He's probably talking about the Disney that's had a hand in every copyright extension in the 20th century aftery your 1909 case. 28 years + the posibility of renewal is not nearly as bad as 90 years + DMCA and other absurdly broken laws we have now. People are waking up to the tyrany around them and they won't tollerate ACTA and further foolishness.
None of it really matters now. Broadcast is dying and their little file clerks at M$ are going down with them. Good riddance to bad rubbish, it's all downhill from here.
Representatives are special. There's nothing to keep them from stalking people in their spare time. The minute he uses any of his state privileges or state employees to do the job, he's crossed the line. The only way you can spend state time and money is by passing a law telling everyone how the money is to be spent. We do not and never should have a blog police.
A full investigation of the means of discovery should be launched in this case. The representative obviously meant the outing as a form of retribution and punishment. He may also have violated the US Constitution by searching private property without reasonable suspicion of a crime. Where there is malice and means there is often crime.
The mod needs to be in his head. A laptop won't change his presence/personality. Insecurity over mistaken perception... why? Now for some mods that I've done.
Aluminum up armoring is a practical mod. You can use cheap flashing aluminum and silicone type adhesives to make a durable, tough and relatively light weight cover for easily scratched or soiled plastic. If your plastic is hard enough and in good shape, you don't need this.
3) This "bridge" is not on private property. It's on public property.
I like being called "twitter" by you idiots. It's almost as dumb as your asserting that building public roads and bridges on M$'s private property is something done for the public good. Most private landowners have to pay someone to improve their land with roads and bridges. Having them owned by the public is even better than having the public build them, if you are into that kind of corruption, because it means the public will continue to pay to maintain them. You M$ defenders like to play the public ownership up as some kind of justification for yet more public money being spent for M$'s benefit.
You M$ defenders really have no shame do you? We're talking about business friendly Bloomberg here. Even a M$ contractor is quoted saying there are better uses for public money. Yet all you tools are here pretending some great public good is being done. Sheesh. Here's something better and cheaper: Get M$'s network and OS up to spec so that people don't have to waste time commuting every day. Good luck doing that without bringing more free software onto your campus. Ha!
As someone who once worked at MS (and now at a Linux company, so sad that I feel I need to qualify that)
You should qualify that further. Some people consider Novell a "Linux company" but it's poison.
The city of Redmond is 47,000 people. There are 40,000 employees of Microsoft in Redmond every day.
Most people would consider a company that works hard to avoid local taxes to be a significant burden instead of the economic contributor people expect. Why is it that more M$ employees don't live in Redmond? Why is it that the 40,000 people of Redmond should shoulder the cost of a bridge on private property? Why should Federal funds be used for such a project? [Hint: they avoid Federal and International taxes with their Irish shell company.]
Orwell was concerned with government interference in popular culture and the damage this does to society. In his Homage to Catalina, he notes his shock at meeting a "professional liar," a PR person for the Soviet government. He also notes the trust ignorant people invest in such liars. In 1984 popular culture was reduced to folk songs that no one had the vocabulary to understand and mindless songs and books litterally "spun" by machines. The primary control of culture today by government comes from the abuse of copyright law. We should all be concerned by the intellectual poverty this brings and the political abuse that is both cause and effect of this control and poverty. Every step away from freedom of expression and exchange of ideas brings us closer to other forms of government control. In the end, you will see five fingers if you are told to see five fingers.
It may be reasonable for a court to order a wiretap from an ISP, but it should only be for a specific person and for a limited time and done under reasonable, sworn testimony, suspicion of real crime. That's the legitimate standard set by the fourth amendment. Keeping tabs on everyone is obviously unreasonable - it is expensive and potentially abusive. Private interests should not even be allowed to do the same and there are good ways to demand it.
