal, but expects for AT&T to pay a similar fine.
Yeah I can see how it does seem to be similar, and I'm going to analyze is in this post as we go... thing is some of things just don't compare:
iPhone
AT&T (service provider) is having business driven to it in the form of thousands of new cellular contracts by the iPhone. In fact I am confident in saying that the customers want the iPhone *not* AT&T. So the device is the cause, AT&T gets the benefit of Apple's device. And giving how evil AT&T is I can't find myself shedding a tear on the contract they signed, I have no doubt they ran the numbers and decided the profit was enough to make them happy.
iTunes
Ok things get more complicated here, the iPod made iTunes one another necessary, the store of course came later (but always planned?) to provide a method for iPod owners to pay for content, and in the long term drive iPod sales. So as HW sales is the goal, the store has to be attractive to people to make them use it. I'd bet that as long as that model holds up (don't see why it won't), Apple would be happy to just break even on the media sales at iTMS. Jacked up prices makes the store less attractive by braking the cost vs convenience balance thus it makes no sense for Apple. So let NBC/Universal take their stuff elsewhere and find someone else to sell it to at the higher prices while others rake in the money on the high volume.
Why do you think Applet should get a cut from *calls* made with an iPhone?
I pose the question why do shops like Universal think they should get a cut of the sales of the Zune (which was paid by MS) and the iPod (which was not paid by apple). Perhaps we should that Universal has also implied that Apple should pay them for (by Universal's estimation) "the typical iPod contains a significant amount of illegally downloaded material"
Not to mention that Universal-NBC wants consumer to pay significantly for downloads of shows that they could buy on dvd for less.
This all boils down to a the last throes of a failing business model.
An acquaintance of mine once regaled me of an anecdote of then the cabbies were on strike in NYC en masse. As it goes the traffic in manhattan was a dream, and that they should strike all the time.
"7...... How much more do we have to add to really start becoming scared?"
Thing about being scared, is that there has to be something to be afraid about. Years ago it was clear to me the internal mess we were walking into. So when you have accepted that you are hopelessly screwed, the only thing to wait for is the inevitable.
However the only bright point of being a borderline paranoia pessimist is that nearly anything that does happen is guaranteed to be better than what you expect.
Ok other than at least the handful of possible problems I can think of, if you have a file open, why isnt that part of the file system data cached also? I apologize for the lack of deep analysis here, but if the argument is that if you want to store access time of a file that is in cache, and you have to hit the platter to update that time, and to save that non cache hit by not storing AT, then why not have that block of the file system cached when you open the file? When you close the file, you also do a final flush on that file system block, otherwise the cache gets flushed on the normal cache flush criteria?
Perhaps a better solution would be Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses?
Alas even if it was done without your permission, it does not make it 'unpublic' anymore.
I've already requested information on how to close my account. Lets see what happens. Note I didn't ask to have it closed. (yet)
Oh how your comment reminds me of a policy of a place where I used to work. It stated (more or less) 'in order to protect the security of the network, downloading copyright protected information is prohibited'. Keep in mind that this was approved by lawyers.. they seems to have ignored the basics of copyright law in school, anything published is copyright protected.
While its of some debate that the Sarbanes-Oxley law would 'force' apple to charge for the 802.11n support, your lame ass assertion about the numbering scheme is worthy of abject ridicule. Have you been under a rock for so long or are you not aware that each 'point release' has been a major revision. Are you upset by the way they are numbered? Would you, perhaps, be happier if Tiger was called Mac OS XIV?
You have been modded and you certainly are flamebait. The only question is which camp do you fall into? GPL cultists or MS Apologists?
Oh and I guess I should mention this :
The justices, without comment, let stand an appeals court ruling against Libertarian activist and millionaire John Gilmore. Gilmore wanted the court to force the federal government to disclose the policy that requires passengers to produce identification.
Unless the regulations are made public, air travelers have no way to determine if the regulations call for impermissible searches, Gilmore said in court papers. The Justice Department has said that demanding ID protects passengers' safety.
So he lost the case to get the govt to disclose the policy. And yet you claim he knows the policy, however its not in fact disclosed.
Well then, what is the regulation number. Why was he and others told that they were not allow to see them. Did you even read the words i wrote?
Funny I had thought that this was really about the secret regulations that Gilmore (and others) were repeated told that exist but cannot see. Its not relevant if you can fly without showing ID. If the Govt says there is a law it is our right to know them. The very fact that you can fly without showing ID leads to very few conclusions :
1) there is no law and they are all lying (for some reason) or
2) there is a law and its so inflammatory that 'they' would rather make exceptions instead of telling the public.
I'm leaning toward lying. If a law/regulation existed but was tired to something so sensitive that it cant be released (which is basically BS) then just move the mandate to another public part of the law.
These are the actions of the govt 'they' elected (I'd vote for satan before I'd vote for these people). Liars or Fascists thats your choice, and its a damned bleak one.