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The entertainment industry is trying to have it both ways. Under the proposed CBDTPA, the content producers will have control over how their content will be distributed. They will be able to completely bypass their historical distribution channels: Disney could sell it's movies directly to the consumer instead of to a distributer, then to a theater, THEN to the consumer. Warner Brothers could sell "Friends" directly over the internet, bypassing NBC and the local affiliates. This would be enormously efficient, and therefore enormously profitable.
The reason this distribution will be so efficient and profitable is the very nature of the digital medium: the internet is massively redundant, fault tolerant, and inexpensive because the costs are spread out on a grand scale. To use the movie analogy, instead of distributors sending out 6-7 reels of film to every distributor via a private messenger service, Disney would store each individual frame of film and send them out one by one by whatever means is most efficient, and the frames would be reassembled at the theater. If a messenger service loses an entire reel of film, there is a major problem. However, if just one frame of the film gets lost, it's no one will even notice. It is this efficiency which the content producers wish to harness to increase their profit margins substantially.
The reverse side of this is that the very efficiency that the content producers desire is only made possible by the ability to copy data over and over again. Digital mediums only work because they rely on continuous small scale copying and re-copying of data, on a miniscule scale, to get data from 1 physical location to another. Although it happens behind the scene, the ability to copy data is the most basic function of digital mediums and devices. And it is this aspect of digital data that content producers profess to fear most: the ability to efficiently and redundantly copy data.
The entertainment industry wants to use the basic nature of digital technology to enhance it's profits and stock value, but does not wish to be subject to any possible negative consequences. They wish the government to use its resources to compel others to take the brunt of the negative consequences for them. They wish to shift the burden of enforcing their copyrights onto others, instead of figuring out a way to do it themselves. Those pleading for the passage of the CBDTPA are neither scared or angry; they are simply lazy.
"Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters. Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google's pack of more than 50 Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data coop."
Why don't they use the same folks that get the pigeon for the Hegins Pigeon Shoot each year?
Has more ergo and other keyboards than I imagined existed. Can't vouch for them - I use a Model M (with the drain holes) and am a 2 fingered typist, so ergo keyboards just screw me up. I found the site searching for omnikey info - I had just found one - literally - and was doing research.
Don't care if Carly is running HP into the ground but respect her Linux friendlyness?
Allow me to weild the clue-stick here. If HP disappears because Ms. Fiorina wants to measure dicks with Mr. Palmisano of IBM, she might as well be giving weekly handjobs to Mr. Torvalds for all the good it will do Linux.
In fact, if HP does get involved with Linux heavily and then goes down to mismanagement, they'll become just more fodder for the MS FUD machine: another Linux comany bites the dust.
Is she taking a cue from the last Pres. election and getting on the news with a fait accompli in the hopes of discouraging the last remaining mail-in proxy voters? Yes, AG did it backwards and conceded prematurely, but the media had no problem projecting before the polls closed. Lesson learned by Carly?
Why? There is no real issue; the states have a right to proceed as written in statute.
I think the underlying point here is that MS's motion is patently absurd, and they know it. My guess is the are doing it to delay as long as they can because CKK isn't turning out to be the pushover they expected, and they see the end coming.
- Self Perpetuating - Autonomous - More interested in their own welfare thatn the welfare of those whom they "govern" - exagerated sense of self importance - listens to $$ over all else - obscure governing structure
The only difference is that it took the IOC nearly 100 years to get the way it is; ICAAN is what - 5 years old? We still have a chance with ICAAN, to wit: dismantle it.
Who takes over? Pick one: - Who Cares - US Department of Commerce
Don't like the second choice? Tough. The internet was born, bred, and raised through adolescence by the US, and to just let it go for PC reasons is stupid. Maybe the Internet NEEDS a benevolent dictator, and if so, the US gov't is the best bet.
"Heh.. if it is that kind of marine, you'll be wanting one of these JEDI gadgets - Yahoo news article [yahoo.com]."
The article refers to coordinates being transferred via the IRIDIUM satellite system. Yes, that is the system that fell out of the sky when Raytheon & Motorola decided it was a loser.