The kind of laws that people demand are the opposite, that ISPs not be allowed to keep this kind of information because it violates the privacy of users. Almost all US ISPs enjoy some kind of government protection from competition, be it public servitude monopoly, frequency allocation monopolies or other exclusive use of public resources. This exclusivity can be used if government does not have the courage to do what is right for moral reasons alone. Open spectrum will eliminate the kind of centralization that makes it possible for government to demand records keeping in the first place, but it is becoming clear that surveillance and control are the reasons the US has such crappy networks.
I hate how people FUD Google and otehrs for making things available that others have collected for years. Phone companies have known where you are since the invention of cell phones and GPS has been a feature you can't turn off for almost a decade. Your ISP knows more about you than facebook ever will. Your grocer is busy selling you down the river too. Private companies like ChoicePoint have been collecting it all for Uncle Same for a long time too. Welcome to Database Nation, it sucks.
What can and should be done about it? The most harmful stuff is happening behind you back and it needs to be fought with good privacy laws. Grocers, ISPs and others should not be allowed to keep extensive records and should never be allowed to sell them around. The fourth amendment needs to be re-instituted in a big way, so that your tax dollars are not wasted chasing down political opposition. Facebook is not that big a threat because it can be and will be replaced with distributed and free software. It's only a matter of time before Facebook goes the way of GeoCities, AOL and other walled gardens. If we keep freedom in mind, the right answers will come.
Corporate and University intranets are already like this. There is no anonymity, privacy, right to use the facilities owned by all and everything is monitored. Prisons are like that too, but no safety is gained. It is your rights that protect you from abuse. No one gives these rights up, they are taken by force. It would be nice if these non free networks protected the rest of us from the Windows cesspool but we are all threatened as by the botnets that fester there, much as we are all threatened by enslaved people in places like China. The lack of freedom and dignity is exactly what makes the world dangerous.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
[the world will not remain] permanently half slave and half free.... It will become all one thing or all the other.
Fight for your network freedom as if your free press and all your other rights depended on it, because they do. The rest of your freedom and safety fall with your ability to share with and learn from your neighbors.
The rest can go. In a pinch, I can lose the internet thing too - there's enough free internet for me to keep email and get my news. A land line, netflix and a few other services rate as way better deals than advert stuffed cable TV, which is next to unwatchable. Pay per view is compelling? LOL, dude. People are having a hard time paying their mortgage.
Twitter has rounded up the doom and gloom. WSJ, and others predict failure based on M$'s heavy retail chain dependence (aka channel stuffing and partner squeeze in less polite company), and previous vertical integration failures. Yes, M$ had a store before but other, larger vertical integration failures are more predictive. Remember that Gateway, HP and Compaq efforts? In short, M$ has either lost it's grip on retailers or will soon with stunts like this.
M$ partners should always remember that M$ considers you a "one night stand" to be used and discarded.
You think anti-trust regulation is what's holding M$ back? I'll start to believe that when I see anti-trust regulations actually prevent technical or market sabotage. M$ does whatever they want and pays the fines if caught but they usually are not caught. Anti-trust has done nothing to keep them from pushing their DRM, "signed" software and other competitor and user hostile stuff into Vista. You can't really think it's kept them from adding useful features.
Some people would rather type, "oowriter" than click through a menu tree. For them, GNU/Linux is easier than Windows, which has always had problems with paths and idiotic file naming conventions. It is also hard to beat a GNU/Linux command line for getting batch work done. Scripting for Winblows is a nightmare by comparison. If all you ever do is browse the web, you might not miss a command line. Most people prefer a proper choice of rich options.
I'm having trouble watching it with gnash. That might be a Slashdot visiting thing or it might be a flash thing. I hate flash for obtuse problems like that.
The RIAA's draconian attempts to stop sharing harmed legitimate free media and everyone's free press. There is nothing the RIAA can do to attack sharing, even the 100 year old media they "own", that won't look bad because sharing is good. Music is supposed to be fun and unifying. RIAA greed has turned it into something toxic to own even if you don't share it.
