I wish I had some moderation points... You bring up a very good point. This whole issue is a matter of perspective. Too bad congress appears to have the 'wrong' perspective concerning the issue.
"If so, what type of qualifications do you think they would require before allowing someone to help teach web design?"
1. Ability to stand upright, atleast on occasion
2. Should be able to follow simple directions, verbal or nonverbal will do.
3. Ability to use keyboard and/or mouse
4.....
No wait... this is the qualifications list for a 1,000,000 monkeys writting Shakespear on the internet, sorry.
It seems to me that this is due, in large part, to the 'hardware review' sites. They almost always compare various cards using 'quake' FPS performance. This may or may not be a useful evaluation. This reminds me of all of the database benchmarks, tp1, tpc, etc; the database vendors always tuned their products for these....
"Instead, Gilmore told the House Science committee, the commission will recommend that a "cyber court" be created with extraordinary powers to authorize electronic surveillance and secret searches of suspected hackers' homes and offices."
Well... maybe we should convice some judge to create a new 'cyber congress' with extraordinary powers of resistance to soft money.
Very true. As an interesting aside from an Ex-IBM'er. There is a *lot* of emphasis placed on generating patents; financal rewards for any employee that submits a patent application, and awards for having large numbers of patents under your belt. These mega corps view patent portfolios as business tools, both as offensive and defensive; to be used to directly for cutting out the competition and/or forming alliances with other corps through patent portfolio exchanges. In essence allowing only the big boys to play with each other (for free) while soaking the little guys.
Thats a good thought, providing a minimum download speed. It may also help increase the overall speed of the P2P network, basically shutting out sites that have already filled their bandwidth.
It's the other way around typically. The 'city folk' as we hicks call'em are typically D while the rural areas tend to be more R. I guess that comes from pulling you own weight instead of expecting something from the gov.:) 'Gov'ment, yeah I heard of 'em, but I ain't got no need for 'em.'
why is this outdated ? I certainly would not want my elected officials voting based on national majorities. This would have the effect of candidates only representing large cities where lots of votes existed and dealing only with issues associated with the large urban areas.
I suspect that congress knew that the DMCA would never hold up in a court of law. That doesn't mean that the DMCA is not a very efective tool for a corporation. On the contrary, corporations only need to threaten a lawsuit in most circumstances to acheive the desired results; the fear of the expense and uncertain outcome of a trial will disuade most people from continuing what ever it was the RIAA, MPAA, AOL, etc were unhappy with. The bottom line, in my estimation, is that noone really wants a case to go to court that may jepordize the DMCA.
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Assuming that there were others that contributed to the source base, wouldn't VA be required to get some sort of license agreement from them ?
I thought you brought the parachutes....
Ha, LOL. I can see it now...
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I wish I had some moderation points... You bring up a very good point. This whole issue is a matter of perspective. Too bad congress appears to have the 'wrong' perspective concerning the issue.
ha, that's great. Check out whois osama ... figures
"If so, what type of qualifications do you think they would require before allowing someone to help teach web design?"
....
:)
1. Ability to stand upright, atleast on occasion
2. Should be able to follow simple directions, verbal or nonverbal will do.
3. Ability to use keyboard and/or mouse
4.
No wait... this is the qualifications list for a 1,000,000 monkeys writting Shakespear on the internet, sorry.
-Couldn't resist a jab at the web monkeys
It seems to me that this is due, in large part, to the 'hardware review' sites. They almost always compare various cards using 'quake' FPS performance. This may or may not be a useful evaluation. This reminds me of all of the database benchmarks, tp1, tpc, etc; the database vendors always tuned their products for these....
boy, do I feel sorry for your kids :)
(I couldn't resist the dumb little joke reply)
"Instead, Gilmore told the House Science committee, the commission will recommend that a "cyber court" be created with extraordinary powers to authorize electronic surveillance and secret searches of suspected hackers' homes and offices."
Well... maybe we should convice some judge to create a new 'cyber congress' with extraordinary powers of resistance to soft money.
Very true. As an interesting aside from an Ex-IBM'er. There is a *lot* of emphasis placed on generating patents; financal rewards for any employee that submits a patent application, and awards for having large numbers of patents under your belt. These mega corps view patent portfolios as business tools, both as offensive and defensive; to be used to directly for cutting out the competition and/or forming alliances with other corps through patent portfolio exchanges. In essence allowing only the big boys to play with each other (for free) while soaking the little guys.
Thats a good thought, providing a minimum download speed. It may also help increase the overall speed of the P2P network, basically shutting out sites that have already filled their bandwidth.
It's the other way around typically. The 'city folk' as we hicks call'em are typically D while the rural areas tend to be more R. I guess that comes from pulling you own weight instead of expecting something from the gov. :) 'Gov'ment, yeah I heard of 'em, but I ain't got no need for 'em.'
Sure, but I wouldn't wany to pay to strike it down, it's my plan to ignore it :)
Well, if the RIAA, MPAA, AOL paid for a law they may as well get one.
why is this outdated ? I certainly would not want my elected officials voting based on national majorities. This would have the effect of candidates only representing large cities where lots of votes existed and dealing only with issues associated with the large urban areas.
I suspect that congress knew that the DMCA would never hold up in a court of law. That doesn't mean that the DMCA is not a very efective tool for a corporation. On the contrary, corporations only need to threaten a lawsuit in most circumstances to acheive the desired results; the fear of the expense and uncertain outcome of a trial will disuade most people from continuing what ever it was the RIAA, MPAA, AOL, etc were unhappy with. The bottom line, in my estimation, is that noone really wants a case to go to court that may jepordize the DMCA.
If the tree made a sound when if fell.
When actively lobbying on behalf of a client, do your personal views on technology issues ever get stepped on ?