Kind of like calling in an airstrike via POTS a la "Heartbreak Ridge"/Grenada.
I assume you mean TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. The AA near the end gives it that little bit of faux credibility, like it's an actual word from some language in the Low Countries.
Now where the hell am I going to get an Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator?!
My 2 year old son just started asking to see "bunny" on TV. I was so proud (and no, he was NOT saying Barney!)
I had always wondered why there were so few Tom & Jerry's I liked as a kid. Years later, I found out that it had a 1:1 correlation with a Chuck Jones directing credit.
Last free association: In "Chuck Amuck", his 1st book, he expained how Leo Schlesinger, the Looney Toons producer before WB bought him out, was so anal-retentive that every cartoon had to be exactly 6minXXsecs. As a result, the directors and animators timed everything down to the last frame. That's right: comic timing measured in 1/24 second increments.
That's why one of the settlement conditions offered by the 9 holdout states is so important: MS would be compelled to auction off licenses to develop Office for other OS's.
If IBM, Sun, maybe Corel or Redhat were to bid on it, MS couldn't complain that it got a raw deal (although they will anyway), and Office will be ported to Linux.
As a bonus, it will be pried open so that maybe MS will have some incentive to fix it. I'd switch OS's just to get the pagination to work!
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Has anyone done any comparisons on what a simple paint job will do? Take the same system, measure temp in beige, then paint it black, white, etc.
Also, would black crinkle paint do any better than flat black or glossy? Crinkle paint might be an idea for the guy who wanted to build a retro looking PC a while ago.
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How about something even simpler - Jane the VP has all her login names and passwords recorded in Gator (or Password Tracker, or an Excel File)
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I hope you can keep your ideals when some bank employee surfing for his lunch break masturbation material hits a malicious site. You'll get your account balance back eventually, but not before a bunch of bounced checks and no cash from the ATM ruin your life for a while.
And before you say that drones' computers don't have that kind of access, remember: it's always the higher ups that think the rules don't apply to them. How about Mr Branch Manager or Ms VP/Accounting getting their workstation compromised?
Also on display is a pair of Diana Rigg's leather pants from the hit British TV spy series "The Avengers.";kjsarefhk;afbv
(Sorry, drool shorted my kbd.)
"No my friend, the task of proving your case is much larger than you think. This of course is what MS is counting on: the government does not have the ability to analyse the code and make any sort of determination about what can and cannot be changed. "
That's what everyone who has something to hide thinks. "If I just bury them in paper, they'll never find the bad stuff" The problem is, they discount motivation. People won't be analyzing the code objectively; they'll be looking for specific things, and for personal reasons, be it a promotion, extra pay, or revenge. Why do you think news organizations dive headfirst into government document releases - there's always the possibility of being the next Woodward or Bernstein.
It appears to be the CPU, memory, and HD packaged together in a 3x5x1 package, with a docking connector. No display, no FDD, no cards.
Your desktop becomes a box w. a power supply, video card, sound card, FDD, and a big whole in the front. Rack in the module to do anything useful.
Laptop is smaller and has a bay for the module.
PDA is basically a screen with batteries and a port on it, and the module becomes the main body.
Sounds neat - I want one.
You are confusing "selective enforcement" with "discriminatory enforcement"
"Why is it that African Americans get stopped for more traffic violations than White People? Why is it that poor people get busted and go down for years on drug charges when private school students do the same things (to greater excess, I've seen it) and face no law-enforcement threat?
These are arguably cases of "discriminatory" enforcement, where one Group of people is chosen for law enforcement action, i.e. the Govt. discrimates between groups (hence the name). And you are right - it's illegal.
"Why is it that this guy went down and not the guys who DOS'ed Bill Gibson's site [grc.com]? "
This is "selective enforcement." Prosecutors can choose who to prosecute for a crime on an ad hoc basis. The guys who DOS'd grc.com are still anonymous, or close to it, making them hard to prosecute. This fellow stood up and said "I did it, I did it", thereby making him easy to prosecute. Given limited resources, who do you think is going to be arrested?