The only thing that can make them look good is for them to have confidence in their product and let people share with their friends. Like so many artist know, fans buy things.
5. Automotive - lockin price / planned obsolescence for common steel. Priced more than diamonds per mass. Thank God for Aftermarket. Have fun putting it in.
4. Marine - all of the above but care must be taken or the thing will break. More limited market drives prices up too.
3. Aviation - even more restricted market and federal care must be taken.
2. Nuclear - sigh.
1. Medicine - You think you live in a free market? Ha, pay up or die sucker!
Don't really know the price of this "tough book" but the components should go for about $100 like the more feature complete OLPC.
I don't think anyone here is going to be fooled by hype or astroturf. Nor do I think the EU is going to be fooled by more M$ promises while they are still dragging their feet on the last batch.
He worked for banks, you can't get much more special than that. Windoze hell hole for sure. In jail, he will meet more honest criminals. Now for the obligatory bad joke.
In Soviet Amerika, banks call you threat to society.
We now return you to your regular program, where your retirement is worth 1/4th of what it was 8 years ago and you are soon to be fired like all the other worker bees.
What else were supposed to do when they got to the White house and found IIS? Look what that did to Bush's email, they still can't find most of it and the guy who did their real mail off site with GNU/Linux is dead. Sheesh, give Oboma a break he got email that works up and running on day 1. We can be sure that he'll get onsite GNU/Linux email up in a week or so.
It's amazing how big publishers have spun this issue to something dirty involving trivial matters like pop music and movies. All the media's "Piracy" attention focuses on garbage like this, or even more deranged copy of second rate software, and misses promise of digital publishing. The Oppehnheim letter from Mr. Reynolds is more erudite but even more lost in trivial details and ends with an unintentionally LOL insult:
Defendant's repeated failure to follow basic rules of procedure is making this case far more expensive and time consuming than it should be.
Typical, and what a moron. Who else would wage a war against sharing?
At stake in this war is something we all deserve and can have with little effort - universal access to all human knowledge and entertainment. The early music sharing programs demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that simple sharing creates a library larger and more complete than previous physical media archive. The same thing can and must be allowed to happen for movies, books, journals and all other forms of knowledge and entertainment. Anyone who wants to know things should be able to find the best answers available. Anyone who's bored should be able to find amusement. Most authors want their work to be shared - that is the whole point of publishing. Sure, some commercial works will no longer be published but nothing of value will be lost. People have been singing and dancing for each other forever and soon every university and high school will be producing movies instead of plays and musicals. What's more important is that more vital technical knowledge is shared and children receive better educations. Science and industry can flourish everywhere and people prosper from not reinventing wheels all day. Schools can give interested students what they need to succeed. All we have to do is share.
See how they spin and stand on mindless details? Big publishers know that they stand firmly in the uncool and unethical side of this war. What they are doing to the public for private advantage and gratification is indeed a crime, it simply lacks a name. Dropping down to petty procedural details won't mask their shame in the long run. The sooner these idiots get out of the way, the better off we will all be.
Microsoft... provides extremely easy to use products that work reasonably well.
Local definitions of "easy" and "reason" vary widely by circumstances. For instance, a 32 F room temperature is considered easy when it does not melt your walls and raw seal eyes are a reasonable meal in a place where you can't grow crops. Windows may be easy and reasonable compared to a naked PC with an assembler handbook, but the rest of us would rather a 15 minute GNU/Linux install and freedom.
Yes, M$ does manage to put that exact message here. It's the typical M$ lie, "our competitors have all of our flaws and more," and not particularly tailored to Slashdot. They also blast the same out through the Wintel press constantly. The truth is almost always just the opposite:
Who's tight with China? M$ - Google and Yahoo are less so but get the blame.
Who's waging the patent war? M$, the only company to have actually threatened free sotware directly, IBM a big free software booster is blamed.
Who bent over backward for wiretaps? ATT with help from the folks who built the Great Firewall of China - but Google is a threat because they might have too much of your data?
I can go on and on because the bullshit from the digital oppressors never stops. Shame on Slashdot for linking to so many of those BS stories. Some days it seems like Slashdot is a FUD factory. I'm glad Wired got this one and Slashdot carried it - despite their "one grain of salt per word insult." It could be that everything they think is wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
He's probably talking about the Disney that's had a hand in every copyright extension in the 20th century aftery your 1909 case. 28 years + the posibility of renewal is not nearly as bad as 90 years + DMCA and other absurdly broken laws we have now. People are waking up to the tyrany around them and they won't tollerate ACTA and further foolishness.
None of it really matters now. Broadcast is dying and their little file clerks at M$ are going down with them. Good riddance to bad rubbish, it's all downhill from here.
Representatives are special. There's nothing to keep them from stalking people in their spare time. The minute he uses any of his state privileges or state employees to do the job, he's crossed the line. The only way you can spend state time and money is by passing a law telling everyone how the money is to be spent. We do not and never should have a blog police.
A full investigation of the means of discovery should be launched in this case. The representative obviously meant the outing as a form of retribution and punishment. He may also have violated the US Constitution by searching private property without reasonable suspicion of a crime. Where there is malice and means there is often crime.
The mod needs to be in his head. A laptop won't change his presence/personality. Insecurity over mistaken perception ... why? Now for some mods that I've done.
Aluminum up armoring is a practical mod. You can use cheap flashing aluminum and silicone type adhesives to make a durable, tough and relatively light weight cover for easily scratched or soiled plastic. If your plastic is hard enough and in good shape, you don't need this.
Support GNU with stickers. GNU is good for you.
According to the Register in summary,
Nor could you ignore a black adder but it's not what you expect to find there. Sheesh. How low can the Register go?
As for Cisco, it's a good thing they have piles of cash - business with M$ usually requires a lot of it and M$ is unusually hungry these days.
3) This "bridge" is not on private property. It's on public property.
I like being called "twitter" by you idiots. It's almost as dumb as your asserting that building public roads and bridges on M$'s private property is something done for the public good. Most private landowners have to pay someone to improve their land with roads and bridges. Having them owned by the public is even better than having the public build them, if you are into that kind of corruption, because it means the public will continue to pay to maintain them. You M$ defenders like to play the public ownership up as some kind of justification for yet more public money being spent for M$'s benefit.
You M$ defenders really have no shame do you? We're talking about business friendly Bloomberg here. Even a M$ contractor is quoted saying there are better uses for public money. Yet all you tools are here pretending some great public good is being done. Sheesh. Here's something better and cheaper: Get M$'s network and OS up to spec so that people don't have to waste time commuting every day. Good luck doing that without bringing more free software onto your campus. Ha!
You should qualify that further. Some people consider Novell a "Linux company" but it's poison.
Most people would consider a company that works hard to avoid local taxes to be a significant burden instead of the economic contributor people expect. Why is it that more M$ employees don't live in Redmond? Why is it that the 40,000 people of Redmond should shoulder the cost of a bridge on private property? Why should Federal funds be used for such a project? [Hint: they avoid Federal and International taxes with their Irish shell company.]
Orwell was concerned with government interference in popular culture and the damage this does to society. In his Homage to Catalina, he notes his shock at meeting a "professional liar," a PR person for the Soviet government. He also notes the trust ignorant people invest in such liars. In 1984 popular culture was reduced to folk songs that no one had the vocabulary to understand and mindless songs and books litterally "spun" by machines. The primary control of culture today by government comes from the abuse of copyright law. We should all be concerned by the intellectual poverty this brings and the political abuse that is both cause and effect of this control and poverty. Every step away from freedom of expression and exchange of ideas brings us closer to other forms of government control. In the end, you will see five fingers if you are told to see five fingers.