Oh, and selective enforcement is perfectly legal, and has been upheld by the Supreme's many times.
The point of document retention policies is to establish the destruction of documents over X days old as a policy enacted and followed in the normal course of doing business. When one gets a subpoena, one must cough up everything one has on hand at the point of the subpoena. One can't be compelled to produce records that don't exist. If there's a document retention policy, it's easy to show that documents were destroyed in the regular course of business, and not in an attempt to obstruct justice.
I have a sneaking suspicion Andersen was trying to walk that fine line. They started destroying documents after the request, but stopped when they got the subpoena. So they can argue that they didn't destroy documents under subpoena, thereby avoiding a contempt of court citation. Of course, there's the whole fraud thing...
Disability is separate but related to the ADA. IF your CT is considered a job related injury, then it's more of an OSHA thing, with all the related hoo-ha. The ADA is a discrimination law, basically stating that hiring decisions can't be made on the basis of disability, unless the person's disability makes it impossible, without reasonable accomodation, to do a specific job. If this sounds vague, it is: Congress hasn't clearly written a law in years.
So, if you broke your hands when you were trying to change the water in the water cooler, workman's comp law says that you continue to get paid your full rate until you can work again. (of course, they can make you come into work and answer telephones with a hands free set, but that's a light duty assignment).
ADA says that, if an employer can make reasonable accomodations, they cannot hire or fire you simply because you have a disability. What's "reasonable accomodations"? No one knows, and Congress is letting the courts address it.
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Response:
The entertainment industry is trying to have it both ways. Under the proposed CBDTPA, the content producers will have control over how their content will be distributed. They will be able to completely bypass their historical distribution channels: Disney could sell it's movies directly to the consumer instead of to a distributer, then to a theater, THEN to the consumer. Warner Brothers could sell "Friends" directly over the internet, bypassing NBC and the local affiliates. This would be enormously efficient, and therefore enormously profitable.
The reason this distribution will be so efficient and profitable is the very nature of the digital medium: the internet is massively redundant, fault tolerant, and inexpensive because the costs are spread out on a grand scale. To use the movie analogy, instead of distributors sending out 6-7 reels of film to every distributor via a private messenger service, Disney would store each individual frame of film and send them out one by one by whatever means is most efficient, and the frames would be reassembled at the theater. If a messenger service loses an entire reel of film, there is a major problem. However, if just one frame of the film gets lost, it's no one will even notice. It is this efficiency which the content producers wish to harness to increase their profit margins substantially.
The reverse side of this is that the very efficiency that the content producers desire is only made possible by the ability to copy data over and over again. Digital mediums only work because they rely on continuous small scale copying and re-copying of data, on a miniscule scale, to get data from 1 physical location to another. Although it happens behind the scene, the ability to copy data is the most basic function of digital mediums and devices. And it is this aspect of digital data that content producers profess to fear most: the ability to efficiently and redundantly copy data.
The entertainment industry wants to use the basic nature of digital technology to enhance it's profits and stock value, but does not wish to be subject to any possible negative consequences. They wish the government to use its resources to compel others to take the brunt of the negative consequences for them. They wish to shift the burden of enforcing their copyrights onto others, instead of figuring out a way to do it themselves. Those pleading for the passage of the CBDTPA are neither scared or angry; they are simply lazy.
"Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters. Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google's pack of more than 50 Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data coop."
Why don't they use the same folks that get the pigeon for the Hegins Pigeon Shoot each year?
Has more ergo and other keyboards than I imagined existed. Can't vouch for them - I use a Model M (with the drain holes) and am a 2 fingered typist, so ergo keyboards just screw me up. I found the site searching for omnikey info - I had just found one - literally - and was doing research.
Good luck
and they're free. A lot of Excite Groups refugees went there. Can't speak to the group owner experience, but as a user it's fine.
Don't care if Carly is running HP into the ground but respect her Linux friendlyness?
Allow me to weild the clue-stick here. If HP disappears because Ms. Fiorina wants to measure dicks with Mr. Palmisano of IBM, she might as well be giving weekly handjobs to Mr. Torvalds for all the good it will do Linux.
In fact, if HP does get involved with Linux heavily and then goes down to mismanagement, they'll become just more fodder for the MS FUD machine: another Linux comany bites the dust.
Which is different from an actual tally.
Is she taking a cue from the last Pres. election and getting on the news with a fait accompli in the hopes of discouraging the last remaining mail-in proxy voters? Yes, AG did it backwards and conceded prematurely, but the media had no problem projecting before the polls closed. Lesson learned by Carly?
"This should go to the Supreme Court. "
Why? There is no real issue; the states have a right to proceed as written in statute.
I think the underlying point here is that MS's motion is patently absurd, and they know it. My guess is the are doing it to delay as long as they can because CKK isn't turning out to be the pushover they expected, and they see the end coming.
- Self Perpetuating
- Autonomous
- More interested in their own welfare thatn the welfare of those whom they "govern"
- exagerated sense of self importance
- listens to $$ over all else
- obscure governing structure
The only difference is that it took the IOC nearly 100 years to get the way it is; ICAAN is what - 5 years old? We still have a chance with ICAAN, to wit: dismantle it.
Who takes over? Pick one:
- Who Cares
- US Department of Commerce
Don't like the second choice? Tough. The internet was born, bred, and raised through adolescence by the US, and to just let it go for PC reasons is stupid. Maybe the Internet NEEDS a benevolent dictator, and if so, the US gov't is the best bet.
"Heh.. if it is that kind of marine, you'll be wanting one of these JEDI gadgets - Yahoo news article [yahoo.com]."
The article refers to coordinates being transferred via the IRIDIUM satellite system. Yes, that is the system that fell out of the sky when Raytheon & Motorola decided it was a loser.
Kind of like calling in an airstrike via POTS a la "Heartbreak Ridge"/Grenada.
"TINSTAFL is a favoraite of mine."
I assume you mean TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. The AA near the end gives it that little bit of faux credibility, like it's an actual word from some language in the Low Countries.
So the Enron/AA debacle may put the tombstone on the "e-mail is different than snail mail" myth...
And the SEC is going after frauds using spam for the fraud, not the spam...
And a guy in AU is applying a 16th century English law that basically states "you can't mess with another persons stuff"
Gee, maybe we don't need new laws after all - just enforce the ones we have!
You travel up the hill, go into the equipment area, get sprayed with man made snow, and turn into a mogul.
I want to see it built just for the entries into the Darwin Awards it will generate.
Now where the hell am I going to get an Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator?!
My 2 year old son just started asking to see "bunny" on TV. I was so proud (and no, he was NOT saying Barney!)
I had always wondered why there were so few Tom & Jerry's I liked as a kid. Years later, I found out that it had a 1:1 correlation with a Chuck Jones directing credit.
Last free association: In "Chuck Amuck", his 1st book, he expained how Leo Schlesinger, the Looney Toons producer before WB bought him out, was so anal-retentive that every cartoon had to be exactly 6minXXsecs. As a result, the directors and animators timed everything down to the last frame. That's right: comic timing measured in 1/24 second increments.
He was a genius.
That's why one of the settlement conditions offered by the 9 holdout states is so important: MS would be compelled to auction off licenses to develop Office for other OS's.
If IBM, Sun, maybe Corel or Redhat were to bid on it, MS couldn't complain that it got a raw deal (although they will anyway), and Office will be ported to Linux.
As a bonus, it will be pried open so that maybe MS will have some incentive to fix it. I'd switch OS's just to get the pagination to work!
Has anyone done any comparisons on what a simple paint job will do? Take the same system, measure temp in beige, then paint it black, white, etc.
Also, would black crinkle paint do any better than flat black or glossy? Crinkle paint might be an idea for the guy who wanted to build a retro looking PC a while ago.
How about something even simpler - Jane the VP has all her login names and passwords recorded in Gator (or Password Tracker, or an Excel File)
I hope you can keep your ideals when some bank employee surfing for his lunch break masturbation material hits a malicious site. You'll get your account balance back eventually, but not before a bunch of bounced checks and no cash from the ATM ruin your life for a while.