It may be reasonable for a court to order a wiretap from an ISP, but it should only be for a specific person and for a limited time and done under reasonable, sworn testimony, suspicion of real crime. That's the legitimate standard set by the fourth amendment. Keeping tabs on everyone is obviously unreasonable - it is expensive and potentially abusive. Private interests should not even be allowed to do the same and there are good ways to demand it.
The kind of laws that people demand are the opposite, that ISPs not be allowed to keep this kind of information because it violates the privacy of users. Almost all US ISPs enjoy some kind of government protection from competition, be it public servitude monopoly, frequency allocation monopolies or other exclusive use of public resources. This exclusivity can be used if government does not have the courage to do what is right for moral reasons alone. Open spectrum will eliminate the kind of centralization that makes it possible for government to demand records keeping in the first place, but it is becoming clear that surveillance and control are the reasons the US has such crappy networks.
I hate how people FUD Google and otehrs for making things available that others have collected for years. Phone companies have known where you are since the invention of cell phones and GPS has been a feature you can't turn off for almost a decade. Your ISP knows more about you than facebook ever will. Your grocer is busy selling you down the river too. Private companies like ChoicePoint have been collecting it all for Uncle Same for a long time too. Welcome to Database Nation, it sucks.
What can and should be done about it? The most harmful stuff is happening behind you back and it needs to be fought with good privacy laws. Grocers, ISPs and others should not be allowed to keep extensive records and should never be allowed to sell them around. The fourth amendment needs to be re-instituted in a big way, so that your tax dollars are not wasted chasing down political opposition. Facebook is not that big a threat because it can be and will be replaced with distributed and free software. It's only a matter of time before Facebook goes the way of GeoCities, AOL and other walled gardens. If we keep freedom in mind, the right answers will come.
Corporate and University intranets are already like this. There is no anonymity, privacy, right to use the facilities owned by all and everything is monitored. Prisons are like that too, but no safety is gained. It is your rights that protect you from abuse. No one gives these rights up, they are taken by force. It would be nice if these non free networks protected the rest of us from the Windows cesspool but we are all threatened as by the botnets that fester there, much as we are all threatened by enslaved people in places like China. The lack of freedom and dignity is exactly what makes the world dangerous.
Fight for your network freedom as if your free press and all your other rights depended on it, because they do. The rest of your freedom and safety fall with your ability to share with and learn from your neighbors.
The things you need:
The rest can go. In a pinch, I can lose the internet thing too - there's enough free internet for me to keep email and get my news. A land line, netflix and a few other services rate as way better deals than advert stuffed cable TV, which is next to unwatchable. Pay per view is compelling? LOL, dude. People are having a hard time paying their mortgage.
Twitter has rounded up the doom and gloom. WSJ, and others predict failure based on M$'s heavy retail chain dependence (aka channel stuffing and partner squeeze in less polite company), and previous vertical integration failures. Yes, M$ had a store before but other, larger vertical integration failures are more predictive. Remember that Gateway, HP and Compaq efforts? In short, M$ has either lost it's grip on retailers or will soon with stunts like this.
M$ partners should always remember that M$ considers you a "one night stand" to be used and discarded.
You think anti-trust regulation is what's holding M$ back? I'll start to believe that when I see anti-trust regulations actually prevent technical or market sabotage. M$ does whatever they want and pays the fines if caught but they usually are not caught. Anti-trust has done nothing to keep them from pushing their DRM, "signed" software and other competitor and user hostile stuff into Vista. You can't really think it's kept them from adding useful features.
M$ will do what they can to break other services. They can hardly make their own work, do you expect others to really be able to use them?
Some people would rather type, "oowriter" than click through a menu tree. For them, GNU/Linux is easier than Windows, which has always had problems with paths and idiotic file naming conventions. It is also hard to beat a GNU/Linux command line for getting batch work done. Scripting for Winblows is a nightmare by comparison. If all you ever do is browse the web, you might not miss a command line. Most people prefer a proper choice of rich options.