And before you say that drones' computers don't have that kind of access, remember: it's always the higher ups that think the rules don't apply to them. How about Mr Branch Manager or Ms VP/Accounting getting their workstation compromised?
Also on display is a pair of Diana Rigg's leather pants from the hit British TV spy series "The Avengers." ;kjsarefhk;afbv
(Sorry, drool shorted my kbd.)
Like the one-of-a-kind Lucas alternator that works?
"No my friend, the task of proving your case is much larger than you think. This of course is what MS is counting on: the government does not have the ability to analyse the code and make any sort of determination about what can and cannot be changed. "
That's what everyone who has something to hide thinks. "If I just bury them in paper, they'll never find the bad stuff" The problem is, they discount motivation. People won't be analyzing the code objectively; they'll be looking for specific things, and for personal reasons, be it a promotion, extra pay, or revenge. Why do you think news organizations dive headfirst into government document releases - there's always the possibility of being the next Woodward or Bernstein.
It appears to be the CPU, memory, and HD packaged together in a 3x5x1 package, with a docking connector. No display, no FDD, no cards. Your desktop becomes a box w. a power supply, video card, sound card, FDD, and a big whole in the front. Rack in the module to do anything useful. Laptop is smaller and has a bay for the module. PDA is basically a screen with batteries and a port on it, and the module becomes the main body. Sounds neat - I want one.
"The issue is selective enforcement."
You are confusing "selective enforcement" with "discriminatory enforcement"
"Why is it that African Americans get stopped for more traffic violations than White People? Why is it that poor people get busted and go down for years on drug charges when private school students do the same things (to greater excess, I've seen it) and face no law-enforcement threat?
These are arguably cases of "discriminatory" enforcement, where one Group of people is chosen for law enforcement action, i.e. the Govt. discrimates between groups (hence the name). And you are right - it's illegal.
"Why is it that this guy went down and not the guys who DOS'ed Bill Gibson's site [grc.com]? "
This is "selective enforcement." Prosecutors can choose who to prosecute for a crime on an ad hoc basis. The guys who DOS'd grc.com are still anonymous, or close to it, making them hard to prosecute. This fellow stood up and said "I did it, I did it", thereby making him easy to prosecute. Given limited resources, who do you think is going to be arrested?
Oh, and selective enforcement is perfectly legal, and has been upheld by the Supreme's many times.
"I don't know about you but I am insulted by return receipts on email.
"If you don't trust me to read what you send, why are you sending it?"
Because "Oh, I didn't get your e-mail." is the "dog ate my homework" of the business world. It's the same reason to print out fax confirmations.
When money's involved, it's "Trust, but Verify", and in business, money is always involved
The point of document retention policies is to establish the destruction of documents over X days old as a policy enacted and followed in the normal course of doing business. When one gets a subpoena, one must cough up everything one has on hand at the point of the subpoena. One can't be compelled to produce records that don't exist. If there's a document retention policy, it's easy to show that documents were destroyed in the regular course of business, and not in an attempt to obstruct justice. I have a sneaking suspicion Andersen was trying to walk that fine line. They started destroying documents after the request, but stopped when they got the subpoena. So they can argue that they didn't destroy documents under subpoena, thereby avoiding a contempt of court citation. Of course, there's the whole fraud thing...
Disability is separate but related to the ADA. IF your CT is considered a job related injury, then it's more of an OSHA thing, with all the related hoo-ha. The ADA is a discrimination law, basically stating that hiring decisions can't be made on the basis of disability, unless the person's disability makes it impossible, without reasonable accomodation, to do a specific job. If this sounds vague, it is: Congress hasn't clearly written a law in years.
So, if you broke your hands when you were trying to change the water in the water cooler, workman's comp law says that you continue to get paid your full rate until you can work again. (of course, they can make you come into work and answer telephones with a hands free set, but that's a light duty assignment).
ADA says that, if an employer can make reasonable accomodations, they cannot hire or fire you simply because you have a disability. What's "reasonable accomodations"? No one knows, and Congress is letting the courts address it.