I'm having trouble watching it with gnash. That might be a Slashdot visiting thing or it might be a flash thing. I hate flash for obtuse problems like that.
The RIAA's draconian attempts to stop sharing harmed legitimate free media and everyone's free press. There is nothing the RIAA can do to attack sharing, even the 100 year old media they "own", that won't look bad because sharing is good. Music is supposed to be fun and unifying. RIAA greed has turned it into something toxic to own even if you don't share it.
The only thing that can make them look good is for them to have confidence in their product and let people share with their friends. Like so many artist know, fans buy things.
Expense order - reason for cost
Don't really know the price of this "tough book" but the components should go for about $100 like the more feature complete OLPC.
I don't think anyone here is going to be fooled by hype or astroturf. Nor do I think the EU is going to be fooled by more M$ promises while they are still dragging their feet on the last batch.
He worked for banks, you can't get much more special than that. Windoze hell hole for sure. In jail, he will meet more honest criminals. Now for the obligatory bad joke.
In Soviet Amerika, banks call you threat to society.
We now return you to your regular program, where your retirement is worth 1/4th of what it was 8 years ago and you are soon to be fired like all the other worker bees.
Who would not hate Bush PCs?
What else were supposed to do when they got to the White house and found IIS? Look what that did to Bush's email, they still can't find most of it and the guy who did their real mail off site with GNU/Linux is dead. Sheesh, give Oboma a break he got email that works up and running on day 1. We can be sure that he'll get onsite GNU/Linux email up in a week or so.
It's amazing how big publishers have spun this issue to something dirty involving trivial matters like pop music and movies. All the media's "Piracy" attention focuses on garbage like this, or even more deranged copy of second rate software, and misses promise of digital publishing. The Oppehnheim letter from Mr. Reynolds is more erudite but even more lost in trivial details and ends with an unintentionally LOL insult:
Typical, and what a moron. Who else would wage a war against sharing?
At stake in this war is something we all deserve and can have with little effort - universal access to all human knowledge and entertainment. The early music sharing programs demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that simple sharing creates a library larger and more complete than previous physical media archive. The same thing can and must be allowed to happen for movies, books, journals and all other forms of knowledge and entertainment. Anyone who wants to know things should be able to find the best answers available. Anyone who's bored should be able to find amusement. Most authors want their work to be shared - that is the whole point of publishing. Sure, some commercial works will no longer be published but nothing of value will be lost. People have been singing and dancing for each other forever and soon every university and high school will be producing movies instead of plays and musicals. What's more important is that more vital technical knowledge is shared and children receive better educations. Science and industry can flourish everywhere and people prosper from not reinventing wheels all day. Schools can give interested students what they need to succeed. All we have to do is share.
See how they spin and stand on mindless details? Big publishers know that they stand firmly in the uncool and unethical side of this war. What they are doing to the public for private advantage and gratification is indeed a crime, it simply lacks a name. Dropping down to petty procedural details won't mask their shame in the long run. The sooner these idiots get out of the way, the better off we will all be.
Microsoft ... provides extremely easy to use products that work reasonably well.
Local definitions of "easy" and "reason" vary widely by circumstances. For instance, a 32 F room temperature is considered easy when it does not melt your walls and raw seal eyes are a reasonable meal in a place where you can't grow crops. Windows may be easy and reasonable compared to a naked PC with an assembler handbook, but the rest of us would rather a 15 minute GNU/Linux install and freedom.
Yes, M$ does manage to put that exact message here. It's the typical M$ lie, "our competitors have all of our flaws and more," and not particularly tailored to Slashdot. They also blast the same out through the Wintel press constantly. The truth is almost always just the opposite:
I can go on and on because the bullshit from the digital oppressors never stops. Shame on Slashdot for linking to so many of those BS stories. Some days it seems like Slashdot is a FUD factory. I'm glad Wired got this one and Slashdot carried it - despite their "one grain of salt per word insult." It could be that everything they think is wrong.